Cultural And Trendy Walking Tour From Hackney Central To London Fields

This is a jolly splendid cultural and historical meander through the streets of #hackney in East London.
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The ancient village of Hackney has changed a lot since I was young, let alone in the last thousand years.
We take a walk from Hackney Central around the back streets and down to Broadway Market near London Fields where we also visit one of London's weirdest museums. Viktor Wynde's Museum of Curiosity is a treasure trove of weird and wonderful items which will freak you out.
Hackney Empire which has played host to many musical and comedy stars since 1901 including Marie Lloyd and Stand Laurel.
The churchyard with many fancy tombs and interesting people buried there.
Then there's the fabulous Umit & Son film shop where you can find many old classic cameras and even a cinema.
There's a Tudor house, Sutton House, the oldest in Hackney, a round church, the Burberry outlet store and more stink pipes and other random little discoveries.
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[@MAKOBITE]

Very nice to see you again of a Sunday morning! Thanks for the tour!

[@u-two]

oh my sister lives on Hackney

[@petitebiogeek]

Bought your book! You are a most excellent tour guide. (I had to comment on, ‘Anne Boleyn’d’ve gone better to stick with Henry Percy,’. Elizabeth I and England, though…?) 😅

[@Phil_Cleaver]

@Joolzguides Here’s an interesting fact (I think). The James Hoyle and son web site has a PDF catalog and does indeed cast cole holes (page 79). You can own your very own cole hole.

[@garryferrington811]

Actually, these are videos. But that's OK. Everyone misuses the term, so I suppose it is what it is.

[@donjohnson24]

Another enjoyable excursion around an area that I knew as a youngster, as my father's family lived in Bocking Street, London Fields - off Sheep Lane - and a short walk from the Cat & Mutton. My mother's parents had a tobacconists shop in Westgate Street, that backed onto my father's house - which may have helped their romance. The shop was opposite the Havelock pub, which I didn't realise had an 'H' at the start of its name until years later. My brother was four years older than me, and had bronchitis as a baby, so my father's doctor advised him to move away from the area and the ever-present overpowering smells from the nearby soap factory. 'They are building new houses in the country at Edmonton' he said, which was where my dad bought a house, and where I was born. Buying a house was a rare move for an East End lad in the late 1930's, and most of the - many - relatives thought he was getting a millstone around his neck. He did well, however, rising from box boy to the directorship of the Forbes Stuart company in Billingsgate fish market, so never regretted his decision - despite for years having to get up at four a.m. to get the trolleybus to work. We would often visit our family, and I remember going to the pie and eel shop in the Broadway, and being fascinated by the green gravy (made with Parsely I think) they served with their pies. As a teenager I sometimes went to Billingsgate on a Saturday morning, where I took the money for the fish purchased during the week by deals based just on the shake of a hand, and where I discovered that paper notes used in Billingsgate had their own very distinctive and pungent smell!. I also paid the porters their 'bobbin' for carrying the fish boxes in and out of the market on top of their large leather hats. On the way home, we would pop into the Havelock, and within about ten minutes the pub would fill with the Johnsons, as the local bush telegraph resounded with 'Alf's here!'. Thanks for triggering the memories!

[@zoesays3830]

@donjohnson24 Thank you for the trip down memory lane!😀 Your dad knew a brand spanking new 1930s house was a priority move for the health of his family and did what he had to do! Do you know whatever became of the soap factory? Demolished or converted?

[@mikeoglen6848]

Did you enjoy avin yer drinks in the Avalock on the the way Ome?

[@jujutrini8412]

When I was a kid I used to be fascinated by the eels squiggling around in the pie and mash shop.

[@deboramccallum3987]

Wow..interesting story

[@gonefishing167]

Well,,hello, great to see you back. You’ve been missed. I’ll look forward to this now. 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

[@krazyladyk]

I lived on Clapton Square. I left Hackney 45 years ago, and really enjoyed this video.

