Born in Bethnal Green hospital, Christened at Saint Barnabas on Bethnal Green church, lived in Old Ford Road, went to primary school at Chisenhale, Secondary school at Morpeth. Many thanks for this video as it brought back fantastic memories. Cheers
First visited my sister and brother in law in 1973, they lived in Roman Road above the PO. Fascinated by the old Cockney Pubs Rose of Denmark, Ranleigh Arms (Teds), and saw my first topless barmaid in the Prince Albert. Great memories for me, but it aint there now!
I lived in Old Ford Road in the 70's. Wonderful to see the pics of Roman Road, the canal, the market. So many memories.I would walk from the St Stephens estate to school (Parmiters) in Approach Road. Didn't really notice much at the time but now, looking back,so much has changed and will never come back
Do you remember when there used to be Fallow Deer in the park? They were in a large enclosure on the area by the canal,( where the camera pans around to show the park on the left, I believe). My mum told me that there were piggeries there during the war. I also used to walk to Parmiters, through Vicky park from 68-73.
The modern pictures of the canal were only taken about 12 years ago, yet they show almost empty canals with no moored boats. Twelve years later and every inch of the canal sides are now heaving with barges/house boats which people live in. You can now walk for miles along the canal and there are no gaps between the barges parked along the canal.
I remember peeping in the window when i was 15 years old and being very excited by a performer impersonating Liza Minelli doing a song from the movie Cabaret. However, i wasn't so excited when i found out it was a bloke in drag! 😂
I know. Life was better with no NHS and living in slums with inadequate heating and outside toilets and no car or tv or holiday in Spain, and flying for over 1000 miles for the cost of half a days minimum wage and then dying at fifty something from tb or some other horrible disease. Yep, life was definitely betteR
I grew up in Hackney and lived there for many years. I use to go to Roman Rd market on a Saturday shopping and my cousin Evelyn Armstrong owned a hairdressers in Roman Rd. Great photos, pity there is little detail of which road the photos are of. It would make it so much better.
vicky park....old ford....haunting background music...i went to primary and secondary school in bow!....takes me back to the 60,s and 70,s walking along regents canal.....many memories...
Really? That was the Lefevre walk estate, if i'm not mistaken. It was built over the site of my birth place Appian road which was between Parnell rd and Lefevre rd. I used to hang around Lefevre walk when i was a teen and play football in a caged pitch quite close to the Hand and Flower pub and the fire station.
This is brilliant. I'm from Ireland west and Londons history fasasates me! But can u tell me, why at the begining, there are old to new fotos, but in the new fotos, the beautiful old buildings towers have being removed. Why is this?
Definately shots of Bow in this, was born in 1947 in Lichfield rd, the last set of shots are Tredegar Square, used to play on the public swings and roundabouts in there as a child, East End no longer belongs to cockneys I'm afraid.
i went to the old library ( 1 min 18 secs ) it was at the top of vivian rd / roman rd bow e3 . and the chisenhale dance space ( 3 min 15 sec ) used to be the old cohens veneer factory . they used to make spitfire propellers there . when you went up to the first floor by the stair well was a huge cross section of a tree trunk which was highly polished and had names inscribed onto it . the dance studio in my opinion has been the biggest waste of money and space since it came into being .great vid
Majority of cockney and born and bred left London to Essex and cannot even afford to live in London as property developers are robbing London and gentrifying the city of London and rents are astronomical prices.
@@Sylentmesenja You have to remember that London boroughs haven't remained 'fixed' through time - they've changed in terms of their boundaries or boroughs have joined up with other boroughs etc. Alot changed back in 1974 when the LCC (London County Council) became the GLC (Greater London Council). Many small boroughs were brought together to simplify things administratively. Before then London had even more boroughs than it does now. Also, as other's point out, the name 'Tower Hamlets' didn't even exist before 1974. Originally the borough around there would have been either 'Hackney and Bow', or something like 'Bow and Poplar' or just 'Bow'.
@@robtyman4281 Sounds plausible but Hackney started outside the North boundary of Vicky Park by the start of the eighties and some of these pics are twenty years old or less. I think so about the boundary, South of the park was North Bow in Tower Hamlets, West was Bethnal Green. Pretty sure Lefebvre Walk was Bow, TH.
Here's a solution... send us all non white people back to our country of origin even though some of us are born in England...and let's see how quickly England comes to a standstill .... I give it a day
....that's about the only thing. It's probably far cleaner now than back then.....when it would have been polluted by run off from heavy industry. At least it wasn't trashed completely, or 'filled in' which many other canals were during the 60's.
