A Walk Around Canning Town, East London (4K)
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- A Walk Around Canning Town and Custom House in East London, shot in 4K.
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This stroll around Canning Town and Custom House in East London starts at Star Lane then goes down to Rathbone Market on Barking Road. We take a look at Canning Town Public Hall where many important meetings were held at the end of the 19th and early 20th Century addressed by speakers such as Keir Hardie, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Bertrand Russell. We then go to the Gandhi Chaplin Memorial Park where two of the greatest people of the 20th Century met in house in 1931. From here we cross the A13 and go down Forty Acre Lane to Keir Hardie Recreation Ground where we talk about the former MP for West Ham South and the great actor Danny Dyer who was born and raised in Custom House. From Victoria Dock Road we look across to the Royal Docks before turning along Freemasons Road to Canning Town Recreation Park where our walk ends at the beautiful Carnegie Library at Custom House.
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Imagine saying to someone in the 90s,
I'm off to watch a video of some bloke walking about a bit around the streets and having a chat that lasts over 30 minutes.!!
Well, it's Bloody Brilliant.!!!
Ha, thanks Kyle
Spot on !
Your spot-on... the white coats would section you.
I find the decay of the area depressing... the number of times John says 'another former pub'
Brilliant video's that in years to come will form important bodies of work.
John is brillinat and deserves a greater platform.
Given a choice between BBC's Dancing on Ice and a Mr Rogers walk it's a no brainer! Fantastic work John, more power to your elbow. AAA+++
'Dancing on Ice' is broadcast on ITV, not BBC.
@@paulhiggins6024That's your opinion. I don't agree with you. Please don't include me in your assertion.
@@paulhiggins6024 If John got a job doing this stuff on BBC they would wreck it with their inflated production habits
Breaks my heart to see how my wonderful east london has changed. I went to school in canning town, South West ham Tech.
Great school
Could not agree more. I too went to South West Ham.School when it first opened following the closure of the old School of Building in Queens Rd E13. Met and married my wife who lived in Ford's Park Rd , celebrating 60 years of marriage in April this year. Happy days.
I went to Ashburton Road,
Thank John I grew up in Canning Town in the 50s as a child it was so safe it's changed so much the pie and mash gone murrcoff home made ice cream shop and the Market gone but I still have my memories thanks
Rathhbone Street Market on a Saturday in the 50's was a great time with my Mum. So many memories.
Do you remember a place called Mayfliwer Family Centre?
@@LeighMarshallRowntree-mt8ci yes I lived next to the church in a prefab I used to go to mayflower after school and buy sweets in the tuck shop what lovely memories
Celia Hammond animal trust @ 10:25 One of the unknown stories of pre Olympics preparation was CH who spent night after night searching for the feral cats that lived in the area and removed them before the construction really took off.
I must admit I clicked on this video mainly to catch a glimpse of Celia Hammond Animal Trust. Some seriously poignant memories of that place and barking road.
Wonderful institution and founder
I taught in Star Lane Primary School from 1977 t0 1997. It was the poorest area in Europe at the time. The architect who designed the school was a former ship's Captain
and you can see the influences especially inside. David Essex was a former pupil of the school and generously donated funds for a Drama room, lighting and stage equipment
in the mid 80's. Fascinating video John - Thank you so much.
Thanks my friend, just lost my mum last month, this is where she was originally from,
very sorry to hear about your loss Lawson - take care
Reg Varney lived in Liverpool Rd; at the start of this excellent video you show the unnamed pub (The Anchor) at the junction of Star Lane and what was the northern end of Liverpool Rd. My father was friends with Reg and his brother Stanley and he lived in the same road.
As you went into Barking Rd you missed the Canning Town Library building, now closed and replaced by one in Rathbone Market. Another fine building which the council is hoping to turn into a museum.
Rathbone Market ran along Rathbone Street and was a real market - many stalls, some shops and heavily bombed in WW2.
It's replacement, which was busy, was itself replaced when the huge new tower blocks were built round it but it never took off. The company hired to make it tick got nowhere. It's not just Domino's though. There's a good Italian restaurant and a pharmacy, among others.
The Gandhi Chaplin meeting was unexpected. So much history in our backyard. Thanks John.
