Petticoat Lane - East London Street Market in the 1960s

[@larushka1]

My eagle eyed sister recognized an old family friend and business associate. This is SO amazing. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@nicosnicholas5871]

My mum was a sim stress in the lane working for Jewish people and she used to take me shopping on a Sunday I used to have jelled Ells loved them .lots of Great memories I am 69 years old now mum has gone 15 years ago brought back happy memories .thanks for the upload .

[@bestbunny10]

This video is priceless....better times..wonderful memories...gone but not forgotten

[@davidwhitehead9756]

Thank you for bringing those wonderful days back to life for me.

[@goulston36]

such a treat to see the wonderful market again. i lived in the lane from 1948-1963. the local's were great people, never a dull moment, we were entertained every week by the amazing showmen,apart from the plate seller you just stood in awe at the dress seller, jackie braufman, what a character.they were allways friendly to us kids. great times.

[@bobbruce4904]

goulston36 hi

[@irenekent4335]

Oh Appy Days long gone

[@irenekent4335]

Me . too love it

[@citizen1163]

Remember Prince Monolulu, the horse racing tipster? I was hoping to see him in this film clip. He gave me a threepenny bit. Good times. 😆

[@pauldashwood2897]

All gone now .what a shame time evolved but for the worse .

[@nitsaoleary1624]

Great piece of social history! Priceless.

[@AnnLiOz]

Used to go with my grandad when I was a little girl every Sunday, going down on the tube from Leytonstone! Thanks for sharing. :)

[@richbutler718]

Snap ! I was from Leytonstone by the Harrow Green my dad took me down the lane on Sunday mornings, I loved it

[@oldproji]

Always went down the lane with my mum and nan on a Sunday back in the 1950s. My brother and me shared a glass of sarsaparilla from a street vendor whilst my nan sucked the flesh off a bowl of jellied eels and my mum devoured a plate of winkles. My nan used to say you could lose your watch one end and buy it back at the other. Good old days for sure! I had my first suit made from a tailor somewhere along there in the early 1960s, but can't remember the name now. Nice memories.

[@lallen3223]

cor blimey what a wonderful cameo of an east end and petticoat lane long changed from its energy and vibrancy in the sixties did you know that PETTICOAT lane is not shown in any A B C maps name derived from local streets around Middlesex street Wentworth street goulston street look up laurie and the gang 4 east END geezers old SCHOOL 100 90 80 70 talkin about the EAST end and its changes well worth watching

[@oilandstone]

i remember working in the city in the early 70s and going to petticoat lane in my lunch hour. classic.

[@elsschakenbos903]

So did I. Worked at the Great Eastern Hotel in Liverpoolstreet in 73/74 and went to the market almost every Sunday.

[@irenekent4335]

Wonderful thank you so very much oh how happy u have made me

[@JanTheNan]

Lived yards from Brick Lane, oh to visit again but currently bedridden, one day, hopefully.

[@mohammedakram4529]

It was my regular haunt way back in the 70s. Grew up round the whole area. With the school used to swimming bath pool down there. Its all gone now.

[@kester1940]

I used that pool and the gym when I was working nearby in the 1980s, Mohammed. It was old and somewhat run down by then, but I feel quite sad that it's gone now as I have good memories of my visits there with work colleagues.

[@LivingWalks]

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

[@irenekent4335]

Cant say how much I love hearing this happy sound marvellous many thanks from an old cockney gel

[@brucevilla]

Thanks for Uploading.

[@mickymantle3233]

Back in those days there was no hostility in the air. I don't know if it's just me, but now I can hardly bear going out in the streets.

[@Isleofskye]

You need a Baseball Bat now mate :)

[@irenekent4335]

Sad though we were so trusting the blokes were great all those years ago rough and ready but so lively I remember I came from the East End 8 if us hard up but we got along .oh I miss it I cry nownot the same feeling oh well lol me ole pals xx

[@irenekent4335]

I am 89 now miss my family and mates

[@Isleofskye]

Hope you are still well Irene.

[@irenekent4335]

This is the song ive been searching forSo A Big TA from this 89 old cockney Whooppee xxxxx

[@mikecunningham3992]

Every other weekend me and my dad got the tube from Debden to Liverpool st walked down the lane, bought herrings for my nan and pop. Then we would go to Club Row where my great uncle used to sell dyed sparrows as canaries. Then of to Coke's pie and mash ( 2pie 2mash and liquor). Back to nans for a cup pf tea and off home to Debden on the tube. Thats me now in the Pic at a hotel in Venice where James Bond had his first Vodka Martini. Things dont change only places.

[@irenekent4335]

I use to travel up on tube as well from Wanstead great times

[@josephlambert6642]

I,m glad you mentioned the "dyed sparrows" i hear the same story of my grandfather selling painted sparrows down there and allways thought "Surely not" lol.

[@irenekent4335]

Wish my old pal in Clacton could share it too

[@probablynotabout2800]

Miss London Town

[@1Lotusflower]

LOL this is excellent!!!! So fascinating, thank you for posting this!

