Its a different world completely ! Born in the East end back in 57.I'm proud of my birth place ! But the heart has been ripped out of it.

Lovely to see the old East end..breaks my heart to see it now

My granddad came from Poplar and I was born at Mile End hospital within the sound of the Bow bells. I moved out of London in 2007. But you can take the girl out of London, but you can never take London out of the girl! 😉

Architects, planners and sociologists should be ashamed of themselves for ripping the heart out of our cities

I want to go back in time where my parents were a live had such great times i miss them so much may they both rest in peace 😔😔😪😪

I have always been fascinated with the East End of London. I am from Chicago and read a lot about the East End from the Victorian Jack the Ripper days to the London blitz , the Krays, all of it. I wanted all of my life to visit London, not to visit the landmarks but to meet the people of the East End the down to earth ,tough , spirited Cockneys that gave the area it's flair and soul. I finally realized my dream of visiting London in 1986. I've been told that around this time the traditional East End people started moving out. It's tragic to me that the old East End has lost it's soul and charm and I did not grow up there. And I envy you Londoners that grew up on the streets of Bow, Poplar, Whitechapel, Mile End etc before it changed. It must have been a terrific place to be a kid..

My grandad was from Bethnal Green and nanny from Poplar great grandparents from Limehouse. Looking at these photos brought a tear to my eye and makes me want to go home. Thank you for sharing them

The old East End. !! Wonderful place ! Bit rough but it was our rough !!

Its not only London which has changed I am a Geordie and Newcastle is awful today too Glad I am leaving this world not coming into it thank you

I'm a Whitechapel. boy as were my ancestors back to 1640. Haven't been back for 25 years, I couldn't stand to see what the bastards had done to the East End.

My grandfather came to New Zealand in 1910 from the UK. The address in his prayer book was 16 Hale Street, London. He was just 16 years old when he was sent here to work on farms in the South Island and never saw his family again. I have used Google maps to look at the address as it us today but wondered if you have any photos if Hale Street from a few years back? Would love to visit the UK one day and go to the places that would have been so familiar to my grandpop. Thank you for those you have put together here.

I can’t really say that it’s improved for the better, certainly none of the old characters that you would have had then, proper people salt of the earth. I had pleasure of meeting some of them. Thank you for allowing me to reminisce.

I used to work in Poplar Hospital in the 1970s and when Keith Joseph closed the hospital it was a depressing time. I used to go to the pub opposite but can't remember the name of it. Happy days now the whole area has changed beyond recognition and that is sad. The East End had a soul and character. Sadly gone forever. The London Docklands Development Corporation didn't bother with the rights of the local population and just run rough shod over them, disgusting.

Thank you for allowing us all these old memories recreated in such fine photographs. Lovely atmospheric music too.

I've shared that with my Dad, who was born in that area in 1941... Hes a real cockney, born in Stepney, within the sound of Bow Bells. Thanks so much for the video creation and upload 👍

For all we have attained, we have lost oh so much.

I was born and grew up - POPLAR. .....call The Midwife!!!!!!

Yes it does bring back many happy memories thank you Grew up there just above the butchers in Christ St Market I don’t think any of the pubs are there now

My nan & grandad used to live on Copenhagen Place, off East India Dock Rd, then off Pixley Street, Popular - I missed those days so much, especially the park bang opposite their house. Fun times. "Thanks" for the upload.

was shopping in that Chrisp St market just recently, and met some elderly eastenders at a lunch in a local church - still heart beating

Some lovely photos there. I bet they stir a lot of memories, well done.

Proud to be an East Ender !

My late mum was born in benthal green she learnt me few London says as I was born I colchester Essex

Great place to live Bethnal Green back in the 50s

No real EastEnders left there now ,only the new arrivals , bit of history gone forever

Poplar where my dad was born George George Nuth

Oh boy this is pure England Top 👍

Many thanks for sharing all of those pictures brought back loadsa great memories My Mum was a true Cockney born in the sound of Bow Bells Passed away only this January 2022 She absolutely Loved the East End Just hated the 2nd world war as everybody did back then. But thank God that is over with.👍👍👍👍👍👍

Thank you all for all the likes glad you enjoyed it.

Tears in my eyes, What happened? I went to St Saviors and left in 1964. Where has it gone?

Hi Brian, Nice go back and remember, Met the Wife , married in All Saints, worked on robin hood garden s,Nice the good old days , All the Best Brian 🤗

Tears in my eyes.

Grew up on the Brownfield estate and went to Cardinal Griffin school . Brought back lovely memories 😁

My dad was born in Poplar yes always saw the horse and cart gave the horse cube sugar for a treat wonderful

Thank you for a really nice, evocative video!

