Was born in East Ham in 1956 , then family moved to manor park , my first house was in barking in 1978. I know everything changes but you could not pay me enough to live there now
I was born in the Eastend ( 29 Stonebridge House ) Shorditch London, and it was great, a couple of years ago i returned to see family and every thing i new was either gone or replaced with wine bars and cafes, we used to follow the old rag an bone man , play in streets till it was dark, also there was,nt one front door that was closed, but alas times have changed, locked doors, no playing in streets after dark sad so sad, but with this video i am able to go back in time to relive those wonderful days, and at 71yrs i need no more, thank you for this video you have made an old lady happy god bless you, Anna , Ireland
I lived in Mile end, Bow Common Lane, in the 1980s coming down from Nottingham to Uni...l was amazed to see people really called Del, old ladies singing at the piano in the local and a dog which seemed to be in charge of a corner shop at the top of Bow Common Lane! 😮
I was brought up in Garford House in Poplar right next to the docks we used to open our back windows and shout to each other happy New Year the noise was amazing everyone happy and cheering the boats would sound their horns the atmosphere was incredible then we would all rush to our Front doors and wish all the neighbours in the surrounding flats happy New Year at the tops of our voices they are lovely memories of growing up in the East End
Back in those days you would have been complaining about eastern Europeans that moved into the east end. My granny was from Bow and hated the Belgians. Bow got Belgians fleeing ww1 and for reasons I never worked out, she didn't like them. Liked everyone but wouldn't even discuss Belgians.
I loved this. I actually show my grand dad ..selling a china dinner set and clapped his hands when it was sold...i have shown my boys there Great Grand Dad "Pip's" couldn't have done that if it wasn't for this documentary. .BIG THANK YOU to those that made this xxx
But the film has people wandering around 50 years ago saying exactly the same thing. It's never been a place where things stayed the same. Nostalgia's a lovely human trait, but nostalgia ain't what it used to be :-)
@King Brilliant They're diversity barriers mate, don't forget "Islam is peace" "diversity is our greatest strength" and "free speech is hate speech". Kinda reminds me of a novel I once read....
@King Brilliant there was a literal war, people's houses getting bombed, half the city was piss poor. No crime!? London is one of the best cities in the world today. Stop trying to justify your thinly veiled racism
This film really captures the spirit of the Cockneys very well. I am American and have always had a fascination with the East End of London. I read a lot about Jack the Ripper, the Krays, the devastation of the German bombs in World War 2 and how the spirit and sense of pride that the tough Cockneys had helped them endure. I always wanted to visit London. I had little interest in seeing the traditional London touristy things like Buckingham Palace or Westminster Abbey. I wanted to see areas like Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Mile End etc. I was more interested in meeting East End people instead of seeing landmarks. Finally in 1986 I fulfilled my dream of visiting London. I've been told that it was around that time that the East Enders began moving out of their traditional neighborhoods. I feel a profound sadness watching this video knowing that the East End has changed forever. The white British people have been sold down the Thames by their traitorous government. They have been ethnically cleansed from the East End. Whether this statement is racist or Islamophobic I really do not care because it's the truth. To all you Cockneys that watched this video and grew up on the streets of East London and have fond memories of this place I feel for you. You may come back and cheer for your beloved West Ham but all you have is nostalgia.
jack young Sadly everything you have said is true Jack, sadly the people living in the East End have more money than we would have ever dreamt about years ago, But what we lacked as kids we gained as Cockney brothers and sisters with pride.
I was in Amhurst Rd too, back in the late 70s and early eighties. I loved London then and I still do but I cant live there now. Im in New Zealand. I cry when I look at the east end and London now. It has fallen.
@@patsyhodge9071think about how the Maoris feel in New Zealand. You guys completely changed the demographics of North America, The Carribean and Australasia, there's hardly any natives left there now.
I was raised in Dagenham, born in ‘64. The streets were safer than they are today. We’d play outside while both our parents worked full time. We were safe, no worries about being snatched. I feel very sorry for my grandkids who will never know what we had. My own children had it good too but i cry for my grandchildren
@Andrea = What general part of Dagenham are you from ? Whilst I never lived there, my entire life revolved around it, "Merry Fiddlers" "Five Elms", "The Matapan" & even "The Civic Centre" & "Wood Lane" etc "Martins Corner", "Parsloes Park", "Green Lane" "Valence Ave" etc, etc Used to go every year to the "Dagenham Town Show" - used to be great Am told by my mate Steve (who still lives near the Civic), that it stopped, sadly Also am same age as you, so, I remember it like you did & local tales. My Nan was putting out her washing & one of Hitler's German Bombers flew SO LOW over the Dagenham roof-tops that my 39 y/o Nan 'wet herself' in fright ( She was laughing when she told me, but I was horrified !!) Both the Pilot & Front Gunner looked at her & she stared back at them both Then she saw the Black Crosses on the wings & swastika on it's tail !!!! So sad the way that Dagenham HAS "gone downhill"
@@hawnyfox3411 that’s a great memory for you to know. I was brought up in Becontree Heath, i five minutes walk from our house in Albert Road. My brother who still lives there used to be a barman when it was owned by Alf and Sadie back in the early - mid 70’s. The Ship and Anchor was boarded up last time i was told. Merry Fiddlers pub is gone. I haven’t been up that way for quite a few years. I like to remember what it once was
@@andreamack7867 = Many thanks for your swift reply Andrea I know Becontree Heath like the back of my hand (!), really do. Both sets of my G/Parents lived there - Grafton Road & Valence Ave That Heinkel.111 incident took place there & Bonham Rd nr Valence Park. I worked for R.M & the RM.8 & RM.9 postcodes were my delivery areas. My Wife went to Robert Clack school which is very close to you (were) I know Whalebone Lane like the back of my hand too, too many reasons ! Selinas Lane was where I'd drive my Lorry (near you) to do collections. I remember the "Ship n' Anchor" Pub, there used to be a cinema nearby My Dad says he took me there to see "Tora, Tora, Tora" in the 1970's Just like the cinema in Green Lane, the one by the "Ship n Anchor" it shut Am told it was last used in 1970's, then it was bulldozed - sadly I'm from Chadwell Heath myself, but spent more time around Becontree during the 1960's,1970's,1980's & 1990's - Ending my association in 2004 As a kid, I was always either on an 86, 193, 62 or 25 Bus, but mainly the 86 I actually miss Becontree Heath the most from the 1960's, as, back then the houses were ALL owned by the G.L.C & were kept in smart order Each house had an immaculate lawn & well sorted roof-tiles. It all "went to $hit" in the 1990's once the "Right To Buy" kicked in Houses then were either run down, or, a bizarre mish-mash of colours Suddenly CARS replaced the lawns & yet more & more concrete !!!!! Is the Wood Lane Sport's centre still there, near you, opposite Central Pk ? I used to play "Five A Side" Football there, under floodlights !! It was near the Civic & basically next-door to Robert Clack school I swear to God, I really do pine after & miss the London I once knew It occupied the first 40+ years of my life, from Bow Bells Church & Cheapside & St.Paul's, via Stratford, Mile-End, Upton Park, Forest Gate I'd go back in a heartbeat & live thru it all again if I could
There’s no way I can bitch about my lot in life when I watch these historical docs. I’ve nothing but respect for those that survived the ravages of WWII-the city dwellers, as well as country folk. SO MANY had much more than their fair share of misery and trauma, .🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧
Great film that brought back a lot of memories, some good, some not so good. I grew up in poverty in Mile End in the 50s. I left when I was 18 to live in Islington but my parents lived in the East End all their lives . They eventually got rehoused in a GLC flat they liked when their slum dwelling was knocked down. I could never find decent housing in London and was appalled by what happened in Dockland. The rich just poured in to the housing developments in the old dock areas. The poor are powerless in the face of the onslaught by those who have money. I now live in New Zealand and miss the vibrancy of London, but I certainly don't miss living in a slum.
