[Music] pip pip taney ho jules guides here in which i wander around london talking about stuff and having increasingly peculiar facial hair which seems to have a mind of its own at the moment anyway today we're continuing in the city of london because it's so tricky filming everywhere at the moment because of all the lockdown so i apologize we've covered some of these things before but not all of them and of course behind me is the bank of england we are in the center of what's known as the square mile the financial district thousands of
people come and work here every day normally when there isn't a lock down they'll come and have a look you see these lamp posts we were talking about the city livery companies the worshipful company of skinners the worshipful company of tax collectors and everything well they're all all the important ones are remembered here on these lamp posts so this one i know if you see it says skinners and that'll be their coat of arms um and all of them have got one we've got a worshipful company of goldsmiths the goldsmith's [ __ ] is around
the corner there that's where you get the word hallmark when people brought their gold items to be confirmed as gold they would have taken them to the goldsmith's hall and that's why you call it a hallmark we've got uh the salters tax collectors union i think the most recent one was the worshipful company of it consultants or something like that was the most recent [Music] one yeah they've got a um they've got a nice museum in the bank of england which you can go to visit but not today because it's closed but i'm going to
let vintage jules tell you all about it if you look on any of your banknotes says i promised to pay the bearer on demand the sum of 20 pounds it was like an iou used to be able to take it to the bank of england and demand the equivalent in gold bullion or whatever but i can confirm that it no longer works but on a 50p piece there's a lady on it now her name is britannia but she was modeled on the duchess of richmond who was said to be so beautiful that the randy king
charles ii had to climb over her garden walls to try and win her affections but she was not at all impressed and he failed miserably this statue here of wellington is cast out of the guns that he captured from the french at the battle of waterloo he doesn't want to be reminded about that no probably not sorry i didn't build it it wasn't me i know a fact about equestrian statues i think it means the rider died in battle if injured if it's rearing two feet up dead dead dead what are those urban myths it's
complete balls you know who that bloke is over there the statue no do you care this dude up here is james great head which despite his excellent name he's not a porn star okay he's happy actually he's the guy who invented a special shield which speeded up the tunneling process which they used on the underground under the thames and stuff and speaking of things which are underground did you know the first subterranean public laboratory was underneath the ground here this is where we get the that's now what yeah it used to cost one penny to
go hence the expression to spend a penny yeah it's brilliant thank you i'll come into your bedroom and ruin your performance tonight is quite a ditch now over there is the mansion house the mansion house is where the lord mayor of london lives i don't mean the guy who we vote for i mean someone votes for him but only people who live in the city of london will work in cities something to do with some complicated process but yes i think he occupies the top two floors in there he gets nice big robes he gets
a parade every year he gets to sit in the old bailey actually because the central criminal court he's actually the lord the chief justice so if you get tried in the old bailey the judge always sits slightly to the left on the bench and they he leaves a space in the center just in case the lord mayor wants to show up i don't think he ever does so yeah meanwhile the other mayor who was like sadiq khan at the moment used to be boris johnson he gets to live in a flat in south london and
work in an office over on the south of the river whereas this guy rides rides around in a beautiful coach beautiful gold carriage the other mayor gets a bike i mean the first one was in 1189 first ever lord mayor but then in 1215 king john who was uh robin hood's enemy i think allowed people to vote for a lord mayor it's the most famous one of course being dick whittington it's actually a court in there itself there is a court in there and emmeline pankhurst the suffragette she was held in one of the cells
downs there they often block off the area on weekends and stuff to film things in fact the film suffragette i recall was filmed down here that's my favorite tube entrance yeah there's something about it i mean we can't really see it so i like how it sculptures and curves around and it's all sort of gravity warren like i like that this whole area would have had loads of people walking around dressed like this nowadays people just think i'm a freak for dressing like this it was perfectly normal 50 years ago to go walking around here
um that building over there so much history i can't cover everything i mean that that place over there is where the first postmarks were made in the whole world i mean the post office the first post office was there the main post office anyway [Music] no i want to know if anybody has any idea what these mysterious iron wart facings are my theory is that this is probably just there to protect this right this drain pipe because it's quite an old drain plate it's one of these metal ones and i reckon it's to stop people
i don't know taking a horse or a car and bashing into it and knocking it down because then that really smashes the drain pipe well they had horses and carts right up to the 70s didn't they when they're collecting oh yeah like rag and bone man stepdow and son but yeah i mean that's a pretty old pipe isn't it um and so i expect that is probably is leftover from the days when horse and cart had come down here they wanted to protect it well who knows i'm sure someone will let us know if we're
