From old maps, I can tell you, what is now known as Voss St., was originally three separately named streets or alleys. They were Granby Row, Elliott’s Row, and Thomas Passage. Even the 4 cross streets have been renamed. Maybe this will help with why the street is named Voss.
Paul. Really good video mate. It’s nice you took the time out to do this. I’m 41 and used to live by the taxi arches on collingwood street in the 80’s till the turn of the millennium. I used to go with my nan “down the lane” at the Sunday market and come back with useless crap lol still loved it. We always used to say hi to Charlie who sold used office furniture warehouse on Bacon Street off brick lane next to the Bigel shop. He was a lovely man . RIP … Steve. Always loved the east end even if it has changed . Barmy park fun fair, museum of childhood , white horse kebabs , noodle king , weavers park , Rude Bimmers / Mercs . Perfume pat on her stall opposite Percy ingles . Also, liked the jungle tune you put at the end of the video! My era of course haha . All the best.
Great Videos Paul. Love to know the history of people and places. It must have been an amazing place to live. It seems to me like your where right in the heart of all. I have had an interest in the Krays for as long as I can remember. So thanks for the tour around town and the twins place. All the best and keep those vid's coming.
I wrote a book set in Bethnal green “Don’t believe the truth - the rise of Phil Webster” a gangster thriller. It’s part of a trilogy I released a few years ago. I’m currently writing a follow up called never give up and had to decide on a street where the main character lives this video really helped get a feel of the place before I visit again and Derbyshire street is perfect. The previous book the main character lived in Canrobert street. Anyway many thanks great video all very interesting to me 👍
Andrew thanks for the kind words, glad I could assist you in some way!! Canrobert street is where my wife lived as a young girl, she lived right down the bottom behind the Kwik Fit garage, I also had numerous friends who lived in Canrobert street, one of them being my best friend at school, to this day we are still good friends & still meet up to drink & go fishing, also on the junction of Canrobert street & Old Bethnal Green road was the King's Arms pub, I spent years of my life in there getting pissed & having a laugh, sadly like many East End pubs, it no longer exists, it was turned into flats years ago, I could go on for ages about my links with this street, all the best my friend & good luck with your writing!
@@pauladams6802 many thanks 👍 I feel like I know the place although I’ve only been a handful of times. Can’t wait to go again! There’s lots of fascinating history in Bethnal Green. 👍 Im taking my son for the first first time hopefully he appreciates it as much as I do
Always loved that accent. Always thought of it as “cockney”…. 1st if your videos I’ve watched. Love it. Thanks from Australia 😀. Oxford ‘Ouse, you sound like “Madness”. Anyone seen our Ouse.. I must have lived in England in a previous life, I just love the history.❤❤❤ I’m from Adelaide, we have lots of English named suburbs, we have a Mile End and Hackney too.
I moved from hackney in 2001 to Essex lol my last flat was stokey gibson gardens so I see a lot of the krays homes and I'm 45 so remember vallance road as it was xx
Interesting looking aorund these old streets, I can imagine how they were once filled with people going about their business, instead now all you hear is vehicles.
David it's quite a trendy place nowadays, when I was a kid around there it was rundown, there was prefabs & wasteland bounded by corrugated iron, we used to call them debris (debreez), as kids we used to play in them!
Top video Paul. I’m not a Londoner but been to a few away trips as an away football fan down London. Certain parts of London really intrigue me. Nice 1 enjoyed that…. Smithy
Had some great times in Oxford House youth club. Errol and Julie also. If I remember rightly, Julies son was in the Heinz Baked Beans advert - big deal at the time.
@@pauladams6802 yes m8 - loving your vids. Very interesting. The Limehouse Basin made me laugh - I remember Adams 'scatty' dog. Great screen presence - just great hearing and seeing one of your own.
I used to knock about around there in the early seventies, behind the red Church was the Westminster arms where we all used to drink before going over to the Greengate to listen to the music, you'd often see us all on our fizzy mopeds, we were all telegram boys and Charlie Magri was a regular client as was John H Stracey, good days and plenty of rows with the Hoxton lot.
