KingCribble Yes, I’m quite aware of that, and life has to progress but, I’m still sorry that things have to change so radically. I still visit Peckham, but often I feel I no longer belong there.
I could tell you some stories about Hackney. About ten years ago, my Nigerian friend lived with her three kids on a council estate. One day she said that there were gun shots and they went on for a long time. She and the kids had to get down on the floor for about an hour, until they thought the vibrant lads had had their fun and were going home to mum for their suppers. Happy days. Before you ask, no they wuzzent white gun slingers.
One thing I noticed there's barely any Caribbean's left in peckham compared to 80s-90s, everyone got shipped out to Catford. The people partying there now wouldn't step foot in that area at night back in the day.
@@tobiasgriffin4263 People never got murdered this regularly back in them days especially kids and it was rough and very poor. People got moved out the area in the mid-late 90s ,money came in and redeveloped the flats. New migrants started coming in replacing the previous residents. A few years down the line black boy's are getting murdered or stabbed practically every week and rye lane is now full of Hipsters. That's Peckham now.
@@equinox95 And those black boys are 100 % Nigerian and Jamaicans....not other black nationalities. jamaicans and nigerians in packham love engaging in gangbang/roadman lifestyle
@@jadenlee-chin4629 So do the Asian boys(Vietnamese/Chinese) in New Cross and Deptford engaging in organized Crime and drug cultivation🤫. I always wondered who was growing all the Cannabis.
@@equinox95 Yes they do those Vietnamese and Chinese we all know this bro. Nothing new.....but its a fact that its not black boys but particular Jamaicans and Naijas in peckham 🤫 .
There are so many social similarities between African-Americans, Black Canadians and Black Britons, but most Black Britons have a stronger and more direct cultural tie to the motherland than us/we on the other side of the Atlantic.
Yea. What the others said. Most Black Britons are first, second, or third generation. Their parents and grandparents come from Africa, or the Carribean, thus the strong cultural ties. Whereas Aftican Americans have lived in the Americas for generations due to slavery,
@@smashb3766 American blacks aren’t from Africa I wish people stop saying this. Yes we resemble but we aren’t the same people. There is nothing African about us because we aren’t African in the first place.
It is great. I used to live near Naylor Road and moved to Lewisham in 1996. Being able to walk down the road not worrying about your general safety is great. Plus there is a Tonkotsu and Honet Burger there now, Result! Anyone remember the woolworths that used to be by peckham plex? Haha times change.
I used to live in peckham and old Kent road between 2001 and 2003 and work at peckham Cinema for one year and Tesco old Kent road as a security. I'm not living in Republic of Ireland for the last 16 years now, wonderful memory.
I enjoyed this, need more like this please ❤️💛 I was also born and raised in Peckham, North Peckham easte. Not the same like it used to be but I have so much memories of that place.
The native Britons are becoming a minority and if we complain about it we're racist. When the natives also move to areas within their own country theyre also racist. Its all so tiresome.
This is such a big lie. English people still make up the vast population of Britain outweighing, by an overwhelming majority, every other race: why are you lying?
No, it's a fact. By the year 2066 White Britons will be the minority on the current trajectory. Please see the university of Oxford professor David Coleman research.. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/white-britons-could-be-minority-by-2066-2137329.html?amp White English are already a minority in London and has been since about 2011. Have a quick search online to prove me wrong. You seem like a super nice girl. However, weather you like it or not, you're in fact replacing the English.
@@HenrieKwushue So because we are the majority now, its impossible for us to become a minority in the future? I dont understand your logic here. Our government imports 300-600k immigrants every year who have higher fertility rates than our own. Its well documented that the British are on a fast track to becoming a minroity, just do a simple google search, so why are you lying? This is happening across the majproty of Europe and America. Most BAME people refuse to believe it because it completly contradicts your 'White Supremacy' narrative.
I've just subscribed to this channel. The documentaries are all brilliantly and professionally done. Better than anything else on British TV at the moment. Keep it up. You'll soon get far with this. Continue to be yourself. Continue to document the lives and experiences of African and Caribbean peoples in the UK. You are documenting history. Your UA-cam documentary films will soon be taught in schools. You'll see.
Spent 18 years working Pecknarm... also didn’t Bros work there...... Peckham is definitely Niche..... I remember the North Peckham Estate and the summer time barbecues on Rye Lane... what fun...
Daniel Wallace I guess you're right with west field, multi million luxury flats where BBC television center used to be and Soho white city private members club there now. I real dump
Matty Kumar Will you please shut the fuck up with your race baiting ! Its not just happening to blacks. Its happening to the working class people, not just black people ! White working class people are getting the same treatment. When will you blacks wake up and realise you’re not exclusive to being treated like slaves these days, whites are aswell ! Its not about colour, its us against them.... the people against the elite / government.
@Matty Kumar You are spot on about the 'very racist' "Birmingham, West Midlands and Manchester up north". I would add a shit ton of towns to that short list, like Rochdale, Rotherham, Bolton, Blackpool, Telford...I could go on and on. Racist because the rapist pimps who drug underage girls after pretending to be their bf only target white children or Sikh girls. That is very RACIST. Thanks for pointing it out you complete race baiter. Where did you learn your spiel, Socialist Worker Party, UAF, Momentum, Hope Not Hate, or whatever the latest leftist group keeping racism alive is?
Peace. This gives an African American like me a great view of the diaspora, I like it! Damn... Should I move to the UK?? It's a different life and variety is di spice!! Big up!
Let’s be real gentrification started after the olympics from east ldn and spread to south north/north west It’s happening In most working class areas. It’s sad
It's been happening for decades and not just Peckham. Any area in London populated mostly by ethnics with affordable house prices and an abundance of culture will eventually be gentrified by the flavourless elite.
