London Clapham Walking Tour
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- London Clapham Walking Tour
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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 Clapham Omnibus - Used by a judge in 19th Century because Clapham was an unremarkable place.
Barnard Road, off St Johns Road
Lavender Hill so called because there were fields of lavender here before development in the 1800s.
The name Clapham Common comes from Anglo Saxon - Clopp (Hill) Ham (Village) 100 people in 1100AD.
Village by the Hill .
Became popular after plague and fire drove people south.
By 1800s it attracted wealthier people who built nice houses.
Samuel Pepys gave it prestige.
Clapham Common
Holy Trinity Church - A group of Evangelical Christians, including William Wilburforce who worshipped at Clapham Common’s Holy Trinity Church were instrumental in the abolition of the slave trade. They led a campaign that resulted in the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the abolition of slavery itself in 1833
JK Rowling and Vivienne Westwood houses.
One of South London’s biggest green spaces.
Bandstand - Bowie was photographed here in the 1960s - built 1889 but still hardly ever used. Preserved at great expense. Silly really.
Clapham South Shelter
8 shelters were completed all over London.
Could hold 8000 people.
Then they got used by the government but opened again in 1944.
I 1948 it was used to house 200 of the first West Indian immigrants for 4 weeks until they could be housed.
Many settled in nearby Brixton where there was a labour exchange.
A mile of tunnels under there.
Still got the original signs and the beds.
Tour takes an hour and costs £38.50!
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I have been binge-watching your videos. Key word: binge-watching!
Another very informative video,
Any tourists going to london. should book a tour with this guy,
Thanks..if I can remember it al, that is!
I was born in clapham...So many fond memories.
me too clapham manor st....so many fond memories x
These programs are terrific. Happy to stay on the couch.
I lived in Lavender Hill many years ago, not a 10 minute walk from Clapham Junction Station. I loved it there. This sure has brought memories. Many thanks!
I loved that, thank you Jules. I live in Clapham, and I love the history and culture here.
Adding & Hobbs was the first shop my dad took me and my brother to, back in may nineteen sixty eight to buy us jackets when we first arrived in the UK 😊
Always a joy to watch your contributions!
Dr John played the bandstand on the common as part of Ken Livingstons festivities for the farewell to the GLC
Love the longer vids, keep up the good work Joolz!
Yes, this one was a lot of work actually but they do seem to work at this length.
Two minutes require a lot more editing but the longer ones require more filming. It comes down to how much you want to say I suppose.
Hi Joozie, a wonderful little walk, thanks for the pint, have a lovely Sunday evening, should be about 5:45 pm where you're at. I love these little walks you do so much. I've made Sunday Joolzie day and watch these then, religiously. Thanks again for these, my friend. They really brighten my day.
Well, thank you very much. Yes, I'm trying to do them every week but I must say it's a struggle. Looks like there won't be one this week :(
Thanks again for such an amazing and instructive video!
No problem...although it did take a long time this one!
Love the Squeeze reference!
Love watching your tours!!! Showing a side in London that most don't see for Florida.
i used to work in esca on the high street and vivienne westwood used to come shopping every week. i miss london so much
It’s a third world stinking toilet now. We are FCUKED
9:32 A lot of people think the song _"Up The Junction"_ is somehow about Clapham Junction station, but it's not - the word 'Clapham' only appears once in the whole song in the very first line (the bit Joolz sings in the video here), and the word 'Junction' doesn't occur until the very _last_ line (seriously - give it a listen, the two words are literally a whole song apart!).
The song is actually about a guy having a whirlwind romance after a brief drunken dalliance on Clapham Common, leading to an equally-rushed engagement due to an unexpected pregnancy, and the subsequent break-up when she leaves him two years later for a soldier and takes their daughter with her. Hence, alone and miserable and in considerable debt, the man proclaims himself to be _"[...] really up the junction..."_ (as in, "up the creek without a paddle").
