Churchill's Chair, Hats and Ancient Shops of St James - Splendid London Walks

[Music] Tallyho Jules guides here and I'm absolutely sweltering Tom have to make this brief jewel Scouts in which I wonder around London and tell you fascinating facts now I've already been around this area if you watch one of my other amazing videos about a hidden London gems quirky walking tour I come right down this features there's some James Street towards st. James's Palace but I've missed out a couple of things there so I just wanted to point out some of the amazing shops and stuff which are down here so let's go this direction well I mean you know I've already talked about Barry brothers and rod which opened up in 1698 a lot of the shops down here opened up in order to try and suck up to the palace I mean in 1698 palace Whitehall burnt down which is why some of these places popped up so I could try and be close to the palace and get royal patronage I suppose but also they've got lots of posh gentlemen's clubs down here as well yeah we've been in here this is the smallest square Pickering place let's quickly run down here quickly run down here Pickering place one of the only 17th cent at the east 1717 for 18th century little passageways left in this area [Music] we're doing that with we're doing a quick tool because I've already done it so can't let's go who is around this so it's around this I know but we've been here we've been here in my other video I don't don't want to repeat myself but they say it's the last place in London that a duel was fought a duel yeah I don't know who it was between and about anyway yes so let's quick this is a whistle-stop tour because I'm going on holiday on holiday I don't want to squeeze it a bit extra filming before I go away see this in the film Kingsman it's actually it's in Savile Row where they where they really base this on and of course locks matter the oldest family-run business in London for sure and in the back they've got a wonderful Museum where you can see all the hats made for Churchill for the Duke of Wellington Nelson and all sorts of stuff it's actually where this bowler hat was invented was here by Thomas and William bowler anyway there was this fellow he was a gamekeeper and he was getting a bit fed up with his hat getting knocked off when he was riding through the branches on his estates and I think he was wearing a top hat and it wasn't very appropriate for game keeping or hunting and so he came down here and said look could you make me something a little bit more appropriate and so Thomas and William bowler who were working here they came up with this hat which was like this it was a bit more like a helmet you know quite hard and and it protected his head from the branches or any falling debris and so that's how the bowler hats came about which then became known as a derby in America because I think it became quite a popular hat to wear and then on English Derby Day but God I'm really whizzing through this I know it's because like we've got an appointment to go and meet George Frakes at to the cigar shop this is an experiment actually because someone wrote in in the comments and told me to keep the camera rolling they just said just keep it rolling I prefer it when you do that you know and and so there's now anything in this one but this Sir John Lobb look my appointments His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince of Wales and they've got in here they've got all these lasts so a last is the it's these it's a little wooden thing that and they all these ones downstairs they've got hundreds of them they've got Princess Diana's one Frank Sinatra all sorts of famous people have had dumb shoes made here and actually they've got a little prototype of the Duke of Wellington's first-ever wellington boots but they say a little kind of thing they sent to him when he was on campus how about one of these anyway yeah okay I'll have a pair of those made and so they made her a gigantic gigantic bird oh by the way I must also say hello so Noah Gutierrez because he was the one who encouraged me to make film about the shop so I know hope you're doing they start from about 5,000 pounds walking round it now some change the smoky ghosts we saw a moment to forget you is in vain smoking ain't no crime smoke a cigar kind of like stream-of-consciousness video it will be a lot it will be a lot easier to edit that's for sure sorry well you should see that they went video about me riding a penny-farthing you should see he brought us up here in the pouring rain up this extremely busy streets and particularly serving it was good fun I was just those just terrified I look blue ball yard let's wander down here that's the problem with me whenever I do something like riding a horse or surf learning to surf or wearing a you know riding a penny-farthing they always give me a gigantic one so I've got to have a really big horse so it's for further for me to fall which I usually do this is a beautiful little Street here blue boy yard yeah