Also it’s not like the culture is going anywhere it’s just not going to be in London anymore ... It’s going to be all over the country and I’m glad that it’s going to change
@@ianblackburn2645 Yea obviously it's very multi cultural with many Caribbeans and Latin Americans as well. However, Africans (particularly Nigerians) are by far the dominant group in Peckham, that's why it's been nick named Little Lagos.
I lived in Peckham on the Peckham estates when we moved in to our place they put black and white people as next door neighbour’s to intermingle different cultures and I must say it very much worked, without being rude imagine a chess board that’s how our flats where set up.
Going to school in Peckham. We used to play football matches: Nigeria verses the rest of the world. As a teacher now. I will say generification won’t change the schools/haven’t changed the schools. The ppl won’t stay and raise kids here.
Exactly, it’s quite ironic that many young middle class people from small towns outside London and the rest of the country, move to places like Peckham for the ‘vibrancy’ and culture, yet don’t actually integrate with it or any of the long standing businesses/community that from the area, and then move out later in life when they realise their kids will have to go to the same schools as inner city London kids.
Etienne Bunbury I’m sorry when was Peckham and Hackney the same place ? I’ve also worked and currently work in a Peckham school, educated in Peckham and 3rd generation born in Peckham. I think I would notice if the demographics of my school - which is in the heart of Peckham has changed.
Sabotaz80, Sabotaz80, in the meanwhile they ruin the communities and take away every bit of dignity their members have. Becoming homeless and jobless while whyte privileged Play "now i wanna live here cos it's trendy" ain't no fun and games
Here is a decent, ordinary fellow Nigerian, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that the country will not be worth living in for his children. I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking - not throughout Peckham, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of Nigerian history. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 Whites, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the English descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried Whites to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.
Its the first time I have watched your Chanel and I am impressed by your polished presenting skills you surely will have a great career in TV. Keep up the high standard you have set.
Crackerjacks has been there sooo long 40 - 45 years. I remember before Peckhamplex it was a sainsburys. I grew up in Peckham. I remember people could not wait to get out of Peckham many moves to the Croydon area. At one point no body liked to walk in Peckham at night as fearing the PBs. Its nice that peckham is being cleaned up from the crime but what's said Is people are being driven out due to the high prices the regeneration this is happing everywhere now peckham, Brixton, Elephant and Lewisham.
Fun Fact: #ReprezentRadio first base was in #Peckham. Which Henrie is part of the Reprezent family #VoiceOfYoungLondon | The Sound of Young London but now with the internet there is a level of expansion. 👊🏿✊🏿
I'm not sure about this one as none of the black people you interviewed or that i seen were actually born n bred in peckham so in essence they are part of the change. Maybe in future interview third or fourth generation people that are born n bred in that particular area to balance it out, this is just constructive criticism.
Great video - very interesting. I have used to volunteer behind Peckham Library for local fest back in 2003, years later I have studied just 10 min away in Goldsmiths... it is getting gentrified now
Crackerjack and Beyonce are now closed :(. So sad to see them go as I know the likelihood of them being taken over by someone in the community is slim 🙁. Great series and watch, thank you for documenting our stories
"Our people"? So me? A resident forced out. Later homeless. Who can't even think like an African buying a house? I'm a non-entity. Fuck. Idiots are just idiots. Ethnicity. Gender. Sexuality. Class. Nothing changes. And all are haters. This is truly enlightening to watch. Even the poor people hate poor people. This is not what I remember of Peckham.
Tell her Mr Jerky. You think 30 years is insane......try 63 years, in fact myself and family used to live in East Dulwich which is just a stones throw from Peckham. Peckham was where my parents used to go for larger shopping, shoes, clothes etc, (sometimes Brixton). My parents bought a house in Peckham 63 years ago and the only other people of colour in my primary school were my brother and sister and maybe a handful of other Caribbeans. I even worked in Peckham when I left school. My sister enquired about a Saturday job when she was 14 in our local bakery, they knew our family because we used to have two loaves of bread reserved for us on a Saturday, the proprietor of the shop said "I have known your Mum for ages and although I would gladly love to employ you, it's not me but it's the other customers, they would not like to be served by a black person", and that was in 1967 *my sister went to Grammer School (if you know what that is). Yes Mr Jerky is completely correct Peckham was really upmarket and no two shops were the same. There were shoe shops and retail stores, Marks & Spencer, Jones & Higgins, a Bridal Shop, Martin Ford, Pie & Mash shop, an Antique store called Austins (the site of the first new build housing on the high Street) Ravels and Lilley & Skinner, True Form (all shoe shops) and Choumert Road was the only place you could buy West Indian provisions (market) and one black hairdressers. There were even Night Clubs on Peckham Road (Mr Bees) Barrons (Men's suits.clothing etc). Then slowly over the years it got run down, but now its coming back up again, not like it once was but improving nonetheless. Girl you should have interviewed older folk who have seen it evolve - just like Brixton. First of all they run it down and then from nowhere they improve it. The one constant thing about SE22/15 is the train stations within close proximity to each other - very good for the daily commute to work. So now its become gentrified Yep always lived round here.
@rebecca Do you have any shame? Imagine if the roles were reversed. Imagine that millions of white people were moving into an African or Caribbean country, turning its local people into a minority. And if any of the local people voice their opposition to the demographic replacement, they are called "racists" or "xenophobes" or "bigots."
You will never be British, dear. I'm White and I'll never be British, either. Even if I move there and become a citizen, I'd still remain non-British. Neither of us belongs there.
According to the state, yes, you're British, but to the people whose ancestors have inhabited Britain for centuries/millennia, you're anything but. You will never belong; you are "the other". Nothing against you, I like your personality and think you're cute, but you're not British. And neither am I nor will I ever be.
