South Kensington Walk - London's Hub of Art and Culture

[@Joolzguides]

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[@annetteconroy6921]

I read that as "pie order". (I'm up at 3.30 am NZ time having a snack )

[@JamieSunderland-g9z]

Great to meet you yesterday sorry for catching you off guard

[@MartySulls]

Alice is amazing

[@TheMacabreGamer]

Lovely way to spend a Sunday. Watching some Jools.

[@divaden47]

For a young man who was bored of history at school, you have certainly come a long way ! Thank goodness or we wouldn't have these wonderful Walks!!

[@JB-kk5vg]

Though equally bored of history at school back in the 70s, I remember my teacher, Mrs Darby, frequently saying that her husband was descended from the Darbys of Coalbrookdale. It was many years later that I first went to Ironbridge and realised what an amazing thing it was to have that connection.

[@duncans4186]

😂❤

[@ludovica8221]

OMG the tiramisu!! WANT! WANT! WANT!

[@AtheistOrphan]

My memory of South Ken is when my mother spent six months in the Royal Marsden Hospital. I would travel to London every week on my day off to visit her. From stepping off the train at Victoria Station I would be at her bedside in 14 minutes. When she was eventually discharged my brother and I took her for a walk to the gardens fronting the Natural History Museum featured in this video. Whilst sitting on a bench there a pigeon pooped on my brother’s head.

[@pilucamonton9601]

Excellent anecdote! it reminds me to when they operated my uncle Mariano in Barcelona by the best Ophthalmology Surgeon then, he was single and my mother stayed ina hotel in Barcelona to keep an eye on him LoL What did they suffer from/ cataratas him / she miopía/ and she went off to see the zoo in Barcelona and met a white gorilla I can’t neither remember the names of either gorila or surgeon but I promise they will come back to mind Funny the eay my grammar goes a bit weardy sometimes, to quote

[@pilucamonton9601]

😢😅

[@pilucamonton9601]

to quote my Cambridge Professor of English Proficiency but that’s understandable because I’m a Spanish native😮and it actually results quite funny sometimes/ accent/ grammar🎉😊

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@pilucamonton9601 - Thank you!☺️

[@johnnythefox9830]

Ahhh Sunday with jools.❤

[@DanSulyma]

Enjoyed touring about London on a sunny day with Joolz as I sit in the predawn darkness listening to the wind howling and the rain beating on my tin roof here in BC.

[@patjackson8649]

Chllly cloudy afternoon in Winnipeg; and same. Lovely sunny day in London with Joolz

[@arthurloddo3688]

Always my favourite sort of Sunday. Thanks

[@mgsee]

That's some really impressive bit of scaffolding on the Queen's Tower!

[@docastrov9013]

Nikolai Tesla could power the word with it

[@RighteousReverendDynamite]

That is pretty high up there. Takes brave souls to secure those scaffolds. At least they connect around the tower for extra strength. (Then you look at the late Fred Dubnah's one-man scaffold crew scaling a cloud-piercing industrial brick chimney in Bolton and inserting pins in crumbling mortar and joining ladders like connecting drinking-straws... then going up at negative angles... in the wind...)

[@KaptainKlunk1]

over kill and over payed id imagine

[@richardsims3847]

The Albert Hall steps I remember from Micheal Caine having a fight in The Ipcress File.Another great episode.

[@kazzam8514]

It was also in the film The 39 Steps with Robert Powell and John Mills, alongside other famous actors. Their characters, Hannay and Scudder live in the mansions there and are seen going down the Albert Hall steps.

[@SophiaMcGee-k2s]

Watching your channel is like diving into a world of great ideas and creative solutions. Keep inspiring us with your brilliant videos!🍟‍♂️🐢

[@Joolzguides]

Thanks Sophia.

[@davethatcher4954]

Crystal Palace park, just below where the Exhibition centre stood was one of my favourite playgrounds in the 1950's as a kid growing up in Penge where the bottom end of the park was. You could get to the Dinosaurs located on the Island, and even got inside one, as it was hollow with a hole on its underbelly.