[@beverlyhenderson188]

I was born in the Salvation Army Women's home in Hackney. My brother stayed in East End his whole life, died last year. We lived in Maynell Road from 1920's to 1960's as a whole family. Grand parents, parents and us kids. My family were Costamongers and Artisans, furniture makers back to 17th Centuary.

[@lackmaker5]

Costamongers. Those who sell coffee?

[@beverlyhenderson188]

Very good and funny.Thank you

[@goldyMarav]

As a Greek in love with London and everything english, I thank you soooo much for your witty personality, your humor, your knowledge and your style 🌸You are one of a kind ❣️

[@Lola-AreaCode212]

He truly is.

[@loismiller2830]

Classic Joolz to visit Beaufort's tomb on a windy day. It's the little things that make these walks so fun.

[@maryreichle7623]

Brilliant Joolz. One-of your best. I had no idea Hackney was so interesting.

[@jujutrini8412]

And that’s only a small part of Hackney! There is a lot of interesting history, buildings and places in Hackney.

[@SirWhig-esq.]

Pip Pip Tally-Ho… such a brilliant catchphrase Joolz.❤ [also the singer sounds like/reminds me of Linda Smith on ISIHAC]😂🎉

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Enjoy hearing the great English language of yester year 😊 very jolly & uplifting 😊 keep it alive by keeping & saying these little quotes .

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Love Joolz natural man with character of life . 😊

[@jeffreyoldham55]

A perfectly *Hackneyed* video if there ever was one, Joolz! You are the cornerstone of a round church. Caught your "Pitcairn" cameo in the cinema. A cheeky bit of production wizardry!

[@paulmark63]

Fabulous video I was born in hackney thank you so much brings it all back Paul

[@alfching2499]

I was brought up at the Marsh end Hackney Wick Berkshire Road

[@ericchristen2623]

Your sister's songs are great. Hope she performs in some London theatres..

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Hackney . Great historic history.

[@emrysbatchelor7420]

Fantastic brickwork (English Bond) with all the correct cement pointing so water drips off.

[@KC-gy5xw]

Hackney/Clapton/Dalston - we used to lock the car doors when we drove through in the 70's/80's! My dad's friend bought a big arse house there and from the 80's until he died, every week developers were begging him to sell. He used to move to one room, then after a few months get fed up and move to another. It was over three stories and he bought it for a song in the 60's - at least 8 rooms. He said he didn't want to sell it, his daughter and grandson could decided when he died. Places like this, were full of Windrush and other people, renting rooms, with a cooker for each room on the landing - they'd pay top dollar for that dirty little room then. When they had money to buy them, they didn't want to know, except Uncle Gerald who loved the area. The old Metropolitan Electric Board building at Wood Green is now very nice boutique Hotel with bar and restaurant; I remember paying bills there with my mum when I was smaller..

[@jrb4935]

What is an 'arse house'?

[@ME-cf4bg]

Lived there from early to late 2000s (my youth). Loved it. Has an edge but also great sense of community not found in suburbs

[@firelight-vitality]

Used to live on Graham Rd back in 1998. Oh, memories! Thanking you both!

[@VickyAllum]

Thank you Joolz and Simon for taking me to Hackney and the interesting tour, my Great Great Grandad rented out his basement flat to Bernie Dillon the jockey who married Marie Lloyd she used to visit him there in Pimlico in London ,

[@hopefulmelancholy7514]

Great new video Joolz. Kind of miss Carradine's Cockney Sing Along as the musical backdrop for many of your vids. This new song and artist is definitely a great addition. Thanks for this lovely splendid walk through East London. You made the day all the more wonderful.

[@mariaconway4241]

Jools rocks he make London history more interesting

[@Forpleasure1]

Hackney is very beautiful. I was there last year - thank you for the information about this nice place!

[@AndyChamberlain-e6u]

Great video as Joolz - many thanks! Think I spotted you At Mornington Crescent tube station yesterday sheltering from the showers?!

