I'm an East Ender born in 1962 in Forest Gate, lived in Stratford, so I can really relate to this wonderful film❤ Brought tears to my eyes watching and listening to the grateful, happy little kids sitting on the kerbs opening their presents wrapped in newspaper at 40.20 ...beautiful little ones who didn't have a pot to piss in as we used to say, but so grateful for what they were given, bless 'em❤ What a bloody awful different world we live in now, certainly not for the better!😢 Thank you, I have loved watching my lovely old ancestors ❤❤❤
I'm afraid to tell you that Forest Gate and Stratford have never been part of the East End (it only went as far as the River Lea to the east). Indeed, in 1962 Forest Gate and Stratford were not even part of London but still in Essex (the Becontree Hundred).
@@markstein4239 interesting . so Stratford wasnt considered part of the east end , how about west ham and east ham ? would you consider hackney ,clapton , haggerston ,dalston stokenewington east end because on alot of thoes streets youll find alot of old street signs with the NE sign postcode in clapton dalston haggerston etc even Victoria park and my old area debeauvior n1 what areas do you consider specifically and strictily as the east end historically and factually ?
My dad is an Islington lad. He was evacuated to Cornwall when he was just 3 years old. He lived on a farm with a couple who had a son. He came back to London when he was 7. The couple who took care of him loved him so much, they asked to keep him, but my grandmother wanted him back naturally. He has the fondest memories of his time in Cornwall and the family he stayed with. He’s still living in Islington at 83 and doing very well.
How lucky you are to still have the living memory. Oh the things that man must have witnessed in his life. Bless him. I hope you continue to share his stories.
me mum used to go on holiday in the 50s and 60s to the family she stayed with in Devon- they returned after the "phoney war " She was about 13 when she went down from SW London and spent 3 months in a school / place in Cornwall (her dad was building airfields in Cornwall and Brother prepping for D Day etc ) and she was a pupil - teacher to some of the little ones from the East End of London.
I was born in Hackney 1963. What a wonderful film to see what my ancestors went through, they're from Bethnal Green, Stepney, Mile End and Poplar. Would of loved to sit n watch that with grandad, but he was born in 1904 in Bethnal Green. Thank you for a wonderful film.
I could listen to this warm East End voice forever. It reminds me of home. I'm an ex Bow girl and lived all around Roman Road. I miss the old place and the original people every single day! Thank you for the upload.
@@edavies7083 A Bow girl is someone born in Bow which is a place in the east end of London there's also Bromley by Bow which is virtually the same area.There's a loch that runs through there of course known as "Bow loch" so B^^^^^ks is also a nick name for a mans private parts and also referred to as his Bromleys because of Bromley by Bow.
I was born at the end of WWII and grew up in New Cross. My Dad used to take me every Sunday up to ‘see the sights’. We went on the 53 bus along the Old Kent Road. I feel as if I lived through the war, because of the devastation and rationing and the stories I heard. When I was 21 I came with my husband to North Carolina. I shall soon be 80, yet those childhood days are more real to me now than the time we live in. I think so many old people left must feel that way. My grandmother’s house was still lit by gas….and I loved the milkman’s horse. We also used to go to Nunhead Cemetery to collect conkers. I love these videos on UA-cam. I spend hours looking at them and they are wonderful. Thanks to all who took the time to put them together!
I was born 1955 , Mile End Hospital, Stratford but moved out East London in 1967 for Essex. Generally , I had the best of years as it was far enough after the war and an exciting time of growth where home ownership started to become a reality for the children of those whose parents never dreamed of the idea. I went back for a visit mid 80's and MY East End no longer exists at all, much of what was brought up in the film being the reason, lack of community being the death knell. Now I have to belong to nostalgia groups to be reminded of what has gone and will never be again.
Of course there's still a community, just not your community...Your parents out though, along with many other East Enders, offered better housing in the counties. i bet they jumped at the chance.
Same,Bor 1956. My mum stayed until she passed 1993. I saw the decline and felt like a foreigner in my OWN country. Glad I don't have to go to go to London But devastated that I had to leave my roots.
@@JazzFunkNobby1964 If you look up to the moon and see a small planet to the right, that's my home. We have been watching you Earthlings for many star times and the conclusion is you are a pathetic species.
I lived in Bethnal Green, and was born in 1941. I lived in Bonner street, opposite The Bishop Bonner pub, I well remember starting my breakfast at home and finishing it in the brick air raid shelter in Royston street, across the road. And I did sleep in Bethnal green underground station one night. And I remember seeing a "doodlebug" (V1 rocket or was it V2 ) flying over from my bedroom window, and that noise you never forget. The engine/rocket cut out after a few seconds, and then the explosion. It demolished a whole area of houses about 120 metres away. Frank Chappell
It was a V1, you never saw a V2. Like modern missiles, V2 traveled in a high arc so came almost straight down at great speed and were not seen. The first one that fell on London was at first thought to be a domestic gas explosion.
@@almacmathain6195I've always thought it was the other way round the V1 in the imperial War museum is basically a rocket whereas the V2 was like a pilot less plane which you would hear coming
Love watching all these old films....I was born on Lower Clapton Road, Hackney in the Salvation Army hospital. I'm now in one of them new towns you mentioned, Harlow and even though half the people in the East end now wouldn't even know what a Cockney is, I'll always be proud of my Cockney roots.
@@d.d.4703 that's the place, my mum was born there too. The building is still there but been converted into flats. Think it's now called mother's square or something similar.
my foster dad was cockny born in Bow. his mums house didnt get pulled down till the late 70's. i remember going there to visit as a toddler. everyone knew each other and looked out for each other. real community spirit. They might of been poor but it didnt stop them having fun.. when ever i went to visit family in London in the late 70's early 80's i was always made welcome by everyone in the street. But that might be cause i was stationed their on the green goddess during the 77 firemans strike and i put out a lot of fires there. Most of the houses still didnt have indoor plumbing even then. But they refused to move to newer housing.
My dear old Mum was born in Silver Street, Stepney. December 12th 1923. She was so proud of being a Cockney. The whole family moved up to Stone, Staffs just after the war. They were outcasts, foreigners, spoke funny. She'd sit and watch Eastenders on the telly, always said they were nowt like the real thing. Their accents sounded fake.
This toolk me back to when our room and kitchen with outside toilet was compulsory purchased when I was 8 in 1960. I was born in Edinburgh but worked in London for 5 years in the 1970's. I have fond memories of the great working people of all race and religion I lived with in London. It's people like the East Enders that make a city.
My poor old mother went down to the shelter during a bombing raid, came back up after the 'all clear' and the house was gone along with the furniture. This was to happen three times. It did not break her spirit but made her more resolute to survive, and survive she did, went on to have more children and died a happy woman. This happened to thousands of families all over the country and made the nation bond and helped each other along the way. Will the bond be as strong today ! if a calamity were to befall the nation ? Some how I don't think so.
No, it won’t. Look at the numbers of homeless and the pitiful donations to such charities as ‘Shelter’, yet we’ll happily send millions to other countries when the “celebrities” tell us to, (and that’s on top of the billions sent via the overseas aid budget), still, we can pat ourselves on the back and say how virtuous we are! I only donate to charities that help our own people now, (CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME). I best leave it there!
Comparing the two is like comparing chalk and cheese. Different everything. First the people are different. That time the people were all mostly English born and white. The difference is obvious today. The commonwealth came home to roost in the motherland. The layout of the land is different, new streets appearing old lanways blocked of every bit of land is being built on. It doesn't matter what they building is as long as they can build corruption rife. That's the devide these day's. The government controlling everything and nothing. Everything is GB is in decline and it's noticeable. Personally I hate to see it go this way. Big mistake leaving EU. I'd like to see you back in, a strong GB is good for all especially us . I'm Rep Irish but I hate to see you in this state. We all have someone in GB. ✌️☘️
@edwardoleyba3075 Don't feel so bad... nothing that's happening now hasn't happened before... the people of your colonies too must've felt beyond terrible to lose their sons and their hard earned money through the imposed extra tough taxation for your wars... Due to Churchill's hoarding of grains, he created a famine in which millions of Indians died... your ancestors despised and looked down upon the Hindus if India... the oldest surviving religion of the world... just because we believe in multiple Gods... which is totally wrong.. our religion is a philosophy which many have found to be far more sophisticated and organic than a book if rules if I may say so... Your people converted folks all over the world... treated the blacks in a manner beyond evil.. N now, Pakistan, a country your people made to spite India and the Hindua, is your nemesis.... with their population terrorizing you in your homes.. Bangladeshis too... While the same Hindus are in the highest earners in the UK. Karma at its best, my friend.
It's been ruined by all governments and still continues with each government and mayor. These have done far more everlasting damage than the Luftwaffe ever did and who only targeted city's after Harris and Co targeted German city's.
