Thanks for your vids, they made me very nostalgic. I grew up in Bethnal Green in the 50's-60's and all my family lived there too. I spent my childhood playing on the bomb sites and running around in gangs of kids having a ball. Everything is so different now, I was back there recently and couldn't believe how Brick Lane has changed and the whole area too. But then, everyone we knew moved out years ago so it was bound to happen.
Thanks for taking me down memory Lane. Good to see how things were. A great photo of Harold Wilson at Stepney Green School. I believe it was one of a very few technical colleges he opened.
The heart was ripped out of the east end by architects and town planers and the demolition of great classic buildings and replacing them with soulless glass towers and destroying thriving street markets and building sterile shopping centres where people walk around like zombies. 🧟♂️
I came from Poplar, I had a gran who lived in Laindon, we’d go every couple of weeks, dad would have to dig a cesspit (toilet) like a holiday for us kids
No black faces, we never worried about " Dirty old men" we just ran away from them, never cared about money then, if you didn't have any you could always do a few errands. The six weeks holiday was always scorching every day, over Wanstead Flats with a bit of rope and swing from the trees with your mates, Whipps Cross Lido with my big brother or the skating rink in Forest Gate. Bunking in at the pictures on a Saturday morning. My sister gave away my dads best over coat for a Gold fish !!!!! Bread an Dripping for tea, playing knock down ginger and Run outs or British Bull dog. My dads chickens would escape and we had to go and get them back. Boys Brigade on a Sunday morning, Mum and Dad in the pub while we sat outside with a lemonade and Arrowroot biscuit. Pie Mash, and Liquor, a "Run out" to Southend or Leigh on sea in dads old A35 (would aways break down on Bread and Cheese hill) While mum sat there knitting. Happy Happy Days !!
You just describe my childhood, I’m from Leytonstone, Wanstead flats and the travelling funfair , the lido at whips cross hollow ponds , going to Leigh on sea on Sunday to get cockle’s from the cockle sheds , and standing outside the pub with a bottle of lemonade and a bag of smith’s crisps
@@richbutler718 we had bugger all as kids in those days but the most exciting happy and fun time growing up, I feel sorry for kids nowadays who have forgotten how to have fun.
@@richbutler718 I lived near Cathall baths, would go to Saturday morning pictures through Bearmans and collect parts from Leytonstone motors and rivets for my dad.
Hello, I often went to the swimming baths in Cathall road , I remember the names of the two pools there were called the major and minor , the major pool was the modern pool , and if it was full we had to go into the minor pool , it was really old fashion , looked really old with old tiles , always had a walk around in bearmans, and I also went to the Saturday morning pictures, in the Rialto down the long side entrance next to bearmans , used to love going into Woolworths on the corner opposite the church , with my mates, and usually got thrown out by the manager, yes and Leytonstone motors I know was a Mecca for getting car parts , by people from all over London , because it was open more than any other places, even on Sundays. I went to Poppy Day at the Harrow Green memorial every year with my dad and brother, we used to love going into Mc Neil’s sport shop at Harrow Green to get our fishings licence every year , and pellets for our air rifles , which my dad took away from use , because my brother shot a pellet and smashed the kitchen window , of the house behind where we lived , I even remember the old bloke coming round to see my dad , he was a nice old man , he didn’t really complain much about , and was always talking to us lads , but we didn’t get pocket money for weeks , my dad used to drink in a pub called the Colegrave Arms in Cann Hall road(long gone now, so is my dad R.I.P.) did you know it ? I also went to Cann Hall road Junior school , later I went to George Mitchell boys school, and walked every day down Cathall road then Francis road to Leyton high road, at that time, both my sets of grandparents lived in St Mary’s road off of Francis road, I maybe past you in the street somewhere! Oh until I bore you to death did you ever go into the pie and mash shop , opposite the Cowley Arms pub ? I still think it was the best pie and mash ever , my mum sometimes sent us there to get take away pie and mash , the mash wash put in waxed cardboard milk cartons , so was the liquor, it was brilliant
An amazing journey down memory lane, thank you
Thanks for your vids, they made me very nostalgic. I grew up in Bethnal Green in the 50's-60's and all my family lived there too. I spent my childhood playing on the bomb sites and running around in gangs of kids having a ball. Everything is so different now, I was back there recently and couldn't believe how Brick Lane has changed and the whole area too. But then, everyone we knew moved out years ago so it was bound to happen.