[@ericchristen2623]

South Kensington is difficult to beat, eh? Beautiful and historic. Love your Bowie references, as I am also a fan! 😊

[@chegeny]

I feel a pang when I see a closed pub, with that living history of the area gone. Looking forward to your new book!

[@ericchristen2623]

Yep, agree. You think they would close something truly useless, like 10 Downing Street.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Sunday morning walk for me as its my Sunday treat 😊 thank you.

[@hypercomms2001]

14:44 ... the answer is YES! I studied German at the Goethe Insitut in about 2013-2014............and now I live back in Australia.... such is life!

[@hypercomms2001]

In about 1986, I remember going to a concert by INXS with Michael Hutchence at the Royal Albert Hall .....

[@Ze_North_German]

I'm addicted to Joolz Guides-content. But in a good way. 😄

[@curriehot]

Never a dull walk with Joolz

[@stephenwhitehead1160]

I always enjoy a new joolz video.Its the the only thing we have left

[@iancivil2370]

Hi Joolz I’ve been watching your vids for some time and thank you for them all. I’ve just brought your book and hope to visit more often following your footsteps as the wealth of history is fascinating. My mother was born in Sydenham and her father was a barber in Fleet Street, who was born within the sound of bow bells and so a real cockney. Sadly they both passed away a long time ago but I hope to encourage my grandchildren to learn and not just go there to shop. I’m also a busker so love the music injected into your vids too. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and talent 🙏🏻

[@vickialschuler816]

Thanks for the great video which reminded me of my trip to London in 2023 and also highlighted the fact that I missed the Trevi tiramisu assortment! Must go back for that!

[@zerog5041]

Luckily for me I remember a gas light in our scullery at home (I was born in 1950) and I was always obsessed watching a new gas mantle lighting up for the first time, and how it would expand from a thin strip to a glowing globe when lit. The mantle you refer to in the gas light was the six globes.

[@altosanon]

I loved this video as I was a student at Imperial College (a loooong time ago!) and used to live in the area. One of the experiments we did was to go into the park and find the foundations of the Crystal Palace that are still buried there.

[@sherrylkinzer5506]

This is absolutely one of my favorite videos you've ever made! Loved it.

[@danip3270]

Heading to London in April, finally! We’re staying across the street from Hyde Park. Can’t wait. I’ve been watching you for years, and now my husband is as well. Got to get suggestions from the one who knows. 😊

[@colindeans9477]

Another cracking video covering a lot of the area we visited last year while staying in Queens Gate. Really enjoyed seeing it again, and getting so much background info to it all. Thank You Again !!!

[@divaden47]

The light-up 'things' in the gas lamp are properly called Mantles I think!

[@AlexalvareZ-kz2in]

I was there on Sunday afternoon at the BBC Proms concert -Royal Albert Hall during my visit to London. It was great to learn more about the theatre and the district. Thanks! :)

[@wetpaint46]

This is one of my favorite shows 😊❤

[@DeeDerry]

Yes Joolz! I used to work for Royal Marsden Chelsea and Sutton and loved walking around South Ken on my breaks when I was there...Everyone else was off to Bluebird...I grabbed a sandwich and walked the gardens ❤

[@marc-emmanuelkonigson6692]

Hey Sir Joolz ! Cheers from France !! Your videos and discovering walks all around London are just FANTASTIQUES. Bravo et Merci

[@lizscott6911]

Beautifull part of London

[@andrewshore2898]

I think you completely ‘geeked out’ with the counting of those 6 Gaslamp orb things.

[@bambinoandmore46]

Mantels😊

[@andrewshore2898]

@@bambinoandmore46yeah them … whatever

[@martinmuller2809]

@@bambinoandmore46 Yes gas mantles, allegedly an Austrian invention

[@bambinoandmore46]

@@martinmuller2809 they were used in touring caravans in the 1970s . They were very fragile

[@deborahbradbury4432]

I absolutely love this video. 1988 was my first trip to London, I stayed at The Forum on Cromwell Rd, alongside Gloucester Rd Station. Brought back such great memories. Lots of construction at that time, that resulted in the station you see today. . One thing I did not know...about the "acid killer". When I was there that was a Wimpy's & an Indian grocery. Love the area!

