Piccadilly Splendid Walk - Heart of London's Shopping District and Clubland

Piccadilly is in the heart of London's West End shopping district and home to many of London's famous clubs.
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In this video Joolz has a look inside some of these exclusive clubs and takes a walk along Pall Mall, Piccadilly and St James'. He visits some of London's oldest shops like Hatchards and Floris and discovers all the famous people who have lived and worked in the area.
There are werewolves, Dracula, The Beatles and many other interesting facts and hidden gems which you probably haven't seen when walking around on your shopping trip.

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[Joolzguides]

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[PathfinderHistoryTravel]

I’ve been watching these entertaining videos for several years now and just realized the dynamic. Joolz gives his friend Simon the tour while Simon films. Simon is filling the role of the tourist in our place. We viewers feel like we are personally on the tour. Thank you Joolz and Simon for the enjoyment I’ve received from these videos. It’s much easier than traveling all the way to London. 😊

[simonbiggs]

Not enough words to describe how good this episode is.

[stablefairy]

these areas of London are absolutely fascinating and it is wonderful that these shops go back so many years and can show you Ian Fleming and Winston Churchill's fragrances! beautiful buildings from a beautiful era.

[mariamaryagathocleous]

Last summer I visited and spent the afternoon inside the fascinating London Library! It happened by chance and I wasn’t aware that Bram Stoker had visited the same library! Wow! After wasting most of my morning inside the Cyprus consulate, which is also in St. James Square, I was drawn to the library once I spotted it and I felt compelled to pop inside to have a look! I was very pleased that I had because The London Library is indeed a very fascinating place! 😊

[kingman.mp]

Love Hatchards. How about a London bookshops walk?

[princesskyrie]

Seeing the pool in one of the clubs reminded me of the Drones Club in the Jeeves and Wooster books and how Bertie always brought up the time he crossed a series of rings over the pool, but Tuppy Glossop hooked one of the rings back so Bertie had to drop into the pool in full formal evening dress. (Wodehouse describes it much better than I do.)

[edwardalexander]

Superb episode - loved Floris, Hatchards and Sotherans and the time map! Great stuff yet again.

[dea]

As always - brilliant episode.
The assistants at all those shops were marvellous - friendly, warm, knowledgeable and welcoming. Great advertisements for their businesses!
(Also great reference to The Pogues - RIP Shane)

[ffrancrogowski]

Marvellous and interesting coverage of this very busy district of London, Jools. The bookshops look to be real attractions for the reading person, something for everyone in those retailers, I guess. The perfume shop is a total stunner, with the vast ranges there has been for many a celebrity over the years. Like yourself, I don't think that Piccadilly Circus has much charm these days like it used to have back in the day. Those advertisements are too flash! With the buildings that you show like the ex-United Services Club, and various others along that road where the gentlemen's clubs are, it's quite amazing how at one time the stonework would have been tarnished with the old traffic and coal smoke pollution, and now they look as spick and span and almost white, as if recently constructed. Many thanks for this most excellent presentation.

[beezig]

Its Sunday, Its Joolz, life is perfect

[andyytube]

What an uplifting
The perfect escape from the doom and is hope for this country after all, and what lovely ladies working in the

[danielomalley]

I spent most of 1975 working in the staff canteen of the Piccadilly Hotel, two floors beneath street level! This 21 year old Canadian saw both sides of London (Shades of Orwell’s ‘Down and Out in…’). I roamed every street you showed, loved every minute spent there. Thank you for reviving grest memories!

[wasabista]

Splendid Joolzy! I was tramping around some of those streets myself back before all the nonsense started. Without you to show me around I scarcely knew what I was looking at, kind of like a dog in a library.

[harryhot]

I used to work in Tower Records in the mid, to late 80s.
I was in the basemen just by the station entrance, I served Ian Brown from the Stone Roses once, he bought an 808 State CD single .
As always I thoroughly enjoyed the vid.

[interestings]

Love when you visit local business!!! Please always do it!

[Boabywankenobi]

07:44 - that's Chatham House! That's proper. I believe the house gets it's name because William Pitt who was Prime Minister in the UK was the Earl of Chatham. That's a serious building and very important even today. A lot of the global political landscape is shaped in there even to this day.

Edit: I see 13 seconds later you mentioned all this haha. Btw, next door to Chatham House is and has been the main office of Universal Music. Stephen Fry lives in the back of that place and the head of the world masonic order is the other side of the Dutch East India club next to that library.

[chriswade]

Tower Records was originally Swan and Edgar’s department store

[viktoriavolkova]

Thank you for sending me your signed book with devotion so rapidly, dear Julian! I was lucky to have noticed your announcement about the signing event in November and made use of it😊. It was delivered very quickly to Germany. I have already my favourite routes in your book and will be happy to walk them through when I will be next time in London😊. I also rewatched the episode with the favourite places of your mum and was delighted by her fine taste: I noticed that it would be an ideal day for me, if I spent it just like in that episode! Every site was a pearl - and ended in Victoria&Albert Museum🎉. Magnificent. And may this educated and kind hearted woman rest in peace.

[kaliou]

🎄❄️☃️When I visited Picadilly Circus & The Strand, I was overwhelmed by the inmense history and rich culture that this part of London contained. Excellent as always Jooz Guides 🎩