@@Brittunculi , it's the complete country esp' Towns and Cities and with time it will be total , one doesn't need to be any scientist to recognise the fact that it is primarily enabled to breed us out of existence and it's not only this Country as when one looks to continental Europe it's exactly the same and inevitably will concur globally yet conveniently we are not allowed to discuss openly the instigating reason's behind this agenda as law's have been brought forth which forbids discussion thus enabled by legalised criminal's which act as governments/law/education/media and so forth plus the dividing of people's fulfills further the hidden agenda again by Large which we are vilified to discuss openly with the label of racism as a known quote once said : 'If you want to know who controls you , look at who you are not allowed to criticize'.
I work throughout the East end. Canning Town, Plaistow, Hackney Bow etc, I myself was born in Stepney in 1976. Some of these characters are still around, but unfortunately they are few and far between. If ever you get into Canning Town. Try out B.Js pie and mash on the Barking Road.
@@carolevans5285 I moved out of London 10 years ago as the political elite have turned it into a cesspit. I felt like I was the foreigner in my own country. 20% white 80% not white , I moved to Vietnam the only thing I would come back for is Pie & Mash . Even what used to be my my local pie & mash shop in shepherds Bush has now disappeared . I have heard there is a relatively new one in Portabella rd next time I’m in the UK I’m gonna give it a try
@@supersonicsid5930 now you turn vietnam into a cesspit, and it's rich coming from the white working class sorry but you made London a cesspit it was full of poverty before we foreigners came and pour money into the city to get it booming, other than that it was a damn countryside nothing going on..
I remember looking out of my school window at ronan point on the day of the blast. And a friend of mine had a cat who was rescued from the rubble. Great film. Thanks.
My father was a firefighter based at Bishopsgate all through the Blitz, my mum worked in Bethnal Green. This film shows much more than one usually sees, thanks for that.
It brings a tear to my eye to see how our wonderful country, especially our capital is now almost no more, with all the sacrifices and real hardships the people of Britain have gone through for it to now be like it is now is heart breaking.
I was born in 1942 in Stoke Newington. My parents were born in the east end and their parents were immigrants that lived their lives in the east end. The sense of Family haslong gone as people moved and upgraded themselves. I miss those days of togetherness and feel sad that my grandchildren will never really know of that feeling. The London of that Era is long gone, but let’s hope that eventually people will start to pull together again!!
Great bit of film,& narrated well.As a south London boy we also have gone through an identical collapse.From the elephant & walworth my child hood to my great grand parents are lost forever.
@@olavwilhelm6843 The media would have you believe that, only 4% of the population are black, over 80% of the population are white, there's only white people in my village and 2 Asians in my local market town.
I'm in what used to be a small coastal town on the NW coast. I'm the only English person in the block of apartments I live in. They are not interested in learning English and mixing. To be honest I'm glad my life is nearly over because I don't recognise this country anymore.
i vagley remember going to visit my nan in Bow when i was about 2/3 years old. No indoor plumbing. bath was a tin tub in front of the coal fire in the living room. water pump in the garden to pump up the water than had to be put on the gas cooker to heat it up then poured into the tub. Loo was a shed at the bottom of the garden which just covered a hole and a plank of wood to sit on. that would of been about 1962 or 63. Its why everyone had a chamber pot under the bed as no one wanted to get out of bed at night and go to the bottom of the garden lol. Gas lights as no electric. She wasnt my real nan she was the mother of my foster dad but didnt know i was fostered back then. next time i went to visit was in 1977/78 when i was in basic training with the army at Woolwich. She was dead by then but her other son my foster dads brother still lived in the house and with no indoor plumbing But electric had been connected up. i saved the house from burning down as the firemen were on strike and i was on the green goddes working east and central London. went back to visit my uncle as often as i could while based in London. The house got pulled down about a year later and my uncle moved to Plastow. havnt been to London as i lost contact with family and freinds there when i got rebased to Germany since about 1979/80. well apart from when i had to take passengers to Heathrow when i was a taxi driver.
I’m from the old West Ham. Born mid sixties. Hate it now. Still got family in East Ham and Stratford and they wouldn’t blame me for calling it a shit hole. Nearly all the old good folk gone. Communities ruined, families no longer can support each other like they did. They used to be next door or down the road. You’ll be lucky to find family within ten miles of each other today…possibly hundreds of miles away what with the way councils have strategically split families up and labelled it ‘White flight’…more like pushed out. Not mine no more.
Thank God for Great Briton ... as Maggie Thatcher said... no one stood up to the Germans. Not France, Spain, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, North Africa, Belgium, the Netherlands, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, NO ONE but Briton, and then The Russian Army and the USA, Americans.
I have to say Poland made a stand against Germany even before war was declared but was overwhelmed by having soon to fight on two fronts, both east and west and then the south later. Neither Britain nor France came to the aid of Poland in time to avert ww2. They procrastinated. And plunged Europe into the darkest of times.
Poland wasnt allowed to stand up and defend itself neither was France. Poland had a far better army and better tanks than Germany had but had its hands tied behind its back by Britian and France as they wanted the war with Germany. France had the biggest most modern army in the world in 1939 and could of beaten germany with both hands tied behind its back. Churchill and Chamberlain both stated in 1933 that the war with Germany must last at least 3 years to give us time to flatten every German city. france wanted to start the war going in 1930 even before Hitler was elected but britian needed more time to build up its army. RAF had jet fighters ready in 1933 but not released for action till 1944. 1 Atom bomb built in 1933 but never used. Dam busters raid planned in 1930. bouncing bomb ready to go in 1933 but they didnt have a plane to carry it till the lancaster came along. Plan was sacrifce Poland and france and let germany win for 3 years before turning the tables. example of British power. 1939 Luftwaffe had 2k planes 500 were fighters. RAF had 2k planes 800 were fighters not counting the 2k hurricanes they had hidden away in ireland and the 2 squadrons of gloster whittle jets. france had 10k planes 2k were fighters. Panzer I 10mm armour medium machine gun. pazxer II 13mm armour twin heavy machine guns. panzer III didnt enter service till after France fell 26mm armour 40mm cannon. British light tanks 30mm armour heavy machine guns with anti tank ammo which none of the german tank had. cruiser tanks 50mm armour 2 pdr cannon (40mm) but best anti tank gun in the world. infantry tanks 100mm armour with a mix of weapons depending on their role. from machine guns to 220 mm petard morters for bunker busting. the 1936 matilda tanks had thicker armour than the tiger tanks had. 1939 french army went on the attack to aid Poland germany surrnederd when the German army was was routed and in full retreat as they had nothing to take out the french tanks. rejected by the allies and the French army given orders to retreat and never attack again. half the French army told to go to its colonies in Africa and stay there. 1940 Churchil gave orders for the British army to invade Norway cuse they refused to allow Britiaj to use ports and air bases in Norway to attack germany from. Norway asked Germany for help so Hitler sent in troops to fight long side the Norwegian army and kicked the Brits out. Chuchill then gave orders to start bombing Holland and invade belgium. germany respoded by going into Holland and belgium to help them out. 1940 BEF beat the german army in Belgium and Germany again surrendered but again rejected. BEF ordered to retreat and stop attacking. French army told to retreat again and allow the BEF to be surounded and cut off at dunkirk. Thats how the war went for the 1st 3 years. everytime the brits were wining battles they got told to retreat. D day was planned for 1946 but cause the russians were starting to win and not playing by Britians rules D day had to be bought forwards to 1944. Germany didnt start building up its army till 1938 when it saw the Polish army massing on its borders and the BEF arrived in France on the Belgiun border. Britian france and Poland had been planning the war and building its armies since 1925. techicly germany won WWI as the alies asked Germany for piece terms. But Germany refused to accept victory so called for an armastice with no winner or losser. Thye wrote the treaty of versaiile and stuck t it which Britian and france didnt do. it states no country can have more than 100k men in arms. no country can have an airforce and navies to be limits so everyone had the same amount of ships. al ignored by the allies as france built its army up to 2 million men while germany only had 50k. germany scrapped its airfore france and Britian built up theirs. Danzig demitrised zone as Poland didnt have a port for trading. Poland invaded it and annexed it making it part of Poland in 1921. Rhineland invaded by France in 1921 along with Mosseland and Alsac where they built the Maginot line on German land. As France surrendred to germany in 1916 they didnt lose many men so had their army still at full strenght where as Britian who stayed fighting till 1918 had very few men left so needed time to rebuild. Australia and New Zealand had lost 50% of its adult male population during WWI so refused to send anymore men to fight for Britian till WWII started. The african colnies had borders with german colonies so couldnt send any men to help out Britian. Indian army tied up fighting religoius revolts and warlords so they couldnt send any and the USA wanted out by mid 1918 as they had lost too many men and not gained any ground. Italy was bullied into the allies and didnt want to fight so just dug trenches and sat there. SO Britian were basicly on their own by 1918. all in the British miltriry archives if u know what to look for and have the security clearnce to see the unredacted files which i had when i was in the british army. Both wars were to break up germany which didnt form as a country till 1889 after constant attacks on the city sates by france and Russia and Britian saw a united germany as a threat to its global trading. so joined forces to wipe out germany. They never did succeed though lol.