[@darrinbamford]

Every Sunday I wake and see a new Joolz video is a a great day

[@maverick4177]

I went to see Echo and the Bunnymen at the Royal Albert hall, splendid it was 🙂👍🏻

[@AO-oy4rf]

So did I back in the 80s 😀

[@simonroberts362]

I'm going in 2 weeks time to watch Squeeze.

[@chrisblay]

Pub crawl guide. Sounds a good idea.

[@msadurski]

A Polish restaurant is not only a restaurant. This is above all a Polish club called “Ognisko Polskie” (Polish Hearth Club). It was established by the British government and the Polish government-in-exile in 1939

[@kudancer]

Yes! And around the corner is the General Sikorsky museum ! The restaurant is amazing and they have wonderful vodkas

[@msadurski]

@@kudancerI was trying to point out the “Ognisko Polskie” was an interesting place with an interesting history. And all you have in mind is a vodka in their menu.

[@ann-sophiedebourginat3403]

​@@msadurskiyes...no wonder that there are so many stereotypes about drank Poles...what a shame

[@GregS-fh5zh]

South Kensington is one of my primary hangouts when I visit London. Joolz, thanks for giving me ideas for new places to visit on my next trip.

[@docastrov9013]

Alice makes a great sidekick.

[@searam1]

Cheers Simon, this is Sean in Atlanta! This is such a wonderful video for me! I stayed at Number 9 Knaresborough Road in Earls Court just a half block off Cromwell Road. I used to walk up and down that area to go to Hyde Park,Green Park, St James’s Park and Southbank and the Embankment every single day for almost 3 weeks because it never rained while I was there, except for the hour and a half that I was in the Shard! Thank you, thank you, thank you! And I visited both of the museums, the Natural History Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and walked down Exhibition Road to Hyde Park many times! But, I never knew Exhibition Road led to Hyde Park where that magnificent Victorian iron and glass building was located that is no longer there! By the way, congratulations on another book! I have so enjoyed your first one and will certainly order the new one! Thank you once again for such an excellent video for me, personally! Sean P.S. The only two hooligans I saw in Kensington were…

[@dandared6395]

thanks jools i british but lived asia now 23 years & love your uploads for obvious reasons ! take care

[@johnny207]

Hi Jools, I think I bumped into you & Simon on this filming day on Bayswater road while you were looking out for your bus while I was with my family on the way to the Pet cemetery. Anyway great vid as always. I’m so impressed you know about the horses tail, we also call the Livingstone/ Shackleton statues Hot and cold corner. 😊🚕

[@VictoriaPichel]

really splendid walk! So interesting. I sort of stumbled along this area on my visit, bumping into buildings, not really knowing where I was going or how to find the RAH or the V&A Museum. I learned so much about it, thank you!

[@MrFroglips69]

I really enjoyed this one. One of your grooviest episodes to be sure.

[@albear972]

5:37 Niiiice! We spent 1 week in London back in 2017 only about a 6-minute walk from this very station. Out hotel was on Queen's Gate and Cromwell. We would love to go back and see other hundreds of places that we missed seeing in the city.

[@SirWhig-esq.]

Joolz your R.P is wonderfully endearing.

[@viktoriavolkova3400]

It is never enough of Victoria&Albert Museum just like it is never enough of Heremitage in St. Petersburg. In your every episode you could tell us each time something new about this magnificent museum🎉 The upcoming book about London pubs will be extremely useful for tourists like me.

[@johannebaker9730]

Makes for a perfect Sunday ❤❤

[@Jo-hc8pm]

Sundays are normally quite boring in general, except for when there's one of joolz videos on KZbin. Watching them makes me want to go back to London as I haven't been there for about 7 years.

[@michaelstewart9188]

As always a pleasure Joolz- memories of mid - late 80s landscaping contracts in the grand gardens of Kensington and Chelsea (and staggering out of some of its workie friendly pubs to find a bus home to 'Sarf of the river' on Friday evenings) amazing tech to see the Palace in original situ! Many thanks : )

[@iwonaszmid3805]

Bardzo ciekawe. Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski.