It's the same story in modern London. The once attainable housing in the outskirts of London are being gentrified by developments that disproportionately outstrip the affordability to the common Londoner. It's a sad state of affairs.
I love the docklands, can't afford to live there but love it. My dad use to take us for walks there many years ago - no money for bus fare just good old legwork from Bromley by Bow and back - memories!
I went with my dad 10 years back now to our family's old homes and life in the East End, it was all gone really - couldn't even find a proper begel (egg wash) - all the pubs were gone his school in Old Street gone - was very sad, and was the last time he walked around there dying a few years after...
Sorry to hear that Dan but he lived in a great time there,my friend. Same in South East London. The Pub we had Xmas dinner in is now The Camberwell Islamic Centre. My Mums Bingo Hall is The Moon Mission. My Boys Club: "Clubland" where Michael Caine went b4 me is a Nigerian Church and until recently THe Manor Place Baths which had a swimming pool.boxing/wrestling events/5 a side football and sports hall was a Buddhist Monastery...Progress innit ! Innit ?
@@Isleofskye Yes he did fella, and your mum and family by the sounds - progress they say - not sure that's the way to go - all that history and community gone - least we have the memories eh
when I got to London in the 1970's the east end was very different to today.All the docks were still working albeit slowly. I remember when they started to fill in the Rotherhithe docks and large areas were still bare land after being bombed especially along the Newham Way.Corrugated iron fences even across roads were common. I met an old lady who lived in Savile Road at Silver town.Her street backed on to the docks and she had lived here all her life. Although the THAMES was less than 100yds away she said she'd never been to the other side as everything was just down the road.What a lovely person. We had some great conversations.The east end then was certainly rough in places but it had a soul and a never say die attitude that definitely stuck with me.Though I lived in SW16 I drove trucks and spent a lot of time there. The old commercial road and the surrounding streets were alive then and I loved every minute.
I remember George's Cafe, just like going in to someone's front room! Later his son moved the Cafe over to Graving Dock area, but I see that too is now derelict.
At those docks I joined Shaw Saville Line in 1956 as a junior engineer and departed in 1970 from the same docks on a one-way trip to Sydney, I'm still here, seeing a still (24.46) of the Dominion Monarch on her berth brings back so many memories, one I'd like to replicate with pleasure would be downing a pint of Red Barrel at the Round House Pub just down the road abit!!! Happy Days them
The magic rat I’m the only cockney left in my neck of the woods and I’m off soon.... So sad that the world famous cockney of London will soon cease to be! 💔
@@davidnewman9244 We all moved out to Essex and watched our parents who were trapped there put up and shut up for years under successive governments that didn't give a damn and now the filth has it to themselves - pubs all shut and churches in disrepair - some dripping wet Liberals still think its cool, but it is a social tragedy people lost their histories and traditions forever!
I'm from North Wales so have no associations with The East End , but , it's the kind of place I'd of felt very much at home at (in those days) . Real people .
brings back memories of how brilliant the east end of LONDON was even if it was in poverty and also snow in 1963 i think it was.there was always something to do there.I was always playing football as well in the yard where I used to live on ROTHSCHILDS dwellings in FLOWER and DEAN st off of the famous BRICK LANE uptill 1970/1 and i was lucky enough to have gone with my dad back then on HAMBURY ST and into next door of 29 where a victim of the ripper was found.and where an old lady either in her 80s or or over lying in bed telling me she saw the ripper outside that night of the killing.
I’ve lived in Newham all of my life, born in 1990. I wish there was still even an ounce of our culture left in the east end. Growing up in the 90’s was the best time of my life.
It's in Barking, Havering, Essex and Kent now or perhaps you're not looking hard enough. Culture is a fluid thing and changes constantly. Always has, always will. The Londoners of 1890 were very likely to bemoaning their "loss of culture" too.
@@theblindfoldepVery few places and times have seen as much change as the east end in the past half century. An old lady born and raised there in eg. the 1930s/40s and still living there today will likely feel extremely culturally and socially isolated. Why are you keen to downplay that? Why must change - in any form and to any degree - be seen as an unmixed blessing?
Childhood memories of Clubrow and petticoat lane with my old dad, he took me to see the old docks where he worked just before it all got knocked down or should i say knocked daaaarn !!!
So many memories. I served as a young PC in docklands during the 1960s...patrolling :the streets of Limehouse, the Isle of Dogs and Poplar before the place changed to become a business and high cost residential area. By then I had been transferred on promotion to the West End - talk about chalk and cheese!!
What an amazing film. My mum was brought up in Matilda House, Wapping in 1936. She came from a family of dockers, and riverside chandlers alongside the Thames. and life was tough. My father's family came from Brick Lane, and were bookmakers. Mum still lives in the East End, and it has changed a lot, but she wouldn't move. The stories she recalls of a wonderful bygone era, are fascinating and priceless, and I'm so proud to be a part of that.
The Bow Bell was in Cheapside near St. Paul’s Cathedral which is on the WEST side of the City of London. Because it was so loud, it became the London curfew bell and that is why the sound of it is mentioned.
Saint Mary-le-Bow Church, still there, just up the road from the Bank of England and, as you mentioned, St Paul's is about a 5 minute walk further West.
My dear Dad went down the Lane every Sunday, never bought nothing just went to meet his mates before the boozers opened at 12. Fought for a tally for a days work down the docks, scrubbed out boilers on the ships - lowered on a cradle with a scraper in his hand and a handkerchief round his face, no wonder he suffered with a bad chest in later life. If you wanted to see somebody you knew where their family drunk and they knew where yours did. The old East End is gone and I dont like what has taken its place!
Loved watching this film lived just off porta bella road upto being 10yrs old remember the pie and mash shop on a thursday night tea we had a jug of liquor to go with it and the market always got treats off my good old gran.
"Wood and asbestos are the main ingredients used." When I used to walk from home to school in East Ham in the mid 60's there were still a few of these pre-fabs being lived in. There were also bomb shelters in the school playground. Those were the days.