[@annenunney9907]

My mum and dad use to take us down petticoat lane when we were kids in 1950s I remember having bowls of jellied eels and lovely fresh crusty bread

[@SteveEB1234]

I remember visiting Petticoat Lane with my mum & dad back in the late 60's and 70's. Dad used to say that, when he was a boy, he would have a glass of sarsaparilla from the lane I think it was. He said there was a gent I think named Joe Asinine who sold it. Dad said he used to say "Joe Asinine - get your sarsaparilla here". I have found only one source saying that Joe Asinine sold ice creams so not sure if I'm mixing this up. Would be happy to get confirmation of this. All the best.

[@SteveEB1234]

I have since learned that it was Joe & Ike Assenheim who sold ice cream and sarsaparilla in Petticoat Lane.

[@koont666]

Number 11 bus from Hammersmith on a Sunday morning .

[@wisdommorepreciousthanrubi8321]

Hope you get better.

[@muffinthemoggy4359]

Such a shame, this market in the early 90s had full of bargains such as electronics, bicycles, clothes etc. Now in 2022 its flooded with food stalls.

[@ngbghfgj5170]

It’s sad how nowadays everyone would record and laugh about it but back in the day it was a way to get the customers attention

[@Tangutica]

Wonderful. I remember Prince Honolulu selling 'tips' down there when I was a kid. And hot saspirella.

[@trafforde]

used to go with my dad about that time,thanks.

[@malukymoomalukymoo8246]

Pre invasion London was a wonderful place🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@maurice8607]

Anglo Saxon Head Hunter So what do you mean by pre invasion ? The Asians ? The Jews? You know as well as I do, the east end has always been a melting pot. The reasons there's less whites is because they have moved out. Didn't have to. Yep, I've gone too but not because of the influx of immigrants. Just admit, you are part of the UKs equivalent of the KKK.

[@bestbunny10]

So many memories

[@eastlondona.m.w2886]

Was down the Lane every sunday when East London was full of East Enders.

[@JanTheNan]

Remember the crockery stall very well.

[@SteveCoulson]

I am desperately searching online for any recorded audio of the sales patter from these types of market vendors, especially the crockery traders - anyone know where I might look? I vividly remember the "shows" they used to put on from my childhood, would love to relive that.

[@jamesmcdougall6338]

Good old days.

[@kester1940]

Gosh! I had a gyroscope as a child in the 1950s, and although I have no proof of where it was bought, it may well have been from your family market stall as I was taken to Petticoat Lane so often. I regret there is no further footage of the 'Lane' in my collection - but I see a number of other contributers have uploaded film to youtube, so keep checking and who knows, you may yet find film of your family market stall.

[@lallen3223]

Cor blimey,wow ive lived in and around petticoat lane all my life the intoxicating mix of market patter street crys husle and busle and above all luvly bargains Thats when the visit to the market was something special Things aint what they used to be A proper east ender

[@brijones]

i remember the saspirella stall

[@bahamas63]

Remember Danny’s Eaterie and Blanche the blonde manager.

[@larushka1]

My family and I worked the lane during this period (and for many years before and after) selling gyroscopes. Couple of stalls down from the cockles and mussels... do you have any more footage?

[@COLEEN322]

all white and english lovely sight to see

[@andynixon2820]

Yes that's obviously true . Apart from the eastern European jews , Irish and west Indians of coarse .

[@elliepatis7782]

hi i would really like to use this video for my art project! would you mind if i use it? not for commercial use.

[@jonmelon9792]

mostly white Jewish traders then, now mostly brownies from India. .

[@emmajorro8632]

Lovely ❤

[@bertiewooster3326]

Wow Brits !

[@irenekent4335]

This is me to a T luverly aw co blimey miss the ole Cockney s I blooming do

[@johnbird7357]

3:07 looks like a young Lenny McLean

[@dandy7989]

interesting

[@stanthewiseman]

I had a Sunday morning job in Wentworth Street (The Lane) in the late 50's for Izzy Paul materials and woollens What a total B*****D almost like slave labour.and all for a pitence. No happy memories from him , but great atmosphere.

[@irenekent4335]

Can't say how mych

[@petervincent2567]

What the fuck went wrong. Enoch was right. Won the war. Lost the battle

[@keithrose6931]

People were smartly dressed not that urban street style.

[@笑い男-c4e]

😁😁😁

[@stanthewiseman]

Dd I say Wentworth Street. Meant Middlesex Street

[@roeng1368]

All gentrified now, also know as being ruined.

[@modigbeowulf5482]

I love White people

[@ellakitto7867]

I have a few pics on flikr of Petticoat Lane Market from the same era. Feel free to look - www.flickr.com/photos/128551151@N02/sets/72157647654561363/

[@kester1940]

Thanks Ella. I worked in the City for much of my working life from the 1950s to 1980s - and was a frequent visitor to Middlesex Street in my lunch breaks. Happy days! Thanks for linking your photographs ... Very nice to see.

[@jmflyer55]

Best thing thar ever happened, was all those hagglers & shiesters getting run out of there. For 100 years at that time, the area had been made a slum by those people living and working in it. Mostly immigrant Polish Jews. Because BEFORE that time of the immigrants, Londons East End, WhiteChapel (which was built in the 1700’s) was a nice place to live. That all changed over time, when those immigrants moved into that area. That”s not being “racist”, thats not being a so called “anti-semitic”. That’s putting it clearly without distorting the truth. I’m so sick of hearing the lies about this area to cover up the truth of the matter. People have a way of romanticizing the past in their minds, for something it never was.

[@gripplehound]

Could have done without that awful music.

[@express375]

they dead