It has changed a lot, when i grew up there in the late 60s/early 70s we still had the old RT & Routemaster buses, the High Street was the North Circular and all the jugganaughts drove along it. Until the relief road was built at Ilford when it all moved across.....
Brilliant. This was my old area, good to see the old S1's again. Many trips to East ham station or Stratford. I notice plenty of traffic heading up the High St North, a few years later they closed it off to cars.
Yes, i remember the S1s of old, MBS's when i first rode on them, with RT's on the 101 & 147s......At Stratford they turned at the Broadway rather than the bus station which yet built!
Sat here watching this thinking "this is great! I love to watch super old videos of where I grew up. I wonder how people lived in those ancient times"... Then I remembered that this was taken only 5 years before I was born... Delusion is a bitch haha and I'm no longer young lool.
thansk for your comments..... For me, this is modern! I grew up here with most routes worked by RT & Routemaster buses with just one or two One Man (as it was then) routes..... lol
Another great video Soi, I have a fondness for the Titans so it's nice to see them featured here. What shame the mighty 15 is a shadow of its former self when you realise at one point you could conceivably go from East Ham to Acton or even Kew Gardens. Now it's just Blackwall to Trafalgar Square which is a shame.
Yes, i used to travel on the 15s (and 5s & 23s) to go to school in Canning Town. A major route, one of the biggest allocations, and now it's just been decimated.......i would never have imagined it like it is today, it had been a major route right back to horse bus days.....
I can recall the No 15 route master buses on the Barking Road to go into Popular each weekend. The Square Mile was in its infancy with foundations being built for the high rise buildings that stand today.
@@NoName-jq7tj I remember MBS single deckers on there as a kid although it had been Routemaster route 272 until 1968. Before the RMs it was Trolleybus routes 689/690. The S1 was withdrawn and the 238s diverted along Plashet Grove while new route 104 took over the rest. The 104 had been a Holloway route before then, in North London......
@@stevepoulton8826 it did until the mid 1980's as well as running through to the Royal Albert Dock in peak hours......it was my local route when I lived in the area......
That was the 'modern' extension the the Co-Op that had been closed in the mid 80s, the older, original Co-Op building was in High Street North. I think by 89 it was being renovated for further use.....
Yes, it has certainly changed round there these days. I remember East Ham & Manor Park with Routemasters and RT buses running including the Green Line routes 721 & 723 along the Romford and Barking Roads.......
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Me too in the 1970's, I remember going through a door to a sleigh with dayglow scenes at the side and then getting off through another door ( which I didn't realise being so young) and meeting Father Christmas. Thanks for your memories ❤️
Wish they left the white roundels in place. The new colour ones made the buses look less tidy and came off as change for change's sake. Was interesting seeing an RMC with it though. I do like it's air door. Were they OMO?
When used by British European Airways they were driven (& maintained) by LT staff. I believe the airline had a staff member on board to look after the passengers. When LT brought them they were put into service on the 175 route. But the conductors hated them as there were no handpoles on them. They were soon withdrawn and used as Staff Buses or driver trainers. The Staff Buses were driven by Aldenham engineering staff, the driver trainers had the staircase removed so the Instructors could reach into the cab easily. Northern General rebuilt one of their Routemasters (they brought 50 RML length RMA style buses which had blind boxes) but it wasn't very successful and only the one was done. In the 90s RMA 5 & 8 had blind boxes fitted and went into service at Upton Park on the X15 & 15 routes, both with conductors.
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I came across one doing private work when I was in London and got to hear an it's AEC as it was being thrown around a corner. It still replays in my mind.
You are thinking of RMA 14....The training RMAs had the staircase removed so the instructors could reach into the cab. The staff buseswere left untouched.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus You could tell they had high speed axles as they took off as the gear stretched for longer. I drove a Mercedes Benz which had a high speed diff centre accidentally installed by the garage staff and it was doing something like 90km/h when the dash said 60 lol. It honestly seemed to perform better from rest that way.
Aww ... if only you had shot this a few months earlier, we would have had footage of the old art deco Co-op rather than the pile of rubble it had been reduced to behind that scaffolding. Oh well ...
Nice video and i still live here, Thanks for the memories mate
My pleasure..... I remember RTs, SMS, DMS as well as Routemasters running when i grew up around here...... And the 147s lost RTs in July 1971!
wow I live here now, its really interesting to see how this used to be 32 years ago
It has changed a lot, when i grew up there in the late 60s/early 70s we still had the old RT & Routemaster buses, the High Street was the North Circular and all the jugganaughts drove along it. Until the relief road was built at Ilford when it all moved across.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus oh ok
Brilliant. This was my old area, good to see the old S1's again. Many trips to East ham station or Stratford. I notice plenty of traffic heading up the High St North, a few years later they closed it off to cars.
Yes, i remember the S1s of old, MBS's when i first rode on them, with RT's on the 101 & 147s......At Stratford they turned at the Broadway rather than the bus station which yet built!
Lots of great memory’s there. I remember the tramway livery Titan. So it was good to see it in the video. Excellent video Soi
Thank you.....I seem to recall our council sponsered the repaint. They had use of it for special private hires.....
