1990s Stratford, East London, Streets, Station 

I assure you you’re not alone.

@@LaSoglia why？ I living near the station and always shopping in stradford center I feel it's pretty good.

Doesn’t sound funny at all. I loved the simple shops. Less human traffic.. more space and just peaceful.

yeah me too . miss that layer of grittiness, still there tho mind just more hidden not so blatant

I miss it badly, used to love hanging about in the old multi story car park concrete bus shelter, still remember the little tunnel that went from the mall to the station stinking of piss and always that bloke selling cassettes 😎

At what point in that evolution would you say this video captures?

@@MarcusJayMusic i feel it was just starting to come out of its impoverished state, the bus Garage was fairly new and I think the underpass had been blocked up at this point, some years later an independent Cinema would open not far from the theatre and then of course much later the Olympic stadium landed which changed everything

Ace11 Sarcens how old are you now

@WelshWoody there are white people. More in this video than there are now.

WelshWoody before you make a point can you actually give the point cause it shows you have nothing to say

@WelshWoody Ur some dumb guy 🤣

@mr mike I think in about 2000 they knocked it down and built that but not 100% sure but was round about that time

@Luke Davis I remember that.

Yeah i remember it used to be just dark hole as bus garage

AGREE WITH YOU

How? Yes I know we all miss the old old days but let’s be honest it was the fuckin pits back then. So much nicer now in every way thinkable.

I saw it build too. I lived not far away in Disraeli Rd.

I remember the cafe that was opposite that shop.

That was generally known as "Hackney Market" and was round the back of Waterden Road, where Copperbox Arena now is. The KICC megachurch occupied the site for a while in the 00's before the bid for the London 2012 Olympics was won. I'd love to see videos too but I do have a couple of still photos from about 2001 of a pre-Olympic Village Carpenters Road, taken from my 14th floor tower block and looking out onto Hackney Wick

My Mother took a tumble down those steps, as kids we found it hilarious even though she was fuming lol

@@JW20236 If you really know Stratford mate - you would know West Indians/Caribbean people have lived in Stratford for ages . Your writing shit - now Pi$$Off .

No , alot stayed but the old die . Some of the young moved away when they cleared Carpenters but alot moved to Maryland and West Ham - still Stratford though and some to Plaistow . Things change , it's life .

@@JW20236 Your or you're , who cares it's the RU-vid comment section - where people like you exist so if someone notices my wrong use of grammar as I wrote above - who cares and as for your comment about the country being 98% white , Sub-Saharan Africa was once 100% black so now it's your turn - boo hoo .

@@JW20236 Now it's my time to correct you , you wrote "not even the majority British..." Most Caribbean people , black or Asian are British due to Britains colonies and their grandparents where invited here or are so ignorant not know about Windrush Generation ? Stop watching my grammer and go read a history book . And the capital is still white , just not all white English but add the white Eastern European population to the white English population then look at your numbers again .

@@JW20236 Weather you believe I'm the "offspring" of the Windrush Generation or I have mixed race children , who cares - I could blacker than a chalk board or whiter than a polar bears fur I'm not one-sided but factual and if you believe that Europe is still not overwhelming white , you ain't writing facts but racist propaganda .

@mr mike Well the first thing to be built, was the bus station around 1994 and then the shopping centre was refurbished around 1998 and the tube station itself was refurbished and was completed by 1999 for the Jubliee line extension

@mr mike Well, to build the Olympic park, a lot of areas were demolished, large industrial estate was demolished. Stratford bus garage was demolished and the bus garage relocated to the new west ham garage near star lane. The biggest area was Clays Lane Estate to demolish to make way for the athletes' village in the 2012 London Olympics site

they are probably gone by now.

Still there now

I went to that school and it was horrible their lol

Ooh cool I went to that school too

And what days they were! 🙂

Justin Griffiths this was 3 years ago

before the replacement project realised its goal

Now all you see is Chinese man

John Wayne now all you ever see is mostly bengalis

@@Missyprincess719 I bet ur some next posh racist upper class conservative don

I know it’s absolutely saddening! Take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley! 😢😢