Nice one Ed. You present it well again. I think this video represents every one of the 33 London Boroughs today, but definitely gets worse the nearer the capital you are. You have the added issue of the capital's property market, with the rich getting mega rich, and only those with high end salaries able to afford the cost of buying or renting privately. And in the very same neighbourhoods, as you've shown us, you have the poorest, oldest people in social housing, the ones that never bought there flat in the Thatcher days and sold it for a fortune and moved to Kent or Essex, they're all just stuck there forever, no change for them, just the new developments around them going up and the majority being bought/rented by rich foreign workers/students. Your two links in the description were a good read too, especially the much less statistical led Reuters report. This final sentence in the Reuters link summed it up 100%, even though it's Islington Borough, it's still very relevant to Tower Hamlets, and everywhere else; "There's always been this division in Islington," shopper Marion Jones said, browsing the local outdoor market. "The wealthy have got really wealthy and everyone else has just stayed the same. It's just the way it is. It'll never change." Says it all. Add to this, you have other boroughs there, because London land is so pricey, selling plots and condemned estates and tower blocks off for private development. They then ship those tenants out to the home counties, Essex, Kent, Herts ect. Been happening for quite a while now, as its cheaper to lease a whole block, outside Gtr. London, than building up there, That whole docklands area, I recall it all being built up in the 80's/90's. The Sun moving to Wapping in 86', the DLR being built, the Telegraph moving to the Isle of Dogs, then Canary Wharf Tower going up, which is where the Telegraph moved to in 91', the towers first tenants. They moved again in 2005, to the new Victoria Station Plaza development. But since then we've had the financial crisis of 2008 and the pandemic, and 10's of 1000's of those jobs disappeared forever. What you see now in Docklands is the area being rebuilt and redeveloped again, a second time around in 35 years, with a skew of residential blocks going up. These are replacing the redundant office blocks. The much reduced financial services sector, a lot of them have relocated back to the square miie to much smaller offices. The project is still on-going, and not due for completion until 2028. In the meantime, if you've lived there a long time, in one of those old terraced houses, or a tenant in social housing, I guess you're sitting pretty for a while yet. And the same thing has happened across the river in Greenwich, where the Millenium Dome was built, now the O2, all redeveloped land and still being built up today. Like I said, these neighbourhoods where the very rich and very poor live side by side today, they're all over our capital. Enjoy. ✔🇬🇧💯👍😉
@@EdBrinton Well deserved too. You seem to be a natural in front of the camera, I mean, it takes some balls to walk around these mean streets, talking to a camera on the end of a stick lol! I can tell you though, these observations are bang on. Last month, I completed some 40 visits, to all the remaining Gtr. London Wetherspoons I needed. That's the South West, West, North.West, and a few North London postcodes. The diversity and make up of each area was quite striking. And having been a courier in my previous life, I knew all these areas of London in the 80's/90's, and can see how much our capital has changed. Its a huge subject to cover, planned immigration, looking after millionaires, government and town planning ect, and it certainly provokes plenty of good comments here. ✔💯🇬🇧👍
Why doesn't the uploader find even the cheapest flat there if that is the case??? Even the cheapest flat there would be around half a million pounds so there goes the myth...
To be fair though this is happening all over. I live in a posh part of south east where it’s rural and towns and there’s a lot of deprivation. All the rich do is shut themselves away in gated communities and posh houses. The rest of us are left to earn a living. Decades of tory governments have gutted society using austerity and thatchers legacy. No one has any responsibility or concerns for anyone else, lots of selfish knobs around though. Come and see for yourself one day, happy to show you…
I use to live in Bethnal Green where I was born in Tower Hamlets up and till 2017 when I moved out to Essex. Although, it’s generally deprived, like Popular and Shadwell, large parts of it are now gentrified and the price of properties there are staggering. Bethnal Green has nice parts and bad parts to it but Columbia Road flower market is very nice and the price of freehold properties there are easily one million plus. When you left Canary Wharf and walked round the local neighbourhood, you walked past a block of flats where my uncle use to live most of his life, until he recently died. He lived on the first floor and it brought back memories for me when you stopped to look at those block of flats and walked around the local shops that are there. 4:38
@@Lechonberryph It’s difficult to say because both Tower Hamlets and Essex have good parts and bad parts to it. Essex is also a big county and very diverse. Although, large parts of it feel very British because many indigenous Brits have moved out of places like Tower Hamlets to Essex years ago, going back as far as the 1980s when they’re were lots of slums created in East London after the blitz from WW2. And because large parts of Tower Hamlets have been gentrified and cost a fortune to buy property there and because British culture is no longer the dominant culture. For me, I moved to Hornchurch which is very nice but a couple of miles away in Romford has a completely different vibe and I wouldn’t feel safe walking there late on a Saturday night, but that’s just my perception. That being said there are some nice parts of Romford but it’s town centre needs more investment I feel. But I do see similarities with Romford and Bethnal Green as it was before Bethnal Green was gentrified, about 20 yrs ago. And now the Elizabeth line has opened up, I hope Romford will get the investment it needs.
@@sameaulahad2824 Romford is a big area and like Bethnal Green there are run down areas and better areas. Romford Town centre is good for shopping during the day but I wouldn’t go there on a Saturday night to have fun. Many British Asians are now moving out of places like Ilford and further into Essex and I don’t have a problem with that because they’re as British as I am and have integrated into British culture. But I do feel some of the wealthier Asian families tend to keep to themselves and don’t really go out of their way to say hello to their neighbours.
Brought back memories of living in Tower Hamlets in my youth during the 2000's ..and working in odd office jobs in Canary Wharf. It's a fascinatingly contrasting place, but never somewhere you can settle, unless you are lucky with inheritance, you get big breaks in your finance or media career, or are part of the implanted Bangladeshi community. What a weird set of criteria! Most of us do not fall into those categories, so end up moving out to England's more humdrum and overall less expensive places.
