My family come from Stepney and Limehouse, according to my family tree, there where a few generations that lived in that area. My Nanna moved to Portsmouth after marrying my grandad and where I grew up… Wish I knew move about where they lived and my family history, thanks for sharing ❤
Hello Larry, hats off to you, sterling work. You feature the Prince Alfred pub in your pics I was told once Lonnie Donegans dad had it at one time ? Also the bits I do know is as follows, Ronnie Scott was born in the east London maternity hospital, and Kenny Jones faces in havering st, Des O'Connor lived in Aylward st near the George pub, whose last owner was the great Dennis Sorrel (Chelsea fc) and the fellow who wrote ' the white cliffs of Dover lived in Head st, was it coincidental Vera Lynn sang at the Troxy and recorded it, and Lionel Bart was born in Lukin st. You probably know a few and others in your blog. I went to school st mary and st Michael's and then Cardinal Griffin. Your doing a great vlog.
Thanks Larry, you have reduced to me to tears ( again) someone once said " the past is another country" i think that as far as we old timers are concerned...he was spot on.
Shame it wasn't like that now it's so expensive people don't talk much anymore everyone is gone and not many East end people about now thank goodness I still am❤
I love all your old photos of the East end specially bethnal green how it used to look I live in bethnal green I've seen the changes thank you for the beautiful memories ❤
Great pics from by gone days I recognised a few bits there ie the camel in Bethnal Green (been drunk in there) the canal with barge on it I reckon is the canal that runs down along and in between Vicky park and old ford rd obviously everyone knew of tubby issacs and his stool in Aldgate up by the hounsditch and I think I rrcogmised crisp st market as well there shame the old east end has changed so much I preferred it as was in these photos
Great work, thank you for all the time and effort you have put in Larry I lived in Bow in the 60s & 70s. I wonder how many people remember the paraffin delivery trucks (Esso blue ) there were two lorries around the east end owned by a man called Bill Pierce, as a kid I worked on one with a man called Ron ( known as ginger) me and a blond kid called Kevin he was around my age only 14 worked on the weekends all around bow and Stepney ring the bell, filling people’s containers and carrying it back to them, it was really heavy work for kids, but oh boy we felt so special! I remember at that time people still had coal fires, but paraffin was that little bit cheaper. I don’t think modern health and safety would allow the working conditions and hours……..but I know it made a man of me! When Ron wasn’t selling paraffin in the summer, he had an ice cream van, he would load a mobile cart for me (Lyon’s maid) and I would go around the tower blocks, knocking on peoples doors selling ice cream! If anyone remembers any of this, please let me know. Gary Coade.
I was born in the Royal London in 67 and grew up in poplar a lot of these photos were before my time but I will never forget what a special place it was as in Tower hamlets I had family everywhere over the island Bethnal green Stepney bow iam gutted what's become of my beautiful East London ❤❤
It was a bad thing because everybody started leaving the east end it left the area open too mass immigration 😢 we should of stayed and fought for a community's iam still in the east end 56 years later my family moved too Essex years ago I can't leave East london it's my home for better or definitely worse I was born and bred in poplar and I will probably die in poplar.
I recognised it too couldn't remember the name of the road somehow I knew someone was going to make that comment . I used to take a train from Dagenham to Aldgate East and walk up Brick Lane . I bought a pair of Martens and a pair of brogues there and other gear from Club Row .
thank you larry , yes this was londons finest hour, SADLY NO MORE hes not my king never will be. i all ways sang our anthem stood up i respected our queen i am a ENGLISH patriot love my ,,,,, loved my ENGLAND AND ALL IT STOOD FOR not now woke b l m people telling me i should be ashamed of being ENGLISH NO NOT MY ENGLAND GENERATIONS BACK TO AT LEAST EARLY 17TH CEN ALL FROM OUR EASTEND dalston white chapel poplar hackney wiped out by multy culture, SIR OSWALD MOSLEY WAS RIGHT REST IN PEACE SIR OSWALD YOU DID TRY
FIRST R A F PILOT TO BE KILLED FIGHTING AGAINST HITLER,S LOT , WAS A MAN WHO MONTHS BEFORE WAS SPAT ON CALLED A TRAITOR WHY ????????????? BECAUSE HE WAS A MEMBER OF SIR OSWALD MOSLEY,S B U F HERO NOT TRAITOR MANY MEMBERS WENT TO HELP AT DUNKIRK , GETTING THEM BACK , THEY ARRESTED THEM ALL ON ENGLISH SOIL, AND PUT THEM IN JAIL HAIL THE B U F AND SIR OSWALD MOSLEY R I P
the photo of the johnie walker bonded warehouse in commercial road was taken from morrison buildings south,the north block still exists.i lived in them buildings.and the picture of the 3 boys on the bombsite playing on the fire is me and my 2 brothers,the eldest with the very noticeable rickets...loved them days tho.
Anyone heard or knows anything about a long gone street in Poplar called Monnet, monny or maybe monnie street? That's how it was told to me through the generations but nobody ever wrote it down. My family come from East London going back at least 200 + years but I'm having so much trouble finding anything out because so many of the streets were demolished! I do admire any of the original families who managed to stay on there. I wished my parents didn't get forced out from hundreds of years family history.
My lovely old East end I grew up in poplar there wasn't a better place too grow up in. Look at the state of it now the cockney English people are nearly gone makes me so sad but these old videos takes everybody down memory lane. 😢
