Nice profile picture. x

Coyg !

Yes our lovely east end has long gone , I was born in tramway Avenue Stratford Hospital , and lived all over the east end , and always supported the mighty O’s

@@richbutler718 not quite an East Ender Rich ! Stratford the other side of the river Lee but close enough 👍

@@tommylucy4738 lived in Mile End from birth until I was 14. , then moved to custom house , then Leytonstone ( which was the place I liked best ) the Walthamstow , just a bit more Then North Chingford , My dad used to takes us down the lane 👍 on sundays early 60s after we waited outside the pub while he had a couple of beers , then on the way home cockles and shrimps for Sunday tea , he used to like the Bancroft Arms , but we liked the Old Globe , because we could sit in the back yard there !

oh do give over

I grew up on the island in the 60s, we didn't have much of enything really, but it was great, blue bridge one way and a wait, iron bridge the other way round and down poplar high St, I lived in stebandale St

Nice to hear. Where I grew up in Wandsworth was v.ordinary (not poor exactly). Some poeple kept their house key on a string inside the letter box, for security ! People in an established community watch out for all. The slums needed clearing, but loss of community was part of the price.

colin glen Lucky bastard he only gave me a nicker for six hours Lol

Liar

Mick Coplen y

Your poem is racist my friend, take a bow...

The audio is not bad at all. It is clear and the emotion is palpable. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and the photos.

@@phantomspiritxx Why do you think it's racist?

We used to leave our front door unlocked-never did find out who nicked the lock!

@@TheNobbynoonar eternal optimist, did you try asking the locksmiths ?

@@TheNobbynoonar You were lucky, we couldn't afford a front door.

Absolutely right! I couldn't understand when a few years ago shops everywhere started selling " bagels"..... and then I twigged; " bigel" was just the way it was pronounced with a Yiddish accent. Bigels was what my dad bought on his way home from work. Didn't like 'em myself.

Yes John glad some one else can remember also

Don’t forget the stewed eels!

Bluetoothmod so very wrong to send working class Londoners to live in other cities as London councils don't have affordable homes for them. Sent away from the city that is their home and the infrastructure of their families. Shameful

I totally agree with you. I think the same every time I see a war memorial.....

yea mate i can only agree

Omg.I was born in walthamstow and have lived in leytonstone since I was 4.Thats nearly 50 years ago now.

Lyn Pebbles Rennick Thanks for the nice comments. Mick Coplen

I was also born in Stoke Newington and I'm a north Londoner. The clue is in the post codes; N16 and N4!

Stokey is not East End it's Norf.

Why are you complaining…many of those starving white people went to Essex where houses now cost £500k and higher!! In east London you were living in filth poverty

Even worse!!?? I dont think so !

Paul Hayward DEFINITELY not worse, in fact, nowhere near. Back in those days, if you didn’t or couldn’t work, you had to rely on family, friends or charities such as the Salvation Army to survive. Even those not considered poor would live on food such as bread and dripping and cuts of meat most unemployed people wouldn’t touch nowadays. Rationing didn’t end until 1954. Slum housing was common. People in general were poor but proud. When I see lazy, obese people moaning about how hard they’ve got it nowadays, I wonder how this country got it so wrong- people who’ve never worked a day, popping out kids, ordering takeaways, new phones etc...only a very wealthy and morally corrupt nation could afford or allow such things.

We didn’t know we were poor, good plain food, playing outside (mostly on bomb sites). Everyone was the same, nobody had more than there neighbours, homemade clothes, dad even made me a scooter, jacko skates , dandy and beano at the weekend.

@@poppycrust6871 It may not be as bad for some of us now, but believe me, poverty now is every bit as bad as it was then. My family was dirt poor, from the East End, but we did alright after the war, mainly due to the Socialist governments we used to have. They made it possible for working class people to get a better education, better housing, better more well paid jobs. We haven't had a Socialist government in over 40 years now, and desperate poverty is back again. Foodbanks everywhere. People sleeping on the streets. It's not right in one of the richest nations on the planet.

@@TheNobbynoonar There were lazy people back then too. Many people who have jobs are eating from foodbanks today, because they don't earn enough. It's not quite the same as the 1930's but the poverty is as bad.

ago wa, Nice one

That is what a global empire gets you. These fools laud themselves with their ancestors' achievements but don't want to deal with the aftermath. Bunch of deluded clowns playing the victim card.

You blew no one away, we was stabbed in the back by our supposedly own people, your only there a their pets. Remember that.

bullsht

@@mr-wk1pf il except your observation which i know is correct😊

And it won't be long before some gentrification team find out about it, price the poor woman who owns it out, knock it down and build an Islamic centre or apartment block that none of us, the working class, can afford

A round Jewish roll that looks like a ring doughnut. Not a baygel.

It is a bagel, but the East Enders pronounced it "Bigel"

That’s progress for you!