Poplar and Surrounding area Londons East End

Londons East End Times gone by.

[@jonniejam-shovel6405]

In November 1971 as a 16 year old lad, I started work as an engineering garage trainee at Poplar LT garage. I experienced many great times at Poplar, the people were very good to me and it was a real community. I remember one particular bus driver Harry Thomas who lived on the Isle of Dogs. He was a proper character, like many of the other folk I met. Remember too Ron Outen's small shop at the bottom end of Leven Road, like stepping back in time. This November will mark the 50th anniversary, when I started work down the East End. Great times, great people and many good memories. Bless them one and all.❤👍

[@stevefield9967]

born and bred in Limehouse in 1952. my old junior school {cyril jackson} was shown in the photo of Northey ST. Thank you for the memories.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

Wonderful old photos of a bygone world. However I wish there had been more time allowed to read the captions. My mum grew up in Hackney Wick during the 1930s and experienced appalling poverty there. Many of her friends lived in just one room and one poor girl died of tuberculosis which was rampant back then.

[@bluebell2247]

I found it easier if you just pause the video and then read

[@deanjeffries651]

Born and bred in poplar so miss how it was , Dean jeffries born 1967

[@janetcozens4623]

Really moving photos thank you for sharing them 😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@emgee44]

Some interesting photos there, pity the subtitles don’t stay up longer and in some cases hard to read.

[@bluebell2247]

You can pause video at the bit you wish to read.

[@emgee44]

@@bluebell2247 Thanks for the reply and yes i did, a little awkward but that's my only critique. It was great seeing that old photo if the Londoner in Limehouse and the layout of the junction. I was just a kid back then, funny, now i drive a bus and used to drive the D6 so know it well, would sometimes think back to how it was when i was sitting at the lights

[@bluebell2247]

just pause it for a few seconds

[@angelacable7517]

Thank you for the pics. I LOVE anything and everything about Londons east end. Im Canadian but its something I just cant get enough of!

[@susiel9612]

I remember going to Fish jewellers in the 70's with my then boyfriend (now my hubby) and buying my engagement ring. Vicky Park boating lake brought back many memories too. Those days will never come back but at least some of us lived at that time and have lovely memories to look back on

[@discoverlaurence]

You really set the mood with your choice of music.

[@bluebell2247]

Thank's I love that music it is from once upon a time in the west

[@johnlunnun9769]

What a great pity the photos with their captions came and went so fast! We’re we supposed to be able to read those captions!

[@bluebell2247]

You can pause video for a longer look John

[@bluebell2247]

Just click on the video as it is playing and it will stop and click again after you have read the captions easy to do. John Lunnun

[@bally1213]

Tap the three dots in right hand corner of film, then clic , speed. Hope it helps 🇬🇧

[@sandypompilii6901]

Found captions printed in white against black/white photos, difficult to read

[@Solitude11-11]

Only way I could let my 95 year old cockney friend watch on my iPad was to put at half speed and turn sound off 😕 Video and titles work well at half speed.

[@RootlessNZ]

Life as I recall it in the East end was no picnic. True, there was a community feeling centred on the social club formed in 1954 in the Britannia pub on the corner of Wager Street and Bow Common Lane E 3 which is where I grew up in the 50s. Born in Mile End Hospital, Bancroft Rd in 1946 I got sick with gastroenteritis on the day I was born. Many babies died because of this and the the insanitary hospital conditions and I spent the first 5 months of my life in an incubator. I doubt this would have happened had I been born on the same date in St Georges Hyde Park! I lived in a slum and was glad to get out when I reached 18. Nostalgia isn't all that it's cracked up to be you know!.

[@Shoshana-xh6hc]

Fantastic photos thank you!

[@bluebell2247]

pause the video then it is esy to read the captions

[@louiem2]

This brought me back to my youth!!

[@bluebell2247]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@roxanneellis9125]

I really enjoyed watching this ,amazing looking at the old areas such a shame most of it has gone ..Lovely music as well

[@bluebell2247]

srry about that cannot change the speed i found it easier to just pause the video then read then move on by playing it again

[@jboardy5439]

Cheers Bri.

[@murkydepths181]

Wow 👍🌹💫

[@bally1213]

Play back at 0.5 x, music not good but gives you time to read. Good memories 👍

[@tina5203]

Very interesting to watch !!!!

