East Street Market

A community video project for the Elefest Film Festival.

[@themassofmen]

A market will reflect the community it serves. I grew up round there as did my Mother before me. It has changed because the white working class were bulldozed out by developers building the notorious Aylesbury Estate which will be knocked down and regenerated over the next 20 years, but a culture and it's people have been lost forever and that is a tragic fact. I wish I had film and sound of the market in the 50's and 60's in it's heyday before the extinction of the cockneys.

[@colinkennedy7353]

roffos ice cream parlour on the corner of east street and walworth road alot of years ago did the best lemon ice in london

[@Isleofskye]

Spoke to his Cousin last week in Welling !

[@missj.d9187]

Lemon ice was the best!

[@jmw0368]

Yeah, wasn’t it just!

[@Tearsofasilentheart]

Beautiful market. Remember as a kid. Sarsaprilla hot or cold depending on the weather. Beautiful days. Now so so sad. The best days now forgotten from our eyes but never from our hearts. 💔😭👀😠💔💔💔

[@nicosnicholas5871]

I grew up near there at the queens buildings near the Elephant and castle used to go to east street market every Sunday and go straight to the stall that sold Jelled Ells and have a bowl or two with pepper and vinegar and a peace of French Bread .lovely and not to many Blacks now it's 95 percent blacks and other foreigners all the cockneys have left the area or died not the same any more the cockneys made the market and the area Great not NOW.very sad to see the Rape of the area by bloody Foreigners.

[@WheelieMacBin]

I grew up in the area in the 1960's/70's, and had a Saturday job in the market as a kid. It has utterly changed and it truly breaks my heart.

[@Isleofskye]

I lived there from my Birth in 1954-1983 when I reluctantly moved to the edge of South London and Kent. I have had 37 fantastic and very safe years here but at 66 years of age, I STILL miss THe Market and Walworth Road every day. I look now at 1pm in my Suburban road on this Monday and there is no-one about ! Where did you move to , please ?

[@thematsta01]

@@Isleofskye Do you have any memories of a grocery store on East Street called Rumble Grocers, later called Spar? I'd love to hear about them if you do :) hope you're well

[@Isleofskye]

Hello. I'm sorry but I have racked my brains and cab bit remember this store. I was at The Walworth Road end of East Street. Was it in the market or main road?

[@colinkennedy7353]

remember when westmoreland road was a bustling market pie the mash was on the other side of street and tommy knights chemist sold all his own remedies. freddy coopers fish stall

[@edwardconnolly572]

I remember as a kid loving looking at the eels in Westmoreland rd

[@delboytrotter8806]

Remember the sasparilla stall ? Hot or cold....mum used to take us kids there.....

[@dianesilva1078]

Yes I do and the fish stall selling cockles, whelks and jellied eels.

[@Isleofskye]

Baldwins....

[@Tearsofasilentheart]

Loved loved Sarsaprilla 😍❤️😊

[@hunnyblush]

You can still buy baldwins sarsprella in most shops that sell west indian food. Cordial just add water. Ilived on it this winter drank it hot so good.

[@Redlioness-gp9ci]

I loved shopping down East Street Market, back in the early 90's. Sasparilla store, first point of call, then the long row of stalls for some bargain hunting, followed by pie and mash. By the time i got home, many hours later, I was proper knackered. 😁

[@ianelley]

So so sad !

[@spazspazo3232]

it.s all gone now back in the day the jews had stalls and you got bargains...English fruet n veg meats ect now nothing

[@ElizabethThompson-w1x]

My mother was born 136 East Street in 1909. My grandfather was a fruit and veg wholesaler. My father set up his stall outside the house my mother lived in. They fell in love and married in 1936.

[@paulscrace4764]

Greedy councils ruined it with their parking restrictions and eu spoiled it with the food restriction rules loved them in the 70’s and 80’s

[@returnofthegmac9203]

Miss this place so much its untrue. Born in Camberwell 1973 moved too Bromley Kent in 1984 both grandparents continued too live there until 94, i have not been back since then. This was my real home and i miss it dearly. Family had stools down East Lane for years. My nan on my dad's side used too be a fence and i didn't know wht thst was or find this out until 2 years ago. She must have been well known bless her soul.

[@DeliquescentDandy]

The toy stall at the start of the Market! Used to love looking at the toys when I was a kid. Stall is gone now. Also the seller that used to shout 'Dagger Dagger Dagger'. Used to have more characters.

[@lizzyloughton7501]

Amazon bank cards stall holders sell different goods the old original south Londoner's have moved out they were the spenders market's are just fading another bit of English history on the way out

[@EpicAelflaed]

Another lost English city - Cockneys gone 😢

[@claretanner3422]

Lovely to see my nan’s sister interviewed in this.

[@dianewheeler152]

dad was the butcher at AA fishers called wally.at the begining of east street.Old lovely Ben on the fish stall (ex boxer)got pic of him somewhere.have so many storys,annie lenox worked on a stall every sat. etc was a laugh the tricks and wind ups were great got lots of storys

[@Isleofskye]

That Guy on the fish stall stopped me seeing the ( then ) World's greatest group=Led Zeppelin in 1975 at Wembley Arena...lol Why ? Came home on a Sat afternoon wet and miserable to my council flat in The Lane overlooking the fish stall and Millwall had lost 1/3 at home and THEN as I passed him he, accidentally, poured water over my jeans and legs and was sooooo apologetic I was getting fed up until I realized why! It was boiling hot slurps he was throwing away and as soon as I moved away I realized what he meant as it touched my skin! THAT was the final straw :) Never did get to see them and the ticket cost 75 PENCE and I still have it at home ...lol

[@evettekirkham8464]

I think i worked with him there

[@Isleofskye]

Born there and lived there until 9th May, 1983. It's indelibly imprinted on me as part of me misses it every day. It's 10.30am in my lovely, quiet Suburban street and not a Soul about ! Before I lived overlooking that fish stall at THe Walworth Road end, above the market..:)

[@johnwalton2019]

Like all of London's once great street markets, there is no one reason for the decline but changing shopping habits i fear have hit them the hardest. Whatever market, East Street, Ridley Road, Walthamstow, they have all changed in a generation.....

[@AnneMatthews-g5k]

East St Market ( The lane) used to be a very nice market, a lot of fun with stallholders shouting out their offers of the day, friendly banter, a real community spirit, a nice friendly atmosphere, unfortunately the white stallholders have been pushed out. Now most of the stallholders don't speak English let a lone give you a friendly smile, its a awful place. The Walworth Road is just as bad. The whole of the Walworth area needs a good revamp.

[@stuartreid5012]

Oh they sell socks, I tink i will bye some saving washing my feet , i can let my sister have them,whem iam too big feet to wear them

[@AuntyM66]

Lovely market. Nice to see Jan on his stall.

[@janeroberts6021]

i live east street market mis market i live in canterbury maker down here shit please come to canterbury i mis it

[@patsyballantyne9886]

I miss all the familiar faces ✨

[@woden20]

The English move away and they follow us wherever we go. Like a bad smell.

[@Isleofskye]

Now The Suburbs are changing rapidly and The English are moving to the heart of THe Shires and Norfolk/Suffolk and Dorset !

[@brazilbiba6671]

Nice interesting video. Love historic markets

[@mungojerry990]

It was great before everyone became lard arse car drivers , unable to walk anywhere. Add to that the impact of Tescos and other supermarkets and I can certainly see how it's struggling now. Pity some people commenting here can't and instead choose racism......

[@robbieearldj]

There are several reasons for the decline. great market in its days, but sadly no longer.