I remember in the paper a fews ago it was a family they had lived in a house in the top of Vallence Road/Voss St for a 120 years. It had been passed down they moved in in the 1880s they guy that lives there now it was his great, great whatever grandparents from Italy that first moved amazing, the family paid £500 in the 60s for it
Interesting my mate used to live on valence Road in a flat he brought with compo from the metropolitan police he was one of the founding members the London posse RIP Sipho
remember a scrap yard just off white chappell road,"peters".he bought cars for wieght.we took in at least 4 cars per day.that was back in 89.40 quid a car,4 cars per day,lot better than a days work ;)
Interesting video. I couldn't tell you for sure about why it's called Voss street, but I do know that Voss can be a family name, so I assume at one point there was a Mr.Voss either involved with the street or perhaps influential enough in London to get a random street named after him, but has since been pretty forgotten. That's life I suppose.
I've been looking through the research I did on my family history, (Census records) in 1860 they lived at 7 Hague Street Bethnel Green. I can't believe its the building on the left @6:45, my G G grandparents, (Maternal) They moved there from 59 Curtain Road. amazing thinking about that. My dad's father was born @ number 22 Turner Street Limehouse and his father (Great Gramps) died in that house 2 weeks before he was born.
@@pauladams6802Imagine that, thanks paul. From Hague Street they moved to 9 Marian street (Houses gone) then to 74 Lichfiled Road Bow/Mile End, a house which he bought. I got alot of info from Census records, and the Drapers company which is where they started, 7 generations. Your videos are really uplifting Paul thanks mate. You've caught on camera my Great Grandad's old workshop in Shoreditch and one of his houses in Bethnel Green, what are the odds!
How the f--king hell do they paint pictures right up there? I left Bethnal Green in 1965, it was a bit different then. Lived in Old Ford Rd, about a hundred yards from the York Hall. Learned to swim there.
Just a shot in the dark to answer your question, l used to work with a bloke whose Surname was Voss, so l'm wondering if Voss St is named after a person. I've never heard of the word other than that. I used to live in Idmiston Rd E15, which is another meaningless word to me! You deserve far more than 37 Subscibers, your videos are great.
Cheers James, I got a few more subscribers now but it's hard to find the time to keep making videos in my busy schedule, there will be more when the time is right but thanks for your kind words! As for Voss I did extensively research the name but could find no prominent figures bearing that surname, although like you, I did know a Voss growing up in Bethnal Green, must just be a commonly found surname in the East End!
Damn, wasn't that much graffiti there when I was growing up as a kid! My favourite pie & mash shop (near Percy Ingles's) closed down there years ago. Used to be £1 for one pie and two mash!
I went too weaversfield school my nan and grandad lived in goldsmiths close I lived in burdett Road so wasn't local just ended up in that school cos it was for naughty kids which I was...lol did Charlie magri have too shops then cos I no he had the pet shop on the Roman road.?
351 subscribers now. But how do people live in these places? I'm in a quiet green suburb(not posh) half a world away in Australia. Do people not have cars? I saw no parking. Are there gardens out the back? Where do the residents children play?
Kelly I used to play on these streets when I was a child, we didn't have a car when I was a young child although my mother did learn to drive when I was a little older, you would park anywhere you could find a space!! Some bigger properties had their own gardens but i lived in a flat with no garden, there were a few green spaces dotted around. It made me really appreciate the countryside & coastline whenever we got experience it as we were a million miles away from that!
@Kelly Souter the krays weren't into children children played in the streets all their lives in Bethnal it was safe they had respect for old people and children there were lots of old villains like the krays they mixed with their own and respected the rest of us thats when people knew the meaning if the word respect changed now never be like the old days
It's been many years since I lived in London but I believe that the last German bomb dropped on the UK at the end of the WW II landed in Vallance Road killing quite a few people, perhaps you or one of your followers could verify that for me!
James thanks, I lived very close to here for most of my life until I moved out but I never heard of that nugget of information, would be interesting to find out!
@@pauladams6802 Hi Paul, thank you for getting back to me, I've only just found your channel but I've watched a couple now and looking forward to catching up on them all. I was born and brought up in Stratford E15 although to be honest I haven't been back to London for a few years now but it's really interesting to see how quickly London has changed. With regards to the Vallance Road bombing incident, I can't remember how I first heard the story, I'm in my 70s now and whilst I was born after the war had ended I was fully aware of the destruction of the London bombings as a child because our play areas were all the old bomb sites and debris as they were known. In my younger working life I often used to drive passed the end of Vallance Road and often used to think, 'haunted', if you like, by this story of people and possibly families going through all the horrors of the war only to be taken out in the last few hours so I really hope this was just another 'urban myth'. Keep up the videos, I have subscribed so will be looking out for them!
I lived in Teasdale st next to the George pub from 1960 for 12 years before we moved to bow, I remember Charlie Magri shop I also rember Bennys the barbers before that
