1976 east London. "Around Brick Lane OK"

The inner City east London in 1976. So much has changed.
I would suggest that these changes are the greatest east London has ever seen. Today most of the indigenous population has moved on into outer London or left London Completely.
I would suggest that these changes have done more harm than good for east London. Today the people in inner cityeast London are poorer than they were in 1976. Tower Hamlets has a population of 250,000 people of whom 65%+ are in receipt of State Benefits. Because low paying jobs are the principle source of income today for most Eastenders they are having to have their incomes topped up.
In 1976 a paying wage was above the minumum wage today in real terms. In my first job as a 16 year old in 1968, in east London, I was paid approximately £220 per week with food and lodging at todays rates. When I got to the adult pay scale 18 months later in 1970 I was earning the approximately £600 per week plus board and lodging and that before my 18th birthday. Today the minimum wage would have given me less than half of that.

[@walterekurtz4320]

Grew up there around the time this was filmed. For all its supposed deprivation it was a million times better than the hole that it is now.

[@michaelhayes1068]

I grew up here , and it was the best childhood you could imagine.. and hand on heart the best education..it taught me things I would never learn in a classroom... the people were warm hearted and genuine...and worked like pack horses... they were the backbone of England.. Full of cockney pride. 😎

[@AnaamSings]

Loved this comment

[@michaelhayes1068]

@@AnaamSings thank you Anaam , I was probably standing somewhere in the background while they film this.. your appreciation is welcomed.

[@shuhelmiah7729]

at which decade did you grow up here and then leave? I myself grew up in Bow and still live here, im a 90s Kid btw

[@michaelhayes1068]

@@shuhelmiah7729 I grew up in bethnal green , hand on heart it was great..for a short time we moved away . But we returned and we lived in globe road off of roman road...meny good memories 😎

[@shuhelmiah7729]

@@michaelhayes1068 im actually from Roman Rd myself, near the market side E3

[@42invincible]

I was 8 in 76, if I remember correctly it was the ‘hot’ summer. Strange to think that the majority of adults featured in this blast from the past have sadly passed away. How little time we have

[@chrissummerfield9583]

It's sad really how fast life goes I was a toddler in 76 .

[@mistereuro]

So true, I was born in 76.🥺

[@42invincible]

@Jamie Bbob - do you remember asking your mum to hurry up and empty the washing up liquid bottle so you could use it as a ‘squeeze water cannon’? Those were the days

[@petercroft1901]

Yeh, I remember 76 very well. I was 15 years and that summer was really hot for some weeks. Even the river Thames water had evaporated to a real low level

[@42invincible]

Guys, just imagine if the pubs were open and we could have this level of banter over a pint - to the lost soul’s of 76 we would be able to raise a glass

[@danielfrancis3660]

I've always thought that the signs of WW2 especially in the poorer parts of London didn't really come to an end until the mid 1980s.

[@camerachica73]

Yes I remember as a child walking around and seeing loads of wasteland that were bomb sites with doors and fireplaces in mid air and lilac growing in what were once gardens.

[@user-pl9jy7ow7t]

Can't believe I was born in 77 seems like a different world well ot was jist ild fashioned bit they will say that of us in a hundreds years

[@coolhand67]

Like many of you here, I have the same feeling. I was 9 in 1976. I remember that long hot summer and the drought. But watching this it seems like it was an entirely different world. It might as well have been 1966, or 1956. How the world changed so quickly and how I went from being a little boy to looking back and reminiscing so quickly.

[@salus1231]

The world of 1976 may as well have been 70 years ago and 70 years ago 150. Nothing is the same and of-course people in 40 years time will say the same of us

[@AnnabelleJARankin]

The world of the 70s was a lot more relaxed and we were yet to be hemmed in by stupid legislation and price-rises that have since destroyed so many local businesses. I was born in the 50s, was a kid in the 60s, and remember the quietness of the streets, the familiarity of everyone with each other (people did not move like they do today) and the freedoms us kids had to roam for hours on end, completely unsupervised, in town and country. A much freer time!

[@MaggiemooScott]

50 years ago, I lived right on top of petticoat Lane market. Spitalfields market was my playground .The good old days.

[@niceuneasy]

50 years on and things are much much worse!!