You missed the Sign "Canning Town twinned with Beirut" ha ha
brilliant usedd to be known as the city of thife's david essesx came out of star lane as also west ham captain mark noble came out of canning town Jjhnny speight who created alf garnett is also a canning town boy also the royal oak pub now sadly shut down where all the boxer's trained fantastic thank you john
Reg Varney also came from Canning Town, and Windsor Davies was born in Canning Town.
The TH-cam algorithm has brought me here. What an absolute joy to watch, thank you!
That’s brilliant- many thanks
So many memories as a child growing up in canning Town
Beckton Lido was exactly where you are standing at the end of the film, closed 1986. Spent many a summer there in the late 70s, early 80s.
I was there in the late 60s.
Me too even know if I hear one of the songs thay played over and over again I'm straight back to 81
Still got photos, stayed there all day when summers were hot all of the six week holidays!
I was brought up in Custom House in the 60’s and 70’s’s and I used to go to the Lido every day in the 6 weeks holidays. I lived by the Victoria & Albert Docks. Fantastic memories of playing in the piggery, stables and bomb shelters. Best childhood ever.
Me too!
My cousins went to star lane school as did David Essex. My nan lived in Canning Town too
ah can't believe I forgot to mention David Essex in this video
I went there for a couple of years. Didn't like it.
David Essex also went to my school, Shipman Secondary School in Prince Regents Lane 😁👍🏼
Danny Dyer was fantastic in Human Traffic. As a 90’s clubber, I go back to that film often.
Thanks for another slice of education, John!
Rathbone Market very large, but recently it was flattened and all the tall blocks were built on it, with only a m square left in front of them for the tiny market
I moved to Mid Beckton in the mid 80`s.
There used to be an open air swimming pool at the junction of Tollgate Rd.and Prince regent Lane.
At the bottom of Freemasons Rd opposite what is now Exel there were two pubs. The Artful Dodger,and The Kilkenny Castle,an Irish pub where they put trays of roast potato`s on the bar Sunday (12 till 2pm)Lunch times.All gone now.
I might be wrong ,but I think David Essex came from around there.
Hope you realise just how valuable these films are, amazing commitment, brilliant, rich and informative, have recommended your channel to many who share the same opinion, nice one John, thank you... RIPPI
Thanks for the video John. I lived in Custom House till I was 8. Ronan point was at the end of our road I well remember the disaster when I was 6. My sister met her future husband that day when they both went in the street to see what had happened. They're now divorced & she always says 'it started with a disaster!!'
Reg Varney of on the buses fame was born in Canning town. Great video John I go past that memorial garden on the A13 every day and never knew it was there.
Ashburton Wood is on the site of my old school Ashburton Secondary Modern in Freemasons Road, it had brick walls 3 feet thick, huts for extra classrooms plus a Art classroom above the Gym. When I lived in Rathbone Street that was the original Market Street, the one you were looking for on the Barking Road was the new market which replaced Rathbone Street in 1963 also Kier Hardy Park you walked through I always knew as St Lukes Park and Canning Town recreation park was called Beckton Park back in the day John and thank you for a enjoyable walk.
I know that area quite well. It used to have a famous live music venue called The Bridgehouse pub. It is also home to the famous band The Cockney Rejects. Check out their film called East End Babylon. It is a documentary about that band and the area of Canning Town where they grew up.
Thanks Angus I’ll give that a look
Brilliaint my birthplace and later my workplace lots of good memories ...thanks
Ordered your book for my wife she would love a cup saying where ever that may be
Thanks- that’s a great idea
I’d buy (more than) one!
Loved this. I'm an E16 resident and an Indian and never knew about the Chaplin-Gandhi meeting! Not quite as confident as you about Danny Dyer season at the NFT 😂 but otherwise incredible stuff
Gandhi was a racist piece of shit who licked the ass of his colonial masters. F him
As ever had an enjoyable journey on my settee living the life of a dreamer thank you
Wow such a great video such good value for all us armchair sociolgists. Thank you so much for this.
Hi John, again thanks for the great exploration. I have a suggestion by of a route: Custom House, Docklands, Silvertown and the great Thames Barrier. 🥸
I remember being a little kid walking through a huge underpass under the Thames to get to Woolwich Park on the opposite side of the river from us. It used to terrify me, I imagined the water coming through the walls to get us. We'd get the ferry over and walk back through the tunnel.
@@mistycat8794 I'm like that now going through Dartford tunnel and I'm 60!
