Excellent clip, I was born in Mile End in 1947 about 3 minutes walk from the Odeon, seeing that shot of it took me right back so much so that I can even recall the certain smell that cinema's had then.
The old boleyn castle part of which was Brownings Electric co ltd. They repaired electric motors and started in 1919.They are still going today,but moved away from Green st in the 1970's.I work for them!
Thanks for your comment and interest, I remember Brownings well when they were in Green Street as I lived right opposite the building, they used to employ quiet a lot of people, I think I'm right in saying the relocated to Barking ? thanks for your input.
Spitalfields is one area that still remains mostly in tact, [for now at least]. For example, Artillery Lane and the roads at the back of the Ten Bells of Commercial Road, are worth a visit. The streets there are a treasured snapshot in time. I'm a north Londoner, but it feels so homely in the east.
The shame of it is is that Cockneys and the real Eastenders are disappearing people who can't afford houses in the City are buying flats houses in the Eastend local shops are turning into restaurants or healthfood shops....
As a kid i used to love going to Victoria Park where they used to put shows on for children on a Sunday afternoon,then back home with a couple of pints of winkles to eat with our tea.
As I'm sure many viewers are aware, the Boleyn Castle lived on in its representation on the West Ham United crest, and in the big plastic turrets on the West face of the now defunct Boleyn ground.
I remember Brady Street, where my aunt lived, and Mansell Street where we lived for a short time after the war. Thank you for your video its very nostalgic,
Thanks for posting this bought back a lot of memories, i agree with the other posters what has happened to family values etc, i left england years ago back in 76 even then it was in decline.
I have lived in Plaistow since the mid 1990's its lovely to see these old photos of the area when it was still part of England. I grew up in Kings Cross,and remember Club Rows animal market from visits with my older brother Paddy we used to go down there with Harry Sheehan our local greengrocer who kept racing pigeons to buy pigeons it was like a zoo fullof amazing exotic animals being sold I loved it being too young to realise how cruel trading animals in that way was. Thankyou I love this vid
Omg look at Green street back then. Wow! The only difference is that, I never grew up in that time. Still growing up in the 2010s Lol. Compare this to now and it is clear that the 2010s aint got sh*t on the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The 2010s is a very unpleasnt time to grow up in, to be honest.
Very nice, takes me back to when i was a kid. Spent many days over Vicky park @ a was always down Brick lane. oh and ASaturday morning in the Odeon opposite the station.
tree mendous. love your channel (especially the (tite) and the music you have chosen to go with the theme is great. you got me, holging back the tears - cheers for putting the work in on this
Born East Ham memorial hospital 1947 had a great life , apprenticeship in Beckton Gas works sadly the black cloud engulfed the East end left for California 1979, and yes, I still cry for what was lost!
How enjoyable and informative. We make hires gopro walk through's of contemporary London on youtube and it's great for us to see the comparison. London is still pretty spectacular. Thank you for adding it, we've subscribed.
Thank's for your interest, the photo's I used in this video cover a fairly wide timescale, ranging from the early 1920s through to the 1950s, of the picture's I used only the view of Sclater St E1 and to some extent Green St E13 bear any resemblance to what can still be seen now, everything else has long gone.
I remember much of this from my youth. Not the real old stuff but the pics at the beginning. Bought the beatles white album from the row of shops in the pic of Green st. Some great memories no matter what anybody says.
I loved this, some of the pictures have brought nostalgic tears to my eyes. Some of the comments however brought tears of laughter. Immigrants built this area. Eastern Europeans now. Kurds in the 90's Asians in the 70's, West Indians in the 60's. Jews before that, Irish, Russians in the late 1800's Huguenots in the 1500's. However as this was the economic result of available cheap (substandard) housing which has now disappeared in the East end I suppose it will stop. If Ive offended I beg forgiveness but I feel it was the very willingness to accept people who "mucked in and didn't take liberties" that made the East End such a magic place to be a kid in the 50's
There are places I remember All my life, though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all ------------------------------------------ this about sums it up for me imo
Too many people here have too much of a romantic view of the East End. People forget about the poor living conditions, the smog, the packed sardine-like terraced housing, etc.;East London has always been a place where people come to work, and move out when they can afford to & it's why your family moved out. The immigrants will always be an easy scapegoat for those looking back with rose-tinted glasses.
i worked at brownings electrical back in the 60s in green st they did rewinds on motors cant remember if the castle was still there then ? still nice to see it tho', thanks again
could you please tell me if there is a date on the last picture as there is a very great chance that the people on the horse and cart are my father and grandfather,
Communties the UK government brought to the UK to clean up after the mess UK made after world war 2. Stfu u racist pussios. Without "immigrants" there would be no london
Are there any of these old buildings still standing i would love to go to London some day.I prefer the look of the old Cinemas than the new modern ones.
