hip hip tinho Jules guides here in which I wander around London and tell you fascinating facts don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and also the little bell because that way you'll be notified when I upload a new one and um today we're in baywater um starting here by Victoria gate which is just on the edge of Kensington Gardens from the 1380s it was known as baywater bayard's Watering Place or something it's like either Bayard family or a watering place for horses who knows anyway look over here it's a very cool little thing if you
come this way just on the edge of baywater Road there this is called Victoria Lodge here and it used to be like a a park keeper house I don't know if it might still be the place where the park keeper stays I'm not sure what it is these days but around the back of it is a really cool little thing look come on over here come over here over here on Bay's water road if you peek through the um the fence here let you can see all these cute little gravestones there's over a thousand of
them it's the pet cemetery started up in about 1881 Mr windbridge the park keeper back then he had a friend whose dog died and so he agreed to help out by bearing it in the garden there and then it just became a bit of a kind of trend for uh for well more upper class local uh mostly ladies mostly ladies had their pets buried here several Birds three monkeys are in there cats you name it it got too full by 193 so they stopped but George Orwell described it as the most horrible spectacle in Britain
I think it's rather I think of worse I think of worse so bunch of telephone boxes a cluster what's what the collective noun for phone boxes this got to be one I think we should we should invent one yeah push in now we're concentrating on this side of baywater for for this video if you want to see all of that lovely little area in there the Italian Gardens we just walked past that I've got a whole video All About Kensington Gardens which you can see and that's very nice with a beautiful song by little llou
um but here now Simon you might recognize this Pub because you remember when we went to and we finished one of the videos in that Pub before I think it was the one possibly when we were talking about TI bur Gallows because the the ti bur Gallows which is where people used to get hanged for like hundreds of years that's just up there at at Marble Arch and uh there's been a pub here for over 300 years back in 1670 or 80 there was a famous Highwayman called Claude Duval and they say that he had
his last drink here before being hanged at tyburn I mean he was the one that spawned the myths about high women being chivalrous and romantic as he used to be kind to the people he was robbing on one occasion he even sort of offered only to take half of the gentleman's loot that he was robbing on the condition the lady would dance with him there's a lovely painting of him and ever since that people hello ever ever since then High women had this reputation of being romantic he was buried in St Paul's Church in Coven
Garden the one they do all the juggling outside of so apparently had his last drink there so they claim before they strung him up and this is on the on the site of the Flora Tea Gardens and Skittle alley which uh most of it all got knocked down to build that stuff over there which we shall go and see now spending all this time trying to remember facts and figures and stuff and yeah you walk around and it's all over here I could just read it off here but anyway forget that for a moment this
was the the grand centerpiece of the new development typical Victorian development here in 1857 I think one one of the Architects his name was sanction wood that's an it's good name he he all so it's kind of that Terrace there and here and it's all supposed to be sort of shaped a little bit like a cross and they built this wonderful Church which then suffered from some sort of fungal infection or something and they had to knock down most of it they've turned it into luxury Flats you got it in uh 1977 this is sort
of occupies the area where the old Tea Gardens used to be was a part of that Pub you see this hotel over here the Colombia this is where highly salassi stayed you know the Emperor of Ethiopia back in the second world war he was staying here and the Italians had invaded Ethiopia so he was over here or something but anyway highi salassi claimed to be descended from the Queen of Sheba and also um Solomon the wise you King Solomon um and and he he adopted the title uh of Raz tafari which is uh which means
Prince or nobleman in in the language amaric he then became the spiritual leader of the rasa fari movement in Jamaica some people consider him to be the second coming of the of Jesus but in 1941 he was reinstated as the Emperor of Ethiopia this was his headquarters during those sort of War time years as a new kind of feature on jewes guides we're going to walk past a lot of pubs and I'm going to ask Simon at the end which one he wants to go to and I think that a is very nice I don't
have much to say about it other than the fact it does look like a contender doesn't it beautiful it's beautiful ah I love all the mes around here' be fantastic to live in one of these um just at the end of here where are we Brook Muse North there opposite here look there's a blue plaque I know I find blue plaques a little bit boring but sometimes they're quite they can be quite interesting I mean Tommy Handley during the war he did a radio show called it's that man again and um he's one of those
