My Grandmother fought Tower Hamlets council to the bitter end and was the absolute last flat to be brutally cleared out in Levefre Walk under a well under market value compulsory purchase order. My family can be traced back in around this area nearly 300 years and they cleared us out! They took our homes then our business and despite being promised that the community could move back nearly every single new home was made a housing association or council flat and rehoused people with ZERO connection to the area or even the country. East London previously thrived on previous migration but this was something VERY different. It was mass with zero integration. My Grandfather had a heart attack with the stress and 7 years of fighting the council leaving my Nan surrounded by builders and bulldozers in her garden. It finished the community and Roman Road market has never been the same. Good luck to any rare East Ender's who managed to claw on. I'm sorry I wasn't old enough to help and understand the great importance to my Grandparents.I didn't realise they were fighting for my future.
Yep, currently the exact same thing being rolled out in Islington to get rid of the very last 4 or 6 thousand families that managed to survive the many attempts to wipe them out of the flats. There’s a block of social housing in Dartmouth Park that was earmarked for families that desperately need it. But it was decided that it should go ENTIRELY to Afghans. 50 flats, it’s just grotesque what they are doing to people that have been in this island (or Ireland) for hundreds of years.
It's happening throughout the UK, my city has been heavily cultured in the past 5 years, there's very little 'community' left. All the working man's clubs are gone, the pubs became flats, the clubs are reduced to 2, the student union bar was pulled down and replaced with a fitness centre, world famous bands had played there, all the history gone for good. The high street is a dump, derelict buildings and pop up shops. Priority construction is only given for international student accommodation. The Muslim community has exploded, several mosques have quickly sprung up, the Indian community has grown so big the local multi screen cinema show at least 2 hindi movies every night, the local playgrounds and junior schools are predominantly immigrant offspring. Apart from and endless amount of barbers, takeaways and Asian mini marts there has been absolutely no multicultural wonders and miracles. If you speak up and complain you're criminalised. So what becomes of my culture? Where do I fit in? What will become of my heritage ? It is forced upon us without our consent, we are vilified if we complain yet they expect us to fight for this country if those idiots drag us into war but exactly would we be fighting for? There's no sense of belonging anymore and without that there's is nothing to fight for.
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I used to go to Farina's cafe as a kid, he was a friend of my dad's. The Volunteer Pub right next door was another big part of my life. A few premises along was The Beehive and then the pub that's featured in this video, The British Oak. I still live in Islama Hamlets and the whole area I spoke of above is now a no mans land that your lucky to survive whilst crossing the spaghetti junction of the Blackwall Tunnel. The East End is far from what it was. Cultral devastation.
The London docks largely closed in the 1970s, with the final closure of the major docks occurring in 1981. This marked the end of London’s role as a major cargo port. The decline of the docks began after World War II due to changes in shipping technology, particularly the introduction of containerization, which required larger ships and facilities that the London docks couldn’t accommodate.
Worth saying though that Tilbury and London Gateway are still part of the Port of London. London is definitely still a "major cargo port", it's just the docks got pushed further out, for the reasons you outline. Horrendous labour relations and outdated restrictive union practices also played a role in closing the old docks down.
Yep the start of the north and south divide. To give a bit of context, my mum and dad bought a brand new semi in north Manchester in 1980 it cost 8k!!!OK it's Manchester but it was in a decent area as well.
@@deanothemanc5281MUFC okay! Capital cities are always more expensive. Blame all the crooks.( Some call them Politicians, they think their team cares but they all sing the same songs)
My family is from this area, and yes 40 years on the Isle of Dogs has shops, restaurants, lots of housing but I can’t help but get angry at how little these people cared about human beings having their homes & livelihoods ripped away from them.
So, the less well off need to understand that change is good. I'm sure that would be a comfort to them when they're freezing in a box. All the redevelopment, 37 years later and nothing changes for the better _really_.
Makes me a bit sick to see people talking about the neighbourhood as just an 'investment' and then moving out with a smile on their face after local property prices have shot up.
History repeats itself. Nothing changes. The faces in power may change, but the behaviours and attitudes remain the same. Corruption is still rampant, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
I grew up here actually moved her in 1984 I was in docklands E.16 but in a council house. It was definitely one of the poorest places to live mixed with new expensive office/studio flats strange combo lol
They wanted a regeneration of the area and they got it. The problem is there will always be people unhappy. In other parts of London they regenerated the areas building new tower blocks on what was mostly obsolete abandoned war related sites. People were moved out of slums where whole families shared a room to new ultra modern tower blocks. Most were happy because the flats had hot water, heating, spacious rooms, a play area for children and a pub. There were very few unhappy people but those who were were very loud about it, most were just upset that they got a flat rather than a house. In the mid 20th century many eastenders moved to new towns in Essex for new houses and jobs. Some went to Australia for £10. Those who didn't leave were usually those who didn't want to move and so they stayed jobless and in less desirable conditions. Those who moved on were more prosperous.
