I’m not sure why, but I find myself obsessed/fascinated by these little British films depicting London in the 1970s (films such as this one and a few having to do with council houses and tower blocks/brutal architecture). I’m American and have visited the UK a few times, but have no connection to this stuff. Makes me wish I had been from there. Anyway, cheers...thanks a lot.🇬🇧🇺🇸
me too and yet i live in New Zealand. The tenement housing in particular/wash houses are brilliant.Hearty people back then,now the world is full of snow flakes.
Hey Guys i live in one of those old parts of london and i research the history of the architecture ,history and insane growth of the city which caused so much of the problems. Thinking of starting a channel
Spent nearly 10 years working in the Old Spitalfields Market from 2009 to about 2018. Great memories here with my Mum while working here. Glad I came across this video. 1970s and 2000s, what a difference in time. Nostalgic.
when was 14 I started work on a stall in brick lane..40yrs later im still there..love the east end..not the same but still love it..Good little film put together nicely..well done .:)
+hackneysman Hi , im interested by your comment as I'm doing a research project about brick lane - would you be available to answer some questions ? thanks :)
I was a police officer at Leman Street at the time of the making of this film and remember all the places very well. I spent a lot of time around Spitalfields (including the market hours pub off night duty !) and nicking the pickpockets and unlicenced street trader in Petticoat lane before joining the CID and moving onto Limehouse and Bow Road. It was a fantastic place to work as a police officer there and I experienced more in a week than some people experience in a lifetime. As the News of the world used to say "All human life is here". Ignore all the stupid comments about the politics and the commentary as most are ill judged, racist or just plain irrelevant and enjoy the film for what it is: A look into the past at a area changed forever. Full marks to the film maker for capturing a slice of history.
ROY TYZACK but why is it changed forever and has it changed for the better? i dont think so. more n more natives are being pushed out of these areas i dont think its racist to want to be surrounded by your own people as the guy above me said.
Than goodness someone was taking the trouble to film around this area, that at the time, was a largely forgotten part of East London, so that people of later generations have a permanent reference by which to compare the changes of the modern era, I recognize quiet a few faces in this film, one of whom I still see, good work.
My Grandmother had a store called Lee's Electrical at 77 Brick Lane. It was near Joe Rothmans sweet shop and almost kitty corner to hanbury street. I spent many a weekend there and much of my summers from 1969-1977. She passed away in 1985, the store was taken over by my uncle and then lost the lease due to modifications to the façade that were outside the scope of agreement. It then became a clothing store and is now Curry bizarre. On a side note, the central line runs under the north west portion of the store and you can hear it when it travels underneath.
Remember it well, we bought our first radio there. The piece of crap lasted all of three weeks. Good job we stopped making goods over here. I think they realised the Germans and Japanese were light years ahead of us.
There's no truer saying in this world that, "nothing stays the same forever". Market traders that once sold apples and pears have now been replaced by market traders that sell stocks, shares, futures and other complexed financial contracts and investment vehicles. In my humble opinion the East End has not changed for the better. Much of their crime is driven by locals that seen immense wealth pour into the area, but have no access to it.
Well, to tell the truth, urban regeneration is a necessity for every area in everyday life, otherwise the entire country would fall into decay. You only have to watch documentaries about Victorian slums to realise this.
I was born in grosvenor buildings next to the blackwall tunnel poplar tower hamlets up to eleven years old , best years of my life ps my good ole nan had a greengrocers in St. Leonard's rd poplar bless, all gone now , different world !
I used to get the bus to Shoreditch in 1971/2. When I was about 11 I used to love club row and all the markets, I never had any grief it was an amazing place, it was full of Teddy boys and I remember when the punk scene filtered into the area and the Ted's and punks would row generally chasing each other through the lanes, I can even remember the skinhead punk shop the last resort in Brick lane, many years later I was with a mate sitting in a pub called the foundry it was freezing, Camden had become stale my mate was saying this place is going to take off, I wasn't convinced within 3 to 4 year's it was brilliant then soon after that all the would be cool crowd came along and fucked it, now it's full of knobs and suits oh well...