***** Thank you for your interest, sorry if it disappoints you but I'm afraid that apart from a few exceptions virtually all the buildings seen in this video, ( including the two cinemas ) are long gone, thank you for the comment, hope you enjoyed watching the video, all the best.
MudlarkDiggingUpTheThames Thank you for your interest, your comment is very true but the Boleyn Castle was sadly demolished way back in the mid 1950s ( I lived right opposite while it was still standing) and they were Very different times, conservation as we know it now was largely non existent in those days and at the time literally thousands of important buildings were being casually pulled down all around the country with no thought given by the authorities to their historical merit in the mad post war rush to throw away the old and re build with new, the actual site of the castle laid abandoned for nearly a whole decade after demolition (I use to play on it) and ironically, even to this day has never actually been built on, the site is just to the side of the main West Ham FC gates for the entrance to the ground.
@@spiritoveradversity1 Sadly the football ground is no more - just an "affordable housing" complex (in your dreams). I remember going in at half time - when there was a wooden stadium, and the bus garage was at the bottom of Priory Road. Cheers, Les.
@trippy119 Have to agree may have been shabby and run down but the streets were ours. We didn't spend hours in doors stuck on some machine or another. We grew up having the time of our life making our own fun and went for miles to do it. No fear of being mugged then. The east end was full of gangsters but they did not harm their own.
Thank you for your interest, you may be surprised to hear that the photos used in this video are from quiet a wide ranging timescale stretching from the early 20th century right through the 1930s, 50s, 60s and even one that dates from the late 1970s, incidentally, the building in the first photo, the Boleyn Castle in Upton Park was still standing intact right up until the mid 1950s when it was then unceremoniously demolished, hope this helps, all the best.
Shame we can't mention the obvious reasons why the East End has changed and will never be the same again. Suffice to say, like Vinnie Jones and John Cleese, they were right, it doesn't seem like London/England anymore with all the foreigners allowed to settle.
The question is, what has every immigrant ever done including you, over me? Worked? No, not all, some but now, it's reached breaking point. If immigration is SO good, I'll bet YOUR country doesn't take any in, yet you think the UK should - hypocrisy from an immigrant hypocrite.
+marcjboy1 The East End was home to every kind of immigrant on earth in the old days. What a horrible string of foul-mouthed illiterate replies to this post. Is nobody capable of intelligent discussion any more?
bingola45, I'm afraid that videos such as these automatically attract uneducated, low-life cretins to spew out their hatred. And, of course, the person who uploaded this video is well aware of that fact. As I say, create a dung heap and you automatically attract flies. Upload a video like this and, sure enough, the bluebottles come swarming in.
Hard not to envy what they had back then, a REAL sense of community, there will always be bad people but these days neighbours dont talk to eachother and everyone is wary of one another. I for one will not die in this country (if I have a choice) because of what it has become, instead I will stack my money and sod off with someone and make a life elsewhere. People dont try as much anymore, family values and even relationships are suffering for it.
and you dont think that by living in britain, and having there children grow up here that they might not contribute something,bringing those ideas and cultural differences make things richer its not a one way street there are diffrent ways to look at things and thats a prespective they bring. before africans and asians lived in those estates white ppl did, they lived there because they were poor, they have moved up the ladder and so will the new immigrants in time. why dont they what?
It's a shame we've lost some of the beautiful buildings, either through war or through dreadful post war development mainly during the 1960's and 1970's. But, the East-End had seen a huge amount of regeneration. Some may argue that it only benefits those with money, but that's never changed through history. Living standards have changed, but we are Brits and we constantly reminisce about the past, which is why are manufacturing has gone down the toilet, because we don't adapt to change very well. There are migrants to Britain, but again, that's always been the case in this country, right the way back through time. There's so much more that we have now than we've ever had... But sadly more hate as well, towards minorites and an increasing level of indigenous dysfunctional misfits who feel that the world and this country owe them a favour because they're white and born here. There's no benefit in living in the past, you have to take control of your own destiny and live your life, rather than be bitter and full of hate
i leave you perplexed, well as far as i know any colour of skin is the species homo-sapien, our skin is a product of our environment. also as far as i know muslim isnt a skin colour, it has to do with islam, the real problem your talking of is religion which i agree with since im an atheist. As a species we began in africa, and it just so happens that are groups decided to move out of africa a long time ago thus we are here, im welsh im an original briton your not, am i mad no we're all humans.