Great video, I grew up in Canning Town, moved away in 1987 to Essex where I live now - Great memories of it and particularly Star Lane school.
I wouldn’t have guessed Charlie Chaplin and Ghandi, and London is the perfect place for such a meeting. Thanks for the interesting walk John.
When I moved into the area I read up on it.... Apparently it was called Canning after the Prime Minister. He didn't have anything to do with the area but the guy who bought the marshland thought the association would help him make something of his investment
Thanks John, you make me run again, last Saturday I was walking all the docks and almost all the places where you were walking. I live in this borough but did not know about Ghandi Chaplin Memorial Garden, I have to go and see now . Thanks for coming in my borough. All the best wishes.
Great video............I was born and bred in custom house and canning town and still there now. Its around me all the time, the past and present, but makes me remember stuff when somebody talks about, even better with video, cheers john for bringing back memories...
Martin
Good old Canning Town Wow thanks John
The old timers out of Canning Town used to have, let's say. their own moral code. I think this went back to the precarious nature of the dock work. It must have been hard turning up in the morning to be turned away if the work wasn't there. A hungry family to take care of whilst seeing those warehouses full of rich pickings....
Thanks for showing the older parts like the Keir Hardie Estate, I don't know that side so well. Sad how Council Estates like these disappearing, they were well built family homes with gardens and parks for the kids to play. Now look at the massive towers going up for families to live in, hardly any greenery.. All those lovely London Plane Trees on the old streets and parks, and the history.. My Great Great Grandad was a Docker, sometimes walked from Rainham to Royal Docks. He got no work one day and set off for home, got run over on Barking Road and died. My Mum still has his little leather pouch, with a pinch of tobacco and a ha'penny, all he had on him that day. Hard times.
Thanks John, the boys from Rathbone street had a stall in the Saturday street market 1972 .Keep safe.
Thanks for that Dave
Rathbone Market.... you are in the famous place....Lost all of its character when they redeveloped it with the horrid buildings around you (including dominos...)
I can remember going "Rathy" from an early age with my mum and later on with my son as a dad. You had the regular stalls there daily, I remember a pet stall there where I used to buy hay for my rabbits....A meat stall, a great pie mash shop, around the marking space were shops of all sorts...and guess what, a percy ingles...On the corner of the market and barking road was a lovely pub called the Ordnance Arms, its a dessert shop now....Good Friday at Rathy was great...
Crim - Do you remember the New South West Ham Liberal and Radical club, opposite what was Trinity School on Barking Road? My parents managed it back in mid to late 70s.
At the end of the 60s there was Caters supermarket there too. First one I'd been in, as when i lived in Custom House we used the good range of small shops. I remember watching eels slithering around on the fish counter at the back of the store. Gross. Slimy and after all these years I can still remember the smell.
Ooh now our evening is complete.
Cyprus in Beckton? I used to use the pub at the time the Mainwaring`s were murdered and their dismembered bodies were dump`d on the waste ground opposite.
@@anthonyhatfull5484 no Cyprus 🇨🇾 in the Mediterranean. Ooh how interesting
No mention of all the people shot in Canning Town! The pub in Freemasons road was called the “New Gogg” there was a shooting in there when I was a kid.
How someone ain’t nicked your camera is a miracle.😂😂😂
My mum used to work a fruit and vegetable stall in Rathbone street market, I remember during the bus strike my sister and I walked from East Ham to the market and carried bags of vegetables back. Those were the days.
My Great nan had a stall on Rathbone market. "Kits for snips" it was called
Star Lane pub The Anchor. Area changed hugely the last 3 years with all the blocks on the South side of Barking Road [going towards Silvertown]. Community Links building beautiful inside [I worked there last Open House weekend]. Rathbone Market nothing compared to its 60s heyday.
Really appreciate the walks John. I have lived overseas for many years now, so your wonderful videos of home are a godsend. With this walk I have to mention the power pylons at the roundabout (8.29 mins) which signify the location of the old Bridgehouse Pub managed by Terry Murphy. Some superb musicians passed through that pub and my teens were well rich because of that place. It definitely has its place in East End history alongside Ghandi and Chaplin. I only got nicked once coming home drunk from that place, so did well really. I often wonder what happened to the bloke that used to sell very old editions of Marvel and DC comics at Rathbone market back in the 70's?
