[Music] pip pip tammy ho jules guides here in which i wander around london and tell you fascinating facts and don't forget to hit the subscribe button if you like these videos and it's a splendiferous morning it is isn't it simon it is indeed today we're in mile end and we're gonna head up all the way down towards like bow church down this mile end road you'll see anyway it's called mile end after the kind of 12th century or so they used to call it le mille armed which meant the hamlet a little village a mile
away from the city so if you kept going that way you ended up entering the city at old gate the the city gate and uh and all the way out that way if you keep going you come to colchester because this was the old road to colchester look mile end place there are so many nice little pockets around violent i mean look at this little street over here for example it'd be terrific to live down here wouldn't it around the time of oliver cromwell 1650ish jewish people were invited back to britain because they had been
expelled by king edward the first back around 1290 and the first of the jewish people to arrive were safari jews from portugal and spain after rabbi menace ben israel came here from the netherlands to make the case to oliver cromwell for their resettlement anyway they've got one of the oldest jewish cemeteries it's just behind this wall here you can't really see it from here we might be able to see it from the other side just coming down alderney road here around the back of the cemetery that i was talking about earlier but look at this
area simon isn't it lovely all these houses and stuff it's a lovely square you know yeah yeah i think this is the entrance here to but it's it's it's that's quite a wall if you go around the back you can peek over the top but uh anyway it's a nice peaceful place which is as it should be secluded away from nosy parkers like me this is bancroft road it's named after francis bancroft he was this wealthy draper i think he's a kind of guy who sells sells cloth or something like that anyway he wasn't very
popular actually in his time he was an officer of the lord mayor's court but he became very rich on harsh acts of justice which became very unpopular i think he's quite corrupt at his funeral they say that a merry peel rang out from the church bells and the mob came and hustled his coffin on the way this burial but he was very wealthy and he left a lot of money i think he left this land and on this land they built school and arms houses and things like that that's why it's named after francis bancroft
but just behind here which is mile and hospital this used to be the workhouse back in the 1850s over here look you can see the foundation stone and the laid by the chairman of the board of governors the workhouse board of guardians or something he was spencer charrington do you remember in our video about stephanie green we talked about how the charrington brewery were owned all these pubs and stuff so uh i don't know if a lot of people made themselves poor by visiting these pubs owned by spencer jackson's family and probably ended up in
the workhouse which is a pretty terrible place to be they really were a last resort these workhouses if you had i don't know nowhere to sleep no money and they'd give you these really menial jobs to do to give you an idea what it was like around this area look this is um people of the abyss by jack london he's the guy who wrote white fang and call of the wild back in 1902 he came to spend time living with the down and outs and the homeless people and and and he records it all here
it's it's really interesting this book is written right we recommend it on the benches on either side arrayed a massive miserable and distorted humanity it was a welter of rags and filth and of all manner of loathsome skin diseases open sores bruises grossness and he describes a bit where he's walking down miland road on the way to the workhouse not to this workout they're going to a different one it says they're going to poplar workhouse in this one and he met a couple of other kind of poor people who are having to stay in his
workhouse as well he says both kept their eyes upon the pavement as they walked and talked and every now and then one or the other would stoop to pick something up i thought it was cigar cigarette stumps they were collecting and for some time took no notice then i did notice from the slimy spittle drenched sidewalk they were picking up bits of orange peel apple skin and grape stems and they were eating them and this in the year of our lord 1902 in the heart of the greatest wealthiest and most powerful empire the world has
ever seen so it just gives you an idea of how you know you can all look exactly like this these buildings were here at that time [Music] [Applause] oh look at these lovely sculptures you see these simon do you recognize the sculptor eric gill you remember when we were down outside st james's movie station the bbc yeah and the bbc had them as well yeah they're the same guy eric gill his name is he's got quite a notorious uh history but well yeah because he he he was incestuous with his sister wasn't he he slept
