Hampstead and its amazing history
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- John Constable Grave, Dracula and Peter Pan - The cemetery at St. John at Hampstead is the final resting place of many famous people. The Llewelyn Davies brother were the ones who inspired J.M.Barrie to write Peter Pan and their family tomb is there along with John Constable who painted The Haywain. In Bram Stoker's Dracula Lucy is entombed here also.
Then you can walk up Church Row to see how a street might have looked in the 17th century as it hasn't changed!
Louis Patisserie - In the 60s Louis Permayer opened his Hungarian patisserie in Hampstead and it still retains its original features today and a lovely selection of cakes!
There are several nice pubs, my favourite being The Holly Bush, an old coaching inn.
Goldfinger - at number 2 Willow Road is Erno Goldfinger's house. He was an architect who didn't get on with his neighbour Ian Fleming who based his most famous James Bond villain on him!
You can even go inside as it's a museum.
Julian McDonnell takes you on a beautiful and nostalgic walk around this beautiful village including Flask Walk, Well Walk,Whitestone Pond
and all the places mentioned above which make a wonderful day trip from London.
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Thanks everyone....one of these days I'll be a star!!!!!!!
You are already a star! I hope I meet you some day (not in a pub, of course)
Maybe I saw you there with mine!
Would you do one on Kilburn and Harrow on The Hill please?
Sorry mate I tried telling my friends about your channel. Because I find it absolutely fascinating. The only problem is julian... I haven't got any friends. But I will say this I spent 4 hours on your channel so what does that say?? I think I have a new friend.🤢
What about the house where De Gaulle lived in during the war? And di you say Ian Fleming lived in Hampstead? That would have been worth a visit.
Absolutely love Hampstead
Yes they were called "PEELERS" Please keep your You Tube going, I was born in St John's Wood and lived in Stafford Terrace Kensington now in Sydney AU. I am learning so much and loving it.
I was born and bred in Hampstead and it's still my favourite part of London. I'd move back if I could afford to! Spent 23 happy years here.
Yes, it's lovely up there. When I'm a bit more rich I'll buy a house there!!
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It is a lovely place. It is still so well kept and well maintained after so many centuries. I think one need not be rich to live there.
So you're a good old-fashioned English proof ?
'Ampstead!! Luv the heef me ol' china used to trot my plates of meat up there with her indoors! 'Ampstead is gone now bought over by yuppies and incomers more money than brains! Could not buy a gaff here now! Can't clasp your mince pies on good 'Larndon' grub!! No jelly eels, mash, cockles, mussels, egg pies, gravy in sight anymore!!
@@kenneththompson8933 as an American that sounds disgusting
Well I’m not going to the pub with you that’s one thing I have learned
Cant you hook up with youtuber Chill Bill and go mudlarking in London, he's got great humor just like you, that would be a blast Julian!
Well I'll check him out. See if he's up for it.
Please the Cottage inn I don't understand, there was no cottage just a pathway
Note to self... don't go to the pub with Joolz!
Great stuff Joolz. You were standing outside the house owned by Peter Cook in Church Row. The East End Victorians called it 'Appy Ampstead' and then they walked down the hill to the Bull and Bush pub. You mention the water. Just past Whitestone Pond there is the Vale of Health where people in the 17th century went to escape the plague.
I hope this channel reaches 1 million subscribers...
During the early days of WW2 I lived in Hampstead. On a Sunday morning my dad used to take me out for a walk while my mum got the dinner ready. Sometimes we would walk up to the whitestone pond, and very often the air raid siren would go off as we reached it. The siren itself was just across the road from the pond. We used to stand close to the siren and look out over London (the trees were much smaller then and we had a good view) and watch the bombers coming towards us. The nearest we got to the enemy planes was once when a Me110 swooped low over the vale of health.
@Berliner Stadtschloss I too would like to see WW2 in todays history books,just to see if they tally with my recollections.
Wow, what a romantic story of Hampstead, lol.
Hi Julian, I just found your channel, and just want to mention that your films are excellent. Well produced, excellent subject, relaxed and informative fun presentation. Entertaining!! I attempted something similar in Amsterdam and understand how hard it is to film in public, and so resorted to sneaky camera work and narration. I take my hat off to you sir. Wonderful success and best wishes, keep it up. Simon Amsterdam.
