Surrey Quays To Rotherhithe - Excellent Dawdle through London's Docks

In this excellent walk we discover some great places around Surrey Quays and Rotherhithe with fascinating history and excellent food.
I love this area. It's one of my favourite parts of London because I love anything related to ships and seafaring.
There's the whole regeneration of the the area around Stave Hill, food, cocktail bars and lots of historical treasured found by my friend Monica on the foreshore of the Thames.
I recommend a walk in Rotherhithe and Surrey Quays!
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Glad they help. I have to make them to help with my own mental health. Btw are you THE Scroobius Pip?

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[@Apollo_Mint]

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[@clivebaxter6354]

But the locals are foreigners!

[@fasthracing]

Locals?

[@fasthracing]

@@clivebaxter6354 You noticed. The new locals who were not local before but after they moved here they became then deemed to be local by other locals in the locality. Yes visit London to meet foreigners.

[@CelticMickWalks]

Like that as well, don't like vlogs that just float by with or without music, need interaction with the locals

[@susanmyers1899]

@@clivebaxter6354 there's always been "foreigners" in London.

[@1973Washu]

Victorian era engineering is amazing , they built things to last back then. And the built on a grand scale.

[@walkingTVwithadog]

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[@lesliepropheter5040]

Labors of love to be sure, thx Joolz my condolences to you and yours, RIP Queen Elizabeth, God save the King. I remember watching a video of you getting a wave from Charles at a gate (?) in London. You were successful !!!And so were we! Cheers

[@ericduffield524]

Dear Julian, I live near Chicago. I love to visit London. I "found you" during our C lockdown and have enjoyed you ever since. I may never be able to see some of these "away from" Central London neighbourhoods, but Thank You! This video and walk was lovely. I liked your friend and her knowledge, and the orchard was lovely. 😊

[@peterstephen9316]

I know living in London is mega expensive, but the culture, diversity, food, bars etc, is incredible. Plus can we have more of the fantastic mudlark lady please.

[@electrolinks]

Third. The adventure game. I had forgotten what it was called. I was 4 when this was aired so I must have seen repeats...

[@Ben_Ramirez19]

I can't tell you enough how important your videos were to me during lockdown. When I couldn't go out, as well as millions of others, your videos took me on a tour virtually, and instantly I could be somewhere with the help of your description and information, and the videos made me feel comforted and happy

[@jimfromleicester897]

I heard she's quite musical, our monica.

[@monikabuttling-smith5234]

You name the tune and I’ll whistle it! 😂

[@jimfromleicester897]

@@monikabuttling-smith5234 Touchè 👍

[@welshmanjasonpatrick8607]

Very interested Surrey docks fish n chips looks great video

[@DeeDerry]

I would have loved a bit on Albin and Sons Funeral Directors...Big part of the community around Rotherhithe SE16 Been there for around 200 years I believe 💯

[@scottscottsdale7868]

This truly is the best of the best video. Bravo!

[@einarbolstad8150]

Watching a Joolz video is always such a nice and relaxing experience, and interesting too. Add a bit of Norwegian history, such as in this episode, and it's even better.

[@Kari_B61ex]

What a wonderful area. I can see why it's one of your favourite parts of London.

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

This is just a terrific video Joolz. These places you visit around Rotherhithe, are just so interesting, with the old buildings and the cargo docks that used to be in the area. Although a lot of Rotherhithe has changed, it still looks brilliant. The food you were having certainly looked mouth watering, indeed. Many thanks for a very much absorbing production.

[@mao2233]

Here, on the west coast of the U.S., Joolz videos appear in my subscribed videos queue at about 9 a.m. What a WONDERFUL way to start a Sunday morning. Joolz, thank you again for making me laugh while I learn. Joolz, you are the bee's knees. Your sister, Tom, Simon and the other lovely people who contribute to your videos, are much appreciated. So glad you share your knowledge and your personality with us. Keep up the great work!

[@Joolzguides]

Thanks. So glad to have viewers so far away😀

[@mao2233]

@@Joolzguides Purely my pleasure, Joolz. Love all of your videos.

[@mancroft]

Fascinating, Joolz. Thanks ever so. You really should do more vids about the docks and the river.

[@Joolzguides]

I agree!

[@UKCheeseFarmer]

Cuckold, the last thing I thought I would ever here discussed on Joolz Guides! Brightened up my day Joolz, thank you!

