Comments on: East End Beanos

By: Susanna Kaiser

Susanna Kaiser — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:11:08 +0000

l love this! I have never heard the term “beano” but I now have the idea I think. Perhaps our American company picnics (workplace summer outing) from this era would have been similar, but without the accordions unfortunately. What a wonderful time that must have been- great post!

By: Christine Reardon

Christine Reardon — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:04:25 +0000

What a wonderful collection of photos. Thank you for sharing. I’m pretty sure that’s my grandad in the first one, ‘Stepney in the twenties’ – top right, with his elbow on the charabanc. I would love to see the photo in a higher resolution just to be sure, if that’s at all possible?

By: Geri Caruso

Geri Caruso — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:34:27 +0000

I absolutely love these pictures….. The men for almost all outings in suits! and the women with hair fairly short and off their faces…..so you can see those lovely smiles. Interestingly…. what would pictures of similar trips look like now if you could even get groups of this kind together and headed in the same direction.

By: Mathilde Grange

Mathilde Grange — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:46:39 +0000

Beanos… What a great name. They must have been so much fun.

By: Mick Kahn

Mick Kahn — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:32:37 +0000

Good to see accordions in a number of the pictures. Evidence of some singing on the coaches….

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:15:47 +0000

Great photos of an almost lost world. Even the image of the ladies outside the Prince Albert looks really dated, and yet the 60s and early 70s were a fab time for me.

By: Judith Page

Judith Page — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 06:23:53 +0000

I remember from my childhood in the 50s it was a tradition for children to wait by the coach for pennies to be thrown into the road before departure