Thanks Simon.. Yes, you feel my pain! It's very hard work making it looked relaxed when people are hassling you the whole time.
OMG I was an idiot and once took the hampstead station stairs. Totally regretted it. (over 300 narrow stairs! :O)
Much like the steps at, although not as far, Covent Garden.
320. I did it last month - you should get a certificate. 😂
I used to drink in Jack Straw's Castle in the 80s and 90s when it was a pub. It is now luxury flats. Opposite it and behind the war memorial, is Heath House, which from 1790 was the home of Sir Samuel Hoare, a wealthy Quaker banker, who was one of the prime campaigners for the abolition of slavery. William Wilberforce and Elizabeth Fry were often at Heath House.
Correct sir. Jack Straws castle was owned at one time by Marie Lloyd if my memory serves me well
I'm Italian and when I was 15 years old I saw Clive Griffith's videos about London on tv. YOU ARE GREAT!
Really? I haven't seen that. My mum is Italian. Maybe we're related!
These are so pleasant to watch. Thanks for making them. You hit on a great mix of history and informal chat. Good length. It is far more fun for people around the world to wander aimlessly around Hamstead with you and your friends than it is to watch a tourist video.
Thanks. I know what you mean. That said, these are my own stye of tourist videos!
I have lived at three addresses in Hampstead. 18 Gardnor Rd. 59 Flask Walk, and 37 Christchurch Hill. All during the war. (WW2)
Tell us more??? A video with yourself in it would be ace!!!
Flask walk is lovely,was up there 3 weeks ago and so friendly considering you are in London.
I was in Hampstead today
It is one of my favourite places in London 🙂❤
I've just discovered your historian walkabout videos. Love them! Keep them coming!
Thanks. Yes, I'm not much of a historian but I do take an interest in the history. I try my best!
It's nice to see historic brickwork which has not been covered in graffiti and tags
Yes, it does still exist in some parts. Hampstead is all very well-to-do. I expect it would get removed rather quickly.
Graffiti makes everything better
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It’s a beautiful part of London . I love both of the George’s . Thanks for sharing RIP George Michael 😢
actually that *WAS* Boy George's bit just before George Michael's in "Do they know it's Christmas"...and that's a great Goldfinger impression!
Thanks Joolz, I loved it as usual! In the movie "Bunny Lake is missing" you can see how Cannon Lane and the Du Maurier villa were back in 1965. It's the main location of the movie, which is one of my favourite Otto Preminger's.
Spent two great years in Hampstead between 1992 and 1994. Working at the Taj Mahal on Rosslyn Hill. Lovely people in Hampstead.
Mate I love the Holly Bush, last time there met the founders/owners of the Pie Mash Club, bloody marvellous, Splendid my good man
the guy at 6:09 who covers up his face... wonder who he's hiding from haha!
It's the usual nonsense of people being terrified of a camera in 2018. I mean, he's on film anyway. If I had filmed with my phone he wouldn't have hidden. I guess it's his right though! Either that or he's on the run!!
Usually illegal immigrants
lord Lucan ?
Asq Fleur look up Alisa and Gabriel Dearman and the First Christ Church of Hampstead. There are dozens of hours of documented reports and greatly detailed testimonies from the young siblings of the abuse they endured by their father, their schools head mistress, local law authorities, amongst a large number of named others. You only didn’t hear of it because the mockingbird media was quick to cover it up and not well at all, mind you. The investigators never investigated the children’s claim of abuse and instead instantly partnered up with the accused head mistress to concoct a poorly enacted plan to demonize the mother of the children instead.
@@Joolzguides If you were just filming him with a handy one could assume your just a tourist capturing the atmosphere etc. If you were filming him with a big film camera he in this case rightly assumed that his image would end up being viewed by 100 000s for which you did not gain his permission or financially reward him. Although I really enjoyed the film I´m amazed at your indifference to the man´s privacy. I must admit most people don´t seem troubled by such things, especially in England.
