East End Pubs Now & Then 

A few more seconds on the pub name subtitles would be nice and clearer font, otherwise good video

I remember a lot of these boozers. A lot of them now closed ; hardly surprising when the whole bleeding area is under foreign occupation !!! From a Cockney living in exile

There are very few english people left in the East End now. The foreign cultures that have taken root in the east end and in most provincial english cities have no interest in Pubs. The closure of Pubs in general are a euphemism for the end of england and english people in general.

One of the main reasons that so many pubs have closed in the East End is because of the ongoing Islamisation of the East End in the name of diversity.

Our East End ! Gone but not forgotten !!!

I'm from Poland, however, I do like Britain alot. There is so much places to visit. So much modern and great historic buildings standing one by one and widely spreaded across the UK. Great pubs, lovely and friendly people. Love in it!

the subtitles flashed too quickly....couldn't read the names. Nice music and singing though.

Born in bow by the old bow bridge and the lea in the Mid 1930's I married the daughter of the landlord of the Bombay Grab Bow road which I now understand to have become a Mosque, after many years in my wife's family the previous landlord was jimmy lane the would Champion wrestler, i became a publican taking over the old army-navy Plaistow the new carpenters-arms carpenters road Stratford and the white horse high street east ham, in the early 60s, the old army-navy was demolished and a new one built, then the white horse demolished, the carpenters -arms I believe is still going but I have many memories in these pubs with the weekend singalongs and entertainment, I now live in the Cotswolds but still an Eastender at heart.

I come from the East End, I was born there, I now live forty miles away. The weekend just gone, hubby and I revisited and wanted to have an East End pub crawl. The one pub we especially wanted to revisit closed around six weeks ago, I was gutted. The amount of other pubs that now have their windows and doors boarded up is heartbreaking, such a damn shame :(

I drank in many of the pubs shown on here at one time or another during the 60s as a teenager. of course some people don't have any roots only a hut in a dusty field so they think they have the right to put anybody down that has good memories of the place they grew up in. it was then a community a dirty grimey place to live but it was community which has now gone.

hearing a cockney accent when in London seems to be rare these days.

Sure, if the English moves out so does their habits and thus the pubs. However, even in places with 90% Brits like for example Liverpool many pubs have closed also...Same goes in all other western countries, even if the place is still 90% "local", bars-cafes-bistros have all closed in large numbers since the late 80:s...

I lived in the same area from 54 to76 l miss it them days are gone now lts bigger s##h house now than in the1890

I'm only 51 but can remember when a night in the pub was A:affordable,B: something most people did on a regular basis and C: the only food on offer was a cheese and onion roll out of a plastic dome thing.No doubt some younger viewers of You-Tube will be thinking 'so what was good?' Trust me,you've missed out.2 pints of lager and a couple of bags of crisps for this-side of a pound,no drugs and everybody knew each other.The local dick-heads were and kept an eye on, and if it went wrong they were dealt with.Going to a town centre pub now on a Friday night is like going to a war-zone and just not fun anymore.Such a shame

Wonderful. I recognised so many of these eastend public houses. Fortunately a few still exist today.

I'm not surprised the amount of pubs have shut in the east end, Londonistan has now been taken over by Muslims, it wouldn't surprise me if these pubs have now been converted into Mosques.

I’ve drunk in a fair few of these pubs, and many others not mentioned - The Prince Regent, The Peacock, The New Gog, The Steps, The Freemasons Arms, The Beckton Arms, The Paul’s Head….I could go on for ages! It’s an interesting fact (could be a coincidence, I don’t know) that the demise of the British Pub has seen a relative increase in men’s mental health issues. Not because of the drink, but because the pub used to be the place to go and have a laugh and chat with your mates. Somewhere you made an effort to get dressed up for. Somewhere you could vent about your problems instead of bottling them up. I’m 66 now. As a kid we were often outside pubs on a Friday and Saturday night with a packet of crisps and a lemonade. There was always an adult checking on us. They were places that ALL of my family went to. As an example: My Nan, who raised me and my sister used to work in Woolworth, Canning Town. On Fridays and Saturdays after work her and my aunt Peg would have a light ale (or two) in the Beckton Arms which was at the back of the shop. They’d then get a mini cab to the Nottingham Arms (long gone) on Prince Regent lane Custom House where they’d meet other family members including my dad, stop until closing when Aunt Peg would get a cab back home. Saturday would be similar but from the Beckton they’d go to the Paul’s head (near Aunt Peg) and Nan would get a cab home…… When I joined the Army in 1975, I would ALWAYS know where I could ring Nan (she never ever had a phone at home) and at what time. My diary was full of pub numbers and I knew the landlord and landlady of all of them. A real nostalgia trip this was….sad to see the death of British pub culture it really and truly is.