I have to work in Canary Wharf occasionally but the office is a bit away from the main hub. Closer to South Quay and Crossharbour. Asked a colleague where the nearest post office was and he directed me to one in Cubbit town. I did not feel comfortable there at all. It's crazy by crossing one road (Limeharbour) and walking for a couple of minutes, you find yourself in a different world.
Hopefully, you're young and getting out in time to make a life for yourself. I left in my twenties and never looked back. I would return every few years to see, hoping, it'd gotten better. It never did.
I live in Norfolk, originally from London and am always mightily impressed by Canary Wharf with all those impressive and imposing buildings and such a diverse atmosphere too!
I find that really weird how in so many towns and cities now, you see so many expensive cars parked along more or less every street, but the rest of the place including where they live looks like an absolute run down dump. I reckon these people must drive away somewhere from time to time to fake that they're rich 😂 All image to them. Shallow people. Oh well, its their debt not mine
@@EdBrintonInteresting comment. I've heard it said that many people value a nice car more than anything else, and it can't just be Europeans. Other point is, have you ever wondered, if you're stuck in the never ending rental trap, especially in private rentals, you won't be spending any spare money on improving or keeping up the property you're in, so you'll spend it elsewhere. This could also be why so many streets look so run down today, and adding to this the bugbear of every town/city today, houses of multiple occupation! 🤔
What's the point of owning an expensive car when you live in 200 year old poorly insulated, damp Victorian terrace house or ex council flat? Who do you think you're impressing? Doesn't matter what your realtor tells you it's worth. It's still a $#!ť hole and your still freezing your balls off most of the year. Get out and get living! Before its too late. In 25 - 50 years you and kids won't know it anyway. It'll be mini versions of Kabul, Lahore, Lagos. It's a slow motion, ala Titanic, catastrophe :(
Important info you should include at the start of videos like this; Mayor of London’s budget is upwards of 20 BILLION Tower Hamlets has a budget of close to 350million Where is the money going?
@@EdBrinton it’s shocking the state of our high streets… everywhere I go they have a look of deprivation… the UK with all its wealth should be a UTOPIA of clean streets and beautiful buildings… so somethings going amiss!
@@CRAIGTEMPLATEXCHRIST retail is dying. I worked off Oxford Street on Great Portland St until a few years ago and even the most famous high street in the country is on the way out.
@@EdBrinton Appreciate you too!...I am now going to look at your other video posts...Excellent film maker Ed Brinton. I just wish I'd had the means back in the day....
Hello mate, I discovered your channel today, and I will be binge watching. An array of great videos. I can't believe in that area a terrace would cost that much. Insane modern times. All the best.
Suggest to an American tourist, to visit the quaint old English town of Tower Hamlets. You can also suggesting that it's old English tradition of putting chocolate mouse on top of your salad. It worked for my friend and I back in '92, and the American gentleman did exactly that. We had to leave the shop because we couldn't stop laughing. I wonder if he enjoyed it?
You cannot put construction rubbish into municipal bins. It was nicely lined up in that garden, that was clearly a refurbishment rubbish waiting to be taken later to a skip.
Great video again! I’ve done a similar route to the one you did- tower hamlets is deprived but it’s not too dangerous. Looking forward to seeing you go to Deptford, Woolwich, and Thamesmead!
Thanks Ed for your walk through this area of London for a Kiwi who's always wondered what its like it looks absolutely terrifying i'll definitely never visit my bro.🇳🇿👍
I lived there but in one of new high end apartment complexes in Canary Wharf...Tower Hamlets is mixed from extreme immigrant poverty to millonaires. It has both extremes and living in Canary Wharf is amazing
You have canary wharf where bankers and coperate types come in make there money and retreat to surry. The rest of tower hamlets isn't poor 'immigrants' its poor everyone. Mostly social housed. And the only people who can afford properties in the area are coperate types. So if your the average working joe you cannot afford to buy a property where you was brought up. The only choice is to get a social house if you wanted to remain in TH. And yes most people are on the gyro in tower hamlets. Most popular shop is cash converters on bethnal green road when it opens and that's no joke.
@@matt5543 certainly a two tier group of people. There is some amazing new real estate developments in Canary Wharf and they are mainly full of overseas investors or graduates from UK moving to London. I have a property in York and 2 apartments in Pan Peninsula- great building. It's not poor everyone. Mainly those born in the area and immigrants.
Small point, you did not cross any river. Poplar once a thiving industrial aria with thriving docks is all north of the river Thames, The waters that you crossed were all part of the old West India/ Poplar dock. I moved to Poplar as a 12 year old in 1963. The river was alive with Ships and Tugs with Barges in tow. A totaly different world. It is now no more than a Refugee camp full of forign scroungers making them feel at home, and bringing it down to 3rd world level.
I've only ever visited London once and that was a school trip in 1963,.Coming from rural Dorset it was quite a shock but we all loved it, especially a visit to the Science Museum and a trip on the Thames. Forward to 2004 and this video, I'm shocked again. Those hideous buildings at Canary Wharf, they are absolutely hideous and so ugly. Then to see how the population live in Tower Hamlets, is again truly shocking. I wouldn't want to visit London again, never!
Good video - yes the cost of living in London is so high and because some of the area is becoming gentrified it pushes the prices up - there is a real lack of affordable housing here - but another thing to note that certainly contributes, is that 50% of residents in TH are foreign born compared to 37% in the rest of London - for 40% of those, English is foreign language compared to 30% in London as a whole and 8% in the rest of the UK. The children per household is also higher - 2.47 compared to 1.7 in the rest of the UK - these things can all play a significant role in contributing to poverty.
@@Catsbooksandmozart thanks for your comment and it was a very good read. You seem smarter than all of the politicians these days. Have a good day mate :)
Actually 50% of Londoners are NOT immigrants; majority of ethnic minorities in London were born in London. I am a native Londoner of 50 years where I still live.
