In November 1971 as a 16 year old lad, I started work as an engineering garage trainee at Poplar LT garage. I experienced many great times at Poplar, the people were very good to me and it was a real community. I remember one particular bus driver Harry Thomas who lived on the Isle of Dogs. He was a proper character, like many of the other folk I met. Remember too Ron Outen's small shop at the bottom end of Leven Road, like stepping back in time. This November will mark the 50th anniversary, when I started work down the East End. Great times, great people and many good memories. Bless them one and all.❤👍
Wonderful old photos of a bygone world. However I wish there had been more time allowed to read the captions. My mum grew up in Hackney Wick during the 1930s and experienced appalling poverty there. Many of her friends lived in just one room and one poor girl died of tuberculosis which was rampant back then.
@@bluebell2247 Thanks for the reply and yes i did, a little awkward but that's my only critique. It was great seeing that old photo if the Londoner in Limehouse and the layout of the junction. I was just a kid back then, funny, now i drive a bus and used to drive the D6 so know it well, would sometimes think back to how it was when i was sitting at the lights
Only way I could let my 95 year old cockney friend watch on my iPad was to put at half speed and turn sound off 😕 Video and titles work well at half speed.
I remember going to Fish jewellers in the 70's with my then boyfriend (now my hubby) and buying my engagement ring. Vicky Park boating lake brought back many memories too. Those days will never come back but at least some of us lived at that time and have lovely memories to look back on
Yes , I’m a bit addicted to watching anything about east London , I was born and raised in Leytonstone but went all over the east end , petticoat lane on Sunday mornings with my dad R.I.P. it was a place of some kind of magic , that’s why it is still one of the most interesting places
Life as I recall it in the East end was no picnic. True, there was a community feeling centred on the social club formed in 1954 in the Britannia pub on the corner of Wager Street and Bow Common Lane E 3 which is where I grew up in the 50s. Born in Mile End Hospital, Bancroft Rd in 1946 I got sick with gastroenteritis on the day I was born. Many babies died because of this and the the insanitary hospital conditions and I spent the first 5 months of my life in an incubator. I doubt this would have happened had I been born on the same date in St Georges Hyde Park! I lived in a slum and was glad to get out when I reached 18. Nostalgia isn't all that it's cracked up to be you know!.
Some nice images ,but trying to read the text is nye impossible ,please give more time and change the font colour so it is easier read. Thank for the video
You have a picture of Coldharbour which I have never seen before. My ancestors ran the pub that is the second building beyond the white one. I wonder if you might know who uploaded it for you please?
Are there any photos of 125 High Street Poplar, which was the East India Arms? Interested to see what it looked like as my Great Grandfather (Gustaf Olsson) lived there when he arrived from Sweden and was still there when he married a local girl (Amelia Alice Smith) before they moved into Oban Street (I have photos from the 1930/40's and see that the street is still there!)
What they did to Poplar post-war is criminal, tearing down blocks not bombed as well as the bomb sites. You’d never know old Poplar was even there these days.
The photos are great, but the text that goes with them either flashes by too quickly or is such pale lettering it's impossible to read them. Very disappointed.Ihope the person posting will try again and give photos and text a chance to be fully enjoyed.