I lived in bow a couple of years ago, opposite bow road tube. There was not one fish & chip shop in walking distance! Fucking depressing. The closest thing similar was a chicken and kebab shop, but those type of chips are revolving.

Ive been to every one of these pubs before a West Ham game

I used to go to Prince of Wales in Grove rd bow. if stories in area were right Tony the landlord was the real life version of MItchells in Eastenders.

THe music and the pictures of those Grand old pubs, brought me tears in my eyes ......I remember playing a bit of music, once in a while..... in many of those once glorious pubs. ... Watching other brilliant musicians play ... and even had the fortunate luck to see and hear proper "old skool" Eastenders play a tune on the "old Joanna" ( ones that where born in hearing distance of the Bow Bells ) ...... The people that use to frequent them, where really welcoming, and a as Dutchman and foreigner myself ( I lived here nearly 30 jears, and I feel part of London, I now lived here longer than in Holland ) I can truly say, there was no better pub, than an Eastend pub .... I learned more from the kind people in them pubs, than whatever they try to teach me at school ..... but as with most of those old boys and girls, the pubs have now gone too ..... it just breaks my heart .... Living in Romford, I can see that even around our way ... diversity has ruined most of that as well ..... and yes I am a Brexiteer, as Europe is an un-Democratic monster, that ruined many cities in the UK ....... as for the" Old Eastend" ... I'll miss it ... every day .....

I've used alot of those pubs. Shame they're all closed down now. Shame that some councils disapprove of alcohol

i'm going to uni in london and its shit now, full of immigrants - cant even go out at night without getting mugged. fucking hate it. When did you move away and where to? anywhere is better than the east end now

Lovely video but not all the Pubs are in the East End.

I was born in East Ham as was all my dad's family. I would rather remember it as it was. I had a look on Google Maps and that was enough for me. I wouldn't even go back for the day now you can get pie & mash in Kent :) (Nathans in East Ham is the best though) I left London 8 years ago and haven't looked back.

Michael Jackson was forever blowing Bubbles.

Pub-poor where I’m from. Closest I’ll get to a Pint will be The Rovers’ Return or The Queen Vic 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧

Ruined

What wonderful architecture...one of my Uncle and Aunt were the Landlords of The Old Axe public house in Shoreditch..the Pub has a 'turrett' that us kiddies would sit and watch the world go by... I believe this is now a restaurant? August 2020. As a proud generation of East Enders..the saying was...if you were not in church..you were in the other..if your not in one your in the other. There were two pubs in our family..sadly..no more., a generation all now passed. Heart felt memories of my home...a longtime ago. Keep safe.

You have to show both together, that's the exciting bit

can you tell me pls the lady singing thanks very much ....love this song

What about the marquis of Cornwallis in bethnal green or blind beggar in whitechapel

Had to watch this at half speed

As an expat living now in canada, how come all these pubs are closing? is no one drinking now? (horrible thought lol) thank you for posting this i remember some of the pubs and drunk in them often.

where was the blind beggar?

Unless you knew a pub existed in a particular spot you'd think many places were flats occasionally if you look up you might see a horses head (The Nags Head, Hackney Road now a wharehouse) or a bird (Jackdaw and Stump Homerton High Street so look up you might be surprised....

very confusing as to which is which, slow down...............