Life does seem better when you look back to your youth anyway.. I remember the 70s seeming a bit grey and grimey ,but life in general was happier,and people got out more...especially kids,,stuck in the house glued to the web today..
and if you told the bloke who made this that some idiot would open a cafe selling bowls of breakfast cereal for £3 a bowl, his jaw would have dropped and he too would have shook his head in dismay
I grew up in Wales and have recently been tracing my ancestors. My maternal and paternal grandfathers and their descendants all came from: Wapping, Whitechapel, Bow, Mile End Old Town, Bethnal Green, Stepney.. as far back as the 1700s. I guess that makes me a bit of a Cockney since I've always loved the East End with or without all its problems...
You have to have been born within the sound of the Bow bells to qualify, that rules out Welshmen but rules in everybody born in Bangla Town (Brick lane area).
This is fascinating, seeing the tramps and makeshift prefab homes, at least many of the Victorian streets were still the same back then, now it's unrecognisable. Thanks for capturing the grim side of the 70s, not many go to these places... great film... please check out my East End footage from 1988.
@Houston's mccaine London has become a playground for the rich. Look how boring it's become, all the districts are starting to look identical with the coffee shops and vintage boutiques.
@Matty Kumar The developers don't really come into it, around hipster (hackney) central there's not an awful lot of developers, it's property owners realising they can charge more for the rent on their flats, those without jobs cannot afford it.
Well remember the animal market, sad sight of the shivering puppies and tortosies piled in to a large sack, and the fast talking sales men tossing plates in the air-------different world.
I can see why it won an award, interesting subject with a half sensible commentary, it's a bit like common sense, it's not so common now, thanks for the video.
Back in the days when the working poor could afford go to the pub on the Friday with your workmates,get the fish and chips, play rent or mortgage. You didn't need universal credit for help towards your rent because your pay is to low like nowadays.
I wonder if the pay was low or if people lived to their means and didn't have houses full of crap they didn't need? No mobile phones, not many houses had a tv or a washing machine. People had what they had and made the most of it
Truthbtold Wright I agree with your comment .The working class had better wages and working conditions in the 1970s.When I tell the younger people that I work with they think I’m mad.
Hi James - I'm working on a film which includes a section about Brick Lane and am hoping you might allow us to use a small portion of your 'Around Brick Lane OK' film in our own? The footage is brilliant and we think would work perfectly in our film. Would be great to hear back from you either way. Best wishes. Robin.
Dear James, I wonder if you have a contact address I can get you on to talk about this and your collection? Beautiful stuff! I'm an archivist/researcher based in Sheffield.
I was squatting at Longfellow Rd at this time. Does anyone have any film or photos of the street. It was a well organized squat with a cooperative shop and street parties.
If I remember correctly, spiritofadversity, the jubilee (in all probability, the Queen's Silver Jubilee) was in 1977, not in 1976, so the washing line should have come before the jubilee bunting, not after.
Hi James, I hope you are well. We are making a short film about London in 1976 and I wonder if we could access a short clip from your lovely film? Do please let me know as soon as you can. Thank you, Ed
It still is. If you don't think it is maybe you should clear off to Spain or some other European fishing village you traitors go to. Expats are the worst scroungers, they leave here, spend all their cash in Spanish bars getting pissed up on Sangria for years on end then when they break their hip they suddenly love Britain again and come back to use the NHS they haven't paid any tax towards for years and years. I can't stand my own people running down my country.
@Mick Burns I'm 100% English and my family can trace themselves back to King Alfred times. Britain is not a shit hole and it never will be. No where have I said I agree with mass immigration unchecked, all I'm saying is I get fed uo with people like you running our country down. Go and live somewhere else no one's forcing you to stay here. Break a leg in American and then try to use a hospital. As for '4 million Romanians' being here that's utter bullshit. Do let us know what program it was you saw this on.. you know you can't believe everything you see on tv or read in the papers right?
@Mick Burns Yeah and I've watched people on the council estate where I grew up fake disability, claim dole and then work cash in hand what's your point? Are you saying its better if our own people rip us off??
Are the Great Eastern building's you refer to the one's in QUAKER St E1 ? if it is I knew them well in the 1960's, it's all change round there now. year's ago, people who lived there dreamed of getting out of the area, now all the young professionals dream of moving into the area ! ! how time's change.
