DOCKLAND MEMORY IN ROTHERHITHE, LONDON
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2013
- The trigger of this project was the old picture of the cafe I often visit in Rotherhithe. The café was the local watch house to observe to prevent body snatchers from digging a grave. However, without the knowledge, the café was just a unique building café for me. After knowing this fact, the place attracted me more and inspired me to explore this story in this local area.
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This work was created by Shintaro Kurihara as part of a coursework at the London College of Communication in 2013, MA Photojournalism and Documentary photography.
*note: at 3 min 20 sec.
Correct: Mayflower
Incorrect: Myflower [3:20]
The side by side photos were all the more impressive due to the relatively easier opportunity for comparison. Lovely video
Find it very difficult to remember so much of these buildings it was part of my playground until the early sixty's my Dad worked at Butlers until 1973 I remember watching the Coronation flotilla one of the floors there. And the Angel pub looks so clean and modern not as I remember. Alas time moves on. Thank you for sharing.
I am glad to receive your memory. It encourages me a lot.
You obviously love this part of the city. Times change, not always for the better, but there has been some great improvements in the city as your photos show.
Thank you for the good work.
i lived in 'sandwich house' in 2005 it was magical i have good memory Walking along the river seeing canary wharf i was 18 young with dreams and so much life ahead iam 34 now so much changed but soon i ll go back there and walk that river again to bring back memories
Excellent video. I used to live in Albion street, next to rotherhithe tunnel. Rotherhithe is the best area in London.
lol wrong
@@stussypoo Its a very nice area.
depends where you are in the area@@scarlettm86
Thankfully, from the late eighties onwards, there was a realisation that restoring and repurposing buildings was far better than knocking it down and filling it with the dreadful developments of the late 50’s 60’s and 70’s.
It’s a triumph, because the area is well kept and a lovely place to live. Granted, you could argue it’s been gentrified and out of reach of the people who lived in the area before. But it’s still infinitely better....
My Nans and Grandad's lived and died in this area, I was born in my Nans house which became my mum and Dad's house in Richardson st Bermondsey, that was way back in the bad winter of 47/48, the house had no heating as such only whatever old wood they could find to burn, the water pipes were frozen up and the doctor said to my parents don't expect him to last the night ( me) well he was wrong and I'm still alive and well, my dear old mum lived until she was nearly 100 and she was made of true grit, poor old Dad had a hard life and fought in Burma and India and served 13 years in the army but worked until his last day at the age of 61. All our family and relations were SE1 born and bred !
I really appreciate you to share your heartwarming story. I am very happy to have good opportunity to hear such a hidden personal story related with SE1.
Great to hear about you and your family
My nan an grandad lived in silwood street when I was a child then they replaced them to kidbrook they never really recovered from moving from BERMONDSEY
Great work on the “then and now” editing. thank you
Thankyou for enjoying my story, I liked the film very much.
Bought up as a kid nan run po in Rotherhithe also cafe dad run cab office and second hand shop in 70 wonderful mems
Nice video
Love this, and love old London when it was a bit slummy. But, time moves on and loads of old character still remains, with old buildings being repurposed.
Very good and informative. I love our great city so much, greatest city on earth.
As long time travellers to London, we stay in Rotherhithe everytime. Its our favorite neighborhood and can always catch a great pint at The Brunel Pub
Excellent. Fascinating view into the past. Brilliant.😉
probs lying ... pussy?
I went on a walking tour of Rotherhithe a few years ago. We were told that a lot of the older buildings were constructed using beams from old ships such as the Mayflower.
gpan62 that would have been difficult with the Mayflower being 6,000 miles away in America ;)
@@Backs4more the mayflower was scrapped in Rotherhithe so wouldn't have been too difficult ;)
One Life Vlogs well I never! Everyday is a school day! Thank you for correcting me, I am off to do some reading as I always thought she ended her life in America. Thank you.
Really enjoyed this Video (and all the others before) As Captain Cook is part of New Zealand History I now know where Captain Cooks Son lies. I so enjoy the series. It just brings me home sometimes to the place I miss. I usually share your video's on to others here and we all love them. So thank you so much and keep them coming.
Such a shame so many people moving here from other parts of the world.
Gentrification started here along Rotherhithe St in the 90s.
Locals moving away,those that can.