They empowered you to weaken us. Look closely at society and you will see nothing but engineered division to stop us from zeroing in on our psychopathic rulers. Unity is what they fear: unity among the sexes, races, religions, etc. The more division in society, the stronger their hold over us.
You can be culturally British, just as I can be culturally Nigerian, but you will never be racially British, nor will I ever be racially Nigerian. When such technologies become available, would you agree to genetically modifying yourself to become racially British to stay there? Or your future children if that can't be done?
@@scotttucker1473 Your insecurities and lack of education is wreaking lol. Get your people together and pay for the journey 🤣 You're a racist. Maybe yt people should leave America which didn't belong to them and go home where they're people are from always coming somewhere trying to changing the culture of people's homes. Btw idiot all blacks aren't from African so her that money ready and send us back to out homes until then stop playing keyboard warrior coward
@@gottagotag6980 And the stabbings have been going on for soooo long. #DamilolaTaylor Those murderers used to enjoy the services provided by Kids Company. What a waste of public money and celebrity donations.
We had a vibrant night life in Peckham in the 70s. Mr Bees, which became The Bouncing Ball was right across from Wilson's bike shop. My parents went to that club when it was Mr Bees, and I went as a teenager when it changed its name. We also had the Peckham Settlement Hall, where Jah Shaka, Coxsone, Small Axe in fact all the big sounds passed through there. The Red Bull used to have a disco on Friday night, and on a Saturday night, there would be a dozen blues dances across the North Peckham or Sumner road Estates. Plus, we had the Odean cinema next to Peckham girls. We also had St. Giles youth center in Camberwell. We always had somewhere to go. Please do a video, if you can, with residents who were around in those days. Peace!!
@@HenrieKwushue It should not be too hard to find what ever is out there. Peckham library is very good. I left Peckham in 81, and have lived in the USA since then. If people want to only look at the changes in ethnic minorities, or the balance between these minorities and the majority culture, then of course, they will notice the changes. But if we look at what is constant then, we would have to say that Peckham has still retained its working class heritage. When the neighborhood was mostly Caribbean, there were a few African brothers who hung out on the front line with us. So, we always were blending. Peace sista. I like how you do your thing!! Keep on keeping on!!
Shemra Hello , I grew up in Peckham at the same time. My parents went to the same club and The Walmer Castle pub. I went to Peckham Girls School from 1978 to 1983 and ‘What She Wants’ clothes shop on Rye Lane. I worked in Sainsbury’s ( now Peckham plex cinema ) after school. At the time, mostly Caribbean people lived here and after a while, they sold their properties and either moved overseas or further south. Peckham has changed a lot but most of our generation have moved on. I’m still here though lol.
@@joyceschultz3528 I'm just now seeing this. Good to hear someone echo my memories. I came back to the UK for the first time in 2009, and have tried to come back as much as possible since then. I was last in Peckham in 2018, went to the Levels a few times. It was fun. My sister used to work in the Bata show shop in Rye Lane in the late 70s. We lived on the Oliver Goldsmith Estate. That Peckham feeling has never left me, and enough of my old friends still live in the area, to make the journey worth while.
@@elaminmochichi7767 ok no need to over do-it. She has a natural talent and ability to speak in front of a camera- and ask diverse qeustions. But BBC already have a bunch of reporters lmao. Guess it depends on you determination, and it will have to be consistent-but people always find useful and strategic ways to bring in more followers- then it depends on your introduction, the story, your pitch, and your conclusion. Towards how successful you become.
I remember going Peckham plex looking like cheech and chong coming out the cinema just to blaze in the carpark at the back of Peckham plex 🤣🤣as a youth I think I had to much time on my hands lol.
Henrie, these videos of the gentrification of London are so good!! Much better than what u would learn in a classroom! Keep doing ur thing girl!! 👌🏾👌🏾 What area’s next??
Why do Africans want to feel as if they're in Africa when they themselves came to England without being forced, I also migrated from Africa but I this doesn't make sense
@@HenrieKwushue It's a fair point to be honest, can't stand it when British move to Spain and don't learn the language. They do have a very positive net effect for the economy though. And Africans can always move back to Africa if they want to be amongst their own people. Londoners can move to essex, but even Essex is becoming like a foreign country now.
You've got that Maya Jama reporter vibe, very bubbly and malable to converse with people from all different walks of life. The woman here 14:00 was too sacred to talk about black people lmao she is being very careful with her words.
@ The gentlemen failed to riot after (Law abiding citizen) Mr.M.Duggan's family received a huge compensation payout from the Government due to an ''unlawful death''.
Peckham Peckham, remember dem days when we held Peckham down. Sincerely don’t miss Peckham but it was so obvious from 2014 gentrifications came in. It’s nice it’s changed but wouldn’t want too much change but a mixture of old and new
🤣🤣 If there was UA-cam back in the 50s and 60s there would be white people doing exactly the same thing as this. In fact, there probably were hit pieces of journalism back then. Old white lady voice* "Look at the way they're dancing" "It's a completely different culture now" "The East end has changed, it's all those Caribbeans" I can hear the old tv footage now 😂😂😂 You're basically doing the same thing but in reverse. 😂😂😂😂 What a crazy world.
Except that those "old white people" were the ones who stood their ground and fought back against invasion as the Blitz bombs fell around their ears. A lot of them were killed. More lost everything. They had a right to feel a bit miffed.
Yes and those people would just be racist not explaining that gentrification is mainly classism with a sprinkle of racism. But a racist wouldn’t even understand that so I won’t bother w you x
@@HenrieKwushueyou just can't deny the fact that White people was there first. You are anti white for sure if you can't acknowledge that. Racism racist meh you can't call people that for merely pointing out facts.