Have never seen the footage of Mr Hearnes’ stand against compulsory purchase. No matter what politics one holds , you have to respect his balls of steel stand against authority 😮🏴❤️
I am a Canadian with no direct connections to London nor the war. For some reason or another I read watch and listen to ANYTHING to do with Londons east end historyi can get my hands on. I am just so facinated and interested in it. I could listen read or watch about this all day and night!. Thank you for this video.
Although a northerner I do know London quite well and enjoyed very much this nostalgic view of the East End. A much simpler and less stressful life than today's daily grind!
To think those Victorian slum houses ...that still stand are worth millions now that the poor lived in and owned in some cases then put in tower blocks in the 60's as the rebuild by Labour GOV. Still love the old buildings .....
My dad today at 88 years old was a boy back in 42 said the Doodle bug was the worst thing he vividly remembers ,the sound and then the quiet ,and the relief when it hit the ground in the distance ...one occasion though one hit a house in his street ...awful times I can only imagine .
I was born in Bethnal Green in 1952. It was poor and we played in the streets and on the bomb craters. Like anywhere else, it was alright if you had money. My first job at 15 payed me £4 /15 shillings per week. The average working man’s pay was £20. That said, £1 would buy 10 pints of beer and still leave 1 shilling and 8 pence change. 1 shilling would buy 5 cigarettes. Gives you an idea of the relative value of money compared with today.
I lived in Columbia rd from a baby. 1957. To 1977. And loved it then I moved around the east end do another 20 Years. Old Ford road. Then just off Roman road then back to Victoria park But I don’t go back there hardly just sometimes drive through it. It’s unbearable to see it now looking like a third world toilet 🚽 it’s like people from all the worst shit holes in the world as decimated it the east end is a pitiful sight now. In one generation it’s turned to shit. Peace and love to all patriots. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@russcooke5671 I know Colombia Road well. I used to go to the flower market on Sunday mornings, I also remember Brick Lane when there was a decent Sunday market. I remember my father taking me there when I was very young. He bought for me Sarsaparilla, Hot Dogs and Apple Fritters. There were parrots and tropical fish being sold. All sorts of things on the stalls to look at. To me it was marvellous. All gone now sadly.
I remember starting work at £5 a week but like you said you could get about 10 pints for a pound 10players number 6 cost 1/6 cod&chips was two Bob it cost about half a crown to go to the pictures so a fiver a week wasn't too bad for a sixteen year old when the mod era started yo could get a bespoke mohair suit made for £20 great time
As a Londoner who spent a lot of time in the east end. This film fills me with a sense of both melancholy and hope. Present day east end is is still very mixed. The bell foundry remains at least.
Just the building in White Chapel is all that still exists, unless someone reopened the foundry. That is the foundry that also cast the Liberty Bell that is in Philadelphia. You mean that one with the Muslim mosque catty-corner across the street right?
A more obediant minimum wage class (Immigrants) topped up by Universal Credit is the better option than the Cockney Rebels. Ethnic cleansing, you are not wrong mate.
nonsense alot like australia or North America ,South Africa , Tasmania real ethnical cleansing your just talking nonsense mate with actual guns mowed down rifles land taken pot into reservations actually exterminated , your just talking tosh its unbelievable
Thank-you for this wonderful documentary. Although I'm an American, I saw so many similarities in these communities and way of life that somehow mirror my own childhood. The small town I grew up in had a sense of togetherness through the churches and their parochial schools, the small "mom and pop" stores that had their loyal customers depending on which neighborhood you lived, and families that remained in the same area because there were jobs for just about everyone. Sadly, one by one, the factories shut down, small independent businesses could not compete with chain stores, and young people moved away to find better jobs. Suddenly families were scattered all over the country. Even our churches and schools closed their doors to consolidate with parishes in the next town. A way of life for generations of people is gone, and probably will never return.
Born in Hackney Hospital in 1950. Mum Dad and myself lived with grandparents in their 2 bed council flat for 4 years then into 'requisitioned property' which was 2 floors above a cafe that we shared with another family of 4 with one toilet and no bathroom. Finally got our own council flat in Hackney in 1959 which was luxury to us. Wouldn't have called us poor but by today's standards we were practically destitute. But I adored my East End childhood and feel privileged to have enjoyed such warmth and togetherness. The so called 'tough' East End was as safe as could be with people looking out for each other and extended families all living close by. All gone now. More's the pity.
Every city in the North of Britain experienced what london n South of England. suffered.. I was raised during post ww2. My dad was a stevadour in Liverpool
Yes, and Glasgow and Belfast were both very heavily bombed. Edinburgh firengines were sent to Glasgow and Dublin sent theirs fire engines to Belfast. All the port and industrial cities suffered, Cardiff, Bristol, Plymouth, Coventry, Clydebank, Liverpool amongst them.
My mum Maureen Brooks was 14 when faulty Doodlebugs ( so she said ) would land on her dads farm at Allington nr Maidstone . One weekday morning If it weren’t for her younger brother David holding them up & missing the school bus , they’d have been killed along with their schoolmates . She always reckoned they were luckier than them in London & nearby . ❤️
When Liverpool was bombed my mother used to see a red cloud over Liverpool from the promenade in Blackpool..very hard times..so sad you never see children playing together outdoors now..
Kids don't play outside in there streets anymore. It's a sad fact. I was bought up in the 60s and used to love playing out. My mum would use it as a punishment if we were naughty or didn't help round the house. She would simple say your not playing out then. That would make us move . Playing outside was everthing to us. Happy days. 😊
Interesting video! My family were South Londoners but moved out during WW2 so i have never lived there but worked in London for 20 years or so. London has always been a place where the population was fluid and constantly growing with new cultures arriving and changing the face of the City. We need to remember that Britain had an Empire then a commonwealth, full of foreign members some came to London to seek their fortune, maybe a better life or were just curious to what it was like to live in such a major city.
Yes, that Empire never benefited the native poor who were kept in poverty and used for cannon fodder, then after going through all that the ultimate betrayal.
@@johnfrancis2215 . Are you for real? Haven’t you heard of the foreign aid budget? We pay these countries hundreds of millions every year. So much so, that at least two of them have their own nuclear weapons and space programs. We can’t even provide for o😢homeless!!
@@bushwhackeddos.2703 . Err! Railways, Roads, Infrastructure, governance? Then, hundreds of millions every year. These “poor exploited countries” now have their own nuclear weapons and space programs courtesy of your taxes!
I loved this, thanks. For most of it I sat here fuming about WAR and how everyday people are the victims, until towards the end when the anger turned to sadness. Those poor people having to allow authorities to demolish their house was really moving as was the loss overall to that East End community as we veered towards 'modernity' with its own curses and joys.
@@ppullman5470 No... Karma doesn't strike the honest and truthful ones.. especially when they receive justice and feel like they get a sense of closure and the strengthening of their faith in the law of Karma.
I was born in Stepney in 1948 just opposite shadwell park in peobody buildings we were very poor in the winter because we couldn’t afford blankets we used to put coats over us boy it was freezing, every New Year’s Eve at midnight all the ships on the Thames would let there sirens go and I’m still going strong I now live in Essex as we say out in the stix it was tuff so we’re we I hope I didn’t bore anyone I’m an old git now
It breaks my heart what has happened to my East End used to be real gods country not Yorkshire. Born and bred there as were generations of our family. Once my Aunt leaves I would happily nuke it now. I ain't just talking from the past I still worked at home and only fled 15 years ago
I was born in Streatham 'Sarf London in 1952. Hard times for sure ! It's only later in life after my dear mother passed away I realized how hard it was for her to struggle with bringing up the family! We had nothing so to say --but we were happy! A nice little family! I left the UK in 1982 for good--never really missed a thing about it --maybe a little nostalgia as this film presents?
The community spirit in the East end died a long time ago...most don't even know who their neighbours are. With so many languages spoken, different religions, political differences and all the local pubs being converted into flats, there's not even a community anymore.
All things pass - the good along with the bad. The mempories remain, and, it is hoped, the best things that WERE influence our lives today. (served with the Met. Police - docklands 1963-1969).
I'm currently tucking into my breakfast which daily is a big bowl of jellied eels, I'm crying into the bowl now though as I've just noticed that the label on the jar states, Produce of China, You just wouldn't Adam and Eve it would ya?
How were they deceived by Churchill?,Hitlers Germany invaded Europe,which resulted in WW2,can you be a bit more specific,and elaborate on your statement.
@@jenniferpower981 Hitler was goaded into invading one of other country in the first instance in order to protect his own tortured people, It was all part of a plan to destroy Germany by the communists, big bankers probably behind the whole thing, as Hitler had found a way to help his people out of the terrible times they had face since WW1. Churchill was a man with huge gambling and drinking debts, so any easy target for bribery and he pushed for war unnecessarily. Look into Churchills full early history by alternative writers, the truth is all there for you to find. He was a war mongerer and a mass murderer , even of his own. Start searching.
My nan and grandad sent my aunt and uncles to be evacuated but after a few month's my nan was sent to get the kids because they were having a hard time .luckily tyey all made it through the war. I have so much respect for our ancestors who went through both world wars and Winston Churchill. My parents were born in London
Do you think the people of that era didn't loudly complain about their lot? They joined unions & fought for their rights. But there was always a cap doffer who was telling people they should be happy as it was even worse in Victorian times.