typical kind of Music Hall type fast talking comedians you know your end is in sights oh good lord it's my shirt tail hanging out again go strain your cabbage water you know one of those guys and um he used to work with comedians like Bob monk house he was first person recorded as saying don't you know he's before Homer Simpson he the Homer Simpson didn't include invent saying don't it was it was his catchphrase actually and also there was another lady called Miss Hotchkiss she was another character in the show they invented quite a few
phrases which are in common pilot now like tat for now TTFN sometimes you might text that TTFN I I was listening to some of his stuff you know they are quite amusing but in their oldfashioned kind of way whoops [Music] Mr these are becoming less and less common vintage 1970s uh fencing yeah look at this You Don't See You Don't See This Much Anymore you do that school mesh oh yeah you do that scho really the feel of that is and remember to get remember trying to get your toe in in order to kind of
climb over it yeah yeah you're right you don't get much of that no you don't it should be preserved listed you should be listed this is a listed fence it's a lovely Garden though so many beautiful gardens around here and lovely houses you do get the feeling that the LT Raa probably missed most of this area oh we're just arriving at lster Gardens so join me in a minute around the corner look these ones Simon numbers 23 and 24 do you notice anything funny about it yeah it's a fake it's it's it's the one so
the facade here is so that one's obviously the the Henry Hotel it's got normal windows and everything but next door if you look at it all the windows are s blocked in and it just looks like a nice building that blends in with everything else but actually it's just a wall with a railway on the other side it was built by the by the railway company in the 1860s so as not to ruin the spectacle around here cuz if you go around the the corner we can go and check out what is actually on the
other side on the other side of that facade is this brick wall here and if you look over the brick wall oh yes you see the braces you can see the railway and that wall there is the one that we saw from the front which all looks nice and blends in with the lovely stco houses or whatever the backs of the houses don't look that nice do they look at that beautiful window frame up there wonderful it is a nice building there's a whole row of them I just realized but this one retains its original
window frames so respect I always thinking how can I make these blue plaques a little bit more interesting I mean you may find them interesting but I tend to find them a bit boring but then I thought well look here John ly so I decided I know I'll go and find out who John ly is cu it's quite nice he was a painter look at the house he lived in he knew William Blake uh he knew Shelly and he did some wonderful paintings of the Kensington gravel pits which were actually just further along Bay Water
Road there just gives you some idea of how the area has changed if you look at these pictures that he's painted so guess I wonder if he painted them while he was living here might have wandered around the corner I think it's probably safe to say that the Germans succeeded in this particular area it's like you got this and then out of the blue you got this do you mind not talking badly at people's houses saying live here might be fans of dress knocking it not a bad address exactly I'll take it I just say
it it's quite different to everything else it might be the council you know mine not be the ger such a snob sign snob oh dear aha now who's this fell oh well as you can read it's a George Geor castrioti skanderberg Invincible Albanian national hero instrumental in defending the Christians from from the Ottoman Empire 1400s it's a nice bust actually it's quite nicely done sculpted isn't it yeah we're on Queen way here which actually used to be called black lion way up until about 1830 when they changed it to Queen way after Queen Victoria because
she used to use it when she was staying at Kensington Palace and this is this is I remember I've been there it's an ice rink I've read that it was the oldest ice rink in London I think so from the 1930s you got a bowling Alle it's it's kind of weird that they have an ice rink just underneath a block of flats like that don't you reckon it still is an ice rink yeah yeah I used to go there they they practice things like dancing on ice there I think they yeah anyway let's carry on
down here I do like a vintage Curry House yeah there the sort of thing you used to get in the um local ads in the um in the cinema you know come come to the local Maharaja always rather like spaz water station it's interesting look all the different buildings above they're all completely different and what that sign says up there safety razors and the blades that's it and you have a child shaving her father's face the merry something shaver is it can't [Music] see so we're going to talk about white Le here because um this