[@stevenmorley1639]

A Pie and Mash shop forced to close in Hackney , great shame. I know Cooke's are popular in Essex these days .

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

I wonder where they built Hackney carriges?

[@paulseoighemcgee5772]

Quality son , quality !

[@ArcadeCabNBud]

Have you ever covered the ethnic and cultural replacement of the English from London ?

[@annwags]

"Why do they have to change everything?" Money. And status. It's how the new Phoenix AZ councilmen climb the ladder! When you have $$ to distribute, everyone's your friend!

[@claire76leach]

Thanks Joolz and Simon x

[@canturgan]

Anthony Newley was from Hackney.

[@jujutrini8412]

Barbara Windsor was from ‘ackney an’all! 😂

[@DavidSkidmore-e5t]

The stone maybe had a metal piece on and could be a shoe scraper 🤔🤔

[@richard8331]

Great episode Joolz, are you working on another book of walks please? as ive just completed volume 1 so to speak

[@TheAsylum100]

16:50 Boot scrape, metal piece missing on top

[@wasabista1613]

Another magnificent walking tour by my man Joolzy. What's the origin of the name Hackney, I wonder?

[@CherryBerry48]

cheers!!!

[@u-two]

thanks sir

[@msadurski]

You mean K6, Joolz, presumably. K3 was essentially a K2 made of concrete.

[@chestertouristcom]

9:49 Taken me off to Crewe, Cheshire. Not the best place.

[@jeffreybell5454]

The murder mile is mentioned in song by Elvis Costello, can't remember which one.

[@luggylugworm]

Oliver's Army but I think he was referring to Belfast rather than Clapton which wasn't called that until long after the song's release.

[@helston7262]

NIce

[@henkhemming6674]

isn't Hackney a place for old people? (the Rolling Bones)

[@MareeMarshall]

I feel realy old as I know alot of the words to the songs you play, remember my Grandma singing them, that's my excuse anyway,

[@paulhooker469]

Another great vlog

[@dannorth3138]

That fish batter looked a tad anemic, hope your guts was ok after Joolz

[@ericchristen2623]

So Winnie the Pooh came from Hackney?

[@TheUluxian]

Darn it, Joolz...Quit being all entertaining and making me learn stuff! I'm 61... my brain has no more room to store new stuff

[@fernandomilicich8160]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️

[@Youtuberrrrr1000]

Interesting fact: That Burberry outlet store is there because that building is the old Burberry factory. They made trenches there from 1950’s-90’s (and now it’s luxury flats and retail. Classic.)

[@julieharnett3600]

I was born in hackney in 1961. But didn't live there. So extremely interesting. I was bought up in the shires. Bedfordshire. Not far from St Alban's. Also a very interesting video by yourself. I do hope Simon was successful in selling his paintings?

[@edwardpenn1917]

I was born in hackney a war time baby . Live in Essex now . Lived in Welshpool Street off the Broadway London fields and bombed out houses was my play ground. So many memories .

[@gonefishing167]

Thoroughly enjoyable Joolz, you stand head and shoulders above the crowd.🙏🙏👵🇦🇺👍👍👍👍

[@Joolzguides]

Literally. I’m 6’6” 😂

[@gonefishing167]

Well then, that answers that. 👍👵🇦🇺

[@mikalasimpson7789]

It's always going to be a good Sunday, when it starts with Joolz.

[@TrevorJones-f6e]

You have a great brand Joolz. Never mind TV (mainstream media), your brand is a strong one, so ignore negative people and know you are supported by tons of people. This video is excellent and informing. I have your excellent book. Well done.

[@Lola-AreaCode212]

There are negative comments? Those must be pretty miserable people, jeez.

[@brian9731]

The box on the side of the post box is for the next bag in a postman/woman's walk. They start their "walk" (not "round") with one full bag and the driver will drop the second bag in one of those boxes

[@barrywood2806]

Your latest perambulation was a nostalgic one for me, as my first job back in the 60s found me working next to the town hall, in a building now replaced by the library and museum. In fact, we used the staff restaurant in the basement of the town hall for lunch. Twiggy has a connection to Mare Street, and she visited during a Who Do You Think You Are tv episode which traced her family history. Well worth watching if you can track it down.