[@a.c.4732]

Evolution ...... Before we know it , we'll all be living in caves . ( probs better build quality )

[@niceuneasy]

@@a.c.4732 Lol 😂

[@Anticommunism99]

​@@a.c.4732that's degradation not evolution

[@jesusisking3974]

Back in 1975 I was walking those streets with my primary school classmates and teachers. We came down from the North East of Scotland for one weeks school holiday. It was such an exciting adventure for 11 year old kids. The atmosphere was buzzing and it was strange to see and experience both side's of living conditions from Poverty to Riches. Still have the small leather bean bag dog toy I bought from Harrods Store. Went to see Michael Crawford act in the play Billie Liar. We stayed at a hotel called The Golden Lion. The song we all learned before going to London was The Streets of London. What brilliant memories. ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙏

[@EpicAelflaed]

Wrong flag Brick lane is in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@sergioalmasy8722]

Except the above writer is a Scot.

[@annakelman6627]

I adored this charming film and its exotic soundtrack. It's a testament to survival under duresse and how it's survived into present times. I'd love to go back in time and try the nosh from Kossoff's. I heartily admire the tricky, little characters who mooched about wheeling and dealing. I felt deep compassion for those living out of skips and found themselves homeless. I do like the current Spitalfields but loathe the high prices that hipstery gentrification has produced. It reminds me of similar areas in New York and up north in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. Two things really hack me off about the new extortionate city culture. Those are namely: robber baron property developers and hipster culture masquerading as trendy, when in fact it has dark undercurrents and outprices the traditional working classes.

[@andrewfrancis3591]

Used to be two Kossoff's, one at the end of Middlesex st and the other at the back of Liverpool St station. Both gone. I preferred the 365 all the cabbies went there. Not to forget the Hot and Spicy on Brick lane. Cheap tasty nosh for the starving teenager.

[@sicks6six]

One night me and a mate spent a few hours with some rough sleepers sitting around their pallet wood fire drinking sherry having a bit Craik, quite an enjoyable evening with intelligent, politically aware gentlemen. . Just next to the veg market, which was a free food supply for them, places in London like that are becoming scarce now, the bomb sites surrounded by advertising hoardings are now either office blocks or yuppie flats. . It's a time that's almost passed. It was nice to see it first-hand, if only for a few hours. .

[@andrewmcgregor5929]

My first teaching job was at Christchurch Primary School back in 1980. Loved the job and loved the area. Many happy memories!

[@fredmoore1202]

Wow no way i attended that school 15 years later. How time flies

[@terryquinn5450]

It was still relatively pre-hipsterish up until 1997. I was woken at 4am by someone playing a trumpet on Boundary Street. That marked a turning point.

[@annakelman6627]

Hahaha. Was he sporting an ironic fuzzy wuzzy beard and sipping an eco latte?? Your post made me laugh so much.

[@terryquinn5450]

@@annakelman6627 not that I could see at that hour. I think it was also the pre-beard/Victorian industrial clothing period. A cold filtered coffee shop selling thimbles of coffee for £10 a go popped up on Redchurch St not long after. An Australian concept - the cold filtered coffee. It had no staying power.

[@shazanali692]

Sure it wasn't Sonya from EastEnders she made it popular

[@tonelemoan]

Fond memories but I can't say I miss it. I think I'd have preferred to grow up somewhere a bit less hectic but then again the inner cities were the only place an immigrant family could have a go at building a living. In London I was just another 'slightly brown' kid, in the countryside I doubt I would have blended in as much. Most of my extended family have moved away from the East End. There seems to be a conveyor belt leading out of the capital in all four directions. Now it seems impossible to get back in. I'm happy in my little market town where people have a little more time for each other.

[@daisychain3007]

When the narrator talks about discarded rubbish being taken by poor people, you cannot blame the poor people. Even in those days, there were people who could barely provide for the days passing over them.

[@annakelman6627]

Nice post. 🙂

[@daisychain3007]

@@annakelman6627 Thank you.

[@NoName-vy8vu]

Oh I found a little goody two shoes. It’s called social Darwinism. The world cannot sustain these non producers.

[@th8257]

"Even" in those days?? Poverty was absolutely rife back then. It's not a modern invention.

[@Anticommunism99]

What it got to do with being poor ???? I can be the poorest by money standards,but my house and garden can be cleaner than the richest person. It's all about habits and hard work . Get over yourself

[@petercroft1901]

I was born in Hanbury Street just up the road and went to Christchurch primary school, Brick Lane. I left primary school in 1972. Shoreditch and Brick Lane has become quite a wealthy trendy area today.