Another great video Joolz. Thanks for posting them. The pub you're in at the end looks like the Parcel Yard at King's Cross. Been there many a time. Cheers!
Well spotted. Yes, Simon had to get the train home so we shot the final scene at the station. Pity, there are some nice pubs in Clapham but he was rushed.
I never thought it would happen, with me and the girl from Clapham! X
Allways a joy❤
You are the best guide Jools! I love to watch your videos before going to sleep. Huge from Argentina.
Thanks! I seem to be popular in Argentina. I must go there! I don't suppose you fancy translating my subtitles for me?
I could translate the coolest ones haha. The one about Harry Potter for example.
I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham... great song!
As always your videos are very informative.... I’ve lived in London for ages, and thought I knew London I have so much to learn.
Thanks! Well....I'll keep trying but maybe they won't always be so informative. I feel like I have to keep up the standard now.
Amazing videos can wait to get a personal tour when we come!!!!
Hopefully my legs will be ok by then. All this walking is giving me some serious problems!
Great vid again Jools. “Let Him Have It” is one of my favourite films.
I like Paul Reynolds...Press Gang was great.
Fun London Guides - Julian McDonnell Films Yeah, he’s good. I like Eccleston, but he’s gone a bit luvvie.
Your knowledge of London is vast. I love watching your videos about the city I love. Thank you, keep up the good work!
Thanks Mark
Another great video Julian! :)
Thank you!
Another well done and informative video.
Thank you. (This comment reminded me of the old school reports I used to get from my teachers!)
Very sad story about Derek Bentley. Cried my eyes out when I watched the dvd.😥
Love your accent and the tour!...greetings from South Florida, USA.
Thanks Marie. I put in on just for you. (Really I speak like Hercule Poirot!)
Awesome stuff!! I am excited bout my tour with you!!
Cheers (but we ain't going to Clapham!)
Not a problem!! I will email ya
Another brilliant episode
The 'Cornet' Pub on a Sunday night... what a delight in the 80s. I watched an episode of The Comic Strip being made in 1984, 'The Bullshitters', at Lavender Hill.
i remember well all the model boats and battle ships on the lake during the 60s.
❤️ squeeze ...maybe I could ‘squeeze’ in a tour with you when I come down to London to see them at the02 in May 😂
Clapham was the first place I lived in London, 1990. #7 Bromfeld Rd. It's almost in Stockwell.
Great video!..Keep it up. :-)
We used to live in Macaulay road and went to Macaulay school in same road, which had three classrooms, and was referred to as the big school, for 9-11 year olds.
I remember chimes of Trinity church bells, and public library, which had a grand staircase to the children's library on the first floor.
The swimming baths in Manor street still had cubicles with a bath, as many people didn't have a bathroom with running hot water.
There was a lovely Victorian house in Manor street which was the West Indian Old soldiers club.
Every week a man with horse drawn cart would ring a brass bell down our road and call 'any old iron' and collect scrap metal from peoples houses.
At weekends a man would wheel a large box down our road, and sell seafood. like prawns, shrimps and whelks to housewives, and carry a pint glass for measuring.
There was also a horse drawn cart delivering coal to every house.
Watneys used to have their brewery nearby in Wandsworth, and deliver barrels of beer to pubs with huge Shetland horses pulling a cart. This was late sixties, but last remenants of Victorian era.
Excellent as always. Never knew stink poles existed - shall be looking out for them now! 🤭
Mostly in South London! Nice to hear from you as usual!
Excellent. I love your films. I'm Spanish. Last Easter I visited England and enjoyed my trip after having seen all your vídeos. I liked London very much ( It's 20 years now I went there last ), but I found it socking seeing so many skyscrapers are being built , I didn't know anything abuot them. You never talk about the new city, maybe you don''t like the new London skyline. I prefer the old one. By the way, I saw you by chance at Covent Garden and was really happy to meet you. You are always able to atract attention with your personal style and apealing way to show us London. Thank you for your work.
Hi Susana! Did we take a photo together? Was that you? You are right that I don't like the new skyline.
