Yeah. and not a single Burka clad Ninja cartoon to be seen on the streets !!

+Barry Allen Thank you for your comments, I'm pleased you enjoyed the video, best of luck.

.........and no multiculturalism.

Lord Red To be fair, without multiculturalism in East London, it would never have been such a successful, international place it is today with all the tourism and global stores/companies set up in places like Stratford. In the 60's, it was just Pie, mash and white people not much to celebrate

Go Trippy . . . . You're right and i like your style . . . .but the Thames is tidal and the changes will come in until it freezes again . . :) .

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+Td K I have mentioned Andersons on a few forums and asked if anyone remembered it - this is the first time I have seen someone else mention it. I remember getting shoes there in the 70s and paying weekly.

Reckon that's what my nan was doing. She brought up four kids on her own as my gramps died young and she was used to making her money stretch.

Jeez, pease pudding and a saveloy, and Chrisp street market. My mum used to take me up there on the trolly. Remember the pie & mash shop, they used to have live eels. If I was lucky I'd have a stewed eel for tea. At that time we lived in Repton house Caley street, right opposite Caley school. We moved there from Forester street, just off the Mile End road. I remember playing on the bomb sites around Stepney Green & Stepney Way, with my cousin Derek, he died young. I feel a little sad seeing what's happened to the East End.

I miss pie and mash. I had some in Romford recently... Better than nothing! When we lived in Leyton the pie and mash at Walthamstow was nice and they used to sell the eels outside in a big plastic bin and would lop their heads off on a blood covered wooden block.

Td K I live in Ireland, now have done for twenty years (no Irish connections at all). All my family are buried in Manor Park cemetery, my younger brothers ashes are just scattered there. \all the eels sold in London, come from Ireland, or Holland, can't buy a eel in Ireland at all, but we can get Dutch rollmops (pickled herrings). Ireland it's a bit like the East End, people help each other, and muck in. Peace and Love.

No mass immigration then do not many chavs and shanking around.

Thank you for your interest, I can assure you there are a large number of park's and open spaces in East London but I did not include them in this video as parks tend to change very little and would not be a good subject to use for illustrating the dramatic transformation that has taken place in this part of London, also, as an aside to this, most of the pictures I used come largely from the 1950s and 60s, and at that time large areas of East London was still littered with bomb site's from WW2 and many children of that era (myself included) would be far more likely to play on those areas offering adventure and even danger than the relatively "sterile" environment of a conventional park, I hope this adequately answers your enquiry, I wish you well.

Thanks, spiritoveradversity...I bet you kids had fun looking over what had been bombed.

+Sue Elias When you talk about 'parks' in a discussion about London's East End, it's important to remember that we're talking about a patch of grass the size of a few football pitches with some tress and bushes if you were lucky. My friends and I would take our bikes and play on 'Beckton Dump' and take a walk along the 'Sewer Bank'. These were the early 70's and playing footie in the local park meant our ball would regularly go over the wall or fence into Brampton Junior School/The Jewish Cemetery or Lonsdale Avenue. Either way would require taking your life in your hands to retrieve it. I don't think I saw enough trees to obscure a road somewhere until I was about 13?

Mickey P. Is this because it is a "poor" side of town? Or would that be true everywhere in London? (Where I live, its not like that, trees are very important)! Was the air stale?

It was always the poor side of London. Greenery was never an important consideration in the East End but there were a few green areas, even small woods, if you looked hard enough but you could always hear the traffic. I never noticed the air quality being stale but heavy traffic definitely pumped out the carbon monoxide and, back then, lead. Before my time, London had 'pea-souper' fogs caused by excessive coal burning. Those 'smogs' killed a large number of people on a regular basis, even as late as the post WW11 era. I believe they stopped in the '50's when the Clean Air Act was passed and 'smokeless zones' were introduced.

Fack aff ya cant!!!!!!