Poplar And Bow The Real East End.

[@JennySussex]

My granddad came from Poplar and I was born at Mile End hospital within the sound of the Bow bells. I moved out of London in 2007. But you can take the girl out of London, but you can never take London out of the girl! 😉

[@sarawashington5485]

Jenny, I am sad to report that the place has changed, and NOT FOR THE BETTER😭😭😭😭

[@chrisbennett6260]

@@sarawashington5485 changed in what way ?

[@raythomas4812]

I was born in Mile End Hospital too...we Moved out in 1971 to A new Town called Basildon , then we all just rotted !

[@rolfvaughan4085]

Lovely to see the old East end..breaks my heart to see it now

[@robharding4028]

Its a different world completely ! Born in the East end back in 57.I'm proud of my birth place ! But the heart has been ripped out of it.

[@nurtenkocaman1699]

I want to go back in time where my parents were a live had such great times i miss them so much may they both rest in peace 😔😔😪😪

[@evey350]

My grandad was from Bethnal Green and nanny from Poplar great grandparents from Limehouse. Looking at these photos brought a tear to my eye and makes me want to go home. Thank you for sharing them

[@bluebell2247]

Yes all th old places gone now but it is nice to still have some old photo's to look at.Glad you liked it Eve.

[@ZL54JK8]

Thank you for allowing us all these old memories recreated in such fine photographs. Lovely atmospheric music too.

[@garyosborne2534]

I can’t really say that it’s improved for the better, certainly none of the old characters that you would have had then, proper people salt of the earth. I had pleasure of meeting some of them. Thank you for allowing me to reminisce.

[@jackyoung3046]

I have always been fascinated with the East End of London. I am from Chicago and read a lot about the East End from the Victorian Jack the Ripper days to the London blitz , the Krays, all of it. I wanted all of my life to visit London, not to visit the landmarks but to meet the people of the East End the down to earth ,tough , spirited Cockneys that gave the area it's flair and soul. I finally realized my dream of visiting London in 1986. I've been told that around this time the traditional East End people started moving out. It's tragic to me that the old East End has lost it's soul and charm and I did not grow up there. And I envy you Londoners that grew up on the streets of Bow, Poplar, Whitechapel, Mile End etc before it changed. It must have been a terrific place to be a kid..

[@sandypompilii6901]

Exactly! You said everything I was thinking. I'm in the US, never been to any part of England, but have always been drawn to everything England and obsessed with the Cockney East End.

[@Lxx-tc4xc]

Jack Young Read the 3 books by Jennifer Worth that are the basis for the British TV series "Call the Midwife." Worth was a bicycling midwife, assisting with the home births of mothers living in Poplar, Stepney and Isle of Dogs (now all gentrified). My spouse just gave me those books for my 73th birthday and I fell in love with the hard core East End. I too spent 10 years in the South Side of Chicago. Much of the housing shown in these photos was built around the time of Dickens. 1930s, declared unfit for human habitation. 1940s, bombed by Germany. 1950s, appalling conditions persist because of desperate housing shortages. 1960s, worst slum housing is emptied. 1970s, most former slums are demolished. 1980s, repair and rebuild to middle class standard. 21st century, Canary Wharf is built, turning Stepney and Bow into a community of well-off office workers, mixed with Muslim immigrants.

[@east_londonlad8988]

@@Lxx-tc4xc Muslim immigrants? Your comment shows how misinformed you are about the East End of London, the Bengalis have been in the East End of London since the 1900s, Albert Mahmod was a son of a English women from Poplar and a Bengali father, also many lascars jumped ship in Tilbury and headed over to the East End to join other Bengalis during and after the Second World War, then came the economic Bengali migrants of the 60s, my father’s generation. So when you say “Muslim immigrants” you must be referring to the recent Somalis that have moved into the East End in the mid 90s and not the Bengalis who make up 36% of the East end population. Do more research on my area and people before you leave a comment on a subject you know nothing about.

[@Lxx-tc4xc]

@@east_londonlad8988 Have you read any of Jennifer Worth's books?

[@colinglen4505]

I grew up in Bow and as a 7 year olds we used to explore the abondoned houses that were condemned for demolition to make way for new estates of flats and maisonettes. I still have strong memories of those creepy old places and the interesting things that were left behind.

[@tonyalways7174]

Architects, planners and sociologists should be ashamed of themselves for ripping the heart out of our cities

[@Laura55sere]

They sometimes win awards for these hideous constructions

[@paulettefelix7206]

They call it progress

[@alfching2499]

@@paulettefelix7206 And Look how we have progressed in 2022.they have done sweet eff all to progress

[@alfching2499]

@@Laura55sere They want burying underneath them

[@glumonion1454]

Do you mean those who moved in and gentrified them?