[@silentkilla14]

I was born in tower hamlets down commercial road ... at that time we where living in council house but it was those huge homes (big family ) . It was a slum back in the days. We left and moved to Newham but huge regret not buying out that home since the area has become very pricey!

[@SkandalouzStyle]

God dam right!! Check this out... Quick copy and paste to remind you how much London had changed... Council tenants who purchased their flats in a 9 storey block in Clarendon Place, Westminster, Some three-bed flats, that were once owned by the local authority, have sold within recent years for £2.25 million and £1.8 million. Hahaha how times have changed.

[@SkandalouzStyle]

@@silentkilla14 I'm pretty pissed off that my parents didn't buy the houses that we lived in because we would be millionaires right now. Hahaha ✌💯🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@petercroft1901]

@@pcktlwyr893 sadly, so very true

[@dotcotton3308]

You can't polish a turd. Still a sithole

[@jedlinnen6528]

My father loved the lane on a Sunday. We lived further up in Plaistow. Sometimes I would go with him. This would have been the late Sixties and early Seventies. I can never remember him buying anything except a bag of bagels. His brother had a stall in the lane selling antiques. What struck me if I went along was the poverty. The beginning of the lane could have been an old lady selling one shoe and rags. The lane was completely packed. It took two hours to get from one end to the other. I found the whole experience very boring but as I say my father, a cockney man, absolutely loved it.

[@stuartmack8769]

Spotted some of the women wearing "rain mates" in the clip... cannot remember the last time I saw one of them!?!? 🥵🥴✌️☮️🤣😂

[@GriefTourist]

The divide between haves and have nots is worse now and the incidence of serious mental distress is far worse. I grew up in the 70s and while it was awful in many ways I'm glad I grew up then and not now.

[@LivingWalks]

How absorbing and informative. We make hires gopro walks of contemporary London on youtube (no ads just to show how London is now) so it's great for us to see the comparison. London is still pretty spectacular. Thank you for adding it, we've subscribed.

[@Arfabiscuit]

I worked on a stall down brick lane when this film was made amazing how time flies i was 10 at the time

[@ChrisMeerkat]

I was 3 in 1976 but as an adult I had regular work on Brick Lane as a Dj. Great place, after my set i'd always pop down to the Bagel shop. I don't live in UK anymore but I always recommend a Bagel on Brick Lane to anyone visiting London.

[@davidlamb7524]

They are called "bigels" or "baigels" by East Londoners. "Bagel" is the American word. It is a shame in my view when Americanisms take over. I can believe by the time you dj'd there it had already gone that way so not blaming you. 😊

[@ayameus6798]

Grew up and still live in brick lane/Bethnal green, going to Sunday markets, used to be a proper family friendly area. Now people going to brick lane because it’s “trendy.” Moving out the OGs by increasing rent and homes. Also the change in communities and shops, I really don’t like it. These people who lived there made brick lane what it is today and just kicking them out, forgetting about those who strove for it to be good.

[@cadetmouse]

Just be thankful for this great insight into the area of 41 years ago, where I was born.

[@MrTerrywarren610]

Mr M , Thank you so much, reminded me of my childhood visiting east end on a Sunday.

[@MrTerrywarren610]

Excellent thank you so much Mr m .

[@nazuddin6346]

Many thanks mate for this video miss the old days 😊

[@mozdickson]

good work -- nicely shot and edited, unique and factual narration, good the bad the reality.

This is the Brick Lane of my childhood. I was the eldest of six and the old man was ever after a bargain, so we’d be down the markets early on a Sunday morning for the unofficial trade from the backs of lorries.

[@clangunn9517]

Would you recognise it now mate.

@@clangunn9517 Of course. But it’s a lot cleaner, now.

[@mikeamos5044]

My Dad,bought a transit van load of hookey die cast toys like that, fo about 20 quid,the guy just wanted rid of quickly, remember we still had a shd full of them years later, happy days.

[@michaelhayes1068]

How beautiful to hear you talk of the very things I did myself...this was my world..brock lane , Columbia road... daneford boys school... I'm sure you understand... thanks for that little trip down memory lane.

[@michaelhayes1068]

@@mikeamos5044 are you from the area ... I ask because you have a surname that was dear to our hearts.. ?

[@lianekerr650]

Those small houses are good should have them today, easy to assemble.

