Peckham Rye This is a rather excellent walk around Peckham Rye in South London with a splendid history dating back to King Henry I. Did you know that if you look around there are angels all around in Peckham. William Blake saw them in an oak tree here. There’s pie and eels at Manze’s, […]
London Cockney Songs
London Cockney Songs A cheerful, fun and charming look into all those London songs that we have sung for years at cockney singalongs. Joolz and Tom Carradine push a piano to the locations featured in many of these London songs and explain about the music hall performers who famously performed them and how they […]
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace In this jolly marvellous London walking tour Joolz visits Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood. First the there’s Crystal Palace Park with its terrific dinosaurs, the maze and the Crystal Palace Bowl. History of the Palace and the TV tower. The high level station, Vicar’s Oak and The Triangle. All Saints Church, courtesans, […]
Deptford
Deptford Deptford has now become one of my favourite London walking tours! It was established as a royal naval dockyard by King Henry VIII and has seen innumerable voyages of discovery set sail over the last 350 years. Walk the streets with Joolz where sailors trod. Walk in the footsteps of Sir Francis Drake, […]
London Treasure Hunt – Street Paraphernalia Challenge
Street Furniture Treasure Hunt If you’re visiting London or anywhere else in Britain , why not play the Joolz Guides Treasure Hunt – Street Furniture and Paraphernalia Challenge! As you wander around award yourself points if you spot any of Joolzy’s favourite obsessions. Then share a photo of yourself on Instagram next to one […]
Bermondsey
Bermondsey In this most spiffing walk around Bermondsey Joolz goes to the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret. A garret is a liveable space in an attic and this one was discovered above this church having been sealed up in the 19th century. You can attend a demonstration of how the operating theatre […]
Waterloo to Southwark
Waterloo In this most excellent London walk Joolz takes you from Waterloo through Southwark and towards Borough for a pint at The Lord Clyde pub. We start on Waterloo Bridge and walk past Waterloo Station. Then it’s through the Leake Street tunnel to see all the graffiti. Also the father of the music halls […]
Brixton Walking Tour
Brixton Tour In this rather excellent walking tour of Brixton Joolz shows how the area has changed from fields and farm land in the 19th century to a multicultural bustling hub of activity. Brixton was home to David Bowie, John Major and many of the people who arrived from the Caribbean on the Windrush […]
Charlie Chaplin London Tour
Charlie Chaplin London Tour When Spencer Chaplin emailed me to ask for a tour of Kennington I had no idea that he was Charlie Chaplin’s grandson! The next thing I knew I was wandering around all the old haunts of Charlie Chaplin in London with Kirea and Spencer Chaplin, his grandchildren. Charlie Chaplin was […]
Tour of Clapham
Tour of Clapham Please click button to subscribe to my channel!! Wandsworth Prison Britain’s largest – built 1851. Oscar Wilde served first 6 months of his sentence here before moving to Reading. Clapham Junction Station 1838 – It was signal box and then grew to be busiest in the world (not anymore). Man on the […]
Tour of Battersea
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kirkaldy Testing Works
At 99 Southwark Street lies a remarkable little museum. It is remarkable because it isn’t actually a museum at all. It is a functioning testing works. The Kirkaldy Testing Works The Kirkaldy Testing Museum is actually an English Heritage listed building which houses David Kirkaldy’s pioneering testing machine.It is a huge hydraulic machine which was […]
Horniman Museum
A little further out from central London lies one of London’s most wonderful attractions. The Horniman Museum is in Forest Hill, South London and is the perfect place for a day out with the kids. There’s natural history, anthropology, musical instruments and aquarium and acres of gardens with a wonderful view of London. Frederick John […]
Crossbones Graveyard – Borough
Borough Market
Borough Market is situated by London Bridge and is a must see for gourmet travellers. In this London guide, Joolz tries out the best sausage rolls in London, organic iced tea and even award winning English wine! If you want a London guide where you meet the actual characters of London Joolz Guides is for […]
Joolz’s Guides to London – Intro
Watch my introduction and then click on any of the videos in the VIDEO GALLERY to learn more about Hidden London!