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If I ever win the lottery, I'll hire you to do videos every other day for a year. My favourite youtuber at the moment (could have little to do with the subject matter also).
Looking forward to my next trip back to London to explore some of these areas. Will definitely look you up for a walking tour if the timing works for both of us.
This was my neighbourhood when I was living in London five years ago! I walked past that delightful toy store every day... What a lovely treat to see this pop up in my feed. I miss you Fitzrovia!
Love the Minder locations moments, would it be possible for on episode dedicated to Minder locations Jules? IMO the greatest TV show ever! Thanks from Australia.
@@gregorycolodub485 I think hes away now.....read a comment a while back from someone saying "Londons not the same without you " love him singing Hard Times and If I Fall In Love with You.....watch them all the time on youtube 👍👍👏👏👏👏
As a true cockney, living in exile on the south coast (Hamble), I have watched many of Joolz guides on different parts of London with fascination. There is so much to this great city that is little known. In this time of Covid thank you for the great entertainment.
You've set the bar in the Tour Guide Olympics dear chap. I lived in London (Clacton lad here) and left 50 years ago with no regrets. You are making me nostalgic. Let me know if you're ever in Miami and I'll be pleased to assist with your exploration here.
I knew someday I would see the bar I drank at and couldn’t remember where it was. Bradley’s Spanish Bar! Thanks Joolz, your tours really help me with the layout of the city and how connected each area is. Reminds me of living in NYC and walking every street for years .
Love all your videos. Makes me want to jump on a plane and head back to London. And when I do I’m going to hire you as my tour guide. All the best to you.
No, not the only one here who always associates Goodge St with Donovan's song Sunny Goodge St~ also performed by Marianne Faithfull an others~ I always hear the song in my head when Googe St is mentioned. Certainly never associate it with "Boy George' although I am well aware of his music in the 80's ~ never a fan .
As the Covid era starts to subside....you have been an integral part of our homebound-homespun journey. We are obsessed with all things London and you have fed our needs. We hope to return soon. Bill and Lauri U.S.A.
We love you Joolz!!! I'm already a Londoner but thinking about inviting my US friend down.. God's willing, we'll reach out to you for a tour. She too needs to learn about all this :)
Loved the story about the hoax, but also the rest of the video. Entertaining and educational as usual. When we're back in London we'll probably do a private tour again :-)
When out walking in cities look upwards, above the shop frontages, then you see the old buildings, I used to wander round looking up at the flats above and wonder what stories they could tell of days long past, especially in Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Liverpool street areas,
Was disappointed that Quentin Crisp and his cohorts didn’t rate a mention. Much of his early life was spent in the coffee shops of Fitzrovia. Other wise another excellent tour.
Sir, as you might be aware that the Cricket World Cup is going on in the UK these days. So you can consider making a video in the museum of the iconic Lord's cricket stadium in this cricketing season!!!
Excellent post Jools, as always. I worked on the Goodge st group of underground stations at Tottenham court road (TCR) for many years 1989 -2016, one day my group manager who at the time had his office above Goodge street station visited TCR after a meeting with a Fitzrovia action group who were demanding that Goodge street stn be renamed FITZROVIA, and my manager had agreed to the request provided that they (the action group) paid for the out of pocket expenses attached to doing so, they were very happy until my manager explained that not only did it mean paying for the signs outside and on the platform to be remade but every map on every wall on every station including the stove enamelled ones of which there are several on each Northern line station and every pamphlet to be redesigned and reprinted, all ticket machines would have to be reprogrammed, train automated speaker systems also, as well as any incidentals like station stamps and and any paperwork with Goodge street named on ......they left very unhappy. Happy days keep rocking Joolz, love the posts.
That make sense ( not )because thats what the Wikings where famous for pillage and eating and / making hamburgers 😂 I noticed the second meal on the meny ; pyytipanna . it should be PYTTIPANNA .
You know, if you took your hat off while indoors you could buy yourself a few extra inches of ceiling space. This comes in handy in toy museums. Or, so I've been told.
Joe Venuti, a famous jazz violinist of the 30s to 50s, played a similar trick. He phoned all the tuba players in the musicians Union LA directory and booked them to meet on a certain street corner at a set time, to be picked up for a gig. About 40 turned up all causing chaos with their cumbersome instruments.
Took me 4 hours searching the internet then saw Joolz credits him on his web site. Terry St. Clair has a you tube channel with his music. He is a street singer!
Joolz - as you stood looking at the “Bricklayers Arms” you completely missed the large white modern building in front - called Vision House, I worked in the basement 1987-1990 when this was Bransons Virgin Television, and Virgin Computer Graphics. I met Richard there. This building was new as it replaced the site of a bombed out one. The night guard infrormed me. And working all night in the basement at VCG doing state of the art early 3D computer graphics , it felt a little bit haunted. May have been fatigue!
Hey Joolz, I have a question, Where do you take the pictures from, that you insert in your videos because I am looking for a good source for license-free pictures and videos.
Who was that guy who worked in Fitzrovia Tavern in the mid 1990s ? he had short ginger hair. Could have been a Londoner or South African or he went to a trip to South Africa. He was a cheeky chappie to me.
My grandma was from Turin too, when she was 14 and her sister was 10, they saw Hitler and Mussolini during a parade.... maybe they studied together....
I believe the double yellow means no parking but why on some of your videos do I see a single yellow line going down alley ways and passage where you can't possibly get a car down them? Also on this video I saw a passageway with double yellow and a white arrow?
Two doors up from Pollocks Toy Shop is a pub called the Hope Fitzrova. Theres some well know photos of THE SEX PISTOLS, Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones & Paul Cook, taken outside in 1977 during a break from making the video for Pretty Vacant at the TV Eye Studios on Whitfield Street. I can't remember the pubs name in 1977 but I'm sure it was different back then? Great videos btw, really enjoy them.
I vaguely remember wet wet wet from back in the day, so I had to do a search for the "Strange" video - you weren't in any Duran Duran videos by any chance :)
Honestly, what kind of idiot goes on youtube and dislikes a video like this? Is it cos they can't imagine ever going there and they are just a bit jealous? People are weird...