Thanks My son lives in Victoria Dock Area He moved from Wapping as it got to expensive He is renting a one bedroom place I found this really interesting
Great video Ed, I like your attitude a lot. As you say it doesn't matter what colour your face is, the housing crisis affects us all. I wish cultures mixed more together in London.
Poplar has always been a deprived area. It’s the place that “Call The Midwife” Tv series and the original books were based on by the author’s true experiences who lived and worked there. Great video by the way. I’ve subscribed x
Not being funny, but are some parts of the UK with certain folk from the Indian sub-continent always seem to become rather tatty areas. Lived in Hitchin next-door to an Indian family and they were the nicest family you come across and their house was in a nice state of repair, the same as with two other Indian familes. Just doesn't make sense, and no, I don't agree with Tommy Robinson. Tower Hamlets has always been abit dog eared even in the 1970's, buts it now even worse.
It’s crazy because I’m always seeing articles about how bad this place is and then today I’ve been looking for a hotel near central and loads of really nice and expensive ones are in tower hamlets and I looked it up and one place says it’s top 20 best places in London and another says top 10 worst 🙄(guessing this is why this video popped up for me)
Those throwing rubbish all over the streets, are the same ones saying, we want our country back. They dont care about their country or their environment.
Ps you missed Maureens Pie and Mash shop on Crisp St Market, there is also a second Pie and Mash shop, in the Market on the East India dock road side. You also missed the delapitated Pubs.
@@EdBrinton Hi Ed, Maureens pie and Mash is down the side diagonaly across from the Clock Tower, near the Librarery if it is still there I forget the names of the Pubs as most have closed. The Festival is still there along with another pub I forget the name of. There is a very small pub I sometimes go to on a saturday afternoon, a small Bastion in this now Muslem enclave. Its called the Manor Arms in East India Dock road, a 5 min walk from Crisp st Market. 100 yard frpm Poplar Pk (if your going that way pop inside the Park. just inside the front gate there is a memorial to children killed in a school by German Bombing in the 1st World War av ages 5/6)Yes First world War The Manor Arms has a small aged rock band s on a Saturday I now live in Wimbledon so I dont frequent it as much as I would like too. A nice historical pub fairly nearby is The Gun, Right on the riverside imidiatly befor you go over the bride going onto the Isle of Dogs. Years ago it was awash with Navel History, but alas was destroyed by fire some 20 years ago The pub where I bought my first pint as a very youung looking 14 year old. ps Good luck with your channel.
The other pie and mash shop is Eastenders across the road from All Saints DLR. Have been to both and they're equally good. I think Maureens is closed on a Monday so I tried Eastenders. Lots of local indigenous cockneys in there enjoying lovely traditional grub! Wings, the chinese food stall in the market is great too. All food cooked freshly in front of you and good value too.
@@EdBrinton Yeah they 'think' they are the Police and can get nasty. Even had one try and stop me photographing outside the Docklands Museum once. I've had the same thing at Broadgate (Liverpool Street Station area) Basically anywhere that's deemed 'private estate land' Security gets shirty about cameras
That’s because CW security are privately owened and the police have nothing to do with them. Canary Wharf have their own security. You know to protect the corrupt bankers likely.
@@EdBrinton I cannot believe people are actually flocking in to buy property there , such a depressing environment has to have an effect on your mental state
I think this is a really unfair representation of how Tower Hamlets is like. There is opportunities and a lovely community within Tower Hamlets. With gentrification it has bought in a load of new people. We have community Cafes and third spaces . it feels much more safer than other boroughs for example Waltham Forest and newham
@@EdBrinton I live between Tower Hamlets and Newham. Was born and brought up in Newham and I must say there is a lack of community spaces and redevelopment in areas of Newham. Whereas in tower hamlets that there is a lot of money going into redeveloping places like Poplar and in surrounding TH. They have great support for people who want to access it. Whereas in Newham has a lack of it and it shows.
Strange….I assume I must be one of the “Islamics” but I didn’t feel much like a conqueror when I was shopping with my wife in Tesco today. But I can always ride into the town centre tomorrow on a white stallion, brandishing a scimitar if I can be arsed.
While the London borough of Tower Hamlets is predominantly populated with Muslims, it is not representative of the whole of London; so don’t be stupid by believing what you see of one London borough.
@edbrinton no I can accept that if there is a problem in London with gang violence. In Tower Hamlets we hardly see drive-by shootings and gangs attacking civilians of course it happens but very rarely.
Thank you for showing us the real London and this proves that London is diverse. My observations: "Deprived" explains that services are lacking which inturn is blamed on the service provider (local authority) which means it is non functional towards delivering vital services. Range Rover in a deprived part of London. How Ironical. Gentrification is also affecting the US including major cities such as New York City. Its having adverse effect among the urban Middle class. Victorian Era houses are a treasure that should be maintained yet we ignore that such is the part of the source of London's identity. Lack of interest in Formal Qualifications means that lack of skills-knowledge towards providing much needed labour for the local economy. (Skills Importation) You have mentioned the source of the problem: Tax havens and the Rich not paying taxes. Who is to blame? (You have pointed out the source of the problem) Masala food smelling was inviting. That one changes your senses and made you point to positive observations about the area. You also substituted the smell with crisps. 😂 Free Islamic books 📚. Time to read and understand Islam Bruv ☪️. Kudos Bruv 👏🏾
50,000 illegal migrants are estimated to live in London. What a dump. 17 years in Maida Vale, it went from cosmopolitan to Islamic, so I left a couple years ago.
It's absolutely crazy to me that there is so much social housing right beside these very expensive areas. I live in Waterloo a very touristic area, I pay 1000 pounds in rent for a shared flat, and there are people getting entire flats for free in the same building as me! This makes no sense, if you get a free or heavily discounted house, why does it have to be in the most expensive parts of London, incredibly unfair! Many of them then go and rob the tourists who are on their doorstep. It's a problem waiting to happen, as you are putting people who don't work right beside the financial centres and tourist centres of London. It is like the council wants these robberies and crimes to happen. My friends who work in Canary Wharf are too afraid to even wear a watch for fear that somebody from the hamlets would rob them.