By the way, if you fancy translating some of my subtitles into Spanish for me do let me know!!! I can send you the English versions.
Sorry. We didn't take a pic because I was too surprised and I only could say "hello, I love your films". Maybe next time. Cheers.
Lovely videos pal, and you really know your Bowie...
Oh thanks... well, still need to go to Bromley and yes...older Bowie..big fan!
Another great video...informative as ever...and some words I'd had to look up the meaning of (lugubrious )....😅😅😅😅 thx Joolz 👍
I also used salubrious but edited it out!!!
The only time I lived south of the river was in Clapham but I remember little of it. I used to work in the West End and my life was there.
Joolz the best on TH-cam, you should give classes in cool.
There used to be a question asked in negligence cases along the lines "Would a passenger on the Clapham omnibus expect to be' - "hit by a cricket ball'- "find dead animals in his soft drink" to determine liability in personal damages cases. Opps I wrote this before the bus pulled up!
That Debenhams store was used in an episode of Mr bean where he brought an armchair and drove it home on top of his mini
Oh damn. I should have mentioned that!
I remember I was there close to wimpy's lavender hill. Also sylvester stallone nighthawks Debenhams location film. Fyi. 🎥🙂🙏
I went to see Steven Seagal play guitar with his band at the Clapham 'Grand' in July 2014!
It was a great atmosphere in the old theatre!
Fantastic Video Jules!
No way!! Steven Seagal!!!! That's amazing! Simon and I love Steven Seagal!!! If only I had known that before!
Jeremy Brett was great as Sherlock Holmes.
I always thought he was a little over the top but I grew fond of him. Basil Rathbone for me.
@@Joolzguides I like Basil Rathbone too.
I was amazed that you did not have a drink in The Falcon, it has a huge circular bar.
Hi Joolz, I used to live in Clapham, you should have had a beer there, there are many good pubs very near to where you were walking. The Alex for example in the opening shot and the Prince of Wales and Rose & crown in the old town.........keep the good work up!!!
Well nothing to stop me returning! Simon had to catch the train home and it was getting late but I agree! I have a friend who will help me next time.
Walking across Clapham Common in the 1990's, I saw Jeremy Brett ( Sherlock Holmes from the BBC TV series) and he was dressed in very ordinary jogging pants and a T shirt and overcoat. He realised I had recognised him and turned and gave me a knowing smirk and then carried on his way. A great actor and a privilege to see him in the flesh.
We also saw Jeremy Brett walking on the Common, he lived in the lovely Victorian flats adjacent to cedars Road .
Funnily enough I have been quite drunk on that platform before. Another great video!
God knows how they operate at rush hour!
Great watch, did you know both Gertrude Lawrence & Noel Coward lived & met whilst living either side of Clapham Common, both houses still stand.
The security services’ garage was on the other side of Barnard Road, we used to play in the forecourt when I was a kid. Like much of your video, it is in Battersea.
Correct. What he is pointing to is actually part of Marks and Spencer, and used to be its rear entrance. The garage was opposite. When I was working at M&S in the 70s and 80s I went to enter in that garage to ask if they could do some work on my motorbike. I was told to leave in no uncertain terms by a severe-looking guy in overalls. The garage had a very tall radio antenna on its roof - for obvious reasons in hindsight. The garage has long-since been demolished and replaced by a block of apartments.
I like ur suites man
Cheers my friend
GREAT VIDEOS OF LONDON, REALLY FANTASTIC TO SEE, PLEASE PLEASE COULD YOU DO A VIDEO ON WANDSWORTH, IN PARTICULAR GARRETT LANE PLEASE LOL MY FAMILY HAD A BOOT SHOP THERE CALLED COTTLES DURING THE 18/19TH CENTURY
I remember Arding and Hobbs, esp the ground floor haberdashery lol.. as well as the first floor Electricals :D Brings back so many memories... there used to be a great cafe further along with large floor to ceiling glass frontage. I also used to work at a restaurant on lavender hill next to the Chinese haha.. Thanks for the upload, moved back home to Cornwall now, but lived for 15 years in Clapham. In fact I lived in Hightrees House, if you give that address to any cabbie, they'll know exactly were it is haha. It's used in their test... and was the place were all the MPs kept their mistresses in the 20's 30's and 40's. :D
I lived on South side in the early sixties and and remember the boating lake and walking across the Common to Arding and Hobbs.