[@Duncan_1971]

I was 5 years old in Staffordshire and knew nothing about London. I grew up surrounded by the history of the Black Country. In the end I spent 3 years living in Forest Hill fairly recently and it was great to learn about some of the history in that area and compare it to what I knew of the Midlands.

[@silenusut]

Fascinating. Thanks & subbed. If any of these shop owners kept their properties they’ll be quids-in. Interesting narrator delivery…

[@leepowis5215]

I lived in lister hse house vallance rd in the 60s n 70s and went to robert montefiore schools in the area great times wish i could go back we were poor but happy

[@dvof5198]

The Petticoat Lane market used to sell live animals, all out in the open. You could buy a live chicken (they would slaughter it for you out in the back). Many find it hard to believe that happened but I still recall walking with my parents in the market seeing it all. Lots of other types of pets were also available - but not to slaughter🤣 Towards the end of the market, there'd be individuals standing in a line looking to sell one off private items if they needed money. More often than not, it was items they had shop lifted from somewhere 🤣 It's amazing how once upon a time, no one wanted to live there but now houses there, go for over £600k due to proximity to the City and the new developments.

[@mikeamos5044]

It was Club Row , near sclater street that had the pets market on sunday mornings back in the 1970s, I bought a jack russell puppy there, called him midge,had him for over 16 years, still miss him today,he was a smashing dog

[@dvof5198]

@@mikeamos5044 Couldn't get away with that today - to much health & Safety issues. Dogs - mans best friend indeed 🐶

[@michaelhayes1068]

@@mikeamos5044 did you have a relative by the name of harry ,, who was a publican ? And if I remember correctly a son called Gary....

[@MeTheRob]

@@mikeamos5044 Thanks Mike. All through this video and the commenst, I was struggling to remember that name .... Club Row,

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

"the big red building in petticoat lane".

[@Janggut40]

How good that this video share here publicly and same goes to other channel share the same video. Thank you ☺️. Im watching from Marudi Sarawak

[@woolseyallen1048]

Great content there! Pure history.

[@QuarkChaser360]

I wish someone had listened to him back then about the awful glass buildings!

[@dannygreen531]

1976 the year I was born .I was told the summer was super hot .sun right through the summer.

[@SkandalouzStyle]

God bless the man who walked around with a video camera when they first came out! A video of the public made by a member of the public? Just because he wanted to. I remember seeing these people and thinking they were mad haha

[@douglasfreeman3229]

Super 8 or regular 8mm film, I would think, not video, if this wasn't shot by a professional organisation like the B.B.C.

[@davidgiles5030]

My great Grandparents James William and Martha Giles lived on Duke St which runs off the Brick Lane. They immigrated to Canada in the mid 1880's. Duke St is now a short parking area. It was bombed out in 1940 and never rebuilt. I've seen period photos of what it was like there at the time they left. I'd have left too. The poorest of slums.

[@missj.d9187]

Thank you for this upload. The description and info about wages is right. I'm an ex Bow person and can also confirm everything you say is sadly indeed correct. Such a criminal shame!

[@simonyip5978]

The jubilee bunting makes this video 1977, not 1976.

[@Haberdashery22]

I was thinking exactly that ...😮

[@TR5T]

Sunday mornings down the lane, the bagel shop, the stalls. Brilliant!

[@Pennysam]

So miss the bagels from brick lane!

[@gregod806]

Don't forget the Fritter stall 😜

[@Pennysam]

@@gregod806 oh yes, they were also on petticoat lane!

[@damiannorris455]

I was there from 89 to 96 and Sunday morning brick lane market was the best ! Went back 2018 and wow ! Caught up with a lot of the old locals and some moved to tears about what has happened,even our old local pub a shoe store now . Progress they recon ?

[@mickpowell2529]

Blooms for a salt beef sandwich

[@ralphhowes]

In the seventies I went to the Sunday Brick Lane market almost every weekend with my dad. He was always on the lookout for cheap tools, there were many stalls, especially in the side streets, where people were just selling their crap. I looked forward to it.

[@funda298]

I remember in the mid 80s going to my Uncles yard where he rented it out for stalls. Was just talking to the wife about a stall I always wanted to go to...it was full of tools hehe.

[@invade81]

There's still some of that going on in a car park in Sclater Street and on Cheshire Street on a Sunday. Just about.