The old council properties came first - Canary wharf used to be the Isle of Dogs - most of the residents worked in the docks. Now of course it's mostly residents who came to the UK from 1980s and were jumped to the top of the housing queue - they then brought in their relatives from, mostly Bangladesh, some for marriage who they had never seen, some cousins for marriage, and so on. That is how it got to be the shithole it is today.
@@roberttuke this sort of abject poverty creates a massive divide and ghettos. Look at Brazil, the more well off live in gated communities. I have no objection to people having wealth, but I do object to others being kept poor so the well off can have more.
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Nice one Ed. You present it well again.
I think this video represents every one of the 33 London Boroughs today, but definitely gets worse the nearer the capital you are.
You have the added issue of the capital's property market, with the rich getting mega rich, and only those with high end salaries able to afford the cost of buying or renting privately. And in the very same neighbourhoods, as you've shown us, you have the poorest, oldest people in social housing, the ones that never bought there flat in the Thatcher days and sold it for a fortune and moved to Kent or Essex, they're all just stuck there forever, no change for them, just the new developments around them going up and the majority being bought/rented by rich foreign workers/students.
Your two links in the description were a good read too, especially the much less statistical led Reuters report. This final sentence in the Reuters link summed it up 100%, even though it's Islington Borough, it's still very relevant to Tower Hamlets, and everywhere else;
"There's always been this division in Islington," shopper Marion Jones said, browsing the local outdoor market. "The wealthy have got really wealthy and everyone else has just stayed the same. It's just the way it is. It'll never change."
Says it all.
Add to this, you have other boroughs there, because London land is so pricey, selling plots and condemned estates and tower blocks off for private development. They then ship those tenants out to the home counties, Essex, Kent, Herts ect. Been happening for quite a while now, as its cheaper to lease a whole block, outside Gtr. London, than building up there,
That whole docklands area, I recall it all being built up in the 80's/90's. The Sun moving to Wapping in 86', the DLR being built, the Telegraph moving to the Isle of Dogs, then Canary Wharf Tower going up, which is where the Telegraph moved to in 91', the towers first tenants. They moved again in 2005, to the new Victoria Station Plaza development.
But since then we've had the financial crisis of 2008 and the pandemic, and 10's of 1000's of those jobs disappeared forever. What you see now in Docklands is the area being rebuilt and redeveloped again, a second time around in 35 years, with a skew of residential blocks going up. These are replacing the redundant office blocks. The much reduced financial services sector, a lot of them have relocated back to the square miie to much smaller offices.
The project is still on-going, and not due for completion until 2028.
In the meantime, if you've lived there a long time, in one of those old terraced houses, or a tenant in social housing, I guess you're sitting pretty for a while yet.
And the same thing has happened across the river in Greenwich, where the Millenium Dome was built, now the O2, all redeveloped land and still being built up today.
Like I said, these neighbourhoods where the very rich and very poor live side by side today, they're all over our capital.
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@@InvictaView thanks for your comment as always mate very well said. And thanks for the kind words it motivated me to make more videos :)
@@EdBrinton Well deserved too. You seem to be a natural in front of the camera, I mean, it takes some balls to walk around these mean streets, talking to a camera on the end of a stick lol!
I can tell you though, these observations are bang on.
Last month, I completed some 40 visits, to all the remaining Gtr. London Wetherspoons I needed. That's the South West, West, North.West, and a few North London postcodes.
The diversity and make up of each area was quite striking. And having been a courier in my previous life, I knew all these areas of London in the 80's/90's, and can see how much our capital has changed. Its a huge subject to cover, planned immigration, looking after millionaires, government and town planning ect, and it certainly provokes plenty of good comments here.
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I suspect the 20% household figure 15k isnt income but benefits claimants
Why doesn't the uploader find even the cheapest flat there if that is the case??? Even the cheapest flat there would be around half a million pounds so there goes the myth...
@@Dailymailnewzthey give it to them free of charge they ain’t paying to live In it
To be fair though this is happening all over. I live in a posh part of south east where it’s rural
and towns and there’s a lot of deprivation.
All the rich do is shut themselves away in gated communities and posh houses.
The rest of us are left to earn a living.
Decades of tory governments have gutted society using austerity and thatchers legacy.
No one has any responsibility or concerns for anyone else, lots of selfish knobs around though.
Come and see for yourself one day, happy to show you…
I use to live in Bethnal Green where I was born in Tower Hamlets up and till 2017 when I moved out to Essex. Although, it’s generally deprived, like Popular and Shadwell, large parts of it are now gentrified and the price of properties there are staggering. Bethnal Green has nice parts and bad parts to it but Columbia Road flower market is very nice and the price of freehold properties there are easily one million plus. When you left Canary Wharf and walked round the local neighbourhood, you walked past a block of flats where my uncle use to live most of his life, until he recently died. He lived on the first floor and it brought back memories for me when you stopped to look at those block of flats and walked around the local shops that are there. 4:38
@@lg_believe333 I'm sorry for your loss, and yes was definitely a mixed bag
How does Essex and tower Hamlets compare would you say?
@@Lechonberryph It’s difficult to say because both Tower Hamlets and Essex have good parts and bad parts to it. Essex is also a big county and very diverse. Although, large parts of it feel very British because many indigenous Brits have moved out of places like Tower Hamlets to Essex years ago, going back as far as the 1980s when they’re were lots of slums created in East London after the blitz from WW2. And because large parts of Tower Hamlets have been gentrified and cost a fortune to buy property there and because British culture is no longer the dominant culture. For me, I moved to Hornchurch which is very nice but a couple of miles away in Romford has a completely different vibe and I wouldn’t feel safe walking there late on a Saturday night, but that’s just my perception. That being said there are some nice parts of Romford but it’s town centre needs more investment I feel. But I do see similarities with Romford and Bethnal Green as it was before Bethnal Green was gentrified, about 20 yrs ago. And now the Elizabeth line has opened up, I hope Romford will get the investment it needs.