because well they've got this is one apart from Pickering place which we just whizzed down this is one of the only other little Street which still survives from around the 17th century I mean look these little bits here these used to be stables and houses for the people presumably working at the palace anyway look we've got to go over the road to go and get some cigars from James Fox ever have blue balls too when a woman leaves a blind bulb and it's just been refused to have sex with him blue balls you can blue ball somebody yes when you need a blow Paul and then I know I don't have sex hello sir absolutely sweltering I'm boiling yeah not bad thanks to my sister Luise it's better if he's in the shop I approached the shop rather than just bump into him in the street how are you good good sir a month alone especially selected we have a special something licensed here as most of our business comes from selling the hand-rolled long Phyllis cigars you can smoke along Villa hand-rolled cigar indoors to sample it with you to possibly purchase more strictly speaking I should be taking off my hats indoors George has Berta sir it's part my branding so I'm sure that I love you how long's this been two hundred and thirty two years now this is where it is in DJ's customer here from 1900 to 1964 I've been smoking a pint for what 55 years hasn't she stunted my growth the cigarette I've got an Indonesian cigarettes that I have it's just something main out on the corner of Grosvenor Street and Bond Street lady used to sit in the window there I have the recipe for the offered and son that was the company and that was the blame Turkey Keynesian and Balkan robust two mixtures a lot of people know that those days are gone done if you're in New York go and see a company called georgopoulos it's it was yeah it was the one of the first place where someone played he wanted to stand out so he used a very large pipe just like this one here now this is a calabash that is good so it's actually a gourd grown in that shape specifically smokers I mean Tuesday of each month we have a pipe evening after stage that's an official ladies pipe maybe in front these are rural appointments of course George v and sit here as was Bertie I had with the city yeah that is indeed and our last real world is for the Queen Mother did you want a cigar to smoke in with some church for smoking sure yeah his favorite size was the size called Julieta number two and it's nowadays called Churchill colloquially it was named that in 1947 in this shot actually it's called the Churchill here history today yeah you know an old box with a picture of a cow on it and when you turn it upside down move yes that's your stereo that is he's lightning on the old guitar and he smokes a cool cigar relax and take your time [Music] it's a bonus nice to go you can smoke that at breakfast before breakfast anytime of day after sex yeah in the chair right there yeah no cannot reason with a tiger when your head is dead its mouth these are the oldest cigars in existence Cuban cigars these were on display at the Great Exhibition in 1851 these are pure gold tip cigarettes and these what a Scotsman this is quite funny telegram here from Churchill dear sir is confirming our telephone conversation so Instant Search will be much obliged if he would send a box of 25 cigars of good quality they're not quite as good as the Romeo and Juliet and of medium size to his grandson for his birthday well at the moment this here is 70,000 pounds but that's for a hundred and seventy cigars yeah but that's not the most expensive single cigar that's the most expensive single piece right the Davidoff Dom Perignon and that's the Churchill size seven inches per 478 sorry quite a good price nine hundred pounds a stick yeah go for it so what's all most expensive pie in the shop done it would that be a bit more that's probably about one no off grant you buy it if you want bought by the complete DVD come on Bo say like it also comes in something like this it comes in a passive cigar box she was in german street that elbow lee was killed you know elbow lee who did all those songs in the sing detective and kaiser heaven yeah time on my my woman miss Mina's she can be my woman she makes a fool of me never treats me good don't know why I should allow that that guy right he was actually South African but he he lived in Germany and he refused to leave during an air raid he said now they're never going to hit me and they're so so now I just I'll just stay in my house during the during the Blitz and theythey you just stayed in his house here in German street and there was a direct hit on his hip building and he died I don't know which one it was his actual house but I liked our boley's actually but good bouncy reason why you've got old Beau Brummel s that's your Beau Brummel it's because he was so famous for dressing well and all these shops around German Street and big city Arcada sort of gentleman's Outfitters and this is a beautiful barber's where you can come and get a