[@derin111]

Exactly the same memories! We must have rubbed shoulders there on Sunday mornings many times as youngsters! 🙂👍

[@Thereishope664]

The area of the closing shot of the passing train is now the recently built Shoreditch tube station. I worked along Brick Lane at this time as a GPO apprentice telephone engineer and some of the premises above the buildings were sweatshops. Making leather coats etc. I now go there to meet my Ex-BT pals for a curry.

[@liam.4454]

I think it’s really sad how they cleansed and replaced all the people, hopefully one day we’ll be able to speak about it

[@sumunali6034]

Cleansed? Speak about it? You do understand Britain colonised their country and many fought in the war. You must be an uneducated idiot. You live in the UK with free education but have got dog shit of an education. Must be upsetting knowing you have one of the lowest iqs in Britain

[@oomz1975]

You must be nearly 100 years old.

[@oomz1975]

@@liam.4454 😆 bait

[@shazanali692]

Cleanse what this area was fields in the 1700s and then came the English poor, and they bettered themselves and moved on, then came the Jews, and east Europeans, Irish, and Germans they all moved on, then came the bengali, and today its the Europeans and hipsters go figure

[@liam.4454]

@@shazanali692 it's happened in every city in England, people will jump through any hoops to justify it

[@Sali8two]

The way time works makes you feel so small and insignificant. Not many of these people will be alive to see 2021.

[@andrewlong6438]

I worked in Aldgate from 1999 to 2001 and enjoyed visiting Brick Lane and the Ripper haunts. I do enjoy a bagel at the top of Brick Lane though I haven’t visited Brick Lane in a year!

[@sergioalmasy8722]

Expect a bit of a language barrier next time you visit the Bagel shop. They are no longer East End/Bethnal Green locals. More like Europeans.

[@donhanlon7121]

This brings me back worked in the BP garage East Rd/ New North Rd leading down to Old St roundabout from '76 to '80, enjoyed having a pint with an old window cleaner Fred Sheppard RIP Murray Grove every day, great times, people hadn't much but the world a better place☘️

[@andersliljevall2946]

I was working in London in the 90s. Always found everything I needed in Brick Lane!

[@rickhardman7376]

this was 1976

[@GG-gl3zx]

@@rickhardman7376 ye hes and talkin about his time in the 90s duhh

[@robbanks3965]

It would be interesting to make another film of todays Brick Lane to compare the two

[@MARKETMAN6789]

Really enjoyed that thank you

[@anthonykerr311]

Love Brick Lane used to go there every Sunday with my dad to Petticoat Lane

[@timjohnson2555]

@@rob-fb5xs Street markets were exempt from Sunday trading laws.

[@colwilpro]

I was born in St Mary's hospital Paddington, because my parents weren't married. They came down from Liverpool to hide me. I came back down to London aged eight. Lived in Muswell Hill, Archway, Peckham. I miss the old London. Lived in Ye Olde King's Head in Borough. I used to get into the old London Dungeons free because I was such a familiar face. London keeps moving, unfortunately the bankers are working hard to destroy the strong community spirit. I think the cervesa virus has made a lot of us realise what is truly valuable... local people, local economy, local culture. Look out for each other. Nothing else matters.

[@benji.B-side]

Great comment, so true!

[@mindblast3901]

Cheers Great Video miss the days of old take care

[@be1z]

I see Goldman close E2 getting built 1976 . I moved there 1990

[@Red-Squirrel]

Great old film. But the voice over does not do it justice. The man talking is quite unkind really. I remember the men (mostly) who used to gather round the fire at Spitalfields Market every night. True they had problems, but they were all homeless and all had a story to tell. We lived in Newham and through the 70s my Mum and Dad did a 'soup run' up Spitalfields every night with hot food and a cauldron of hot tea in the back of a minibus. All the food etc was provided free by Esposito's cash and carry. I was a teenager and I went there a few times. All the guys had problems of one sort or another, but there was a real mixed bunch there. I remember a teacher and a professor as well as a little guy called Alfred who had learning difficulties. One night Dad brought Alfred back to our house. Next day cleaned him up and took him to a methodist church in Forest Gate where they took him in, gave him somewhere to sleep and got him a job helping in a florist shop. He was looked after for the rest of his life. Sadly the old East End spirit has gone and that's a great loss!

[@elaineborthwick989]

I really enjoyed your comment! a little bit of history in itself.

[@JazzFunkNobby1964]

Great parents you had.

[@Calidore1]

I agree, the narratoor was utterly vicious. I don't think sby gathering what they can into an old shopping trolley is anything like the worst sort of scavenger on a par with the rats - this was an insane bit of commentary and I wonder does he really mean what it seems to mean. Grim.

