Most Excellent London Walk - West Fitzrovia and Cleveland Street

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Cleveland Street is one of my favourite streets for some reason. When I walk into the centre of London I always seem to end up going down Cleveland street.
It only became officially recorded as Fitzrovia on ordnance survey maps in 1994 and was all fields 250 years ago.
In this walk we go to Fitzroy Square where George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf lived. Then we see some charming mewses which were occupied by cabbies and dairy farmers.
Then there's Cleveland Street with the invention of morse code and my tailor Paul Kitsaros.
This is also the street where the Telecom Tower is and has a history of scandals and communist clubs involving the heir to the throne and Karl Marx.
Then there's the lady who sells buttons in Charles Dickens' house and the beautiful Fitzrovia Chapel.
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@peteryoung5338 3 года назад

Great to see those tailors and the “Button Lady” real characters. Years ago they’d have found they way into a Dickens book I’m sure.

@willford8475 3 года назад

Jools "I'll introduce me to my tailor who I haven't see for five years" Tailor "It'll be ready next week!" 😂

@margaretpepper3550 3 года назад

Your visit to the old Middlesex Hospital site brought back memories to when I was a young patient there in 1949....We lived off Tottenham Court Road at the time & so did all my relatives & I went to my first school next door to the hospital in Langham Place..you may not realise it but this used to a totally unpretentious working class neighbourhood back then in the 1940/50/60's...

@ScorpiusBlue 3 года назад

That tower looks like a giant sonic screwdriver 😂 💙💙

@howtubeable 3 года назад

Mews: A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments. (The Free Dictionary) I've learned something new today.

@jedthehumanoid9953 3 года назад

Oh I love the button shop. So quaint and seemingly untouched by modern technology!

@miasverypretty 3 года назад

I remember when the Middlesex hospital was there. I snuck out of work one day to see Princess Diana arriving for a visit.

@angelam.5311 3 года назад

You’re the most interesting man in the world.

@Thatssomebadhatharry1 3 года назад

And the most handsome 👍🏻

@natalya6091 3 года назад

And the most professional. Thank you very much, Dear Joolz.

@AlanHandsome_ 2 года назад

? Carl Sagan ?

@vestafairie 3 года назад

love the button lady - would be fascinated to see more of these specialized shops and special shop keepers

@greghilton7797 3 года назад

I thoroughly agree. Cheers

@denisemeredith2436 3 года назад

I agree and seeing this lady reminded me of the button makers that used to be in my home town. I would love to know more about this lady and her buttons.

@papercup2517 3 года назад

It reminded me of a bead shop I discovered back in about 1970-71, somewhere in the West End. Amazing place. Small and dark and packed full of jars of brightly coloured beads of every imaginable size and hue, on floor to ceiling shelves... I wonder if it's still there...

@tomdehaven3445 3 года назад

Definitely he should! He's a very good at interviewing! Some of shop cheaper are probably getting old, but very interesting!! and needs interview them!

@Luna.3.3.3 3 года назад

I found that so interesting as well! I really hope someone is able to take it over in the family

@meijiturtle3814 3 года назад

Superb video. I worked in Fitzrovia for 27 years so there were a lot of familiar sights here. What is noticeable is how much the area has been spruced up in the last 40 years but still retains so much of its charm and quietness despite its proximity to Tottenham Court Road and the Euston Road.

@matthewalker 3 года назад

Matthew Flinders is still remembered in Sydney. We have Bass & Flinders Point, and outside the State Library there's statues of both Flinders and his cat Trim.

@MrRQBQ 3 года назад

Isn't there a train station in Melbourne called 'Flinders' ?

@matthewalker 3 года назад

@@MrRQBQ Flinders Street is one of the two main stations in Melbourne

@MrRQBQ 3 года назад

@@matthewalker Thanks, I seem to remember watching a documentary about the train station.

@cristobal5096 3 года назад

Not to mention there's an island in Bass Strait named after him.

@papercup2517 3 года назад

The Flinders Ranges that Jules mentioned in the video are in South Australia. Lots of very old rocks there.

@michaellykke100 3 года назад

A great sunday. New edition of Joolz Guides have landed.

@Kari_B61ex 3 года назад

I had dinner in the Post Office (Telecoms Tower) restaurant in 1966/67 - We were visiting my Aunt and Uncle who lived in Virginia Water, Surrey. I was only 6 or 7 at the time, so didn't really appreciate it.

