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What hoh! with a bing and a bong and a buzz buzz buzz.
Joolz Guides here, and today we're going to be taking a little stroll
through Kenwood and Hampstead Heath.
How delightful!
Starting here at Kenwood is one of the most beautiful views in London.
I believe it may be one of the protected views of St Pauls—is it?
See, what they did, which is really irritating,
is that they said, well, there are all these protected views of St Paul's from all over London,
so you're not allowed to build a new building in front of St Paul's Cathedral.
However, if you build something behind it, it doesn't seem to be a problem,
which is really annoying.
So what they've done is they've built the Shard right behind St Paul's Cathedral,
which kind of ruins the view somewhat.
But there are, I believe, four specific points—is it four?—there's a certain amount of specific points in London
CAMERA MAN: Seven, I thought, but yeah
Yeah, okay. Seven, apparently.
Well, you're not allowed to build in front of St Paul's Cathedral.
I think this is one of them, but anyway, it's still a pretty impressive view.
It's always very useful to know the best spots to go to the toilet.
My mother used to know all the lady lavatory attendants in London.
There's just a nice one in Kenwood house over here.
Laura tells me that it's quite convenient, that you don't have to buy a cup of tea in order to go to the toilet,
because it's separate from the restaurant, so you can sneak in.
And they do have a jolly pretty garden where you can have tea and scones.
Do they still do the Kenwood concerts here?
CAMERA MAN: They stopped doing it, I think because the neighbors complained about the noise.
When I was young it used to have these beautiful concerts here, so you could sit on the bank here,
and then just they'd set up a stage over the pond over there.
And then they would have lovely concerts and people would enjoy them throughout the summer.
Typical! Typical. Neighbors complained. The same reason why we don't have fireworks displayed near my house.
So this is where in the film Notting Hill with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, they're shooting a film here.
Julia Roberts is shooting a film within the film and Hugh Grant overhears her,
sort of, he takes umbrage, it's just over there.
Beautiful building preserved to be an example of an 18th century home.
Nice, beautiful Rembrandts inside
CAMERA MAN: And there's a (Mira?), too.
Oh really?
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Down there is a bridge. It looks like a bridge, but it's actually just landscaping.
Kind of a two-dimensional cardboard cut-out.
And through here there's a piece of artwork.
How do I know? Because Tom told me.
All right, then who is it Tom?
CAMERA MAN: It's Barbara Hepworth, Julian.It's the monolith in Korean.
It looks a bit like me. And as if that wasn't enough art for you, there's a
CAMERA MAN: stupendous Henry Moore just through these trees.
That's precisely what I was going to say, actually.
Yes, I'm a big fan of Henry Moore myself.
CAMERA MAN: And it's in the majestic setting of Kenwood House, so it's an absolutely
gorgeous place to come for a picnic or an afternoon with a bottle of wine.
You should be doing this.
Why am I doing it? I should have brought an extra bowler hat for you.
Yes, that building up that on hill is called Witanhurst
and by rooms is the second biggest in London, after Buckingham Palace.
Is that where they did the Fame Academy?
But it was completely empty for years and years when we were kids.
And this... is a piece of art.
By one of our greatest sculptors.
Oh is he? Yes. Oh all right then, okay. Henry Moore.
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It's obviously where they did the milk and the cheese and the food for the house.
JULIAN: Kenwood house.
On a summer's afternoon if they've got an open day at Kenwood,
people dress up in the old costume of the day and make cheese the old way.
JULIAN: I want to do that.
(with an accent) Shut the gate, shut the gate. They've got Randy Ball down there.
All Joolz Guides have to have at least one reference to With Nan and I or Black Adder.
Fancy a drink? Spaniards Inn. Over this way, please.
On the way to Spaniards, incidentally just off Hampstead Lane, is what's known as Millionaire's Row.
Otherwise known as the Bishop's Avenue. Where as a punishment at my school you'd have to run all the way down Bishop's Avenue. It's called a BA run.
But this has got some of the most expensive properties and largest houses in London.
Sort of mock Tudor. Slightly tacky. A bit tasteless if you ask me.
Was ... here? It's on the next road, Willarton Avenue.
Willarton Avenue is not Millionaires Row there, that's just—
Kind of millionaires row.
Colonel Gadhafi's son had a house down there,
but I think it was one of the assets that was seized when they captured him.
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One of the most inconveniently positioned pubs in London, and therefore one of the most likely places
For my friend Ralph to arrange to meet you is the Spaniards Inn.
Halfway up Hampstead Lane, not near any Tube stations
You've got to get the 210 bus in order to get here, or you can walk.
On the left hand side is a listed building, as is the pub Spaniards Inn which was built in about 1585.
So I think it's called the Spaniards Inn because it was named after some old owners of the pub.
Francesco and Jaun Pereiro, who ended up fighting a duel.
Juan, I think, is the guy who died. They ended up being buried somewhere near here.
Which might be why they've got some swords on their emblem up there.
This toll booth over here, this used to be a toll house,
and they tried to knock it down in the 1980s or something.
But of course, no one will allow them to because it's a listed building.
And it's extremely awkwardly situated, as will be proven by this huge bus
which is going to try and get through that gap.
It's another one of these haunted kind of pubs.
Supposedly, Juan, who died in the duel, apparently he haunts the upstairs room.
Or is it Dick Turpin? Dick Turpin was a famous outlaw.
A highway robber. He used to do robberies up and down and Hampstead Road, which is down here.
And there are many records of highway robbery in the Old Bailey records
If you look them up, if you can be bothered—I can't.