is where it moved to in 1911 the original white Le opened up in 1863 around the corner but there's nothing there to look at really so it was signed by William Whitley who was a penous yorkman arrived in London 1863 with not much money in his pockets and he started up this place which grew and grew ultimately it was a place where royalty would come shopping from all around the world and they offered anything from a PIN to an elephant it was like that the Harolds of the 19th century in fact Adolf Hitler ordered for
this but maybe maybe one of the reason s why baywater is such a lovely area we were talking about it not being hit by the bombs is because apparently ordered for white Ley not to be bombed he was hoping to take it over as his headquarters when he finally invaded so how you ever feel in there yourself when it yeah I used to go there I used to go there with my dad when I was young ultimately it finished poorly for William Whitley in 197 a fell called Horus reer came in to his to his
room or his offices and asked for a job and he claimed to be his son and he went no sorry s off and then this horrus Rainer pulled out a gun and shot him shot him to death um but it turned out that 30 years before William Whitley had gone to Brighton on holiday with a mate called George Raina and they took a couple of girls with them one of them got pregnant and ended up bringing up Horus Raina herself but she was said to him listen if if anything ever happens to you go and
look for William white ley's a millionaire and he'll sort you out he's your real father okay he not the other guy and um so uh so ultimately he came down here and he yeah he but at the Old Bailey they let him off a jury was sympathetic towards him on the ground so he had a really cruel father so that justified him shooting him dead yeah those are strange times s very strange strange times that lovely Cinema here at the end of Queensway that's from 1932 isn't it beautiful they actually covered up that sign in
the 1960s can you believe it um they only raled it bit later on cuz now it's been turned into Flats now but uh nice I love buildings like that but we're going this way come on mind that van Simon look at that a at a proper old school toilet public toilet in the middle of London there's so few of these still in use yeah yeah yeah still in use better not film down there now are you feeling peckish Simon yeah because I tell you what they do in Malaysia for breakfast in Malaysia they will have
roty chenai and um I came in here the other day and I said look can I can I get a roty chenai and he said well we only do it for breakfast cuz over here we probably wouldn't eat that for breakfast but anyway let's go have one cuz I want to check it out this is our breakfast thanks very much all right so this is the chicken curry one that's the doll wonderful look at that are you jealous we are jealous these guys are jealous that we're having this cuz they're fans of jewels guides nice
to meet you want a peti seems a bit odd to me to eat cariva breakfast but this looks terrific and this is the chicken one and I'll tell you what it's rather good yeah how about that Simon I feel bad making you film this so why don't you get on and eat I shall I shall dig in look at this wonderful building from around 1920s is it 1929 look on there PB it says on there porchester bar this is this is the best surviving example in London probably of any any Turkish bars I got wonderful
I'm sure I've seen in minder I'm sure Arthur Dy goes in there and what I particularly like about it is the fact that they've still retained it for public use behave respectfully to all users at all time to refrain from all sexual activity what oh that's no good that's right Haw wind have played in there Pink Floyd Amy win house anyway hopefully they'll let us have a look around so it's a 1920s building it was initially a sort of a bath house for people that come by and get themselves washed and then they'd also get
their clothes washed and then over the years it got converted into this Leisure Center that we see now 1929 we added on the spa and then we also added on the events Hall which stages many acts we have people like Amy wios who play storms he played recently and a few variety of headline acts o this is starting to look a bit more so this is this is pretty much unchanged since uh early 1920s um these are the old hot rooms this is actually as it looked over 100 years ago you've got the original tiles
so using the old Roman terms you've got the caldarium the ferium Etc I'm absolutely roasted this is inappropriate dress for a saer this steam will will out to about 48° where we've got the saer this will heat up to about 85 90° uh if you can get a little bit of a warm last of that oh look at that yeah yeah before I'll try to film this before the uh for the went the lens oh look at that yeah the lens is going steaming up yeah that's nice that looks very Scandinavian okay Jules you heard
your steam you heard your smice as well and so you're roaring hot and now you need to cool off so it's time for the plch this is literally unchanged since the 1920s um and we are now probably one of two spas in the country that still operating this old traditional way you have men's days ladies days and then Sundays is mixed this is all the part of the hot cold treatment so there you go okay go on that's it all the way just just leap of faith go on are you kidding no the people do