with his sister apparently that's what i heard anyway so this is all part of queen mary college named after queen mary who was the wife of king george v i believe i think she was anyway because in 1887 this was declared the people's palace it was trying to bring culture and activity and excitement to the east end so they had a swimming pool and gymnasium and educational facilities here but now it's part of the university of london queen mary's college look at this amazing this in 1725 the safari cemetery old cemetery i was talking about
over there became too full and so they opened up the new safari juris cemetery here and look it's a really extraordinary i've never seen a a graveyard like this before have you signed with all the stones flat they say that the reason for that is because we're all equal in death look daniel mendoza's buried here too known as mendoza the jew he was the english boxing champion in the 1790s and a real hero too beating the likes of harry the coal heaver and sam the bath butcher despite being much smaller than them he perfected the
strategies of scientific boxing and revolutionized self-defense with his book the art of boxing he even met king george iii at windsor palace becoming the first english jew to speak to a king what's he i think he i think he lived up in bethnal green near paradise row didn't we see his plaque on paralysis oh my god mother kelly's daughter on paradise run this is clement actually prime minister just after the war he took over from winston churchill and it was on his watch that they introduced the national health service and uh he vowed to overcome
the five giant evils that stood on the road to post-war reconstruction do you know what the five giant evils were simon wants want disease ignorance squalor and idleness and you should know time because they all apply to you charming look oh we got five seconds to comply silverman's do you know this shot of my jacket oh that's where you got your rambo jacket from i want to get one of these submariner jumpers look at that there we go awesome i'm richard oh you're the manager yeah uh one of the owners oh yeah so it's a
family business all right and uh we've started in 1946 appointment to her match we were yeah yeah we supplied footwear to buckingham palace we still do quite a bit of surplus that's how originally we we started a lot of it's new now so we do sort of brands like alpha shots bikers jackets footwear for police security films and theaters military divers watches pilots watches my eye has just fallen on this kind of german jumpsuit an old german tank suit that all right one of them with the submariner white polo neck yeah and i'll look like
roger moore right yeah thermal under suit it's even got the uh a little flap at the back to you know to do your poo that is a high altitude flying suit concord test pilots use that so it's a military suit from the 60s their first world war yeah i know about the cemetery over there yeah there we go we just just filmed his he's got a plaque there really yeah he's my great great great because i have a great uncle what daniel mendoza the the boxer we were just all good he's your great great great
great uncle nice to meet you guys thank you very much oh look it's called the cherry hotel used to be the the new globe tavern there and in 1840 thomas gardner was the owner of the pub he started up these pleasure gardens so this whole area along here had firework displays winter concerts bowling greens hot air balloon ascents and it would have been a rather lovely pleasure garden which was very very popular back in the 1840s but i don't think it lasted that long some reason he sold the pub or something and there were other
pleasure gardens nearby which other people went to but this is the canal the regents canal that goes all the way down to camden and actually you can go all the way up to birmingham along this canal don't forget to see my regents canal video this is really lovely i don't know i've got a thing about canal son i really love canals i think i think the pleasure guns were around where that park is over there but now they've built this uh this bridge up here which is like a the park goes all the way over
the bridge there and you get a great view of the city from up there just next to the uh that's a roman catholic church there on the left here on grove road just around where this railway bridge is this is where the first v1 flying bomb landed on london in the in the second world war killed eight people and made loads of people around here homeless there were the ones that they called the doodlebug they actually had wooden wings that the wings were made of plywood this is hard to believe isn't it this kind of
flying bomb with wooden wings yeah it stayed all kind of run down and smashed up around here for years and years but then they just cleared the area and they expanded the park over there which is rather nice now ah the greedy cow that's the name of this bar i actually had a really nice burger in here by the way so just to big up the greedy cow i enjoyed it nice service nice people nice burger and beer which had cbd oil in it as well you know this stuff in cannabis yeah i think it
had cbd something rather it anyway cbd beer they serve in there weird but it was good yeah this kind of quite busy road and these beautiful terraces are houses and look points points if you spot the old street sign up there look cottage grove 1823 it is lovely around here i mean everywhere you look it's beautiful this is a beautiful building yes this is tredegas square named after the baron of trichetradega charles morgan that's why this is morgan street and um charles morgan was baron of tredega which is i think tredega hall or something was