haha your unbelievable , thats all you can really see is something thats diffrent and you view it as a threat, grow up and see that we are all the same species, and that were we grow up is what makes us diffrent not being less of a person, just diffrent.
and please lets not go in a circle with u arguing about what is it they give and ohh they were this in public and its not right, ive already explained that all. look over my replys if you want to see.
Ahh the celebration now of diversity in London and the East End, I hope the politicians are proud of how they have turned this area of London into a cess-pit of immigration. A once proud area of docks, working class images and now full of immigrants of all pursuasions.
Come along, people! It wasn't all that good! Try dredging the pond at Victoria Park and you will come across hundreds of skeletons of unwanted babies. (That was once told to me by a nurse) I was born in Stratford in the early fifties, and there was nothing remotely romantic about my childhood! Nothing of dramatic importance has really changed. But we now have better health, and its cleaner everywhere! There's good and bad in all times. Were Victorians to see this, they'd have a fit!
+Nola Steele >> The music needed to be from the same time period. That was typical '60s sappy boring plain vanilla and was going to destroy the video for me. I muted it about 10 seconds after it started. Nice film with some great old street scenes.
+jack night karma? karma for who? for the poor starving east enders? what the fuck did they know about colonization? yet the working white people of east london are the ones who suffer as usual - not the politicians and royalty responsible, theyre safely tucked away from it all. Typical comment from a wet, poncey liberal
It's because of the politicians and the ruling classes that drunk peasants like you have a free health care, education, and jobs. Not to mention the millions that sacrificed their lives for your liberty. Study your own history. It's embarrassing.
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Sad that so many historical buildings have been lost.
Excellent clip, I was born in Mile End in 1947 about 3 minutes walk from the Odeon, seeing that shot of it took me right back so much so that I can even recall the certain smell that cinema's had then.
The old boleyn castle part of which was Brownings Electric co ltd.
They repaired electric motors and started in 1919.They are still going today,but moved away from Green st in the 1970's.I work for them!
Thanks for your comment and interest, I remember Brownings well when they were in Green Street as I lived right opposite the building, they used to employ quiet a lot of people, I think I'm right in saying the relocated to Barking ? thanks for your input.
Memories of another era. Wonderful B&W photos.
This is the second time I watch your clips and, again, I cannot but thank you with all my heart for sharing them The music is amazing!
Spitalfields is one area that still remains mostly in tact, [for now at least]. For example, Artillery Lane and the roads at the back of the Ten Bells of Commercial Road, are worth a visit. The streets there are a treasured snapshot in time. I'm a north Londoner, but it feels so homely in the east.
Nice vid, and awoke quite a few memories for me - made all the better by the great Matt Monro. Cheers, Les (East Ham)
The shame of it is is that Cockneys and the real Eastenders are disappearing people who can't afford houses in the City are buying flats houses in the Eastend local shops are turning into restaurants or healthfood shops....
I remember it all. I was there!
As a kid i used to love going to Victoria Park where they used to put shows on
for children on a Sunday afternoon,then back home with a couple of pints of
winkles to eat with our tea.
As I'm sure many viewers are aware, the Boleyn Castle lived on in its representation on the West Ham United crest, and in the big plastic turrets on the West face of the now defunct Boleyn ground.
I remember Brady Street, where my aunt lived, and Mansell Street where we lived for a short time after the war. Thank you for your video its very nostalgic,
ive been almost everywhere here how did this turn to hell
Thanks for posting this bought back a lot of memories, i agree with the other posters what has happened to family values etc, i left england years ago back in 76 even then it was in decline.
kevin edwards Where did you go mate? I left in 2012 for the exact same reasons.
what a lovely video and song to match
Thanks for posting.
Leni Pea, what a softie you are, like the video and music. It seems to me you miss home, and I can well understand as to why.............Rolollllll
Wow simply amazing thank you. I grow up in the east London and to be able to see the fast and it’s present state is a quite a big contrast.