"Take her up the Bridgehouse or Ancient Brit, tank her up with vodka til she is sick", some Oi band record I once heard when I was a kid..........Bless..............
Whenever I was at the market I always took a look at the comic stall in search or early Spiderman comics. Picked up a few over the years.
Many thanks for the video John. I was based at Plaistow Fire Station in Prince Regent Lane from the days when it was part of West Ham Fire Brigade until the 1980's. Canning Town and Custom House were just part the the extensive fireground that my station covered leaving me with so many memories and stories of this area. You actually passed the area of the Ronan Point disaster which I went to, but probably did not realise it. You may have also not realised in your search for the once popular Rathbone Market that you actually filmed it It was the solitary stall in your video which is all that was left as form of tokenism by the local council. Sadly much of the area has changed out of all recognition over the years. Several of the parks you filmed are one good thing that has come out of regeneration, as some of these used to be previously rows of old terraced housing.
Thank you mate, your stuff is a sea of calm in these troubled days. I would love it if you could weave the story of Arnold Hills and the Thames Ironworks into a show. His sporting record, his causes, the industrial strife and the people he dealt with are fascinating.
The ironworks products, not just ships, and just 2 guys apprenticed at the firm (not giving too much away) let's say saucy postcards and low level bombing raid.
Keep up the good work!
MY dear late nan lived in canning town,Above Rathbone market ❤️👍🏼
Beautiful scene of you walking at 23.55. Can't believe you went to Canning Town and didn't visit the legendary Peacock Gym ! And right outside the gym they used to film loads of scenes for Life on Mars and and Ashes to Ashes, with Gene Hunt driving around in his Ford Cortina in chase scenes. It also was in a scene of a murder in a Danny Dyer film, if my memory serves me correctly.
I can’t believe I missed it now, big flaw in my research
Peacock Gym closed down a few years back sold to developers ..
How strange. This morning I was driving from Bow to the A13 and missed the slip road. I drove along the Canning Town part of Barking Road for the first time in years. I was at the East Ham end Friday when I picked up a copy of your (signed) book from Newham Bookshop. I have thoroughly enjoyed yet another superb walk.
Thanks for buying the book Robert - the A13 is the key
Danny Dyer? You forgot David Essex! Thank you for your lovely positive videos, they are a highlight of my week.
Johnny Speight: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Speight
Awesome! I did not much about the history of Canning Town.
Whenever I watch your videos, I feel a great emotional urge to move back to the UK.
COYI
Now that's out...Canning Town was famous to me for the pubs...
The Bridge House and the Iron Bridge Tavern were great music venues with famous acts playing there.
The Royal Oak was famous because of Terry Lawless's boxing gym on the first floor where he trained world champions such as Frank Bruno and Charlie Magri.
I had a stall once at Rathbone market...
It is a brilliant video....thank you so very much.
Used to go to Bentley night club on fri and sun nights when Derek Boland aka Derek B , made a few tunes that made the charts, I believed it used to be the Bridgehouse, it was a big venus for the Mods in the 1960s.
In the 50`s there was Lusty Lloyd Loom works in Poplar,and the Director`s one of whom was my late brother in law Edward Lusty used to have lunch at The Bridge House.It was a very different place in those days.MFI ( now Howden Joinery) had a store there.When I had to go there for audit`s all the staff had to be careful to park their cars in view of the front,or the wheels were likely to vanish.There was a run down market,and they removed all the benches to keep the dosser`s away. There was a cafe opposite that burnt down one night. Failure to pay the "local" insurance?
Brave man walking the streets of Canning Town.
victoria dock road how its changed over 50 years, my nan and grandad lived in the little bungalows opposite custom house station. the old train line i used when i walked there frommy house off freemasons road to catch a train to Silvertown to go to work at Tate & Lyles when i was a teenager.
My grandad worked there. More memories coming from comments than the walk, it's changed so much.
DANNY DYER IS A WICKED COMEDIAN AND HIS SKETCHES ARE JUST BRILLIANT. THANKS FOR BRINGING HIM UP IN CONVERSATION. THANKS JOHN LOVE YOU AND ALSO THANKS FOR GIVING THE HISTORICAL UPDATE ON WEST HAM TOO.
Texas greetings, John. Many thanks for another great walk ... around the area of my old high school - South West Ham Technical School (now gone - now the new Rokeby School) just down on the Barking Road, by the McDonalds. Rathbone Market was once much bigger and a hive of activity back in the day, now sadly just a shadow of its former self. Stay well!