[@TXMEDRGR]

That is a wonderful part of London, thanks.

[@markjones327]

Thanks joolz yet another great vid 🔥

[@stefanboster5728]

A most excellent episode, & very well put together! Bravo!

[@rjmusicltd]

Woohoo! Another great video Joolz, really enjoyed it, nice one 👍

[@vickywitton1008]

I get so jealous of you Jools rating all the lovely food, most of which I can't eat😔❤. Brilliant tour as usual!

[@egonrhoodie2745]

Hello Joolzy have fond memories of growing up in Knightsbridge London.... Great walks.Blessings and happy thoughts!😇🙏🤳🎭🇬🇧⛲🕺

[@markmorris2207]

And the first gasoline station I have ever seen in London videos! Anther great video! Thank you, sir.

[@JohnnieAshton]

13:12 they are gas mantles they were fine cotton or silk had a metallic salt which allowed them to become white hot and give out more light, but also were super brittle. The modern ones still use the salts but are not quite as fragile. Brill video as always.

[@pilucamonton9601]

I love your new green pub book, it reminds me of an anecdote ( too long to relate) about when they manufactured in that island near the US the new green TABASCO SAUCE, to cut a long story short, I exclaimed “ I would like to try it” I get excited about it because it was my first intervention on a radio Show , it was in English in Madrid in Vaughan Radio, /an English teaching company VAUGHAN/located then “ Virgen de la Nuria St” I had a wonderful time🎉l🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤😮

[@pearlhartney9]

A Joolz guide day is always a good day! I remember the SAS saving the people in the embasy. Very dramatic! Love the Crystal Palace app as well very cool!

[@RighteousReverendDynamite]

The SAS siege was hairy. They had to go a few moments earlier when a member absailing from the roof down the back facade accidently put his boot through a window pane alerting the chief hostage taker who was on the phone with the negotiator (the negotiator was told to keep him on the phone as long as he could). The officer on the front balcony had barely enough time to duck and cover from the window frame explosive charge. 44 years ago last May.

[@gazkaz3020]

Those things in the gas lamps are called mantles. Sorry if this has been said already but there are too many comments to check them all. So glad you covered the Royal College of Music and the Royal College of Organists - such beautiful buildings.

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

My Grandma lived in No 2 Albert Hall Mansions.

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

1908 to 1913

[@RighteousReverendDynamite]

Alice McDonnell was great, great, great, great, and grand!

[@stevelang3171]

nice one! i hope you asked her out. Alice- she's lovely and knowledgeable. great hair too!

[@AliceGoss]

Another fascenating tour around London. John of Bohemia is buried in the crypt at Luxembourg cathedral.

[@chrishewitt4220]

Was just there back in May for a few days, staying in Paddington. Took my family around this very spot and showed them around. Went to Natural History, V&A, and Science Museums. Fantastic. Normally, I can only stand London for a few days and then it's off up to bonny Scotland again! BUt this time around, we did so much more for a change and I really enjoyed it.

[@XXXXX1985S]

Excellent film Joolz. One of the houses opposite the pub you end up in was the home of Daniel Craig's character in the superb gangster flic 'Layer Cake'.

[@chrfit1]

Joolz, Simon and Alice, great stuff :)

[@donovandavidsonAlton]

Another fab guide to London have done some of your guide just strolling about. Nice

[@Traveljournalist]

It's always a delight to walk around London with you, especially when accompanied by a charming lady who shares such wonderful family stories.

[@MrDportjoe]

Love your vids (they helped often when I got us lost tin London two years ago). OH and YEAH from Seattle lamop post 1 would be pre 1965. AND the original name was to just be Kennsington but the Chelsea folks said NO!

[@Asphodel27one]

There is a building here in Dallas, Texas modeled on the Crystal Palace called the Infomart.

[@michaelmiller641]

Splendid video Joolz, thanks!

[@Stephen_Lafferty]

A lovely Autumn morning touring around London with Joolz and Co! A lovely way to enjoy an extra hour on a Sunday!