Thank you for the video even though I’m Scot my Aunty , Uncle and Cousin Eleanor ( Ellen) and her husband Derek Gray stayed in Blackwall Buildings and many a happy holiday I had in the late 60s. Eleanor now stays in Wager St. and again great times we had there

Tens or maybe even hundreds of thousands of victorian terraced houses, like those at Vallance Road were destroyed during WW2 or were demolished in the late 1940's onwards. There are still a fairly large number of similar houses still standing, and they have usually been fully refurbished and renovated and now sell for amazing amounts of money.

Thankyou for showing us the pictures.

Wow! It was soooooooo beautiful back then! 😢😢😢😢

Not a Brit, just an Anglophile here. Very nice video. Love the music too. Cheers!

Thankyou for sharing Brian.

I lived in the East End from 1982 till 2001 in Poplar & Bow On the Lansbury Estate in a 2 Bedroom Maisonette the living room was 21ft long and 12ft wide. Oh the party's We had with all our neighbours' it was fantastic. oh those were the day's. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I use to love going down the East End where my family came from I missed out as we became 8 orphans

absolutely excellent video -thankyou

Them were the days we all lived happily ever after

So many nice old buildings destroyed by Hiltlers bombs and so many more destroyed by bad developments

Walked those streets so many times in the 60's 70's and 80's. Lovely memories. Went back recently and couldn't wait to run away

When I look at video's like this it makes me wanna cry iam born and bred in poplar on the burdett Estate in 1967 I still live in the east end but not in Tower hamlet's but I'm looking too get out I can't take it no more. 😢

I remember the Bender family.

Post war era and it's still cleaner than today...

Mum would bring me to Chrisp St market every week.

Home 🖤

How sad. It’s nothing like this today.

Sad to see the decline of East London. I would never go there now. I also lived there a while. Horrible place now !

No more hero’s anymore...........

Lovely to see How we were😊

Thank you!

My parents were married at the Poplar civic.

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London is gradually becoming a soulless city and a place where only the very rich can afford too live, What's left of the council housing is being gradually sold off and demolished and replaced with apartment blocks that locals will never be able to afford,

Bethnal Green & PROUD 👍. Born in Bethnal Green Hospital in early 1971. Lived in Old Ford Rd.

Thanks. Very nice indeed.

Great Days,so sad to see it now.

Any videos of Upton Park and Eastham?

Chrisp Street has gone a lot smaller.

poplar and bow are east london . Stepney Shadwell Whitechapel true East End

i went to langdon park school in poplar left in 77 any one went there

Thank you💕💕💕💕💕

im obsessed with anything from the East end, in particular between the 50's-70's era. I feel in my past life if I was born in England its there I would want to live. Have watched im pretty sure everything there is on KZfaq, does anyone have any recommendations encase I have missed something?

i was born castor street poplar e14.

The best time to live in East End was from 1933 to 1939

poplar and bow is east london stepney shadwell is true eastend

Can i just correct an error, you named it Poplar Theatre Cinema its correct name was Popular Cinema Theatre in the Commercial Road. I was born in 1952, lived in Gill St and schooled in the Cyril Jackson school in Northey St and would like to here from any person who shared this background.

Where is Nonnatus House?

Anyone remember st Mathias school poplar

Anyone know the name of the beautiful music piece playing in this video?

Not a Hijab or Burka to be seen..

Harold Wilson was the one that tore down our old cities to replace them with multi tower blocks.

Not a single burka wearing ninja cartoon to be seen in the old photos !!

Some of these photos are of the place and time of "Call the Midwife."

any one went to langdon park school in the 70s i left in 77.

look no foreigners

Chrisp Street Market has become a run down shadow of its former self a bit like the whole area really...

It’s changed so much over the years I don’t recognise the place anymore and I’m not a fan of the gentrification of the area it’s not my east end anymore and the johny come latelys ain’t my people the pubs and characters that frequented them r no longer there I loved it the way it was a bit rough round the edges with proper people around u alas the genie is out the bottle now and I can’t ever c it going back even the cockney accent is dying out if u go round that manor now ull barely hear true east end accent anymore the influx of people from the shires buying up all the old terraced housing has pushed the house prices through the roof and made them unattainable to the few locals that still remain shame cos it’s changed the whole demographic of the area and like I said ,for me ,not for the better I know I sound a bit bitter here and there’s a reason for that and it’s because I am I wish it was the way it was back then in the 60,s 70,s and 80,s

Oh how it's changed it's so sad 😟😟😟😟😟😟😟😟 Opps so sorry meant too say that My front room was by 21ft long by 12ft wide lol lol

welfare towers are soooo depressing.

eww chrisp street market. same old building there now and a dirty co-op

Stripped of our identity. London is shit now it's so sad

Now more migrants than English people ,good old days sadly gone,,,

Worked in poplar and Isle of Dogs in 80’s,great down to earth people MOT ALAW

Born in fern Street, bow in1952 delivered b y the nonartus house midwifes

Definitely had the heart ripped out all for greed !!