That’s a very optimistic view of tower blocks. Yes people romanticize the older housing. But nobody really asked the residents what they wanted instead, and those blocks soon decayed even before the right to buy policy initiated by Thatcher turned remaining council estates into sink estates
It's absolutely terrible. Makes me feel so sad that these cavalier business people, who think nothing of uprooting people from their homes and businesses. I was born in 1983, and I think fondly of the late 80's, and early 90's, but reflecting on this now, I don't think the 80s were all it was cracked up to be. Very sad.
This happened to my family in Hull in the 1980's. My parents bought an 1890's house for £1000 in 1976. The council knocked thousands of homes down. Not many people owned their house though, round here at that time. Even though my parents got £4000 for it in 1983, it wouldn't buy one of the new houses that they built in the area, and any old houses were at risk of being pulled down as well, so there was little point in going in one of them. We were the last to move out of our street and spent some time there living in a 'ghost town' !
@@adrianparker-e9f That’s terrible. An 1890s house too. So probably a fairly solid building as well. Hope they managed to find somewhere else in the area.
Was that Del Boy with his Filofax walking in the background? The irony of this is that in Canary Wharf nearly everyone is working from home now making all these towers, cafe's, restaurants practically empty lol.
@@kevinlongman007 The financial sector is gradually abandoning Canary Wharf and moving its offices back into the traditional City. Look at all those new skyscrapers around Liverpool Street, with many more planned. This is where the big banks and accounting firms are heading for. They are moving to more modest sized office accommodation than their huge Canary Wharf office space, reflecting more hybrid working and a general drop in UK employee headcount. That does beg the question as to what will fill Canary Wharf in a few years' time. Will it remain primarily office space with the rents dropped to attract smaller and less prestigious companies? Or will it be redeveloped as more of a kind of leisure destination? Plenty of people scratching their heads about that at the moment including the Mayor.
Makes people homeless. Says he has no power to help them. Apart from not making them homeless in the first place that is. I hope karma really shat in that man's tea later in life.
the smug look on the faces of those who bought dwellings and sold them for double 2 years later.......question! where they in the know?????? who where they friends with????? who's money was used???? ....etc etc.
12:22 I bet ya neighbours weren’t bowled over by you blowing your oboe all evening - that thing would end up in the Thames if you moved next door to me 😂
Speculation was punishable by death at one time in one large country. Some countries resist the theory to this day.....but it seems corruption always takes over.
My Grandmother fought Tower Hamlets council to the bitter end and was the absolute last flat to be brutally cleared out in Levefre Walk under a well under market value compulsory purchase order. My family can be traced back in around this area nearly 300 years and they cleared us out! They took our homes then our business and despite being promised that the community could move back nearly every single new home was made a housing association or council flat and rehoused people with ZERO connection to the area or even the country. East London previously thrived on previous migration but this was something VERY different. It was mass with zero integration. My Grandfather had a heart attack with the stress and 7 years of fighting the council leaving my Nan surrounded by builders and bulldozers in her garden. It finished the community and Roman Road market has never been the same. Good luck to any rare East Ender's who managed to claw on. I'm sorry I wasn't old enough to help and understand the great importance to my Grandparents.I didn't realise they were fighting for my future.
Yep, currently the exact same thing being rolled out in Islington to get rid of the very last 4 or 6 thousand families that managed to survive the many attempts to wipe them out of the flats. There’s a block of social housing in Dartmouth Park that was earmarked for families that desperately need it. But it was decided that it should go ENTIRELY to Afghans. 50 flats, it’s just grotesque what they are doing to people that have been in this island (or Ireland) for hundreds of years.
I read a quote by Fred Dibnah
“Men in overalls built this country; and men in suits destroyed it."
It's happening throughout the UK, my city has been heavily cultured in the past 5 years, there's very little 'community' left. All the working man's clubs are gone, the pubs became flats, the clubs are reduced to 2, the student union bar was pulled down and replaced with a fitness centre, world famous bands had played there, all the history gone for good. The high street is a dump, derelict buildings and pop up shops. Priority construction is only given for international student accommodation.