[@boohaka]

What a delightful area! I never knew as I’ve been out of London a long time!

[@rambleon3698]

Your show is a museum for the world Jules. Not everthing needs to be in a box. Love everything that you do. Keep well and strong.

[@dexterfitben]

I love Simon's dry interjections.

[@TheLoneHaranger]

What a satisfying walk, Joolz. You do have a lot of fun in your perambulations, don't you? AND, double bonus, you met Monica. I love her fossicking, and history recaps. Watching your footage gives me a huge burn to travel back to London. Been there a couple times, in the '90s, but saw never enough!! Huge history, I'd need to live there 20 years to see half of it. Keep up the great work. Pip-pip!

[@scarlettm86]

I live in Surrey Quays! Gutted to have not seen you both excited too see some history about my local area.

[@MrMichaelsen]

What a Sunday gift to me. I lived in Deptford then Rotherhithe . It ewas the place i lived the longest in LDN. Thanks for this, Joolz

[@Mycroftsbrother]

Don't forget that Sherlock Holmes was supposed to have contracted Tapanuli Fever in Rotherhithe in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective". Another wonderful tour!

[@ultrakoichi]

I love this part of London. I don’t live there but I visited there more than 30 times!! I love walking around this Greenland docks. You missed out on Michael Caine’s birth place. There is a hospital with blue plaque close to Canada Water station.

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Dammit! I like Michael Caine too!

[@ccm1399]

@@Joolzguides Yes, Yoko Ono would agree 🙂

[@russcooke5671]

@@pigunderaroof the grass on my lawn is very tall. Not a lot of people now that 👌👌

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I meant mow that 👌

[@paulgrieve7031]

Glad you finally made it to a pub at the end for a well deserved pint. What a fascinating video! thanks London is so interesting today.

[@LordMelbury1953]

Rotherhithe pronounced long ago when I grew up there as Rovverive. I even saw Tommy Steele in a pie and mash shop once.

[@parisreid5792]

Hi from Gold Coast Australia. One of my favourite pieces Joolz, such a variety of presenters, and accompanied by Lil.

[@ianrobert6239]

Excellent as always. London looks so much better in the Summer.

[@Joolzguides]

Tough to film in though

[@magicknight8412]

That part of London is totally alien to me, but I remedied that with a walk around there a few years ago. So much history to discover there. Had a pint in all of the pubs mentioned :)

[@Rj-tz5kb]

Greeting from Holland:D

[@janebaker966]

That was SO good. I haven't seen you for a while so it was good to see your high standards maintained even excelled. Every time you visit a place I want to go there. When visiting a friend in London I often used to see the name Surrey Docks and wondered what place it was,now I know. I did not know there was so much interesting history in those places. I wonder what price that fish and chips was. Only what that chef thinks is a reasonable price might not match my idea. But it definitely looked worth a tenner.

[@awakeningEmpath]

watched loads of your vids Joolz & I have to say you have a very likeable personality & sense of humour & your confident humility shines through, I expect our North American viewers find you a fine figure of an Englishman and the history itself thrilling

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Cheers!

[@jfilm7466]

All the old buildings take me back to the 70s.

[@louis0121]

Another great video Jools... Never been back down to London since 1979...I visited my aunt and uncle who stayed in Pimlico flats where the program The Latchkey Children was filmed..

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[@monotonehell]

0:36 Wapping! That's a weird coincidence, just four minutes before I started to watch this video, I was on Google Maps wondering about how those stairs to the left of Oliver's Wharf looked from the river, instead of from above. Otherwise I wouldn't have know that it was Wapping as I am on the other side of the planet. I got to Google Maps from a Jago Hazard video on Southwark... I need a life. 🤣

[@spuddy4845]

Rother is the old word for cattle, cows

[@susanmyers1899]

@@monotonehell I do that,walk all over place.Great to check out other places on the ground.

[@vilstef6988]

Nice to see Monica and get a bit of a historical tutorial.

[@lizaluk]

Very soothing fun background song thanks to the relevants

[@SunshineMix101]

😎😎😎 'Another great vid' Jules. Thanks for sharing! 😎😎😎

[@Joolzguides]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@johnmact5548]

My best mate used to live in Hope (sufferance) Wharf. Nice to see it again and another mate used to own that restaurant. Thanks for the trip down memory lane

[@susanmyers1899]

So glad I came across your videos, great fun and full of information that I love,can't get enough. 😊

[@alanspooner3612]

Another joyful and fascinating tour. Thanks Joolz.

