Interesting to see the before and after . Thanks again for the info

Lovely times

Yay! ‘Slop Outs’ as we used to call it. They always used to do lock ins, and rather than use the tills they’d stick a pint glass on the bar and for a pint of Holsten we’d stick a quid in the glass. Would’ve been, I think, maybe ‘86 or ‘87? Hmm. I can’t quite recall, but we’d all trudge there when the Cauliflower kicked out.

Love these videos. I went to Alalees in late 1982 but I can't remember it being on the corner then, the entrance was in the side street and it was a tiny place, you went in through the door into a corridor and the one bar was on the right, a bit later on they had another bar, but that was on the left so further from the corner.....? Saying that, my memory is crap.....

i grow up in oakland park ave in the 70s went to st peters and pauls then dane . this made me emotional lol

I remember playing asteroids pinball and other games there then going over the road to the ABC to catch a movie..

Another great video; could you go about a mile eastwards and do a video on jakes burgers by seven kings Station .it's been there for 50 years with no change in signage, banner or decor! It's like going back in time

From the late 70's I knew the family very well who owned Ilford Radio cars. The owner lived at the top of Tomswood hill Barkingside and had a transmission aerial on top of his house which was connected via an early kind of internet to the office @ 281 & consequently 315 high road Ilford. Ilford cars had the best reception in east London and on good days ( weather permitting) they could receive messages out as far as Heathrow and was a very successful mini cab business. But with the slow and inevitable upsurge of fly by night competitors and their constant undercutting of fares the business started to struggle and so in the early 2000's his son decided to sell the business for a piffling amount (which included the good will it had built up over the years) to a consortium made up of the Asian drivers that had worked there. I don't know what happened to the business after 1999 but it looks like they struggled before giving up. None of this is confidential as the original owner sold his house at the top of Tomswood hill and retired to the coast in the early 2000's and has sadly since passed away.

Sorry but I do not remember these places ... in those days I rarely visited this part of Ilford. But I do remember some of the computer / video games. Its just that I was too busy working to play them!

oof i used to go to bee jays when i was young play rtype and a few other games ,remember the guy in it covered head to toe in tattoos that took me back🙂

Any chance of doing something similar to Cranbrook Road by the park where Lords nightclub used to be? That would be fantastic....