The Abbey Arms Pub, in Plaistow London E13. A full history & tour, of this lovely old Pub.

[@lankriverfront8360]

born and raised in Plaistow in the 60's - 80's. Love the video, And used to live on Balaam Street

[@londonluke6487]

Hi Ian. Ah, you'll remember the area well then "in what I call, its heyday." London is far too busy - noisy & overpopulated nowadays. We're lucky though "as we've some lovely neighbours." Balaam Street, has changed a hell of a lot, over the last 15+ years. Cheers mate 😊 Glad you enjoyed the video 👍✌️

[@pauld8616]

Great video luke brought up in canning town and never steped foot in there 41 now guess I will pay it a visit soon also love your cemetery visits 😊

[@tez6529]

Great vid Luke, My God, the Abbey arms pub has changed inside since i was last in there !, i had some great nights in there in the 80's and early 90's. Terry in Custom House

[@londonluke6487]

Hi Terry. Yeah, its changed a lot "thankfully still around though = as we've lost a hell of a lot of our old pubs, in London ay." Drank in this one early 2000s = Yeah great times ay 🍻✌️

[@robertbridger111]

Born in E13 Howards road 1954 , had a great childhood,love living in Ramsgate now , West Ham park was my Shangri-La , bob x

[@londonluke6487]

Hi Bob. I'll be doing a piece on Howard's Road, soon. The area was a great place to be in the 50s/60s70s, I'm told. Glad you had a great childhood mate "those memories, last forever" Cheers for sharing the memory 😊 Was surprised recently at "just how big West Ham Park, actually is = lovely in this kind of weather" 👌. I'm covering lots of Newham /West Ham based locations, at the moment! 💙✌️x

[@barzeyadna]

Love this one I remember it well miss the old days

[@londonluke6487]

Hi Edna. Hope you're well? Sorry for the late reply = I've had a lot going on recently. Ah 😊 Glad you enjoyed the video!! Lovely old pub + an interesting history. Yeah, the world & many parts of London "are like completely different worlds now" aren't they! Very Best wishes. Luke 💙✌️

[@108.London]

Drunk opposite in the swan for many years did use the abbey on occasions. The swan is now the new alecs the barbers..... used to be a newspaer stall outside the abbey arms and when i was a kid a old boy used to stand on all four corners of the juntion walking corner to corner waving paperwork in his hand in some sort of protest

[@londonluke6487]

Hi there. Yeah, the Swan wasn't a bad little pub tbh = drank in there a few times, before it closed. So few pubs left now "compared to when we were younger, ay." I remember him "Bill, his name was = he had that stall for years." Lol remember him doing that 🍻✌️

[@108.London]

@@londonluke6487 sadly yes lots closed now. I think the club in St Andrews Road is still open I used to get in there years back but was very clicky and the committee was ultra fussy hahaha uses to get in the glory some Sundays too

[@londonluke6487]

@user-zp5ji1uq1h Yeah, loads are gone now "the Foresters is now a Mosque = others adapted or gone completely." Yeah, that's still there = & I've heard that they are really clicky tbh. Never got to drink in the Glory = The Abbey = Castle & & Red House were our locals. Good memories of some lovely old pubs, though ay 🍻✌️

[@108.London]

@@londonluke6487 my first pint was in the red house in about 1975 then on way home pop in the odean for chow mein and bar be que sauce ( happy days ) so sad seeing the area now days was always a rough area but nothing likes it's become now.

[@londonluke6487]

@user-zp5ji1uq1h Happy days indeed, ay mate = the old saying "you never know what you've got, until its gone" comes to mind. Yeah you're right there, always a bit rough n ready = But nothing like this 🙁 Sad to see really, isn't it ✌️

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

That drawing at start was in the days when Plaistow was a sub municipality within the large rural west ham parish in Essex's hundred of Becontree before becoming part of London's East End

[@londonluke6487]

Hey there. Thanks for this info "I honestly didn't know that = about Becontree /Plaistow link." That's interesting "much appreciated." ✌️

[@dandantshm8894]

So weird watching this. I've in Balaam Street. Live in Australia now. The memories came flooding back. I was sure that butcher's was called Mace's though when I live there as a kid in the 70s and 80s. I may be wrong.