We sailed our little boat on the pond. I had my tonsils removed at the hospital. Elizabeth Taylor was (chauffeured in her white RR just missed running over my mother) and I remember seeing Oliver Reid and his entourage walking about.
Thanks for these videos Joolz! Will be crossing the pond to London later in the week. Your cheeky Brit wit will make my stay a lot easier! Again, thanks a bunch!
and did you ?
Would you ever dare to knock on the door of a few of the very rich celebs who live in Hampstead just to say hello and ask simple things like How much is your council Tax, do you get on with your neighbors, and Do you think this place is worth the price tag ? i heard Ricky Gervais lives there in a 10 Million pound house.
Thanks so much x sharing your video ...I actually lived a few weeks one summer time
in Hampstead ...so I told my Angel look were we been years ago ...
All the best from northSardinia !
Just found your channel! I was a foreign student at a College in Hampstead in the early 1970´s. As a residential student. we ate all meals in the dining room in the school. Food there was, well, not so good. Sometimes, even not eatable....So at 6:08, I saw that cake shop, I couldnot believe it. It is still there! My only consolation during on and off 3 years in school -.was their chocolate cake!!! Thank you for uploading!!!
Holly Bush My favourite pub in London! I've come down from Scotland for a London break a couple of times in recent years. I brought a book from my local library - 32 London Walks. I must have now done c 25 of them. So I recognise a lot of locations Jools visits, e.g. Goldfinger's flats, Smithfields etc.
Very enjoyable series.
When I win the Euromillions I'll buy a place in Hampstead - out of the way a bit, but easy access to the centre.
I will too.On Swains Lane
I am bereft Joolz. Bereft I tell you.
How could you have omitted Casey Jones and the Cannonball Express !? ☹️ 😉
Just discovered your channel and I love it! Your walks bring back so many great memories! I lived in your country for 7 1/2 years in the mid 80"s through the early 90"s. What a blessed time to be in england. I'm a yank ,but England is the only place that felt like home. Keep up the vids. Take care and be safe!
Very amusing,and likeable fellow.light hearted but informative.......oh dear,I hope the parting shot of tally ho doesn't indicate a penchant for fox hunting....if so,then I take back my positive remarks.
Boy George TRIED to cut in front of me at Daisy's (discount clothes) on 5th Ave., New York City. He & his entourage DID NOT SUCCEED in cutting in front of me. cheers!
Dr. Elizabeth Martin well jolly good for you, he sounds damn rude...
i wouldnt have let him past either. Pop stars are just ordinary human beings who got lucky like Lottery winners.
Was waiting for the visit to the beautiful invaluable Keats House.🏛
Hampstead Heath is very beautiful (especially at night) 😂😂
Hampstead is such a nice part of London, but like many other areas of the city it is just totally and utterly unaffordable for the average English person.
I am desperate to visit Hampstead and Highgate. You'd think I lived in Australia, but no, just Lancashire. It's just too expensive so I love these virtual tours.
Thanks. Yes, there's much more to see of course.
I was hoping for a quick visit at Keats ' house, been there and loved it together with the whole area. Thanks for your super informative and witty vids.
Love the area especially Hampstead Heath but too expensive to live there 😒😒
Ahh... You never mentioned anything about the Jim Henson Creature Shop, it use to be on Downshire Hill, I was there many times in the late 80s and early 90s for sculpting and model work, it use to be the old Police station, its all gone now, and Jim Henson had his own house in Frognal Gardens, sadly those wonderful happy days are long gone now. :(
Frognal Gardens. Eric Clapton used to practice theremay about 6th house on the left after the flats....
And of course Peter Sellers lived in Hampstead as did John le Carrie
No. 4 Perrins Court shown on the left at 6:59 is where Olivia Newton-John and her mother lived when she came to London in 1966. Their rent was 9 pounds a week.
You and your crew were having way too much fun in this one! Ha! This area is really beautiful! Your knowledge of London and narration are superb! ❤️❤️
I used to date a girl back in the early 80's who lived next to to Boy George's house in Hampstead. Thanks for the little bit of history of a much favoured location in London.
I used to get Boy George's mail delivered to my home accidentally as I lived around the corner from him with the same house number.
Mostly in plain brown packaging
I was born in Hampstead, Heath Street.......