@larrygrimaldi1400 3 года назад

I remember eating there with my mother in the late sixties, sorry to hear it's not open anymore.

@ML-dh6ly 3 года назад

I was a similar age when we had a meal there and my father received a gold watch from a company he worked for.. I had to go to the loo halfway through and when I got back the restaurant had moved around and I got lost!! 🙈😂

@verykeen2please 3 года назад

one of the things i love about London is these quirky shops, that would just not exist anywhere else - what a top button lady

@lemmy6782 3 года назад

This bloke should be on mainstream TV instead of the crap we have to put up with .one of the best ch on RU-vid .

@kevelliott 3 года назад

Many years ago, I had a real struggle to learn a Mozart piano sonata, K576 in D, before it became hidden again in the mists of time. Then I watch an interesting Jools vid, and up it pops again, and I'm transported right back to those hours slaving away at the piano again! It's a lovely piece, but a real pig.

@robineniffer5578 3 года назад

it’s nice to see old trades being kept alive .let’s hope they can survive in the future

@the_oslovian 3 года назад

Almost 200 000 subscribers! So so deserved! ❤️ Thanks for keeping London close while we have to stay away, and generally brilliant knowledge and entertainment 😊

@user-xh4nq4vt5y 9 месяцев назад

Around 1978 I sang in a small chamber choir that rehearsed in the chapel of the Middlesex Hospital. Most of the 12 singers were young medics, whilst I was a teacher. The acoustic was amazing. I'm glad the chapel has survived, but didn't realise it was called the Fitzroy Chapel.

@jaegerguy 3 года назад

This was the best walking tour of London I have watched. I’ll make there, one day, because I want a button.

@Boric78 3 года назад

A good friend of mine is a descendent of Captain Flinders. After seeing his portrair he looks like him too, crazy.

@stephenbarker2003 2 года назад

Bob Monkhouse's best joke was. "Dropped a huge block of ice on my foot. Hurt like hell but the swelling went down!". Legend

@ossian11 2 года назад

I lived in London years ago but I never knew anything about it until I started watching Joolz's guided tours.

@mickymantle3233 3 года назад

This is not just a guide...it's an embrace. Thankyou.

@siandavis9734 3 года назад

Wonderful. So many memories, we lived in Manchester Square until I was 12 in 1971. We would wait for my grandmother to fall asleep and then run across the Square and spend an hour in the Wallace Collection.

@2172cc 3 года назад

No one does travel guides better than Sir Joolz💪

@jeanpeuplu5570 3 года назад

Is it me, or you're really getting better and better? :) The button shop is just extraordinary!

@Joolzguides 3 года назад

Ha ha.. Thanks. I like this one too. I think it's easier now that things are open and I can visit fun people.

@michaelhawkins7389 3 года назад

@@Joolzguides I bet you didn't know this , that the British actor Sean Bean (known for GoldenEye , Lord Of the Rings as Boromir and in Game Of throne ,) use to live in belsize park

@tomdehaven3445 3 года назад

@@Joolzguides More interviews, definitely! Great stuff, And living history! I bet you could do an entire episode just on that lady!

@bradfordbarrettluckotheIrish 3 года назад

Your Tailor kept me in stitches!

@blackbob3358 3 года назад

people have been shot for less, mr Barrett.

@davidlathrop9360 3 года назад

You really seem to know everyone amazing in London. Which, of course, makes you just as much a wonderful fixture as they are!

@KissedSomeFrogs 3 года назад

I worked and walked around London for 12 years, I've wandered through many of the areas that you feature, but never knew the history. I can't wait till you let us "Yankees" back in so that I can revisit them and see them in a different light. Thanks for the great tours! Cheers!

@ryanessex7978 3 года назад

Would rather you didn't.

@magdatorruellas9122 3 года назад

Wait for me!

@paulw242 3 года назад

@@ryanessex7978 are you okay, Ryan? Talk to someone, your behaviour is worrying.

@belltopcone 2 года назад

@@paulw242 His Brain needs a Re-Boot.

@clair233 2 года назад

It never gets old

@Elitist20 3 года назад

3:15 - Flinders has a mountain range in South Australia and a university in Adelaide named after him, as well as a major street in Melbourne. There's a statue of Flinders outside the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney - and behind him on a ledge is a statue of his loyal cat, Trim, who was named after the character in 'Tristram Shandy'. The cafe at the State Library is named after Trim.