[@tommylucy4738]

The old East End. !! Wonderful place ! Bit rough but it was our rough !!

[@bluebell2247]

Thankyou

[@chrislucy1812]

Tommy Lucy, my dad Arthur Lucy was born in Poplar High St in 1913, any relation or was it a popular surname in those days? All I know is that his father was Irish and that he was an old style copper with a quick temper!

[@irenekent4335]

Yes rough but so friendly always look after us kids

[@irenekent4335]

Our name was Nuth and Berry from Plaistow Canning Town

[@garyandrewranford]

I've shared that with my Dad, who was born in that area in 1941... Hes a real cockney, born in Stepney, within the sound of Bow Bells. Thanks so much for the video creation and upload 👍

[@bluebell2247]

you are welcome glad you enjoyed it hope your dad does also

[@shereerihari2691]

My grandfather came to New Zealand in 1910 from the UK. The address in his prayer book was 16 Hale Street, London. He was just 16 years old when he was sent here to work on farms in the South Island and never saw his family again. I have used Google maps to look at the address as it us today but wondered if you have any photos if Hale Street from a few years back? Would love to visit the UK one day and go to the places that would have been so familiar to my grandpop. Thank you for those you have put together here.

[@Laura55sere]

I think you will find everything gone now, however look up you tube video from Brian Lambert, he shows photos and film of Poplar if that’s any help

[@eastlondona.m.w2886]

When I look at video's like this it makes me wanna cry iam born and bred in poplar on the burdett Estate in 1967 I still live in the east end but not in Tower hamlet's but I'm looking too get out I can't take it no more. 😢

[@chrisbennett6260]

what carnt you take ?

[@eastlondona.m.w2886]

@@chrisbennett6260 the shit hole London has become

[@ihateyoumother-fucker3204]

My nan & grandad used to live on Copenhagen Place, off East India Dock Rd, then off Pixley Street, Popular - I missed those days so much, especially the park bang opposite their house. Fun times. "Thanks" for the upload.

[@Laura55sere]

Do you mean that little park opposite All Saints Church? I moved away 45years ago , but my friend still lives there, so on a visit back there saw there was a nice new building where the park was when I asked my friend what the building was she said it was an AIDS hospital. I come from Prestons Road.

[@janetcozens4623]

Many thanks for sharing all of those pictures brought back loadsa great memories My Mum was a true Cockney born in the sound of Bow Bells Passed away only this January 2022 She absolutely Loved the East End Just hated the 2nd world war as everybody did back then. But thank God that is over with.👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@susiel9612]

Walked those streets so many times in the 60's 70's and 80's. Lovely memories. Went back recently and couldn't wait to run away

[@Jeffybonbon]

Its not only London which has changed I am a Geordie and Newcastle is awful today too Glad I am leaving this world not coming into it thank you

[@Kirkdicanio88]

Yes it does bring back many happy memories thank you Grew up there just above the butchers in Christ St Market I don’t think any of the pubs are there now

[@Kirkdicanio88]

@@user-dd1lx5li1k well that's good to know. I know the Young Prince has gone , the Ellesmere, The Straw Hat, the Builders Arms, the Guilford is a block of flats. The Charlie was still there last time I looked. Don't know about the Festival Inn, and the one on the corner was it Callaghans?

[@hoopster68]

This should be right up your Mile End road kzbin.info/www/bejne/boqyfqdmltOJjtk

[@hoopster68]

I used to go to school with a girl who's parents had the Ellesmere, even the school's gone

[@stevewiles7132]

For all we have attained, we have lost oh so much.

[@CHUTNEX]

But a few people have made heaps of money which is sadly all that 'matters' these days.

[@GreenmanXIV]

I'm a Whitechapel. boy as were my ancestors back to 1640. Haven't been back for 25 years, I couldn't stand to see what the bastards had done to the East End.

[@bluebell2247]

Sad I know would not recognize place anymore

[@sayeedahmed2121]

It seems like you are both uneducated and most certainly racist. Shame on your parents for the way they brought you up. 👎

[@andrewkaminskas7721]

@@sayeedahmed2121 Go back to your sand dunes

[@anthonywarren8717]

@@sayeedahmed2121 ,You are one little sick, woke boy

[@alanaitken4206]

Well said! My family go back to 1770’s , I m now still lives in Poplar all have changed mostly traditional pubs , historical buildings and railways now destroyed for luxurious flats , all gone. I will move to live in Budapest because I had enough .

