Well I have always like the old ones better than the current

Gants Hill Odeon holds core late 80s & 90s childhood memories for me. I saw The little Mermaid,, The Lion King, Honey I shrunk the Kids!, Star wars the phantom menace, Dick Tracy, Blade, Three men and a baby, baby's day out, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Super Mario bros, The Green mile, Batman & Robin, Dead presidents, Menace 2 Society, Friday, The Matrix, Belly. To name a few, and many more. I still have one or two faded ticket stubs. I'd go at the weekends, with my whole family sometimes we'd get dressed up and my dad would drive all six of us in his Ford Granada, from Balfour road 5mins to Gants Hill Odeon 😅. I would go with my mates from school and my GF and play the Arcade machines they had in the lobby until the movie started. I just loved going for the popcorn and pick n mix. The big screen 1 seemed huge back then and it was nice having the ice cream sellers walking around with those trays hanging from their neck. My pops would always complain but still buy us all a Hagen Daz. Good times😢

You're work takes me to a time when I was a young boy with nice memories. Thanks and look forward to more from you.

The owners of the site are sitting on a goldmine, and they know it and want to cash in. Can't blame them however it'll be a shame to lose another old style building with so much history. With the newly built high rise flats on either side of this site, its only a matter of time I reckon before Redbridge give the green light.

Most of the people in 1983 where white now most of the people are Asian you would be hard to find a white person now 😢

I think my mum might have gone here when she was a child, as she lived in Meath Road, only a few streets away...

I remember it up until the BK, I left in 2019 so I never saw the Wendy's.....

I passed my driving test in Ilford in 1981

How on earth did they get permission to knock down that lovely cinema is beyond me I thought it was a listed building and they made third world flats for third world people

Grew up in Redbridge I'm nearly 62 now the place is not the same as when I lived there

Great video as always. So many memories

I see Cleveland school hasn’t changed much since I was in infants at the start of the ‘70s. It wasn’t great, and fortunately my parents moved me to the local Catholic schools.

I don't know if the museum has ever had it on display, but after my father died, I donated his old RAF uniform to them, along with a brief rundown of his life story. Apart from his spell in the Air Force, he always lived in the area, I think he would be happy to know his story was being used in the museum.

That's how are remember fencepice rd I was 15 years old in 1978 I was going to school in caterham high school my name is Simeon does anyone remember me

New 36-storey blocks of flats? That’s a good idea, but could it ever catch on?

Do one at gants hill. There was WHSmiths and a dixons type electrical store at one corner where we bought a calculator from!

I went to Seven Kings high school in 1999

Ilford is finished pakistans have taken over

The whole place now is third world does not belong to uk

Had a lunchtime pint in there just before it closed. It really was looking old.

Another awesome video. Surprised the residential development at Sainsbury's was passed, but when that much money is involved, I shouldn't b. Hope the infrastructure grows, its gonna need more surgeries, schools, a better road system, buses and trains to name afew. The council doesn't seems to take that into consideration

Another great video. Remember all the businesses. Especially Mare St, business was so good there. Was there last week. All changed 😢

Great work. How I miss all these small independent shops. So much individually and uniqueness 😢

BEJAMS the frozen food shop used to be in there back in the 70's

I worked for a, then very large multinational company, with the very same name ILFORD (Film) way back in 1977. Its headquarters were based in the outer of suburbs of Melbourne ( Australia). I’ve often wondered about the connection between the township called ILFORD and the company. I think it just used the townships name ( way back around 1900). Can you throw further light on this? Ps: This is the first time by the way, that I’ve seen the township of ilford!

I was the assistant manager of the ABC Ilford (and Southend) back in the sixties. Great days. I believe I was the last to get someone to play the organ which was in full working order then. Would love to know if anything survives inside now if it still there not passed it for 10years.

ILFORD HIGH ROAD is died

We used to shelter in the entrance of Ratners one the way home from school, getting off the 86 and waiting for the 169. The Dixons (I think it was a Dixons, not 100%) on the corner had a demo unit of the original Nintendo - we figured out it had a switch on the back that would put it into normal mode. Would bunk school and spend hours in there playing it. I went and stayed in Ilford for two weeks this summer because of this channel 🙂 Wasn't as big a shock as it otherwise might have been had I not seen all the videos. Considering all the decades, it hasn't really changed that much - a lot of the shop changes are like for like, and some of the bigger changes were a long time coming e.g. Pioneer Market and Centreway had been dying for a long time. One sad change that did strike me was all the homelessness. I passed arrays of blankets in the underpasses, outside the library and by the entrance of Lynton House. One notable absence was the Jehovah's Witness on the high road! He was there every weekend.

Oh wow. I bought tickets to raves from music power and jeans from the shop opposite. I take it there is no music power any more.

I was the last engineer to work on the lift at the room at the top

Keep up there Good work on here

Awesome channel, 80's were best years. Ilford is just a shadow of what it once was.

I worked in both buildings. I was even on the project team during the rebuild. The operation moved to temporary accommodation in Clark’s Road, next to the swimming baths. The original recorder house had such character, the new one was beautiful but soulless. I’m not surprised they knocked it down. There’s a time capsule buried there, but probably dug up now. Not that anyone needs a time capsule from 2006

My sister used to work in Harrison Gibson in China department and I bought my bed from there in 1997. Was amazing store

Ilford was a nice town not well known and we liked it that way. They gentrified it by building sky scrappers which is not in keeping with the town. Brought a lot of people to the town and became over crowded, plus they closed our swimming pool to cater for a new school

Ilford high is complete dead now, no longer shops that brough in lots of shoppers from ilford or other Areas

So glad I found your awesomeness channel. Gants Hill and Barking Odean's were my favourite places growing up.

Ilford gone to the dogs, crime gone high, no longer much shops left on the high road. To free parking, and very dirt. Whats the Government or Council going to do, suprise suprise nothing.

Another awesome video. Keep.up the great work ❤

U do a rally good job on here keep up there good work on here am a big supporter of u do a really good job u do on here

Granditers, Ilford and East Ham. Thanks for the memories ❤

Great video, so many memories ❤

The RT bus is being pursued by a Wartburg Knight

remember going to Ilford palais and also a bit further down the road to Seven Kings hotel

Myself, Frank McGowan, Stu Griggs, Mark Grehan, Si Purslow, Dennis Burns, Gray McManus, Ray Mulvey, Mike (Bev) Aveley, Malc Thomlinson would roam the Ilford streets like we were the owner of those streets in the 70’s. In reality we were 10 year old wannabees who got told off for being late home for our tea ☹

I used to live in Pyrmont Road. My Grandmother also had a house in the road along with my uncle. People didn’t move that far in the 60’s and 70’s. My school was a short walk from my house, the lovely St Peter & St Paul’s. I will never forget our teacher Miss Phaup drooling over Mr Morris 😂

I remember this as a kid in the 1970s

Was cleaner as now totally shit hole too many chicken places

What was the pub called through the ally where burger king is?

I used to drink in here when it had a train track running around the top of the bar. Had many a beer in there.