My world too, 79 years ago, a 'porch' in Hunters Hall Road, neatly clipped 'evers'. Hunters Hall Primary, Eastbrook Secondary, moved to 'banjo' in Pondfield Road, left at 20 years of age to work elsewhere, but fond memories..
Hi Gilly, I lived in Beacontree Heath from birth in 1952 until 1976. That was also a good place to live with lots of open spaces within easy walking distance, playing in the streets was safe with very little traffic, walking to school, safe youth clubs. My brother in law played football for the Beacon pub team, Beacon Celtic, in the late 60’s at Mayesbrook, Central Park, ,Parsloes, Wanstead etc. I live in Gidea Park but haven’t walked around Dagenham for a few years as it’s so so different now.
Well done, lived as a baby in Ibstock Close flat, then we moved to a house in Blackborne Road. That was knocked down due to the construction of The Mall, Heathway. Then we moved to Marsh Green Road. Witnessed the destruction of a community. We had the deindustrialistion of the town. Lots of government money poured into the town. LBBD borrowed millions from the Treasury Loan Board for redevelopment. LBBD scrapped the Dagenham Town Show, which displayed the best of the borough. Dagenham is a lesson that those in power need to learn from. It is not working!!!
The Beacon was my local from when I was 17 to 20, then I left UK for fame and fortune. At lunch times I would get a Pint of Double Diamond and a Scotch Egg. Funny thing is you can go into (Beacon) Tesco's and still get the same, although no Double Diamond, so I have Speckled Hen, Vintage if they have it.
My nan & grandad lived in Dagenham (felhurst crescent) he was a driving instructor Eastbrook school of motoring & I spent many happy years coming to visit from birth to (almost) 16
Nice One! I used to work for B Wallis Undertakers opposite your road back in the eighties, was in and out of that shop many many times ( Frank Ambrose used to run the shop )
I was born in Fir Tree Walk (off Park Drive) in 1949, went to Hunters Hall and Eastbrook, married and lived in Treswell Rd until retiring to North Norfolk in 2005, walking with you on your videos I've seen old school friends houses, our churches, old buildings still standing, I still have friends there but they usually visit me because I'm on the coast but you opened up all lovely memories, keep doing your Vlogs please
Hello Anne, I remember Fir Tree Walk, that would have been a nice quiet place to live back then and probably still is now. I know that the Harris twins lived in FTW, to pretty identical twins and would have been around 8 years younger than yourself at the time. I had friends from School, also HHR and EB that lived in Fell Farm Ave (Ryans), also the Penningtons in Hardie Road, Casey's, Kirby's and Hunters in Bell Farm Ave, Foleys, Clarkes and Edmeads in Highland Ave and many more..all pals from my School days at HHR and Eastbrook. I hope life good in Norfolk..Best wishes DG
Oh my word - my sister Iris & her son Martin Johnson lived a couple of doors up from you in Hunters Hall Road! Such happy memories of visiting them & Oxlow Lane too.
I'm so pleased you remember them. Iris moved to Romford & Martin to Southend. I will forward your video on to them. Btw, our Johnson family lived in Sterry Road, so you've brought back many happy memories for me! Keep up the good work. :)
@@Smudgecat1947 My Dad Tony passed away in 2022 and we found a picture of Martins white van which was on fire..my dad would have taken the picture. I found Martin on FB and sent him the picture.
@@DagenhamGilly - Ah, I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad, bless him. Gad you managed to get in touch with Martin and sent him the photo of his white van on fire! I bet he was well surprised! Take care and keep well. ;o)
Yes I remember it being a small supermarket and Liptons rings a bell. I do recall one hot night in the 60's and we had the windows open in our front bedroom someone smashed the glass window of the supermarket and stole some displayed tins of Salmon - a very pricey commodity in summer time , when I heard the smash I looked out the window and there was a car on the pavement and the tins of salmon was put in the boot and the car roared off. There was no CCTV back then and I can imagine the next day tins of salmon at knockdown prices that fell off the back of a lorry.
You have to pay for a permit, the roads are so narrow if there was parking both sides vehicles could not pass. Hence the pavement parking...not ideal but solves a problem.
@@raymondbonington9355 back in the day and depending on where you lived you could short walk to a pub. Pubs were seen as an important part of the social fabric of Dagenham. There were 10 pubs within my local and depending on how far you wanted to walk, you could get to a pub with a 600 meter walk, 1200 meter to 2klm. All up there some 24 pubs in Dagenham and this excludes the Working Men’s, clubs Social clubs etc, of which there were around another 10 in the area. The pubs were large with generally 3 bars, public, saloon and a private bar. Most pubs have gone and those that are left are in decline.