[@richbutler718]

Yes , I’m a bit addicted to watching anything about east London , I was born and raised in Leytonstone but went all over the east end , petticoat lane on Sunday mornings with my dad R.I.P. it was a place of some kind of magic , that’s why it is still one of the most interesting places

[@alisonscott1286]

Lovely memories

[@shamimuddin9570]

Tnx i quite enjoyed the video and remembering my old day's

[@bluebell2247]

glad you enjoyed it

[@London1064]

Great video 👍👍👍

[@bluebell2247]

Thank you

[@stranraerlad1]

Some nice images ,but trying to read the text is nye impossible ,please give more time and change the font colour so it is easier read. Thank for the video

[@bluebell2247]

just pause the video to read captions

[@SuttonModelRail]

You have a picture of Coldharbour which I have never seen before. My ancestors ran the pub that is the second building beyond the white one. I wonder if you might know who uploaded it for you please?

[@user-vq5py3ug1d]

Happy times😢

[@railnut9133]

Lovely posting, but sequences a bit short. Not a speed reader!

[@rob20452]

Wish so much diversity didn't destroy what we had back then such a shame 😢

[@TV225TS1]

3.09, Hughes Mansions was on Vallence Road not Limehouse

[@phillgreenland2390]

What they did to Poplar post-war is criminal, tearing down blocks not bombed as well as the bomb sites. You’d never know old Poplar was even there these days.

[@eastlondona.m.w2886]

What happened too our East End its tragic what's happened too these areas.

[@thatcouncilestatekid1832]

I enjoyed the video but didn’t manage to read to many explanations

[@bugolsson]

Are there any photos of 125 High Street Poplar, which was the East India Arms? Interested to see what it looked like as my Great Grandfather (Gustaf Olsson) lived there when he arrived from Sweden and was still there when he married a local girl (Amelia Alice Smith) before they moved into Oban Street (I have photos from the 1930/40's and see that the street is still there!)

[@tube4me1960]

Great photos, but also a ' how fast can you read test' & white text on white background is a no no !

[@bluebell2247]

pause video then read

[@macyoda2887]

my gosh i grew up in three colt street was the alter boy at st annes church,,,wow

[@stevefield9967]

i grew up in Gill St and was a chior boy in St Ann's

[@macyoda2887]

@@stevefield9967 i was there in the 60s

[@stevefield9967]

@@macyoda2887 I was a cub that met in the institute in three colt St if you remember that. It would be between 1960 to 64ish. I was born in 52.

[@macyoda2887]

@@stevefield9967 hi steve i was born in 1960 and lived on the barley mow est in three colt st,,,,

[@stevefield9967]

@@macyoda2887 are you still living in limehouse?

[@Tedcowboy]

You need to slow it down and make the captions bolder, not enough time or definition to read what is going on.

[@bluebell2247]

try pausing the video then you will have all the time you need..Ted

[@jamesharris6960]

No it goes dark when you pause

[@bluebell2247]

@@jamesharris6960 not for me it don't

[@johnnybaker720]

Can you please leave the writing up longer

[@bluebell2247]

not possible to leave any longer suggest you pause at the photo give yourself a chance to read it that is what I do.

[@johnnybaker720]

@@bluebell2247 thank you Brian will do that in the future and thank you once again

[@irenekent4335]

My dad was born in Poplar London

[@gh-vi9tk]

My dad worked on the 277 bus out of Poplar. Mum & dad were married at Poplar town hall.

[@markbishop1588]

Was your dad's name Alan?Used to live in Roche House,Gill Street E14?

[@MrDorbel]

SV Penang was a three masted barque, not a schooner. She is in the Britannia dry dock, not Millwall dock.

[@bluebell2247]

I only go by the captions that come with the photo nothing else do not have time to research all photos never get a video made doing that

[@MrDorbel]

@@bluebell2247 Thanks Brian, though why you want to make a historical video that is false is beyond me!

[@mpiz1600]

Lol, Suzanne Street

[@polo-kf6yh]

Oh can you speed up the captions? FFS

[@bluebell2247]

no

[@jamesharris6960]

Too fast to look at.

[@bluebell2247]

just pause the video easy solution

[@bluebell2247]

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[@peterg957]

Not a Hijab or Burka to be seen...

[@bethanypheneger5796]

The photos are great, but the text that goes with them either flashes by too quickly or is such pale lettering it's impossible to read them. Very disappointed.Ihope the person posting will try again and give photos and text a chance to be fully enjoyed.