The Muslim community has exploded, several mosques have quickly sprung up, the Indian community has grown so big the local multi screen cinema show at least 2 hindi movies every night, the local playgrounds and junior schools are predominantly immigrant offspring.
Apart from and endless amount of barbers, takeaways and Asian mini marts there has been absolutely no multicultural wonders and miracles.
If you speak up and complain you're criminalised.
So what becomes of my culture? Where do I fit in? What will become of my heritage ? It is forced upon us without our consent, we are vilified if we complain yet they expect us to fight for this country if those idiots drag us into war but exactly would we be fighting for? There's no sense of belonging anymore and without that there's is nothing to fight for.
@missj.d9187
I'm so sorry.
It happens all over.
And there is only one solution to this thievery.
Very sad what they do to regular people.
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Things like this make my blood boil. NEVER TORY.
Thank you for uploading these videos
A very good historical and social document of its day that prophesied our times now .....
I used to go to Farina's cafe as a kid, he was a friend of my dad's.
The Volunteer Pub right next door was another big part of my life.
A few premises along was The Beehive and then the pub that's featured in this video, The British Oak.
I still live in Islama Hamlets and the whole area I spoke of above is now a no mans land that your lucky to survive whilst crossing the spaghetti junction of the Blackwall Tunnel.
The East End is far from what it was.
Cultral devastation.
I miss the docks, made some great places to explore, and excellent TV chase sequences.
The London docks largely closed in the 1970s, with the final closure of the major docks occurring in 1981.
This marked the end of London’s role as a major cargo port.
The decline of the docks began after World War II due to changes in shipping technology, particularly the introduction of containerization, which required larger ships and facilities that the London docks couldn’t accommodate.
Worth saying though that Tilbury and London Gateway are still part of the Port of London. London is definitely still a "major cargo port", it's just the docks got pushed further out, for the reasons you outline. Horrendous labour relations and outdated restrictive union practices also played a role in closing the old docks down.
There was no investment in the industry.
Stole from the poor and gave to the well heeled.
Thatcher then Boris
@@minixtvbox Horrendous
greed his good do care about little poeple
@@minixtvboxtotally agree, both of them robbed the poor to hand to the people that didn’t need it
Can’t believe how expensive those new houses were.
£200k in 1987 was an absolute fortune - like winning the pools.
Yep the start of the north and south divide. To give a bit of context, my mum and dad bought a brand new semi in north Manchester in 1980 it cost 8k!!!OK it's Manchester but it was in a decent area as well.
@@deanothemanc5281MUFC okay! Capital cities are always more expensive. Blame all the crooks.( Some call them Politicians, they think their team cares but they all sing the same songs)
@FrancoisDufook always united even though we're a joke at the minute 🙄 lol!!!
@@deanothemanc5281 Sounds about right. Think mine paid about 12 for a little new build rabbit hutch in the NW. 200k was unheard of in those days!
It was 1987, but even in 1987 the average house was about £40k.
£200k then would be like stumping up £1.25m now.
My family is from this area, and yes 40 years on the Isle of Dogs has shops, restaurants, lots of housing but I can’t help but get angry at how little these people cared about human beings having their homes & livelihoods ripped away from them.
Thatchers was a curse for the working and poor.
So, the less well off need to understand that change is good. I'm sure that would be a comfort to them when they're freezing in a box. All the redevelopment, 37 years later and nothing changes for the better _really_.
Makes me a bit sick to see people talking about the neighbourhood as just an 'investment' and then moving out with a smile on their face after local property prices have shot up.
History repeats itself. Nothing changes. The faces in power may change, but the behaviours and attitudes remain the same. Corruption is still rampant, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Best theme 1987 version of world in action
I grew up here actually moved her in 1984 I was in docklands E.16 but in a council house. It was definitely one of the poorest places to live mixed with new expensive office/studio flats strange combo lol
Some very good examples of the worst sort of Tories here!
True
They all work towards the same targets. There is NO difference!
Nothing has changed just got worse and worse from past/present Globalist governments in Britain
And the finest eastend folk too, treated so badly.
They wanted a regeneration of the area and they got it. The problem is there will always be people unhappy. In other parts of London they regenerated the areas building new tower blocks on what was mostly obsolete abandoned war related sites. People were moved out of slums where whole families shared a room to new ultra modern tower blocks. Most were happy because the flats had hot water, heating, spacious rooms, a play area for children and a pub. There were very few unhappy people but those who were were very loud about it, most were just upset that they got a flat rather than a house.
In the mid 20th century many eastenders moved to new towns in Essex for new houses and jobs. Some went to Australia for £10. Those who didn't leave were usually those who didn't want to move and so they stayed jobless and in less desirable conditions. Those who moved on were more prosperous.