The video is a mix or times right up to the 70's. It always makes me smile when younger people say it was hard times, poverty and we are so lucky now. They are not lucky now at all. Those older times were amazing and I wish we could get them back. Thank you for sharing the video. It brought back some happy memories for me. I moved away in the late 90's and hate going back. Its just totally ruined now
And that was said by Cleese - an English man living in the Caribbean. A man still thinking that his white provided allows him to be living like he's in a British colony that's still in the Empire. Oh the irony of an ignorant Brit living abroad - talking about immigrants in Britain! Dumb ignorant, blinkered pratt
Was London ever purely English? If you look at its history you'll see it was always where immigrants have lived. My family has lived in the East End since around 1820. Hugenots, Jews from Eastern Europe, Irish, Chinese, Bangladeshis. The migrants who arrive change the complexion of the place, but that makes the East End what it is, and it always will .
bleedin hell memories galore there... 1980s after leaving the bootnecks my old man said bugger off were doomed lad... so Australia it was. Dad was right but I miss my east end.
As an old eastender it is fascinating to go back to where you lived and grew up since before the war,yes I have seen it all ,and moved out to better pastures. Well done for the memories.
linda lunken yes....me too. But, it’s not our London anymore. It’s changed so much. I moved away years ago. But, you can take the girl out of London, you can’t take London out of the girl. I’m married to an Aussie, I live in Australia now......my cockney accent is still with me after 15 years lol!
What a wonderful film, so informative. My grandparents were from the Eastend. My grandfather worked for the railways, he was a Porter at one of the main stations. The porters who carried peoples luggage did not get a wage but relyed on tips. How he managed to bring his family up so well I will never know.
we lived through the hard times and the good times were good but short lived nobody on this earth can begin to bring back the good old days the end the cockney era
The Pub we had Xmas dinner in is now The Camberwell Islamic Centre. My Mums Bingo Hall is The Moon Mission. My Boys Club: "Clubland" where Michael Caine went b4 me is a Nigerian Church and until recently The Manor Place Baths which had a swimming pool.boxing/wrestling events/5 a side football and sports hall was a Buddhist Monastery...Progress innit ! Innit ?
I KNOW MANOR PLACE BATHS VERY WELL!...I USED TO BE IN AMATEUR BOXING BOUTS THERE BETWEEN 1968 to 1970 WHEN I WAS 12 TO 14 YEARS OLD AND I BELONGED TO THE LYNN BOXING CLUB JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM THERE...ALSO USED TO SWIM IN THE BATHS AS WELL... HAPPY DAYS!...THE AREA HAS CHANGED BEYOND RECOGNITION NOW ...ANYONE REMEMBER THE LYNN BOXING CLUB THEN?...ALSO ANYONE REMEMBER THE LYCEUM IN THE STRAND?...THE BEST DISCO IN TOWN CIRCA 1970-1075?...AH Those HAPPY DAYS!
@@johnsalvidge4131 Hello mate. I remember Fitzroy Lodge and Lynn though not a Boxer, myself. Lyceum? EXACTLY what you said. I was 18 years old in 1972 and used to queue up in Winter in Summer clothes but you had to wear a tie. Some joker got sent home and came back wearing a Tie and Trousers😀 My abiding memory was Billy Paul "Me and Mrs Jones". In 1983 I moved to this house 11 miles away in Bexley so where are you now,my friend,please?
Very interesting and entertaining. My grandmother's family were from north London, my grandfather's family from South Hackney, and my great-grandfather's from Whitechapel, just off Old Montague St. Great video, thank you!
My mum grew up in the East end...there is no east end as it was now. Every time I go to London, it has changed so much...the docklands looks better now that it has been developed, not like it was in the 60s, but there is so much violence, hatred...it isn't safe to walk alone even in the daytime. My Aunt and family still lives there, and I worry...
East end everyone new each other neighbours said hello they looked out for each other people their tough as old boots didn’t take any crap of anyone good on them men were men in them days
I learnt me way round the east end in me dad's lorry. One of the firms he worked for was Davis Bro's Haulage, better known as yiddle Davis. Five Jewish brothers owned it and could never be described as honest, upstanding citizens :-) Their yard was in Solebay Street at Mile End. Good education for when I was old enough to drive lorries. I'd learnt how to drive when I could see over the wheel, learnt me way around the docks and the rest of the country and most important, I'd learnt most of the fiddles. Like a lot of people have said, it's not the same place now. The Jews were harmless enough, but the rest of 'em, well....
My city of Liverpool escaped relatively unscathed I'm glad to say - some streets and neighbourhood went and just waste ground is all that's left of most of it. The seven miles of docks has all been demolished and just a container port is all that remains. Ships came from the Caribbean, NY and Africa now there's hardly any. It's now a maritime city full of tourists. But hey, times change and we're all better off than they were then but at the cost of communitues
@wagner1va But we as a populace, a generation, are a lot better off than older generations we're. Better work conditions, better pay, healthier (not many heavy smokers left), better housing, laptops, smart phones etc but sadly a lot of close communities gone plus docks, shipbuilding, steel industries, manufacturing etc all gone
Great video. Went back to London this past summer, so different now. Loved the London of the 70s. I've always loved the people of London still do. Born onand brought up in Wimbledon sw19
was beautiful back then. brits as one. now its everyman for himself. i dont mind a bit of multi but we do need to limit it to protect the british values culture and lifestyle as it was. Every country around the world would surely want to protect their identity and britain is no different
I was 10 years old on the Petticoat Lane Section My Late Grandpa The Man With Glasses and Balding Grey Hair with me in Front of Stal on the left wearing a dark anorak nodding my head Really Great to See This Tony Thank You So Much I live in Jersey GB and known widewide See What Can Happen! Stevie Ocean
That's it , when he said we used to play in the streets,. I used to age 3 plus in the 60s on a terraced house street in Leicester. A massive downfall for Britain was when kids stopped playin the street as may now don't. It gave freedom and imagination which kids now have lost by using computers etc. This leading to terrible social isolation and many other problems.
Me too Warren. Born in Bethnal Green 1961 and living there still. We were skint growing up as a lot of families were but as kids, we had a great time. As the gentleman in the film said, we were poor but didn't know we were poor because we were all in the same boat.
Thank you for posting this, although I was born in barking and never lived in the east end it still bought back a lot of memories some good some bad, just wondering what the hell happened to England? we was once the top ship builders, car makers etc etc, where the hell did it all go wrong?.
sad to say, but maggie tatcher distroyed it by opening the doors to let in cheap labour in from u no where. the uk was so much an indipendant country/continent to anywhere elce in the world, and im an irish man saying this.
***** we try not to say that word here in the north east it's bad luck, she changed the character of our once proud town forever now like many others it's a fucking shell of it's former self and the FOOD PARCEL OUTLETS have increased 5 fold in 12 months with shoplifting up 4 fold in the same period, what does the government do? give billions to other nations some who even have nuclear programs while their own people have to fucking beg like bastard lepers!!!!
yes, england was and is still such a beautiful country, i love looking at old videos of it, i not big into history, but, i am a mechanic and i soo soo love the genious engineering that england has done in the past and were so ahead of anyone else in the world, just superb, and the old old victorien buildings, oh my god, its so fantastic, the history is just astounding! but yet, the forign countries and population that came from these third world countries, well, the uk has seemed to forget the fanstatic history that it holds. im irish saying this, but then again, were neighbours and we are allout to communicate with each other as we have done for centuries!