This is very interesting. Thank you. I think I had it on DVD, but someone stole a load of my stuff and I think this went too. Actually good to hear a presenter that sounds more 'real'. What happened to the couple who were fighting for their house?
I bet it doesn't look anything like that anymore more like Bangladesh or Pakistan sad state of affairs Complete Decline Of Our History Culture And Identity
East End always was about immigrants first the Huguenots fleeing persecution from France, then the Irish building the canals and then the Jews in the 1930s escaping Nazi Germany. A couple of decades later there were Ugandan Asians fleeing Idi Amin and then Bangladeshis. The east End has changed each time a new group has come along from the weaving techniques and linen shops of the Huguenots, the Jewish Taylors (and bagels), to the array of Bangladeshi restaurants in Brick Lane. Don't blink or the next group of people from overseas will have come and gone.
All my snaps of me as a child in the East End were taken in the back garden, there was the outside brick toilet and near it was the Anderson shelter not yet dismantled.
@@newsmansuper2925 Obadiah, his servants. There shall, in that time, be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things wi-- with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock. Yea, it is written in the book of Cyril that, in that time, shall the third one...
I hope you are going to talk about the Bethnal Green tube disaster, we lost family in that and a few of my Aunts went round the bend because of lack of oxygen. Just saw you skip over it . Hackney Marshes a fucking public park. It is smaller now because the Olympic bollocks but its the home of football
I remember in the sixties I was out on a red rover and was near the docks and looked down a street lined either side with single story terraced houses all boarded up ready for demolition, looked kinda sad to me then.
As a child lived in Silvertown in East London. Our street, post WWII was the only street in that area that did not have a bomb site for us kids to play on, we real felt underprivileged. Dad had been a regular soldier in the 1930s, like so many he could not stand being unemployed so joined the Army, finishing his service in 1938 but was called back to his regiment on 1st September 1939. He was in Norway, North Africa and Italy where at Anzio he was wounded for the third time and eventually invalided out of the Army on 25th December 1944. His four brothers were Uncle Tom, a Fireman, Dad always said that was the most dangerous job, Uncle Donald, a RAF Sargent working on the first computers at Bletchley Park, Uncle Joe, a RN sailor on small ships that were used to shepherd the merchant ships sailing to their starting point, North of Scotland for their voyage to Murmansk in Norther Russia to aid our Soviet comrades fighting against the Nazi Germans and Uncle Ernie, who was a contentious objector, Dad always said he must have been a very brave man to face up to what ‘conchies’ were put through, as he was forcibly put into the Army and had to make it plain to the officers and the squadIes that he was not going to fight whatever the did to him. He was eventually discharged and sent sheep farming in North Wales. My mother was a SRN nurse who was a Ward Sister in the hospital my father was went into on his returned from Norway in 1940. I was born in March 1945.
@@carolevans5285 I've been reading a few of your comments and you sound bitter. Perhaps you should get out of Dodge too while you still can. I was born in Tottenham 1964. Thought I'd never leave London, best city in the World. Managed fifty years before I couldn't take it any more. All my favourite pubs being converted into Mosques... The thing is, I went to school with kids from all over the Commonwealth. We were all Londoners in our own way. We all loved our upbringing. We used to play out after school until the street lights went on or until we heard Mum shout 'dinner's ready.' Even the kids I grew up with that had heritage from all over the planet agree that the immigration situation is and has been disasterous for several decades now. After a few years partying in South East Asia I now live in the West Midlands. I love it. The Locals are a bit weird but we have great banter just different banter to that of Working Class London. I feel like I'm English again.
All I can say as a British girl born in 1960 a era that was becoming on top of what my parents as children and my grandparents living world war 2 and my great grandparents on the front ! I am sad to see 🇬🇧 as it is now ! Because that generation battled through life to give their future generations freedom ! And we’re always proud of their country , rations air raid shelters letting their children go away to safer areas !! Tough times ! And we survived as Brits ! And now look 👀! 🇬🇧
What happened was the new towns, where folk were encouraged to go to move out of the crowded london (in a hope that a nuke on london would still allow diverse engineering etc in Basildon and Harlow to carry on. My cousins moved to Hertford as that grew from being born in Clapton.
No matter what we have now in the way of hardships, traumas, upsets, worries, heartbreaks, sadness, horror and fright, it pales in comparison to those living and dying in World War 2.
I was born i hackney my mother and brother in whitechaple and had my great grandmother in the old kent road and family in strattford the community spirit and neighbourliness is what made it great apart from that it was a real shit hole slums no bathrooms outside toilets delapatated houses people tried to keep them clean &nice until the day my dad died st 87 he never forgot how terrible it was
I'm an East Ender born in 1962 in Forest Gate, lived in Stratford, so I can really relate to this wonderful film❤
Brought tears to my eyes watching and listening to the grateful, happy little kids sitting on the kerbs opening their presents wrapped in newspaper at 40.20 ...beautiful little ones who didn't have a pot to piss in as we used to say, but so grateful for what they were given, bless 'em❤
What a bloody awful different world we live in now, certainly not for the better!😢
Thank you, I have loved watching my lovely old ancestors ❤❤❤
Same as 1963 Coborn Rd Bow really enjoyed this film, what our parent's went through eh.
I'm afraid to tell you that Forest Gate and Stratford have never been part of the East End (it only went as far as the River Lea to the east). Indeed, in 1962 Forest Gate and Stratford were not even part of London but still in Essex (the Becontree Hundred).
I lived in Manor Road, near West Ham statiom as a kid, near Manor Road buildings. I temember Ronan Point, falling down.
@@markstein4239 interesting .
so Stratford wasnt considered part of the east end , how about west ham and east ham ?
would you consider hackney ,clapton , haggerston ,dalston stokenewington east end because on alot of thoes streets youll find alot of old street signs with the NE sign postcode in clapton dalston haggerston etc even Victoria park and my old area debeauvior n1
what areas do you consider specifically and strictily as the east end historically and factually ?
My dad is an Islington lad. He was evacuated to Cornwall when he was just 3 years old. He lived on a farm with a couple who had a son. He came back to London when he was 7. The couple who took care of him loved him so much, they asked to keep him, but my grandmother wanted him back naturally. He has the fondest memories of his time in Cornwall and the family he stayed with. He’s still living in Islington at 83 and doing very well.
What a lovely story.
How lucky you are to still have the living memory. Oh the things that man must have witnessed in his life. Bless him. I hope you continue to share his stories.
Thank you all for your lovely comments. Dad’s still doing well 😃
@@MyDaisy66 4am in West Australia and I have to say that you just made my day. I'm very happy to hear that.
me mum used to go on holiday in the 50s and 60s to the family she stayed with in Devon- they returned after the "phoney war " She was about 13 when she went down from SW London and spent 3 months in a school / place in Cornwall (her dad was building airfields in Cornwall and Brother prepping for D Day etc ) and she was a pupil - teacher to some of the little ones from the East End of London.
I was born in Hackney 1963. What a wonderful film to see what my ancestors went through, they're from Bethnal Green, Stepney, Mile End and Poplar. Would of loved to sit n watch that with grandad, but he was born in 1904 in Bethnal Green. Thank you for a wonderful film.
I could listen to this warm East End voice forever. It reminds me of home. I'm an ex Bow girl and lived all around Roman Road. I miss the old place and the original people every single day! Thank you for the upload.
hello, I was wondering what a Bow girl is? Google didn't help
If I'm not incorrect, I think it means that you were born within the sound of Bow's Church bells.
I'm not from there but I know we are all one 😘
@Miss J.D what time period was you in Bow , 1960's by any chance
@@edavies7083 A Bow girl is someone born in Bow which is a place in the east end of London there's also Bromley by Bow which is virtually the same area.There's a loch that runs through there of course known as "Bow loch" so B^^^^^ks is also a nick name for a mans private parts and also referred to as his Bromleys because of Bromley by Bow.
I miss so much about the old London and the old England. Thanks for this brilliant film; such evocative footage and superbly narrated.
I was born at the end of WWII and grew up in New Cross. My Dad used to take me every Sunday up to ‘see the sights’. We went on the 53 bus along the Old Kent Road. I feel as if I lived through the war, because of the devastation and rationing and the stories I heard. When I was 21 I came with my husband to North Carolina. I shall soon be 80, yet those childhood days are more real to me now than the time we live in. I think so many old people left must feel that way. My grandmother’s house was still lit by gas….and I loved the milkman’s horse. We also used to go to Nunhead Cemetery to collect conkers. I love these videos on UA-cam. I spend hours looking at them and they are wonderful. Thanks to all who took the time to put them together!
I was born 1955 , Mile End Hospital, Stratford but moved out East London in 1967 for Essex. Generally , I had the best of years as it was far enough after the war and an exciting time of growth where home ownership started to become a reality for the children of those whose parents never dreamed of the idea. I went back for a visit mid 80's and MY East End no longer exists at all, much of what was brought up in the film being the reason, lack of community being the death knell. Now I have to belong to nostalgia groups to be reminded of what has gone and will never be again.
