Roaming in Gants Hill, Redbridge, London 🇬🇧

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Evening roam around Gants Hill, in the London Borough of Redbridge.
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Shot : 4k dji pocket creator.
Recorded : 24/08/2024
Temperature : 14°C, wet and windy.

[@dee74raz]

Used to go to the library when I was a kid in the 80s before the days of the internet and read many books from there during the summer holidays. I used to also rent out music albums from the library itself when I was a kid.

[@Roamingree]

It's a lovely little building, shame ppl don't use the libraries anymore 😢

[@IlfordRetro]

Completely right about the level of traffic compared with days gone by. As you say, on a Saturday night there used to be a wider range of venues to frequent in Gants Hill.

[@Roamingree]

@IlfordRetro Yes quite right , so many food places but the nightclub and wine bars were closed.

[@dee74raz]

I remembered the Odeon Cinema where I used to watch Independence Day and even Harry Potter. I fell asleep 💤 whilst watching Harry Potter in the Odeon

[@Roamingree]

Ahahahaha see it was a comfortable cinema. We spent almost every Saturday at the cinema.

[@johngeorge3619]

Thanks for the video, Gants Hill was a familar place to me particularly from 66 to 70, last passed through on the bus in 2004 I think. I suspect the streets and shops have changed, station is still the same. Haha, next Clayhall and Couchmore Avenue and the Glade Primary?

[@Roamingree]

@johngeorge3619 Growing up Gants Hill was the furthest I use to travel, until Lakeside opened. I thought Barkingside was in the countryside 😂.

[@cianog]

The odean cinema was a impressive art deco building. The most packed cinema I ever went to was to see 'Masters of the universe'

[@Roamingree]

@cianog yes it was a beautiful building. Used to b packed queues going down Perth Road. Boy I remember Masters of the Universe, 87 I think. I watched it while in the US. Good days

[@jedwards4002]

Spent a lot of time here and particularly Cranbrook Road man😊

[@Roamingree]

@@jedwards4002 Ppl don't realise how good Cranbrook Rd is. It's got everything 😂

[@rizmahd]

Nice video, Gants Hill has become a food hub 😂

[@Roamingree]

It certainly has, food and barbers 😂

[@cianog]

Can't believe the valentine pub is gone.😢

[@cianog]

Ritz video used to be on the corner.

[@Roamingree]

@@cianog Don't remember Ritz video

[@cianog]

@@Roamingree where the divino lounge bar is now. On Bramley crescent

[@Tee12343]

Is faces nightclub still there ?

[@Roamingree]

The actual club is still there. But it wasn't open on Saturday night so don't think it's open for business. I saw a notice outside to 'Hire the Venue' so who really knows 😂

[@dee74raz]

How did you end up being born in Pakistan as an ethnic Turk? Was your father a Turkish diplomat? 🧐

[@Roamingree]

No mate, the other way round ethnic Kashmiri, lived and worked in UK, honorary Turk. Family moved to Turkiye so spending my time between the two 😂

[@dee74raz]

@@Roamingree Are you an ethnic Mirpuri? 🧐

[@Roamingree]

@dee74raz Yes bro, born but bred in London, I'm afraid. Family came over late 60's

[@dee74raz]

@@Roamingree Where in London did you live as a teenager? Was it in the London borough of Redbridge?

[@Roamingree]

@@dee74raz no mate, East Ham. From Altmore infants all the way to East Ham College 😂.