In this video Joolz discovers the history and businesses around Queens Park, Kensal Rise and Kensal Green, a leafy suburb of northwest London.
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Queens Park is a surburb which has existed since the 19th century before which is was mostly farmland.
Nowadays it is home to many celebrities like Dua Lipa and Jeremy Paxman. There is the wonderful cemetery containing the remains of many great Victorians like Brunel and Babbage and looks more like a film set that a graveyard!
Award-winning pies and Crystals with healing properties. See also where Queens Park Rangers Football Club was established and how a scarecrow built half of the houses in Queens Park!
With thanks to Irina Porter and the Willesden Local History Society.
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00:00 Introduction
00:47 Local background
01:46 Gladstoneβs Free School
03:11 Queens Park
07:10 Chamberlayne Road
07:50 Queens Park Estate
09:20 The Paradise
10:54 QPR
12:22 Oldest Houses in Brent
12:56 Mes Pies
15:33 Kensal Green Cemetery
20:13 Crystals
22:55 Metal Horse Trough
24:49 Wrentham Road Murder
25:44 OneOneSix Winebar
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As a london caddie I was a specialist bakery but no beard protecter net marsks making them pies you'll get an extra ingredientπ
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Really hoping your do this area, so pleased you have.
hi Joolz, i lived in queens park from 1978 to 1990. went to school there, grew up there, made life long friends there.
Lovely. You didn't give a mention to Tom Dixons water tower, which you cut to!
So, Michael Sheen is serving up pies and vino, now?
Careful not to get drunk on all those points you keep giving yourself
Fascinating look at an area just up the road from me, thank you!
So interesting thank you for showing Incredible to see brunels family grave. What an incredible engineer they both were.π
My home turf, although you turned off Chevening Road before you got to my place. On the Queens Park Estate, the north-south streets (most of them) have numerical names – First Avenue, Second Avenue etc. The east-west streets originally just had letters (A Street, B Street etc). However, it must have been decided that was a bit much so they were given names, but starting with the original letter. So, Ilbert Street, Kilravock Street, Lothrop Street, Marne Street etc. Also, I think you should award points for spotting eruv boundary wires. There's one crossing Chamberlayne Road just south of the Mortimer Road/Harvist Road crossroads.
Well I have the book took it back to London with me dure in the summer…I popped into Floris For my aftershave…Thanks to your fab book…Also I've pre book your pub guide….Anyway another fun packed edition…Tho the pie shop was a touch pricey…π
More bow ties!
It's a shame the Masons Arms on Harrow Road has closed.. I'm not much of a pub goer but it was a great meeting spot with an eclectic mix of people. I hope it's revived soon and not knocked down for housing like everywhere else in London.
That small stretch of Harrow Road is full of boundaries – in less than a mile between Willesden Junction station and the Kilburn Lane/Ladbroke Grove crossroad you can find yourself in the London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Westminster.
Also on Salusbury Road you missed the first house in NW London with electric lighting from the 1880s, just further up from the Library.
Love these blogs, canβt stand the male singer
Lived nearby in Kensal Rise in the mid-1970βs. Nice memories viewing this .
We will have to join you on a pub walk sometime looking forward to it π
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Those pies look AMAZING π€€π€€ Great to see Mr Stuart being recognised, his exploration of the middle of Australia on horseback is legendary π€©π€©
I liked the random shot of the old Volvo estate car, but then I've got one π The vertical triangle wall under a roof is a gable end
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I wish I could go to that cemetery and pull up all the weeds. It could be beautiful.
Just remembered the very underrated actress/singer Julie Covington was brought up in this area of London. Shame I don't or anyone I know could tell her about this lovely tribute to her part of "home".
Superlative presentation of an area I've grown quite familiar with over the past few years. Those workman's cottages on the Queens Park Estate are so substantial and beautiful The way you elucidate historical details is magnificent. Thank you, Joolz!
Have you done Holloway Road, Jules? I drove up there out of London a few months ago. Looked interesting.
I wonder if the people of 1897 would recognise their old churches converted into mosques π’
Joolz, you lost points on this one. You had the perfect opportunity to show the Damned album cover of Phantasmagoria. It was shot at Kensal Green Cemetery!
17:19 The grave of Thea Canonero Altieri, graced with the Rolls Royce Spirit of Ecstasy
This is INSANE! NO WAY! I stayed in Queens Park last month while in London. Can you imagine how thrilled I am? I was only a block away from the Queens Park station. AWESOME! I would have loved his last month. Thanks Joolz. One day I hope I see you and thank you for all these videos.
that customer in the pie shop didn`t look happy being in your video Jules ! πππ
Shame you couldn't get into the Holland & Holland factory. That WOULD have been fascinating.
Are you getting fat? You mustn't.
My legacy to Queen's Park is the CPZ around Queen's Park!
The area surrounding the park is in CPZ Zone KQ (Kilburn, Queen's Park), which is made up of all the roads that lie in between Chevening Road in the North, Salusbury Road in the East, Harvist Road in the South and Chamberlayne Road in the West. Except there is one – and only one – road where there is an exception!
In 1999, when the KQ CPZ went live, I was living in Winchester Avenue and was the local resident who coordinated with Brent Council on how and where to implement it. I knew that I certainly did not want any overspill from those pesky commuters, who would use Queen's Park Station to get into London, parking up all day long in Winchester Avenue! To overcome this, I strategically arranged for Winchester Avenue to be included in the KQ zone!
Still today, it much amuses me that Winchester Avenue continues to be the only road that lies to the east of Salusbury Road to be eligible to park up in the KQ Zone!
Oh, i see , that's where the greens live, on houses built on once ancient woodlands . Makes sense now.
Those victorians should have listened to " The Greens," and those victorians should never have built any houses on green spaces.
Nice to see hidden gems and learn more about my area. Thank you for this! ππΌ
It is never mentioned that Marigold Churchill is buried at Kensal Green. Winston was head of the Admiralty when Marigold died. She was buried at KP temporarily until his term ended and she could be exhumed and buried at the family plot in Bladon, Oxon. Unfortunately, KP does not allow exhumations so she is buried here far from her family. Jane, Phi;adelphia
0:37 havenβt we all!
Joolz: For pity sake, stop giggling. I might watch past 8 mins if you can get that right.
aw, I used to be the deputy manager at Kensal Green Cemetery. So many good memories.
Would you be a Queens Park Ranger, joolz?
Get a giant crystal, a bottle of wine and sit on a bench contemplating why u are now skint.
A bit of Penge would be nice β€
Surely the scarecrow is James Robertson Justice…….
Ex 57 Harvist rd here β€ itβs gone a bit posh now since the 90βs when it was proper party time
Another lovely part of London, Joolz. The architecture of the buildings in the area is great. Grand visits particularly to the cemetary, the wine outlet, the pie shop and crystal emporium. Many thanks for the showing.
I lived around that area for 6 years back in the 90s loved it