BBC hire this girl and give her a series damn it, you are destined to present
God will bless you ❤️
@@HenrieKwushue literally praying for your success 🌟🌟
I was born in Peckham in 1947 and left in 1955. Believe me, it’s nothing like it used to be. Alas.
Sorry chief. Your country was sold a long time ago.
KingCribble Yes, I’m quite aware of that, and life has to progress but, I’m still sorry that things have to change so radically. I still visit Peckham, but often I feel I no longer belong there.
@@terrywhitworth5350 Well I hope you've found a new home and community. The 2021 census will be a shock to all native Brits.
@@KingCribble Thank god it was
“What do you like about Peckham?” “It feels like I’m still in Africa.” There’s something a bit puzzling about that.
Hackney needs an episode like this, maybe a guest presenter who was raised in hackney could also get involved.
I could tell you some stories about Hackney. About ten years ago, my Nigerian friend lived with her three kids on a council estate. One day she said that there were gun shots and they went on for a long time. She and the kids had to get down on the floor for about an hour, until they thought the vibrant lads had had their fun and were going home to mum for their suppers. Happy days. Before you ask, no they wuzzent white gun slingers.
I was born in Peckham back in 1979. Grew up there and saw it turn from a shithole to a dangerous shithole.
The comments under this video is disgusting. The racism jumped out. Thanks for showing us the beauty of these places Henrie
@sanjay j yh right
One thing I noticed there's barely any Caribbean's left in peckham compared to 80s-90s, everyone got shipped out to Catford. The people partying there now wouldn't step foot in that area at night back in the day.
Is it a good thing CV that people can have a good time and not get killed now
@@tobiasgriffin4263 People never got murdered this regularly back in them days especially kids and it was rough and very poor. People got moved out the area in the mid-late 90s ,money came in and redeveloped the flats. New migrants started coming in replacing the previous residents. A few years down the line black boy's are getting murdered or stabbed practically every week and rye lane is now full of Hipsters. That's Peckham now.
@@equinox95 And those black boys are 100 % Nigerian and Jamaicans....not other black nationalities. jamaicans and nigerians in packham love engaging in gangbang/roadman lifestyle
@@jadenlee-chin4629 So do the Asian boys(Vietnamese/Chinese) in New Cross and Deptford engaging in organized Crime and drug cultivation🤫. I always wondered who was growing all the Cannabis.
@@equinox95 Yes they do those Vietnamese and Chinese we all know this bro. Nothing new.....but its a fact that its not black boys but particular Jamaicans and Naijas in peckham 🤫 .
Excellent job Henrie. Bubbly personality, informative and very warm with the interviewing style.
There are so many social similarities between African-Americans, Black Canadians and Black Britons, but most Black Britons have a stronger and more direct cultural tie to the motherland than us/we on the other side of the Atlantic.
That's bc black ppl in London are from Africa and the Caribbean
Yea. What the others said. Most Black Britons are first, second, or third generation. Their parents and grandparents come from Africa, or the Carribean, thus the strong cultural ties. Whereas Aftican Americans have lived in the Americas for generations due to slavery,
Lol black ppl don’t even know what country they’re from in Africa lost people lool
Nuin African bout them
@@smashb3766 American blacks aren’t from Africa I wish people stop saying this. Yes we resemble but we aren’t the same people. There is nothing African about us because we aren’t African in the first place.
Come croydon next 😂
Lol it's not gentrified
@@BrooklyntoBrixton Have you seen croydons night life? or Boxpark?
DJ Scarta Boxpark Croydon is still mostly locals
Yeah but is not changed the same way Brixton/Peckham has, she should do New Cross/Deptford next, or even Hackney
Sabotaz80 okay I see what you mean
Loving this series !
Yo chicken shop girl
@Joseph 2022 2036
3:23 we already know Congolese uncles be rocking them in style tho 😂😂😂😂
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Boniko ah😂
We know she wanted to say congo 😂😂😂
For real🤣🤣
XXX YYY fr 😭😭😭😂😂 even that I am Congolese
I grew up in Peckham from 94 - 10 and it is changing.
It is great. I used to live near Naylor Road and moved to Lewisham in 1996. Being able to walk down the road not worrying about your general safety is great. Plus there is a Tonkotsu and Honet Burger there now, Result! Anyone remember the woolworths that used to be by peckham plex? Haha times change.
I used to live in peckham and old Kent road between 2001 and 2003 and work at peckham Cinema for one year and Tesco old Kent road as a security. I'm not living in Republic of Ireland for the last 16 years now, wonderful memory.
I was born in peckham in 2003 and i left in 2017, i dont miss most of london but i do miss peckham
I remember when Peckham was a stunning shopping area, mainly Irish and West Indians lived there, it went downhill from 1991-1992 onwards....
PLEASEEE anyone know the name of the intro song!!
*🎶'Rulin' Bye 'n' Bye, Keech!'* _(BlackNotz, circa 1989)_
You're welcome!
Excellent video, love the energy and charisma. Looking forward to seeing more of you.
I enjoyed this, need more like this please ❤️💛 I was also born and raised in Peckham, North Peckham easte. Not the same like it used to be but I have so much memories of that place.
The native Britons are becoming a minority and if we complain about it we're racist. When the natives also move to areas within their own country theyre also racist. Its all so tiresome.
Crosswizz That word has lost its power. A reckoning is coming.
This is such a big lie. English people still make up the vast population of Britain outweighing, by an overwhelming majority, every other race: why are you lying?
No, it's a fact.
By the year 2066 White Britons will be the minority on the current trajectory.
Please see the university of Oxford professor David Coleman research..
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/white-britons-could-be-minority-by-2066-2137329.html?amp
White English are already a minority in London and has been since about 2011. Have a quick search online to prove me wrong.