Good nick? many parts are full if rubbish, plastic bags and so on as are some of the banks, lined with boats that stink at times, the frog population at Bow gone since the boats came in and many stretches fishless but err yea it's in great nick.
You start with Lefebvre Walk on Parnell Road, in Bow, Not Hackney. I grew up in Bow, E3 and still live here. Is this trolling Bow residents to boost engagement? TH-cam mods, please don't let this false information stand: edit the title!
Born in Bethnal Green hospital, Christened at Saint Barnabas on Bethnal Green church, lived in Old Ford Road, went to primary school at Chisenhale, Secondary school at Morpeth. Many thanks for this video as it brought back fantastic memories. Cheers
First visited my sister and brother in law in 1973, they lived in Roman Road above the PO.
Fascinated by the old Cockney Pubs Rose of Denmark, Ranleigh Arms (Teds), and saw my first topless barmaid in the Prince Albert. Great memories for me, but it aint there now!
I lived in Old Ford Road in the 70's. Wonderful to see the pics of Roman Road, the canal, the market. So many memories.I would walk from the St Stephens estate to school (Parmiters) in Approach Road. Didn't really notice much at the time but now, looking back,so much has changed and will never come back
Do you remember when there used to be Fallow Deer in the park? They were in a large enclosure on the area by the canal,( where the camera pans around to show the park on the left, I believe). My mum told me that there were piggeries there during the war. I also used to walk to Parmiters, through Vicky park from 68-73.
@@bobanob1967 Greetings to a fellow OP ! I do vaguely recall deer around there. I rather enjoyed feeding nuts to the squirrels :-)
The modern pictures of the canal were only taken about 12 years ago, yet they show almost empty canals with no moored boats. Twelve years later and every inch of the canal sides are now heaving with barges/house boats which people live in. You can now walk for miles along the canal and there are no gaps between the barges parked along the canal.
That all took off as the Olympic stadium was being built, by the time it was finished the canal was full of boats.
Laveva walk. I used to live there and back in the 90s my step Nan owned the hand n flower pub on the end of the Roman 😄
I remember peeping in the window when i was 15 years old and being very excited by a performer impersonating Liza Minelli doing a song from the movie Cabaret. However, i wasn't so excited when i found out it was a bloke in drag! 😂
if only hackney was like that now oh for our old england to come back
Hackney has gone full circle. it is now a nice area again.
I know. Life was better with no NHS and living in slums with inadequate heating and outside toilets and no car or tv or holiday in Spain, and flying for over 1000 miles for the cost of half a days minimum wage and then dying at fifty something from tb or some other horrible disease. Yep, life was definitely betteR
@@seamusholden6610 not really the real people got ethnically cleansed
@@sudgur990 yes, it was, we had safe lovely communities. I would go back to those days in a blink of an eye, most real eastenders would
@@christinedennison7770 . i dont think you qualify to answer on behalf of other Eastenders
I grew up in Hackney and lived there for many years. I use to go to Roman Rd market on a Saturday shopping and my cousin Evelyn Armstrong owned a hairdressers in Roman Rd. Great photos, pity there is little detail of which road the photos are of. It would make it so much better.
vicky park....old ford....haunting background music...i went to primary and secondary school in bow!....takes me back to the 60,s and 70,s walking along regents canal.....many memories...
Me too, George Lansbury and Bow boys.
Me too, Marner Primary and Bow Boys (Rev Stopps, Cormack and Cyril Pyle era) @@colinglen4505
@fitnessisgood4u , i so agree with you,, it breaks my heart when i go there
It's still changing. What a beauty it once was, lets hope changes that are going on now are for the best.
Would help if the people could tell the difference between Hackney and Tower Hamlets. Roman and Old Ford and Bow are all in LBTH.
Thank you for this good video!
LIVED IN LEFEVRE WALK :) AND IT WAS IN BOW
Me to number 301
I miss these times living in Hackney
The flats in the first picture were demolished about 20 years ago thank goodness.
Really? That was the Lefevre walk estate, if i'm not mistaken. It was built over the site of my birth place Appian road which was between Parnell rd and Lefevre rd. I used to hang around Lefevre walk when i was a teen and play football in a caged pitch quite close to the Hand and Flower pub and the fire station.
Yeah demo 1 done em I worked on em
This is brilliant. I'm from Ireland west and Londons history fasasates me! But can u tell me, why at the begining, there are old to new fotos, but in the new fotos, the beautiful old buildings towers have being removed. Why is this?
Definately shots of Bow in this, was born in 1947 in Lichfield rd, the last set of shots are Tredegar Square, used to play on the public swings and roundabouts in there as a child, East End no longer belongs to cockneys I'm afraid.