I have been looking for a show for years. it was either man alive or world in action. done in mid 1970s. it was about alternative schools for truants in the east end. is there anyone who can help me. I would really appreciate it.
it was commented by WheelieMacBin 6 months ago ' The place always was a toilet.' Many £million pound homes in the toilet now. I have a flat in the area. Very good film.
Thanks for putting this on, i lived around there a few years back and my Sister still does. Many changes since then.Can you confirm it is 1976 though??, as you mentioned jubilee bunting??
Hey, I've tried to get in contact with you through google, is there any chance you could drop me a message through my profile please? regarding a documentary being made
There was a long build-up to the Jubilee - as schoolchildren we started learning patriotic songs in 1976 in readiness for the following year's celebrations.
Isn't it interesting to see zero burkhas/niqabs on the women compared to today's brick lane. haven't they integrated well to our society over the years... not.
oh piss off. Can't we watch a really interesting slice of history without one of you boring old sods bringing in some kind of sarky comment? I came here to watch some British history not attend a EDL rally. You need to get out more.
I agree. I live in Tower Hamlets and I've noticed the ladies in this and other vintage footage look more Indian, pretty saris, not the black coverings and plain headscarves that are popular now
Hi James, I am making a short piece about Brick Lane for the BBC and would love your permission to use a short clip from your stunning film. Please get back to me as soon as you can! Thank you. LW
+Lyndsey Woods Hello. I hope my reply is not too late! Indeed, I would be most honoured to allow you full access to my film. I have spent some recent years writing my autobiography and could send you an excerpt from the chapter where I give information about the film's success in my local Cine Club competiton. It was featured in a BBC program called "It's Your Image".
+Lyndsey Woods Sorry about any confusion. My last message was sent using my friend Tim's computer. The content of that text does follow my wishes. I'm now 89 years old and he leads my ventures on the internet. Kind regards. Jim
There were a couple of Fat Brass that used to work the Corner of Fleur de lis street and commercial street. They would wave as I’d drive past. All the cabbies knew them!
So im assuming u dont like the fact that in many boroughs in London theres not much whites left? Well guess what thats exactly how the native Americans and Aborginals felt when the English invaded them.
@@rickknight3823 Canada 🇨🇦! 43 great years...retired at the west coast. Lots of flying and travelling. Went back to visit family in the UK numerous times but never regretted emigrating to Canada.😎👍
Brian 8chison sounds like you've led a charmed life out there! I was born in 77 so the UK improved a bit in terms of prosperity while I was growing up. It's still changed beyond all recognition with so much immigration. Especially London where I was born and raised. I hear Canada is suffering the same fate although you have more space to escape the effects. Your virtue signaling PM Justin T must wind s lot of people up. Utter sell out by the looks of it.
I have always been fascinated by Cockneys but I think the Jewish immigrants were the last of the Cockney's and they moved on along time ago. When I think of Cockneys I think of white people. I know it was considered cool to fake a Cockney accent and lots of the early English rockstars did so. Working class was rock and roll. I can't really think of any real Cockneys anymore except for the late Amy Winehouse. Loved her talking and singing voice. I think all the boys in the Sex Pistols were real Cockneys too.
Great to shop there like London city,lots of fine casinoes that meet first visit rules,lots of good betting bookmakers and lots of good fruit machines amusements shops
If people are complaining about immigration in London ,London is not the problem it's the other UK cities like Birmingham Manchester Liverpool and Leeds the locals are highly racist in those cities and segregated go into thier cities and see how segregated people area and areas .
@@harleyhartley3168 Got to agree with you. I'm British but I'm getting sick of hearing our own people continually running our own country down. If they don't like it here anymore then they should piss off to Costa Del Crime where the rest of them are. Funny how they always manage to fly back to get a hip operation on the NHS after living away for years in the sun getting blotto on Sangria and not contributing to any taxes here.
nudisco300 YES that’s literally my grandparents, they literally spend 90% of the year in Madeira but still manage to complain about British diversity wow typical
was shock to see vat dog uranating in the street at 3 mins 48. incredeble 2 think they still av'ent leaned anyfing and r still doing all vat dirty stuff!