That’s a very optimistic view of tower blocks. Yes people romanticize the older housing. But nobody really asked the residents what they wanted instead, and those blocks soon decayed even before the right to buy policy initiated by Thatcher turned remaining council estates into sink estates
It's absolutely terrible. Makes me feel so sad that these cavalier business people, who think nothing of uprooting people from their homes and businesses. I was born in 1983, and I think fondly of the late 80's, and early 90's, but reflecting on this now, I don't think the 80s were all it was cracked up to be. Very sad.
Compulsory purchases with no legislation to enforce mandatory rehousing. Madness. Like something you'd expect from a third world failed state.
This happened to my family in Hull in the 1980's. My parents bought an 1890's house for £1000 in 1976. The council knocked thousands of homes down. Not many people owned their house though, round here at that time. Even though my parents got £4000 for it in 1983, it wouldn't buy one of the new houses that they built in the area, and any old houses were at risk of being pulled down as well, so there was little point in going in one of them. We were the last to move out of our street and spent some time there living in a 'ghost town' !
@@adrianparker-e9f That’s terrible. An 1890s house too. So probably a fairly solid building as well. Hope they managed to find somewhere else in the area.
Nothing changes sadly
in a word broken
Nothing has changed since the 80s, certainly but it was another world before then.
@@davidbull7210 view point greed from 1980s do care just little people local
I feel so disgusted with benefit of hindsight, that i can not even comment.
Really interesting. 40 years later.....was it all that is was cracked up to be?
And now ( autumn 2024 ) the towers of Canary Wharf are emptying ( some of the towers are only 60% occupied ) and the slow decline will begin again.
My god funny how that happens eh.
I wonder what become of the young couple julia and Robin and there 2 children
It was only a matter of time when the developers got schmoozing….
I was working at harbour exchange right next to the old london arena up until last year and how its changed, buildings/residentials still going up
Was that Del Boy with his Filofax walking in the background? The irony of this is that in Canary Wharf nearly everyone is working from home now making all these towers, cafe's, restaurants practically empty lol.
Yes but many of those companies in Canary Wharf are now ordering their staff to come back into the office as working from home no longer suits them.
@@kevinlongman007 The financial sector is gradually abandoning Canary Wharf and moving its offices back into the traditional City. Look at all those new skyscrapers around Liverpool Street, with many more planned. This is where the big banks and accounting firms are heading for. They are moving to more modest sized office accommodation than their huge Canary Wharf office space, reflecting more hybrid working and a general drop in UK employee headcount. That does beg the question as to what will fill Canary Wharf in a few years' time. Will it remain primarily office space with the rents dropped to attract smaller and less prestigious companies? Or will it be redeveloped as more of a kind of leisure destination? Plenty of people scratching their heads about that at the moment including the Mayor.
Stinking rich next to the piss poor, Palestine in the UK.
I didn't realise they were given such free reign with the redevelopment
Makes people homeless. Says he has no power to help them.
Apart from not making them homeless in the first place that is.
I hope karma really shat in that man's tea later in life.
DIVIDE AND CONQUER. If we are divided we should care less. So they force the division.
Alot Irish wrking in construction in London in the 1980s
the smug look on the faces of those who bought dwellings and sold them for double 2 years later.......question! where they in the know?????? who where they friends with????? who's money was used???? ....etc etc.
Good point ! I bet they're not even living together anymore or have passed away.
Lets talk about the earls
So it was basically for gentrification!!
12:22 I bet ya neighbours weren’t bowled over by you blowing your oboe all evening - that thing would end up in the Thames if you moved next door to me 😂
WHat's an 'On-trappen-ure'? :-p
Harold Shand was right.
Long Good Friday definitely sprang to my mind watching this too
Thatchers Britain
Speculation was punishable by death at one time in one large country.
Some countries resist the theory to this day.....but it seems corruption always takes over.
dock lands or docklunds
It’s a total shit hole now just moved away from there
Moving to Fulham in other words we cant stay around this area full off riff raff , its just not the done thing, there's no bidet 😂.
just prove they can steal it of you any time
A lot of money for what turned our to be AN ISLAMIC CESSPIT, wasn't it?
It's not Islamic, khunt.
There's a mosque in Canada Tower. Don't forget that dome on the O2 mosque centre too.
People like you would have been hating on the Jews when they arrived in the East End too.
@@WillScarlet1991you need an appointment with SPECSAVERS, KHUNT!
@@Dbdbe1Stupid comment from a stupid person