his estate somewhere in wales i was going to say you could be in kensington but i think it's actually nicer than kensington it's just really it's quite stunning isn't it yeah yeah beautiful georgian are they buildings maybe we'll pop down here if that might take luncheon at the pub down here what do you say to luncheon at the morgan arms simon yes [Music] more points more points here look because look it's a boundary marker boundary stone and it says marks the boundary of m-e-o-t 1885 is that mile end old town here here and here booth
someone booth the overseer big bowl of porridge i don't know anyway i like things like that is it coborn road or cobalt street is it boring i keep talking about who why the names are called that it's priscaco board if you must know it was the widow of a wealthy brewer there were a lot of brewers down in this part of london in the east end i don't know i think she had something to do with this school being built as well but the reason i like cobourne street is because of charles coborn the musical
entertainer now we're soon we're going to be doing a whole video about um music called entertainers and uh and songs that i do with charles cobort he was famous for doing the man who broke the bank of monte carlo as i walk along the water boulon with an independent hair you can hear the girls declare he must be a millionaire his name wasn't charles coborn but because he was from the east dead he decided to take his name from this street his actual name was colin mccallum but uh anyway he'd like the name a man
the bank of monte carlo he was born in stephanie green he was one of the most popular and musical entertainers at the end of the 19th century and he said that he sang that song over a million times and he could sing it in 40 different languages as well so he was he was a he was regarded as one of the best ones actually just opposite there is this where dr bernardo lived in one of these houses as well the guy who started the homes for for children yeah that was all based in the east
end anyway let's go down this way as i walk along the boidabalong with an independent he must be a millionaire you can hear them sign a wish to die you can see them wink the other eye and the man who broke the bank at monty pity this is all covered in scaffolding because this uh what's called saint clements hospital well this is what it's supposed to look like here um in 1827 it was a home for orphans of sea merchant seaman and i think it's attached also to a yet another workhouse so there's lots of
workhouses around here of course they're turning it into luxury flats now points points borough of poplar boundary now is it still the borough of poplar around here i don't think so i think this is probably changed now to tower hamlets i'm guessing i might be wrong i think the whole of these burrows around here got amalgamated into one probably around 1965. so i like seeing signs like that because look on this road sign down here london borough of tower hamlets you see i don't know why i'm obsessed with this boring this is a tower hamlet
cemetery it's one of the magnificent seven you know we've been to highgate cemetery abney park cemetery in the 1840s was it they decided that a lot of the cemeteries uh the graveyards those churchyards were getting overcrowded so they decided to build seven really big cemeteries further outside london and uh this is one of them although there aren't any of what described greatest hits in this cemetery there are over 300 000 people here but no one particularly famous you know no disrespect but i'm not going to search through all these graves in order to find the
grave of the doctor who performed the autopsy on jack the ripper's first victim he is in here somewhere [Music] george lansbury in case you're wondering it says here member of the poplar bar account he was a mayor of poplar and also the leader of the labour party in the 1930s he was quite big on social reforms and he backed the suffragette movement as well a great servant of the people but you and i will probably know him as angela lansbury's grandfather jessica fletcher from murder remote and a little bit further along from there look they've
got the mini lansbury memorial clock it's really beautiful that clock mini lands me that i think her father-in-law was that george lansbury that would she anyway she was involved in this rates rebellion they were the government tried to raise the rates which was like the tax that people have to pay on properties and stuff but popular council refused to comply and george lansbury organized this big protest march which she attended whilst pregnant and she ended up being thrown into holloway prison and when they let her out she died of pneumonia i think as a result
of having been in prison so uh anyway they've remembered her there more points more points a milestone simon i like milestones look this one's from 1807 and uh it's like a metal one so i think there's a probably a newer type newer type milestone this one tells me that stratford is one and a half miles away and white chapel church is two miles away but of course they kind of died out didn't they what with the road signs and things taking over space didn't really really need them once people start picking up road signs but
