Tour of Battersea Please click button to subscribe to my channel!! Battersea Power Station Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott Built in 1930s. Largest brick building in Europe. Wasn’t popular at the time as it was an eye-sore. They had a fire in 1964 causing blackouts all over London. (Remember power cuts in the 70s?) Closed […]
Pimlico to Westminster Walk
Pimlico to Westminster Walk Please click button to subscribe to my channel!! Spies, MI5 MI6, Politicians and Prison – Millbank to Westminster Walking Tour MILL BANK Mill Bank thus named because there used to be a big mill at the Westminster Abbey 19th Century – Millbank penitentiary. Star Shaped based on ideas of Jeremy Bentham’s […]
London in the Snow – Coldest March Day Ever
London in the snow – Coldest March on record. Please click button to subscribe to my channel!! London is a city of change and contrast and resilience against foreign invaders. Londoners are a welcoming people but this Spring one uninvited guest presumed to test their resolve. Snow. Piccadilly Circus, the stone village green of London, […]
New US Embassy Vauxhall
Trump and the new US embassy in Vauxhall and Nine Elms Vauxhall is where the new US embassy stands. Donald Trump recently said about, “The reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London […]
More English Landmarks and Idioms
More English Landmarks and Idioms Ever wondered why we say certain phrases and where they come from? Joolz Guides goes to the places where these expressions and idioms originated. Please click button to subscribe to my channel!! Westminster Abbey – English Landmark Idioms – Robbing Peter to pay Paul This means taking from one hand […]
Harry Potter London Walks
Harry Potter London Walks When I’m doing my London walks people always keep asking me about Harry Potter. Where is the Leaky Cauldron? Where is Diagon Alley? Where are the filming locations for the Harry Potter films? Please click button to subscribe to my channel!! I know where the places are but I’m no Harry […]
Rotherhithe – London Riverside Walk Guided Tour
Tower Bridge to Rotherhithe Please click button to subscribe to my channel!! Rotherhithe Rotherhithe comes from the Anglo Saxon – Rederheia “Landing Place for cattle” and will be the final destination on our walk which starts at Tower Bridge. Shad Thames Named after “St John at Thames” knights of st John who used to own […]
Wapping to Limehouse London Riverside Walk
Wapping to Limehouse London Riverside Walk Please click button to subscribe to my channel!! Dead Man’s Hole Underneath the north side of Tower Bridge is Dead Man’s Hole where there was once a morg. Bodies used to wash up regularly perhaps as a result of jumpers or people who had been murdered. Bodies remained here […]
London Bridge Walk Through History
London Bridge Walk Through History with Julian McDonnell from Joolz Guides Please click button to subscribe to my channel!! For a lovely walk around Borough Market and London Bridge, ending at the Tower of London we started at The George Inn, Southwark. Take a drink in this beautiful historic pub which Shakespeare and Dickens knew. […]
Should I buy The London Pass ?
Should I buy The London Pass ? Good question! We decided to see how many London tourist attractions we could see in 48 hours with The London Pass so here’s our Top 10 London Tourist Attractions with The London Pass. The London Pass will get you access to over 70 different attractions across London and […]
How to Travel Around London and buy Oyster Cards
Find out how to travel around London and buy oyster cards with a true Londoner. Please click button to subscribe to my channel!! If you’re visiting London for the first time or you aren’t a regular visitor you might find the system of buying tickets confusing. Watch my video to get some good tips to […]
A Walk Around Greenwich – London
A walk around Greenwich with Joolz and L&Q. Please click button to subscribe to my channel!! First there’s the peninsula where you can see modern art by Anthony Gormley, Alex Chinnek and more, stretching all along The Line as far as the Olympic park. Take a trip up the River Thames to the place where […]
Captain Bligh’s Tomb and The Pedlar’s Window
Captain Bligh’s tomb is situated at the back of the Garden Museum in Lambeth which used to be called St Mary at Lambeth. When I went to film the Garden Museum there wasn’t anyone available but I my interest was mostly in Captain Bligh. Captain Bligh was a remarkable man who witnessed the death of […]
Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge has one of my favourite views in London. Anyone who likes The Kinks must know the song Waterloo Sunset and many Londoners cannot resist humming that tune when crossing over Waterloo Bridge on their way home from work, “Swarming like flies around Waterloo underground”. It isn’t the most beautiful bridge to look at […]