Greetings to you over there in Texas Paul
Danny Dyer refers to the town as Thief Town, it looks quite a stark place, kind of modern but a little forgotten and unloved. Love your walks, thank you so much.
City of thieves.
The A13 - England’s Route 66. Love it 😂
All of E16 including Canning Town, Silvertown, Custom House and North Woolwich was designated "Victoria Dock" by the Post Office - the sorting office was in Tidal Basin Road, on the site of the Hoopla tower blocks
Another interesting and historical walk in the company of the Knowledgable Mr Rogers!!
It's people like John who convince me not to leave London
Enjoyed that. All the best from a man in the norf.
Thanks again John for a brilliant video. Not been there for a couple of decades, hardly recognised much only the odd building. Mum sometimes use to shop at Rathbone market and don't recognised that now. Canning Town was famous for the Ronan Building collapse around 1968. Afterwards the buildings were pulled down ( but can't place where they were now ) Used to drink in one pub there beside the railway line and used to have good live bands. Again John thanks for the walk. Hope you are keeping well 👍
Fantastic! Brought back great memories of my childhood. The men in my dad's family were lightermen. Dad has some amazing stories to tell. Been meaning to go back for a walkabout and you've just whetted my appetite for that. Thank you!
I love watching these london walkabout vids
im from south tottenham originally now residing in sunny belfast
Canning Town is much like the Isle of Dogs with its mix of post war and modern buildings. I used to pass through Canning Town on the bus to work in the late 80s. Now I deliver around there and the area around the station has changed so much.
Spent quite a while working in Cannin Taaahn. Used to go.that Percy Ingle for my lunch. Sad sight but great vid John! Cheers!
I miss that old stall market
It was gritty and grimey
Don't know Canning Town, Custom House, East London that much. Keep up the good work John
Love the fact that Chaplin and Gandhi meeting was recognised in a park naming. Cannot imagine celebrities of today carrying the gravitas to name our future recreation areas. Cheers John, another good walk/story.
I was born in a prefab in Fourty Acre Lane.
johnny speight who wrote Alf Garnett came from Star Lane
It was Hilda Road just round the corner.
Ah another wonderful fact I wish I'd known - thanks
Used to drink in the Anchor, many moons ago. You missed what happened at Ronan Point (now demolished). Didn’t know about Ghandi and Chaplin, very interesting.
Yes I was a very small child when that happened, I remember seeing it. I lived on the other side of the Park.
See the ronan point falling down frm my garden, me and my dad heard a loud noise we couldn't believe our eyes
Hi John. Your videos really are terribly good. I mean the editing, narration and choice of music is spot on.
Wow! Great video! Brought back some fond memories. I was born in Canning Town, lived opposite the old Marquis of Salisbury pub in Hermit Rd . I also went to Star Lane School where Reg Varney & David Essex were also taught. I particularly recall the flyover being built early 1970s!
I grew up in Forest Gate off Katherine Road near the Trebor factory then when I was 12 my mom moved the family to Seven kings, Ilford . I have lived in Atlanta Georgia United States since 1989 so your historic walking documentaries are everything to me. Thank you please keep going! The Canning Town walk made tears come to my eyes. I remember St. Margaret's Catholic church and all the landmarks of East ham, Greengate and Custom House.
We used to go to the joke shop on Katherine Rd for stink bombs and smoke bombs. 😂
And East Ham for Cooke’s pie and mash.
I lived in Canning Town between 2001-2003, walked every day to work through Star Lane to Cody road. Thank you for sharing Canning Town`s history.
Great video, as always, John.
thanks Mykola
I was hoping for a bit more talk of Custom House, especially as you talked of Danny Dyer... he lived on my road!
Miss seeing the ends though. I live in Korea now, so nice to see how things have changed!
Oh my GOD John what on Earth was you doing here, I was born and bred in Canning Town and still live about 2 minutes from Star Park.
I wish I had known you was visiting our Dump of an area as I would have joined you.
The name of the Pub at the beginning was called The Anchor and my Mum and Dad used to drink in there.
Kier hardie recreation park was known to us as St Lukes park, just opposite the park (ruscoe road / rogers road) is a great old church St Lukes, my parents got married there in 1956, maybe mention it in any further walks. It was bombed in the war and they repaired it. USING THE HULL OF A BOAT FOR THE ROOF... Father Goose was the vicar for years in the 70's and well known locally.