yeah you don't get that many milestones i prefer the stone ones but you still get points for a metal one if you just saw a shot of this on its own it could be any beautiful part of london you wouldn't imagine this beautiful terrace to be on such a busy main road when you come out bow road station this is what you're greeted with it's uh it's wonderful really is there a date on any one of them i don't know no no but they look pretty old don't they they do what is it i love
it removal vans they always insist on decorating and painting their vans to always look very traditional oh right yeah have you ever noticed that yeah yeah i didn't know but you know what maybe it's so that it can look like it's matchbox car equivalent you know you get the little the little mini kind of because you could imagine if if you had one of those in your matchbox car collection they always imitate a vintage old vehicle yeah they are nice right down to the typeface and all of that i never would have noticed something like
that simon that's why that's why you're invited look just next to that is the police station here yeah this is the police station where they brought sylvia pankhurst when she had you know during the suffragette movement she was smashing windows trying to get votes for women they brought her and banged her up in here for a while yeah this is a nice one this is like king george v this was put in in the time of king george of fifth and i love these i don't know what that is i think that might have been
an old uh for the bit where you used to get the stamps out but quite often they were attached to telephone boxes as well i don't know there's a little door in it i don't know what that bits for maybe someone can write in and say well i like that because it's right next to this excellent bus garage always find are your bus driver yeah uh well i've always fascinated with bus garages do you like these look at that entrance yeah yeah crazy so victorian is it victorian who knows who cares just oh we care
there's the dream [Music] the bryant and may match factory look the sun's gone in oh the sun's gone in but this is an amazing building in the 1860s bryant and may these two fellows who changed the way people made matches and they used to dip these little bits of wood into phosphorus white phosphorus and i had like 1200 women working here at the match factory and this white phosphorus was actually very bad for your health and eventually they started developing this weird condition which they called fosse jaw it made your bones decay you got ulcers
and your jaw would even start to glow in the dark and eventually they all went on strike so the owners of the factory gave a lot of them the sack and they said look you better go back to work otherwise you you know you're out of a job but this didn't go down very well and in the end the owners had to give in and so they won better rights for workers and uh so they were pioneers in a way for women's working rights and actually in 1910 they stopped using this white phosphorus i suppose
they must have changed what the red phosphorus is it is that what they've got on the matches now like um all black stuff or the brown kind of anyway i don't know damn it jim i'm a filmmaker not a scientist it wasn't until 1979 that brian and may stop making matches i suppose people don't really need matches these days it's called the bow quarter now and i suspect it's a luxury flats or something like that but uh you just give me an idea you should create merchandise jules guys matches because you've just put a black
head on the top of the matchstick it'd be like you wouldn't it would look like it steady on what is it steady on oh speaking of matches i've got i've got a match my ass your face [Laughter] do you remember that joke this is actually beau church and and the fly over there is where the name comes from of beau because there was the original bow bridge over the river lee it was when um queen matilda in 11 10 or something she was the wife of king henry the first she almost drowned trying to cross
the river over here and so they built a bridge and it was shaped like a bow and so that's why it's called the bow bower the bow bridge the whole area is named after all that i mean some people think that this is the church in the oranges and lemons say the bells of saint clairmont being born within the sound of the bow bell some people say that it's the bow bell in the east london here but i think that's saint mary le beau in the city anyway i'm sure people are going to write in
and argue with me about it anyway i i cannot confirm or prove either way but this statue here of william gladstone the prime minister you see how he's got a red hand you see his hand holding out his hand it's a bit worn off now but he's got a red hand people say that that's because the girls who worked at the match factory because this statue was put up by theodore bryant as in bryant and may who who had the match factory over there and uh he docked the wages of the girls working in the
match factory in order to build this statue i don't know if that's true or not and then they came to protest about it and say he's got blood on his hands you know this is the there was our hard work that got this statue built and so that's why and they dripped their blood on the statue or something like that but i believe what the truth is is that they simply painted it red on the centenary about 100 years after just to remember this famous match girl strike you've already thinking to yourself why hasn't julian