I’m not sure why, but I find myself obsessed/fascinated by these little British films depicting London in the 1970s (films such as this one and a few having to do with council houses and tower blocks/brutal architecture). I’m American and have visited the UK a few times, but have no connection to this stuff. Makes me wish I had been from there. Anyway, cheers...thanks a lot.🇬🇧🇺🇸
From US also and feel the same, obsessed with everything London, mainly 1970's and earlier.
me too and yet i live in New Zealand. The tenement housing in particular/wash houses are brilliant.Hearty people back then,now the world is full of snow flakes.
Hey Guys i live in one of those old parts of london and i research the history of the architecture ,history and insane growth of the city which caused so much of the problems. Thinking of starting a channel
Spent nearly 10 years working in the Old Spitalfields Market from 2009 to about 2018. Great memories here with my Mum while working here. Glad I came across this video. 1970s and 2000s, what a difference in time. Nostalgic.
when was 14 I started work on a stall in brick lane..40yrs later im still there..love the east end..not the same but still love it..Good little film put together nicely..well done .:)
+hackneysman Hi , im interested by your comment as I'm doing a research project about brick lane - would you be available to answer some questions ? thanks :)
Hi Lucille.... yes its been so long since I put tht message on here... I'm still here if you free get bk in touch,,,thx
I'm Irish and grew up in peckam, I'm home 30 years now but as an Irish kid growing up in the 70s it brings bk great memories mate.
Well done
I was a police officer at Leman Street at the time of the making of this film and remember all the places very well. I spent a lot of time around Spitalfields (including the market hours pub off night duty !) and nicking the pickpockets and unlicenced street trader in Petticoat lane before joining the CID and moving onto Limehouse and Bow Road. It was a fantastic place to work as a police officer there and I experienced more in a week than some people experience in a lifetime. As the News of the world used to say "All human life is here". Ignore all the stupid comments about the politics and the commentary as most are ill judged, racist or just plain irrelevant and enjoy the film for what it is: A look into the past at a area changed forever. Full marks to the film maker for capturing a slice of history.
+ROY TYZACK Maybe London has changed too much since then.
With a name like that you didn’t have a place in the East End. Poland or Lithuania maybe.
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.. And because you was plod your opinion counts? It isn't racist to want to be surrounded by your own kind!
ROY TYZACK but why is it changed forever and has it changed for the better? i dont think so. more n more natives are being pushed out of these areas i dont think its racist to want to be surrounded by your own people as the guy above me said.
Than goodness someone was taking the trouble to film around this area, that at the time, was a largely forgotten part of East London, so that people of later generations have a permanent reference by which to compare the changes of the modern era, I recognize quiet a few faces in this film, one of whom I still see, good work.
My Grandmother had a store called Lee's Electrical at 77 Brick Lane. It was near Joe Rothmans sweet shop and almost kitty corner to hanbury street. I spent many a weekend there and much of my summers from 1969-1977. She passed away in 1985, the store was taken over by my uncle and then lost the lease due to modifications to the façade that were outside the scope of agreement. It then became a clothing store and is now Curry bizarre. On a side note, the central line runs under the north west portion of the store and you can hear it when it travels underneath.
Remember it well, we bought our first radio there. The piece of crap lasted all of three weeks. Good job we stopped making goods over here. I think they realised the Germans and Japanese were light years ahead of us.
Do you remember Ellis and Goldstein at 1 Brick Lane?
@@Duck_CoverFrank Ellis?
I was working down Leman Street when this film was made. It was the year of the heatwave.
If the film itself wasn't enough, the dry caustic comedy of the narrator is superb.
lol so dry he's great
Her existence centered around Ale did i hear him say. Dry as Ghandis flip flop
There's no truer saying in this world that, "nothing stays the same forever". Market traders that once sold apples and pears have now been replaced by market traders that sell stocks, shares, futures and other complexed financial contracts and investment vehicles. In my humble opinion the East End has not changed for the better. Much of their crime is driven by locals that seen immense wealth pour into the area, but have no access to it.