@will16320 3 года назад

Joolz is impeccably dressed

@johnwhite7330 3 года назад

Love the new blazer!

@martynbush 3 года назад

Loving this walk Joolze. I lived on Charlotte Street for about 2 years back in the 80's before the area became known as Fitzrovia so this is bringing back many memories. I wish I could afford to live there now.

@carolenicholas9283 3 года назад

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions ‘Charlotte St’

@robertbell2524 2 года назад

You do make wonderful videos, Julian. I used to love to wander around Londons's streets when I lived there, but the buildings weren't so smart & beautiful at that time. I lived in London, off & on, between 1975 & 1991. You are impressively knowledgeable about where you go walking. It is so nostalgic for me to to be able to go around your beautiful city on these video tours of yours, & to be able to realise the dates of the various buildings. Thanks for that.

@paullewis2413 3 года назад

When I was living in Australia my school house was named Flinders. Didn't know however that he had such a short life. You learn something new every day - lol

@betheey3248 3 года назад

To say I live in England too and I've only been to London once I feel like I should go and explore london more myself

@vicnurse5 3 года назад

I love watching your vids....I had an ancestor live in Cleveland Street, and my ancestors (Jewish) were from the East End. Matthew Flinders is very well known here, well at least here in South Australia, and the Flinders Ranges are magnificent up in out northern outback region. My father was born up there, and my Kentish ancestors lived and worked up there in the 1850s onwards and did a lot of mining, carting etc as pioneers from 1836 (when SA was first proclaimed at colony, oops my Kentish family came out in 1839). Love all your videos walking about London, been there in 2008 but would love to go again. You rock. Thanks so much from South Oz.

@margaretpepper3550 3 года назад

Extraordinary seeing that button maker....my dad who was a tailor in Charlotte St used to visit a lady in Cleveland St who was a felling hand who would prepare holes in suites where buttons would fit into...I reckon that my dad must have known this shop personally 70 years ago...gobsmacked!!

@johnraggett7147 3 года назад

Thank you Joolz. Greetings from Leipzig. When my son was at Wycliffe College Junior School, the headmaster was Mr. Roger Outwin-Flinders, a distant relative of the explorer.

@Joolzguides 3 года назад

Very cool! I did karaoke there once

@janebaker966 3 года назад

That shop and that lady that sells buttons was amazing. It's fantastic that youve got that on record for posterity. Once again you show just how much of interest there is in London,not just in far off history but also in recent times and now.

@GMN360 3 года назад

Thanks Joolz, that was a great walk. I’m off to visit the chapel, the tobacconist, the button shop (I love buttons) and to say hello to Capt Matthew Flinders and have a bit of a yarn with him!

@allanfoster6965 Год назад

Brilliant map animation. It really clarifies everything. Thanks Joolz and team!

@howardscott1556 3 года назад

In my home town of Aylesbury there are several pubs that claim to be where the Great Train Robbers met after doing a recce. What is certain is that when they were arrested they were taken to Aylesbury police station where my Dad stood in a identity parade with some of the gang. His office was directly opposite the nick!

@catherinesnodgrass7676 3 года назад

We just talked to our son in Lamberhurst Kent from a caravan park in Port Augusta South Australia and I felt like a bit more UK Thank you Jules

@stephenclark9917 3 года назад

In Morse code, the final clap is the end of the message, there are no characters after it.

@pickledellies 3 года назад

Thank you Jules, you've made my Sunday.

@davidharris1562 3 года назад

Just love these guides, brilliant, love the little streets, ally’s and mews

@Tuchi2002 3 года назад

Enjoyable and informative as always, makes me love London even more!

@goingsomewhere7815 3 года назад

Another very interesting video on London. Matthew Flinders has several places named after him around Australia. In Victoria where I live there is a town on the Mornington Peninsula aptly named Flinders. In suburban Melbourne there is the Matthew Flinders Hotel which back in the 1970's was one of the biggest Pub Rock venues around. AC/DC played there at some stage. And where I live in Mornington there is a plaque commemorating Matthew Flinders as he landed near here on 28th April 1802.