[@londonluke6487]

Hi from Plaistow 😊 the way this area is now "I think you probably did wise there, tbh mate." Glad it evoked some memories. You're not wrong = The Butchers was called Mace's!! Wenlock "an old friend of my Dad's, bought it from Mace's" Trevor Wenlock has just retired & closed the shop, coincidentally! So what it'll be now = god only knows "hopefully a traditional butchers still" 🤞 as our nearest non halal ones are in Poplar or East Ham. Had a job, getting a decent bit of lamb & beef for Christmas this year ✌️

[@AndrewWallin-bs4ng]

I remember rushing up on a Saturday night to get the evening news from the newspaper kiosk outside the pub with the football results, lived in Seaton Close

[@londonluke6487]

@AndrewWallin-bs4ng He was a bit of a local legend, the old fella who ran the newspaper kiosk = proper old-school no nonsense bloke. The area has changed a hell of a lot, since then. Ah rite, you'll remember the area well then.

[@boba6944]

I lived Jones Road during the 2war the Bank had blacksmiths behind it in the 40s Bob

[@londonluke6487]

Hi Bob. Really sorry for the late reply mate = I've had a hell of a lot going on recently, & am only just "getting caught up with page stuff." Ah rite = I didn't know about the blacksmiths, having been there!! Cheers Bob, appreciate the information "as it helps a lot = with building a mental image, of what the area was like, around that era." Thanks again! Take care, & best wishes ✌️

[@boba6944]

@@londonluke6487 I enjoyed my time in Paistow as a kid in the 40s I was very young and very lucky not to notice the bombs and hurt that was taking place christened at St Cedds great family. Bob

[@londonluke6487]

@boba6944 Hi Bob. Really sorry for the late reply!! Cheers for sharing this memory "for many of the kids = it was like a big adventure = others didn't understand the true meaning of what was going on." Must have been utterly terrifying "for parents = constantly worrying + the rationing." That generation = was amazingly tough, weren't they 👌🇬🇧✌️

[@whitevanandTshirtman13]

I grew up in Jenkins rd in the 60s 70s my mum lived in Jenkins all her life.

[@andrewthomas3270]

Hi there I just saw your video, Lovely. I’m born and bred in Canning Town and still live here. The bank that was on the corner was a Nat West not National Wide and sadly Trevor has Retired so the Butchers is no more which means we have No butchers in our area at all.

[@londonluke6487]

Hi Andrew. Thanks 😊 Glad you enjoyed. Ah rite, thanks for that info Andrew "I couldn't for the life of me, remember the name of the bank." Its been turned into a restaurant now. Yes, sadly another one gone 😔 Yes, no butchers & no bakers, since Greg's & Percy Ingles went ✌️

[@johncarson2546]

Frank Hutchins music shop

[@londonluke6487]

Thanks John 👍 Appreciate that as i couldn't for the life of me, remember the name." 😊✌️

[@108.London]

Before that hammetts.

[@whitevanandTshirtman13]

Last time I was in the Abbey arms was 1981 got barred at about midday on a Sunday and walked over to the swan and never came out , well not until well past 1am on the monday morning thanks to John Oakley, talking of murders I was in there the night Jamison and Anderson stopped off before the went down and tortured and murdered an old couple in new barn Street, the following week the police flooded the pub at around the time they suspected they were there a questioned us all, i remember whenlocks as Mace's I think and the bank as National Westminster, got my first loan there.

[@londonluke6487]

@whitevanandTshirtman13 Lol, they were fond of barring people "The Abbey = I think it was a tradition of theirs." I got barred for a week, for being sick in a urinal, was only 17 & they still served us 🤣 The good old days ay. The Swans lock-ins were legendary, I've heard. The Red House - Castle & Abbey, were our regular haunts. Oh, I remember that "poor old sods" I was only a kid at the time, & was ear-wigging when I shouldn't have been, & heard far too much. Evil bstard!! How anyone can live in that flat, God only knows = makes me shudder, whenever I go by it, & I'm not overly sensitive tbh. Blimey, getting questioned over that. Wenlock's has now permanently closed "he's retired = shops been empty for a good while now." & the bank, is now a kebab type restaurant "pretty decent food tbh." A rapidly changing world ay.

[@philsimpson3556]

Nice video but you should have covered the beers they have on. A pub is no good without a good selection of ale.

[@londonluke6487]

Thanks Phil, glad you enjoyed + thanks for the suggestion = I'll keep that in mind, & add something of selection & prices, where possible, in future videos 👍✌️