@@lg_believe333how do you feel that a lot of Asians have now moved out to Romford and that area… basically doing what you did in the 1980s?
@@sameaulahad2824 Romford is a big area and like Bethnal Green there are run down areas and better areas. Romford Town centre is good for shopping during the day but I wouldn’t go there on a Saturday night to have fun. Many British Asians are now moving out of places like Ilford and further into Essex and I don’t have a problem with that because they’re as British as I am and have integrated into British culture. But I do feel some of the wealthier Asian families tend to keep to themselves and don’t really go out of their way to say hello to their neighbours.
Looks like 28 days later .
I certainly gave up on this country, it’s gone .
@@allseeingotto2912 really does
It was filmed there for that reason. Balfron Towers was the build with the farther and the daughter.
A severe lack of trees, what a bleak soulless place to exist
Agreed
And not one stone building in sight looks like a poor part of Russia in a way
You should do east London after 10pm 😅 it’s a very different experience
@@razaulkabir3820 my excuse is my camera is bad in the dark hahah
Brought back memories of living in Tower Hamlets in my youth during the 2000's ..and working in odd office jobs in Canary Wharf. It's a fascinatingly contrasting place, but never somewhere you can settle, unless you are lucky with inheritance, you get big breaks in your finance or media career, or are part of the implanted Bangladeshi community. What a weird set of criteria! Most of us do not fall into those categories, so end up moving out to England's more humdrum and overall less expensive places.
@@1972jjb thanks mate I'm glad you enjoyed the video
Thanks for watching guys, such a crazy difference in wealth over one bridge
An entirely different country over one bridge too.
@@jamesrobert4106 it's insane isn't it
@@EdBrinton You can already see it playing out as intended.
@@jamesrobert4106 exactly mate, there's a get rid of Starmer petition apparently
@@EdBrinton Rightly so. There is no integration. They are here for one reason only.
I have to work in Canary Wharf occasionally but the office is a bit away from the main hub. Closer to South Quay and Crossharbour. Asked a colleague where the nearest post office was and he directed me to one in Cubbit town. I did not feel comfortable there at all. It's crazy by crossing one road (Limeharbour) and walking for a couple of minutes, you find yourself in a different world.
@@rdw1970 thanks for your comment, yeah I had the similar feeling. Literally a different world
Just moved away from this shit hole
@@DanMc-l9i where did you move to and how did you find it
Congratulations. I'm not too far away in Newham, and it's not much better. I'd like to move away myself.
@@Zlervo you will keep trying
Hopefully, you're young and getting out in time to make a life for yourself. I left in my twenties and never looked back. I would return every few years to see, hoping, it'd gotten better. It never did.
@@Zlervo I've been a few times attacked in Newham...
I live in Norfolk, originally from London and am always mightily impressed by Canary Wharf with all those impressive and imposing buildings and such a diverse atmosphere too!
@@pauljmccluskey5532 it's pretty epic
I love London in all its colours and diversity - remember to keep your wits about you 😊
@@pauljmccluskey5532 cheers mate! Where's your favourite part of London
@@EdBrintonCamden
@@pauljmccluskey5532 nice!
I find that really weird how in so many towns and cities now, you see so many expensive cars parked along more or less every street, but the rest of the place including where they live looks like an absolute run down dump. I reckon these people must drive away somewhere from time to time to fake that they're rich 😂
All image to them. Shallow people.
Oh well, its their debt not mine
@@Englishsea24 they must do, all make believe 😭😂
@@EdBrintonInteresting comment. I've heard it said that many people value a nice car more than anything else, and it can't just be Europeans.
Other point is, have you ever wondered, if you're stuck in the never ending rental trap, especially in private rentals, you won't be spending any spare money on improving or keeping up the property you're in, so you'll spend it elsewhere.
This could also be why so many streets look so run down today, and adding to this the bugbear of every town/city today, houses of multiple occupation! 🤔
@@InvictaView good point mate
What's the point of owning an expensive car when you live in 200 year old poorly insulated, damp Victorian terrace house or ex council flat? Who do you think you're impressing? Doesn't matter what your realtor tells you it's worth. It's still a $#!ť hole and your still freezing your balls off most of the year. Get out and get living! Before its too late. In 25 - 50 years you and kids won't know it anyway. It'll be mini versions of Kabul, Lahore, Lagos. It's a slow motion, ala Titanic, catastrophe :(
Important info you should include at the start of videos like this;
Mayor of London’s budget is upwards of 20 BILLION
Tower Hamlets has a budget of close to 350million
Where is the money going?
@@CRAIGTEMPLATEXCHRIST very good points! I did mention that tower Hamlets gets less funding than (Westminster I used as example) halfway in the video
Tower Hamlets is a Labour run council. That should narrow it down. They make promises they're not willing to keep, but people keep voting for them.
@@EdBrinton it’s shocking the state of our high streets… everywhere I go they have a look of deprivation… the UK with all its wealth should be a UTOPIA of clean streets and beautiful buildings… so somethings going amiss!
@@CRAIGTEMPLATEXCHRIST it's crazy isn't it.... Makes you ask questions
@@CRAIGTEMPLATEXCHRIST retail is dying. I worked off Oxford Street on Great Portland St until a few years ago and even the most famous high street in the country is on the way out.
Excellent video. Love your presentation, so natural in front of the camera.
@@mikehudson8884 that's made my day, thanks so much! I appreciate you
@@EdBrinton Appreciate you too!...I am now going to look at your other video posts...Excellent film maker Ed Brinton. I just wish I'd had the means back in the day....