You seem like a super nice girl.
However, weather you like it or not, you're in fact replacing the English.
@@HenrieKwushue So because we are the majority now, its impossible for us to become a minority in the future? I dont understand your logic here. Our government imports 300-600k immigrants every year who have higher fertility rates than our own. Its well documented that the British are on a fast track to becoming a minroity, just do a simple google search, so why are you lying? This is happening across the majproty of Europe and America. Most BAME people refuse to believe it because it completly contradicts your 'White Supremacy' narrative.
@@bobjonn9182 white people don't exist anyway www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/people-and-culture/2018/04/theres-no-scientific-basis-race-its-made-label
Gonna miss the aunties screaming “ let me do your hair” when i have my a full lace wig that was freshly installed 🤣
Gross
Nothing hotter then a fresh weave. Lmao fucking disgusting
Michael Puleo guess you must be a fan of dirty weave, weird flex but if that’s what you like then I love it baby girl do you 🙃🤷🏾♀️
Nothing better than thick greasy nappy hair.
My boyfriend's grandparents lived in Peckham/Camberwell in the 1940-50s they told me they had cows in fields living in the area
0:23 LMAO the woman in the red shirt is my mum
Loooool no wayyy
Lol 😂
I fucking hate the place I live in, Peckham well on the edges u know
Thanks for this Henrie:) Have family in Peckham and it's fascinating to see your view on how things have and are changing there
I've just subscribed to this channel. The documentaries are all brilliantly and professionally done. Better than anything else on British TV at the moment. Keep it up. You'll soon get far with this. Continue to be yourself.
Continue to document the lives and experiences of African and Caribbean peoples in the UK. You are documenting history. Your UA-cam documentary films will soon be taught in schools. You'll see.
Lol the way she darted out the station 🤣
Spent 18 years working Pecknarm... also didn’t Bros work there......
Peckham is definitely Niche..... I remember the North Peckham Estate and the summer time barbecues on Rye Lane... what fun...
Come to west London, Shepherd’s Bush Ladbroke Grove something happening there also..
Houston's mccaine definitely
Shepherds Bush is the unwanted and unloved ginger step child of London, dump
Daniel Wallace I guess you're right with west field, multi million luxury flats where BBC television center used to be and Soho white city private members club there now. I real dump
Matty Kumar
Will you please shut the fuck up with your race baiting !
Its not just happening to blacks. Its happening to the working class people, not just black people !
White working class people are getting the same treatment.
When will you blacks wake up and realise you’re not exclusive to being treated like slaves these days, whites are aswell !
Its not about colour, its us against them.... the people against the elite / government.
@Matty Kumar You are spot on about the 'very racist' "Birmingham, West Midlands and Manchester up north". I would add a shit ton of towns to that short list, like Rochdale, Rotherham, Bolton, Blackpool, Telford...I could go on and on. Racist because the rapist pimps who drug underage girls after pretending to be their bf only target white children or Sikh girls. That is very RACIST. Thanks for pointing it out you complete race baiter. Where did you learn your spiel, Socialist Worker Party, UAF, Momentum, Hope Not Hate, or whatever the latest leftist group keeping racism alive is?
I love Peckham because one day, me and a mate are gonna move there and open a pie shop... but sell drugs from the pie shop also.
Peace.
This gives an African American like me a great view of the diaspora, I like it! Damn... Should I move to the UK?? It's a different life and variety is di spice!! Big up!
Let’s be real gentrification started after the olympics from east ldn and spread to south north/north west It’s happening In most working class areas. It’s sad
Happened long before that!
@Belize Boy D I dont get it, thought peckham was full of roadmen and thugs
It's been going on for at least a decade in the area mentioned by the video. How have so many people not noticed?
It's been happening for decades and not just Peckham. Any area in London populated mostly by ethnics with affordable house prices and an abundance of culture will eventually be gentrified by the flavourless elite.
Also it’s not like the culture is going anywhere it’s just not going to be in London anymore ... It’s going to be all over the country and I’m glad that it’s going to change
I remember growing up in Peckham as a YPB we used to hang out and rave in “Lazerdrome” on Rye lane. who remembers that club?
True or facts?...Peckham is basically Little Africa especially.
No it's way more multicultural than that there are so many Caribbeans and Latin people
@@ianblackburn2645 Yea obviously it's very multi cultural with many Caribbeans and Latin Americans as well. However, Africans (particularly Nigerians) are by far the dominant group in Peckham, that's why it's been nick named Little Lagos.
People used to call it little Lagos for its large Nigerian 🇳🇬 population
Peckham is little africa Brixton was little Jamaica and Camberwell the airport lol
@Nate Conner who are the bloodsuckers in your context ?
3:18 Congo
LinkWave Congo daddy shoe 👞👌🏾
😂😂 I saw this comment as soon as she said it and that's what I was thinking
@Sekhmet 13 Belgian Congo ?
Spot on! 😂😂😂😂
@Sekhmet 13 My Etonian pal Aubrey owns land in the Belgian Congo
Tuning in from New York.
Swear down I wan visit Pecham
I lived in Peckham on the Peckham estates when we moved in to our place they put black and white people as next door neighbour’s to intermingle different cultures and I must say it very much worked, without being rude imagine a chess board that’s how our flats where set up.
Houston's mccaine that’s so sad to hear. Take care bro👍
Big up you 100 times this is entertaining af im from peckham too and she aint lying bout the starjumps boy loool
HIPSTERS are gonna take over london 2025. how my in deptford market walking pass 3 hipster bars. smh just GERROUTOFHERE
I agree Deptford is their land
@Nate Conner when whites move into these areas you say its gentrification. some people will never be happy
Wow their in Deptford High St now, funny how areas you never thought would change have. That explains why parts of Catford look rundown.
