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Christine 1957
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« Reply #1 on: 12 August, 2012, 05:20:18 PM » |
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Wow! Thank you Les for posting the website for street photos, I found them very interesting. Although I lived in Chandler Avenue off Becton Road in Canning Town until the late 60's. Christine  |
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« Reply #2 on: 13 August, 2012, 09:23:38 AM » |
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Les
Many thanks for posting the link to this site. Many superb photos that stir the memory!
Doug
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« Reply #3 on: 13 August, 2012, 03:21:11 PM » |
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Many Thanks Les, For those great photographs.
I had not realised that some of the Community was in such a dreadful state. Would love to have had more
details of some of those wretched homes people were living in.
I am from the 1930's Era, Custom House, Canning Town being my homes, and if things were as bad as that I
certainly had not been aware of it (perhaps being just a child one does not see things as I am able to now)
Sure had my eyes opened with some of those shots to-day.
Louise.
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Rogier
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« Reply #4 on: 15 August, 2012, 12:55:46 AM » |
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It would help those of us who are unfamiliar with the area, yet very interested because our families came from here, to know what the streets/roads are.
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Family historian researching: Allum, Bozier Burrows, French, Goldfinch, Myer Poague, Tyers, Ellis and looking for pictures of Star Street, Scott Street and the early Burke Street
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« Reply #5 on: 15 August, 2012, 05:56:33 AM » |
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Rogier
If you click the "Show Info" box just above the top right of the photo then the caption will appear.
Doug
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MBrennan
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« Reply #6 on: 15 August, 2012, 06:55:08 AM » |
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Great photos. Did they demolish all the Georgian/early Victorian property in the borough? I know other boroughs indiscriminately destroyed lovely old houses to make way for flats or toy town estates - for instance Hackney knocked down Georgian squares to put flats up. I know the Victorians were notorious for knocking down tudor & Elizabethan buildings to put up 'better' ones. I know in many cases it was justified such as when they cleared slum dwellings to provide better housing, or clearing bomb damage, but in many cases there seems to have been no good reason. PS - Not Newham, but did anyone else see the programme last week about Arnold Circus in Shoreditch? - very interesting and probably shows what the LCC/GLC were doing all over. Mark |
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MickG
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« Reply #7 on: 15 August, 2012, 08:46:27 AM » |
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I saw the programme about Arnold Circus in Shoreditch several weeks ago, it was part of a series. In every case and also in many other examples all seem to follow the same trend. Building improvements or regeneration never seems to help the existing poorer residents as higher building prices or rents simply displace them to other areas, often with worse conditions than they had before.
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MBrennan
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« Reply #8 on: 15 August, 2012, 01:20:52 PM » |
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If I remember rightly, they said not one single former resident returned, although it did provide decent housing for other 'deserving poor' families. I have always liked that little part of London. My old Greek barber was there. It seems the shops have gone all trendy now - ie overpriced delis for the new Hoxton residents  Funnily enough when I lived in the area, one of my neighbours sold up saying they were moving to Stratford as that is where the smart money was going. This must have been around 1995. At the time, he was selling a 1-bed flat on the Bethnal Green/Hackney border and said that he was buying a 2 bed house in Stratford for less. I assume it was probably a good bet - financially anyway  |
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Barry N
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« Reply #9 on: 15 August, 2012, 05:49:39 PM » |
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I hve worked at Arnold circus estate , its more commonly known as the Boundary estate , it has a very intersting form of graffiti as in its scratched into the outer surrounding walls and the dates and names go right back giving a source of history or type of census . Barry
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MBrennan
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« Reply #10 on: 15 August, 2012, 06:06:23 PM » |
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Hi Barry, I must have walked past it hundreds of times over the years but never noticed the graffiti. I assume you mean where the tiles are orange hard-glazed brick and names/dates are on those? Maybe this is quite a common thing. I live near Canterbury Cathedral now and have been there quite a few times. There is even graffiti in there - some of it dating back to the 1600s!  - most of it done very neatly though This is one I took a couple of summers ago. Not very clear but you can see the grafitti (sorry it's not Newham but proves that graffiti is nothing new!)  Mark |
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Barry N
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« Reply #11 on: 15 August, 2012, 06:59:05 PM » |
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A local Lady pointed it out to me and its on all of the buildings so its very localised , not very big but a lot of it there is dates i can remember from the early1900s to the 20s and 30s , but there is none inside part from the sprayed kind . Barry
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JIMMYMCNULTY
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« Reply #12 on: 16 August, 2012, 01:37:08 AM » |
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Many thanks for posting these photos here. They reinforced my view that the past isn't always better than the present.
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Eddie
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« Reply #13 on: 17 August, 2012, 09:02:53 PM » |
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Some of these certainly bring back a few memories. thanks for posting.
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Phil S
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« Reply #14 on: 18 August, 2012, 11:56:21 AM » |
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Many thanks for posting these photos here. They reinforced my view that the past isn't always better than the present.
I agree. I sometimes wonder why people harp back to the past with such affection. Yes we all have our memories but some living conditions and neighbourhoods were trully terrible back then. Thank goodness for the improvements since and we haven't got the rubbish anymore. |
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Born and brought up in West Ham - and still here!
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