mentioned prostitutes yet in today's video well gladstone did used to go and visit prostitutes actually and they'd bring them back to the number 10 downing street he'd meet them in soho bring them back to his house and then he'd self-flagellate afterwards he'd write it into his diary and it actually i think it was a sort of penance or something yeah well i don't know i think it was to learn it was penance it wasn't like some sort of you know kinky opinion is divided some people thought that he was actually going with these prostitutes but
uh anyway he'd write it his diary he'd draw a whip next to the the day when when he whipped himself flagellated himself um or maybe she was flagellating him i don't know remarkable business have we found this bloody place yet sorry no no no no no it's around the corner here okay wait a minute now over here in powis road is kingsley hall this is where gandhi stayed in 1931. he came to attend a meeting to discuss constitutional reform in india with the british politicians whilst he was here he was visited by people like charlie
chaplin george bernard shaw and he used to enjoy the witty cockney banter with the locals we might be able to see the room that he actually stayed in let's see let's give it a try look there he is excellent so what did he come into this room then he would have been in this room and lost he was certainly in this room on his birthday which is october the october the second so this these are the rooms the cut this is the kind of room is that the actual one that's the actual one this is
the room the gandhi's slaying and that's amazing it is amazing that's fantastic may i go in you're welcome to go in okay look at that and it would have i suppose been as rudimentary as this he wouldn't have had much in there is that right yeah it would have slipped on the floor like it's showing quite nice here actually isn't it and the kids used to look up to see his bald head above the paraphernal oh yeah and when they saw him they used to wave i guess he'd wave at them down there hello because
he was quite it was quite amazing to have gandhi in your living in your neighborhood i bet it was it's the same one that they used for the film gandhi when ben kingsley was in it it's a peace garden this uh little thing on the ground here look this says peace in all these different languages [Music] i was filming this vintage litter bin yeah wicked look at the font that's brilliant okay i mean i'm sorry i know i bring you to some pretty uh inauspicious places don't i simon i mean but i mean amazing they
say that in the 1960s when they built this fly over the craze buried some of their bodies in the concrete underneath here that's what i heard but you know you so you see this here this used to be a pub called the bombay grab i think a bombay gurab was a kind of ship that used to go around in india somewhere this is where indian pale ale uh started up there was a brewer here he was called george hodgson and he had a brewery here in beau back in the 18th century the east india company
was one of the most powerful important companies in the world and they had the docks just not too far down the river there when they went off the captains the commanders of these vessels who would go off to take tea and other merchandise and things to and from india they were also allowed to do private enterprises as well so a lot of them would get very rich by transporting other goods and stuff now one of which was beer and anyway there was this one type of october beer that apparently it matured very well on the
on the route out there and and so they were able to get beer from the brewer here before long hodgson's was the universal beer drank in india but they ended up in burton upon trent they've discovered a new way of making this indian pale ale so eventually old george hodgson went out of business but that i think that was the pub attached to the brewery and the brewery was somewhere around here where they built all these flats so anyway indian pale ale originated from bow that's what i read i mean you know what jules guides
is about is just me talking about what's supposed to have happened what people say has happened what i think has happened i can't confirm it some people deny it but that's what i do it's what he does it's all he does you don't get it do you jules is out there he will find you [Music] you see across the road there there's a nice beehive just underneath where it says 1990 it's rather nice that it used to be the stratford cooperative and industrial society and the bees represent workers worker bees you know it's rather nice
that i don't know what went on in an industrial society i know meetings with uh butchers bakers candlestick makers people who did local trade and they'd all meet up in there but i like that and that's i got a building over there as well look at that [Music] cheers simon actually this is a popell bob they claim to have a ghost in the toilet here apparently he used to flush the toilet whilst women were sitting on him or something is that right a bit of a pervy ghost anyway thanks for watching don't forget to hit
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