WAYS TO SUPPORT CHANNEL/THANK ME One-off Tip - ko-fi.com/watchedwalker Monthly Pledge - patreon.com/watchedwalker Buy Merch - watchedwalker.creator-spring.com SEE VIDEO DESCRIPTION FOR CAMERA USED SIGHTS SEEN WITHIN THIS VIDEO 00:20 - NikeTown London - housing the largest sports clothing and footwear department in Europe 02:27 - Beauty Club London - home of pre-drinks and pampering and London’s best hair and beauty salon for 2022 03:12 - EL&N London - airy-chic cafe in pink-coloured surrounds 06:31 - Fo Guang Shan London Temple - located in a former parish school and Church House of 1868-70 07:15 - All Saints Church - iconic brick-built High Victorian Gothic building completed in 1859, designed by William Butterfield 07:46 - All Saints House - community centre 09:03 - The Cartoon Museum - tracing the development of British cartooning from the early 18th century to the present day 12:52 - Sanderson London Hotel - 5-star hotel in landmark 1950s building 14:31 - The Blue Posts - pub 15:19 - Rathbone Square - mixed-use development including the UK headquarters of Facebook, built on the Royal Mail’s former sorting office site, bought for £120m in 2011 16:54 - Bricklayers Arms - pub 17:31 - The Wheatsheaf - pub 19:18 - Where The Pancakes Are - modern eatery serving sweet & savoury pancakes 19:42 - Charlotte Street Hotel - 5-star hotel 19:48 - Fitzroy Tavern - old Victorian pub, historically popular with now famous artists and writers such as George Orwell - named after the Fitzroy family, who owned much of the land on which Fitzrovia was built 23:11 - Fitzrovia local mural - dating back to 1980 22:35 - BT Tower - grade II listed communications tower, the main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) high 24:49 - Mixed-use development - formerly Cleveland Street Workhouse - built between 1775 and 1778, most likely inspiration for the workhouse portrayed in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 25:01 - The King & Queen - pub in red brick Edwardian building with a witch’s hat corner tower 26:41 - St Charles Borromeo Church, Westminster - built in 1862/3, the outside in Gothic Revival style 27:36 - University of Westminster Cavendish Campus 28:24 - The Ship - 18th-century pub/restaurant with nautical memorabilia 30:21 - Attendant - coffee & brunch cafe, formerly a Victorian mens toilet, lovingly transformed after laying dormant for more than fifty years 31:13 - Langham Court Hotel - 4-star hotel, built in 1901 as a nurses’ home 32:11 - Yorkshire Grey - traditional Victorian pub and former haunt of Ezra Pound 33:03 - University of Westminster Little Titchfield Street 33:37 - Kings Arms - pub, dates from 1759 and was rebuilt a century later at a cost of £1,994 by W Finch Hill, the British theatre and music hall architect 35:59 - University of Westminster Wells Street Campus 38:32 - The London EDITION - 5-star hotel, formerly known as the Berners Hotel, built in 1908-10, designed by John Slater, surveyor to the Berners Estate 44:24 - Centre Point - 34-storey tower constructed from 1963 to 1966, in 2015 it was converted from office space to luxury flats :)
Hi there, Thanks for doing this walk, this area as close to Oxford Street as all those familiar sounding streets in Soho, yet how many Londoners know there way around them I wonder. This is a great area to walk around. I love the way the area has evolved naturally, it doesn’t feel contrived in any way. The former Victorian mens toilet in Foley Street is an absolute gem.
@@WatchedWalker loved this walk as we come down from Glasgow every year & stay with my cousin who lives in one of the Fitzroy Mews off Cleveland Street, We visit the Wheatsheaf pub you walked by every year we're down. If you walk this area again please pop into Fitzroy mews & the mews around Warren Street & Euston road please 🤞👍😊
I used to wander around in the Fitzrovia neighborhood, I have so many memories from here. I love this area, it was a nice experience to have some nostalgia from the UK. It's fascinating, how creative they went with the brick art on the old buildings. I hope this summer or around autumn I will visit London again. Thanks for sharing and have an awesome weekend! 🙂
Effectivement, Fitzrovia est à découvrir. Je ne connaissais même pas le nom de ce quartier de Londres. Il est très diversifié et possède beaucoup de lieux remarquables. Merci pour cette belle promenade.
Once again a great walk for me bringing back memories of my early years as milkman when I would spend Saturday mornings knocking on doors for my money along Hanson street and Gosfield street nd my cistomers
Absorbing stroll, pubs and hotels with history are particularly interesting - thanks for the added info, it adds so much to the enjoyment of this neighborhood- I’m a George Orwell fan, ha!! 🥰✌🏼
Thank you so much for this video. I'd asked previously if you could do a Fitzrovia walk as I used to live at the top end of Great Titchfield St. As always, it made me homesick but in a nice way!