Of course there's still a community, just not your community...Your parents out though, along with many other East Enders, offered better housing in the counties. i bet they jumped at the chance.
Thank you for this narrative and film. ❤
@Bert Clarke thanks Bert, I suppose as a kid they were so close I melled them into one.. as the man in the orphopedic boot said " I stand corrected'
Same,Bor 1956. My mum stayed until she passed 1993. I saw the decline and felt like a foreigner in my OWN country. Glad I don't have to go to go to London
But devastated that I had to leave my roots.
19 Coborn Rd 1963 right across the Rd from Mile End Hospital
Heart breaking to see what my beloved London has turned into , today it's the worlds dumping ground
And the traffic restrictions make the controlled zones look like a ghost town.
Guess that is what depopulation will look like with the Globalists.....
All governments are the enemy whom for the most part continue to deceive us along with the international hyenas in mainstream media inc' here.
It always was…that’s what London is.
All the shit floats here. And like shit to a blanket it stays.
Agreed
Kids nowadays have absolutely zero idea of the hardships those children faced back then.
But they were happier and led more fulfilling lives.
stupid remark !! of course not - how can they ?
I was born in St Olave’s Hospital 1943 ,under the sound of Bow Bell 🛎 I’m a true Cockney !!
"As if that's something to be proud of"
@@blueshirtman8875 Where are you from?
@@JazzFunkNobby1964 If you look up to the moon and see a small planet to the right, that's my home. We have been watching you Earthlings for many star times and the conclusion is you are a pathetic species.
@@JazzFunkNobby1964 Probably some Indian/paki/muslim that came in via a dingy.
I lived in Bethnal Green, and was born in 1941. I lived in Bonner street, opposite The Bishop Bonner pub, I well remember starting my breakfast at home and finishing it in the brick air raid shelter in Royston street, across the road. And I did sleep in Bethnal green underground station one night. And I remember seeing a "doodlebug" (V1 rocket or was it V2 ) flying over from my bedroom window, and that noise you never forget. The engine/rocket cut out after a few seconds, and then the explosion. It demolished a whole area of houses about 120 metres away. Frank Chappell
It was a V1, you never saw a V2. Like modern missiles, V2 traveled in a high arc so came almost straight down at great speed and were not seen. The first one that fell on London was at first thought to be a domestic gas explosion.
You told a huuuge porky pie when you said you remembered that incident.
I come from bethnal green and so did all my family, past and present. I used to go bishop of bonner
I think the doodle bug was the V2 the V1 was silent you had no chance to get down the air raid shelter before it hit
@@almacmathain6195I've always thought it was the other way round the V1 in the imperial War museum is basically a rocket whereas the V2 was like a pilot less plane which you would hear coming
Love watching all these old films....I was born on Lower Clapton Road, Hackney in the Salvation Army hospital. I'm now in one of them new towns you mentioned, Harlow and even though half the people in the East end now wouldn't even know what a Cockney is, I'll always be proud of my Cockney roots.
@@d.d.4703 that's the place, my mum was born there too. The building is still there but been converted into flats. Think it's now called mother's square or something similar.
I was born here
Funny, talking my new neighbour in a small town in kent… so was he !
my foster dad was cockny born in Bow. his mums house didnt get pulled down till the late 70's. i remember going there to visit as a toddler. everyone knew each other and looked out for each other. real community spirit.
They might of been poor but it didnt stop them having fun.. when ever i went to visit family in London in the late 70's early 80's i was always made welcome by everyone in the street. But that might be cause i was stationed their on the green goddess during the 77 firemans strike and i put out a lot of fires there.
Most of the houses still didnt have indoor plumbing even then. But they refused to move to newer housing.
@@cliffbird5016 everyone look out for eachother because they were poor that's it...
My dear old Mum was born in Silver Street, Stepney. December 12th 1923. She was so proud of being a Cockney. The whole family moved up to Stone, Staffs just after the war. They were outcasts, foreigners, spoke funny. She'd sit and watch Eastenders on the telly, always said they were nowt like the real thing. Their accents sounded fake.
Bagpuss!..❤
She was right, its all fake. That's not how real cockneys talk
And I'm sure real Eastenders were never as miserable as their television counterparts. Although I could be wrong.
@@teeteringonthebrink.305 Each and every one of my Cockney relatives were always cheerful.
@@Glamrockqueen I suspected that to be the case.👍
Old Cockney spirit, family comes from it ...brought up in London, still my home in heart, but moved away, cause it is not London I know and loved.
Me too
Same
This toolk me back to when our room and kitchen with outside toilet was compulsory purchased when I was 8 in 1960. I was born in Edinburgh but worked in London for 5 years in the 1970's. I have fond memories of the great working people of all race and religion I lived with in London.
It's people like the East Enders that make a city.
so poverty made London then... London wasn't booming back then.
My poor old mother went down to the shelter during a bombing raid, came back up after the 'all clear' and the house was gone along with the furniture. This was to happen three times. It did not break her spirit but made her more resolute to survive, and survive she did, went on to have more children and died a happy woman. This happened to thousands of families all over the country and made the nation bond and helped each other along the way. Will the bond be as strong today ! if a calamity were to befall the nation ? Some how I don't think so.
No, it won’t. Look at the numbers of homeless and the pitiful donations to such charities as ‘Shelter’, yet we’ll happily send millions to other countries when the “celebrities” tell us to, (and that’s on top of the billions sent via the overseas aid budget), still, we can pat ourselves on the back and say how virtuous we are!
I only donate to charities that help our own people now, (CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME). I best leave it there!
Comparing the two is like comparing chalk and cheese. Different everything. First the people are different. That time the people were all mostly English born and white. The difference is obvious today. The commonwealth came home to roost in the motherland. The layout of the land is different, new streets appearing old lanways blocked of every bit of land is being built on. It doesn't matter what they building is as long as they can build corruption rife. That's the devide these day's. The government controlling everything and nothing. Everything is GB is in decline and it's noticeable. Personally I hate to see it go this way. Big mistake leaving EU. I'd like to see you back in, a strong GB is good for all especially us . I'm Rep Irish but I hate to see you in this state. We all have someone in GB. ✌️☘️
@edwardoleyba3075
Don't feel so bad... nothing that's happening now hasn't happened before... the people of your colonies too must've felt beyond terrible to lose their sons and their hard earned money through the imposed extra tough taxation for your wars... Due to Churchill's hoarding of grains, he created a famine in which millions of Indians died... your ancestors despised and looked down upon the Hindus if India... the oldest surviving religion of the world... just because we believe in multiple Gods... which is totally wrong.. our religion is a philosophy which many have found to be far more sophisticated and organic than a book if rules if I may say so...
Your people converted folks all over the world... treated the blacks in a manner beyond evil..
N now, Pakistan, a country your people made to spite India and the Hindua, is your nemesis.... with their population terrorizing you in your homes.. Bangladeshis too...
While the same Hindus are in the highest earners in the UK.
Karma at its best, my friend.
As a west Londoner born in the thirties it breaks my heart to see London as it is today.
Especially now as the London sewer rats have for the first time in history got one of their own in office as mayor.
It's been ruined by all governments and still continues with each government and mayor.
These have done far more everlasting damage than the Luftwaffe ever did and who only targeted city's after Harris and Co targeted German city's.
It breaks my heart to see London today and I'm from the North.Same up north to I'm so angry and sad.
@@Brittunculi , it's the complete country esp' Towns and Cities and with time it will be total , one doesn't need to be any scientist to recognise the fact that it is primarily enabled to breed us out of existence and it's not only this Country as when one looks to continental Europe it's exactly the same and inevitably will concur globally yet conveniently we are not allowed to discuss openly the instigating reason's behind this agenda as law's have been brought forth which forbids discussion thus enabled by legalised criminal's which act as governments/law/education/media and so forth plus the dividing of people's fulfills further the hidden agenda again by Large which we are vilified to discuss openly with the label of racism as a known quote once said : 'If you want to know who controls you , look at who you are not allowed to criticize'.
@@sjacrane How right you are Sir
I work throughout the East end. Canning Town, Plaistow, Hackney Bow etc, I myself was born in Stepney in 1976. Some of these characters are still around, but unfortunately they are few and far between. If ever you get into Canning Town. Try out B.Js pie and mash on the Barking Road.
BJs. And pie mash sounds good to me. Barking road here I come. 👌👌👌
@@russcooke5671 same here. 😁
Love pie and mash. I can never leave London. It's either in your blood or its not.
@@carolevans5285
I moved out of London 10 years ago as the political elite have turned it into a cesspit. I felt like I was the foreigner in my own country. 20% white 80% not white , I moved to Vietnam the only thing I would come back for is Pie & Mash . Even what used to be my my local pie & mash shop in shepherds Bush has now disappeared . I have heard there is a relatively new one in Portabella rd next time I’m in the UK I’m gonna give it a try
@@supersonicsid5930 now you turn vietnam into a cesspit, and it's rich coming from the white working class sorry but you made London a cesspit it was full of poverty before we foreigners came and pour money into the city to get it booming, other than that it was a damn countryside nothing going on..