It's lovely to watch and the people are authentic BUT every generation has the exact same feelings when viewed true a nostalgic lens.Two centuries ago Wordsworth was bemoaning how rural England was spoiled and gone-yet we can still see lots of amazing beauty in it in 2019.
True Gerry but I am 65 and originally from the heart of South London near Brixton/Peckham when it was,literally, 99% White British and the change is astonishing and there is a reason why. The average Asiatic,Black and Muslim families average over 4 children per family while Whites/Jewish people and Chinese average just 2 so in 7 generations the former racial groups have over 16,000 progeny as opposed to the White groups 130...16,000 on average v 130 !!!!!!!
i remember staying at newinton lodge , home for the homeless , i was releived when it was demolished in 69 , iwas a kid then , i did not like being there and did not want to ever go back there
I wonder what the world would be like today if everybody stayed in their own countries no wars no fighting nobody sticking their nose in anybody else's business
Great film compilation showing all aspects of life in the East End in or around the 1950's. Lots of memories including the live eel stalls, but strangely no mention of the pie and mash shops to which the eel stalls belonged. This film should be compulsory viewing for school children in the area.
This makes me a bit emotional. I didn't know London how it was then, but my grandparents and those before them did. London is my favourite city on this entire Earth, and I feel lucky to have the chance to live and work here
Nah London is miserable. Everyone in the rush, nobody talks to each other. Weather is grey and dull no quality of life or enough nature. Everyone is lying and fake.
I have enjoyed so much watching your uploaded video! It has been quite a surprise to be able to see some very old parts of the East End history, and a very pleasant one too. Thank you very much for sharing such interesting video.
It's called ethnic cleansing. The Han Chinese are doing it to the Tibetans right now and the media have no problem calling it that. The UN convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, Article 2 (c) defines genocide as "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part". According to Andrew Neather, a former adviser and speech writer to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett, they instituted a deliberate policy of mass third world immigration to "change the face of Britain" whilst lying to indigenous Brits that they were cutting immigration. They are guilty by the UN's own definition.
@Nidgi London's nothing like America there's no segregated areas for blacks. The wealthy and the poor can live next to each other. The wealthy can live in a million-pound property and poor lives next door, social housing is the only affordable housing for the working poor now in London.
@@ginajones1003 My mother, single black woman with 5 children brought her home on the right to buy scheme in the mid 80s. She worked as a Booking Clerk on the railways. My mum believed that Thatcher was the only politician who really offered the working class a step up the ladder. Those were the good old days for some. Now the poor working class can't even afford to pay their rent without support from the the government.
Was born in East Ham in 1956 , then family moved to manor park , my first house was in barking in
1978. I know everything changes but you could not pay me enough to live there now
I was born in the Eastend ( 29 Stonebridge House ) Shorditch London, and it was great, a couple of years ago i returned to see family and every thing i new was either gone or replaced with wine bars and cafes, we used to follow the old rag an bone man , play in streets till it was dark, also there was,nt one front door that was closed, but alas times have changed, locked doors, no playing in streets after dark sad so sad, but with this video i am able to go back in time to relive those wonderful days, and at 71yrs i need no more, thank you for this video you have made an old lady happy god bless you, Anna , Ireland
Where in Ireland? I'm in Roscommon
My Grandad was born in Hackney in 1923. He was a wonderful man.
Oh London London 😢 how do you look today 😢 not the London of my youth!! Thanks for the nostalgia 😊
My childhood on film. All gone now.
We took the river trip with the school in 1965 up the Thames and at the time all the dock workers waved back at us. Gone now
I lived in Mile end, Bow Common Lane, in the 1980s coming down from Nottingham to Uni...l was amazed to see people really called Del, old ladies singing at the piano in the local and a dog which seemed to be in charge of a corner shop at the top of Bow Common Lane! 😮
I was brought up in Garford House in Poplar right next to the docks we used to open our back windows and shout to each other happy New Year the noise was amazing everyone happy and cheering the boats would sound their horns the atmosphere was incredible then we would all rush to our Front doors and wish all the neighbours in the surrounding flats happy New Year at the tops of our voices they are lovely memories of growing up in the East End
The Eastend was absolutely wonderful! ❤️❤️❤️
Sad to say, this old London life is no longer, It may be multicultural, diverse, But it certainly is no better.
Its not really "multicultural",there`s no whites there now.
Back in those days you would have been complaining about eastern Europeans that moved into the east end.
My granny was from Bow and hated the Belgians.
Bow got Belgians fleeing ww1 and for reasons I never worked out, she didn't like them. Liked everyone but wouldn't even discuss Belgians.
@@julianshepherd2038
How many millions of Belgians were there?
@@johncorrall1739 You’d think according to this guy as many as the millions of South Asians now replacing the native population.
Mono culture in the end
I loved this. I actually show my grand dad ..selling a china dinner set and clapped his hands when it was sold...i have shown my boys there Great Grand Dad "Pip's" couldn't have done that if it wasn't for this documentary. .BIG THANK YOU to those that made this xxx
The London I remember and knew so well. Now it has unfortunately vanished.
But the film has people wandering around 50 years ago saying exactly the same thing. It's never been a place where things stayed the same. Nostalgia's a lovely human trait, but nostalgia ain't what it used to be :-)
Nostalgia' is a strange thing
I don't know about that. There's still plenty of poverty on Whitechapel Road.
@King Brilliant They're diversity barriers mate, don't forget "Islam is peace" "diversity is our greatest strength" and "free speech is hate speech". Kinda reminds me of a novel I once read....
@King Brilliant there was a literal war, people's houses getting bombed, half the city was piss poor. No crime!? London is one of the best cities in the world today. Stop trying to justify your thinly veiled racism
This film really captures the spirit of the Cockneys very well. I am American and have always had a fascination with the East End of London. I read a lot about Jack the Ripper, the Krays, the devastation of the German bombs in World War 2 and how the spirit and sense of pride that the tough Cockneys had helped them endure. I always wanted to visit London. I had little interest in seeing the traditional London touristy things like Buckingham Palace or Westminster Abbey. I wanted to see areas like Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Mile End etc. I was more interested in meeting East End people instead of seeing landmarks. Finally in 1986 I fulfilled my dream of visiting London. I've been told that it was around that time that the East Enders began moving out of their traditional neighborhoods. I feel a profound sadness watching this video knowing that the East End has changed forever. The white British people have been sold down the Thames by their traitorous government. They have been ethnically cleansed from the East End. Whether this statement is racist or Islamophobic I really do not care because it's the truth. To all you Cockneys that watched this video and grew up on the streets of East London and have fond memories of this place I feel for you. You may come back and cheer for your beloved West Ham but all you have is nostalgia.
jack young Sadly everything you have said is true Jack, sadly the people living in the East End have more money than we would have ever dreamt about years ago, But what we lacked as kids we gained as Cockney brothers and sisters with pride.
Maybe you have ancestry here...alot of the first people to go to america and later arrivals would have been from these area...or atleast visited... :)
East End was always a bit of a slum but at least it was an a recognisably English slum back then...its full of foreign trash now.