@mikehudson8884 you can still make a channel yourself mate, always worth a shot :)
@@EdBrintonlove how you individually reply to all the comments as if we are there with you legend
@@Lechonberryph thanks mate I try to get them all, on the 200 view videos it's a bit easier hahaha
Hello mate, I discovered your channel today, and I will be binge watching.
An array of great videos.
I can't believe in that area a terrace would cost that much. Insane modern times.
All the best.
@@Porthole9 thank you so much mate, comments like this mean more than you know. Cheers
Suggest to an American tourist, to visit the quaint old English town of Tower Hamlets. You can also suggesting that it's old English tradition of putting chocolate mouse on top of your salad. It worked for my friend and I back in '92, and the American gentleman did exactly that. We had to leave the shop because we couldn't stop laughing. I wonder if he enjoyed it?
I laughed so hard at this
You cannot put construction rubbish into municipal bins. It was nicely lined up in that garden, that was clearly a refurbishment rubbish waiting to be taken later to a skip.
Ohhh I never knew thanks for that!
The dustbin of London
Great video again! I’ve done a similar route to the one you did- tower hamlets is deprived but it’s not too dangerous. Looking forward to seeing you go to Deptford, Woolwich, and Thamesmead!
@@jakemears all great ideas mate I'll definitely check them out. Always down for a Collab too!
@@EdBrintonWoolwich and Thamesmead are very good ones
Thanks Ed for your walk through this area of London for a Kiwi who's always wondered what its like it looks absolutely terrifying i'll definitely never visit my bro.🇳🇿👍
@@JamesBarry-um8su cheers mate I appreciate you! I'm glad you found it interesting:)
Even driving through here (A13/A1261) *IS A LIVING HELL!*
@@SquirrelKnight50 I bet mate
I lived there but in one of new high end apartment complexes in Canary Wharf...Tower Hamlets is mixed from extreme immigrant poverty to millonaires. It has both extremes and living in Canary Wharf is amazing
@@davidc4408 it's crazy isn't it! Such a divine
You have canary wharf where bankers and coperate types come in make there money and retreat to surry. The rest of tower hamlets isn't poor 'immigrants' its poor everyone. Mostly social housed. And the only people who can afford properties in the area are coperate types. So if your the average working joe you cannot afford to buy a property where you was brought up. The only choice is to get a social house if you wanted to remain in TH. And yes most people are on the gyro in tower hamlets. Most popular shop is cash converters on bethnal green road when it opens and that's no joke.
@@matt5543 certainly a two tier group of people. There is some amazing new real estate developments in Canary Wharf and they are mainly full of overseas investors or graduates from UK moving to London. I have a property in York and 2 apartments in Pan Peninsula- great building. It's not poor everyone. Mainly those born in the area and immigrants.
the fact I recognize so many areas from this video makes me happy
@@Deepwokenhero_ezgromit3 I'm glad you're happy mate :)
Small point, you did not cross any river. Poplar once a thiving industrial aria with thriving docks is all north of the river Thames, The waters that you crossed were all part of the old West India/ Poplar dock. I moved to Poplar as a 12 year old in 1963. The river was alive with Ships and Tugs with Barges in tow. A totaly different world. It is now no more than a Refugee camp full of forign scroungers making them feel at home, and bringing it down to 3rd world level.
Ahhhh I see now! Thanks for letting me know
It's all over London not just Tower Hamlets
I've only ever visited London once and that was a school trip in 1963,.Coming from rural Dorset it was quite a shock but we all loved it, especially a visit to the Science Museum and a trip on the Thames. Forward to 2004 and this video, I'm shocked again. Those hideous buildings at Canary Wharf, they are absolutely hideous and so ugly. Then to see how the population live in Tower Hamlets, is again truly shocking. I wouldn't want to visit London again, never!
@@oilburner225 interesting comment, it seems it was always like that. Based on what you saw has life improved there at all?
Not One single native
@@tomderby7759 not even one off camera either
@@EdBrinton interesting so are the british convicts of australia natives homie
depending on your particular division
Well there's one here. This is my born and bred patch of 61 years and I rarely venture out if possible.
@@TommyTimebomb100 good lad for staying, is it safe in the area mate
Good video - yes the cost of living in London is so high and because some of the area is becoming gentrified it pushes the prices up - there is a real lack of affordable housing here - but another thing to note that certainly contributes, is that 50% of residents in TH are foreign born compared to 37% in the rest of London - for 40% of those, English is foreign language compared to 30% in London as a whole and 8% in the rest of the UK. The children per household is also higher - 2.47 compared to 1.7 in the rest of the UK - these things can all play a significant role in contributing to poverty.
@@Catsbooksandmozart thanks for your comment and it was a very good read. You seem smarter than all of the politicians these days. Have a good day mate :)
Actually 50% of Londoners are NOT immigrants; majority of ethnic minorities in London were born in London. I am a native Londoner of 50 years where I still live.
Thanks
My son lives in Victoria Dock Area
He moved from Wapping as it got to expensive
He is renting a one bedroom place
I found this really interesting
@@cathycooper5606 thanks for much for your comment, have a good evening:)
Still somewhat graceful London by virtue of this beautiful RP narration.
@@absolutebeginner indeed
Great video Ed, I like your attitude a lot. As you say it doesn't matter what colour your face is, the housing crisis affects us all. I wish cultures mixed more together in London.
@@will_n775 thanks brother I appreciate you
@@EdBrinton Cheers mate
Keep grinding the videos out son, you're creeping up week by week. 👍
@@RustyCohle mate your comment has made my day. Thanks so much 👍
2:08 if you look carefully theres a window cleaner dangling off the skyscraper 😮😅
Do u think he is a foreign guy?
Or a she he they them?
Must have had a long ladder ! 😆😆😆😆
@@oilburner225 legit ahaha
Why would you think wealth inequality would be low in London?
