To book future Woolwich Arsenal tours visit www.royal-arsenal-history.com/tours
@brendaflower7790 Жыл бұрын
Could cry now ,remembering how amazing both market and shops were .Nothing to go there for now😢
@brendaflower77906 ай бұрын
@@geeksworkshop I have lived in Charlton all my life, poor working class,council flat,Shirley House drive from the age of 2.I am 78 now and I know what I am going on about.I agree about the Arsenal, yes it is lovely and times change but you know nothing about how that market has changed, there may be one or two of the old market traders left ,ask them how it was or Google old pictures of it and you WILL see the difference, the variety and how busy it was. I will also say that those who want to be offensive never have the courage to use their own names!
@ROCKINGMAN Жыл бұрын
I moved to Abbey Estate in 1970, age 5 and went to Woolwich regularly on the 180 bus. Routemaster and RT operation. I used to cheer 'Hooray we're going to Woolwich'. Visited The Covered Market, Cuffs, M&S, Woolworths, Branston's, the market etc. and it was a real nice cheerful place. Woolwich has changed a lot since then, now I say 'Hooray' when leaving Woolwich!
@JB-hc9ej Жыл бұрын
I Remember the old lifts in Cuffs with the lift man in uniform to open & shut the gates. Whenever I see clips of "Are you being served" it reminds me of Cuffs.
@ROCKINGMAN11 ай бұрын
@@Sthmohtwenty I take it that M&S have gone? They were in Powis Street with entrances in Thomas Street too. Calderwood St was at the side.
@Sthmohtwenty11 ай бұрын
@@ROCKINGMAN OK thanks its now one pds store ...cheap and cheerful lol
@ROCKINGMAN11 ай бұрын
@@Sthmohtwenty M&S, Cuffs, RACS, Woolworths, Littlewoods, Brentford Nylons, Timothy Whites, to name some, were quality shops that were in Woolwich.
@Sthmohtwenty11 ай бұрын
@@ROCKINGMAN those were the real days in uk ...
@JB-hc9ej Жыл бұрын
I have some very happy memories growing up in Woolwich. A.C ♡
@GekoPish Жыл бұрын
WOW what a fantastic look at Woolwich before my time. Always something very romantic and idyllic to me about that part of London.
@jsa-z1722 Жыл бұрын
A wonderful window into the past!
@Sthmohtwenty11 ай бұрын
Woolich was a very beautifully English town now its a complete sesspit
@davidlines10775 ай бұрын
I was astonished to see a brief clip of my grandparents, I think in Beresford Square, at 7:25. Nice to see them ‘live’ after so many years . Love the cap and scarf😀
@HAGGY_HAIGH_2397 Жыл бұрын
@ 15.19......Could have been me cleaning the windows of Colenso Block, in the Barracks, where the Junior Musicians Troop R.A. were, when I was there from 1963 to 67. Happy Days
@richardcleverley4107 Жыл бұрын
A great chronicle of the Woolwich of my youth. I was particularly interested to see the shots inside the Royal Mortar pub - a pub I never went in , I think demolished sometime in the 70s. Also I noticed the Elephant and Castle still had a Beasley sign though Courage had taken over the Plumstead brewery the year before. Ironic to hear it being argued that the town was dead at night- except for the pubs. Sadly very few of those left now and Woolwich also still had two cinemas then. The dismissive attitude towards the older houses was all too typical of the time too. That didn't work out quite as expected, and neither did the "town on stilts" that would start being built on Erith and Plumstead marshes three years later.
@michaelmiller641 Жыл бұрын
Gosh! That brought back memories of when I worked in Churchill house for the architects dept Greenwich council late sixties to mid 70s!;
@valjmary7992 Жыл бұрын
Wish there was more on the RACS..
@keithrose6931 Жыл бұрын
There's plenty of races there now 😂
@tjm3900 Жыл бұрын
They closed the Arsenal then they closed the docks. Then they stacked the people in new housing estates like Thamesmead. Yeh, that's going to work out just fine :-(
@butchdetrey5911 Жыл бұрын
So interesting thank you.
@mohamedshegeray9174 Жыл бұрын
Gave us the job we have the tools It was beautiful, it was rich, all people worked, even children and women. It was full of places to shop, play and entertain, so what happened?
@royal-arsenal-history Жыл бұрын
Please click this link to subscribe www.youtube.com/@royal-arsenal-history?sub_confirmation=1 for more videos like this.
@royal-arsenal-history7 ай бұрын
Please help RAH with a donation to create and share more content like this here: www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BW66GJ9N6QNSS
@tegridyweed7205 Жыл бұрын
Great insight into the past must be sad seeing uk now
@geeksworkshop6 ай бұрын
I miss the old bowling grounds. They did nothing with that space apart fill it with concreate. The lido and paddling pool is still there and is still a great place to swim or paddle in the summer. Woolwich is currently undergoing a massive regeneration project with scores of "luxury" unaffordable flats around the bottom near the ferry. The problem is they got rid of all, but one of the hospitals and none of the tower blocks have any parking.
@davidbeavan95217 ай бұрын
I know that place very well I grow up not far from belvedere I was born in 1939 I see woolwich has change a lot
@benbo18 Жыл бұрын
Woolwich when it was Woolwich, sad to say its a $h1t hole now
@jeffreynewton5305 Жыл бұрын
sad but true
@Sthmohtwenty11 ай бұрын
No toilets there it's a sesspittttt
@racheldoesacrylic40898 ай бұрын
, time waits for no man as the saying goes ,us oldies remember vestiges of a world where we could see and hear parts of the old world ,now its gone completely with attitudes morals and bad manners eh?
@Banglish123 Жыл бұрын
25:06 🙊
@professormcclaine57386 ай бұрын
Unrecognisable in 2024.
@chrisw82847 ай бұрын
When we were a white Christian country and British. Breaks my heart today to think what 50 odd years of mass immigration has done!!!!