[@hazcat640]

Joolz! Perfect start to a Sunday and me sitting here with a steaming Joolz mug of coffee. Thank you. Wonderful walk and great editing.

[@MalteseKat]

The flag had a red and white eight pointed Maltese cross in the center of the shield. Very likely the tower you pointed out was built by the knights of Malta.

[@Stephen_Lafferty]

Ooh, a new intro animation! Sundays are always better with a guided tour with Joolz and Co!

[@christopherbarker181]

Thanks for giving tribute to the “Pooh-man”; makes me appreciate the jobs I’ve had in my lifetime😂

[@marinedrive5484]

My God, that Museum of Curiosities is seriously macabre. I would be having nightmares for weeks after a visit to it. I remember as a child we had a mummified, Egyptian hand in a glass case in our home and it really gave me the heebie-jeebies. My mother eventually buried it next to the local cemetery. I think it came down to her from a great, great uncle who was an Egyptologist.

[@markbaird6691]

My late father, film producer Roy Baird , tried to make a film about Marie Lloyd, who was also known to have tipped the police off about Dr Hawley Crippen. Lloyd was probably the first ever British Pop star!

[@adamfrankowski2768]

Crippen was innocent.

[@markbaird6691]

@@adamfrankowski2768 So it's often been said. Poor bloke just wanted to clear off with his lover Ethel.

[@rachelrahman8984]

Seal, lived in Sutton house when it was a squat. I went in there for an after pub party. It was a bit spooky but nice people

[@derekantill3721]

I was born in Lower Clapton Road many, many years ago and lived in Hackney for 30 years. Great video Joolz brought back many memories.

[@chrissometimes7473]

James Hoyle (beehive Foundry) are still in business making, among many other things, coal hole covers. I suspect they have a thriving business supplying people who are renovating older homes and need thing like that or cast iron railings and lots of other stuff. They will even do reproductions if you have a sample.

[@ericchristen2623]

Love your walks Joolz. I used to live in London b4 the working class was removed by corrupt politics and insane inflation. Try Ham across river from Chiswick. Also, Petersham a little past Richmond, is a splendid little treasure.

[@SallyAnn191]

I was born in Hackney and have so many ancestors who lived there. It was lovely to see places they would have known.

[@eshaibraheem4218]

Fascinating, as ever. Thank you, Joolz and Simon. You always entertain - your sister, too, of course.

[@RighteousReverendDynamite]

Joseph Priestley was one of greatest scientists of all time; discovered oxygen, carbon monoxide, ammonia, nitrous oxide, et al.. in his era it was fashionable to have nitrous oxide at parties. (Of course nitrous oxide (aka “hippie crack”, “whippets” ) can cause lifelong catastrophic neurological issues especially in those who have low B12 stores (from poor diet and boozing) as it can lead somewhat rapidly to Subacute Spinal Degeneration (the posterior ascending columns of your spinal cord transmit vibratory and propeioceptive( joint position sense; how you know where your limbs are when you are not looking at them. This allows you to act like you are punching yourself in your face with your eyes closed but you miss hitting yourself by an inch, for example). So you end up with mild quadriparesis and gait imbalance that unless revered with high doses of B12 , you are crippled.

[@joavkof]

It makes me sad to see how rundown Hackney is. But this is very interesting

[@garolstipock]

Run down!? Goodness, it's the shiniest it's ever been in 100 years! If this is run down to you, you should have seen it in the 70's and 80's!

[@23Dakini]

I think British actor Daniel Sharman was born in Hackney. 🥰

[@kaliou6645]

⭐️🎩Bear in mind, that new Joolz Guides intro is one of a kind!💫👞👞

[@ericchristen2623]

One wonders if anyone in historic London became rich by honorable means (unlike Sutton the arms dealer) 😅

[@jahwobble5214]

My family are all from Hackney but most mainly died out now. I lived there myself through the late 90s to mid 2000s Amhurst Rd and later in Dalston. I cannot believe how much it has been gentrfied. Not always a good thing.