Ah, the Marquis of Granby, great boozer 😏 And I once stayed in the Rathbone Hotel the night before my Archaeology exam, in the days when I had more freedom to roam around the City. Great memories. Been in the Bricklayer's Arms too! Couldn't do what you do, I'd end up on a pub crawl. 😂
BroadSword 66, in Central London rubbish is left out like that to be collected as there aren't communal bins on each street like some cities might have, it's not usually out there for long.
Badshah, you're assuming everyone wants commentary. I provide closed-captions so those that want information have that option, but those that don't, can just enjoy the walk within distraction.
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SIGHTS SEEN WITHIN THIS VIDEO
00:20 - NikeTown London - housing the largest sports clothing and footwear department in Europe
02:27 - Beauty Club London - home of pre-drinks and pampering and London’s best hair and beauty salon for 2022
03:12 - EL&N London - airy-chic cafe in pink-coloured surrounds
06:31 - Fo Guang Shan London Temple - located in a former parish school and Church House of 1868-70
07:15 - All Saints Church - iconic brick-built High Victorian Gothic building completed in 1859, designed by William Butterfield
07:46 - All Saints House - community centre
09:03 - The Cartoon Museum - tracing the development of British cartooning from the early 18th century to the present day
12:52 - Sanderson London Hotel - 5-star hotel in landmark 1950s building
14:31 - The Blue Posts - pub
15:19 - Rathbone Square - mixed-use development including the UK headquarters of Facebook, built on the Royal Mail’s former sorting office site, bought for £120m in 2011
16:54 - Bricklayers Arms - pub
17:31 - The Wheatsheaf - pub
19:18 - Where The Pancakes Are - modern eatery serving sweet & savoury pancakes
19:42 - Charlotte Street Hotel - 5-star hotel
19:48 - Fitzroy Tavern - old Victorian pub, historically popular with now famous artists and writers such as George Orwell - named after the Fitzroy family, who owned much of the land on which Fitzrovia was built
23:11 - Fitzrovia local mural - dating back to 1980
22:35 - BT Tower - grade II listed communications tower, the main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) high
24:49 - Mixed-use development - formerly Cleveland Street Workhouse - built between 1775 and 1778, most likely inspiration for the workhouse portrayed in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
25:01 - The King & Queen - pub in red brick Edwardian building with a witch’s hat corner tower
26:41 - St Charles Borromeo Church, Westminster - built in 1862/3, the outside in Gothic Revival style
27:36 - University of Westminster Cavendish Campus
28:24 - The Ship - 18th-century pub/restaurant with nautical memorabilia
30:21 - Attendant - coffee & brunch cafe, formerly a Victorian mens toilet, lovingly transformed after laying dormant for more than fifty years
31:13 - Langham Court Hotel - 4-star hotel, built in 1901 as a nurses’ home
32:11 - Yorkshire Grey - traditional Victorian pub and former haunt of Ezra Pound
33:03 - University of Westminster Little Titchfield Street
33:37 - Kings Arms - pub, dates from 1759 and was rebuilt a century later at a cost of £1,994 by W Finch Hill, the British theatre and music hall architect
35:59 - University of Westminster Wells Street Campus
38:32 - The London EDITION - 5-star hotel, formerly known as the Berners Hotel, built in 1908-10, designed by John Slater, surveyor to the Berners Estate
44:24 - Centre Point - 34-storey tower constructed from 1963 to 1966, in 2015 it was converted from office space to luxury flats
:)
Fitzrovia is vastly underrated and under-appreciated…I love it! Stayed there in Oct. ‘19 for a few days and really liked the feel. Thanks for this!
I definitely like seeing the walks through neighbourhoods that we don’t get to see too often- thank you!
I highly recommend anyone watching this to turn on cc, very informative!
London is SO beautiful, yet chaotic at the same time. Once some old lady hit me with an umbrella saying I stink.
😂
Hi there, Thanks for doing this walk, this area as close to Oxford Street as all those familiar sounding streets in Soho, yet how many Londoners know there way around them I wonder. This is a great area to walk around. I love the way the area has evolved naturally, it doesn’t feel contrived in any way. The former Victorian mens toilet in Foley Street is an absolute gem.
You're welcome John, it made a change from Soho 😀
I think it's been three years since I last visited this street and I still look back with great anticipation
Me! Lived in Fitzrovia for the last 16 years. The cafe/toilet still going
@@Janeoffools That was a long time ago
@@lsabella2783 I mean it’s still a cafe not public toilets 😂
Oh man I lived in Fitzrovia for years! I was hoping we'd go through Nassau street but we missed it!!! You have to go back :D
W&A, yes, perhaps next time 😀
@@WatchedWalker loved this walk as we come down from Glasgow every year & stay with my cousin who lives in one of the Fitzroy Mews off Cleveland Street, We visit the Wheatsheaf pub you walked by every year we're down. If you walk this area again please pop into Fitzroy mews & the mews around Warren Street & Euston road please 🤞👍😊
@@WatchedWalker And Carburton Street please! 😊
@@peterboyle6555 hi hello friend how are you
What a lovely day! A great time to walk around
and explore the City. An interesting and
enjoyable walk in the City.