Thanks for taking me down memory Lane. Good to see how things were. A great photo of Harold Wilson at Stepney Green School. I believe it was one of a very few technical colleges he opened.
The heart was ripped out of the east end by architects and town planers and the demolition of great classic buildings and replacing them with soulless glass towers and destroying thriving street markets and building sterile shopping centres where people walk around like zombies. 🧟♂️
Would you believe it Sophia Loren getting a bowl of eels.
Hi, keep it up good memories of a lost time ,we may be old but they will live forever ,Big Thanks, All the Best Brian 🤗
Not a Hijab or Burka to be seen...
I came from Poplar, I had a gran who lived in Laindon, we’d go every couple of weeks, dad would have to dig a cesspit (toilet) like a holiday for us kids
RIP EAST END X
And that really says it all Tom 😢 Whatever it was its now gone for ever and is now a stinking smelly shi#hole 😠
If you have tears to shed , prepare to shed them now .
No black faces, we never worried about " Dirty old men" we just ran away from them, never cared about money then, if you didn't have any you could always do a few errands. The six weeks holiday was always scorching every day, over Wanstead Flats with a bit of rope and swing from the trees with your mates, Whipps Cross Lido with my big brother or the skating rink in Forest Gate. Bunking in at the pictures on a Saturday morning. My sister gave away my dads best over coat for a Gold fish !!!!! Bread an Dripping for tea, playing knock down ginger and Run outs or British Bull dog. My dads chickens would escape and we had to go and get them back. Boys Brigade on a Sunday morning, Mum and Dad in the pub while we sat outside with a lemonade and Arrowroot biscuit. Pie Mash, and Liquor, a "Run out" to Southend or Leigh on sea in dads old A35 (would aways break down on Bread and Cheese hill) While mum sat there knitting. Happy Happy Days !!
You just describe my childhood, I’m from Leytonstone, Wanstead flats and the travelling funfair , the lido at whips cross hollow ponds , going to Leigh on sea on Sunday to get cockle’s from the cockle sheds , and standing outside the pub with a bottle of lemonade and a bag of smith’s crisps
@@richbutler718 we had bugger all as kids in those days but the most exciting happy and fun time growing up, I feel sorry for kids nowadays who have forgotten how to have fun.
@@richbutler718 I lived near Cathall baths, would go to Saturday morning pictures through Bearmans and collect parts from Leytonstone motors and rivets for my dad.
Hello, I often went to the swimming baths in Cathall road , I remember the names of the two pools there were called the major and minor , the major pool was the modern pool , and if it was full we had to go into the minor pool , it was really old fashion , looked really old with old tiles , always had a walk around in bearmans, and I also went to the Saturday morning pictures, in the Rialto down the long side entrance next to bearmans , used to love going into Woolworths on the corner opposite the church , with my mates, and usually got thrown out by the manager, yes and Leytonstone motors I know was a Mecca for getting car parts , by people from all over London , because it was open more than any other places, even on Sundays. I went to Poppy Day at the Harrow Green memorial every year with my dad and brother, we used to love going into Mc Neil’s sport shop at Harrow Green to get our fishings licence every year ,
and pellets for our air rifles , which my dad took away from use , because my brother shot a pellet and smashed the kitchen window , of the house behind where we lived , I even remember the old bloke coming round to see my dad , he was a nice old man , he didn’t really complain much about , and was always talking to us lads , but we didn’t get pocket money for weeks , my dad used to drink in a pub called the Colegrave Arms in Cann Hall road(long gone now, so is my dad R.I.P.) did you know it ? I also went to Cann Hall road Junior school , later I went to George Mitchell boys school, and walked every day down Cathall road then Francis road to Leyton high road, at that time, both my sets of grandparents lived in St Mary’s road off of Francis road, I maybe past you in the street somewhere!
Oh until I bore you to death did you ever go into the pie and mash shop , opposite the Cowley Arms pub ?
I still think it was the best pie and mash ever , my mum sometimes sent us there to get take away pie and mash , the mash wash put in waxed cardboard milk cartons , so was the liquor, it was brilliant
0.07 that was Farther Joseth Willamson my Great Great Uncle
my days when everything was fun. 1945 was a very good year.
Just us just all us Eastenders!! I miss the simple days surrounded by my people!! Never forget what the tra8tors have done!!! 🏴