@@DagenhamGilly although I was born and bred in Putney I met my my wife who is from Dagenham and I moved there in 1978 and lived there until 2 years ago and now in Hornchurch, cheers .
wtf you talking about, if you're taking Wards the one side of the road is Alibon the other Heath, Eastbrook is the other side of Rainham Road. But would you like to bestow your knowledge of the area upon me.
@@DagenhamGilly I grew up in beacontree estate my view is unless your from Dagenham village your not Dagenham I may have got it wrong on one aspect but I guess you also think it’s Essex
@@jasonriches1237 I remember when the old village was being knocked down, all those old houses and old shops gone. They built the medium density and high rise flats...so the old character disappeared. I remember walking back from Leys in the summer of the 60's and old Dagenham village was gradually being pulled down.
My world too, 79 years ago, a 'porch' in Hunters Hall Road, neatly clipped
'evers'. Hunters Hall Primary, Eastbrook Secondary, moved to 'banjo' in
Pondfield Road, left at 20 years of age to work elsewhere, but fond memories..
Hi Gilly, I lived in Beacontree Heath from birth in 1952 until 1976. That was also a good place to live with lots of open spaces within easy walking distance, playing in the streets was safe with very little traffic, walking to school, safe youth clubs. My brother in law played football for the Beacon pub team, Beacon Celtic, in the late 60’s at Mayesbrook, Central Park, ,Parsloes, Wanstead etc. I live in Gidea Park but haven’t walked around Dagenham for a few years as it’s so so different now.
Thanks for your comments, we lived their during the same time then. Some parts have not changed, but some have for the worse unfortunately.
Well done, lived as a baby in Ibstock Close flat, then we moved to a house in Blackborne Road. That was knocked down due to the construction of The Mall, Heathway. Then we moved to Marsh Green Road. Witnessed the destruction of a community. We had the deindustrialistion of the town. Lots of government money poured into the town. LBBD borrowed millions from the Treasury Loan Board for redevelopment. LBBD scrapped the Dagenham Town Show, which displayed the best of the borough. Dagenham is a lesson that those in power need to learn from. It is not working!!!
Thanks for your comments..looks like you have seen the best and worst of Dagenham.
The beacon pub was a good pub now tesco sells crap food to us 😊😢
The Beacon was my local from when I was 17 to 20, then I left UK for fame and fortune. At lunch times I would get a Pint of Double Diamond and a Scotch Egg. Funny thing is you can go into (Beacon) Tesco's and still get the same, although no Double Diamond, so I have Speckled Hen, Vintage if they have it.
Thank you for doing this video, about 10 years ago I used to live at 178 Hunters Hall. Lots of changes to oxlow lane. Shame the pub went.
Yes I know that patch of HHR, it was very quite part of the road in the 60s and 70s.
My nan & grandad lived in Dagenham (felhurst crescent) he was a driving instructor Eastbrook school of motoring & I spent many happy years coming to visit from birth to (almost) 16
I learnt to drive with Terrys School of Motoring in 1976, I know Felhurst as it was near Eastbrook Comp, where I went to high school.
Nice One! I used to work for B Wallis Undertakers opposite your road back in the eighties, was in and out of that shop many many times ( Frank Ambrose used to run the shop )
I went to school with a Terry Ambrose - Eastbrook...lived right next to the school and was always the last one to roll in for morning registration.
@@DagenhamGilly 🤣I lived next door to St Vincence. Burnside road and I was late every day😂
I was born in Fir Tree Walk (off Park Drive) in 1949, went to Hunters Hall and Eastbrook, married and lived in Treswell Rd until retiring to North Norfolk in 2005, walking with you on your videos I've seen old school friends houses, our churches, old buildings still standing, I still have friends there but they usually visit me because I'm on the coast but you opened up all lovely memories, keep doing your Vlogs please
Hello Anne, I remember Fir Tree Walk, that would have been a nice quiet place to live back then and probably still is now. I know that the Harris twins lived in FTW, to pretty identical twins and would have been around 8 years younger than yourself at the time. I had friends from School, also HHR and EB that lived in Fell Farm Ave (Ryans), also the Penningtons in Hardie Road, Casey's, Kirby's and Hunters in Bell Farm Ave, Foleys, Clarkes and Edmeads in Highland Ave and many more..all pals from my School days at HHR and Eastbrook. I hope life good in Norfolk..Best wishes DG
I have also taught in Eastbrook school, Sydney Russell sch and All Saints Sch. Lived on Graffton rd (off the Green lane) until 3 years ago.