[@billcarson532]

The narrator lasted 3 days working in the Samaritans.

[@salus1231]

good one !

[@KIERNAN100]

Luckily the phone lines were down for the first two days.

[@markfarnon6742]

More like 3 hours 😁

[@SuperZedd]

That long!

[@heliotropezzz333]

I came to London a year after this and worked in this area. I remember it fondly as it was a friendly area full of interesting places. I couldn't live there though - it was cut through with too many busy roads with heavy traffic, polluted air, and not much open green space. I had the best biriani I've ever had in a Bengali café/restaurant in Brick Lane and I'd shop in Petticoat Lane Market. The clothes were cheap but sometimes didn't last more than one wash. Lol.

[@bonnieandclyde222]

How sad that in 2022 housing is absolutely the worst , akin to Victorian slums where country folk came to the city for work, now our cities are over crowded and people are living in dire inadequate dwellings.

[@gavindouglas3196]

And not a knife in sight

[@startmakingsense2071]

meet a lot of fishmongers do you ?

[@michaelharrison3602]

Are you sure you 😂😂

[@deanodog3667]

Ask Jack the ripper!

[@JB-tm6rd]

my mum is in this video thanks for the upload

[@Chasworth]

U know the song at 8:57?

[@JohnSmith-su3ze]

Where?

[@a.c.4732]

@@Chasworth Don't quote me , but I think it might be " London Belongs to Me " It was used as a theme tune to an ITV ( WW II ) Series of the same name , with possibly Kenneth Cranham ( ? ) , Ive tried a basic search on KZbin but all I can find is the TV series but no trace of the signature tune . Hope this is of some help . I have a thousand and one tunes in my head at any given time ; putting a title to them , well that's a whole other ball game ! Some teriffic theme tunes back around then . Danger Man , Avengers , Onedin Line , and probably my favourite Black Beauty ( Judy Bowker ? )

[@jokermaan1]

I worked for a printing company on Brick Lane during the late '70s. At that time the area was little changed from many years before. A lot different now, I'm sure!

[@MrBarrytommy]

I just remember passing through early morning to a lovely smell of apples & veg

[@esterherschkovich5002]

I started my Nurse training at The London Hopital.A great time.Loved the east.end.hardly any true Cockneys left.

[@nyakwarObat]

stella david still a few about

[@mahmoodkadir6772]

Yes ok point taken, I was hasty probably, it's just that there are so many nazis on this page, it's hard not to lash out. Of course there are less cockneys, the East End has changed so much, it should be obvious, however I take your point sir. Apologies to Ms David.

[@rutter1ify]

@@mahmoodkadir6772 go back to wherever you came from

[@mahmoodkadir6772]

@@rutter1ify What Edmonton you mean?. Tall-Paul really?. Why all racists use names they can never live up to? You are never brave enough to use your own name because you're all cowards. Go away.

[@MahiTanMazy]

Seeing people arguing and then apologising on an East end video.. a very rare but welcome sight.

[@arthurreeder8451]

Not a piss pot hat or a hi viz jacket in site? No ridiculous reversing peeper either! How did we ever survive in those days....today's wallahs would have 40 fits. I used to buy my Royals shoes from Brick Lane. Never the best, but far and away the cheapest around. I still have a sheepskin coat I bought just off Middlesex Street with my first week's wages. I can't get in it now, but it is still great to look at it. I think we had the best days back then.

[@arthurreeder8451]

@bertclarke2055 yes I think you are right. That has answered yet another question for me. Thanks for that.

[@a.c.4732]