From Jakarta City
I used to wander around in the Fitzrovia neighborhood, I have so many memories from here. I love this area, it was a nice experience to have some nostalgia from the UK. It's fascinating, how creative they went with the brick art on the old buildings. I hope this summer or around autumn I will visit London again. Thanks for sharing and have an awesome weekend! 🙂
CinematicXplorer, glad you enjoyed it, all the best!
Hello friend how are you were are you from
What an incredible mix of architecture, love the paint colours on shops and pubs at street level, I just love London. Thanks for sharing this walk.
My pleasure Steve, glad you enjoyed it 😀
Fabulous walk WW, thoroughly enjoyed that!!! 👌👍👏👏👏🏴🇬🇧
Thanks Adam, glad you enjoyed it!
A very illustrative walk of London. Thanks
Great walk tour around Fitzrovia. Beautiful London. Tnx 4sharing👍🏻
It's an amazing video.
Thank you for sharing the video. My friend.
Effectivement, Fitzrovia est à découvrir. Je ne connaissais même pas le nom de ce quartier de Londres. Il est très diversifié et possède beaucoup de lieux remarquables. Merci pour cette belle promenade.
Another fantastic walk :) The sun was glorious! I'd love to have that terrace at 42:45... wow. Thanks for this! Cheers from a Sahara dusted Lisbon :)
Thanks ZW, I hope you survived the Sahara dust!
@@WatchedWalker Ah ah I did, thanks!!! :)
Once again a great walk for me bringing back memories of my early years as milkman when I would spend Saturday mornings knocking on doors for my money along Hanson street and Gosfield street nd my cistomers
Sorry Customers we’re lovely families living in very humble dwellings in the 1970’s thanks Mike
Awesome walking tour. Gorgeous buildings architectures in London. Thanks for the walk. Greetings from Italy :)
Another great walk and I found at least one of the logos. It was challenging.
Thanks J L, and well done finding a logo 😀
Great video again 🤩👍🤩
Thanks for a great walk!
Love the Narnia lamp in the middle of the laneway.
Indeed Fritzovia is a lovely neighborhood
Thank you for such an interesting walk in Fitzrovia. So many architectural gems. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it Margaret 😀
⭕️ Nice walking tour 😍😍 Nice colors and sounds 👍👍
Fitzrovia is a great area of London to explore! Thanks for sharing!
lovely day, lovely walk...thank you so much!
Absorbing stroll, pubs and hotels with history are particularly interesting - thanks for the added info, it adds so much to the enjoyment of this neighborhood- I’m a George Orwell fan, ha!! 🥰✌🏼
Thanks LL, and I'm glad you enjoyed the closed-captions, which take quite a while to do.
Thank you.
Great video again fella
Wonderful tour.. great atmosphere
Beautiful
Thank you so much for this video. I'd asked previously if you could do a Fitzrovia walk as I used to live at the top end of Great Titchfield St. As always, it made me homesick but in a nice way!
I never seen alleys so clean!!! Ours were graveled, dingy and filthy.
Beautiful video 👌 📹 ❤ 💖 ♥
George Orwell. Wow. He walked those streets.
Good old Cleveland Street. Home of the Royal Air Force's Central Medical Establishment; always worth visiting for a sneaky day out in London!
Ah, the Marquis of Granby, great boozer 😏 And I once stayed in the Rathbone Hotel the night before my Archaeology exam, in the days when I had more freedom to roam around the City. Great memories. Been in the Bricklayer's Arms too! Couldn't do what you do, I'd end up on a pub crawl. 😂
Hello from Italy.I support you my friend 👍+🔔🔔
Hi hello friend how are you were areyou from
I want to come in italy if your italian citizen then kindly help i am poor
Very good tour
Thanks Azam
Buen Dìa , Muchos saludos les envio.
Thanks Edgar, all the best to you too 😀
Lovely curved laneways off Oxrord St.
Charles Dickens workhouse - bless them.
Love the brutalist architecture of the University of Westminster.
👍
I would like to see the shabby hoods of London if possible!
The contrast between the very expensive cars and the piles of rubbish dumped by the roadside! How come there's so much loose garbage?
BroadSword 66, in Central London rubbish is left out like that to be collected as there aren't communal bins on each street like some cities might have, it's not usually out there for long.
It still seems to be a ghost town. Was this taken on a Sunday morning?
William, no it was a weekday, this part of Central London is always a lot quieter than the West End etc.
Queen Charlotte Hotel. A future prediction?
Never heard of Fitzrovia in London, why this name? Have a nice day in London.
The closed-captions explain the name 😀
@@WatchedWalker Thank you, sometimes I don’t use closed-captions !
Hi were are you from
Just sub to your channel
Thanks Michael, welcome aboard!
dear walker ,why not commentary ....?
Badshah, you're assuming everyone wants commentary. I provide closed-captions so those that want information have that option, but those that don't, can just enjoy the walk within distraction.
I don't think Fitzrovia was overlooked lol