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Well the pub claimed that John Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale out here in the garden,
but I've heard that it's in the back garden of his house, which is further down, which we'll go past.
The pub actually used to be owned by Dick Turpin's dad.
They used to have his pistols on the wall inside. I don't think they've got them anymore, do they?
Another ghost, yet another ghost, it's the third ghost they've got here
In 1897, when Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, he was inspired by this lady in white who used to be seen
walking through the beer garden here, to come up with the idea of Lucy in Dracula,
who so they called the "bloofer lady"
And van Helsing and Seward, his accomplice or something, take a taxi from outside Spaniards Inn after having had dinner at Jackstraws Castle.
Which we're not going to see, because like everywhere else, is turned into modern luxury flats.
Yours for a reasonable price of about eight thousand pounds per week.
Many a highway robbery took place down this street here,
and it was also along here that's the bloofer woman in Dracula used to abduct the children.
What I really like about Hampstead Heath is just, you really feel like you're out in the countryside, you know,
because London really was a series of villages, really,
and you still get that feeling when you're going between Highgate Village and Hampstead Village, I think.
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Now, up here, first up here is the venue where I was in a film called
Scenes of a Sexual Nature with Ewan McGregor
Yes, that's right. I am supposed to be an actor. God knows. What happened to my agent.
Bastard must have died.
Kids. What are you doing here? As in, you want to talk about it, or you want to have them?
I think I do, I think I really want to have them.
Er, Billy, you're gay?
So are you.
What were you doing in those bushes, Jules?
I did actually have to play the part of a gay sunbather.
It was right right in there.
I just had a mini portable TV and I was watching the Test match, but for the cricket.
They know that he was quite into cricket, but he kept coming over.
It was the Ashley's(?) against Australia, he kept coming over and asking me the score.
He was a very nice fella, actually, I have to say. I liked Ewan McGregor. Nice chap. Nice chap.
But yeah, the director said the biggest mistake he made was calling it Scenes of a Sexual Nature.
Otherwise it would have done very well.
No one wanted to go and see it because they all thought it was a porn film.
You know what I like about this bridge here,
I don't know if it's for real, but if you look on the bridge people have carved their names in,
but the years that they've got, they're amazing!
I saw one. I'm sure it was like 1800 and something before.
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Incidentally, this hat that I'm wearing is called a bowler hat, or a cook.
Named after the fellow that it was made for, I think in Locke's Hatters down in St James's
Now the reason they were made was precisely for this sort of caper,
because the gamekeepers used to find that their top hats kept getting knocked off by the branches.
So they had a better hat like this which was more like a helmet.
When things fell on their heads it would be a bit of protection.
So I am more appropriately dressed for this sort of walk than you two, by the way.
Fancy going for a swim Laura?
This is the mixed bathing pond over here.
And there are also men's bathing ponds available and ladies bathing ponds.
Where you can play Badminton naked in change rooms because I've definitely seen the guys doing that.
Doesn't go on at this one though.
It's this beautiful surroundings.I mean really, when you're swimming in there,
you just feel like you're in some sort of enchanted garden or something.
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Keats hair Keats clothes(?). Oh and this one's Keats Grove, Keats everything.
And that is because just up Keats Grove is Keats' house.
Where actually he only lived for about 17 months.
Then he moved off to Rome and died of consumption.
Like everyone in those days. I mean he was only 26, no 25, when he died.
So he wasn't regarded as a great poet in his lifetime. It was only after he died that he became quite famous.
They actually called him the Cockney poet.
You know, it doesn't sound very cockney to me in his poems
"Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow."
All these lamps, they're really nice. They make it feel like you're in Narnia or something.
When I direct my BBC period drama, I think I'm going to set it up here.
Nice ugly sign. They really could have done better than that, couldn't they
I rather like it you know. It's not always bad when they knock down buildings
because it reveals old advertising, things like that. So up there, for example,
I love that look. LNER King's Cross for Scotland.
That's an advert for the railway, London North Eastern Railway?
That must have been a really old advert on the side of that building.
Getting a bit tired now, because this is the second video we shot right on.
Time for the pub, but just before we finish I really want to just point out this pub here,
which it looks like it might be closed at the moment. They're renovating it.
It's called the Magdala Tavern. Anybody who has seen the film Dance With A Stranger
with Rupert Everett—was Rupert Everett in that film?
This here pub what I am standing outside of is called the Magdala Tavern.
And it's very famous because in 1955 Ruth Ellis who is the last woman ever to be hanged in Britain
Shot her boyfriend. His name was David Blakeney, not to be confused with Sir Percival Blakeney.
You know the Scarlet Pimpernel? Baroness Ox—? Oh, God almighty.
Anyway, David Blakeney was her boyfriend.
He was like a racing car driver, and she used to work in a nightclub.
and one day, I think that she had this very fractured relationship with David
This used to be a newsagent so she'd have stepped outside the newsagent shop here,
and he was coming outside the pub with his mate
anyway, I think she shot him outside here, and then turned herself in afterward.
She said yep, yeah, I don't know what came over me. I just couldn't handle it and it was me, I did it. Guilty, your Honour.
And I think over here, now unless I'm mistaken, you can still see the bullet holes in the walls.
I think these are actually the bullet holes.
Apparently she was very civil once she was in the prison cells after they arrested her.
She was perfectly nice to everybody just said yeah, I did it you know, but I'm glad I killed the bastard.
I do hope they don't turn this into luxury flats like all the other bloody places in London.
It looks like it's gonna be renovated as a pub though.
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