#067

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8 ай бұрын

The cottage-style residences known as Sylvan Road and Tyne Road no longer exist, having been demolished between the late 60s and mid-80s. While their amenities were basic, with no dedicated bathroom they would have represented a type of layout that is uncommon if not invisible in today's Ilford, if they had survived. Dare we say that such properties elsewhere in East London are highly desirable today (after a bit of sanitary upgrading). The arrival of the Centreway shopping precinct in 1972 encouraged car use to the area and a new multistorey car park was built to replace some of the houses and cater for shoppers driving to the new parade. Access between them came via a dedicated footbridge over the railway. Today the only indication that Sylvan Road existed is the street name post at the entrance of the bus terminus which sits partly on the former street's footprint. Tyne Road has been wiped off the map.
Credits: Redbridge Central Library for historic information relating to the area.
Yellow Advertiser for information relating to the Ley Street Car Park

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@ghostfacesam 8 ай бұрын

Great stuff as always.

@IlfordRetro 8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, and always appreciate you stopping by

@SA-yb7mt 8 ай бұрын

While I hope these plans were well intended when thought of and implemented, its such a shame to me that they've not succeeded. The car park is in the (very long) process of being demolished. The Foyer again didn't succeed. Unsure of the current usage of the Foyer but its just a shame that so many houses were demolished and its not been progressed. Its m perspective, I could be looking at this wrong but I'm a fan of old buildings and its a shame when they're demolished to make way for something lesser. Thanks for uploading, once again its insightful to see what the area I live in and call home, looked like many eras ago.

@IlfordRetro 8 ай бұрын

It's a fair point you make. Centreway only lasted 30 years which in the whole scheme of things isn't very long. By the early 2000s it was an obvious relic of 1960s planning. As far as I've been able to find, the flats that make up The Foyer are up for private sale which is possibly the best solution for the council if they don't have the funding to run any schemes from it any more. You're right - Ilford has a long-standing dislike for keeping heritage buildings and streets, the likes of which in other parts of London are thriving these days.

@rajnirvan3336 8 ай бұрын

Came earlier today. Drove through Ley Street too. Like I said will always visit from time to time

@IlfordRetro 8 ай бұрын

Nice to hear you came back 'home' Raj, and glad you could see some of the place as it is today.

@rajnirvan3336 8 ай бұрын

@@IlfordRetro oh absolutely. Be back again some point. Also reminiscing my childhood memories when I walk past a certain shop what it is now to being previously. Zodiac Toys was the 1 that got me seeing the video

@rajnirvan3336 8 ай бұрын

@@IlfordRetro Also walked past now former Wilko store. Sad site from the changes it went in all but 20 years. From C&A Woolworths to Wilko. Hopefully they keep the store to its foundation. And find a decent replacement of similar style.

@IlfordRetro 8 ай бұрын

you're right @@rajnirvan3336 it would be good if they can find another long term tenant for that store. It is a sorry sight while empty, so hopefully it will be open as something new very soon

@rajnirvan3336 8 ай бұрын

@@IlfordRetro I sincerely hope so. TK Makk would have been ideal as they moved recently into part the old Debenhams on 1st floor. I'd thought with how big TK are a 2 floor store been ideal

@junehoward6668 8 ай бұрын

me and my friend use to walk though centreways to get to dane . i remember the loos there . and a cafe . .

@IlfordRetro 8 ай бұрын

Were the loos there a bit smelly and grotty? I remember thinking the lifts were the loos because they always smelt so badly! There were some good places in Centreway though

@deniseharris4631 8 ай бұрын

My friends used to walk through Centreways to get to Dane! Between 72 and 75! They lived in Belmont Road. I used to meet them in Ley Street by the post office/Sweet shop. I lived in Riverdene Road, it was still Uphall Road for most of the time I was at Dane.

@IlfordRetro 7 ай бұрын

That's still a bit of a trek from Riverdene/Uphall Road to get to Dane @@deniseharris4631 ! Uphall Road was sectioned off and renamed in the northern part in about 1975, so you're right it was Uphall for most of your time growing up. I wouldn't have fancied walking up/down the car park stairs to and from Centreway to be honest - they were a little bit grotty in latter days!

@deniseharris4631 7 ай бұрын

@@IlfordRetro @IlfordRetro yes, not too bad if I went up Ley Street to meet my friends, and didn't go along Cranbrook Road and up Wellesley Road on my own! Which was longer! Also I lived at number 12, so I was only 6 houses from the Roden Street end of Uphall, now Riverdene Road anyway. (My understanding was the catchment for Dane at that point ran to 2 roads over Ilford Lane! I.e. Bengal Road, Bedford Road and from those roads up across all the roads off the High Road and Green Lane) Yes, I remember that! Telling the school and the dentist I had a different address but we hadn't moved house! My parents got a letter informing of the change in the middle of 74. The original letter suggested an extra split! So still Riverdene for the Northern end and then Lowbrook for the next part! But then Wingate Road was going to be continued as a third part and a fourth part at the southern end kept as Uphall Road. It looks like the Wingate Road section didn't happen in the end! It was just split in 3 as Riverdene, Lowbrook and the last part remaining Uphall Road but changing its numbers. We at Riverdene Road kept our numbers. My address went from 12 Uphall Road to 12 Riverdene Road, as you say in 1975. Quite early in 1975, I was still at Dane then. Went to Loxford in the September of 1975. Yes it was. Till just turned 14. Ah. While 2 of my friends walked that way from Belmont Road to Dane, many times, I actually only walked that way with them once! And that was when we went back to visit Dane one afternoon late in 75 after we'd started Loxford. I remembered thinking it was a bit dark but lovely to see the roof of Dane again once we came out in the light the other side! Particularly as I really liked Dane and was not fully settled at Loxford yet!

@josephlambert6642 3 ай бұрын

I remember that cafe, from what I remember it was 2 sisters owned/ran that and another cafe down Ley Street just past the Red Cow pub.

@anthonyp6810 8 ай бұрын

For some reason I like 1982 so peaceful looking at the picture. Small houses where we I live are now converted to flats or hmo. What happened to the peaceful suburbs of Essex such a shame. Epping forest college had a huge car park now flats Still loving this channel

@IlfordRetro 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for continuing to support the channel @anthonyp6810 1982, as well as being a year in which we couldn't stop taking photos! - seems to be the final year before Ilford town centre really changed. The old buildings which had been given a death sentence by the council around 20 years earlier were then being pulled down and the tranquility you rightly speak of, began to disappear. Back then it was to build roads and car parks, these days there is such pressure on building homes, it remains that no piece of land is sacred.

@anthonyp6810 8 ай бұрын

Yup i agree. I don’t have a problem with new homes but flats where they’re not suitable. Green belt anyone who knows what it means well there’s no such thing now. @@IlfordRetro

@IlfordRetro 8 ай бұрын

I think many of us feel the same way as you @@anthonyp6810