@jm2527 3 года назад

Still THE BEST GUIDE... in the WORLD. 😀

@Ratboy-ed3lb 2 года назад

London is a fascinating town

@ursulaclarke6066 3 года назад

Despite living in London for over 20 years , this is an area I wasn’t that familiar with other than sitting in traffic on the Euston Rd…..love your videos for both reminiscing from my London days and also learning heap

@Grahamshawx 3 года назад

No Sunday is complete without a Joolz guide video. I used to visit the RAF Central Medical establishment when I was a Medic in the RAF. The strangest group of medical personnel you could ever find!

@OnWalks 2 года назад

Nice bit of history ❤️

@dianafitzpatrick4395 3 года назад

I really enjoy the bits you share about the people mentioned on the landmarks. Like Henry Fitzroy who married a 5 year old! This throws up red flags. However, Henry was only a 9 year old at the time. I guess it was really all about land ownership and expanding your wealth as soon as possible.

@Joolzguides 3 года назад

ha ha ...good point!

@colb2921 3 года назад

Nice to see where I used to work in Fitzroy Square, great place, lots of film making to watch & the Indian YMCA & loads of little pubs & restaurants

@laineymac4133 2 года назад

Love your videos. Came across them while researching places in London that my family lived during Victorian times. My great grand aunt actually lived on Cleveland street. Believe number 66. Rest of my family lived around Holborn/St Giles/Chadwick St (where the channel 4 building is).

@kafetzis31 3 года назад

Great informative walk as always, thank you!!!When I get back to London someday(hopefully) I'm going to visit some of these lovely small streets!!!I just ADORE London!!!I spent 2 of the best years of my life in this blessed city and country!!!Greetings from Athens-Greece!!!

@shaunyip2153 3 года назад

Thanks for the little jaunt, Julian. It amazes me that no matter how many times I've been to London over years, there are still hundreds of interesting places like this that I've not been to.

@vermontmike9800 3 года назад

I so look forward to these videos. I can’t wait to get back to the UK.

@jetsons101 3 года назад

Joolz, your videos are always enjoyable. They're fun, full of facts and your narration is spot-on. Really enjoyed meeting the "Button Lady" I never knew that about the American Pie song, now I got to listen to it..... Great video.......

@wendyperry7358 3 года назад

Hooray! My Sunday has been made! I LOVE your videos Joolz! Thank you SO much for doing them! Love from London Canada!

@tomgirldouble3249 3 года назад

Love the tailor & the button lady great video as ever Joolz 😃

@bill4913 3 года назад

Hi Joolz's, I'm glad to see you in a Pub having a pint at the end of your video. It's like your trademark learning about Pub's history and where the name's came from. Thanks for another great video.

@philliphurley5341 3 года назад

It was a great shame that Middlesex Hospital was demolished. I was born there on the 18th of December1959 and spent my first christmas there.

@viktoriavolkova3400 3 года назад

This is a warm and interesting introduction of your father's story and occupation at Morse school into the history of the city, I was touched 😆 And we hope to know one day more about your club 🎩

@FloofyFlora 2 года назад

Loved it when you mentioned the Cleveland Street scandal .

@scarlettm86 3 года назад

Fab! This has come on just as I'm eating my breakfast!

@brmf4346 3 года назад

Same here! What a great start to a day!

@Wokerati 3 года назад

I love those old shops , like the button place .

@jlizamavera 2 года назад

Always a joy:) i miss walking around in London. Hope be back as soon as pandemie is over.

@nigelcowie6883 3 года назад

Brilliant, as always - why on earth would anyone hit the thumbs down button?

@mycroft1905 2 года назад

Jolly nice ramble. Now I need a nap after all that excitement.

@robertcole7500 2 года назад

So much information in this London meander, I may need to re-visit for second viewings. Wonderful listening to someone who loves London. Robert

@ellajakobson 3 года назад

Liked before watching 😘😘😘

@Rightwinger1982 3 года назад

I live in Toronto and my dad is from England. He says London is a hell hole, but I would love to visit there, so much history. Love these videos!

@raqueldobson1 3 года назад

London is stunning, but like all cities it has parts you really don’t need to visit, ever, & well, it has people who you really don’t need to visit ever 😉 London needs to be walked, best way if are a tourist…

@adamdavis4346 3 года назад

It might’ve been when your dad lived there. It’s clean and modern now. I was born and raised there, left for 15 years and went back for a visit a couple of years ago and was pleasantly surprised!