Marshalsea Prison
Diary extract of a young boy named Charlie – 1827 St George the Martyr and Marshalsea Prison 15th July 1827 5.30am and I am awoken by a kerfuffle outside my window in Bermondsey. I had almost forgot that yesterday was Bastille Day and this commotion that stirred me was nothing more than the drunken revelry […]
Ferrymen’s Seat – London Bankside
Along Bankside in London, near The Globe Theatre is the Ferrymen’s Seat. It is a a rather unremarkable looking piece of stone jutting out of a wall and you have to be pretty slim to fit on it. I suppose there was no McDonalds in those days and people were pretty undernourished and skinny. Up […]
The Carting Lane Fart Lamp
Just off the Strand, if you bend your steps down the little alley called Carting Lane, you will see a street lamp with a rather thick shaft. It is right at the other end of the lane towards the river, behind the Savoy. This is the last of London’s sewage lamps , a typically ingenious […]
St Bride’s Church – Looks Like a Cake
St Bride’s Church Just off Fleet Street near Ludgate Circus is St Bride’s which was built in 1672 by Sir Christopher Wren. What I love about St Bride’s is the story about how it inspired the design of the traditional wedding cake. Just nearby, on Ludgate Hill a pastry chef called William Rich had his […]
The Savoy – Driving on the Right!
There are many suggestions as to why we drive on the left in Britain but did you know that The Savoy is the one place in where we drive on the right! IN fact, the roundabout is the gauge by which we set the turning circle of a British Taxi cab. All taxis have to […]
Blackfriars Bridge – God’s Banker
God’s Banker Blackfriars Bridge was the third bridge to be built across the river Thames and opened to the public in 1769. It was called Blackfriars Bridge because it lies within a precinct in the City named after the Blackfriars Monastery which for many years occupied a nearby area. Although it was made of Portland […]
Dr. Who’s TARDIS – Police Boxes
Dr Who’s TARDIS is essentially based on the Police Box which you can see spotted around London and the UK. There aren’t many left and many are replicas. There are also many smaller ones designed by Gilbert MacKenzie Trench, and the idea was that they were all connected with the local police station and anyone […]
A Roman Bath – Or is it Tudor?
Just off Surrey Street near Temple Tube Station in London is a rather odd little attraction. The National Trust Roman Baths. There seems to be some debate as to how authentically Roman they are, but they are certainly an interesting attraction. It seems that they are more Tudor and were originally designed to feed a […]
How to use London Cycle Hire – Boris Bikes
Joolz shows you how to use a Boris Bike! The London Cycle Hire Scheme is a great and affordable way to get around London. For just £2 you can have access to a bike for 24 hours. However, if you only want to pay £2 for the whole day you have to make sure you […]
Wilton Music Hall – Cockney Singalong
Wilton Music Hall is the oldest surviving music hall in the world and the perfect location for Tom Carradine’s Cockney Singalong. You might have seen Tom Carradine performing with Champagne Charlie and the Bubbly Boys but you can’t miss him. He has a huge twirly moustache and spats and tail-coat and is member of the […]
Middle Temple Hall
The Honourable Society of Middle Temple Hall was built in the 16th century, during William Shakespeare’s time and is one of the four inns of courst which can call its members to the bar. (The others are Inner Temple, Grays Inn and Lincoln’s Inn.) It was in the 13th century that the inns of court […]
Cabman Shelters
Dotted around London are these little green huts. They are actually cabman shelters designed so that taxi drivers (and hansome cab drivers in the old days) could have somewhere to go and rest and have some reasonably priced refreshments. Cabman shelters are now listed buildings and you can still buy snacks at them but you […]
HMS President
In this London guide Joolz Guides goes for a drink on a battleship moored on the river Thames. HMS President was a Q-Ship which saw action in the first world war, which were battleships disguised as merchant ships. This particular one is decorated in the style of a dazzleship which was a form of camouflage […]
York House Watergate
Joolz explains how the streets got their peculiar names around Embankment and how the narrowing of the river caused York House Watergate to be isolated. York House Watergate was a part of a grand estate belonging to the Duke of Buckingham. In the 18th century the river came all the way up to the York […]