Yes still live at Hightrees House after 8 years.
I've stopped at Clapham Junction a million times on the train to London, but never got out. I always assumed it was just a train station and nothing more, actually.
Oh, well I think Clapham Common might have a bit more to offer but I'm sure I'll be told different on here!!
I lived there for a few years, great area! I would have loved to have been there when it was row after row of terraced houses, pre tower blocks.
Another great video! I would like to see Chiswick tour if it was possible. :)
Hmmm...Did I do one of Villa Di Geggiano? That's in Chiswick I think..... but now a whole tour yet.
Fun London Guides - Julian McDonnell Films It is just a suggestion. I'm staying there in the summer and I read that it is a quite interesting part of London with that village feel. I'm looking for some places to visit there.
Freddy Eynsford-Hill. "Marry Freddy!"
Elvis Costello's song "Let Him Dangle" off his "Spike - The Beloved Entertainer" album is about the "Let Him Have It" crime.
I love The Lavender Hill Mob!
‘I never thought that it would happen, with me and a girl from Clapham...”
Had a great time drinking in Clapham!
I think I'll be back.
About time you ventured south of the river Joolz! Really enjoy watching your guides though and I used to live in Clapham for a while. I like the snippets of music you play in the background too - is that you singing and playing the piano? Keep up the good work anyway feller. Cheers.
Thanks! It's actually Tom Carradine's cockney sing along. I do have a couple of other ones south of the river!
I love those cockney songs too 🥰
Nice
Very interesting video !!
but please can someone tell me where I find the version of the song playing in the background, lily of Laguna ...
Hi joolz another excellent video my grandfather was born in Wandsworth 😂😎.
Cheers. I hope he didn't end up in the prison there!
I love the bowler hat and your style. I find British men very attractive.
Now you know where the term gaslight originated from, the germans attempting to set those poles a flaming
Can you do a video about Stoke Newington where I grew up please, so much history!
Certainly! It's on the list.
@@Joolzguides Cheers mate, I literally binged watched about 10 of ur videos last night, I love them! Keep up the new content!
A body fell in someone's garden in Clapham from a plane from Kenya today to add to your facts
Joolz: Have you ever done or considered ddoing a video in dulwich (east/west) + dulwich village + crystal palace (including alexandra palace & crystal palace park? my hugs all the way from Brazil.
There are a further two old bomb shelters in Clapham High Street towards Stockwell, along with a ventilation shaft for the tube at Clapham Common. The one Jools shows in this film is now an urban farm for microveg by a company called Growing Underground, their produce is sold through Ocado and very tasty it is too as well as reasonably priced. Very disappointed Jools didn't partake of a pint either at The Windmill pub on Clapham Common or Prince of Wales pub in the Old Town, Clapham which is a stones throw from Trinity Church which was designed by Christopher Wren who also built St Paul's Cathedral and where Rik Mayal held his last interview before he died
A stink pole? Lol! I'd have walked past it, too. Maybe I'd have thought, oh, they took out the light bulb, I guess they'll repair it soon. :-)
Please name of songs in videos...love the them
Great video. Jeremy Brett was brilliant as Sherlock Holmes, i really think he was a the best, sadly he died too young. He must have lived in this area to have a bench named for him ?
Lugubrious? I like it.. Impressive.. ;-)
you are right, she did get his name from severus road.
"Let him have it".. poor choice of words, but "Give it to him" isn't any better.
hahaha absolutely steam boats at the end!!....