@adamdavis4346 3 года назад

@Nicky L I was thinking the same thing 😂

@birdsaloud7590 3 года назад

My old dad remembers the fields around Tottenham/Enfield. He used to cycle round there with friends as kids.

@caroldave4037 3 года назад

Evertime I see you show the po tower...i think of the white cat( aka' the goodies').....on it...as a northerner I love these walks so informative of london..

@barrysmith7710 7 месяцев назад

Joolz, you're a national treasure

@1973Washu 3 года назад

"Oh nice" I said "Joolz has a new educational video"

@grahamfield6173 3 года назад

A spiffing cinematograph

@user-kk6yg1xj3i 2 года назад

Admirable guides, incomparable I can’t thank you enough

@gregoryoldfield7861 3 года назад

I work in Fitzrovia (Fitzroy Place) and brilliant to get a history tour of the area - love the videos!

@kevinfleming9919 3 года назад

"It's a bit like, HI everyone, I'm a bastard"! lol! 🤣😂🙃 I love the loose commentary, jokes, and background information about places and people that we would never get from another tour guide that you give in your Vlogs! I'm definitely going to have to do a tour with you when I can travel again and England is on my bucket list!

@fjell6543 3 года назад

I used to work for a pub company that owned the Northumberland Arms on Warren St. The 1st floor of the pub had a "Being John Malkovich", 7 1/2 floor with a really low ceiling height, you can see it from the street. I always wondered why.

@nongfuspring2916 3 года назад

That Bob Monkhouse line, genuine lol

@MrBiggmartin 3 года назад

I always miss Loindon when I have seen one of your videos. I have to visit when things are back to "normal"....

@keithcheney5343 Год назад

Brilliant Joolz as usual He should be on television. From aJoolz Fan in France.

@evancortez2 3 года назад

i think a suit made in London is one of those things all men should own

@blackbob3358 3 года назад

people bleeding starving to death and you're talking about paying 400 nicker for a "whistle" ?

@Sorted7 3 года назад

I ruddy love a joolz guide. Thanks for keepin them coming my man

@stephenwhitehead4199 3 года назад

I always look forward to you video's and visit the places you've visited.Always very interesting.

@alanspooner3612 3 года назад

Another wonderful trip across town with you Joolz. Always entertaining and I always learn something new about my incredible city. The button lady and her shop is a gem. Thanks.

@robertbell2524 2 года назад

That was a beautiful walk, Julian, on a nice sunny day, which makes all the difference, to me. It seems that both of our fathers grew up to go to war. What a prospect........ growing up to go to war, not knowing whether one was going to live or die at so young an age. However, both of our fathers returned home after the war. Both died a while ago. Your mother looks very fit. Mine is 96 & frail now.

@roeng1368 3 года назад

What a wonderful place that button shop is. With the added history of Dickens once living there.

@adrianburn7178 3 года назад

Thanks for the video. Lots of fascinating history!

@stuartjames6983 3 года назад

Great video as always. Probably the best thing on RU-vid.

@ragdolly22 3 года назад

Really enjoy your videos, they pass so quickly, love the quirky places you show us, button shop was great, I still have a button tin.

@mariamaryagathocleous8859 3 года назад

Hello. I love what you share about the Christian Church in London. Temple Church was my favourite, I used to pay a visit there weekly. Exceptional video. Lighting, camera work and You. Thank you again.

@eugeneshadwell6596 3 года назад

'Telecom Tower'? Pfft, it's the Post Office Tower to me and always will be! Always been fond of it since a school trip back in the 80's where we stayed at a Halls Of Residence right opposite... like you said, Joolz, must be one of the best views of London from the old restaurant and it's one of my ambitions to see that view one day. Not impossible, I believe that very rarely it's open for a few days, you have to apply for tickets in advance, probably won't happen this year but you never know... one day! Anyway, another great video, Sir, thanks!

@AtheistOrphan 3 года назад

I just put ‘Telecom Tower’ into Wikipedia and it redirected me to ‘BT Tower. But yes, to those of us of a certain age, it will always be the Post Office Tower.

@eugeneshadwell6596 3 года назад

@@AtheistOrphan Yup... I've heard it referred to by both names, I thought Joolz used the Telecom Tower' name but I might be wrong. Either way it's actually one of my favourite buildings in London, love the 60's sci-fi feel of it!