All the white people left of their own volition, you weirdo.
God bless
Made me cry watching this.
Was born in Hackney, Amhurst Rd, my Nans always told me of what it used to be.
Such a shame, it really is.
It's truly sad
I was in Amhurst Rd too, back in the late 70s and early eighties. I loved London then and I still do but I cant live there now. Im in New Zealand. I cry when I look at the east end and London now. It has fallen.
No longer a sense of community now, and hasn't been for a few decades. Neighbours keep themselves to themselves. Oh, and there is a language barrier.
@@patsyhodge9071think about how the Maoris feel in New Zealand. You guys completely changed the demographics of North America, The Carribean and Australasia, there's hardly any natives left there now.
I was in London around this time. I think it was one of the best eras for London! Fun and exciting times.
I was raised in Dagenham, born in ‘64. The streets were safer than they are today. We’d play outside while both our parents worked full time. We were safe, no worries about being snatched. I feel very sorry for my grandkids who will never know what we had. My own children had it good too but i cry for my grandchildren
@Andrea = What general part of Dagenham are you from ?
Whilst I never lived there, my entire life revolved around it, "Merry Fiddlers"
"Five Elms", "The Matapan" & even "The Civic Centre" & "Wood Lane" etc
"Martins Corner", "Parsloes Park", "Green Lane" "Valence Ave" etc, etc
Used to go every year to the "Dagenham Town Show" - used to be great
Am told by my mate Steve (who still lives near the Civic), that it stopped, sadly
Also am same age as you, so, I remember it like you did & local tales.
My Nan was putting out her washing & one of Hitler's German Bombers flew SO LOW over the Dagenham roof-tops that my 39 y/o Nan 'wet herself' in fright
( She was laughing when she told me, but I was horrified !!)
Both the Pilot & Front Gunner looked at her & she stared back at them both
Then she saw the Black Crosses on the wings & swastika on it's tail !!!!
So sad the way that Dagenham HAS "gone downhill"
@@hawnyfox3411 that’s a great memory for you to know. I was brought up in Becontree Heath, i five minutes walk from our house in Albert Road. My brother who still lives there used to be a barman when it was owned by Alf and Sadie back in the early - mid 70’s. The Ship and Anchor was boarded up last time i was told. Merry Fiddlers pub is gone. I haven’t been up that way for quite a few years. I like to remember what it once was
@@andreamack7867 = Many thanks for your swift reply Andrea
I know Becontree Heath like the back of my hand (!), really do.
Both sets of my G/Parents lived there - Grafton Road & Valence Ave
That Heinkel.111 incident took place there & Bonham Rd nr Valence Park.
I worked for R.M & the RM.8 & RM.9 postcodes were my delivery areas.
My Wife went to Robert Clack school which is very close to you (were)
I know Whalebone Lane like the back of my hand too, too many reasons !
Selinas Lane was where I'd drive my Lorry (near you) to do collections.
I remember the "Ship n' Anchor" Pub, there used to be a cinema nearby
My Dad says he took me there to see "Tora, Tora, Tora" in the 1970's
Just like the cinema in Green Lane, the one by the "Ship n Anchor" it shut
Am told it was last used in 1970's, then it was bulldozed - sadly
I'm from Chadwell Heath myself, but spent more time around Becontree during the 1960's,1970's,1980's & 1990's - Ending my association in 2004
As a kid, I was always either on an 86, 193, 62 or 25 Bus, but mainly the 86
I actually miss Becontree Heath the most from the 1960's, as, back then the houses were ALL owned by the G.L.C & were kept in smart order
Each house had an immaculate lawn & well sorted roof-tiles.
It all "went to $hit" in the 1990's once the "Right To Buy" kicked in
Houses then were either run down, or, a bizarre mish-mash of colours
Suddenly CARS replaced the lawns & yet more & more concrete !!!!!
Is the Wood Lane Sport's centre still there, near you, opposite Central Pk ?
I used to play "Five A Side" Football there, under floodlights !!
It was near the Civic & basically next-door to Robert Clack school
I swear to God, I really do pine after & miss the London I once knew
It occupied the first 40+ years of my life, from Bow Bells Church & Cheapside & St.Paul's, via Stratford, Mile-End, Upton Park, Forest Gate
I'd go back in a heartbeat & live thru it all again if I could
@@hawnyfox3411 Great memories I remember it all. Mum and Dad had a shop Becontree Heath lol.
@@londongirl1733 = Interesting to hear !!
Was it in Green Lane by any chance ????
There’s no way I can bitch about my lot in life when I watch these historical docs. I’ve nothing but respect for those that survived the ravages of WWII-the city dwellers, as well as country folk. SO MANY had much more than their fair share of misery and trauma, .🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧
I so agree with this comment, thank you for posting it.
I was born in the East End, the ships would all sound their horns at Midnight on news Years Eve to welcome the new year.
Martin Bootneck that’s right they did 🤪
Just so - the noise from The Royals would deafen us!
Could hear it from my bedroom!
Wish I could of heard this
Trop To me as a kid it was amazing 😀
Delightful film, now alas a cockney graveyard
Great film that brought back a lot of memories, some good, some not so good. I grew up in poverty in Mile End in the 50s. I left when I was 18 to live in Islington but my parents lived in the East End all their lives . They eventually got rehoused in a GLC flat they liked when their slum dwelling was knocked down. I could never find decent housing in London and was appalled by what happened in Dockland. The rich just poured in to the housing developments in the old dock areas. The poor are powerless in the face of the onslaught by those who have money. I now live in New Zealand and miss the vibrancy of London, but I certainly don't miss living in a slum.
It's the same story in modern London. The once attainable housing in the outskirts of London are being gentrified by developments that disproportionately outstrip the affordability to the common Londoner. It's a sad state of affairs.
I love the docklands, can't afford to live there but love it. My dad use to take us for walks there many years ago - no money for bus fare just good old legwork from Bromley by Bow and back - memories!
All England is doomed to go the way of London😢
You can see that the provincial cities going the same way as London now. All by design of course.
I went with my dad 10 years back now to our family's old homes and life in the East End, it was all gone really - couldn't even find a proper begel (egg wash) - all the pubs were gone his school in Old Street gone - was very sad, and was the last time he walked around there dying a few years after...
Sorry to hear that Dan but he lived in a great time there,my friend. Same in South East London. The Pub we had Xmas dinner in is now The Camberwell Islamic Centre. My Mums Bingo Hall is The Moon Mission. My Boys Club: "Clubland" where Michael Caine went b4 me is a Nigerian Church and until recently THe Manor Place Baths which had a swimming pool.boxing/wrestling events/5 a side football and sports hall was a Buddhist Monastery...Progress innit ! Innit ?
@@Isleofskye Yes he did fella, and your mum and family by the sounds - progress they say - not sure that's the way to go - all that history and community gone - least we have the memories eh
I've lived in East London all my life. Sadly I don't feel at home here any more.
ur too gangsta innit
xXgangster 💐
Ian Marshall Lol!
xXgangster Where abouts sweetheart ?