[@ANobodysHerstory]

So happy you filmed this. I used to live in this area and always wondered about all the history here with the docks. Great video! Thank you!

[@Photonface]

The Finnish church has a sauna in it. Nice and hot! You can have a very nice Finnish patisserie and coffee afterwards in the cafe. Or have a pint round the corner in the Mayflower.

[@mheuman]

Thank you, Jules, for a deep dive into the Docklands. Each of your tours are a joy to watch.

[@armorer94]

Now I know what "made another man wear the horns" comes from.

[@maxinerussell7426]

Thanks Joolz!,😀once again another fascinating video tour. Loved it. Am now inspired to visit Surrey Quays and Rotherhide, so much history to explore and places for food and drink that I was unaware of. Keep the videos coming, you are a marvel.💯

[@bradfordbarrettluckotheIrish]

Another fascinating adventure Joolz!

[@pearlhartney9]

Always happy to see one of your videos Joolz! Did not disappoint!

[@bulany11]

Hi Joolz, love all of your videos. This one, though, missed to show two historical artifacts. The St Mary's Church is still in possession of the two bishops' chairs made of the Temeraire timber. There are even bronze plaques on them.

[@Joolzguides]

I wanted to include it but the place was never open and I visited several times

[@iyaboa8182]

Great video. I went to secondary school in Bermondsey during late 70s/early 80s. Recall some girls in school 'bunking off' to watch The Professionals being filmed at Surrey Docks. First job was a Summer job at the Peak Freans biscuit factory (hated it!!). So many memories..

[@stablefairy9437]

another great video. loved the orchard garden area which they had created and your mudlarking friend with her fascinating treasures. the whole video was enlivened by a song from the wonderful Little Lost Lou . The one thing I know Rotherhithe for was that the political activist Jessica Mitford stayed there with her husband Esmond Romilly, a nephew of Winston Churchill in 1937 where she gave birth to their baby. But there was a measles epidemic in the area at the time and the baby caught the disease and died at only a few months old.

[@johannebaker9730]

Loved this one. My Dad born in Bermondsey and worked in Southwark for The Gourock Ropework Company who were involved in building the replica of the Mayflower before being bought out by British Ropes in the 1970s. Wonder if the building is now flats? Not sure where it was in Southwark but recognised a few of the buildings thank you xxxx

[@john7857]

Thankyou memories I delivered telegrams around those docks back in the early Sixties

[@stefanboster5728]

Another quite excellent episode, full of fastinating facts!

[@johnmact5548]

I have done that walk so many times as my best friend lives just around the corner from the ship and whale or the Handbag as it used to be called. And you ended up having a pint in the ship. A trip down memory lane. Thank you

[@Eniss22]

I loved in Rotherhithe for four years 2015 - 2019. I missed it. What a lovely informative video 👍

[@sarahhiscoke1801]

Yet again you never let us down. Another insight to our capital with your class and knowledge and always your unique style.

[@garryferrington811]

I fell asleep on this twice. Thank you! I had been suffering with insomnia for three days, so thank you, thank you, thank you. As a matter of fact, seeing it after a good night's sleep, I think this is one of your best. Well-paced and very entertaining. Keep it up.

[@markthomas5035]

Afternoon jools thanks once again for this amazing history tour of London keep em coming

[@brianjohnston1007]

Excellent as usual. Love the background music with the walk.

[@Joolzguides]

Glad you enjoyed it. It's by my sister!

[@evancortez2]

Loved the Indiana Jones reference! It belongs in a museum! :)

[@BoulderingBobat]

My local ❤️❤️

[@dannymcmince]

Happy days...thanks Joolz

[@Moonrakerd]

Ive never been to the ship pub, I thought I explored everything, added to my todo list :D

[@toysoldiernostalgia]

As per usual when there´s a new Joolz guides video out. Chinese take out and a beer. Been a tradition for like the last year or two. Thanks for all the great sundays.

[@Joolzguides]

Glad to be a part of your routine!

[@Cliff-Joseph]

I ❤️all of your films. But this is possibly the most engaging of them all.

[@JonBogdanove]

I quite like the addition of a few food highlights, like the fish and chips and the LoViet van. I mean, don't turn the show into another food vlog-but when some eatery adds genuine character to a walk, I think it's rather nice.