Well, to tell the truth, urban regeneration is a necessity for every area in everyday life, otherwise the entire country would fall into decay. You only have to watch documentaries about Victorian slums to realise this.
Too many immigrants
I was born in grosvenor buildings next to the blackwall tunnel poplar tower hamlets up to eleven years old , best years of my life ps my good ole nan had a greengrocers in St. Leonard's rd poplar bless, all gone now , different world !
I used to get the bus to Shoreditch in 1971/2. When I was about 11 I used to love club row and all the markets, I never had any grief it was an amazing place, it was full of Teddy boys and I remember when the punk scene filtered into the area and the Ted's and punks would row generally chasing each other through the lanes, I can even remember the skinhead punk shop the last resort in Brick lane, many years later I was with a mate sitting in a pub called the foundry it was freezing, Camden had become stale my mate was saying this place is going to take off, I wasn't convinced within 3 to 4 year's it was brilliant then soon after that all the would be cool crowd came along and fucked it, now it's full of knobs and suits oh well...
Hard but good read... try some punctuation, pal.
I grew up in the late 70's and 80's, a lot of people don't realise how run down a many areas of Britain was.
industrial cities in the 70,s was like something from a dickins novel
East end of sheffield in the early 80s were grim with all the strikes and steel plants shut down
@Mark Gable i remember ww2 damage still about and i was born in the late 60s
Life does seem better when you look back to your youth anyway..
I remember the 70s seeming a bit grey and grimey ,but life in general was happier,and people got out more...especially kids,,stuck in the house glued to the web today..
@Daniel Eyre yeah
and if you told the bloke who made this that some idiot would open a cafe selling bowls of breakfast cereal for £3 a bowl, his jaw would have dropped and he too would have shook his head in dismay
lastoftheurgents1965 ok boomer...
He would have dropped his guts
I grew up in Wales and have recently been tracing my ancestors. My maternal and paternal grandfathers and their descendants all came from: Wapping, Whitechapel, Bow, Mile End Old Town, Bethnal Green, Stepney.. as far back as the 1700s. I guess that makes me a bit of a Cockney since I've always loved the East End with or without all its problems...
You have to have been born within the sound of the Bow bells to qualify, that rules out Welshmen but rules in everybody born in Bangla Town (Brick lane area).
canturgan the bells of Bow church were removed in 1953
Dan Grimsey It don't matter guvnor, they are metaphorical bells.
I agree with you, china.
Harsh living - somehow poetic and beautiful
Marvellous video
This is fascinating, seeing the tramps and makeshift prefab homes, at least many of the Victorian streets were still the same back then, now it's unrecognisable. Thanks for capturing the grim side of the 70s, not many go to these places... great film... please check out my East End footage from 1988.
Brick lane has hardly changed
@@annother3350how
who ever is doing the narrating is brilliant, dry sense of humour. Great video
sad little film ..born & grown up all around here lovely old video nice to see what is was like be proud always bless .........
What a lovely film
Before the hipster invasion. Those were the days...
Lol
@Houston's mccaine London has become a playground for the rich. Look how boring it's become, all the districts are starting to look identical with the coffee shops and vintage boutiques.
@Matty Kumar The developers don't really come into it, around hipster (hackney) central there's not an awful lot of developers, it's property owners realising they can charge more for the rent on their flats, those without jobs cannot afford it.
@@Zlervo But it's where the rich make their money also.
@Will Richards Are you thick, this here is documenting the "invasion" you speak of
Well remember the animal market, sad sight of the shivering puppies and tortosies piled in to a large sack, and the fast talking sales men tossing plates in the air-------different world.
I can see why it won an award, interesting subject with a half sensible commentary, it's a bit like common sense, it's not so common now, thanks for the video.
Fantastic 👍🏻
Back in the days when the working poor could afford go to the pub on the Friday with your workmates,get the fish and chips, play rent or mortgage. You didn't need universal credit for help towards your rent because your pay is to low like nowadays.
I wonder if the pay was low or if people lived to their means and didn't have houses full of crap they didn't need? No mobile phones, not many houses had a tv or a washing machine. People had what they had and made the most of it
Truthbtold Wright I agree with your comment .The working class had better wages and working conditions in the 1970s.When I tell the younger people that I work with they think I’m mad.