I have lived in Plaistow since the mid 1990's its lovely to see these old photos of the area when it was still part of England. I grew up in Kings Cross,and remember Club Rows animal market from visits with my older brother Paddy we used to go down there with Harry Sheehan our local greengrocer who kept racing pigeons to buy pigeons it was like a zoo fullof amazing exotic animals being sold I loved it being too young to realise how cruel trading animals in that way was. Thankyou I love this vid
hi. I was trying to find the clip as but then I saw comment. Id wanted to message you as I really enjoyed watching it. Thanks for sharing
Thank you
Omg look at Green street back then. Wow! The only difference is that, I never grew up in that time. Still growing up in the 2010s Lol. Compare this to now and it is clear that the 2010s aint got sh*t on the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The 2010s is a very unpleasnt time to grow up in, to be honest.
Very nice, takes me back to when i was a kid. Spent many days over Vicky park @ a was always down Brick lane. oh and ASaturday morning in the Odeon opposite the station.
tree mendous. love your channel (especially the (tite) and the music you have chosen to go with the theme is great. you got me, holging back the tears - cheers for putting the work in on this
Thank you very much for your kind words of praise, I'm pleased you enjoyed watching, best of luck to you.
Why is the fact that I was born in 1947 so astounding to you?
Born East Ham memorial hospital 1947 had a great life , apprenticeship in Beckton Gas works sadly the black cloud engulfed the East end left for California 1979, and yes, I still cry for what was lost!
I love seeing these old clips..AHH lovely.. how life used to be.
How enjoyable and informative. We make hires gopro walk through's of contemporary London on youtube and it's great for us to see the comparison. London is still pretty spectacular. Thank you for adding it, we've subscribed.
Thank's for your interest, the photo's I used in this video cover a fairly wide timescale, ranging from the early 1920s through to the 1950s, of the picture's I used only the view of Sclater St E1 and to some extent Green St E13 bear any resemblance to what can still be seen now, everything else has long gone.
Proud to a EASTENDER !
I remember much of this from my youth. Not the real old stuff but the pics at the beginning. Bought the beatles white album from the row of shops in the pic of Green st. Some great memories no matter what anybody says.
I loved this, some of the pictures have brought nostalgic tears to my eyes. Some of the comments however brought tears of laughter. Immigrants built this area. Eastern Europeans now. Kurds in the 90's Asians in the 70's, West Indians in the 60's. Jews before that, Irish, Russians in the late 1800's Huguenots in the 1500's. However as this was the economic result of available cheap (substandard) housing which has now disappeared in the East end I suppose it will stop.
If Ive offended I beg forgiveness but I feel it was the very willingness to accept people who "mucked in and didn't take liberties" that made the East End such a magic place to be a kid in the 50's
omg green St , nowayyyy !!!! wowww
Thank you for putting this together. I loved it. All so very sad!
There are places I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all
------------------------------------------
this about sums it up for me imo
Those great old days are well and truly gone,like a different country now!
Too many people here have too much of a romantic view of the East End. People forget about the poor living conditions, the smog, the packed sardine-like terraced housing, etc.;East London has always been a place where people come to work, and move out when they can afford to & it's why your family moved out. The immigrants will always be an easy scapegoat for those looking back with rose-tinted glasses.
Disgusting what they've done to her.
i worked at brownings electrical back in the 60s in green st they did rewinds on motors cant remember if the castle was still there then ? still nice to see it tho', thanks again
its called progress lol, you expect them to leave a crumbling pub with 5 regulars instead of building a skyscraper that give for example 500ppl a job
could you please tell me if there is a date on the last picture as there is a very great chance that the people on the horse and cart are my father and grandfather,
Nice vid and a nicer background music.
it is difficult to read the yellow print on a black and white photo, well, some of them!!
It is nice to see how things in the past.
Thank you for sharing and thanks to meehall121 for sending.
good old days
I really enjoyed these clips re Eastend and will be back with my maps an dog exploring
truly lost now no Londoners in East end, bangladeshi, pakistanis, + 100 other immigrant communities
Beautiful song and amazing pictures
Immigrant communities have been arriving ever since industries moved in c150 years ago.
Communties the UK government brought to the UK to clean up after the mess UK made after world war 2. Stfu u racist pussios. Without "immigrants" there would be no london
Why do people talk such bollocks?
I live in East Ham - and have done for nearly 70 years: I'm white - am I not a "Londoner"?