I remember looking out of my school window at ronan point on the day of the blast. And a friend of mine had a cat who was rescued from the rubble.
Great film. Thanks.
My father was a firefighter based at Bishopsgate all through the Blitz, my mum worked in Bethnal Green. This film shows much more than one usually sees, thanks for that.
The bit about the Toy Fair on floor 3 at selfridges got me, did many folk travel there from Bethnal Green on the tube?
It brings a tear to my eye to see how our wonderful country, especially our capital is now almost no more, with all the sacrifices and real hardships the people of Britain have gone through for it to now be like it is now is heart breaking.
Totally agree, my dad who was in the 8th Army wished he'd never fought. Passed away totally demoralised. Very sad.
Very true.
who cares
@@johnbobson1557 are you aware it's more deeper than we would ever know, unfortunately all the soldiers who died were s___crifice by the elite
London has improved big time.
I was born in 1942 in Stoke Newington. My parents were born in the east end and their parents were immigrants that lived their lives in the east end. The sense of Family haslong gone as people moved and upgraded themselves. I miss those days of togetherness
and feel sad that my grandchildren will never really know of that feeling. The London of that Era is long gone, but let’s hope that
eventually people will start to pull together again!!
Great bit of film,& narrated well.As a south London boy we also have gone through an identical collapse.From the elephant & walworth my child hood to my great grand parents are lost forever.
Yea I grew up off east lane
Born 1956
Found this to be an excellent watch. A little before my time but my parents lived through these years. Glad to have found this.
East end boy born 1962.. Love the old not the so called new
Wonderful,today .London is a foreign country
isn't england New pakistan anyway ?
So sad
@@olavwilhelm6843 The media would have you believe that, only 4% of the population are black, over 80% of the population are white, there's only white people in my village and 2 Asians in my local market town.
I'm in what used to be a small coastal town on the NW coast. I'm the only English person in the block of apartments I live in. They are not interested in learning English and mixing. To be honest I'm glad my life is nearly over because I don't recognise this country anymore.
i vagley remember going to visit my nan in Bow when i was about 2/3 years old. No indoor plumbing. bath was a tin tub in front of the coal fire in the living room. water pump in the garden to pump up the water than had to be put on the gas cooker to heat it up then poured into the tub. Loo was a shed at the bottom of the garden which just covered a hole and a plank of wood to sit on. that would of been about 1962 or 63. Its why everyone had a chamber pot under the bed as no one wanted to get out of bed at night and go to the bottom of the garden lol. Gas lights as no electric.
She wasnt my real nan she was the mother of my foster dad but didnt know i was fostered back then.
next time i went to visit was in 1977/78 when i was in basic training with the army at Woolwich. She was dead by then but her other son my foster dads brother still lived in the house and with no indoor plumbing But electric had been connected up. i saved the house from burning down as the firemen were on strike and i was on the green goddes working east and central London. went back to visit my uncle as often as i could while based in London.
The house got pulled down about a year later and my uncle moved to Plastow. havnt been to London as i lost contact with family and freinds there when i got rebased to Germany since about 1979/80.
well apart from when i had to take passengers to Heathrow when i was a taxi driver.
I’m from the old West Ham. Born mid sixties. Hate it now. Still got family in East Ham and Stratford and they wouldn’t blame me for calling it a shit hole. Nearly all the old good folk gone. Communities ruined, families no longer can support each other like they did. They used to be next door or down the road. You’ll be lucky to find family within ten miles of each other today…possibly hundreds of miles away what with the way councils have strategically split families up and labelled it ‘White flight’…more like pushed out. Not mine no more.
loooool that's all you people know how to do complain.. and it's not a shit hole sorry we have invested so much in London
Absolutely spot on
i hear what your saying but how have they done that ?
and what was the purpose ?
How true is that...... The blitz epitomised the sense of belonging the spirit unbreakable .... another era...never to be repeated
Thank God for Great Briton ... as Maggie Thatcher said... no one stood up to the Germans. Not France, Spain, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, North Africa, Belgium, the Netherlands, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, NO ONE but Briton, and then The Russian Army and the USA, Americans.
'we fought the wrong enemy' , General George S. Patton,Jr.
I have to say Poland made a stand against Germany even before war was declared but was overwhelmed by having soon to fight on two fronts, both east and west and then the south later. Neither Britain nor France came to the aid of Poland in time to avert ww2. They procrastinated. And plunged Europe into the darkest of times.
Poland wasnt allowed to stand up and defend itself neither was France. Poland had a far better army and better tanks than Germany had but had its hands tied behind its back by Britian and France as they wanted the war with Germany.
France had the biggest most modern army in the world in 1939 and could of beaten germany with both hands tied behind its back.
Churchill and Chamberlain both stated in 1933 that the war with Germany must last at least 3 years to give us time to flatten every German city. france wanted to start the war going in 1930 even before Hitler was elected but britian needed more time to build up its army. RAF had jet fighters ready in 1933 but not released for action till 1944. 1 Atom bomb built in 1933 but never used. Dam busters raid planned in 1930. bouncing bomb ready to go in 1933 but they didnt have a plane to carry it till the lancaster came along. Plan was sacrifce Poland and france and let germany win for 3 years before turning the tables.
example of British power. 1939 Luftwaffe had 2k planes 500 were fighters. RAF had 2k planes 800 were fighters not counting the 2k hurricanes they had hidden away in ireland and the 2 squadrons of gloster whittle jets. france had 10k planes 2k were fighters. Panzer I 10mm armour medium machine gun. pazxer II 13mm armour twin heavy machine guns. panzer III didnt enter service till after France fell 26mm armour 40mm cannon.
British light tanks 30mm armour heavy machine guns with anti tank ammo which none of the german tank had. cruiser tanks 50mm armour 2 pdr cannon (40mm) but best anti tank gun in the world. infantry tanks 100mm armour with a mix of weapons depending on their role. from machine guns to 220 mm petard morters for bunker busting.
the 1936 matilda tanks had thicker armour than the tiger tanks had.
1939 french army went on the attack to aid Poland germany surrnederd when the German army was was routed and in full retreat as they had nothing to take out the french tanks. rejected by the allies and the French army given orders to retreat and never attack again. half the French army told to go to its colonies in Africa and stay there. 1940 Churchil gave orders for the British army to invade Norway cuse they refused to allow Britiaj to use ports and air bases in Norway to attack germany from. Norway asked Germany for help so Hitler sent in troops to fight long side the Norwegian army and kicked the Brits out.
Chuchill then gave orders to start bombing Holland and invade belgium. germany respoded by going into Holland and belgium to help them out. 1940 BEF beat the german army in Belgium and Germany again surrendered but again rejected. BEF ordered to retreat and stop attacking. French army told to retreat again and allow the BEF to be surounded and cut off at dunkirk.
Thats how the war went for the 1st 3 years. everytime the brits were wining battles they got told to retreat.
D day was planned for 1946 but cause the russians were starting to win and not playing by Britians rules D day had to be bought forwards to 1944.
Germany didnt start building up its army till 1938 when it saw the Polish army massing on its borders and the BEF arrived in France on the Belgiun border. Britian france and Poland had been planning the war and building its armies since 1925. techicly germany won WWI as the alies asked Germany for piece terms. But Germany refused to accept victory so called for an armastice with no winner or losser.
Thye wrote the treaty of versaiile and stuck t it which Britian and france didnt do. it states no country can have more than 100k men in arms. no country can have an airforce and navies to be limits so everyone had the same amount of ships. al ignored by the allies as france built its army up to 2 million men while germany only had 50k. germany scrapped its airfore france and Britian built up theirs.
Danzig demitrised zone as Poland didnt have a port for trading. Poland invaded it and annexed it making it part of Poland in 1921. Rhineland invaded by France in 1921 along with Mosseland and Alsac where they built the Maginot line on German land.
As France surrendred to germany in 1916 they didnt lose many men so had their army still at full strenght where as Britian who stayed fighting till 1918 had very few men left so needed time to rebuild. Australia and New Zealand had lost 50% of its adult male population during WWI so refused to send anymore men to fight for Britian till WWII started. The african colnies had borders with german colonies so couldnt send any men to help out Britian. Indian army tied up fighting religoius revolts and warlords so they couldnt send any and the USA wanted out by mid 1918 as they had lost too many men and not gained any ground. Italy was bullied into the allies and didnt want to fight so just dug trenches and sat there. SO Britian were basicly on their own by 1918.
all in the British miltriry archives if u know what to look for and have the security clearnce to see the unredacted files which i had when i was in the british army.
Both wars were to break up germany which didnt form as a country till 1889 after constant attacks on the city sates by france and Russia and Britian saw a united germany as a threat to its global trading. so joined forces to wipe out germany. They never did succeed though lol.
@@marymortimer5037 Oh do shut up. It was Germany that plunged Europe into the darkest of times.
@@cliffbird5016 Sounds like a rewriting of history to me.
Have never seen the footage of Mr Hearnes’ stand against compulsory purchase. No matter what politics one holds , you have to respect his balls of steel stand against authority 😮🏴❤️
I am a Canadian with no direct connections to London nor the war. For some reason or another I read watch and listen to ANYTHING to do with Londons east end historyi can get my hands on. I am just so facinated and interested in it. I could listen read or watch about this all day and night!. Thank you for this video.