@@simonp1970 Most people had television sets and washing machines in 1976.
Hi James - I'm working on a film which includes a section about Brick Lane and am hoping you might allow us to use a small portion of your 'Around Brick Lane OK' film in our own? The footage is brilliant and we think would work perfectly in our film. Would be great to hear back from you either way. Best wishes. Robin.
Blimey, I left school in 76. There was a heatwave. I remember there were stand pipes in the street.
Can't even get a parking spot around there nowadays get me round done twice as quick back then
Dear James, I wonder if you have a contact address I can get you on to talk about this and your collection? Beautiful stuff! I'm an archivist/researcher based in Sheffield.
great video grew up there , great memories
Is the date correct? The commentary at 3.01 refers to faded Jubilee bunting but the Jubilee was summer 1977.
I was squatting at Longfellow Rd at this time. Does anyone have any film or photos of the street. It was a well organized squat with a cooperative shop and street parties.
We want our country back.
says the guy naming himself as an american citizen who descended from immigrants
not going to happen. snooze u lose.the gov haas sgiven it all away
Too late Whites are mixed with Jewish bloods and African bloods.Bad luck no more real White people left in this World mate, ha ha ha!
ahahaha unlucky 😆
Native Americans want their country back
Aboriginal aussies want their country back
Black south Africans want their country back
wow wonderful film thankyou
If I didn't know any better I'd have thought that was johnny rotten narrating lol lovely vid thanks for sharing
Good call,myself i thought more Peter cook.
@@iphonemodDOTcom yer, even better spot on
Great video 👍
I remember 1976 in my childhood when I was 8. I don't remember it looking like this from Worcestershire.
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
i was born in great eastern buildings.the good old days
so was I in 1959 .then moved to the highway.cuttle close loved loving there .
If you notice the commentary says "the faded jubilee bunting has given way to the washing line" indicating past tense.
If I remember correctly, spiritofadversity, the jubilee (in all probability, the Queen's Silver Jubilee) was in 1977, not in 1976, so the washing line should have come before the jubilee bunting, not after.
Things haven't changed for the better that's for sure,they were the good old days fact.
Used to love brick lane on a Sunday skinheads punks loved it brought my doc martins at blackmans best for boots
Hi James, I hope you are well. We are making a short film about London in 1976 and I wonder if we could access a short clip from your lovely film? Do please let me know as soon as you can. Thank you, Ed
That's no problem. I'd be honoured to help you!
+James Cheeseman thanks, could we discuss further via email? I am at edinkgibbs@gmail.com - could I have your email?
great images
Back in dem days when Britain was still great, innit bruv?
It still is.
If you don't think it is maybe you should clear off to Spain or some other European fishing village you traitors go to.
Expats are the worst scroungers, they leave here, spend all their cash in Spanish bars getting pissed up on Sangria for years on end then when they break their hip they suddenly love Britain again and come back to use the NHS they haven't paid any tax towards for years and years.
I can't stand my own people running down my country.
@Mick Burns I'm 100% English and my family can trace themselves back to King Alfred times. Britain is not a shit hole and it never will be. No where have I said I agree with mass immigration unchecked, all I'm saying is I get fed uo with people like you running our country down. Go and live somewhere else no one's forcing you to stay here. Break a leg in American and then try to use a hospital.
As for '4 million Romanians' being here that's utter bullshit.
Do let us know what program it was you saw this on.. you know you can't believe everything you see on tv or read in the papers right?
@Mick Burns Yeah and I've watched people on the council estate where I grew up fake disability, claim dole and then work cash in hand what's your point? Are you saying its better if our own people rip us off??
@@nudisco300 Do this all over England especially in Birmingham and Manchester all fakers and claiming on social especially locals born and bred .
CORRRRR blimey!
Aahhaha the fish wrapped in the newspaper
That was how you also ate your chips, Nicola.
I enjoyed that🙂
Are the Great Eastern building's you refer to the one's in QUAKER St E1 ? if it is I knew them well in the 1960's, it's all change round there now. year's ago, people who lived there dreamed of getting out of the area, now all the young professionals dream of moving into the area ! ! how time's change.