[@Drew_Eden]

Some lovely photos there. I bet they stir a lot of memories, well done.

[@davidbrooks187]

Bethnal Green & PROUD 👍. Born in Bethnal Green Hospital in early 1971. Lived in Old Ford Rd.

[@marieshoulders7397]

My late mum was born in benthal green she learnt me few London says as I was born I colchester Essex

[@bluebell2247]

Good for your mum

[@johncrockett5458]

Great place to live Bethnal Green back in the 50s

[@stevefield9967]

I bet you used to go swimming in Vicky park Lido?

[@mozdickson]

was shopping in that Chrisp St market just recently, and met some elderly eastenders at a lunch in a local church - still heart beating

[@bluebell2247]

Thankyou

[@raythomas4812]

I was born in Mile End (1962) and my Siblings in Bow - When I see these old pictures , I think of my Mum and Dad (No longer here) and how it must have felt for them to have a young family living on the 13th floor of a tower block and how exciting was for us to be moved to Basildon and then forgot about ! (Mum was a Popular girl and my dad a Stratford lad )we lived on the Lincoln Estate on Bow

[@yvonnelygo681]

I was born and grew up - POPLAR. .....call The Midwife!!!!!!

oooooooooooooooooops pawn 3 balls sorry not porn lol

[@janetcozens4623]

I lived in the East End from 1982 till 2001 in Poplar & Bow On the Lansbury Estate in a 2 Bedroom Maisonette the living room was 21ft long and 12ft wide. Oh the party's We had with all our neighbours' it was fantastic. oh those were the day's. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@irenekent4335]

Poplar where my dad was born George George Nuth

[@tommylucy4738]

Proud to be an East Ender !

[@bluebell2247]

Thankyou

[@ChristineDixon-ul5gm]

Why ain't yer a hammers fan then 😁

[@ChristineDixon-ul5gm]

That was for Tommy 😂

[@tommylucy4738]

Christine Dixon West Ham not in east end !! Other side of river lee Essex !!!

[@sarahstrong7174]

Thankyou for showing us the pictures.

[@lesreed9269]

Thank you for a really nice, evocative video!

[@khashiashtari2183]

Wow! It was soooooooo beautiful back then! 😢😢😢😢

[@williambrown2836]

Grew up on the Brownfield estate and went to Cardinal Griffin school . Brought back lovely memories 😁

[@bluebell2247]

glad you liked it thanks

[@irenekent4335]

My dad was born in Poplar yes always saw the horse and cart gave the horse cube sugar for a treat wonderful

[@Laura55sere]

I came from Poplar, my dad would run out with a bucket and shovel to scoop up the horse manure for the garden.

[@keithmilburn4866]

Worked in poplar and Isle of Dogs in 80’s,great down to earth people MOT ALAW

[@simonyip5978]

Tens or maybe even hundreds of thousands of victorian terraced houses, like those at Vallance Road were destroyed during WW2 or were demolished in the late 1940's onwards. There are still a fairly large number of similar houses still standing, and they have usually been fully refurbished and renovated and now sell for amazing amounts of money.

[@sarahstrong7174]

Thankyou for sharing Brian.

[@stranraerlad1]

Thank you for the video even though I’m Scot my Aunty , Uncle and Cousin Eleanor ( Ellen) and her husband Derek Gray stayed in Blackwall Buildings and many a happy holiday I had in the late 60s. Eleanor now stays in Wager St. and again great times we had there

[@bluebell2247]

Glad you enjoyed it Cheers

[@brianmicky7596]

Hi Brian, Nice go back and remember, Met the Wife , married in All Saints, worked on robin hood garden s,Nice the good old days , All the Best Brian 🤗

[@bluebell2247]

Thank's Micky same to you.

[@marioandrikopoulos3476]

Oh boy this is pure England Top 👍

[@bluebell2247]

Thank's

[@Callboy2719]

Always jerks a tear from me especially the music born and bread in the area 25 years ...in 30/50s lots of happy memories. Many thanks

[@denisjoleary]

Tears in my eyes.

[@ellismeah5127]

No real EastEnders left there now ,only the new arrivals , bit of history gone forever

[@bluebell2247]

Thank you all for all the likes glad you enjoyed it.

[@denisjoleary]

Tears in my eyes, What happened? I went to St Saviors and left in 1964. Where has it gone?

[@bluebell2247]

Thank's

[@Laura55sere]

I think they are trying to save Woolmore St school where I was, my friend said they have built another school along side it.