@@setcho2712 Good for you...Its a calling that teaching game.
Sad to see the Ox low Arms is now Tesco's. Where I sometimes imbibed a social drink.
The Oxlow Arms…was called the Beacon.
Oh my word - my sister Iris & her son Martin Johnson lived a couple of doors up from you in Hunters Hall Road! Such happy memories of visiting them & Oxlow Lane too.
Hi Pauline thanks for watching, i remember Iris and Martin. I hope you are well.
I'm so pleased you remember them. Iris moved to Romford & Martin to Southend. I will forward your video on to them. Btw, our Johnson family lived in Sterry Road, so you've brought back many happy memories for me! Keep up the good work. :)
@@Smudgecat1947 My Dad Tony passed away in 2022 and we found a picture of Martins white van which was on fire..my dad would have taken the picture. I found Martin on FB and sent him the picture.
@@DagenhamGilly - Ah, I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad, bless him. Gad you managed to get in touch with Martin and sent him the photo of his white van on fire! I bet he was well surprised! Take care and keep well. ;o)
Stay Safe Mate, 👍
Went to convent school in Gorsebroke road Eileen
I went to goresbroke secondary school in the sixties and lived in treswell rd not to far from school lovely childhood.
Oxlane food was Liptons in my day lived up in woodshire Road and left when I was 16
Yes I remember it being a small supermarket and Liptons rings a bell. I do recall one hot night in the 60's and we had the windows open in our front bedroom someone smashed the glass window of the supermarket and stole some displayed tins of Salmon - a very pricey commodity in summer time , when I heard the smash I looked out the window and there was a car on the pavement and the tins of salmon was put in the boot and the car roared off. There was no CCTV back then and I can imagine the next day tins of salmon at knockdown prices that fell off the back of a lorry.
@@DagenhamGilly co-op in Broad street was always been broken into, we move to Broad St into a house
never give ap
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0:58 I thought that parking on the pavement was illegal in Greater London since 1974?
You have to pay for a permit, the roads are so narrow if there was parking both sides vehicles could not pass. Hence the pavement parking...not ideal but solves a problem.
@@DagenhamGilly OK I can see that. Hope that driverless cars solve the problem when they come along.
My Nan and Grandad used to drink in the Beacon.
What were their names ?
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady@@DagenhamGilly
@@aalexjohna I remember them...no kids were allowed near the place when popped in for a game of darts.
Wasn’t Dagenham biggest town with least pubs in Britain.
@@raymondbonington9355 back in the day and depending on where you lived you could short walk to a pub. Pubs were seen as an important part of the social fabric of Dagenham. There were 10 pubs within my local and depending on how far you wanted to walk, you could get to a pub with a 600 meter walk, 1200 meter to 2klm. All up there some 24 pubs in Dagenham and this excludes the Working Men’s, clubs Social clubs etc, of which there were around another 10 in the area. The pubs were large with generally 3 bars, public, saloon and a private bar. Most pubs have gone and those that are left are in decline.
@@DagenhamGilly although I was born and bred in Putney I met my my wife who is from Dagenham and I moved there in 1978 and lived there until 2 years ago and now in Hornchurch, cheers .
What were those canisters
Those canisters are Nangs and are filled with Nitrous Oxide ..kids breath it in via a balloon to get high. Sad
Your in eastbrook not dagenham
wtf you talking about, if you're taking Wards the one side of the road is Alibon the other Heath, Eastbrook is the other side of Rainham Road. But would you like to bestow your knowledge of the area upon me.
@@DagenhamGilly I grew up in beacontree estate my view is unless your from Dagenham village your not Dagenham I may have got it wrong on one aspect but I guess you also think it’s Essex
Sorry I guess it’s my pedantic side coming out again sorry if it offended you
@@jasonriches1237 Im not offended...maybe I thought you knew something I didn't lol.
@@jasonriches1237 I remember when the old village was being knocked down, all those old houses and old shops gone. They built the medium density and high rise flats...so the old character disappeared. I remember walking back from Leys in the summer of the 60's and old Dagenham village was gradually being pulled down.
Don't think it's a good Idea giving out your address.
Thanks for the tip, I have re edited the clip.