Nice video John. My Grandfather and my Dad were born in Malmesbury Rd Canning Town (1906 & 1935) Thanks for taking me around with you!
Thank you John. I've always been intrigued by the name Canning Town.
Barkingside rec was never quite big enough.
Thanks John.
I'm a Pole, who lives nearby. I enjoy listening about London history.
Thanks John for another great Sunday evening adventure - brilliant as ever keep them coming 👍
I can 'feel' London just watching these... Hopefully soon I can hop on the train from Rochford, and stroll aimlessly around soaking up the atmosphere again. I love the way you talk to us, as if we're really there! I'm from Southend so that Billy Bragg song means a lot!
Hello John, so much to think about in this film, thank you. One thing came to mind while you were walking through Canning Town Recreation Ground; one of my favourite films is the Swimmer with Burt Lancaster, where he goes home via various swimming pools, I have always thought it would be nice to make a journey either north to south or east to west London via the small unfamiliar local parks and recreation grounds that are so important to a local area. I think by the end of the walk there would be such a great feeling of optimism and that things are good!
Look forward to the next walk wherever .......
PS. I agree about Danny Dyer
We stayed at the Custom House Hotel which I think is now the Ibis and drank in the Custom House pub and we we were gobsmacked to see Danny Dyer at the bar with his mates 😂😂. It made our weekend .
I could have shown you the Lowlights of Canning Town John, I used to play Football and Cricket on the Little Green in the old Liverpool Road that started left of the Anchor Pub that you started the video with David Cook (Essex) who was a few years older than me as he grew up at that part of Liverpool Road and I lived in the middle part opposite the little green of Avondale Court.
My Dad used to be drinking friends with Johnny Speight who invented Alf Garnet, I can about remember John as being a good old East Ender.
Not far from where I live Clifton Walk (The other end of Star Park) in the Street around the corner of my Drs Surgery at Green Gate is where apparently Ray Winston the Actor (Who plays himself in everything 😂) grew up there. 😋
Fascinating journey, thank you John. Two ideal guests from my list for an imaginary dinner party you mentioned, Gandhi and Chaplin actually met so awesome. Also noticed at the beginning the Catholic Church had a pentangle for a window.
Thanks John! My partner although born within the sound of bow bells, lived for some time at custom house. And now we live in posh Frinton on sea North Essex! She has never forgotten her roots deliverd by nuns in east London maternity hopital ;0)
Harwich for the Continent -Frinton for the incontinent.
Great walk John. I was recently up on the roof of the tallest tower at Rathbone Market, pricing up a maintenance contract for the 3 phrases that have been constructed there. I think it might look a bit of an eyesore in a few years, but at least there are plenty of social housing within the complex. The only tower that is private housing is the brick built complex. Its a shame that so many of the decent East End boozers have now disappeared. I look forward to seeing your next walk, wherever that may be.
Well done John, love your tours..
So good to learn about the rich and diverse history of Canning Town from you. Very insightful!
Really enjoy your walks with commentary and appreciate that you broadcast these vids and share you knowledge. Sincere thanks!
Fascinating, educational & entertaining as ever John. Thank you.
Great walk very enjoyable Thanks
Hi John
I absolutely love your videos. These places have a special place in my heart and to hear somebody speak about it with such passion is great. Please keep these coming. Its fascinating
Thanks for another cracking urban ramble and history lesson,am keeping well and glad u ok 😁
Thanks David
Another great video John! As a kid, living in Plaistow and then Forest Gate, we had close family friends that lived at 58 Thomas North Terrace, the large tower block that overlooked Rathbone Market. I was blown away, a few years ago, to discover that the whole area had been demolished and redeveloped, including Thomas North Terrace. On Canning Town High Street there was a sweet shop, Merkoff's, that used to make their own ice cream. The vanilla was amazing, it had such a unique, delicious taste. Rathbone Market itself was always a bit rundown with only a few stalls even on market day. A couple of memorable stalls were a stall that sold old comics, I always used to check that out for early Marvel comics and Tubby Isaacs, that has cut price biscuits and similar. Good memories from over 50 years ago.
Thanks for another great video John, always love the stories and history of the locations you walk around 😀 👍
thanks Raymond
Great video John!!