shave and what-have-you look but up here in the big lead arcade which I've been to in before in my Mayfair video there is an excellent hat shop where one of two hat manufacturers in London we've had a workshop in London since 1600 and 79 and I quite like these ones you see these because it's higher in the crown well it's sad but true so because it's not a real hat how dare you indeed it's a hat as much as it goes on you know and I would suggest right now the Hat is dressed for 9:00 to 5:00 where rather than the evening and in this present days it would be brought down on the brim and curled more to create and more of a Cavalier look we said this will make it look slightly more like 18th century so we all will curve that and then usually we do that when you're here on the last fitting so that we can follow your cheekbone in your jaw so I know I was getting a bit old well we'll follow that line and your cheek lines so the heart would be worn so we'll bring that down and then follow the line so you get a flush line in the 14th century in order to bolster the wool industry in the UK it was made law that any man over the age of six you needed to her hat and if he didn't he would be fined almost a month's wages so this is called a traveler so it's a magic hat so you can pack it up in your suitcase just fold it together and then you just decide whether you want to be Homburg mode pinch the front you got roll be rounded off and turn it into a bit of Fred Astaire Momo so you also wear the hat in a different angle depending on what you want to tell the world at large about your your availability so wearing it straight technically is an to the office kind of job if you tilt it further forward over your brows so a little bit of a drawing angle so if it's down a via brow then technically you are letting the world at large know that you're not available so we make hats up for all the sort of movies like Downton or peaky blinders as you would know it nothing's like taboo does that mean that you made the hats for these film indeed it does whether it's a Bond movie or Indiana Jones they're all are kind of Doctor Who he'll be one of them well it's not a really a Stetson but actually um they're famous and we have people constantly asking to have an Indiana hunt so [Music] nice try Lao che can also give you the bullwhip that went with it we did we also made odd jobs huh you should keep you all this the only really cool stuff thank you sis name of this street Duke streets and James II you got the checkers pump here but just on the left of the checkers was this is it anyway and I like this alleyway I mean it doesn't smell of urine as much as most of the alleyways I tend to go down but it's quite nice isn't it it's the part that was really nice feel fine but just down here you see this place down at the end here that's where Jimi Hendrix first came to London in 1966 the foot he'd steps off the plane and he came and he performed here at the Scott ships and James carve it's called the little black dog the little black dog it's really cool that the Beatles had a table in the corner and the Rolling Stones had a table in the other corner they all used to hang out in here in the 1960s it's also where Jimi Hendrix met his girlfriend dancing in the street I don't think that Mick Jagger would be able to get through the door because he's got his arms it's him oh no that's why he's got his shoulders in oh that's why dances like that actually Mick Jagger would be able to get through the door to see if it'd go through like that [Music] this puppy's called the Red Lion and there's a lot of Red Lion pumps in London the reason why is low the Red Line pubs in London is because during the reign of King James the first who was King James the sixth of Scotland I think he had the Red Lion as part of his heraldic crest you know his coat of arms so when he came to London he demanded that the Red Lion be displayed on all public buildings of importance one of them was of course taverns like this one which they say has the second oldest pub license in London no one knows who has the oldest one anyway thanks watching my videos hope you enjoy them and don't forget to hit subscribe button if you want to find out more about me just head over to my website Jules guys calm and live donation or but before a 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Channel: Joolz Guides - London History Walks - Travel Films

Views: 386,441

Keywords: London, tourism, travel guides, julian mcdonnell, joolz guides, hidden London, Churchill, churchill's chair, lock and co hatters, st james palace, Splendid London tour, Ancient shops london, scotch of st james, Typically English shops, london history, london walking tour westminster, st james walking tour, hidden gems walking tour of Westminster, Indiana Jones Hat Maker, jermyn street london, jermyn street arcade, piccadilly arcade, posh london shops, Fun london tours

Id: M1wZhGiX7WI

Length: 20min 11sec (1211 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 15 2019