Pubs being replaced by over priced flats for outsiders,where have i heard that before.?The LDDC in the 70s started the cleansing of locals out of the area.
It started then and is still going on but in a bigger scale.No one seems to realise anymore.
@Gorgon Don you sound like a bitter racist are you saying that the people coming to Britain are so bad that they are a punishment from karma to the people of Britain or that the ordinary people of Britain who have suffered 1000 year's of oppression from their rulers should be punished for the elites sins or are you saying the white man is the devil and pretending that the elite of every race have not abused enslaved and murdered their fellow man
looks a million times better now than it ever did before. as someone who was born and bred in the east of london all i can say is good riddance to the trashy locals who seemed to enjoy living in poverty, gentrification is the best thing that could ever have happened to this place.
@@stuartb1963 Excellent points. Well said!
Have seen several videos about this building, but never anything from this angle. You've gotta love obscure and weird history ! ♥️
Thank you so much! I'm glad to hear from you.
Lovely film, beautifully presented. Thank you!
Thank you great post loved it!
Cracking little video 👍
I was from Caledonian Rd and my relation lived there, Sammy mccleary just behind albion St in the flats with the big block of flats and little park you cut through to get to the swimming pool, still my Sammy put up numerous times when I showed up unexpected due to family rows, I was 8 and just got the tube over and when I come out station you cut through alley and they had house or something little white chalets done a right over to the albion and into flats, it was my safe house get away from parents.
Sammy had 3 kids Linda, John, Jane and Sammy was a postman over at Kings Cross and every Xmas we used to go to west end for Xmas pantomaine and we go back to Kings Cross and they had big parties for post office workers it was great and I never forget them days out, especially my relatives Sammy, not one bad word you can say about him always had time for people. Then when I was about 17 had bigger problems and put me up and got me a job in the butchers Mr King was he name and another woman couldn't remember if it was he's wife but he had a son who had Kings brewery??
I was only there a short time around 87 this was, but I did love that Rotherhithe it was safe.
Thanks Sammy I always think of him from time to time. Just wished he was around today deep down I loved him in friendship way.
But I was always fucked from day 1 and if Sammy was my dad I thi k my life would be differently to today, God bless you sammy
and when it's time for me to depart I hope he's there with open arms
With the racing post and old Holborn roll up
Honesty Sam I do think of you and your mum my nan also Julie frannie, Tony.
Was an honour to be related
Love you all Mark xxx
mark Willmore - Mark i think Sammy is smiling down upon you. All the appreciation and love you have for them shines through your post magnificently. Rest assured Sammy will be waiting for you. 😊🙋🏼♂️👍🏻🙏🏻❤️
Ah,Rotherhithe!
I must go back to explore next September.
I’m a mudlark,and spent a bit too much time at ‘The Mayflower’ pub😖
Thanks so much for that.
I was born in St Olave's Hospital right opposite Rotherhithe Tunnel in1932 and spent the blitz int the area. There were plenty of bombed houses to play in. Strangely I am making a wooden replica of the Mayflower at this very moment.
You're in good company, Maurice Micklewhite was born there a year later
Nice to watch thank you
Very interesting, thanks for upload.
Good little video
Thanks for the post. I have relations that still live there. I'd like to explore it soon. Very interesting part of London.
what an amazing little film. Thank you for sharing. I live just next to the watch house!
This is very well done, congratulations. It looks a decent area now, I'm surprised.
Sad. Generations of my family come from that area. Pity it wasn't done up for the workers bc only the wealthy can afford to live there now.
Some of my family were dockers who lived just up the river in Borough, When they were offered a house in Kent they snapped it up. Many were happy to leave the city as the housing in inner London back in the 60's was dire, with WW2 bomb sites still spread across the area. .Their new place even had a garden, & the fresher air & green spaces of the outer suburbs was tempting. Some people would like to portray it as being forced out, but at the time many people went willingly. Of course in hindsight some of their kids probably wish they'd held on to a house one minutes walk from London Bridge station, which is now worth a couple of million at least, but the quality of life was better for them having moved away.
@@zivkovicable Spot on!
Slough was one of the overspill towns. Hard to believe now but it was a delight in 50s/60s... Slough 'Safety Town', close to countryside & good schools with amenities.
Most towns/cities gone downhill since cuts to essential services through ALL Govts since 70s, combined w/ Blair's MASS immigration.