Always loved Hampstead best part of London.
I’m born and bred in South London. I don’t know North London at all really. It doesn’t look too bad at all.
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anuvver wold innit?
I was just thinking I wanted to have a drink with Joolz in a pub next time I'm in London. Rethinking now though...
No.2 Willow Road reminds me strongly of the house Ben Aaronovitch describes in 'Broken Homes' as the home of fictuous architect Erik Stromberg. Even more so because Erik Stromberg's work in that book is Sky Garden which reversely reminds me of Trellic Tower. Near Elephant and Castle - on the south side.
Excellent! I like it when things link up. I'm not familiar with those people you mentioned so I shall have to educate myself.
I walked around the Vale of Health. Lovely quiet place. DH Lawrence lived there for a while
Astounding general knowledge.
Thanks. I know that area pretty well.
Totally, a real well of deep knowledge.
Know Hampstead really well, I shall keep this video for the 2 decades I spent working there. Fascinating area. Highest point in London at the top of heath street, they had a nuclear early warning klaxon up there, not sure if it's still operational. Have you been to the vale of health? Used to see boy G on his push-bike and G.M in his Range Rover, ah, those were the days.
On the 7 th September me. And my friends went to the Highgate Cemetery and we passed George Michael s grave
The only part of London that doesn't look like London, more like fringe towns of Essex! I was born in South Hampstead in 1957.
Went to two schools in Hampstead. My favourite part of London and I did not know that Boy George was so rich (I know he had some hits with Culture Club but not anything extra...?).
Loved this tour as I used to live on Frognal Gardens by the church in early 1980s.
Joolz! you missed the great Peter O'Tooles house at 98 Heath Street...not even a blue plaque to note it!
3:21 I love that pub ! Went there last November 2018. Going to back to London this December because it was wonderful.
Great video. My father worked night shifts in Hampstead and used take the early morning (first) tube. The lift / elevator wasn’t always ready at that time of day and he used to walk down the stairs (.. and yes, it is a long flight of stairs .. he made me walk up them !)
Good excercise, lad!
Return the favour once he’s in an old people’s home 👺
Great video, as always!
May I suggest something? If you ever run out of places to show in London, could you possibly make a video about Stratford-upon-Avon?
Over the years I've become a kind of English culture geek! :) Of course I've watched things on the web related to Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare but it would be fantastic to watch one made by you!
Please, don't feel committed! It is only a suggestion for you to take into account! :)
Ian Fleming worked at Bletchley Park
If I ever get you to show me around London I think a coffee shop will do let's leave the pub. 😬 love and peace to everyone at this time. 🙏✌
156 thousand views and less than 4 thousand can hit the like button...Joolz you are truly ripped off...
You mentioned Constable & failed, even though we see the sign, John Harrison. Without who's marine chronometers to derive the longitude the British navy would still be puttering about in channel
No, the navies of the world.
Interesting and fascinating tour, enjoyed and thanks for sharing your video
Regarding etymology, aren't Hampstead and Hampton named after hemp?....Which would have been grown to supply the Royal Navy with rope and sails?
Credit where credit is due this is pure class. It's my first time and will watch more. It's interesting with a fun element- what's not to like. Although based on this episode there is no way I'm buying you a pint....
Well, quite! those pubs certainly seem to have something about them..my friend got ill after this too!
Hello from Paris lockdown during the virus it is lovely to walk around London with you thanks so much
i've been to London oh, perhaps 15 times and enjoyed every minute of it.
I think that Jools is very good at what he does. What he does is he " knows things".
I particularly like his choice of music, I always hear the refrain " cause I'm a Londoner" in my imagination....
Hello Julian, just catching up with this video which I somehow missed before. Did you notice (or has anyone pointed out) that behind the "real Peter Pan" grave was that of the famous actor Anton Walbrook, of "Life & Death of Colonel Blimp", "The Red Shoes", "Gaslight" etc?
Surprised you didn't show 'The Old Bull & Bush' pub! By the way, LOVE your videos!!!!
Thanks, yes, we had to start somewhere and I thought we could leave that pub for another video about Golders Green. There was so much to cover already. I've even got the perfect soundtrack to go with it!!