@@Mel87y It was working class poor people's land 1st.
Dez Lotto Goldsmiths Uni down the road what’d you expect?
I don’t care what anyone says, I grew up in Peckham and Peckham was majority Nigerians and back 10/11 yrs Peckham had no nightlife
Going to school in Peckham. We used to play football matches: Nigeria verses the rest of the world.
As a teacher now. I will say generification won’t change the schools/haven’t changed the schools. The ppl won’t stay and raise kids here.
Exactly, it’s quite ironic that many young middle class people from small towns outside London and the rest of the country, move to places like Peckham for the ‘vibrancy’ and culture, yet don’t actually integrate with it or any of the long standing businesses/community that from the area, and then move out later in life when they realise their kids will have to go to the same schools as inner city London kids.
Sabotaz80 they will send them to private school
Depends, I’m from London and went to and have friends from school and local area from all sorts of different ethnic backgrounds
Etienne Bunbury I’m sorry when was Peckham and Hackney the same place ? I’ve also worked and currently work in a Peckham school, educated in Peckham and 3rd generation born in Peckham. I think I would notice if the demographics of my school - which is in the heart of Peckham has changed.
Sabotaz80, Sabotaz80, in the meanwhile they ruin the communities and take away every bit of dignity their members have. Becoming homeless and jobless while whyte privileged Play "now i wanna live here cos it's trendy" ain't no fun and games
Name of the intro music
Gentrification is what happens when the city improves but the people don't.
So lovely lady. I lived in Peckham for 11 years, am from Ukraine, greatest area, greatest place, place of my youth.
Minsk II Agreement.
Here is a decent, ordinary fellow Nigerian, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that the country will not be worth living in for his children. I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking - not throughout Peckham, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of Nigerian history.
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 Whites, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the English descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried Whites to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.
That will confuse some. Know exactly what you mean though.
@Nick the chopper yes and the british are wtf
Lived there 35 years ago. It then had its really rough parts though I understand a lot of them have since been demolished. Not been back.
Its the first time I have watched your Chanel and I am impressed by your polished presenting skills you surely will have a great career in TV. Keep up the high standard you have set.
Crackerjacks has been there sooo long 40 - 45 years. I remember before Peckhamplex it was a sainsburys. I grew up in Peckham. I remember people could not wait to get out of Peckham many moves to the Croydon area. At one point no body liked to walk in Peckham at night as fearing the PBs. Its nice that peckham is being cleaned up from the crime but what's said Is people are being driven out due to the high prices the regeneration this is happing everywhere now peckham, Brixton, Elephant and Lewisham.
Its closed now it burnt down
Fun Fact: #ReprezentRadio first base was in #Peckham. Which Henrie is part of the Reprezent family #VoiceOfYoungLondon | The Sound of Young London but now with the internet there is a level of expansion. 👊🏿✊🏿
whats wrong with the shoes??
Oh I miss getting mugged by PGY/SN1. Such wonderful days :)
I miss the riots of 2011. Peckham, Lewisham, Hackney. The summer of 2011 Looting in Tooting
Amazing things has changed, good documentary.
I'm not sure about this one as none of the black people you interviewed or that i seen were actually born n bred in peckham so in essence they are part of the change. Maybe in future interview third or fourth generation people that are born n bred in that particular area to balance it out, this is just constructive criticism.
The young guy at the end was born and bread in Peckham. Unfortunately we are out number by the yuppies.
isitme I don’t think you watched the video. A man called A1 spoke at the end and was born n bred in Narm. He spoke about the change he’s seen...
@@AuntyM66 , born and 'bred', not bread. 'outnumberED', not we are out number. Before long, the entire English language will be extinct at this rate.
isitme, balance it out? You must be a great big waycist. Wink, wink.
I. now the young black guy a1 and the jamaican manthey are originally from peckham
Where is Peckham ? Is it in England
You need to go a docseries in Netflix content going international baby
He has a baby kid 2 yrs old named Israel
I’m not from Peckham but I _knew_ I wasn’t the only one noticing the gentrification
Great video - very interesting. I have used to volunteer behind Peckham Library for local fest back in 2003, years later I have studied just 10 min away in Goldsmiths... it is getting gentrified now
Crackerjack and Beyonce are now closed :(. So sad to see them go as I know the likelihood of them being taken over by someone in the community is slim 🙁. Great series and watch, thank you for documenting our stories
Yes, nearly all our shops at the top of Rye Lane have closed too.
Crackerjack closed due to the a fire
They ain't "your" shops, they're someone else shops they decided to sell
"Our people"? So me? A resident forced out. Later homeless. Who can't even think like an African buying a house? I'm a non-entity. Fuck. Idiots are just idiots. Ethnicity. Gender. Sexuality. Class. Nothing changes. And all are haters. This is truly enlightening to watch. Even the poor people hate poor people. This is not what I remember of Peckham.
Tell her Mr Jerky. You think 30 years is insane......try 63 years, in fact myself and family used to live in East Dulwich which is just a stones throw from Peckham. Peckham was where my parents used to go for larger shopping, shoes, clothes etc, (sometimes Brixton). My parents bought a house in Peckham 63 years ago and the only other people of colour in my primary school were my brother and sister and maybe a handful of other Caribbeans. I even worked in Peckham when I left school. My sister enquired about a Saturday job when she was 14 in our local bakery, they knew our family because we used to have two loaves of bread reserved for us on a Saturday, the proprietor of the shop said "I have known your Mum for ages and although I would gladly love to employ you, it's not me but it's the other customers, they would not like to be served by a black person", and that was in 1967 *my sister went to Grammer School (if you know what that is). Yes Mr Jerky is completely correct Peckham was really upmarket and no two shops were the same. There were shoe shops and retail stores, Marks & Spencer, Jones & Higgins, a Bridal Shop, Martin Ford, Pie & Mash shop, an Antique store called Austins (the site of the first new build housing on the high Street) Ravels and Lilley & Skinner, True Form (all shoe shops) and Choumert Road was the only place you could buy West Indian provisions (market) and one black hairdressers. There were even Night Clubs on Peckham Road (Mr Bees) Barrons (Men's suits.clothing etc). Then slowly over the years it got run down, but now its coming back up again, not like it once was but improving nonetheless. Girl you should have interviewed older folk who have seen it evolve - just like Brixton. First of all they run it down and then from nowhere they improve it. The one constant thing about SE22/15 is the train stations within close proximity to each other - very good for the daily commute to work. So now its become gentrified Yep always lived round here.