[@tombowers3681]

wow excellent video, again a place I would love to visit next time in London. Hard to imagine how peaceful and lovely it is there today compared to how it must have been before the war

[@marijanabilic9246]

Thank you Joolz..interesting video.,love Secret garden🍀❤️🍀💚🌹💚all that plants ... Have a pleasant afternoon from Bgd for all

[@stephaniecowans3646]

Another cracking good video, Joolz! My Sunday mornings always start with a plate of Welsh Cakes and mug of coffee while watching either a new video of yours, or binge watching earlier videos. BTW: I half expected to see you carrying a cricket bat instead of your cane 😆

[@lennyp18]

Loved it! My great grandparents and their parents all lived in Rotherhithe and it’s lovely to see a little of it. And you got the Adventure Game into this one: doog yrev!

[@michaelbenenson]

Fabulous guide - ta!

[@sih1095]

Always a real thrill to see an alert for a new Joolz guide.. Cheers dude.

[@JohnyArt]

❤❤❤

[@danellis-jones1591]

I moved into Surrey Quays when it was Surrey Docks. I was on Brunswick Quay and worked at The Moby's Dick for a while. It was a really lovely place to live. I worked in WH Smith on the first day Surrey Quays Shopping Centre opened. I was 16.

[@magdatorruellas9122]

This was an AWESOME walk! Thank you Joolz

[@bk1147]

One of your best ones yet !

[@georgehatherill8288]

I have watched many if your videos, but this one was really good. The info, the asides, the editing, your guest leading you astray, the vibes in that cocktail pub garden, all came together in a perfect way. Well done!

[@user-nb4ck7ly3o]

Hiphip tally-ho 😊 Love your videos, you n ya crew. I've lived in Peckham, Bermondsey, Deptford & Surrey Dock's all m life. Surrey Dock's for 42 year's. Me & my whole family are still scattered around ere, All 20 odd of us Bod's & Boddess's & we're still accumulating yes..xXx ♥️🎉😂🎉🤩🎉♥️

[@salishseaquest7952]

Great to visit all the docks and get some new insight to their uses presently. Love to see the reclamations that have happened. Happy to see Monika on the foreshore once again.

[@Joolzguides]

She seems to spend most of her time down there!

[@salishseaquest7952]

@@Joolzguides For that, I applaud her loudly.

[@russcattell955i]

love the musical interludes by li'l lost Lou.

[@Big-Harry]

Thanks Jools another wonderful video

[@oliviaginsbourg6541]

it IS a bit beyond repair now . love it . standing in front of a couple of stones that used to be Edward III s castle 🤣😂🤣 amazing information abiout present and past riverside life i lived near kew bridge and the City Barge pub as a child and loved mudlarking victorian porcelain

[@friendlywomble]

Excellent and much appreciated video Mr Connery!

[@ctm1602]

love your vids Joolz they got me travelling through youtube through lockdown .. it was great to spend time in the greatest city in the world through your eyes , i have spent much time in Surrey Quays over the years and enjoyed this video . Chris from Glasgow North Great Britain 🇬🇧

[@alandyer910]

A wonderful tour! One of your best I think. Thank you!

[@donovandavidsonAlton]

Thanks Joolz love the videos always a learning curve nice views.

[@Bullseyearchery]

My father in law worked on sections of the Mulberry Harbour at Butterley Engineering, Ripley Derbyshire. It's all gone now. Keep up the excellent work Joolz.

[@MrNas42]

Simply Brilliant!

[@miamijim5964]

I want to thank you Joolz, I used to live in Surrey Quays and I used to work around Soho back from 98 to 02... I don't get back to the UK much anymore but your recent walks have brought back so many memories, I had drank in the Phoenix basement bar many times and Beaujolais... as I used to DJ in Soho and then we'd pop in for late night drinks... keep up the good work mate... Jim.

[@russcooke5671]

I love the phoenix Not many Londoners even know it’s there.

[@guymorris6596]

Simplicity Restaurant looks awesome.

[@EastLondonMillwall]

Look forward to this one, thank you Joolz..

[@sandramacglashan1088]

Love you history videos keep sharing them.😊

[@ivanrainbird2416]

loved it joolz look forward to the next video

[@lindacharles6581]

Brilliant episode Joolz. Thank you! You lift my spirit like no one else.

[@allyclark1313]

Great video. I remember The Adventure Game too 😁

[@paulvallender2896]

Superb video, so enjoyable and informative. Thank you 👏🏻👏🏻