IT'S K TO HAVE ANYONE LIVE IN THE WORLD BUT WHEN I SEE WHAT HAS HAPPEN TO THE EAST-END MAKES ME SO SAD AND SOMETIMES MAD TO SEE WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE TO IT ! BUT LADS YOU BE STRONG K NO ONE CAN TAKE THE PROUD OF A EAST-ENDER AWAY ..SO FUCK YOU WHO HAVE TAKEN AWAY PART OF THE EAST-END AWAY . YOU WILL NEVER TAKE AWAY OUR MEMOIRS AND OUR PROUD AWAY .... THE GERMANY'S TRIED NOW YOU WILL TRY ... AND WHEN YOU DO WE WILL ALWAYS SMILE BECUZ WE ARE EAST-ENDERS FUCKING PROUD PEOPLE . BLESS ...... !

Never Mind, LID L offer Cheap Booze, and remember Prince Albert & Queen Victoria were very PRO GERMAN

There's a nice one on Dock St.. kept its lovely old charm

2018 ..I wonder how many more have gone now ?

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Because of the docks the East End was a stop off point for immigrants. but it's only human nature not to want to feel marginalised, by other cultures. As a 3 rd generation Cockney I sometimes feel that way. So many Cockneys are moving away to Essex, Kent ect. sad!

When West Ham leave the Boleyn Ground,I can see most(if not all the Pubs) closing nearby.I used to go to the Duke Of Edinburgh in Green Street E13.That has now shut down and Flats are being made there.This will happen to the others.Newham will not back the Pubs.

Thanks, like the photos: Your Titles (pub names locations) are difficult to read, and not up for very long. The label after the Ten Bells Spitalfields is corrupted, can't read at all. Could they go in the black area around the photos?

up the hammers

Lol I crashed my car into the green man in plashet road was living with parents see their light was still on went round block smashed it into front of pub stoned! Was actually returning from playing a gig in the Boleyn with a band called the Kinnels!

I think my great granddad might have owned or run The Boleyn in Upton Park

Who's singing?

@bowhammer2007 yes all sad now all the piubs have gone now im was bord in stepney E.1 lovely video hey ..bless

That last one!

@nostalgiclondon O' NOW I FEEL STUPIED I DID'NT KNOW THAT I LOVE HER BUT JUST DID'NT HEAR HER ...THANK YOU KINDLY MY LORD AND BRING A EAST-ENDER TOO SMILING ..BLESS

wish the pictures didn't go bye so fast

nice nice video thanks very much made me feel abit sad use to go to alot of these pubs back in the 70's ...nice 1 mate bless

very nice movie, yes drunk in some shown and socialised,community centres and better times they were too. better than sitting in doors.down the old frog and toad ,get brahms and liszt and go for a ruby murray, what a bubble bath it was too,dont adam and eve it ! peckham geezer......

Un watchable.

Yes it’s so sad , a way off life that’s long gone now

Muslims

Hi thanks for the reply, yeah its too bad all the good pubs are going or gone, they knocked down the red lion where i used to drink (i think its offices now or flats).

They fly so high !!!!!

@Bobbythehammer My road too....1957 to 71

The pubs in the east end are closing because only 30% drink.

Est end is over....

Why did all the east Enders leave ????

islam by the back door,no beer,no fun,NO ENGLAND!!!

its vera lynn for fuck;s sake

I saw big mann wif big nos an he said inglis no good hear, I sez why you talk mann?, he wuz laffin and jokin and den fel down on floor coz hit him in zee moth. he wuz shitin al over, u know . . heee heee heee. .

Actually it's full of sad alcoholics with no sense of humour.

Some great old pics but why that awful bleedin West Ham song.........anyone knows true east Londoner's support The O's! I was actually born in an East End pub (The Mariners Arms, The Highway E1) that was demolished in 66. Some great nostalgia here but that woeful bloody song - nah! ;-)

Ole ad hominem.

Please can you direct to me any cogent and clear arguments which aren't riddled with vehement desire to insult which supports a single thing you've said? What I see is someone desperately suppressing his childish insults with a half colourful vocabulary.

An imposition. -Bengali Ex-Muslim Londoner.

I worked in the East End in the mid eighties, some great pubs and the people were fantastic, went back to a Leeds West Ham game last season, the people are still the same but the place has changed completely, my mother from Leeds won a UK wide talent singing contest beat Vera Lynn, my mother was a down to earth seamstress where as Lyn was middle upper class, that’s why she won it, down to earth humour and hardworking lass !!!

I love your pics, but could you add dates and street names, as that would be very helpful to me?