and remember how "propa" Royals had leather soles ? first thing to show your mates was the soles so they could see that funny little leather sign . After Royals came Solatios . And if you couldn't afford "quarter-tips" , you bought "blakeys" ( I 'ate you, Butler ! ) . The muppets used to put drawing pins in whatever shoes they had . My first sheepskin came from a shop at the 'Lane end of Leman Street . I wanted brown fur instead of white , so it wasn't easy to find . ( out of my first wage packet, too ) . By the time I got home , one of the buttons had come off . My old man told me to take it back . So , I took it back the next day . Really nervous cos the bloke looked like a really mean so and so . Big fella too . I walked into the shop , he gave me a big smile , looked at the coat and then behind the collar ( there was a small mark which identified the finisher ) . He then said to me that the other buttons didn't have long either . Anyway , he took the coat thru the back of the shop and you heard him ripping bits out of some poor soul . Few moments later he came back with the coat , and this poor tiny old woman who must have been 130 + years old ! She apologised , as did he , and that was the end of it . Turned out to be Really good coat . I went to buy some trousers from a shop called Take 6 opp Bond Street Tube . Cold day . Took my sheepie off while I was trying stuff on . Left it on the floor by the copper air grill things . Dope . Those copper air things were heaters - and made some of the brown collar fur turn green. I was really choked up . Loved that coat but couldn't wear it with a green and brown collar . Christ , sorry mate . Ive really gone off on one . Just all brought back so many memories . Not being nosey , but are you one of the Reeders that moved to the corner of Dock Road / Calcutta Road in Tilbury ?

[@arthurreeder8451]

To be honest, my grandad was one of 13, his father one of 11, and I am one of 5 so maybe, but I don't know them. Most of them were manual workers, farming or building. I bought a pair of DM soled tassled loafers 30 years ago...I still wear them!

[@a.c.4732]

@@arthurreeder8451 stuff was made to last back then . Thanks for taking the time to reply 🙂

[@twatnosher]

Thanks, that’s was engrossing. Only 45 years ago but a very different time

[@j0o235]

Powerful documentary

[@MarkBrennan]

I seems so dated. At the time I was 14 and working on a jewellery stall in Middlesex Street on Sundays, almost in front of Kossoff's bakery.

[@dvof5198]

Kossoff's closed down about 4 years ago - the rates asked by the council was astronomical and quite few old school sandwich shops decided to close down too. Kossoffs is still boarded up - pity, it's cakes were never going to win any prices but their bagels were delicious 😋

[@a.c.4732]

In the cold weather , I used to love the smell of the roast chestnuts . Little old man would roast them on a grill top of a rusty old oil drum . Tasted and smelt the business . Nowadays , some jobsworth from the council would close him down / fine him instantly

[@fredmila]

I went to Shoreditch the other day, with my daughter, on a graffiti (or street art) tour. I think that overground train line is not used anymore. Outside the station I saw the brick construction for the line overgrown and half collapsed. Leaving London, we stopped in Brick Lane to eat, when my daughter was 1 year old. Now she is 19 and we went back to Brick Lane during the tour.

[@marypoppins8083]

Love this thanks for sharing

[@westhamwilko]

Fantastic film 👍

[@johnroberts3723]

The narrator sounds like noel reading the bassist from the famous Jimi Hendrix experience!.

[@annakelman6627]

😄😅😂

[@andyglazzard1062]

Narration by Johnny Rotten......nice one my son...thanks for letting me have a butchers at Brick Lane

[@thomasandersen6719]

I thought it was a very bored/sleepy Malcolm McLaren

[@paulreader7353]

Nice little documentary

[@mtterzoli]

Something quite magical about the sequence starting at 9:08 in the market. What I’d give to go back in time and have a chat with those interesting characters!

[@1973noshad]

I was three. Lived in 103 Bricklane. Fond memories.

[@mikeamos5044]

Do you remember the grocers shop that had a large jar of pickled onions in the front window, that had become sun bleached and looked like huge eye balls

[@1973noshad]

@@mikeamos5044 🤣🤣🤣 no

[@mikeamos5044]

@@1973noshad I was about six,so would have been about 1973..the jar scared the life out of me, amazing how sometimes, an early memory stays with you.

[@JanTheNan]

I lived Busby Street, one road north of Bacon Street, will forever be home

[@13strange67]

. . . knocking one out to this . . . !

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?

[@Calidore1]

How come?

[@fredflintstoner596]

@@Calidore1 I'M A DOCTOR AND I WANT MY SAUSAGES !

[@suzannelacy8093]

I had to laugh when the narrator talked about the "Jews in Brick Lane " , then as they became rich and moved out various members of the Commonwealth moved in and made enough money to move out . Tis enough to make one dizzy and we all know St . John's Wood , Golders Green , Highgate , Camden , Finchley , Swiss Cottage . quote " Like a Circle in a Spiral . Like a Wheel Within a Wheel Within a Wheel ". The World 🙏 is their oyster.......

[@MegaBastard]

Surely this has to be after 1976 as the narrator mentions ‘Jubilee Bunting’, which I assume means the Queen’s Jubilee which was in 1977. Great video tho.