Great days everyone knew each other in there manors not like now .
Incredible
I love the deadpan tone of the narrator - is it Michael Caine ?
I believe it is James Cheeseman, who uploaded the video. He has a wry sense of humour!
@@uk-martin4905 I would think so, but he sounds very similar to the well known actor Henry Woolf.
Not the brick Lane of 76 that I remember, I was a lookout for my fly pitcher dad and its was FUN
I have been looking for a show for years. it was either man alive or world in action. done in mid 1970s. it was about alternative schools for truants in the east end. is there anyone who can help me. I would really appreciate it.
it was commented by WheelieMacBin 6 months ago ' The place always was a toilet.' Many £million pound homes in the toilet now. I have a flat in the area. Very good film.
I take your point.
Thanks for putting this on, i lived around there a few years back and my Sister still does. Many changes since then.Can you confirm it is 1976 though??, as you mentioned jubilee bunting??
jubilee bunting mentioned. must be after 1977 ??
Jubilee year was 1977.
@@uk-martin4905 He says faded jubilee bunting therefore must have been after 1977
Great video, anymore? where was Eckersley street?
Really interesting film, although I find the commentary about the Ripper's victims (circa 8 minutes in) somewhat sardonic and off beam.
lol, anymore like that?
Who the hell is commentating on this, Stephen Hawking?
+Wastedon4loko I thought it was Michael Caine!
+mistofoles Not alot of people know that.
mistofoles I thought it was Len Goodman!
LOL!
lol
Wots the Music at 8:57?🙂
Hey, I've tried to get in contact with you through google, is there any chance you could drop me a message through my profile please? regarding a documentary being made
Probably filmed in 1977 not 1976 as Silver Jubilee is mentioned.
There was a long build-up to the Jubilee - as schoolchildren we started learning patriotic songs in 1976 in readiness for the following year's celebrations.
Isn't it interesting to see zero burkhas/niqabs on the women compared to today's brick lane. haven't they integrated well to our society over the years... not.
oh piss off. Can't we watch a really interesting slice of history without one of you boring old sods bringing in some kind of sarky comment?
I came here to watch some British history not attend a EDL rally. You need to get out more.
@@nudisco300 darling, one is allowed to have there own opinion, stop being a Nazi dear.
Tweet Protocol the Jewish women were wearing the burkas back then utter cockwomble
I agree. I live in Tower Hamlets and I've noticed the ladies in this and other vintage footage look more Indian, pretty saris, not the black coverings and plain headscarves that are popular now
There are plenty of head coverings in this film, Protocol and not everyone is Muslim. Many are Hindu and they also wear distinctive clothing.
10:46 Theme for Hitchcock's "FRENZY", the necktie murders.
70's Bill Sikes at 7:13
great shots of homeless people then, before crack and white cider. Check out the pub, the Jack the Ripper. The guy has a turn of phrase.
East is well gone
Can't be 76, there's Jubilee bunting from 77 there.
He mentioned the FADED bunting - (from 1952?)
It was a much more run down area then, but a closer knit community
keith barber he did say Jubilee.
Hi James, I am making a short piece about Brick Lane for the BBC and would love your permission to use a short clip from your stunning film. Please get back to me as soon as you can! Thank you. LW
+Lyndsey Woods Hello. I hope my reply is not too late! Indeed, I would be most honoured to allow you full access to my film.
I have spent some recent years writing my autobiography and could send you an excerpt from the chapter where I give information about the film's success in my local Cine Club competiton.
It was featured in a BBC program called "It's Your Image".
+Lyndsey Woods Sorry about any confusion. My last message was sent using my friend Tim's computer. The content of that text does follow my wishes. I'm now 89 years old and he leads my ventures on the internet.
Kind regards.
Jim
@@CapnHornetBirdseye hi, i dont suppose u know the name of the music at 8:57? I would be most greatful🙂
There were a couple of Fat Brass that used to work the Corner of Fleur de lis street and commercial street. They would wave as I’d drive past. All the cabbies knew them!
Blue Beard Why don't you say "prostitutes," so that the rest of the world can understand?! Not everybody knows rhyming slang!