Hawkiethenew the tower wasn't demolished in1955 it was used by an electrical company
Oh boy look this is the pure Beautiful London 👍
ahh ! nice to see green st the way it was , the old castle i remember it as a kid , many thanks for sharing these memories with us all regards
Are there any of these old buildings still standing i would love to go to London some day.I prefer the look of the old Cinemas than the new modern ones.
***** Thank you for your interest, sorry if it disappoints you but I'm afraid that apart from a few exceptions virtually all the buildings seen in this video, ( including the two cinemas ) are long gone, thank you for the comment, hope you enjoyed watching the video, all the best.
I love to watch 1950's British Thrillers and love to see all those old buildings in them I'm sure some maybe haven't changed.
@@paulallenMacca Indeed, John - and all the vehicles, too.
I don't think demolishing the Boleyn castle was a good idea, that could have brought in lots of tourists
MudlarkDiggingUpTheThames Thank you for your interest, your comment is very true but the Boleyn Castle was sadly demolished way back in the mid 1950s ( I lived right opposite while it was still standing) and they were Very different times, conservation as we know it now was largely non existent in those days and at the time literally thousands of important buildings were being casually pulled down all around the country with no thought given by the authorities to their historical merit in the mad post war rush to throw away the old and re build with new, the actual site of the castle laid abandoned for nearly a whole decade after demolition (I use to play on it) and ironically, even to this day has never actually been built on, the site is just to the side of the main West Ham FC gates for the entrance to the ground.
@@spiritoveradversity1
Sadly the football ground is no more - just an "affordable housing" complex (in your dreams).
I remember going in at half time - when there was a wooden stadium, and the bus garage was at the bottom of Priory Road. Cheers, Les.
Gotta be born sometime, don't you! Nothing astounding about it to me.
@trippy119 Have to agree may have been shabby and run down but the streets were ours. We didn't spend hours in doors stuck on some machine or another. We grew up having the time of our life making our own fun and went for miles to do it. No fear of being mugged then. The east end was full of gangsters but they did not harm their own.
I remember London like this and I'm 12
Great
This reminds me of the old eastside of Milwaukee! what year are these pictures from? looks like 1911?
Thank you for your interest, you may be surprised to hear that the photos used in this video are from quiet a wide ranging timescale stretching from the early 20th century right through the 1930s, 50s, 60s and even one that dates from the late 1970s, incidentally, the building in the first photo, the Boleyn Castle in Upton Park was still standing intact right up until the mid 1950s when it was then unceremoniously demolished, hope this helps, all the best.
What year was these taken?
Use to play in Anne Boleyn castle they knocked it down then made part of the school I we to st johns
What a nice place the east end used to be my grandad wAs born in bow he would have been absolutely horrified to see how the east end is now
London hello, I love you Lorena
the east end is my home born n bred east londons changed so much last 15 -20years its not the same anymore especially now full of foreigners so sad
everyone has this obsession with 'the car' now
wow green street and queen's market looked so different back then but i can still recognise what's changed
danny dyer is in suggested videos to the right
WHAT THE HELL?
I go on vacation in march
Shame we can't mention the obvious reasons why the East End has changed and will never be the same again. Suffice to say, like Vinnie Jones and John Cleese, they were right, it doesn't seem like London/England anymore with all the foreigners allowed to settle.
Nope. People like you, immigrants/immigration lovers, that have turned our great cities into the cess-pit that is 'Londonistan'
No-one would miss you immigrants - fact
The question is, what has every immigrant ever done including you, over me? Worked? No, not all, some but now, it's reached breaking point. If immigration is SO good, I'll bet YOUR country doesn't take any in, yet you think the UK should - hypocrisy from an immigrant hypocrite.
+marcjboy1 The East End was home to every kind of immigrant on earth in the old days.
What a horrible string of foul-mouthed illiterate replies to this post. Is nobody capable of intelligent discussion any more?
bingola45, I'm afraid that videos such as these automatically attract uneducated, low-life cretins to spew out their hatred. And, of course, the person who uploaded this video is well aware of that fact. As I say, create a dung heap and you automatically attract flies. Upload a video like this and, sure enough, the bluebottles come swarming in.
@Dumpypoppy24 The long gone old un's like my dad must be turning in their graves.
Hard not to envy what they had back then, a REAL sense of community, there will always be bad people but these days neighbours dont talk to eachother and everyone is wary of one another. I for one will not die in this country (if I have a choice) because of what it has become, instead I will stack my money and sod off with someone and make a life elsewhere. People dont try as much anymore, family values and even relationships are suffering for it.
