Ladies and gentleman boys and girls welcome to London welcome to London's Carnaby Street
check it out
Ok one of London's most iconic shopping streets this is live so if your watching this live
it will be a little bit shaky I'll sort that out later if your watching it later it won't
notice so much plus I did arms in the gym this morning so its not just the camera its
me as well and I ran 5 k as well my arms my legs and the camera but yeah enough about
that I'am headed to Regent Street to an event called summer streets they pedestrianise the
whole of Regent Street a little bit of behind the scenes to a video I'am making for another
day that is it but yeah I thought I would start in Carnaby Street which runs parallel
with Regent street give you a little glimpse of that check it out the sign here looks incredible
its three dimensional pretty cool huh even the side streets look pretty great especially
this one lit up at night when all those light bulbs light up at night it looks pretty cool
OK the street is lined with fashion shops beauty stores every generation apart from
the one discovering it and using it for the first time now says its changed and not in
a good way fundamentally it hasn't its evolved but it still does exactly what it did back
in the swinging sixties and that is sell fashion to the fashionable and in all the back streets
there are coffee shops bars restaurants places for the fashionable the shoppers to take a
break relax and socialise a great coffee shop up there department of coffee and social affairs
at that end in Kingly court there is three stories I think maybe four of restaurants
and bars pubs here so yeah it does what its always done the people that say its changed
they are just not dedicated followers of fashion in the same way they once were I don't want
to say they are getting old but it happens to all of us anyway lets head down here that
that's the back end of the Liberty department store if we head down here if we head down
here we will come out on Regent Street we can check out this years summer street event
but yeah as you can see all of these shops and stores are pretty much are clothing fashion
or beauty related and all the rest are food and drink there is even still a couple of
underground bars and clubs here not anywhere near as many as there used to be but you can
say that about this whole part of central London my generation was probably one of the
last to know this as the heart of club land the council then set about getting rid of
them all they made it harder for new ones to open and harder for the existing ones to
stay open it just wasn't a good mix drunk Brits and really the jewel in the crown of
British tourism Welcome to Regent Street they've closed it to pedestrians no to traffic so
its pedestrian only check it out it looks like a garden party rather than one of London's
busiest shopping streets OK that way is Oxford Circus this way is Piccadilly Circus so we'll
head down here there is a Lulu Lemon bus here outside Hamley's and they are running exercise
classes in the middle of the street like I say I've already worked out today otherwise
of coarse I would also one of London's iconic stores one of the world's most famous toy
stores Hamley's I presume Lulu Lemon's got if not a store stockists here somewhere on
Regent Street so I'am guessing they are all dressed in Lulu Lemon gear but yeah it is
architecturally one of London's best shopping streets a lot of brands global brands have
their flagship stores here London flagship stores
here the pedestrianised event stretches from Piccadilly Circus we will head down to Piccadilly
Circus up to Oxford Street yeah Oxford Street Oxford Circus the rest of it is open to traffic
it was originally built fit for a King well a prince who would become a King The prince
Regent it actually runs from his where his palace was Carlton House on the Mall up to
well via Piccadilly Circus across Oxford Street up to Regent Regents park eventually he flattened
demolished his palace Carlton house in a development called I think its called Carlton terraces
now which paid for ultimately paid for the building of Buckingham palace the primary
central London residence of today's monarchy what have we got here a Ramen bar the internet
loves the way I pronounce that ramen OK Shoryu Ramen they've got quite a few restaurants
here actually one on in Kingly court just off Carnaby Street where we were check out
videos about that on my channel yeah check out this little street food market OK by the
looks of things most of those stalls are from restaurants there is a street here just off
Regent Street called Heddon street I'll show you OK that is Heddon street and it it goes
around the corner there it is lined with restaurants and bars a little bit of a hidden gem really
because people just walk straight straight past it but if you go around that corner loads
of restaurants and bars down there and most of these here look like they are names that
to me look familiar from restaurants and bars that are down there and outside Burberry here
we've got a seating area to enjoy your food there is actually there is actually a restaurant
in Burberry which I don't think a lot of people know about its quite good we've got some more
entertainment here it looks like a brass band of sorts pretty cool huh the street here Regent
Street here curves what do they call this I'am no architect a quadrangle the street
curves around here so you can pretty much get a straight run up there all the way up
to Oxford Circus her it curves around to Piccadilly Circus OK a lot of the shops and stores are
getting involved in the event so you've got like a little sort of mock beach party going
on here DJ and inflatables I think that might be the the end of the entertainment there
it looks like you've just got a few of the stores with pop up trucks and seating outside
which they are not normally allowed or they don't normally pay for put it that way yeah
that normally because people can't walk down the street normally would just get trampled
by the the enormous crowds of people that walk down I mean I would imagine tens of thousands
of people pile down here each and every hour of each and every day Kiehl's on wheels lets
head down to Piccadilly Circus the the illuminations are still covered up I'am not sure when they
are unveiling the the new screens yeah you can see the other side of the curve there
it looks like its going to rain up there OK so I'am back at the Piccadilly circus end
the streets open up here again to traffic I believe this runs for at least another week
maybe two a month of Sundays throughout July so come and check it out enjoy some of if
your coming shopping come and enjoy some of the the performances some of the street food
yeah welcome to Piccadilly Circus check out the that was and will be sometime illuminated
screens right now its just billboards Regent Street actually continues down there that
is Regent Street I think at the bottom its called I'am going to guess here Waterloo place
and then beyond that below the stairs is the Mall and if you head that way you get to Buckingham
Palace but the Prince Regent's palace was at the end there when this street was laid
out there was a palace there called Carlton house so the street effectively ran from what
was a palace around the corner and up to Regent's park he could't afford to build it in a straight
line too many wealthy land owners in the way OK I hope you enjoyed this quick look at London's
Carnaby Street Regent Street Summer streets its nice being able to walk along the street
without getting hit by a bus or the risk of getting hit by a bus taxis and cars yeah and
down to Piccadilly Circus so from Piccadilly circus until next time Toodles!