Pip pip Tally Ho! Joolz Guides here
in which i wander around london and tell you fascinating facts
about our city, and other places actually
but it's a Joolz Guide about London
so today we're going to be walking from Pimlico over towards
Lambeth Bridge and Millbank
Behind me, that building there
that's Peninsula Heights, the one where Geoffrey Archer lives
I think he lived in the top ones with the big glass
He was a famous politician
who ended up going to prison
for perjury. But he's more famous for being a
a crime novellist
He wrote thrillers and stuff like that
This is the Tate Britain
not to be mistaken for the Tate Modern art gallery
originally this is where the Millbank penitentiary stood
in the 19th Century
this is called Millbank after a mill
which was near Westminster
You did philosophy didn't you? at university with me?
We were in the same philosophy class
There was this thing called a Panopticon
it was Jeremy Bentham's idea
about a prison which was shaped like circular.....
The guard tower would be in the middle
The idea being that it would only require one guard
One guard to oversee the whole lot
They may not even need a guard
because of the deterrant factor
of not being able to see if anyone was in the guard tower
Yes, it was Jeremy Bentham's idea
Although I think, to quote Jeremy Bentham
It was "nonsense upon stilts!"
The Millbank Penitentiary was a panopticon
It was a place for holding prisoners awaiting transportation to Australia
Eventually they replaced it with Tate Britain
and "Tate" as in Henry Tate
Who was a great philanthropist
Tate as in Tate and Lyle sugar
You know when you buy sugar cubes and they're made by Tate and Lyle
so Henry Tate donated a load of his own paintings
to be exhibited here in Tate Britain
It's free. like a lot of museums in London
and there's loads of Turner in there
Hello there
I was watching your clips before I came here
Are you a genuine fan?
your know who he is??
That's me! Yes!!!!
See?
Ye of little faith
I do have fans after all!
This is the MI5 building
What's the difference between MI5 and MI6?
One of them's real and one of them isn't
No!!! Mission Impossible 5
was the one wherehe goes to China isn't it?
You're talking about Mission Impossible?
Oh no sorry! I'm talking about MI5!!
Completely different thing
So the building over there was MI6
That's James Bond's building, MI6 (foreign stuff)
and MI5 is home affairs
The Mi's went up to 19 originally
M.I. 1 was code breaking
M.I.2 was Russia and Scandanavia
3 I think was Eastern Europe
and they all got joined together into M.I.5 and M.I.6
This is called Horseferry Road
it's called Horseferry Road because
This used to be a horse ferryin the 16th century
In order to transport people from
the palace of Westminster over to Lambeth Palace
where the archbishops of canterbury have famously lived
since the 12th century
if you had a horse and you wanted to get acros the Thames
this was the only place you could do it
other than walking across London Bridge
are you slightly out of breath from walking up the stairs?
a little bit, why?
No, I was just pointing it out, that's it.
Pointing out my age or something?
Yes?!
I'm frozen!! Don't you understand!
That's actually what Mary of Modena used
she was the wife of King James II
and she had to escape after the revolution so she escaped
across this horse ferry here
disguised as a washer woman
I think the horse ferry eventually closed down once they opened Westminster Bridge
this is Lambeth Bridge and the reason it's painted red
is to match the seats in the house of lords
because Westminster Bridge over there is painted green
to match the house of commons
This is the one that's featured in the Prisoner of Azkaban
He gets picked up by the night bus
and it comes haring around this corner
and it has to shrink to get bewtween two double decker buses
don't know if you saw fast and furious 6
This is where they pretend it's Moscow
Dwayne the rock Johnson is walking along here
And I recognise those two buildings
They had all those Kremlin type domes at the end of the bridge
but I definitely recognised those two buildings over there
You probably heard me talk about this church before
in my video about Captain Bligh
and also I visit it in Take Me To Pitcairn
just as a quick recap
here's what I said then
Don't forget to come and visit the garden museum
it used to be called St Mary at Lambeth
one of the reasons I really like it here is because
there's this thing called the pedlars window
A pedlar is somebody who holds a pedlars certificate
and goes from town to town selling his wares
and this particular pedlar did pretty well for himself
and he donated half an acre of land to the church
but only on the condition that they remember him and his dog here
you see that whole plot of land on which
County Hall now stands used to be known as the Pedlars Acre
and if you go there now with your pedlars certificate as I've tried
You get thrown off by the council
That's nice , isn't it?! Where's the justice eh?
I'll have to come back on my own sometime
to talk to them about the actual museum
My favourite thing is out in the garden
Have you seen The Mutiny on the Bounty?
This is where Captain Bligh is buried, look, this is his tomb
If you've ever seen the film "The Bounty"
With Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins
You'll know all about the famous mutiny in the South Pacific
Captain Bligh was the commander of the infamous Bounty
and on their way back from Tahiti back in 1789
the crew, led by Fletcher Christian, mutinied
and forced Bligh and 18 loyal men
into a life boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
with only a sextant, no charts and hardly any food
Despite being sent to almost certain death he successfully navigated
for 48 days to Coupang in the Dutch East Indies
and meanwhile Fletcher Christian took the Bounty to look for a hiding place
and he found Pitcairn Island
and to this day all the people on Pitcairn are related to the Bounty mutineers
They've all got names like Christian and Young
Blich got back to tell the tale.
Bad tempered old fellow
And if you're interested in the Mutiny on the Bounty
You can watch my award winning film Take Me To Pitcairn
In which I attempt to get to Pitcairn Island
They've actually done some renovations since Imade that film
and now Bligh's in a beautiful courtyard
next to John Tradescant who was King Charles's gardener
That's the reason why they've got these pineapples on these monuments
Because John Tradescant was the person who brought the pineapple to the UK
and I think he also brought tulips
and the plane tree
And that's a really beautiful Tudor arch
gatehouse thing and inside there they've got the gloves
worn by King Charles I when he was executed
you can now go up this tower for a lovely view of Westminster
Let's go check it out
How many steps is it?
131 all medieval steps
How old is it?
13th century
In fact this was also the place where
Anne Boleyn confessed to Thomas Cranmer
before being executed for adultery or something....
I think that those , where you can see the windows bricked in
that was because they did actually have window tax
I don't know how long ago that was
You'd be taxed for the amount of windows on your property
People decided to save money by bricking some of them in
I think some of them have been bricked in because maybe they have staircases there
but some of them are legitimately to save money
I think there was a beard tax at one point in Britain
They should bring that in again
They'd make so much money in Hoxton!
This is the Millbank Studios
where the BBC do their reporting, live from Westminster
quite often you see the reporters over there
Don't worry, carry on!
I'm not from the BBC
yet....
you know when you see them standing outside Westminster
doing their reporting
Let's go and stand here and recreate some political moment
Today in Westminstr Theresa May wore pink socks
But what exactly do pink socks represent?
We'll find out, after the break
It's usually about as interesting as that too
That's Richard the Lionheart
who's heart, I claimed, in another video
is buried underneath all Hallows by the Tower church
but it's only a legend that it's buried there, it's actually in France
Richard the lionheart spent more time outside England than in England
He went over to fight in the crusades
he famously slaughtered a whole load of prisoners
he was proper bad ass!
He was head of his own army by the age of 16
I think he rebelled against his father twice
He is the 21st great great uncle of Queen Elizabeth II
She must have also been related to Richard III
She didn't go to his funeral
Which i thought was a bit harsh...when they found him the queen didn't show up
I would have, I mean she was queen!!.He was king...
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