Miss that record shop that once was there in the Peckham Inn market back in dayz
we will not be replaced
@rebecca Do you have any shame? Imagine if the roles were reversed. Imagine that millions of white people were moving into an African or Caribbean country, turning its local people into a minority. And if any of the local people voice their opposition to the demographic replacement, they are called "racists" or "xenophobes" or "bigots."
@@smugcanuck5529 These people will not understand until every one of them has a bullet in their skull.
lol...smh!@@smugcanuck5529
Too late 😂
Can you Do old Kent road please
You will never be British, dear. I'm White and I'll never be British, either. Even if I move there and become a citizen, I'd still remain non-British. Neither of us belongs there.
Soldier for Christ I am British I’m really sorry to break to it you 😂😂😂😂
According to the state, yes, you're British, but to the people whose ancestors have inhabited Britain for centuries/millennia, you're anything but. You will never belong; you are "the other". Nothing against you, I like your personality and think you're cute, but you're not British. And neither am I nor will I ever be.
They empowered you to weaken us. Look closely at society and you will see nothing but engineered division to stop us from zeroing in on our psychopathic rulers. Unity is what they fear: unity among the sexes, races, religions, etc. The more division in society, the stronger their hold over us.
Chris Porter So QUEUEING doesn’t make me British? Not even a cuppa when I’m stressed? I’m confused.
You can be culturally British, just as I can be culturally Nigerian, but you will never be racially British, nor will I ever be racially Nigerian. When such technologies become available, would you agree to genetically modifying yourself to become racially British to stay there? Or your future children if that can't be done?
Love this channel, Peckham has definitely changed for the better!
Who remembers Ezekiel's back in the 1990s? Nice hip-hop and r&b club. Like if you do.
Yep I do
I know giggs
Great upload Henrie, really interesting and I love your style.
This was an amazing video, I live in Peckham too and I’ve definitely noticed the change and gentrification is literally happening before our eyes.
Maybe go back to Africa if you want to be with your own people
@@scotttucker1473 Your insecurities and lack of education is wreaking lol. Get your people together and pay for the journey 🤣 You're a racist. Maybe yt people should leave America which didn't belong to them and go home where they're people are from always coming somewhere trying to changing the culture of people's homes. Btw idiot all blacks aren't from African so her that money ready and send us back to out homes until then stop playing keyboard warrior coward
A long long way to go. Needs a deep clean
I’ve always wanted to visit a Piece of Britain that looks like the worst parts of Detroit
@@Claireradusha99 all those stabbings and all that gang warfare are so great aren't they?
@@Claireradusha99 , what IS the culture they bring? I thought that this lady said that she is British?
@@gottagotag6980 And the stabbings have been going on for soooo long. #DamilolaTaylor Those murderers used to enjoy the services provided by Kids Company. What a waste of public money and celebrity donations.
I swear this intro track is everything!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Peckham to di world, Peckham we sehhhhh!!!
We had a vibrant night life in Peckham in the 70s. Mr Bees, which became The Bouncing Ball was right across from Wilson's bike shop. My parents went to that club when it was Mr Bees, and I went as a teenager when it changed its name. We also had the Peckham Settlement Hall, where Jah Shaka, Coxsone, Small Axe in fact all the big sounds passed through there. The Red Bull used to have a disco on Friday night, and on a Saturday night, there would be a dozen blues dances across the North Peckham or Sumner road Estates. Plus, we had the Odean cinema next to Peckham girls. We also had St. Giles youth center in Camberwell. We always had somewhere to go. Please do a video, if you can, with residents who were around in those days. Peace!!
Wow I really didn't know all of this. I bet there's loads of archive footage too!
This was in the days when it was the caribbean people, then the Nigerians came and everything changed completely !
@@HenrieKwushue It should not be too hard to find what ever is out there. Peckham library is very good. I left Peckham in 81, and have lived in the USA since then. If people want to only look at the changes in ethnic minorities, or the balance between these minorities and the majority culture, then of course, they will notice the changes. But if we look at what is constant then, we would have to say that Peckham has still retained its working class heritage. When the neighborhood was mostly Caribbean, there were a few African brothers who hung out on the front line with us. So, we always were blending. Peace sista. I like how you do your thing!! Keep on keeping on!!
Shemra Hello , I grew up in Peckham at the same time. My parents went to the same club and The Walmer Castle pub. I went to Peckham Girls School from 1978 to 1983 and ‘What She Wants’ clothes shop on Rye Lane. I worked in Sainsbury’s ( now Peckham plex cinema ) after school. At the time, mostly Caribbean people lived here and after a while, they sold their properties and either moved overseas or further south. Peckham has changed a lot but most of our generation have moved on. I’m still here though lol.
@@joyceschultz3528 I'm just now seeing this. Good to hear someone echo my memories. I came back to the UK for the first time in 2009, and have tried to come back as much as possible since then. I was last in Peckham in 2018, went to the Levels a few times. It was fun. My sister used to work in the Bata show shop in Rye Lane in the late 70s. We lived on the Oliver Goldsmith Estate. That Peckham feeling has never left me, and enough of my old friends still live in the area, to make the journey worth while.