I'm from east ham :) its near green street.
correction wasn't
Need a visa to go there now.
Then don't bother - fool!
It’s now east londonistan
and you dont think that by living in britain, and having there children grow up here that they might not contribute something,bringing those ideas and cultural differences make things richer its not a one way street there are diffrent ways to look at things and thats a prespective they bring. before africans and asians lived in those estates white ppl did, they lived there because they were poor, they have moved up the ladder and so will the new immigrants in time. why dont they what?
You were really born in 1947?
It's a shame we've lost some of the beautiful buildings, either through war or through dreadful post war development mainly during the 1960's and 1970's. But, the East-End had seen a huge amount of regeneration.
Some may argue that it only benefits those with money, but that's never changed through history.
Living standards have changed, but we are Brits and we constantly reminisce about the past, which is why are manufacturing has gone down the toilet, because we don't adapt to change very well.
There are migrants to Britain, but again, that's always been the case in this country, right the way back through time.
There's so much more that we have now than we've ever had... But sadly more hate as well, towards minorites and an increasing level of indigenous dysfunctional misfits who feel that the world and this country owe them a favour because they're white and born here.
There's no benefit in living in the past, you have to take control of your own destiny and live your life, rather than be bitter and full of hate
i leave you perplexed, well as far as i know any colour of skin is the species homo-sapien, our skin is a product of our environment. also as far as i know muslim isnt a skin colour, it has to do with islam, the real problem your talking of is religion which i agree with since im an atheist. As a species we began in africa, and it just so happens that are groups decided to move out of africa a long time ago thus we are here, im welsh im an original briton your not, am i mad no we're all humans.
😢
@Dumpypoppy24 Its a sorry sight now, but sadly thats what happens when people move away in their droves and new people come in.
haha your unbelievable , thats all you can really see is something thats diffrent and you view it as a threat, grow up and see that we are all the same species, and that were we grow up is what makes us diffrent not being less of a person, just diffrent.
and please lets not go in a circle with u arguing about what is it they give and ohh they were this in public and its not right, ive already explained that all. look over my replys if you want to see.
Yeah, it's always been a bit of a dump.
I moved to Cornwall, it's like going back in time to the 70's. And no migrants.
The east end of Bangladesh ... RIP London ...
before london went to shit
Ahh the celebration now of diversity in London and the East End, I hope the politicians are proud of how they have turned this area of London into a cess-pit of immigration. A once proud area of docks, working class images and now full of immigrants of all pursuasions.
Why would no one want to live there now. Destroyed with high crime. What have we done to our Capitol city :(
Capitol? Are you a yank - or just illiterate?
No matter how much regeneration is done in East London, It will always remain a dump.
No it looks like a market in India!!
all three of them! cameron isn't shutting the door is he, bnp is the only choice left to save britain
disgrace how it is now
Come along, people! It wasn't all that good! Try dredging the pond at Victoria Park and you will come across hundreds of skeletons of unwanted babies. (That was once told to me by a nurse) I was born in Stratford in the early fifties, and there was nothing remotely romantic about my childhood! Nothing of dramatic importance has really changed. But we now have better health, and its cleaner everywhere! There's good and bad in all times. Were Victorians to see this, they'd have a fit!
It brings a tear to my eye seeing how nice the east end used to be and seeing what a shithole it is now
Frank Sinatra song annoying for this,
+Nola Steele Sorry you do not like the soundtrack, incidentally, it's not Frank Sinatra, it's Matt Monro who was born in Stepney East London.
+spiritoveradversity1 , yes I corrected myself. It just sounds so cheesy. Great film, thank you.
+Nola Steele >> The music needed to be from the same time period. That was typical '60s sappy boring plain vanilla and was going to destroy the video for me. I muted it about 10 seconds after it started. Nice film with some great old street scenes.
+Jimmy Kraktov
'60s sappy boring plain Matt Monro?
+bingola45 >> Yes, and it's from an era that doesn't match the video.
Karma for colonialism.
+jack night karma? karma for who? for the poor starving east enders? what the fuck did they know about colonization? yet the working white people of east london are the ones who suffer as usual - not the politicians and royalty responsible, theyre safely tucked away from it all. Typical comment from a wet, poncey liberal
It's because of the politicians and the ruling classes that drunk peasants like you have a free health care, education, and jobs. Not to mention the millions that sacrificed their lives for your liberty. Study your own history. It's embarrassing.