brings tears to me eyes this.

I was born in plaistow, moved to Australia at 8years old, but have always rode the mad roller coaster of a west ham fan, this video was fantastic, Thankyou for sharing.. coyi.. come on Moyes.. a week to find a striker…

I'm from Liverpool although I support Tranmere Rovers from Birkenhead on the other side of The River Mersey ... I just want to say Thank You for your very interesting account of your formative years .... C.O.Y.I. All The Best

Fantastic history, I sometimes drive the 69 bus a pass Grange Road/ hermit Road and never knew about the history. Thank you very much.

Incredible information . ⚒⚒👏🏼👏🏼🤝👏🏼👏🏼⚒👏🏼

When you started to mention Hermit Road, Grange Road and Grange Park it brought back memories of my time in the early 60's when I attended Elizabeth Fry Disabled School which I think was located in Bethell Ave. We regularly visited Grange Park. I had no idea West Ham used to play their. My dad got me my first season ticket (£16) in 1969 for the new East Stand, which replaced the old Chicken Run, I had the same seat until 1994 hence my youtube name, great days never to be repeated, should never have left the Boleyn. Great Video's looking forward to part 3.

No idea why this came up on my feed but I'm glad it. I am a Leeds United fan,but this was a great story.and well narrated. Thank you.

That was fantastic... Great video my friend

Many thanks. Really well put together. Let's home The Irons stay where they belong - in the premier

Great history lesson Nige

History and West Ham United - two of my great passions. Absolutely fantastic work: Thanks, Nigel!

Thanks Nigel, great video

It’s interesting to see some of the teams on the old league sheets are in the premiership along with us , marvellous. Thanks for putting this out

We are a London Premier League side. We have average attendances bettered only by a couple of clubs. We are POTLESS ( X 2). 140 Years ago Arnold Hills wrote "The perpetual difficulty of West Ham is it's poverty, it is rich only in it's population."

Thanks nigel a great watch and i will be looking forward to watching all the new episodes

Thanks Nigel. What a great film, I really enjoyed it, and am looking forward to what comes next!

Cheers Nige fantastic video. Played for my junior school Gainsborough over the memorials and some of the best days of my life living around West ham buildings and the same over Hermit road. Great stuff mate.

really interesting video, I really wish West Ham all the best and that's from a QPR fan and that's even if you used to take the Loft during the 70's 😱😁

How has this channel only for less than 1000 followers. Brilliant stuff mate

I was born in Percy Rd Canning Town 1942. My Grandfather was racing cyclist and raced on the memorial ground track, he broke his nose coming off the banking when he ran into the rider in front, he rode his bike till he was in his late eighties.

Good history lesson. Interesting info even as a spurs fan!

Wow , never knew most of that . Been a fan 42 years. Great video and story's there. Too bad the story were currently in is not as good . Thank you . Up the hammers 'X'

Fantastic, so well researched. Been a supporter since 1962 growing up in Stratford and can't believe how much i didn't know! Never knew the Iron works actually made ships. So enjoyable, and very well done. COYI.

Brilliant Nigel. Thanks so much for your hard work, very interesting

Brilliant video, I knew about the iron works. But I didn't know about the some of the other parts of the video. Thank you very much for putting together COYI

Brilliant bit of important history, and very well presented, thanks mate.

Amazing vid. Well done. So detailed yet so interesting. Love this kind of stuff. Very much appreciated!

Beautiful bit of history , thank you .

Great video! It`s a pity you lot moved away from Upton Park. It was a scary place for me to go in the 80`s with Tottenham, but the atmosphere was always brilliant and exciting and very intimidating. I was often amazed how well organised your fans were, especially when you lot came the lane. I`ve never disliked West Ham as i always thought they were a good footballing side.

Wow super video with so much information of my Hammers history. I’ve been a fan for 70 years and now live in Canada but still follow them, I’ll be watching them play Man U I an a couple of hours. Thanks again for your video 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚒⚒🇨🇦

thank you for this video mate

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing.

Excellent Nigel 👍

Nice one Nigel 👍

Everyone should watch this

Great video 👍

Brilliant video .

Fantastic video... loved it

Quality 👍🏼 I lived in Manor Rd buildings opposite the Mems or the Memorial Grounds. The only thing I will say is West Ham is not Canning Town it’s a square mile inside the jurisdiction of Stratford and before West Ham Utd was invented the West Ham area already had the 2 crossed hammers in the church ward of West Ham. This is because the 2 main industries of the areas were ship building & Stratford rail way works. ⚒

Top video mate....really enjoyable ....COYI's

love this/ thanks

Fantastic Nigel and I look forward to the next episode...⚒⚒⚒⚒

Great video. Very informative

Nice work..love it.

I did know some of the original history of the Irons but this was a great & very informative summary. Looking forward to the next episodes.