@@pommiebears Forest Gate
I miss what London used to be. What a shame.
TheMrgaztop the rich ppl stole it
I take it you miss the capital city of the English people.
WHY?
@Jo Lisa Dukarić no we don't miss being slaves of the Roman empire🤔
Same here in Dublin. So called modernization screwed it all up
when I got to London in the 1970's the east end was very different to today.All the docks were still working albeit slowly. I remember when they started to fill in the Rotherhithe docks and large areas were still bare land after being bombed especially along the Newham Way.Corrugated iron fences even across roads were common. I met an old lady who lived in Savile Road at Silver town.Her street backed on to the docks and she had lived here all her life. Although the THAMES was less than 100yds away she said she'd never been to the other side as everything was just down the road.What a lovely person. We had some great conversations.The east end then was certainly rough in places but it had a soul and a never say die attitude that definitely stuck with me.Though I lived in SW16 I drove trucks and spent a lot of time there. The old commercial road and the surrounding streets were alive then and I loved every minute.
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I remember George's Cafe, just like going in to someone's front room! Later his son moved the Cafe over to Graving Dock area, but I see that too is now derelict.
At those docks I joined Shaw Saville Line in 1956 as a junior engineer and departed in 1970 from the same docks on a one-way trip to Sydney, I'm still here, seeing a still (24.46) of the Dominion Monarch on her berth brings back so many memories, one I'd like to replicate with pleasure would be downing a pint of Red Barrel at the Round House Pub just down the road abit!!! Happy Days them
Ah, Petticoat Lane, Leather Lane, Mile End Road/Stepney market my old teenage haunts with long lost friends.
David Attenborough has asked for Cockneys to be placed on the endangered species list
Jo Lisa Dukarić No that’s not what happened really is it? 😣
The magic rat I’m the only cockney left in my neck of the woods and I’m off soon....
So sad that the world famous cockney of London will soon cease to be! 💔
Kensy Skye the new London is roadmen and chavs, wearing JD sports going round carying knifes, that’s the poor ppl of today no more cockney
You made me laugh; glad to read David Attenborough has a sense of humor, I need one too...
i think its too late, the are extinct nowdays
What a great piece of film. Great to see all the old characters of the east end gone by,
So pleased I can remember it all and shamed at what it has become!
im a country boy from the south. are there any parts of the east end you recommend to visit now.
@@davidnewman9244 We all moved out to Essex and watched our parents who were trapped there put up and shut up for years under successive governments that didn't give a damn and now the filth has it to themselves - pubs all shut and churches in disrepair - some dripping wet Liberals still think its cool, but it is a social tragedy people lost their histories and traditions forever!
@@jonboy9912 thanks for the replie. im sad to hear that.
I'm from North Wales so have no associations with The East End , but , it's the kind of place I'd of felt very much at home at (in those days) . Real people .
brings back memories of how brilliant the east end of LONDON was even if it was in poverty and also snow in 1963 i think it was.there was always something to do there.I was always playing football as well in the yard where I used to live on ROTHSCHILDS dwellings in FLOWER and DEAN st off of the famous BRICK LANE uptill 1970/1 and i was lucky enough to have gone with my dad back then on HAMBURY ST and into next door of 29 where a victim of the ripper was found.and where an old lady either in her 80s or or over lying in bed telling me she saw the ripper outside that night of the killing.
God bless you Chas for keeping the East End alive. RIP brother.
Very interesting film; God Bless London and the UK and this Crazy World..
ANYONE REMEMBER THE LYCEUM IN THE STRAND?...THE BEST DISCO IN TOWN CIRCA 1970-1975?... MONDAYS AND SATURDAYS?...AH THOSE HAPPY DAYS!!
I’ve lived in Newham all of my life, born in 1990. I wish there was still even an ounce of our culture left in the east end. Growing up in the 90’s was the best time of my life.
It's in Barking, Havering, Essex and Kent now or perhaps you're not looking hard enough. Culture is a fluid thing and changes constantly. Always has, always will. The Londoners of 1890 were very likely to bemoaning their "loss of culture" too.
@@theblindfoldep No,they weren`t,the amount of foreign invasion over the last 30 years is incomparable to anything ever before.
@@theblindfoldep Never in Londons history before have it become a white minority city as it is now, so what your saying is only a half truth.
@@theblindfoldepVery few places and times have seen as much change as the east end in the past half century. An old lady born and raised there in eg. the 1930s/40s and still living there today will likely feel extremely culturally and socially isolated. Why are you keen to downplay that? Why must change - in any form and to any degree - be seen as an unmixed blessing?
@@everythingflows3639 FACT
I lived on Newell Street Limehouse in the 1950s. There is no way that I would live in the East End now..
My late stepfather owned and rented out a house in Newell Street in the late 50s /60s. No. 14 I think it was.
Childhood memories of Clubrow and petticoat lane with my old dad, he took me to see the old docks where he worked just before it all got knocked down or should i say knocked daaaarn !!!
So many memories. I served as a young PC in docklands during the 1960s...patrolling
:the streets of Limehouse, the Isle of Dogs and Poplar before the place changed to
become a business and high cost residential area. By then I had been transferred
on promotion to the West End - talk about chalk and cheese!!
The East end as it was .you wouldn't recognise it today totally changed
What an amazing film. My mum was brought up in Matilda House, Wapping in 1936. She came from a family of dockers, and riverside chandlers alongside the Thames. and life was tough. My father's family came from Brick Lane, and were bookmakers. Mum still lives in the East End, and it has changed a lot, but she wouldn't move. The stories she recalls of a wonderful bygone era, are fascinating and priceless, and I'm so proud to be a part of that.
And just like that, it's all gone :'(
The Bow Bell was in Cheapside near St. Paul’s Cathedral which is on the WEST side of the City of London. Because it was so loud, it became the London curfew bell and that is why the sound of it is mentioned.
Your a true cookney if born and raised within the sound of the Bow bells.
Saint Mary-le-Bow Church, still there, just up the road from the Bank of England and, as you mentioned, St Paul's is about a 5 minute walk further West.
My family are from the docks. I wish I could have seen east London in the good old days.
My dear Dad went down the Lane every Sunday, never bought nothing just went to meet his mates before the boozers opened at 12. Fought for a tally for a days work down the docks, scrubbed out boilers on the ships - lowered on a cradle with a scraper in his hand and a handkerchief round his face, no wonder he suffered with a bad chest in later life. If you wanted to see somebody you knew where their family drunk and they knew where yours did. The old East End is gone and I dont like what has taken its place!
Loved watching this film lived just off porta bella road upto being 10yrs old remember the pie and mash shop on a thursday night tea we had a jug of liquor to go with it and the market always got treats off my good old gran.
The main reason the docks closed was containerisation. No need for loads of men to unload a ship when all you need is one bloke in a crane.
Machines, have taken millions of jobs,, Machines will claim millions more.
P.S. I still have a sports jacket and suit made by a Cable Street tailor circa mid-1960s.
The wheel of age has turned and now they fit me again!! 🙂
Great to see just how the east end looked when it was busy. Really interesting.