Must have an ancestral tie.
Suggest you become a member of the London Topographical Society
Thanks for sharing this amazing film of the old East End. Never to be seen again I especially enjoyed the narration.
Although a northerner I do know London quite well and enjoyed very much this nostalgic view of the East End. A much simpler and less stressful life than today's daily grind!
Less stressful? 😲
To think those Victorian slum houses ...that still stand are worth millions now that the poor lived in and owned in some cases then put in tower blocks in the 60's as the rebuild by Labour GOV. Still love the old buildings .....
My dad today at 88 years old was a boy back in 42 said the Doodle bug was the worst thing he vividly remembers ,the sound and then the quiet ,and the relief when it hit the ground in the distance ...one occasion though one hit a house in his street ...awful times I can only imagine .
Brilliant, absorbing history of that period of the East End. Thank you.
The Docks going was the beginning of the end.
I was born in Bethnal Green in 1952. It was poor and we played in the streets and on the bomb craters. Like anywhere else, it was alright if you had money. My first job at 15 payed me £4 /15 shillings per week. The average working man’s pay was £20. That said, £1 would buy 10 pints of beer and still leave 1 shilling and 8 pence change. 1 shilling would buy 5 cigarettes. Gives you an idea of the relative value of money compared with today.
I lived in Columbia rd from a baby. 1957. To 1977. And loved it then I moved around the east end do another 20 Years. Old Ford road. Then just off Roman road then back to Victoria park But I don’t go back there hardly just sometimes drive through it. It’s unbearable to see it now looking like a third world toilet 🚽 it’s like people from all the worst shit holes in the world as decimated it the east end is a pitiful sight now. In one generation it’s turned to shit. Peace and love to all patriots. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@russcooke5671 I know Colombia Road well. I used to go to the flower market on Sunday mornings, I also remember Brick Lane when there was a decent Sunday market. I remember my father taking me there when I was very young. He bought for me Sarsaparilla, Hot Dogs and Apple Fritters. There were parrots and tropical fish being sold. All sorts of things on the stalls to look at. To me it was marvellous. All gone now sadly.
@@russcooke5671 racist
I remember starting work at £5 a week but like you said you could get about 10 pints for a pound 10players number 6 cost 1/6 cod&chips was two Bob it cost about half a crown to go to the pictures so a fiver a week wasn't too bad for a sixteen year old when the mod era started yo could get a bespoke mohair suit made for £20 great time
Every body went hopping that was a working holiday for people in East and South London
As a Londoner who spent a lot of time in the east end. This film fills me with a sense of both melancholy and hope.
Present day east end is is still very mixed. The bell foundry remains at least.
Just the building in White Chapel is all that still exists, unless someone reopened the foundry. That is the foundry that also cast the Liberty Bell that is in Philadelphia. You mean that one with the Muslim mosque catty-corner across the street right?
But nothing of my lovely community 😢
A beautiful people with a distinct culture of music language and food. All gone up the Swanny. Why? Ethnically cleansed that’s why!!!
A more obediant minimum wage class (Immigrants) topped up by Universal Credit is the better option than the Cockney Rebels.
Ethnic cleansing, you are not wrong mate.
nonsense
alot like australia or North America ,South Africa , Tasmania real ethnical cleansing your just talking nonsense mate
with actual guns mowed down rifles land taken pot into reservations
actually exterminated , your just talking tosh its unbelievable
Very sad to see London as it is today our for father's would turn in their graves to see it today
Brilliant documentary, I'm surprised this hasn't been more popular
Wow what a powerful piece of film. Thank you for this wonderful piece of film . So sad to see the demise of the community and way of life.
Thank-you for this wonderful documentary. Although I'm an American, I saw so many similarities in these communities and way of life that somehow mirror my own childhood. The small town I grew up in had a sense of togetherness through the churches and their parochial schools, the small "mom and pop" stores that had their loyal customers depending on which neighborhood you lived, and families that remained in the same area because there were jobs for just about everyone. Sadly, one by one, the factories shut down, small independent businesses could not compete with chain stores, and young people moved away to find better jobs. Suddenly families were scattered all over the country. Even our churches and schools closed their doors to consolidate with parishes in the next town. A way of life for generations of people is gone, and probably will never return.
What a great documentary , this should be on the tv , as a min series , Thank you for the great upload :)
Excellent video - excellent narration - thank you!
Im a Northerner, but i thoroughly enjoyed that, very good indeed
Born in Hackney Hospital in 1950. Mum Dad and myself lived with grandparents in their 2 bed council flat for 4 years then into 'requisitioned property' which was 2 floors above a cafe that we shared with another family of 4 with one toilet and no bathroom. Finally got our own council flat in Hackney in 1959 which was luxury to us. Wouldn't have called us poor but by today's standards we were practically destitute.
But I adored my East End childhood and feel privileged to have enjoyed such warmth and togetherness. The so called 'tough' East End was as safe as could be with people looking out for each other and extended families all living close by.
All gone now. More's the pity.
Really good docu, really enjoyed this. thank you.
Well done mate. Quality documentary.
Every city in the North of Britain experienced what london n South of England. suffered.. I was raised during post ww2. My dad was a stevadour in Liverpool
Every city in Britain suffered during the blitz especially if it had docks or important railway junctions
Yes, and Glasgow and Belfast were both very heavily bombed. Edinburgh firengines were sent to Glasgow and Dublin sent theirs fire engines to Belfast. All the port and industrial cities suffered, Cardiff, Bristol, Plymouth, Coventry, Clydebank, Liverpool amongst them.
My mum Maureen Brooks was 14 when faulty Doodlebugs ( so she said ) would land on her dads farm at Allington nr Maidstone . One weekday morning If it weren’t for her younger brother David holding them up & missing the school bus , they’d have been killed along with their schoolmates . She always reckoned they were luckier than them in London & nearby . ❤️
When Liverpool was bombed my mother used to see a red cloud over Liverpool from the promenade in Blackpool..very hard times..so sad you never see children playing together outdoors now..
Kids don't play outside in there streets anymore. It's a sad fact. I was bought up in the 60s and used to love playing out. My mum would use it as a punishment if we were naughty or didn't help round the house. She would simple say your not playing out then. That would make us move . Playing outside was everthing to us. Happy days. 😊
Too many perverts around!
Interesting video! My family were South Londoners but moved out during WW2 so i have never lived there but worked in London for 20 years or so. London has always been a place where the population was fluid and constantly growing with new cultures arriving and changing the face of the City. We need to remember that Britain had an Empire then a commonwealth, full of foreign members some came to London to seek their fortune, maybe a better life or were just curious to what it was like to live in such a major city.
Yes, that Empire never benefited the native poor who were kept in poverty and used for cannon fodder, then after going through all that the ultimate betrayal.
@@bushwhackeddos.2703 nailed it 💯
@@johnfrancis2215 . Are you for real? Haven’t you heard of the foreign aid budget? We pay these countries hundreds of millions every year. So much so, that at least two of them have their own nuclear weapons and space programs. We can’t even provide for o😢homeless!!
@@bushwhackeddos.2703 . Err! Railways, Roads, Infrastructure, governance? Then, hundreds of millions every year. These “poor exploited countries” now have their own nuclear weapons and space programs courtesy of your taxes!
@@bushwhackeddos.2703 not our fault...
I loved this, thanks. For most of it I sat here fuming about WAR and how everyday people are the victims, until towards the end when the anger turned to sadness. Those poor people having to allow authorities to demolish their house was really moving as was the loss overall to that East End community as we veered towards 'modernity' with its own curses and joys.
not many white faces left in the East End now
Hmmmm Karma's hard comeback!
@@proudindiancitizen2494 Hmmmm But Karma will return again to strike at the smug and ungrateful. Thank god for that.
@@ppullman5470
No... Karma doesn't strike the honest and truthful ones.. especially when they receive justice and feel like they get a sense of closure and the strengthening of their faith in the law of Karma.
nonsense
I was born in Stepney in 1948 just opposite shadwell park in peobody buildings we were very poor in the winter because we couldn’t afford blankets we used to put coats over us boy it was freezing, every New Year’s Eve at midnight all the ships on the Thames would let there sirens go and I’m still going strong I now live in Essex as we say out in the stix it was tuff so we’re we I hope I didn’t bore anyone I’m an old git now
You could afford coats?
It breaks my heart what has happened to my East End used to be real gods country not Yorkshire. Born and bred there as were generations of our family. Once my Aunt leaves I would happily nuke it now. I ain't just talking from the past I still worked at home and only fled 15 years ago
I was born in Streatham 'Sarf London in 1952. Hard times for sure ! It's only later in life after my dear mother passed away I realized how hard it was for her to struggle with bringing up the family! We had nothing so to say --but we were happy! A nice little family! I left the UK in 1982 for good--never really missed a thing about it --maybe a little nostalgia as this film presents?
You should see it now, you wouldn't recognise the place.