Of course one of Graham Greene's novels was set in clapham - can't remember the title. It was also filmed.
Lavender hill is interesting as it was just that back in the 1880s circa era.
next door to the grand music hall was where the 23rd london regiment [territorials] were stationed ,the local boys fought in france in ww1..the latchmere and falcon pubs are in clapham junction . pity you didnt show us clapham common north side , the pavem,ent where the old tram and bus station was , and across the road the plough hotel and bell vue pub
Enjoyed this Joolz ! Ever thought about doing a dead presidents in London show ? . So many story's you could use. Just a thought ..
Your cousins in The States would love it !
Are there many dead presidents here? Maybe I should.
I was thinking more along the lines of Teddy Roosevelt getting married in St Georges"s and Jefferson if he ever came to London ...but I think I like your idea better !
You should go to kew gardens and Richmond/Richmond park
I intend to some time. It's a lot of work though.
Agree about Dickens living all over (19th London - he also seems to have known every famous Victorian and have had a metaphorical finger in every Victorian pie! Maybe you could do a film on the Annoying Ubiquitousness of Charles Dickens! 😂
What pub did you finish in? Trying to work out which station it overlooked.
Great video! You missed The Royal Trinity Hospice it's the oldest hospice in the UK! Keep up the good work old boy! :-)
Really? Sounds like I'll have to come back to South London!!!
Absolutely love your vids but the slight errors on this one mean I’m a tad sceptical about your others!!
As a 40-year resident of Clapham Junction - which is in South Battersea & was a highly desirable area in the 18c/early19c - I’ve developed quite a knowledge of the area. So I’m pretty certain the rear of M&S was never the spooks’ garage! Opposite, in Barnard Mews, yes! Dodgy-looking vans & men in macintoshes were regularly sighted around there, often at the back of garage in Limburg Road.
Will there one day be blue plaques on the sites Joolz videos from? There already are, because he has to find Something interesting to show.
Really interesting watching this shame you never walked down Clapham high st or showed clapham north station,plus you missed the orangery owned by the Henry Thornton estate which is a very interesting place
Oh well maybe next time
Enjoyable vid! I cruised around Clapham and the Junction as a young teen; is the "Ruby cinema" still there ? :)
I don't know but I'm sure someone will. They have a big Picturehouse now.
Sadly there aren’t any cinemas at the Junction - the Ruby closed in 1981 & was demolished/rebuilt soon after as Barclays Bank/office block. The Granada is now an African church - an opportunity to create a multi-screen was missed by dither & prevarication - so now locals have to go to Wandsworth Cineworld (Arndale/Southside) or Clapham Picturehouse (Venn St.)! The Grand (built by a relative of mine) was at times a cinema but now is a “venue” with “event space” & night club - but thankfully little used over the last 2 years!
When I worked at the IWM, we told people that as all the German spies in England were turned, they would report back that the V rockets were overshooting London. So the Germans shortened the range meaning the V rockets landed south in Surrey which was not as well built up.
Which is the song from the beginning?
One of the many from Carradine's Cockney Singalong!
Charles Dickens used to take his dog for a walk on Clapham common Jules!
The "bomb shelters" were the new stations on the Fast Northern Line which was abandoned because of WW2. They dug the shafts and tunnelled each way towards each other which is why they could be used as shelters but they never joined up.
Hi Joolz. This is the Spanish fan who met you by chance in Covent Garden. You told me you were interested in getting some of your subtitles into Spanish. I must say I´d love to, but unfortunately I haven´t got the time. Just in case you are interested, I can give you the e-mail of a really great translator I know. She´s a great girl and would be pleased to work on it.
Thanks Susana. Well, let's leave it for now. When I have more of them done in English I can approach her. Lovely meeting you by the way! Did you take a photo? Don't forget to send it to me!
That church is where my grandpar worked he died 😭😭😭
oh wow. Good memories I hope..
Do you still keep in touch with the female model in the cigarette ad?
No but I see her at castings and walking around sometimes.