Sat here watching this thinking "this is great! I love to watch super old videos of where I grew up. I wonder how people lived in those ancient times"... Then I remembered that this was taken only 5 years before I was born... Delusion is a bitch haha and I'm no longer young lool.
thansk for your comments..... For me, this is modern! I grew up here with most routes worked by RT & Routemaster buses with just one or two One Man (as it was then) routes..... lol
Ts and RMLs the best buses I ever worked. Both had character. So sad for the drivers now on these soulless low floor things
Another great video Soi, I have a fondness for the Titans so it's nice to see them featured here.
What shame the mighty 15 is a shadow of its former self when you realise at one point you could conceivably go from East Ham to Acton or even Kew Gardens. Now it's just Blackwall to Trafalgar Square which is a shame.
Yes, i used to travel on the 15s (and 5s & 23s) to go to school in Canning Town. A major route, one of the biggest allocations, and now it's just been decimated.......i would never have imagined it like it is today, it had been a major route right back to horse bus days.....
Yes, add up the miles ran per day on the 5, 15 and 23 along with their A, B and even C variants and it came to quite a lot!
I can recall the No 15 route master buses on the Barking Road to go into Popular each weekend. The Square Mile was in its infancy with foundations being built for the high rise buildings that stand today.
The 15's used to run from East Ham White Horse to Ladbroke Grove, and even Richmond on Sundays!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbusThe 238 used be the S1 bus I used to get on at Plashet Road to go to East Ham.
@@NoName-jq7tj I remember MBS single deckers on there as a kid although it had been Routemaster route 272 until 1968. Before the RMs it was Trolleybus routes 689/690. The S1 was withdrawn and the 238s diverted along Plashet Grove while new route 104 took over the rest. The 104 had been a Holloway route before then, in North London......
When i lived there in the 60s the 147 turned round at the White Horse.
@@stevepoulton8826 it did until the mid 1980's as well as running through to the Royal Albert Dock in peak hours......it was my local route when I lived in the area......
What was under the scaffolding next to The Denmark on the Barking Road?
That was the 'modern' extension the the Co-Op that had been closed in the mid 80s, the older, original Co-Op building was in High Street North. I think by 89 it was being renovated for further use.....
Wow. Now the High street is an absolute dump.
Yes, it has certainly changed round there these days. I remember East Ham & Manor Park with Routemasters and RT buses running including the Green Line routes 721 & 723 along the Romford and Barking Roads.......
I agree. Was once a great high street
Sad to see the Coop building being demolished at the beginning.
Yes, i used to visit Father Christmas in there as a kid......
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Me too in the 1970's, I remember going through a door to a sleigh with dayglow scenes at the side and then getting off through another door ( which I didn't realise being so young) and meeting Father Christmas. Thanks for your memories ❤️
When bus drivers still had to wear a shirt & tie & there
P S V badge !.
Today it's T .shirt & trainers !!
Hi There! Would you mind if I used a small clip from this brilliant footage, for a project?
Hi there, sorry for late reply. No, feel free to use a clip or two. If my channel gets a mention/link, that would be great!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I'll deffo give you a shout! many thanks, much appreciated!
Wish they left the white roundels in place. The new colour ones made the buses look less tidy and came off as change for change's sake.
Was interesting seeing an RMC with it though. I do like it's air door. Were they OMO?
When used by British European Airways they were driven (& maintained) by LT staff. I believe the airline had a staff member on board to look after the passengers. When LT brought them they were put into service on the 175 route. But the conductors hated them as there were no handpoles on them. They were soon withdrawn and used as Staff Buses or driver trainers. The Staff Buses were driven by Aldenham engineering staff, the driver trainers had the staircase removed so the Instructors could reach into the cab easily. Northern General rebuilt one of their Routemasters (they brought 50 RML length RMA style buses which had blind boxes) but it wasn't very successful and only the one was done. In the 90s RMA 5 & 8 had blind boxes fitted and went into service at Upton Park on the X15 & 15 routes, both with conductors.
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I came across one doing private work when I was in London and got to hear an it's AEC as it was being thrown around a corner.
It still replays in my mind.
RMA 4 was in the Aldenham works video I think.
You are thinking of RMA 14....The training RMAs had the staircase removed so the instructors could reach into the cab. The staff buseswere left untouched.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus You could tell they had high speed axles as they took off as the gear stretched for longer.
I drove a Mercedes Benz which had a high speed diff centre accidentally installed by the garage staff and it was doing something like 90km/h when the dash said 60 lol.
It honestly seemed to perform better from rest that way.
Back when East Ham High Street was a two way street😮
@@OldboySparrow it was the North Circular when I was growing up in the 1970s..... Lots of big antics thundering towards the Woolwich Ferry.....
Aww ... if only you had shot this a few months earlier, we would have had footage of the old art deco Co-op rather than the pile of rubble it had been reduced to behind that scaffolding. Oh well ...
I used to visit Father Christmas in that Co-Op as a kid in the 1970s.... so yes, i lament missing getting it on film.....
I think all of us visited the CoOp father Christmas, the ride never changed but to us it was magical
Wasn’t the 15 at this point London Forest?
Yes, very much so! All the 15s were run from Upton Park with Routemasters Mon-Sat, and with OPO Titans on Sundays......
Route masters, Route masters for f*ck sake, lol 🤪😂😈, love them titans better and their engines, I miss them, 😢😢
When i was a toddler around here we still had RTs and MBS classes as well as Routemasters!
Poor show from that learner driver blocking a yellow box junction
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