this get get in your shoulders under that's it good Matt well done you're better to come up close come closer you've seen that Hof guy from uh the so this is your version of that the Hof man isn't it that specializes in cold treatment is that emotional the cold has reached my special place okay that's good oh know but that does I have to say though that is very invigorating can you imagine that if you went back into the Steam for a final session did that one more time and then back to face the world
I'm sure I've seen minder in here or those are films they filmed a few films in here I the actual Hatton Gardens uh film they did recently Michael Kanan uh one of the scenes actually took place in here King of Thieves yes Story Goes that some of the plan for the hat and G was actually hatched here in the spa God a bit disheveled oh dear oh dear I know but actually I have to say that I might have to do that again because that was really that I feel great now actually I have to
say I'm quite surprised felt terrible at the time we're part of Everyone Active and we run the centers for Westminster Council so we've got old lovely buildings like this and we've managed to get a lot of money spent on this building the last four years we spent 4 million on it to get it you know sort of refurbished from end to end but do it in a tasteful way that's fitting of the style of this um you know grade two stylistic building people are swimming sensibly yeah oh you get that here we get nice wide
Lanes as well I'm quite a neurotic swimmer fine and uh and I can't stand it when people break the swimming etiquette you know doing butterfly next to me really vigorously whilst I'm trying to do backst but I see none of that here I see very sensible swimming in lanes and taking it easy look at this this is a magnificent hle we do tea dances for over 55s I mentioned earlier Amy win housee and storm we also had Kylie manogue perform here and Snow Patrol and of course Mr Crea so what is it the meaning of
life that film I think he originally asked for a bucket but it was offer a WAFF mint anyway and then he would have exploded somewhere would have been somewhere over here exped projectile abely but it was filmed here where are we standing right [Music] now do you feel better for [Laughter] that the whole of area basw water there's lots of really lovely details like this I you think that's nice these great s of almost feels like you're in Italy or something do you know what I mean we're here on Westborn Grove around the corner from
here and you see that little place over there the tra Hut feels like going to Austria and they got a big beer hall and people serving you in like National dress and ler and he plays the accordion and all sorts I really we got to go in there Simon I want to go in there Kate moscow's in there [Music] hello thank you is that your dad over there that one is my dad the one's there that's right so he opened his place in 1967 and we've been going yeah ever since then he's got a lot
of character your dad yes there's no one like him he's been entertaining for over 55 years here now and it's just consider may may I ask how old he is is at CH 86 in August 85 oh wow he's got a lot of energy remember that he's buil this place out and he's just it's his home and it's home to so many people in London all over the world as well so they come get off the plane straight to the H we've had bis Becker Sher oh there Hugh Grant Kate Moss is here who that
wom minut is that is that John bares Ali are you telling me Muhammad is that Muhammad Ali yes his body guard that you with your bare chest out in there is this you oh look at him he was a handsome man Mr little Atlas you haven't changed a bited it kind of feels like you're on holiday in here yes it's like escapism there's no windows once you're down it's just really hard to leave so people stay for hours and hours schnatz flows the beer flows schnitzel sausages Brad cheese Pond and this beer is uh this
isle Austrian beer from salsburg it's going down very well what [Music] I'm [Music] shows how much it's changed actually since the Cold War I suppose because in John Lara's book Smiley people think there's a Estonian retired General lives down here doesn't he he's called it he's called Vladimir he lives in a dingy flat it's described I don't know how many dingy Flats you get down here these days but um but actually speaking of dingi flats now where that rose red bricks are over there that's where Peter rakman you know the slum landlord from the 1950s
60s he had his offices in there I don't know if it's actually the same as it was they probably knocked down the original Apartments but anyway his office was somewhere around here and uh I believe he he actually came as a refugee to London and he let rooms to people really squatted rooms he divide Flats up into really small areas and if people comp about the conditions it' cut their water off and start threatening them and send big heavy people around with scary dogs and stuff somehow he managed to have aairs with Mandy rice Davis
and Christine Keeler and he was a funny little looking man cross between sort of Eric morham and Captain mannering from Dad's Army look at this wonderful little square kildair gardens nothing to do with Dr kildair I I don't believe the uh 1970s TV show what a lovely [Music] Garden three different street signs the the modern one Alexander Street there's an older Alexander Street one up there and then it's obviously changed its its name is it Saint something Terrace can't read what it used to be anyway Sunderland is it Sunderland yeah Sunderland we had of stiff