Can you do a Thornton Heath Croydon episode please
you’re SO entertaining and an absolute natural at presenting, i love this series you have got a very big bright future ahead of you!!!
Georgia Bickley Thank you so much my loveeeeee ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@HenrieKwushue BBC needs to hire you
@@elaminmochichi7767 ok no need to over do-it. She has a natural talent and ability to speak in front of a camera- and ask diverse qeustions. But BBC already have a bunch of reporters lmao. Guess it depends on you determination, and it will have to be consistent-but people always find useful and strategic ways to bring in more followers- then it depends on your introduction, the story, your pitch, and your conclusion. Towards how successful you become.
@@jay13482 Ok you're just a hater putting other people's success and talent down.
@@elaminmochichi7767 lmao, sure I am.. I don't think you fully understand what a hater is or means even.
Love this ! I went to Peckham levels for a work colleague's birthday and I felt exactly the same ! Everyone's so anti there 🙃
Nate Conner there is no vibe in there. That's what she means by anti. There is no love no vision no inclusivity
@@jeffrejr1 thank you for explaining 😊
This is a sick series
The Zac and Jay Show wow thank you so much!!
Sick full stop
Agreed
When you going to do Croydon!?
I remember going Peckham plex looking like cheech and chong coming out the cinema just to blaze in the carpark at the back of Peckham plex 🤣🤣as a youth I think I had to much time on my hands lol.
Henrie, these videos of the gentrification of London are so good!! Much better than what u would learn in a classroom! Keep doing ur thing girl!! 👌🏾👌🏾 What area’s next??
Hey lovely thank you so much! The next area is Dalston :)
@Nate Conner have you got some sort of hair fetish?
@@HenrieKwushue so you're doing Dalston? Dreams do come true hahaha
I am loving this can you do more is your area changing
i havent even finished but well done girl. proper production
Why do Africans want to feel as if they're in Africa when they themselves came to England without being forced, I also migrated from Africa but I this doesn't make sense
Same way when British people go to Spain they make a little Britain to feel at home in a different country. It’s a real thing, google it 😂❤️
@@HenrieKwushue It's a fair point to be honest, can't stand it when British move to Spain and don't learn the language. They do have a very positive net effect for the economy though. And Africans can always move back to Africa if they want to be amongst their own people. Londoners can move to essex, but even Essex is becoming like a foreign country now.
Tooting? Tooting market is getting a bit mad.
we all know that was a congolese shew
Wow you should have your own tv program, your a natural!!
Mad video plz do hackney its mazza how much they changed it , kmt they knocked down my block time ago to build dem new apartments
Coming soon. She is doing Dalston next.
Went school in Peckham
Native Anglo country is filled with native Anglos....? What's the problem?
iupetre you’re a native edait.
@@mangasainthilare You come to insult which lets everyone know you have no argument.
@The Nova renaissance , that is it in a nutshell. They call whites the racists though.
amazing series , need more areas thoo , do catford or lewisham
You should link the songs use at the intro
So interesting seeing this, great video
Gentrification will eventually force all poorer people out of London completely. It's so wrong.
they shouldn't be allowed out of london
I'll be in London for a lay over and can't wait to stay in this area. My mom is Guyanese so I'll definitely have good Caribbean food!
You've got that Maya Jama reporter vibe, very bubbly and malable to converse with people from all different walks of life.
The woman here 14:00 was too sacred to talk about black people lmao she is being very careful with her words.
Nayanka C Francisco Maya is a babe so this is lovely - God bless you ❤️ thank you for watching!!
Lol yeah she was stumbling over her words
@ *act differently when white people speak about their race
@ If you keep talking like this there will be more riots in Peckham just like 9 years ago.
@ The gentlemen failed to riot after (Law abiding citizen) Mr.M.Duggan's family received a huge compensation payout from the Government due to an ''unlawful death''.
I love this series!! I just found your channel and I am glad I did! Please do Walthamstow! Xoxoxo
Peckham Peckham, remember dem days when we held Peckham down. Sincerely don’t miss Peckham but it was so obvious from 2014 gentrifications came in. It’s nice it’s changed but wouldn’t want too much change but a mixture of old and new
Wait a minute i live in peckham and near pound land i go too!
🤣🤣
If there was UA-cam back in the 50s and 60s there would be white people doing exactly the same thing as this.
In fact, there probably were hit pieces of journalism back then.
Old white lady voice*
"Look at the way they're dancing"
"It's a completely different culture now"
"The East end has changed, it's all those Caribbeans"
I can hear the old tv footage now 😂😂😂
You're basically doing the same thing but in reverse.
😂😂😂😂
What a crazy world.
Except that those "old white people" were the ones who stood their ground and fought back against invasion as the Blitz bombs fell around their ears.
A lot of them were killed. More lost everything.
They had a right to feel a bit miffed.
@@spencerhardy8667 hear hear
Yes and those people would just be racist not explaining that gentrification is mainly classism with a sprinkle of racism. But a racist wouldn’t even understand that so I won’t bother w you x
@@HenrieKwushueyou just can't deny the fact that White people was there first.
You are anti white for sure if you can't acknowledge that. Racism racist meh you can't call people that for merely pointing out facts.
@@HenrieKwushue you can complain about house prices going, complaining about white people moving in is racism.
You are a hypocrite hypocrite hypocrite
Don't let significant changes scare you, they need the community to remain stable
Who does?
Can you do Catford, New Cross or Deptford next please?
Bellingham in here.
Catford is not gentrified, but I hope for my sake it becomes it.
@@maximyles not a chance.
Catford rules🤘🏻