wrong it's right opposite the city of london magistrates court where you might be taken if you attempt to sell kites on the millennium bridge that's where you end up being taken you may get off you may get a fine who knows or there's to dream but just across from there is the church of saint stephen wallbrook you guessed it designed by sir christopher wren but the green dome on the roof actually is one of the first of its kind it was so quite innovative in the time when it was it's 1670s or so and it
was actually a kind of practice for the dome of st paul's cathedral it was a sort of precursor to that but uh inside they've got the original telephone that was used by dr chad valer who who started up the samaritans in 1953. he was the rector here and he invented the samaritans which is now a worldwide thing now just around here by the way they were digging and they found the ancient roman well temple of mithras actually it was built in roman times it's a pity you can't really see it now is they've just built
this massive building on top of it but free entry actually to the little museum they've got but it's closed such a nuisance doing these videos during the lockdown but what can i do i've got to put something up there mithras was the persian god of sun and light and these guys who had been serving in persia and part of the roman empire was over there when they then got stationed in londinium they decided to build a temple of mithras here and one of the things that the mithratics used to do is they would sacrifice a
bull on the 25th of december and uh when constantine wanted to absorb all these religions and make christianity the same the main religion he decided to steal the 25th of december ceremony so that's why we celebrate christmas on the 25th of december i'm not quite sure why they have a jukebox in there though i don't recall those being in ancient rome there's a bunch of mosaic and pots and what have you in there once you start noticing these by the way you you just don't stop seeing them you probably wonder why is there a weird
plaque there in this modern thing it's again it's i think it's another parish indication of the parish you're in which is saint mary bott's [ __ ] a butthole i think saint mary bottle both thor or something i've been looking at the parishes around here that's one of them but anyway i digress up there is st paul's cathedral and we are just opposite cannon street station and the reason we have come here is because just up here on the left in the wall is the london stone many people wonder what on earth it is and
uh no one really knows actually but many legends exist about what it was but one of them is that the king arthur drew excalibur from this very stone but in roman times it was used as a kind of point from which to measure places like uh you know you are four miles from london if you're this is where they measured it from but jack cade the famous rebel in 1450 he he had an uprising with his uh ruffians and he struck this stone with his sword declaring i am the lord of london and he was
promptly dispatched chased off it was a fight on london bridge king henry vi pardoned all his ruffians but jack cade himself buggered off to kent somewhere where i think someone beat him up and then he died but anyway these days it just sits there looking a bit sorry for itself [Music] it looks like a dirty river but that's what it's supposed to look like because that's what it was like open source it gives you old tissues and stuff this is just a sculpture relating to the brook that ran through here in roman times the wallbrook
river that's why that road over there was called wall brook used to flow through here but obviously all this stuff's been built over it probably still runs underneath london there's so many underground rivers but um now we want to head up there just to the right there queen street let's just come this way you'll have to forgive me for being childish but this is rather amusing any children watching cover their ears now excellent now here just off pancras lane i quite like the um sculptures on the back of the chairs even though they are all
covered in bird crap we are standing here at the end start of what in medieval times was known as grope cut main it really was there was grope cut lane was here and it was indeed free again how do you spell it exactly as it sounds yeah because it it was exactly that because there were lots of prostitutes along here this was famous for it and and the next road over was called something like bordeaux lane not board hall lane but i think it was it was from the word bordello they had um shear borne
lane is what used to be known as scheidtburn lane and [ __ ] lane the only street where prostitution was legal anyway when puritanism came along people like oliver cromwell sort of changed all the names and got rid of these places but uh yeah i mean i didn't make it up there you can find it on the old john stone map of london this uh this is where growth complaining was these are rather good look at that that fail he's got some people being boiled in a pot here yeah i think all the imagery is
representing sin but isn't it that's when eve took the apple there's old adam there taking a bite a bit weird isn't it you've got all this old stuff and then the gherkin has all popped out into the back as well oh yeah that's wonderful how about that i like that [Music] [Music] where we are now this is just a tiny section of an old road that existed in roman times which actually led all the way from dubris which was the roman name for dover up to verolamium which was saint albans and actually beyond and this
is the one where queen beaudacion or budaka was defeated in the battle of watling street by the romans she was in another video i mistakenly say that she's a saxon queen she wasn't she was the celtic queen of the icini and she was fed up because the romans had come over and killed her family and raped all the women so rightly they led uprisings against the romans and then gaius suetonius paolinius was it eventually he managed to corner her and all her hairy brigands and put them to the sword but she didn't have swords on