[@Danceup-dh6kn]

I missed this on Sunday. Watching on Wednesday as I couldn't wait for next Sunday.

[@sharjeelkhan7437]

Love this tour ❤ thanks

[@garryferrington811]

Fantastic video tour, suitably loose and amusing. I wish I could visit London again. Thanks for your guidance.

[@caromegan5989]

Hi Joolz fantastic tour round Kensington. I was born in Kensingto Gore and my Mum worked at Royal College. There are secret tunnels from Imperial College going up to Hyde Park. That is worth a look at too. Also tunnels under the Rockerfeller Building in Gower Street, so dead bodies could be taken under the road to the Main UCL medical labs for analysis

[@magicknight8412]

One of my favourite parts of London, definitely love to live there. The pub walk book looks rather splendid

[@leslie-anneblake6000]

Our favourite neighbourhood to stay in London! Have been twice and will continue to go back! Great video and learned even more!

[@ffrancrogowski6263]

This program is another marvellous one, Joolz. There's so much history contained within this area, it's unbelievable. The old railway company signs that are still on the stations are brilliant to see and the fact that they've remained is really encouraging. It was good that you met Alice with her knowledge of so much of the area. The area has some of the most ornate buildings within the Capital. Many thanks, Joolz.

[@buzzukfiftythree]

Great video as always Joolz. That scaffolding around the Queen’s Tower is a work of art in itself. I wonder how long it took to erect it? My Gran lived part of the year in 31 Ennismore Mews for a few years as a child. My Great-Grandfather was a coachman and this was their Summer home when Sir Henry Singleton (his boss) was doing the London Season (he lived at Princes Gate). She was baptised at what was then All Saint’s Church (which I believe is now a Russian Orthodox Church).

[@nsholk]

Fantastic video! We’re in London for a long weekend and in a matter of hours we’re off to saunter from Battersea to get Tiramisu thanks to you!

[@marijanabilic9246]

🙏lovely walk....I faund out that I miss something interesting in that area - so. I guess - I have to visit L..... again😊😅 Keep walking🙏

[@arriesone1]

I LOOOve London so much - the architecture, the history, the mews, the hidden alleys, the parks, everything about it.

[@johnlocke6506]

I lived in a flat share in Ennismore Gardens in 1975 and the rear of the flat overlooked the mews. Christopher Plummer (Sound of Music) lived in one of the mews houses. The Ennismore pub was on the right hand side of the entrance to the mews. Sadly the pub is long gone.

[@malcolmpike8612]

I completely agree. The Ennismore Arms was a great pub. I believe that Ava Gardner lived in Ennismore Gardens.

[@johnlocke6506]

@@malcolmpike8612 She did indeed as did Charles Grey.

[@gemellodipriapo]

Great vid Julian! Thank you!!

[@one42chrisp]

Henry Cole and George Cole in the same episode, wonderful 😀

[@owt166m]

The bulb in the gas lamp is called a mantle. I used to change them when I was a kid at my dads works.

[@jara2657]

My old neighborhood! Lived in Thurloe Square for years. Thanks for letting me revisit the memories :)

[@JazzyBlues79]

Joolz! :) Looking forward to the new book. Absolutely fabulous! Thanks and Cheers!

[@Bahlsted1]

Love to visit V&A every time I am in London

[@jeff8ball]

Fantastic! Learned some things and it didn't even hurt.😉

[@tonysadler5290]

The Gas "things" I think are called a Mantle! All the best, regards a d thank you for wonderful programmes. 🎉

[@hopefulmelancholy7514]

Another great walk with the wonderful Joolz. I am just seeing this new walk now. Its definitely a good day when you have time to take a stroll through these quiet London streets. I just want to say as a longtime subscriber how much I enjoy them. One day I would love to visit London. I hope you had a lovely time and a good croissant or two. Hello from California.

[@charmainechatkin4263]

I love love, lov.e. love. love. your show. and ❤🧡💗 from Johannesburg South Africa. Your presentation is superb. Your show is superb. You are amazing and a breath of fresh air. I want to buy your books.

[@cherylhoward2124]

Love watching these have watched them all about 3times nice to see this new one. ❤