Thanks.Makes sense! Wonder what that soundtrack would be :D
12:42 "Chalybeate" is actually pronounced _ka-lib-i-ate..._ I would've pronounced it the same way myself, but I live in Tunbridge Wells which basically sprang up around a Chalybeate spring which was discovered in 1606. As a result of being a lot younger than other English towns, they don't have much history to shout about, so the Chalybeate spring is a pretty big deal and gets brought up a lot!
Adore your videos! Going to London in April (to go to Croft Manor for a Tomb Raider party XD ) and definitely thinking of booking a private tour with you!
Oh cool! Thanks. That would be great. Just get in touch on the website. Croft Manor sounds interesting. Where is that? I think she also drives through Leadenhall Market at one point (which you can see in my Harry Potter video too).
Fenton House has a marvelous collection of old instruments, especially old keyboards. You can apply to play one of these old harpsichords or early pianos. There is also a beautiful walled garden behind the house, and as I recall a nice collection of beautiful dishes in every room
I really like the way you take us on a tour around Hampstead...thank you
I live in South Hampstead, just around the corner from Hampstead Heath, it's a mile uphill to walk there though. (Humble brag alert)
Could you do one on Finsbury Park, the history around Andover and Six Acres before they was built, please
Thank you
Yes, I intend to get around to that sooner or later. A few of my friends live up there.
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Goodness me. I noticed that right next to the Peter Pan grave is the grave of the great Anton Walbrook, star of such Powell and Pressburger classics as 'The Red Shoes' and 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'.
Sad story about Joolz's dad dying the day after they had fish & chips here.
I'll always remember my dad's last words - " WHAT bus ??? "
We lived at 5 Willow Road. I used to babysit for the family at 3 that is now a museum. Can’t afford to live in Hampstead now.....😢
That was so much fun, I live in Gospel Oak and it has opened my eyes to Hampstead, will have to take a walk with my cameras!
Spider Man working at 14:46
I absolutely love your videos! I’m currently watching them all over again for the third or fourth time lol
Hi Joolz. Love watching your post. I’m coming to London tomorrow & you recommend my hampsteadpubs
I enjoy your videos...so much research put into each one!
I know a bit more about hampstead now! 😀
Oh thanks. Well, I didn't need to research this one too much as I knew it pretty well. But yes, some of them are much harder than others. Harry Potter took me ages!
Great video. I was in hampstead this spring and in fact I took the stairs... Down only ;)...
It was an... Experience ;)
Yes...down is ok but you get very dizzy!
mrdjv2 I've had to walk UP the stairs when the lifts weren't working. The groans from the other travelers were hilarious.
Wow! I'm loving your channel 😊 I now know why the police are called Bobbies 😊😊😊
Those alleyways were in scenes of Beryl Reid walking down them in the film, "The Killing of Sister George". Did you feel a bit AC/ DC doing it?
ha ha ha... I cud write something illicit, but it looks innocent during the day actually... the park I mean... wkwkwk...
Ha ha! Yes, best to keep it clean I suppose!
Do the locals have thoughts on the Hampstead kids that first accused their father of horrific crimes? I believe the testimony happened over days. I just can't fathom children being about to come up with all of those details on their own. And it reeks of a cover up.
6:10 that guy putting his hand up 😂
..he didn''t react fast enough..you can still see him at first..
Great video seeing the various architecture and urban lanes and plenty of trees and ponds nice area 😁☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ from northern Ireland ace coverage
Thanks for you interesting videos. Hampstead is my favourite part of London.
You missed the Vale of Health where the great plague ceased because Hampstead is high up.
Great editing and sound! All of your videos have wonderful sound tracking
Ur... Boy George chained up a fellow to a radiator in his flat in Shoreditch, not a house in Hampstead. Google it!
Hampstead lounge and jazz club is temporarily closed according to Google maps.
Is it only St John's cemetery in the video. I may visit one day. It does look rather romantic. :)
It s beautiful and looks so quiet
ridiculous that there are council flats in hampstead. outrageous misuse of public money. people should pay for the privilege of living on the most expensive real estate in europe if they want to be there. cant believe lady thatcher allowed it to stand during her premiership