[@no1cromo]

Well Street also being the site of the first Tesco's.

[@derekeaton-yl9ni]

I live in the area, thanks for some fascinating facts I didn't know

[@modphil64]

Not very often I have to turn stuff off but that song being played over & over just drove me mental, surely you could have picked other songs & not just that one, really put me off a good watch.

[@peterdean8009]

I agree. I turned the sound off and had a laugh reading the closed captions, including the Pioneer shop selling Jelly Deals.

[@philroberts7238]

Many theatrical types from this part of London, Jools, especially from its cockney Jewish days. Two of them who spring to mind are Steven Berkoff and Harold Pinter. As a teenager, Pinter, so they say, was as meticulous with his Yiddish as he was with his English.

[@Joolzguides]

I’m so low brow that my favourite performance is Berkoff in Berverly Hills Cop!

[@russcattell955i]

That old Gaumont projector reminded me of the 1957 film The Smallest Show on Earth. I thought such strange machines were just amusing film props.

[@SaucyJack88]

A beautiful Sunday just made even more beautiful with the drop of a new lovely Joolzy! Thanks Julian, your videos always cheer me up. I hope one day I will get you meet you and buy you a beer at the pub. Cheers from the Netherlands.

[@Joolzguides]

Many thanks!

[@Dean-j1n]

I think you are amazing I lived IN London in the 80s and early 90s i do miss it thanks for your videos and taking me back ❤x

[@GETINTOUCHTODAY]

Ahh, memories, used to go swimming in the 90s as Ackney Baths the bus journey from Islington was lets say very colourful & sometimes very dangerous as it was full of junkies early in the morning 😅

[@MikeJJjones]

Elba was born in hackney that was it, Ray Winston dad was from hackney not him, sugar was from n16 stoke newington hackney

[@ifcukin8mufc168]

Camels soon replacing the buses !

[@PontiacS.]

LOVE LOVE LOVE British Music Hall. Big Up Kate Garner. What, no Blue Plaque for Marc Bolan's Childhood Home? Born and Raised in Hackney, Actually.

[@garolstipock]

I think he did an earlier vid that covered Stoke Newington where he points out Marc Bolans childhood home on the edge of Stokey commons. The godfather of Glam was not forgotten.

[@lorsheijd]

Wow. Classy logo animation. Cool Joolz. Thanks for another entertaining and informational video.

[@Joolzguides]

Thanks. Simon did the logo. He’s very good!

[@nannynan5893]

This was loads of fun, and the walk didn't tire me at all! Thank you for sharing with a "yank" :)

[@armorer94]

A eel shop turned into an opticians? Just as well, because I couldn't see myself eating eel...

[@SoulTonic]

I did this same walk in the summer, were you following me? 😂 A long time Joolz fan I've been waiting for this video! I thought you'd point out the Victorian post box on Sutton Place right next to where you were standing, but I guess you can't film everything, but you talked about almost everything I've spotted since I moved to the area and I've learnt a couple of new things too 👏

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

Another most interesting video of another most interesting part of London, Joolz. I never knew that there would be so many fabulous buildings like there are in this district. It's good to see that the Empire has reverted back to a theatre again. The Umit shop is most unique, with all the old films, that old projector and the mini cinema at the rear. 35 minutes of a treat of a film, and thank you for showing, with the period type of music and singing which accompanies many of your films. All the best.

[@washubrain]

This was a gem!!! Great tour, especially all these little detail about various odd features we all have seen not knowing what they were )) Enjoyed it slowly as a glass of good wine )). I used to live in Hackney in the 90s-00s and only now understand what a great place that was. Thank you Joolz for giving us a chance to walk by all these places I used to see every day.