Excellent work, cheers.. ⚒️

When Sir Donald Currie - founder of The Castle Shipping Company - moved his operations from Liverpool to London in 1892 he started a football team - amongst his employees - who eventually became Old Castle Swifts. He paid his players thus making them the first professional club in Essex. In 1895 he constructed a simple enclosure on Hermit Road but withdrew the funding at the end of the season. Old Castle Swifts then folded.

Excellent story and very well told!

That’s a top video .... brilliant history storytelling.

Great video - many thanks for putting it together. On another historical note, I’ve heard that the animosity between West Ham and Millwall fans dates back to the General Strike of 1926. I’d definitely be interested in watching a video about that!

Thanks for that,keep on doing what you are doing.great stuff.

⚒ Brilliant video

Brilliant video , learnt a lot

Brilliant vid - really interesting and really well put together 👏

An excellently produced early history of the club who became West Ham!

Quality video mate, cheers 👍

Interesting stuff. Cheers.

I have supported west ham my whole life

Is there a part 2 ?? Great video !! COYI ⚒

very good and alot of stuff in there i never knew thank you

Excellent vid! COYI 💪

The original Essex team , only became an East London team in 1965

Brilliant

Great video, great graphics and pictures and lovely narration. Thoroughly enjoyed that. My only constructive criticism is the sound quality isn't great. Get a better mic and these will be top, top notch. Other than that it was an all round highly informative and brilliantly put together video on the proud history of our club. Well done! COYI

Brilliant storyline Nigel thanks for that a great reference piece and well put together images too. Can you re-do the audio?

Thank you

Great video/ info ,& i love the old footage , I remember my granda telling me about Warrior , I was a teenager and tbh not that interested, ( I think its same with most people, after our grandparents die we wish we'd asked about all sorts of things) I was more interested in hearing about his father my great granda , a bare knuckle fighter well known around poplar bow & east London in general, A copper , Nixon ( who created & became boss of Thames river police) wrote his biography after he retired & he spends a few pages talking about my great granda , "Moggie O'Reilly ' he reckons he saved his life as a young Bobby on the beat, My great granda heard a commotion down the warf and saw 5/6 lads kicking the granny out of the young Bobby , he knocked them all out & dragged the copper back into the street lights & gave him a bollocking for being a stupid fool going down there alone ( cop heard a noise then seen them robbing stuff & tried arresting them) he writes moggy didn't like the police, always having run ins with each other, but he also hated un fair fights no matter who it was. Sadly my great granda died quite young late 30s I believe, It was a punch to the throat , crushed windpipe he couldn't breathe . 😟 but it was how he earned his money, his wife my great grandmother was a money lender, a tough old girl , pics remind me of andy capp's wife flo , rollers or a headscarf , a short squat tough looking woman, I guess she had to be lending money & buying jewellery in east end.. Soz about my memory lane, this area reminds me of them & living with my grandparents. Really enjoyed the video ⚒⚒👍

Well done, getting put on film m8 !!

COYI 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Every single Hammers fan needs to see this, especially young ones. I've just sent it to my 10 year old Grandson

I know your a hammer but would love to see similar videos of other teams like this, you could make a series

That was excellent work, mate. When's the next episode?

So are we never gettin a second episode?

So west ham utd is made up of 4 clubs. Thames iron works combined with old castle swifts and st lukes in 1895 taking their kit colurs when they took over the hermit road ground and then later joined with the boleyn castle club (boleyn ground) in 1904? where they obtained the castle?

Long life to Hammers

I grew up along the same road as Hermit Road. Stone the crows mate!

COME ON YOU IIIIIIRONS.

A have to say this to get it out the way but when i saw titanic in the ground it some what looked real. And its still bigger than the stadium. But all people have did is run it down. Its buried 50ft into the sea bed so it would really look huge in west ham just in height alone by so far, plus its over 100 years old at the bottom of the sea. If brand knew again this huge ship would be longer than old trafford, anfield and wembley. And would also be to wide to even fit inside wembley, and would still be much higher up at least twice over. But the 3d scan does look a bit real, but even half of it would be far to big for west ham in length and width, even today at 50ft buried into the sea bed. And so much of it has been eaten away. Ye cant help but still look at it. Its got a presence about it. In ten years it will look really bad and not as big. Well thats until you go on it and it would amaze you how big it really is. Remember it was the length of 3 parks and the width of a park and the height went into the clouds.

125th!

up the hammers

Not brief enough

Na, West Ham United stopped on the 10th of May 2016 just most West Ham fans haven’t worked that out. What exists now ain’t West Ham!

Better at building ships than football. More successful anyway...

Money has destroyed the game. Every current West Ham player a multi millionaire and doubt any of them give a damn about the club, never mind their rich history. It will never be the same and has lost its soul.

sort the rubbish audio out!!!!

Small club, poor football. Saying rubbish like the season should be null and void, get relegated and piss off