It Was A Wonderful.Suprise to See My Late Grandpa and Me Aged 10 !:)
wonderful
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@@alanssnack1192 Sounds like it. 6 years later and still nothing :)
@@alanssnack1192 Sounds like it. 6 years later and still nothing :)
Isleofskye He might have just unsubscribed from UA-cam because of trolls.
"Wood and asbestos are the main ingredients used." When I used to walk from home to school in East Ham in the mid 60's there were still a few of these pre-fabs being lived in. There were also bomb shelters in the school playground. Those were the days.
The video is a mix or times right up to the 70's. It always makes me smile when younger people say it was hard times, poverty and we are so lucky now. They are not lucky now at all. Those older times were amazing and I wish we could get them back. Thank you for sharing the video. It brought back some happy memories for me. I moved away in the late 90's and hate going back. Its just totally ruined now
This should be shown in Schools. Real people.
@StealthyMonk My Gramars Dead, you sick twat!
To quote John Cleese........”London isn’t English anymore”. How true that is.
And that was said by Cleese - an English man living in the Caribbean. A man still thinking that his white provided allows him to be living like he's in a British colony that's still in the Empire. Oh the irony of an ignorant Brit living abroad - talking about immigrants in Britain! Dumb ignorant, blinkered pratt
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Oh bore off with that white privileged claptrap. Insufferable imbecile
Was London ever purely English? If you look at its history you'll see it was always where immigrants have lived. My family has lived in the East End since around 1820. Hugenots, Jews from Eastern Europe, Irish, Chinese, Bangladeshis. The migrants who arrive change the complexion of the place, but that makes the East End what it is, and it always will .
The results of colonization and declaring 3rd world countries part of the Commonwealth
bleedin hell memories galore there... 1980s after leaving the bootnecks my old man said bugger off were doomed lad... so Australia it was. Dad was right but I miss my east end.
I miss those days so much....if I could do it all again - even with the pain of it all - I would....
Once upon a time! Should be shown in classrooms across the nation! Social studies? Fantastic viewing 110%
As an old eastender it is fascinating to go back to where you lived and grew up since before the war,yes I have seen it all ,and moved out to better pastures. Well done for the memories.
so proud to be a londoner
Are you a modern Londoner? From pakistan?
linda lunken yes....me too. But, it’s not our London anymore. It’s changed so much. I moved away years ago. But, you can take the girl out of London, you can’t take London out of the girl. I’m married to an Aussie, I live in Australia now......my cockney accent is still with me after 15 years lol!
yes from shorditch eastend Anna
1:32 canning town E16 star lane and anchor pub in the back...
Home sweet home...
Good old days...
The old east end gone now but the gap between rich and poor is widening .
Lee Morgan
@Charles Martel neither does your comment
@Nidgi I would need to check, because I don't have the necessary facts available in my head. But otherwise, please indulge me.
the poor being immigrants who live on benefits and never pay tax
What a wonderful film, so informative. My grandparents were from the Eastend. My grandfather worked for the railways, he was a Porter at one of the main stations. The porters who carried peoples luggage did not get a wage but relyed on tips. How he managed to bring his family up so well I will never know.
we lived through the hard times and the good times were good but short lived nobody on this earth can begin to bring back the good old days the end the cockney era
The Pub we had Xmas dinner in is now The Camberwell Islamic Centre. My Mums Bingo Hall is The Moon Mission. My Boys Club: "Clubland" where Michael Caine went b4 me is a Nigerian Church and until recently The Manor Place Baths which had a swimming pool.boxing/wrestling events/5 a side football and sports hall was a Buddhist Monastery...Progress innit !
Innit ?
I KNOW MANOR PLACE BATHS VERY WELL!...I USED TO BE IN AMATEUR BOXING BOUTS THERE BETWEEN 1968 to 1970 WHEN I WAS 12 TO 14 YEARS OLD AND I BELONGED TO THE LYNN BOXING CLUB JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM THERE...ALSO USED TO SWIM IN THE BATHS AS WELL... HAPPY DAYS!...THE AREA HAS CHANGED BEYOND RECOGNITION NOW ...ANYONE REMEMBER THE LYNN BOXING CLUB THEN?...ALSO ANYONE REMEMBER THE LYCEUM IN THE STRAND?...THE BEST DISCO IN TOWN CIRCA 1970-1075?...AH Those HAPPY DAYS!
@@johnsalvidge4131 Hello mate. I remember Fitzroy Lodge and Lynn though not a Boxer, myself.
Lyceum? EXACTLY what you said. I was 18 years old in 1972 and used to queue up in Winter in Summer clothes but you had to wear a tie. Some joker got sent home and came back wearing a Tie and Trousers😀
My abiding memory was Billy Paul "Me and Mrs Jones". In 1983 I moved to this house 11 miles away in Bexley so where are you now,my friend,please?
One of the best documentarys ever !😍😍😍💋
Very interesting and entertaining. My grandmother's family were from north London, my grandfather's family from South Hackney, and my great-grandfather's from Whitechapel, just off Old Montague St. Great video, thank you!
So happy to have come across this video; really enjoyed it. I've always been intrigued with London's East End.
Funny seeing Chas and Dave as they woz.!
My mum grew up in the East end...there is no east end as it was now. Every time I go to London, it has changed so much...the docklands looks better now that it has been developed, not like it was in the 60s, but there is so much violence, hatred...it isn't safe to walk alone even in the daytime. My Aunt and family still lives there, and I worry...
All over the UK is full of hatred ,racism and segregation and backwards people.
East end everyone new each other neighbours said hello they looked out for each other people their tough as old boots didn’t take any crap of anyone good on them men were men in them days
The photographer is very compassionate...seems a real good guy
A very nice film. Enjoyed watching it. Thanks for posting it.
I learnt me way round the east end in me dad's lorry. One of the firms he worked for was Davis Bro's Haulage,
better known as yiddle Davis. Five Jewish brothers owned it and could never be described as honest,
upstanding citizens :-) Their yard was in Solebay Street at Mile End. Good education for when I was old enough to drive lorries. I'd learnt how to drive when I could see over the wheel, learnt me way around the docks and the
rest of the country and most important, I'd learnt most of the fiddles. Like a lot of people have said, it's not the same place now. The Jews were harmless enough, but the rest of 'em, well....
Old Bloke I remember Yiddle ,I'll say no more.😂
It's gone for ever. Just like my city Bradford.
My city of Liverpool escaped relatively unscathed I'm glad to say - some streets and neighbourhood went and just waste ground is all that's left of most of it.
The seven miles of docks has all been demolished and just a container port is all that remains.
Ships came from the Caribbean, NY and Africa now there's hardly any.
It's now a maritime city full of tourists.
But hey, times change and we're all better off than they were then but at the cost of communitues
@Gorgon Don class warfare using race as a bait
@@ItsNotRealLife Go visit Kensington in Liverpool mate.
@@silverbullet2008bb
It was still there the last time I visited it a few years ago
@wagner1va
But we as a populace, a generation, are a lot better off than older generations we're.