[@brianjrichman]

My parents were married in Hackney Town Hall in 1953. Somewhere I have a photo of them on the steps of the place too.

[@vicheaterx]

1:52 looks remarkably like Sandu Ciorba, a lesser known Romanian and probably Roma musician, 20M+ views he has on a few of his YT videos, he does.

[@hypercomms2001]

About 2004 I used to live in Powell Road, off cricketfield field--I now live back in Melbourne Australia--and I was wondering why the area near Clapton Pond was called "the murder mile"....?

[@garolstipock]

I lived in that area, but the other side of the roundabout in Upper Clapton. It started getting bad In the latter half of the 80's drugs, universal unemployment, hopelessness, despair, boredom, no-horizon, deep poverty seemed to permeate. Criminality boomed for a spell. Youths with their stupid 'postcode wars' where 'gangs' for some crazy reason adopted American ghetto mentality proclaiming their estates, areas, postcodes were theirs to defend, protect, and give a rep...even tho each and every one of them lived in their parents rent-subsidized council flat. "turf" protection for their drug selling, literal armed bank robberies, and addicts breaking into homes to find the money to buy their next fix. It was a dark time. Remnants of it persist. "Murder mile' seemed to encompass half of Upper Clapton (after Clapton Common because that was and likely still is heavily Hasidic Jewish (not known to be wanna-be-gangstas)-- part of the 'orbit' around Stamford Hill), clear up to to end of Lower Clapton where Joolz vid here showed. But it obviously was broader. Those days, I more think of 'the box', north to south between Tottenham to Shoreditch (when Shoreditch was still, 'the ditch') and east to west between Green Lanes to the River Lea. The 80's and 90's, it was kind of a tinder box. Amazing to see its transformation today. though visually it doesn't look too radically different. I just think the crooks got old and finally quit their nonsense, died early by knife or gun crime, or are still in prison.

[@garolstipock]

Always a great Sunday when I see there is a Joolz Guides vid waiting for me to sit, enjoy, and learn. And, "WOW!" Hackney! 'my ol' manor'! I was born in Hackney and lived in Upper Clapton (not show here, but referred to..."The Murder Mile". About Joolz age, and to know Hackney then, and to see it now.. Wow. What a difference. Tho so much looks the same, but now apparently 'near-luxury flats and coffee shops'... lol. I would never have imagined good ol' Hackney would become so trendy and appealing as a place people want to live as it has now.

[@jimbrentar]

cockerel? Tottenham Hotspurs!

[@zanyzoo6767]

This is the only channel , I thumps up before I have even seen its latest offering.........

[@JuanCarlosSendon]

I lived in Hackney from 1973 - 1998 and I always wanted to know about the church and graves in Mare Street, also the white building next to the bus stop was a Midlands Bank for years until HSBC took over. Thank you.

[@kevinfleming9919]

Another really great, informative, and entertaining video, but I've come to expect nothing less from you Joolz! Thank you for all the smiles and laughs you give us, the desire to come experience the places you show us, and all the information, facts, and some things that may or not be facts but should be with the way you present them! lol! I was wondering with the Cemetary that they "cleared out" and put the old tombstones to the side, did they move/get rid of the bodies buried there, or did they just move the grave markers and leave the graves and just change the grounds coving the Cemetary into a more park like area?

[@docbutlerpresents6734]

Love your videos Joolz, but you forgot to mention in this one that the American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, once lived in Blackheath, at 4 Pond Road.

[@johnevans801]

I enjoyed the walk around hackney. Many memories I left in 1964 spent many hours in hackney baths

[@garolstipock]

Lol. Thats where learned how to swim.

[@R3R3T]

Can't wait for Cricklewood, I'm so curious about the history

[@russcooke5671]

It’s not exactly Hollywood. It’s real name is cricketswood because of all the crickets that lived there. It’s a third world shithole now though it stinks there. Pooo pooo

[@docbutlerpresents6734]

Sorry Joolz, that comment I left earlier was meant for your Blackheath video.