Tower Bridge Road Market (1931) 

My father was born there same time opposite the marigold pub Richard White

wow... sir so it is like time machine for you

Yes, I was in the film and spoke with your patents.

"Cockney" is an area of London where criminals come from. Or so my mom told me.

@@davesaunders3334 They lived close to the law in poor areas in low paid jobs, street costermongers, selling from barrows e.g. barrow boys, wide boys etc. Before the days of State Benefits they lived by the skin of their teeth. What made them so distinctive was their cockney accent which offended some people. I met a lot when I served in the army and I quite liked them, the were straight forward and called a spade a spade(not in the racial sense). I rather liked them! They were and are wats left, if any, unique! A great shame the cockney areas of London are now much gentrified. If they had been BAME it might have been different for them!

I am a true Cockney there's a few left .not many . 😢

me too

That thought crossed my mind ,poor chap.

His posture looks like it.

The lovely,patient folk. So little really . Not bombarded with that pernicious psychology making so many today feeling inadequate. The young men and boys blissfully unaware of the calamity less than a decade away.

Most likely, none of the people in the picture are long dead. Even those who were very small babies at the time.

If we don`t stop the march of the P.C left, then it will be bleak!

MAKE YOU RIGHT THERE WELSH LAD

Your right ,but what for ?

@@johnlowdon5809 exactly

My mum and she died 2015at age 96 tomorrow would have been her 101birthday. I am very sad today as I miss her company

Thank Churchill for that.

@@alisonnorcross951 bless her, she was long-lived. but, you will always miss your mother no matter when you lose her, so bless you too

So were the women. My mum joined the WRAFs in 1940 when women were conscripted.

@@GlossaME Churchill never started the war, he wasn't even in the cabinet - the Germans did!

Was he selling quack medicines?

That's just old ladies wearing old fashions...Like they always do.

The cloche was still fashionable in 1931. Didn't go out of fashion until 1933-1934. If you search for images of 1931, you'll see this is exactly how they dressed then. Cloche hat and hems well below the knee. There's even a picture of the queen mother in a deep cloche hat in 1931 with her mother in law looking decidedly Edwardian at her side. I'm pretty sure they could afford the latest fashions.

Sorry meant to say bone and not bow

I realised my mistake When I posted the comment that it should be rag and bone man or in The Girl From Cotton lane by Harry Bowling rag-and-bone-man.Totters were the same sort of people in that they made a living collecting rubbish.The way of life lived by the people in this film is long gone.Gone are the brewery drays and also the carmen driving their heavy horses through the turnings and back streets and also the dockers and also the children playing in the cobbled streets and the music halls and most of the pubs.All gone forever.

supernumery why did the richest country In the world at the time deliberately keep it’s working class dirt poor, could it be that they wanted to press them into service to fight their bankers wars for them.

The Colleen Bawn was a public house at the junction of Southwark pk rd and StJames rd it was rebuilt in the 60s which I believe has been demolished

No, in the early part of the 30's, hemlines actually dropped a bit. It wasn't until the war came along that they rose again.

Nobody's saying that there wasn't severe, hellish poverty and disease, families living in terrible housing, if they were lucky..there were still workhouses and I've never heard any good tales from one of them! I think the point being made, isnt, 'Wasn't life great back then', rather, 'Isn't it nice seeing people going about their day to day business without a mobile phone clutched to their ear", "Isn't it lovely to see how people interacted and actually acknowledged each other, rather than ignore or blank their fellow pedestrians". When my grandparents, who were born on and around 1910, into working class families, told me stories of when they were young, they were full of LIFE, people really DID things, actually LIVED. They didn't sit on their backsides complaining, they tried to make things better for themselves and made the best of what they had. Today, for all the technology, improvements in health and in life in general, sadly, people have forgotten how lucky they are and, if they ever knew, how to communicate. How sad that, in a world where we can talk to anyone, anywhere in the world with a simple click, we can't nod our head at a passing stranger and say good morning.... I think that was the point being made....

Yawn

Well said Hannah.Especially that final sentence...@ @@Hannahxx1971

Thought I would alert you to something more interesting Alison. Melinda and Melissa have just told Melanie and Matilda that Meg was saying to Mabel how she had 2 pieces of toast today instead of the usual one piece that her friends Megan and Martha usually have. It's all over Twitter and on your state-of-art smartphone right now. Aren't you soooo lucky being updated by a phone ping every 30 seconds. Absolutely fascinating..@ @@alisonlekarev2183

What makes you think there would be more cars around at this time, particularly in a working class area? I was born the year this film was made and I can assure you that cars were few and far between generally until after the war - in fact it was the mid to late fifties before cars began appearing outside houses where ordinary working folk lived. I didn't have a car until 1958 and that was twenty years old when I bought it.

Those hats were still around in the early 30's.

No. It looked accurate for the very early 30's.

This was definitely neither the Victorian era (1837 - 1901) nor the Edwardian era (1901 - 1910) During both of these eras ladies wore long dresses or skirts with blouses and elaborate hats. The clothing, particularly the shorter coats and cloche hats became fashionable in the 1920s and lingered on until the early thirties. The only people who perhaps would have hung on to their older Victorian or Edwardian clothes would have been the older generation, but this of course is only an assumption. As well as this the clothes worn by the children were those of the twenties or thirties.

What is Jafaican?

Food was not messed with so much then as now. It was more pure and not all the chemicals and frankenfood we eat now.

yes you are very right ,,our food has been pumped full of water and as you say chemicals ...

There was a disabled man, did you not spot the amputee with a crutch on the far pavement in the early shots. Probably injured in the first world war.

There were tons of disabled people! What about all those people who'd had limbs chopped off from working in cotton mills?

Loving the jealousy

просто потому, что они хотели.....

Caps were worn by all Men then...

Glad to hear it bothers you