[@strafrag1]

Not a Brit, just an Anglophile here. Very nice video. Love the music too. Cheers!

[@rustynuts4426]

Music is called 'kiss the rain'

[@ranamiah9945]

Them were the days we all lived happily ever after

[@irenekent4335]

I use to love going down the East End where my family came from I missed out as we became 8 orphans

[@rogersea6529]

absolutely excellent video -thankyou

[@bluebell2247]

Very welcome

[@mickymantle3233]

I remember the Bender family.

[@tonelemoan]

Mum would bring me to Chrisp St market every week.

[@cdgh99]

So many nice old buildings destroyed by Hiltlers bombs and so many more destroyed by bad developments

[@bluebell2247]

Thankyou

[@ahuddleston6512]

Yeah I agree. I'm American and I've lived here all my adulthood , 25 yrs. .and my ultimate dream job is to work giving the yes or no to new buildings and destruction of others. I'd be the ultimate nightmare for any new buildings project. Historic preservation is my motto.

[@bluebell2247]

@Mahdi RANA Ok what would you like to hear something like I don't like your comment I was bought up in the East end top be polite not to be ignorant.ok

[@missj.d9187]

Thank you!

[@keithmilburn4866]

Definitely had the heart ripped out all for greed !!

[@Lianochka2024]

Дякую!!))Обожнюю Лондон

[@ChristineDixon-ul5gm]

English please

[@John-wz7yu]

London is gradually becoming a soulless city and a place where only the very rich can afford too live, What's left of the council housing is being gradually sold off and demolished and replaced with apartment blocks that locals will never be able to afford,

[@brainsmith3931]

London has become impossible to live in as it's getting so expensive and locals are driven out of our great city .

[@Sabbathissaturday]

How sad. It’s nothing like this today.

[@Sabbathissaturday]

Mahdi RANA I totally believe you 🤗

[@mariamartin9235]

Lovely to see How we were😊

[@stevefield9967]

Can i just correct an error, you named it Poplar Theatre Cinema its correct name was Popular Cinema Theatre in the Commercial Road. I was born in 1952, lived in Gill St and schooled in the Cyril Jackson school in Northey St and would like to here from any person who shared this background.

[@gh-vi9tk]

My parents were married at the Poplar civic.

[@Laura55sere]

So was I, 1971

[@kirijones3778]

im obsessed with anything from the East end, in particular between the 50's-70's era. I feel in my past life if I was born in England its there I would want to live. Have watched im pretty sure everything there is on KZbin, does anyone have any recommendations encase I have missed something?

[@bluebell2247]

glad you enjoyed it thnx

[@gabriellaj.o.6180]

Sad to see the decline of East London. I would never go there now. I also lived there a while. Horrible place now !

[@chrisbennett6260]

why is that then ?

[@dedicated2house]

Home 🖤

[@sbnqy]

No more hero’s anymore...........

[@bluebell2247]

Thankyou

[@Barry-vn6uq]

Thanks. Very nice indeed.

[@bluebell2247]

Thank's.

[@stevewiles7132]

Any videos of Upton Park and Eastham?

[@sarawashington5485]

Thank you💕💕💕💕💕

[@johnlynch5573]

Great Days,so sad to see it now.

[@bluebell2247]

Yes all we have left now is our memories sad what has happened

[@jcn268]

Chrisp Street has gone a lot smaller.

[@Laura55sere]

I came from Poplar, I think they are doing away with Christ Street market altogether in favour of a block of flats, near to the DLR, they’ll be worth a fortune

[@djelalniyazi4090]

i went to langdon park school in poplar left in 77 any one went there

[@stevenkaye7958]

poplar and bow are east london . Stepney Shadwell Whitechapel true East End

[@tommylucy4738]

Steven Kaye POPLAR oldest part of East End !!! Blackwall one of oldest parts of London

[@stevenkaye7958]

unfortunately it isn't . Stepney has been there since Roman times . It became a diocese or Roman protectioon when St Dunstans church was built . All land east was marshland . Poplar is a pup its maybe 200years at most

[@tommylucy4738]

Steven Kaye Blackwall oldest settlement in London ! It’s in poplar !!

[@bluebell2247]

Thankyou

[@tommylucy4738]

Brian lambert your welcome 👍

[@frankpanuwat5347]

i was born castor street poplar e14.

[@lianekerr650]

Anyone remember st Mathias school poplar

[@ashleybartsch6642]

Where is Nonnatus House?

