Jolly Marvellous Mile End & Bow - London Walking Tour

This is a jolly marvellous walking tour of Mile End and Bow in London's east end. Back in Victorian times this was one of the poorest areas of London but these days it's rather spiffing.
Joolz takes you for a wander to the oldest Jewish cemeteries, the shop where policemen buy their boots and the place where Gandhi stayed and met cockneys.

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[melvyncarlowe]

Discovering your walks has been one of the few highlights during the pandemic. Apart from being informative they’re also entertaining. As 80+ year old Londoner it’s still good to learn about places & things I’ve been too so many times. Joolz a mighty big thank you from a grateful subscriber.

[billyb]

The box on the pillar box is for additional mailbags to be left for postmen. It coincides with the closing of the majority of post office counters sub-post offices, which were the main points to have bags dropped. They are now redundant as the post is now all van based.

[jeremydicker]

Absolutely makes my day when a new episode of jules arrives ❤❤

[vinnysamways]

Fascinating to see and hear the history of where my Grandma was from. She was born in Mile End in 1911 and told me a story about coming home from work in World War II only to find the Luftwaffe had destroyed the whole street.

[pauln]

Eric Gill slept with his sister, and also defiled his children and his dog. The statue he created on the front of the BBC Building in London was recently damaged by a protester. The BBc have been asked to remove it numerous times, they still refuse. When he was creating it above the entrance doors he wore a smock with no underclothes. The secretaries were told not to look up when they entered the building. The BBc also has other pieces of his work, so no surprise they protected Jimmy Saville, Stewart Hall, Rolf Harris and I wonder how many others. This is just one reason i handed in our licence and only watch youtube etc. No need for the BBc propaganda when excellent content like this is available, Thank you Jools.

[ericduffield]

Does any one else break-out their maps of London and Google maps while watching Joolz Guides? I love doing so, and learn so much. Mile End Place looks like a lovely little street to live.

[mossy]

The graveyard off Mile End is one of the most unique places in London. Got lost once taking a shortcut cycling through. Very eerie at night 😱

[JesmondBeeBee]

Yay, Mile End, my old stamping ground from my student days. 😍

[davesansom]

Born and bred in the east end, went to school in Stepney and worked in Mile End hospital for 5 years. When I worked there workhouse building in the video was being used as a store and had a very eerie atmosphere and was rumoured to be haunted . My grandfather was on leave from the Royal Marines when the V1 hit the bridge both he and my grandmother were in the street heading towards the bridge when the rocket hit, fortunately they weren’t caught in the blast. Great video, thanks.

[gillianwalker]

So enjoyed this - just found your postings. I was the pharmacist in St Clements in 1969 when it was a psychiatric hospital. It was also a drug addiction unit and I used to hand out measured doses of methadone through a tiny hatch to people on addiction treatment programmes. Used to explore the history of Bow and it was great to see again some of the places. Thank you.

[TomJudson]

“Here hare here.” A Withnail reference embedded in another terrific video: what a great start to my Sunday.

[barryboor]

As a person born and brought up in Bow, I feel the need to put Joolz right on a couple of bits of pronunciation. To East Enders Coborn Road is pronounced Cobern not Co-born and Tredegar was never pronounced in the Welsh way, it was Tredd-iger.
As most of us have moved away nowadays, maybe these names are said differently now, but that’s how we always pronounced them.
Great video,

[Forest_Knight]

Great video!
There used to be so many breweries in and around Bow because the water mills were close by. Some of them like the Three Mills (totally worth a visit) and St. Thomas's Mill (later Pudding Mill) were there from the 12th-13th century. The Stratford Langthorne Abbey (aka West Ham Abby) owned a whole lot of them and supplied bread to the City of London and was so important it was even excluded from paying the levy on bringing goods to the city.

[delboyoelmundo]

Another great factoid Jules, my grandfather was born in Stepney 1889, he went to music Hall, loved music and was self taught competent pianist, he said outside the music halls were fruit and vegetable sellers selling cabbages cauliflowers and fruit, patrons used to buy these to throw at the performers on stage, they were all rotted produce, once thrown at the hapless souls at the end of the night, the sellers would then collect them up to again sell the next day for the same purpose, rotted cabbage smack in the face

[carolefreeman]

People of the Abyss by Jack London is an amazing read with an enlightening look at what it was like for the poor in the East End of London in Victorian times. My Dad’s side of the family lived in Mile End on Maplin St., in the mid 1800’s, till they moved to West Ham’s Canning Town Area where my Dad was born in 1925. His home on Hermit Rd was bombed twice during WW2.

[swordsman]

I always feel better after watching your walks. Thank you

[familycorvette]

Any Sunday morning that dawns with a new Joolz Guides video to watch is a Sunday worth getting out of bed for.

[llchapman]

The back and forth between Joolz and Simon is really my favorite bit of these vids. Thanks for taking us along on another fab walkabout.

[robertbell]

I like your trousers, Julian. The East End looks more attractive now. When I lived in Mile End it was quite a poor & depressed sort of an area, but in a way I felt privileged to be able to see how people lived there, compared to where I had trained in Friern Hospital, New Southgate in the north of London.