@@citizen1163 Lol. I know Slough extremely well . I lived in Langley for over ten years from 1969 & you can't say that mass immigration to the town started under Blair. In fact everyone in Slough is from somewhere else. It was a village until the trading estate opened in the 1920's. when people from all around the country & abroad moved there, including Ireland, India, the Caribbean , Somalia, Poland & Jews from Eastern Europe. I'm guessing that was before you were born. I know a descendant from those Somali immigrants, & his family have been in the area longer than yours for sure.
BTW it's always interesting getting your ancestry DNA done. You might be surprised, especially if your people were Londoners.
@@zivkovicable I have had my DNA read & I already knew of my French/Irish/Scots roots but now I know I have Norwegian roots also. Love it!
Of course I know about Slough's history & UK history of immigration/integration. My children are mixed race.
Blair's MASS immigration is a completely different matter.
MASS being the operative word.
This, when our essential services were already struggling.
@@citizen1163 . Yes, and his wife made a fortune on all the asylum appeals 😉
Nice place deem to visit and it's is awasome sending hugs and support
Interesting ! Thanks for sharing
Fantastic
Fascinating
Great pub !
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I used to live near the Surrey canal in Deptford .
The surrey canal was my playground as a kid
Really enjoyable vid. Glad the Angel survived - very nice pub. Shame you didn't have anything pre-war on the Mayflower pub. Would have been good to see how it looked before it was bombed.
Good video 👍
Just along the green by the side of the Angel pub is the lone single house facing the river where Princess Margaret secretly carried out her affair with Anthony Armstrong-Jones, and St Mary's church has a very dark ghostly legend to it.
I’m not from Rotherhithe but I’ve been to The Angel a few times, nice pub👍🏻🍺
Looking through the comments I’m glad that some are saying that the changes are for the better....I strongly agree👍🏻I’m from an area in north London that sadly has hardly changed at all since I was born & raised there in the 50s/60s.....the area was a toilet back then, and it’s even more of a toilet now😳👎🏻My old man had the good sense to move us out of there as soon as he’d saved-up enough money👍🏻Change is good, don’t fight it👍🏻
Tottenham?!
@@annother3350 Could be anywhere! Murders, stabbings, a drive by shooting in early evening on busy street, violent muggings, beggars, homeless & that's just around wealthy area of Highbury Fields & popular Essex Road/Upper Street!
You could still look for body snatchers from the little restaurant if it stayed open all night.
Wowww!! THIS VIDEO IS AMAZING!!!
ummmmmmmmmmmm is it?
Ryan - fuck off with your insults. I've always been interested in the London docks since our primary school took us. It's Great to see the side by side comparison.
I lived in Elephant Lane from 1995-2001
well done
Real people
mayflower
Arigato gozaimas, Kuriharo san.
Peter san, Arigato Gozaimas too!
Millllll
Oh England
I'd have preferred to see the side by sides fade in and out a few times more and for there to be some more direct comparisons.
I remember a cool pub called the Mayflower by the Thames, about 26 years ago I went there, probably closed now
I used to go to the cool pub too about 6 years ago. According to the website, they still open!
It's still there and very much open. You can just see it in the video.
@@Grantski101 thanks guys I'll have to go there again but I bet it's all tarted up and a bistro/gastro pub now!
@@shink9754 Maybe you could review the video text and correct the "Myflower" to Mayflower. Great video but also was not sure that all photos were positioned in East West situation. A couple looked like they were reversed in orientation. Really did enjoy it!
Thanks much!
I’m a new local (lived here +10 years) and the Mayflower is thriving. Although it’s the most expensive pub in the area (and we sure have great pubs!) People travel from inner city to visit. They have a stellar Sunday Roast and pie and mash night. It’s extremely charming and full of old character and they have a great deck over the river with tables. Frequently it’s hard to get a table here. I’d always book.
In summary, the “oldest pub on the Thames” is still going very strong 👍🏻
All MILLWALL Except for a few muggy glory hunting South London gooners.
Noluwdc 🦁
Why didn’t you focus on the Mayflower ph
What's with the wave 🌊 noise
Other side of the road building knocked down
All that needs to be rebuilt and modernized.
Haha!! Sure
Like most inner city Britain, still dumpy but costs a fortune to think you're cool living there, with the delusion that this is a great life, when in fact you are being ripped off, as always
Grumpy old sod.