Comments on: Tony Bock’s Farewell To The East End

By: Murray Wayne Rumohr

Murray Wayne Rumohr — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:33:41 +0000

I am from Canada. I lived the summer of 1973 in Eastbourne House in Bethnal Green. A more socially involved and simpler time. We were fixing the large building up to be a community center.
Remembered as one of the best times of my life. I was back years later to see the project had been finished. I moved from there to live with the squatters so that I could work and earned enough money to fly to Australia. I enjoyed the area and only found out years later that it was supposed to be a troubled area.

By: JesseK

JesseK — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:27:47 +0000

I’m desperately trying to find any photos of where my great nan & my nan lived:
33 Mansford Buildings, Bethnal Green (circa 1926)
9 Paradise Row, Bethnal Green (1910-1935)
27 Hollybush Gardens, Bethnal Green (1880-1900)
21 Camden Street, Bethnal Green (1890)
17 Digby Walk, Bethnal Green/Hackney/Stepney (1920’s-1930’s)
11 Pott Street, Bethnal Green (1890-1910)
21 Pott Street, Bethnal Green (1890-1900)
3 Waterloo Terrace, Bethnal Green/Hackney/Stepney (1910-1936)
INSIDE & OUT of flats (especially 7 & 27) Gilman House, Emma Street, Bethnal Green off Hackney Road/Pritchards Road (1930-1960)

By: Peter Spall.

Peter Spall. — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:33:44 +0000

The steps that are written down as Hackney Wick are in Old Ford leading down from Wick Lane to Dace Road, I lived in Dace Road from 1950 until I emigrated to Australia in 1970 as a ten pound Pom, the best memories of my life are growing up in the East End, I still think of it the way it was and not what it’s become.

By: Meryl Santis

Meryl Santis — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:45:55 +0000

I lived in 26 Belhaven Street and had to move out due to the road’s demolition, sad and lovely nostalgic photos, many thanks

By: Meryl Santis

Meryl Santis — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:44:18 +0000

I lived in Belhaven Street and had to move out due to the road’s demolition, sad and lovely nostalgic photos, many thanks

By: sylvia jarvis

sylvia jarvis — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:31:21 +0000

My mums family lived at 23 Belhaven st for many years,i also lived there for a year as a baby until 1956,but my nan stayed there until approx 1966.There surname was Gordon.The neighbour s name was mrs day but bot sure if that was 22 or 24.
I remember the wired playground at the entrance to the street and a train line behind the small paved garden.
My nan used to frequent the Queen victoria pub(often lol) on the busy main road.
Loved visiting the east end,and also Alloway road and tredegar terrace where aunties lived.

By: Jo Lisa Dukaric

Jo Lisa Dukaric — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:24:43 +0000

Wonderful photos. I have no relationship to London, or Britain at all. I’m from Australia, however I have always had an affinity for London, particularly the Victorian-era. I’ve visited London twice, staying on a converted Dutch barge at Poplar dock, and I insisted on staying in the East End on my second visit. I walked around seeking out pre WWII buildings, specifically from mid-to-late 1800’s. It’s an odd feeling to miss a place that you’ve no connection to in a time long before you were born.

By: Maureen Knight

Maureen Knight — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:13:38 +0000

A very interesting site which I found by chance while searching for info on Belhaven St.

Does anyone know who was living at no. 22 in 1968 ?

By: Trevor Franklin

Trevor Franklin — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:10:09 +0000

The picture of the corner shop in Plaistow is of the old sweet shop that was owned by Mrs Sparks.
It was on the corner of Chesterton Road and Swete Street, directly opposite the outpatients entrance of the old Plaistow maternity hospital (now demolished)

By: Sharon Ablett

Sharon Ablett — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 05:21:03 +0000

I’d love to see more photos of the East End. My ancestors as far back as the 1760s came from there. My grandmother was born on Hanbury Street in 1885, grandfather born in West Ham on Leytonstone Road and many more. My mother’s cousin took care of the draught horses at Truman’s Brewery and they lived there for many years on Brick Lane. I also come from Toronto and go back to England every couple of years, visiting the East End among other places. Other streets I remember are Connor Street, Hackney; Artillery Street, Bethnal Green and All Saints Church on Buxton Road.

Thanks for the great photos.