@@davidcjupp the way I said it was more "people would think a rich city would have low inequality"
They NEVER improve an area do they.
Never
Enfield a no-go area! Well done Enfield Labour Council - look what you've done!
Poplar has always been a deprived area. It’s the place that “Call The Midwife” Tv series and the original books were based on by the author’s true experiences who lived and worked there.
Great video by the way. I’ve subscribed x
@@missmuffet3874 thanks so much xx
@@EdBrinton you’re welcome x
My grandparents were from uk. I live in america now
@@angelachanellehuang5663 how does life compare:)
Not being funny, but are some parts of the UK with certain folk from the Indian sub-continent always seem to become rather tatty areas. Lived in Hitchin next-door to an Indian family and they were the nicest family you come across and their house was in a nice state of repair, the same as with two other Indian familes. Just doesn't make sense, and no, I don't agree with Tommy Robinson. Tower Hamlets has always been abit dog eared even in the 1970's, buts it now even worse.
I love canary I love the high buildings and views
@@Trey12392 it's so amazing and cool there. Feels like a different country
It's good but the people in there don't pay tax
@@Lechonberryph us of a's awful influence 😢 on 🏴
It’s crazy because I’m always seeing articles about how bad this place is and then today I’ve been looking for a hotel near central and loads of really nice and expensive ones are in tower hamlets and I looked it up and one place says it’s top 20 best places in London and another says top 10 worst 🙄(guessing this is why this video popped up for me)
@@FS-dk1io yeah it's mixed. Canary wharf literally next to poplar somes up when I always say "there's good and bad anywhere"
Those houses cost half a million upwards.. way out of your price range..
Exactly
You should check the house prices on Zoopla /Rightmove of the places you film! (Many or these "rough" looking areas are v. expensive!!!)👍👍👍
@@e_man9821 very true mate
Those throwing rubbish all over the streets, are the same ones saying, we want our country back.
They dont care about their country or their environment.
@@Gimenez528Hz exactly
@@EdBrinton I'm from Liverpool, and parts of it look like the third world
@@Gimenez528Hz oh shit mate
@@EdBrinton I'm really sad about it all
@@Gimenez528Hz praying things improve
All i can afford is a room like most people working in London.
@@os1333 me too man
@@EdBrinton It sad these people don't appreciate what they have. People like us would love to have a place of are own.
@@os1333 exactly this man, it's too expensive here for the working man
Poplar looking much better!
Wow, looks almost habitable now!
@@MrCrossWire I'm happy for poplar
Another bangerrrrrrrr I can't believe the last section in poplar though what a place
@@mandymclan cheers bro
Ps you missed Maureens Pie and Mash shop on Crisp St Market, there is also a second Pie and Mash shop, in the Market on the East India dock road side. You also missed the delapitated Pubs.
@@denisoleary5302 nice mate where abouts are they? Cheers
@@EdBrinton Hi Ed, Maureens pie and Mash is down the side diagonaly across from the Clock Tower, near the Librarery if it is still there I forget the names of the Pubs as most have closed. The Festival is still there along with another pub I forget the name of. There is a very small pub I sometimes go to on a saturday afternoon, a small Bastion in this now Muslem enclave. Its called the Manor Arms in East India Dock road, a 5 min walk from Crisp st Market. 100 yard frpm Poplar Pk (if your going that way pop inside the Park. just inside the front gate there is a memorial to children killed in a school by German Bombing in the 1st World War av ages 5/6)Yes First world War The Manor Arms has a small aged rock band s on a Saturday I now live in Wimbledon so I dont frequent it as much as I would like too. A nice historical pub fairly nearby is The Gun, Right on the riverside imidiatly befor you go over the bride going onto the Isle of Dogs. Years ago it was awash with Navel History, but alas was destroyed by fire some 20 years ago The pub where I bought my first pint as a very youung looking 14 year old. ps Good luck with your channel.
The other pie and mash shop is Eastenders across the road from All Saints DLR. Have been to both and they're equally good. I think Maureens is closed on a Monday so I tried Eastenders. Lots of local indigenous cockneys in there enjoying lovely traditional grub! Wings, the chinese food stall in the market is great too. All food cooked freshly in front of you and good value too.
a masjid is a mosque dear friend, I only know because I have travelled to Morroco and have freinds there.
@@amandalee3948 thanks for letting me know ❤️
Welcome ❤
Be careful around Canary Wharf the security guards there hate anybody with a camera.
@@DavidRobinson1978 oh wow really?
@@EdBrinton Yeah they 'think' they are the Police and can get nasty. Even had one try and stop me photographing outside the Docklands Museum once. I've had the same thing at Broadgate (Liverpool Street Station area) Basically anywhere that's deemed 'private estate land' Security gets shirty about cameras
@@DavidRobinson1978 that's awful why do they think they are above others
That’s because CW security are privately owened and the police have nothing to do with them.
Canary Wharf have their own security. You know to protect the corrupt bankers likely.
@@EdBrintonJust tell them that it is perfectly legal to film and photograph in open public spaces, and therefore they can’t stop you.
So depressing on the eye
@@MrStax40 it was mate, supposed to be the richest city in Europe too
@@EdBrinton I cannot believe people are actually flocking in to buy property there , such a depressing environment has to have an effect on your mental state
@@MrStax40 definitely to be honest I wouldn't even live in London but cause the prices I never will regardless
I think this is a really unfair representation of how Tower Hamlets is like. There is opportunities and a lovely community within Tower Hamlets. With gentrification it has bought in a load of new people. We have community Cafes and third spaces . it feels much more safer than other boroughs for example Waltham Forest and newham
@@cubacampbell9427 thanks for the comment, what's Newham like based on your experience there? :) cheers
@@EdBrinton I live between Tower Hamlets and Newham. Was born and brought up in Newham and I must say there is a lack of community spaces and redevelopment in areas of Newham. Whereas in tower hamlets that there is a lot of money going into redeveloping places like Poplar and in surrounding TH. They have great support for people who want to access it. Whereas in Newham has a lack of it and it shows.