I lived in Lichfield rd in the 60's and 70's. Trains in and out of Liverpool St right at the end of the back garden!
Yes
great video
proud to be english!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful work, well done. It's so sad to see it now. Send them home, so I can have my home back.
i went to the old library ( 1 min 18 secs ) it was at the top of vivian rd / roman rd bow e3 . and the chisenhale dance space ( 3 min 15 sec ) used to be the old cohens veneer factory . they used to make spitfire propellers there . when you went up to the first floor by the stair well was a huge cross section of a tree trunk which was highly polished and had names inscribed onto it . the dance studio in my opinion has been the biggest waste of money and space since it came into being .great vid
Does anybody know if no 157 old ford rd is still there (think it would of been 471 in 1905) my Grandad was born there in 1905.
put the address into streetview. Bow is E3 postcode.
This is Bow, not Hackney.
True. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. I lived just off the market fro 1970 to 1988. Worked in Old Ford
@@Inwit_Education Me too. I was born in a house at the Bow end and moved just off St Stephens rd when i was 9.
its Bow not Hackney,very good though
thanks
This is really great - but as iannewell says - it's not Hackney, its Bow in Tower Hamlets.
@albion7000 , ive seen people cry over this, it will always be our east end,
my father was born there
@TotalControlRacing2 ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!
I was.born at 14 tibits road bow.in.1947 no more còckneys lifted all moving out
all.the. real còckneys are.moveing east.to essex and.one.day they will die out yes starved out because no pie and mash shops.and jelled eels
Majority of cockney and born and bred left London to Essex and cannot even afford to live in London as property developers are robbing London and gentrifying the city of London and rents are astronomical prices.
Old Ford ain't in Hackney. Old Ford is Roman and thats Tower Hamlets. Go across vicky park to get to Hackney
This is lovely and thanks Bill for putting this together. But Bow and Old Ford are both in Tower Hamlets, not Hackney. :-)
Tabitha Stapely Exactly.....would be nice if they actually knew where all these places were.
@@Sylentmesenja You have to remember that London boroughs haven't remained 'fixed' through time - they've changed in terms of their boundaries or boroughs have joined up with other boroughs etc.
Alot changed back in 1974 when the LCC (London County Council) became the GLC (Greater London Council). Many small boroughs were brought together to simplify things administratively. Before then London had even more boroughs than it does now.
Also, as other's point out, the name 'Tower Hamlets' didn't even exist before 1974. Originally the borough around there would have been either 'Hackney and Bow', or something like 'Bow and Poplar' or just 'Bow'.
@@robtyman4281 Sounds plausible but Hackney started outside the North boundary of Vicky Park by the start of the eighties and some of these pics are twenty years old or less. I think so about the boundary, South of the park was North Bow in Tower Hamlets, West was Bethnal Green. Pretty sure Lefebvre Walk was Bow, TH.
@@robtyman4281 That's true, i remember an old street sign in Antill rd, Bow that said Essex.
that is sooo sad. im in australia and i have english neighbours that said they left because its getting horrid. Apparently its the new middle east now
Cultural diversity has totally ruined Britain.
Maybe that's what the Aborigines are thinking too as Australia was their country?
Here's a solution... send us all non white people back to our country of origin even though some of us are born in England...and let's see how quickly England comes to a standstill .... I give it a day
An aborigine friend of mine left Australia with his family because the whites have ruined it for them
Casual racist thread going on here. I'm born and raised in London and migrants are responsible this tiny island relevant.
@TheShittingbull mass immigration did not begin in 1997 you can't just blame new labour. most West indians / south asians came here in the 60s-70s.
Bangladeshi Muslims. mostly these days .
at least the canal is still in good nick
....that's about the only thing. It's probably far cleaner now than back then.....when it would have been polluted by run off from heavy industry. At least it wasn't trashed completely, or 'filled in' which many other canals were during the 60's.
Good nick? many parts are full if rubbish, plastic bags and so on as are some of the banks, lined with boats that stink at times, the frog population at Bow gone since the boats came in and many stretches fishless but err yea it's in great nick.
Used to live there. Terrible now
is this what you would call, hackneyed ?
This is Bow not Hackney
I was born there, your right.
It’s just for Stan now it’s awful Stan has it now it’s called east Karachi now
You start with Lefebvre Walk on Parnell Road, in Bow, Not Hackney. I grew up in Bow, E3 and still live here. Is this trolling Bow residents to boost engagement? TH-cam mods, please don't let this false information stand: edit the title!
Bow, not Hackney.
Not a Burka or Hijab to be seen..
There is a nice market there for "bush meat " If like monkey