Better work conditions, better pay, healthier (not many heavy smokers left), better housing, laptops, smart phones etc but sadly a lot of close communities gone plus docks, shipbuilding, steel industries, manufacturing etc all gone
Great video. Went back to London this past summer, so different now. Loved the London of the 70s. I've always loved the people of London still do. Born onand brought up in Wimbledon sw19
I was bought up in SW13 then Richmond upon Thames 👌👌
was beautiful back then. brits as one. now its everyman for himself. i dont mind a bit of multi but we do need to limit it to protect the british values culture and lifestyle as it was. Every country around the world would surely want to protect their identity and britain is no different
The Town of Ramsgate pub in Wapping is still the same today.
Fascinating documentary, thanks for posting.
I was 10 years old on the Petticoat Lane Section My Late Grandpa The Man With Glasses and Balding Grey Hair with me in Front of Stal on the left wearing a dark anorak nodding my head Really Great to See This Tony Thank You So Much I live in Jersey GB and known widewide See What Can Happen! Stevie Ocean
That's it , when he said we used to play in the streets,. I used to age 3 plus in the 60s on a terraced house street in Leicester. A massive downfall for Britain was when kids stopped playin the street as may now don't. It gave freedom and imagination which kids now have lost by using computers etc. This leading to terrible social isolation and many other problems.
I live in the east end to this day and I watch these videos and it really makes me feel sad that it’s almost completely gone
Me too Warren. Born in Bethnal Green 1961 and living there still. We were skint growing up as a lot of families were but as kids, we had a great time. As the gentleman in the film said, we were poor but didn't know we were poor because we were all in the same boat.
I really, REALLY enjoyed this film. Thank you so much! I feel blessed to have seen it somehow! Thanks ever so much, guv'na!😉
Very young Chas and Dave at 5:56
happier then than now...despite progression....less interaction...more isolation...
Thank you for posting this, although I was born in barking and never lived in the east end it still bought back a lot of memories some good some bad, just wondering what the hell happened to England? we was once the top ship builders, car makers etc etc, where the hell did it all go wrong?.
sad to say, but maggie tatcher distroyed it by opening the doors to let in cheap labour in from u no where. the uk was so much an indipendant country/continent to anywhere elce in the world, and im an irish man saying this.
***** we try not to say that word here in the north east it's bad luck, she changed the character of our once proud town forever now like many others it's a fucking shell of it's former self and the FOOD PARCEL OUTLETS have increased 5 fold in 12 months with shoplifting up 4 fold in the same period, what does the government do? give billions to other nations some who even have nuclear programs while their own people have to fucking beg like bastard lepers!!!!
yes, england was and is still such a beautiful country, i love looking at old videos of it, i not big into history, but, i am a mechanic and i soo soo love the genious engineering that england has done in the past and were so ahead of anyone else in the world, just superb, and the old old victorien buildings, oh my god, its so fantastic, the history is just astounding! but yet, the forign countries and population that came from these third world countries, well, the uk has seemed to forget the fanstatic history that it holds. im irish saying this, but then again, were neighbours and we are allout to communicate with each other as we have done for centuries!
I take it schools didn't exist in Ireland when you were growing up ?
The Do gooders ruined it.
Brilliant video Tony! Amazing to see what the east end used to look like. Thanks for sharing it :)
It's lovely to watch and the people are authentic BUT every generation has the exact same feelings when viewed true a nostalgic lens.Two centuries ago Wordsworth was bemoaning how rural England was spoiled and gone-yet we can still see lots of amazing beauty in it in 2019.
True Gerry but I am 65 and originally from the heart of South London near Brixton/Peckham when it was,literally, 99% White British and the change is astonishing and there is a reason why. The average Asiatic,Black and Muslim families average over 4 children per family while Whites/Jewish people and Chinese average just 2 so in 7 generations the former racial groups have over 16,000 progeny as opposed to the White groups 130...16,000 on average v 130 !!!!!!!
i remember staying at newinton lodge , home for the homeless , i was releived when it was demolished in 69 , iwas a kid then , i did not like being there and did not want to ever go back there
A blinding little vid of an ever evolving, top manor!
I wonder what the world would be like today if everybody stayed in their own countries no wars no fighting nobody sticking their nose in anybody else's business
Britian and London woukdnt exisit
Better, the world would be a much more diverse and exciting place too
@@TheFreshSpam can hoy explain why? do you think Englishman/Brits cannot work! the industrial revelation would suggest they can
@@gavb9816 Becuase if Britain didnt conquer half the world noone would know who we are. Its simple
@Genealogy Matters it's not. If we didnt go out in the world as a country we wouldn't be as known nor have our language used globally.
Great film compilation showing all aspects of life in the East End in or around the 1950's. Lots of memories including the live eel stalls, but strangely no mention of the pie and mash shops to which the eel stalls belonged. This film should be compulsory viewing for school children in the area.
They probably wouldn't understand the narrative.
Eddie J. Parsons haha I second you on that
Thanks for sharing 😉✋
the doodlebug huts, made primarily of wood and asbestos. Nice, how homely
“Right o governor”
shut ya boat race ( face ) lol sorry for being rude , Anna.
This makes me a bit emotional. I didn't know London how it was then, but my grandparents and those before them did. London is my favourite city on this entire Earth, and I feel lucky to have the chance to live and work here
Nah London is miserable. Everyone in the rush, nobody talks to each other. Weather is grey and dull no quality of life or enough nature. Everyone is lying and fake.
It's one of the worst now with lefties,refugees, etc...
I have enjoyed so much watching your uploaded video! It has been quite a surprise to be able to see some very old parts of the East End history, and a very pleasant one too. Thank you very much for sharing such interesting video.
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The East End is now called Islamabad junior by the locals
@General Guile it always was thats what makes no sense.
The Eastenders never were too hot at geography or racial profiling.
Totally fascinating. Well done.
6:06 Chas and Dave before they were famous.
Sadly it seems Cockneys are now rare on the ground in the East End.
yes most of them sold their property and bought a mansion in the countryside
It's called ethnic cleansing. The Han Chinese are doing it to the Tibetans right now and the media have no problem calling it that. The UN convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, Article 2 (c) defines genocide as "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part". According to Andrew Neather, a former adviser and speech writer to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett, they instituted a deliberate policy of mass third world immigration to "change the face of Britain" whilst lying to indigenous Brits that they were cutting immigration. They are guilty by the UN's own definition.
@Nidgi London's nothing like America there's no segregated areas for blacks. The wealthy and the poor can live next to each other. The wealthy can live in a million-pound property and poor lives next door, social housing is the only affordable housing for the working poor now in London.
Truthbtold Wright There is far too little social housing thanks to Maggie Thatcher:-(
@@ginajones1003 My mother, single black woman with 5 children brought her home on the right to buy scheme in the mid 80s. She worked as a Booking Clerk on the railways. My mum believed that Thatcher was the only politician who really offered the working class a step up the ladder. Those were the good old days for some. Now the poor working class can't even afford to pay their rent without support from the the government.
The photographer at 22.00 is Don Mcullin great war photographer and Humanist.
Wow is it !