@@cubacampbell9427 intresting mate I hope all is good there, I'm originally from Tottenham
Problem with capitalism- wealth inequality- doesn’t matter where in the world you are the problem is the same. Ethnicity has nothing to do with it.
Did I say anything about ethnicity?
Rather depressing viewing …😳
@@ckzf1842 I hope things in my city improve
I've got only robbed once in Tower Hamlet and a few times in Newham...
@@AndrzejLondyn oh Christ I'm sorry to hear mate, how does Newham compare
16:31 London, Capital of England, ancestral land of the English… has now been conquered and taken over by Islamics. What a scene of dystopia.
@@formxshape it feels very dystopian
Strange….I assume I must be one of the “Islamics” but I didn’t feel much like a conqueror when I was shopping with my wife in Tesco today. But I can always ride into the town centre tomorrow on a white stallion, brandishing a scimitar if I can be arsed.
While the London borough of Tower Hamlets is predominantly populated with Muslims, it is not representative of the whole of London; so don’t be stupid by believing what you see of one London borough.
@@IbnShahid imagine brother 🤣
Tower Hamlets is not the most deprived London Borough..
What is?
Where is the rubbish collection? What has happened to council responsibilities?
Exactly, yet we pay more taxes than ever before. Madness. Just came back from south east Asia and it's much cleaner there
Are you a fan of bald and bankrupt?
@@amasan8317 we actually come from the same town haha, yeah I occasionally watch him
Please be careful, Gangs are very active in Tower Hamlets
Oh please it's not that bad here
@@cubacampbell9427 yes it is, 2 stabbings in last 48 hours, one was my neighbour. It’s sad but true
@@Thailand-mt9op will do, it was definitely sketchy at times. The people who don't find it dangerous are part of the problem. Thanks :)
@edbrinton no I can accept that if there is a problem in London with gang violence. In Tower Hamlets we hardly see drive-by shootings and gangs attacking civilians of course it happens but very rarely.
@@cubacampbell9427 "hardly ever" that's hardly good mate
I lived there for 6 years it was OK.
Good
Told you there was worse than Dover.
By a long shot mate
There’s another bit to poplar … very depressing … I lived there that’s why I know ☹️
And Chatham!! 😆
@@JohnSmith-zi3tb agreed!!!
@@razaulkabir3820 ohhh I see man
Would say do more London vids but it's plain dangerous there
Exactly
I’d do an interview anytime!!
Let's do it mate!
I go to that square once a week. 😢
I actually have a friend from Romania and she lives around there too
Thank you for showing us the real London and this proves that London is diverse.
My observations:
"Deprived" explains that services are lacking which inturn is blamed on the service provider (local authority) which means it is non functional towards delivering vital services. Range Rover in a deprived part of London. How Ironical.
Gentrification is also affecting the US including major cities such as New York City. Its having adverse effect among the urban Middle class.
Victorian Era houses are a treasure that should be maintained yet we ignore that such is the part of the source of London's identity.
Lack of interest in Formal Qualifications means that lack of skills-knowledge towards providing much needed labour for the local economy. (Skills Importation)
You have mentioned the source of the problem: Tax havens and the Rich not paying taxes. Who is to blame? (You have pointed out the source of the problem)
Masala food smelling was inviting. That one changes your senses and made you point to positive observations about the area. You also substituted the smell with crisps. 😂
Free Islamic books 📚. Time to read and understand Islam Bruv ☪️.
Kudos Bruv 👏🏾
Thanks for your nice comment mate as always!!
50,000 illegal migrants are estimated to live in London. What a dump. 17 years in Maida Vale, it went from cosmopolitan to Islamic, so I left a couple years ago.
Welcome to the mannor
@@T1CHE14 cheers mate
Chrisp Street Market
u shold do camden regints park estate
@@joesmith8701 hahaha sounds like a death trap mate
My parents did a craft fair in Camden when I was a kid and we got robbed for our cash box by a gang. (Only place it ever happened)
@@DavidRobinson1978 Christ mate, I'm sorry you had to go through that so young
@@EdBrinton i was born on that eastate still in the borough i am still on socal housing same as my famaly but we dont live on eastates
@@joesmith8701 ohhh I see mate, cheers for your comments also
No one got up
It's absolutely crazy to me that there is so much social housing right beside these very expensive areas. I live in Waterloo a very touristic area, I pay 1000 pounds in rent for a shared flat, and there are people getting entire flats for free in the same building as me! This makes no sense, if you get a free or heavily discounted house, why does it have to be in the most expensive parts of London, incredibly unfair! Many of them then go and rob the tourists who are on their doorstep.
It's a problem waiting to happen, as you are putting people who don't work right beside the financial centres and tourist centres of London. It is like the council wants these robberies and crimes to happen. My friends who work in Canary Wharf are too afraid to even wear a watch for fear that somebody from the hamlets would rob them.
@@roberttuke I think it's definitely a failed society at this point. Especially in London. Well put comment
The old council properties came first - Canary wharf used to be the Isle of Dogs - most of the residents worked in the docks. Now of course it's mostly residents who came to the UK from 1980s and were jumped to the top of the housing queue - they then brought in their relatives from, mostly Bangladesh, some for marriage who they had never seen, some cousins for marriage, and so on. That is how it got to be the shithole it is today.
@@roberttuke this sort of abject poverty creates a massive divide and ghettos. Look at Brazil, the more well off live in gated communities. I have no objection to people having wealth, but I do object to others being kept poor so the well off can have more.
Such an original video 🙄😴
@@1Eleven_ thanks for supporting me by leaving a comment!
Ahh another dog whistle video...
@@Gabzerelli5 thanks for the comment 😁
@@EdBrinton 😵
@@Gabzerelli5 Better than a soy whistle
Whi1e flight