[@rexterrocks]

He said the last century (19th) when Cockneys lived there .''Where the faded jubilee bunting has given way to washing lines''. He's talking about Queen Victorias Jubilee of 1887. He said it then became a Jewish area and now an Asian one.

[@TheAllybhoy]

@@rexterrocks It was an Irish area before..a lot of the buildings that way have Irish names. There was also a lot of Russians..look up Sydney Street siege. The Huguenots also lived in that part of town. It's always been the launch pad to the UK for each new immigrant wave. Its really fascinating.

[@westartfromhere7704]

@@TheAllybhoy Also, it was a short lived centre of the attempt to establish Christianity amongst Jewry, which morphed into the Messianic Jews and had some part in the establishment of the State of Israel.

[@Haberdashery22]

​@@rexterrocks thank you. I was confused too😂

[@dannymac2368]

I remember going to brick lane Sunday market it use to start at valence road and take you all the way to pedicote lane at the back of Liverpool Street you could buy anythink and everything one of the east ends lost gems

[@mikeamos5044]

Spot on.. I collected cigarette cards back in those days, bought almost a suitcase full for a fiver, those were the days, 1971/2 that would have been

[@essexandy189]

I used to Live in Davis Avenue which was off Hunton st and used to go to st Patrick’s school in Buxton st

[@rayesposito3470]

a great historical film, not interested in any comments about race, history is always defined people and places..

[@khadar0524]

Real talks' best to think outside the box' rather than being narrow minded' I hope the new generation can raise obove race & choose unity over division.... Dusty foot philoser from Mogadishu'

[@rickysorhaindo1359]

Place is a dump, stinks of Islam.

[@khadar0524]

Dat means smells peacefull ha haaaa eazy tiger....

[@janettedewar6617]

Wonderful.

[@beatlebrian4404]

Has a aid for a good night's sleep

[@toni4729]

Happy New Year: It's now 2024 Brick Lane is no different now.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

7:36 Blimey, Santa Claus looks in a bad way, how on earth is he still delivering presents to children today?!! 😆

[@salman501]

How well are these people dressed. What's happened to UK 😔

[@willbrown5860]

i use this video to send me to sleep every night .

[@mistereuro]

Lol have you woke up yet?

[@beatlebrian4404]

Think yourself lucky, my brother saw this in 76 and he's still in a coma!

[@EsotericMedic]

hahahha

[@Mack-bc3sp]

I remember 76 i live in liverpool and would do anything to go back. Happy times fantastic neighbours and friends sadly now gone

[@CFCseventy]

Nice film

[@SajidHussain-lj5mr]

The good old days 👍

[@bobmiah]

asian and black communities suffered from way more racism and attacks back then

[@StephSancia]

Thee Best Decade for UK Music though 💥

[@a.c.4732]

absa f lootley matey . we had it all . and took it all for granted ......

[@michaelharrison3602]

I remember all the Jewish bakers tailoors etc I loved eating in the Jewish bakeries now days I love eating in the Asian curry houses

[@mistofoles]

LMAO at the old guy trying to open the door - He does a double-take when he suddenly realises he's being filmed ! :D

[@LocksLondon]

Takes me back, used o go on a Sunday with my Dad and my Granddad, one thing though, the narrator mentions the faded Jubilee bunting, wouldn't that make it 1977 rather than 1976?

[@jamescollier847]

Our children BETRAYED!

[@seansmith445]

It's only betrayal when its your own kind stabbing you in the back.

[@atulnayak5715]

Betrayed by who? Bankers? Loan firms?

[@jamescollier847]

YES! The same bankers and law firms who own and control our political classes!

[@bohsgerry]

gem of a vodeo where was it til now eh

[@user-ce8ut8hr9k]

This must be 1977, as the commentator mentions '...faded jubilee bunting...' 1977, being the year of The Queen's Silver Jubilee

[@eujrvision2296]

wow that commentary was basically calling a spade a spade

[@durhamfox5271]

Is that a cryme*? Oh wait

[@stevelee4952]

I was brought up in Poplar in 1952 so remember the Jews moving in with their sweat shops and early morning bakers. My family are part Jewish and Romany gypsy , so no prejudice from me. When the Asian families moved in it just changed ethnicity, nothing else. It has been gentrified now I believe.

[@JanTheNan]

Huntington buildings., live in one of those prefabs/mobile homes as called.

[@haml97]

i wish we got time back 1 more time please