The East end had strong community ties. I wonder if it still has today
The community spirit in the East end died a long time ago...most don't even know who their neighbours are. With so many languages spoken, different religions, political differences and all the local pubs being converted into flats, there's not even a community anymore.
Sadly there's none left LoL it's all indians, Pakistan, polish,ect ect you wouldn't recognize it..
@@darrenfry4695 Like the Tower of Babel?
@@rharvey2124 lol yes
@@darrenfry4695 who let em in
Life before mobile phones and social media 😀
Look at our county now!!
All things pass - the good along with the bad. The mempories remain, and, it is hoped, the best things that
WERE influence our lives today. (served with the Met. Police - docklands 1963-1969).
I'm currently tucking into my breakfast which daily is a big bowl of jellied eels, I'm crying into the bowl now though as I've just noticed that the label on the jar states, Produce of China, You just wouldn't Adam and Eve it would ya?
So don't buy them !
What a great documentary.
Thankyou for publishing this. Its brought tears to my eyes. God help us if we have another war.
Excellent documentary. Thanks for posting.
,,, Nice Little Documentary, CHEERS ALOT. Gonna have a Deek at what else you have on your Channel. ,,, ✨🎶✅✅✅🎶✨
Superb documentary!Very interesting and informative. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so Much for this post. Brilliant Keep safe, Diamond stuff mate.
how sad that theses wonderful people were deceived into a brothers-war by Churchill. One day the truth will be told and understood by everyone.
How were they deceived by Churchill?,Hitlers Germany invaded Europe,which resulted in WW2,can you be a bit more specific,and elaborate on your statement.
@@jenniferpower981 Hitler was goaded into invading one of other country in the first instance in order to protect his own tortured people, It was all part of a plan to destroy Germany by the communists, big bankers probably behind the whole thing, as Hitler had found a way to help his people out of the terrible times they had face since WW1. Churchill was a man with huge gambling and drinking debts, so any easy target for bribery and he pushed for war unnecessarily. Look into Churchills full early history by alternative writers, the truth is all there for you to find. He was a war mongerer and a mass murderer , even of his own. Start searching.
@@englishweather9763 I will be searching,thank you for the feedback.
I love to see scenes of the history of Great Britain ❤
My nan and grandad sent my aunt and uncles to be evacuated but after a few month's my nan was sent to get the kids because they were having a hard time .luckily tyey all made it through the war.
I have so much respect for our ancestors who went through both world wars and Winston Churchill. My parents were born in London
Everyone under the age of 60 should be made to watch this, perhaps then they will stop whingeing on about how tough life is.
Do you think the people of that era didn't loudly complain about their lot? They joined unions & fought for their rights. But there was always a cap doffer who was telling people they should be happy as it was even worse in Victorian times.
@@zivkovicable Yes but I doubt Big Barty is a cap doffer mate.
And who says Victorian London was worse than post war bombed out London apart from you?
great video of the past and now the towers are the slums of today
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This is very interesting. Thank you. I think I had it on DVD, but someone stole a load of my stuff and I think this went too. Actually good to hear a presenter that sounds more 'real'. What happened to the couple who were fighting for their house?
I bet it doesn't look anything like that anymore more like Bangladesh or Pakistan sad state of affairs Complete Decline Of Our History Culture And Identity
Now u know how the Indian, aborigines, Maoris, native american people felt when Britain invaded THEIR lands.
Not fun, is it. 🤔
@@MsAlien911 Don't forget the Irish 😁
East End always was about immigrants first the Huguenots fleeing persecution from France, then the Irish building the canals and then the Jews in the 1930s escaping Nazi Germany. A couple of decades later there were Ugandan Asians fleeing Idi Amin and then Bangladeshis. The east End has changed each time a new group has come along from the weaving techniques and linen shops of the Huguenots, the Jewish Taylors (and bagels), to the array of Bangladeshi restaurants in Brick Lane. Don't blink or the next group of people from overseas will have come and gone.
@@MsAlien911You're a cuck.
@@MsAlien911 boring and dull!! Yawn. We bought betterment they bring violence stabbings and g room gangs!! How is Rochdale looking these days.
My Dad wasn't evacuated from Bow. He was 8 when war broke out and he went to 8 different schools in the 6 years of the war. He lived to be 85.
Good hard working folk not like today's spongers .
this was really enjoyable to watch, thank you. Is there a 70's on wards documentary?
All my snaps of me as a child in the East End were taken in the back garden, there was the outside brick toilet and near it was the Anderson shelter not yet dismantled.
It ain't like this now !! Not a white face for miles !! Where has our capital gone !!!
england cough cough *won*.
Why does it matter about colour.The British didn't ask the people of the Empire if they wanted them there?
@@blueshirtman8875 Sure it matters. Is a proxy for stereotypes. No one asks for any thing, all is gained only by the eternal struggle against all
@@newsmansuper2925 Obadiah, his servants. There shall, in that time, be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things wi-- with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock. Yea, it is written in the book of Cyril that, in that time, shall the third one...
I hope you are going to talk about the Bethnal Green tube disaster, we lost family in that and a few of my Aunts went round the bend because of lack of oxygen. Just saw you skip over it . Hackney Marshes a fucking public park. It is smaller now because the Olympic bollocks but its the home of football
The film at 30:44 is 1962-66. The bus has the 'Air France' advert that ran in those years.
brilliant film , thank you
This is an incredible documentary thanks
Excellent watch ,
Well made and interesting doc.
I remember in the sixties I was out on a red rover and was near the docks and looked down a street lined either side with single story terraced houses all boarded up ready for demolition, looked kinda sad to me then.
As a child lived in Silvertown in East London. Our street, post WWII was the only street in that area that did not have a bomb site for us kids to play on, we real felt underprivileged. Dad had been a regular soldier in the 1930s, like so many he could not stand being unemployed so joined the Army, finishing his service in 1938 but was called back to his regiment on 1st September 1939. He was in Norway, North Africa and Italy where at Anzio he was wounded for the third time and eventually invalided out of the Army on 25th December 1944. His four brothers were Uncle Tom, a Fireman, Dad always said that was the most dangerous job, Uncle Donald, a RAF Sargent working on the first computers at Bletchley Park, Uncle Joe, a RN sailor on small ships that were used to shepherd the merchant ships sailing to their starting point, North of Scotland for their voyage to Murmansk in Norther Russia to aid our Soviet comrades fighting against the Nazi Germans and Uncle Ernie, who was a contentious objector, Dad always said he must have been a very brave man to face up to what ‘conchies’ were put through, as he was forcibly put into the Army and had to make it plain to the officers and the squadIes that he was not going to fight whatever the did to him. He was eventually discharged and sent sheep farming in North Wales. My mother was a SRN nurse who was a Ward Sister in the hospital my father was went into on his returned from Norway in 1940. I was born in March 1945.
Thanks for posting this,social history.
And now we all live in hell against our will.
I don't really miss it to be honest apart from the pie and mash shop in Hoxton. We forget the crap that went with it.
Of course you don't, 🙄
@@carolevans5285 I've been reading a few of your comments and you sound bitter. Perhaps you should get out of Dodge too while you still can.
I was born in Tottenham 1964. Thought I'd never leave London, best city in the World. Managed fifty years before I couldn't take it any more. All my favourite pubs being converted into Mosques...
The thing is, I went to school with kids from all over the Commonwealth. We were all Londoners in our own way. We all loved our upbringing. We used to play out after school until the street lights went on or until we heard Mum shout 'dinner's ready.'
Even the kids I grew up with that had heritage from all over the planet agree that the immigration situation is and has been disasterous for several decades now.
After a few years partying in South East Asia I now live in the West Midlands. I love it.
The Locals are a bit weird but we have great banter just different banter to that of Working Class London.
I feel like I'm English again.
All I can say as a British girl born in 1960 a era that was becoming on top of what my parents as children and my grandparents living world war 2 and my great grandparents on the front ! I am sad to see 🇬🇧 as it is now ! Because that generation battled through life to give their future generations freedom ! And we’re always proud of their country , rations air raid shelters letting their children go away to safer areas !! Tough times ! And we survived as Brits ! And now look 👀! 🇬🇧
What happened was the new towns, where folk were encouraged to go to move out of the crowded london (in a hope that a nuke on london would still allow diverse engineering etc in Basildon and Harlow to carry on. My cousins moved to Hertford as that grew from being born in Clapton.
No matter what we have now in the way of hardships, traumas, upsets, worries, heartbreaks, sadness, horror and fright, it pales in comparison to those living and dying in World War 2.
Beautiful. Thank you
I was born i hackney my mother and brother in whitechaple and had my great grandmother in the old kent road and family in strattford the community spirit and neighbourliness is what made it great apart from that it was a real shit hole slums no bathrooms outside toilets delapatated houses people tried to keep them clean &nice until the day my dad died st 87 he never forgot how terrible it was
so it was really all rose tinted glasses a myth
AND NOW WE ARE A MINORITY IN OUR OWN CAPITAL CITY!!
A very well put together video. Well down.
21:57
"two years later [in 1948] the NHS would be formed"....despite tory voting against it fully 27 times !
Lest we forget.