her chariot that's a myth even though that sculpture of her on westminster bridge has that anyway this is the only little section of it that still survives apart from actually out further out there's other little sections of it it goes all the way up to leicestershire and warwickshire and very quite a historic street really but um the whole ward it's actually called the ward of cordwayne which is why we've got this cord wayne here see the finest leather would be imported from cordoba in spain which is where we get the word from because there's lots
of shoemakers in this area but a cord wayner is different from a cobbler i think a cord wayner is someone who makes shoes but a cobbler is someone who men's shoes if i'm wrong don't write in i was just i was actually told that by a cord rainer fun enough and now for a public service announcement just arrived in london and you don't know what to do how will you see all its hidden secrets in so little time if only there was someone to show you around and save you reading all those guidebooks some sort
of online video guide with a friendly face who's actually from london fear not hardy traveller help is at hand jewels guides are mini bite-sized videos about interesting things to see and do hidden gems colorful characters how to get around and where to eat drink and make merry jewels guides are not available in the shop so remember to tune in for a jolly spiffing time but now it's back to this week's video [Music] let's see something you can see st paul's cathedral there this pub here they claim is made out of old timbers from ships and
stuff by sir christopher n for his builders who were building the the st paul's cathedral he was very good like that wasn't he because he built another pub up near the old bell for people who were building saint brides church that's pretty good of him just to build a pub specifically for the workman [Music] thank you very much if you want a nice idea of how the layout of roads used to be medieval times bo lane here is a really good example i suppose and this one's called saint mary alder mary meaning saint mary the
older mary to distinguish it from other churches called saint mary but it was designed by you got it so christopher n you can see why i'm convinced that he started the fire of london so he got so much work out of it [Music] sorry if i just i'm boring you with these things it's just people do walk past them look jstg saint james garlic height so that's the parish that way and then hd must be holy trinity holy trinity i think which was that way [Music] it's called st james garlic hive because garlic hive means
like a hive or a wharf presumably they used to bring garlic ashore because the river is just over there now inside they've got this mummy of a guy called jimmy garlic and it was back in the 17th century they found this guy perfectly preserved and they think he was probably pickled in ramos i mean he died at sea he was a young man with fulsome whiskers and people would pay a shilling to come and see jimmy garlic and it wasn't actually that long ago that they stopped putting him on display apparently he was hugely well
endowed completely naked so all these women would pay to come and look at him because that's the vintners hall over there vintness place you've got one of these company of vintners people here a vintner is a wine merchant he's got a rod with his uh three barrels of wine or whatever on the end there and um and the reason why he's standing next to a swan is because he's the barge master and swan marker of the vintners so not all swans in london belong to the queen um some of them belong to the worshipable company
of vintners and in order to count them every year they have this ceremony or something where one of these blokes comes along and i think he puts some marks on the beak of the swan so when you see a mark swan you know it's one of the vintners ones and there over there is in fact the vintners hall where 1363 um king edward iii hosted that the feast of five kings and that's why if the monarch is ever there they are toast five times to the monarch in there they do five cheers rather than three
cheers for the monarch it was actually the lord mayor who hosted it there was king edward iii and the kings of cyprus france scotland and denmark was the other thing we're right by the river here aren't we as well that's the other day we're right by the uh we shall try to have a drink an apartment on the river i expect everything will be closed though uh but before we get there just to walk past saint michael potter lost the royal where dick whittington is buried dick whittington who was four times what's it is it
once twice thrice what's four price he was frice lord mayor of london and uh he lived in this street and he arranged for this church to be built i think uh and um whether he had a cat or not is uh up for debate but they say that his cat still haunts the saint james garlic hive that we've just seen over there you you can live exactly where dick whittington lived if you like look they're they're for sale flats for sale is it just me it was uh julian seemed to be getting taller and taller
every day [Music] look i was just going on about all these livery companies and halls and everything this is the tallow chandlers all of these ones down here they've got beautiful ornate entrances and uh this one the tallow chandler's hall and it corresponds presumably with that coat of arms up there and they each have that and if anyone can tell me what 10 foot and 12 foot refers to i'll be very interested look mp 10 foot and fp 12 foot i don't know what those could possibly mean i'm sure someone will know i want to
start the worshipful company of peddlers i think that we should apply get our robes i think the kite a kite should be the coat of arms come on [Music] cheers simon cheers cheers everyone just all subscribers and thanks very much for watching hope you enjoyed the video i'm sorry everything's closed what can i do but uh if you like what i do don't forget to head over to my website julesguys.com where you can find out more about me and get in touch and all that sort of stuff but above all don't forget to hit the
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