Sad to see where my cockney ancestors lived and I not far has become so ethnically diverse. Us cockneys are a dying breed. Very sad.
Not a dying breed as most cockneys only moved to Essex next door to London.
So im assuming u dont like the fact that in many boroughs in London theres not much whites left?
Well guess what thats exactly how the native Americans and Aborginals felt when the English invaded them.
@@user-iq7hw2qf6ewe bought innovation , education, justice , modern health care & engineering with us - what have they bought us ?
Thanks
Very depressing 😒
I left England in 1976..........
And ended up in Benidorm to recreate squali living conditions there.. fish chips and beer I imagine
@@savan382 No , you couldn't be more wrong actually 😃👍🇨🇦
Life's good 🍻
Brian 8chison so where did you end up and what did you do?
@@rickknight3823 Canada 🇨🇦!
43 great years...retired at the west coast.
Lots of flying and travelling. Went back to visit family in the UK numerous times but never regretted emigrating to Canada.😎👍
Brian 8chison sounds like you've led a charmed life out there!
I was born in 77 so the UK improved a bit in terms of prosperity while I was growing up. It's still changed beyond all recognition with so much immigration. Especially London where I was born and raised.
I hear Canada is suffering the same fate although you have more space to escape the effects.
Your virtue signaling PM Justin T must wind s lot of people up. Utter sell out by the looks of it.
I have always been fascinated by Cockneys but I think the Jewish immigrants were the last of the Cockney's and they moved on along time ago. When I think of Cockneys I think of white people. I know it was considered cool to fake a Cockney accent and lots of the early English rockstars did so. Working class was rock and roll. I can't really think of any real Cockneys anymore except for the late Amy Winehouse. Loved her talking and singing voice. I think all the boys in the Sex Pistols were real Cockneys too.
Jeremy Clarkson @7:18 !
3:18 Well, they got what they wished for, didn't they?
I used to drink in the frying pan bar. It used to be a good area before this mob moved in. It's a Rat invested shithole now.
Great to shop there like London city,lots of fine casinoes that meet first visit rules,lots of good betting bookmakers and lots of good fruit machines amusements shops
If people are complaining about immigration in London ,London is not the problem it's the other UK cities like Birmingham Manchester Liverpool and Leeds the locals are highly racist in those cities and segregated go into thier cities and see how segregated people area and areas .
Yes other UK cities are very segregated and racist even today.
When most immigrants just wanted to get on with people and better themselves!
@@harleyhartley3168 Got to agree with you. I'm British but I'm getting sick of hearing our own people continually running our own country down. If they don't like it here anymore then they should piss off to Costa Del Crime where the rest of them are. Funny how they always manage to fly back to get a hip operation on the NHS after living away for years in the sun getting blotto on Sangria and not contributing to any taxes here.
nudisco300 YES that’s literally my grandparents, they literally spend 90% of the year in Madeira but still manage to complain about British diversity wow typical
@@harleyhartley3168 Well said Mickey
Helem Gezai thanks babe
Jeremy Clarkson at 7:24.
Shame about the "commentary". Wind up merchant.. Waste of good footage.
95% of these people are dead or in there late 80's 🤐
95% is way off the mark, go back to school...
@6:25 I don't think this guy wanted to be filmed. Either that, or he was doing a Nazi salute...
was shock to see vat dog uranating in the street at 3 mins 48. incredeble 2 think they still av'ent leaned anyfing and r still doing all vat dirty stuff!
Sure, what happened to evolution. You'd think they'd be walking on two legs by now!
You really should have learned to write by now! Vat?! Just plain stupid!
Narrator clearly a Brexit voter 😂😂
The ogdens have got it now
Roll up roll up! Snyde man with camera makes primitive film in London!
just dont like em
Judaism isn't a race or ethnicity
The place always was a toilet.
You would know would you ?
ffs spot the white man even back then lol
this video has a racist point of view, hating on desi community
who cares. asians pretty much destroyed the east end culturally. fuck em
@@SI-cd7xs Your "east end" would be nothing if the Asians hadn't moved in. Fact.
Import the third world - become the third world!
What is desi, Bruv?
@@daisychain3007 south asian