records here at number 32 Alexander straight Dave Robinson and Jake Rivera they started up stiff records you might know them for bands like uh Madness were on stiff records Elvis Costello Ian Juran The Blockheads and then they also did the first what was considered to be the first Punk single New Rose it was called by the Damned and they did yeah in inury Hit Me With Your Rhythm stick hit me I'm pretty sure I saw a documentary it was on YouTube and yeah you saw all these artists hanging out in that very room there they
all get on board a coach and off they go like a little road movie I want to see that obviously we're talking the early 80s yeah it's a lot more grungy and gritty back [Music] then lovely around here isn't it love you can see why they film a lot of movies around here speaking of which this number one here St Steven's presentent this is where Rachel Vice lives the Vel Vice character in about a boy you always talk about that Bloody film about a boy it is a lot of it f anyway a boy I
knew you were going to say about a boy but I'm noticing some nice vintage steel a rally a rally racer from 198 88 I believe another one that they filmed around here was Alfie quite a lot of the Alfie the original Alfie not the one with Jude La the one the one with Michael Kane the proper one it was some of the scenes were filmed down here and that's actually his flat the flat where he stays with Jane Asher oh really he stays in there there's a lot of talking to the camera I like an
old they don't give you any trouble not a lot of people know that I wonder if this was the remote corner of bay waterer that Oscar wild had in mind when he has lady brol say that the perambulator which was abandoned with Jack in it you know in The Importance of Being Earnest it was a it was disgusting covered in a remote corner of baz waterer could have been here I like to think it was actually you look the prince boner part time what do you think maybe maybe a possibility for our might be for
our finishing look look like a good place just walking along here on cheptoo road and over there at number 58 was where that Peter rman had his brothel nice fell that you know Peter rackman he's comes across very well he [Music] we're on the corner here of Westborn Grove and chepo place anyway that building there in the 1860s or so they had these Cold Storage uh facilities for fur so when the wealthy people who had fur coats wanted to put them away for the summer they'd keep them in this cold storage facility and it was
called Bradley so it was Brad I can't remember the name but anyway Howard Bradley sent me this information he was the last member of the Bradley family to work there he sent me all this stuff all these pictures and everything hi Howard thanks for sending me this stuff I finally got around to doing this area like you asked me to cuz around 1896 the sons of the person who founded it turned it into an actual F sort of manufacturing place so they did driving gloves driving coats goggles and all sorts and very important people used
to shop there like the the Churchills and the wife of King George V who was called Queen Mary her memory was fading so they had to change the phone number here to baywater 3456 just to help her with her memory until quite recently they still had all this cold storage stuff down there and now they've turned it into Flats of course apparently Richard Harris lived there he and his wife were Troublesome tenants they say that's hardly surprising you see now we're here on ler Square not to be confused with Lester Square as if you would
um but you see that number 28 in the basement there number 28a is where sting first lived in London when sting came to London he was living down there with I think it was his wife at the time Francis and his son but it was truly Styler was living a few doors down I think it was in this this square that they first met anyway they caught each others ey and ended up going out with each other even though both were actually already married but yeah it's quite interesting this is where he first came probably
in the 70s I guess this is St Sophie the Greek Cathedral here absolutely beautiful it was consecrated in 1882 it's looks amazing inside which is probably why they used it as the St Petersburg church in in Golden Eye you know Natalia in Golden Eye the character played by Isabella skarupo she comes and hides out in here supposed it's probably supposed to be I think it's supposed to be in Russia in the film quite a lot of the film gold and I was filmed in London but actually set in Russia fly enough but yeah it really
looks quite impressive [Music] inside the new West End synagogue Simon was consecrated in 1882 it's one of the oldest in the UK which is still in use listed I believe for its Anglo Jewish architecture I like it I like it it's very nice um it is we're on camera though spinning around a lot ofur what are they up to yeah nice very Victorian anyway I say we go down the pub good idea there's a lot of choice lot Choice a lot of choice I I I think I do prefer the miter I think that I've
never been there so let's check it out yeah cheers Simon Cheers Cheers everybody thanks for watching don't forget to hit the Subscribe button if you like the videos and uh you can always head over to my website which is jsg guides.com where you can buy my book or even some tasteful merchandise which I'm sure you'll be very proud walking around wearing see you next time