[@stevenkaye7958]

poplar and bow is east london stepney shadwell is true eastend

[@bluebell2247]

Thankyou

[@maurice8607]

Don't forget Bethnal Green. Geographically not the heart but THE heart.

hackney E9

[@missoff6160]

East end is Whitechapel

[@BarryAllenMagic]

Add Wapping to that list (even though I'm a Shadwell lad).

[@peterg957]

Not a Hijab or Burka to be seen..

[@avvie1990]

Anyone know the name of the beautiful music piece playing in this video?

[@Leo15730]

Not a single burka wearing ninja cartoon to be seen in the old photos !!

[@nahidrahman9550]

Stfu

[@truthseeker4654]

U stupid ignorant fool. U are a breed long gone. We are here now to stay forever. You are like the american indians. Long gone but wont be forgotten. Come back when west ham are playing wont you 😂😂😂😂😂

[@bluebell2247]

Thankyou

[@TheGeorge2277]

Shamsur Rahman you call him ignorant but then agree with the fact that white people, the native born are now gone in the east end.

[@footyupdates7913]

Shamsur Rahman I am from an immigrant family living in east end but you are a disgrace, have respect for other cultures or go back home

[@alfching2499]

Harold Wilson was the one that tore down our old cities to replace them with multi tower blocks.

[@Lxx-tc4xc]

Some of these photos are of the place and time of "Call the Midwife."

[@ianthompson662]

look no foreigners

[@susiel9612]

Well there always was but I know what you mean. They integrated more back in my days there - today they don't

[@djelalniyazi4090]

any one went to langdon park school in the 70s i left in 77.

[@hk-fl6qp]

Djelal niyazi my sister in Langdon park right now

[@tommylucy4738]

Yes I was only there for 2 years !

[@denisjoleary]

St Saviors 1964

[@ryanm5801]

I went Langdon. I Left in 99!

[@michaelmullin3585]

welfare towers are soooo depressing.

[@Laura55sere]

Do you mean ‘Balfron’ towers, my school friend lived there

[@MancstaSam]

Balfron tower is in the process of being renovated and privatised..the flats will then sell for an insane amount of money l.. nobody on welfare will be living in them

[@janetcozens4623]

Oh how it's changed it's so sad 😟😟😟😟😟😟😟😟 Opps so sorry meant too say that My front room was by 21ft long by 12ft wide lol lol

[@PaulCloves]

It’s changed so much over the years I don’t recognise the place anymore and I’m not a fan of the gentrification of the area it’s not my east end anymore and the johny come latelys ain’t my people the pubs and characters that frequented them r no longer there I loved it the way it was a bit rough round the edges with proper people around u alas the genie is out the bottle now and I can’t ever c it going back even the cockney accent is dying out if u go round that manor now ull barely hear true east end accent anymore the influx of people from the shires buying up all the old terraced housing has pushed the house prices through the roof and made them unattainable to the few locals that still remain shame cos it’s changed the whole demographic of the area and like I said ,for me ,not for the better I know I sound a bit bitter here and there’s a reason for that and it’s because I am I wish it was the way it was back then in the 60,s 70,s and 80,s

[@chrisbennett6260]

some great incisive points and a fascinating insight do you think its all being driven by design ? and what entity do you think is chiefly responsible for the demise of the area to how it was in the 60s 70s and 80s ?

[@dereksanders7855]

Now more migrants than English people ,good old days sadly gone,,,

[@SayemTabla]

Well, emigrants enriched East End. It is colourful, dynamic and diverse now. Glad people like you are not living there...

[@marialatino7]

Where did all the ' True' eastenders go? Im sure us third-world country not as superior race of bengalies could have forced them out. What is so wrong with it now?

[@operationgold]

eww chrisp street market. same old building there now and a dirty co-op

[@bluebell2247]

Thankyou

[@jamesbomd3503]

The best time to live in East End was from 1933 to 1939

[@mattyd5932]

Stripped of our identity. London is shit now it's so sad

[@johnclark7065]

The yuppies and rich are destroying London it's souless no community or care greed taken control.

[@mattyd5932]

@@johnclark7065 it's doesn't represent the rest of the county. It's a haven for foreigners and the rich

[@CHUTNEX]

@@mattyd5932 There's a warm welcome for dirty dodgy money which is why it's allowed to continue without question.

[@brainsmith3931]

Gentrification has destroyed London the newcomers and rich are making London bland and expensive.

[@chrisbennett6260]

@@CHUTNEX interesting but isnt that happening in mainly in Chelsea and kensington, who providing the warm welcome ?

[@brianshunert7686]

Born in fern Street, bow in1952 delivered b y the nonartus house midwifes