Видео

The planners have torn the heart out of Ridley and Kingsland...no more pie and mash shop/Barclays Bank/all the little independent clothes and shoe shops, Woolies, M&S, Wimpey, Gunners the butchers and as for Ridley market..... what market???.... so depressing I couldn't watch all of the footage... all my memories gone :( I worked down Ridley when it was rammed with shoppers and stalls....all gone now ...so sad

20.22 Watch out if you use that car park. Things are not well explained and the ticket machine takes forever, neither are the tickerts well marked. A month after parking there I received a demand for 3 hrs overstay. £150 !!

Is it a nice place to live.?

2:10 this bredda sorted me a lovely bit of chisel there at the weekend.

price is a joke for tilbury fort. cole house fort is much better.

The sports centre and socisl club have been demolished. The sports centre id mow "luxury" flats. The social club is still a pile og rubble.

Two other films made in Tilbury. Grimsby. Fish Tank.

The last pub in Tilbury (the World 's End, next to thr Fort) closed last year. Shame.

Guess the argument at the station wsd over the validity of hid Oyster card: wr arethe first stop.outside thr Oyster area and you'd be surprised how many people it catches.

I was born in Grays and grew up there in the 70s/80s. The old town centre (pre-Lakeside), was busy and had a Victorian feel to it It felt like a safe place to be, London felt close but very muchg detached. Three things brought about the town's downfall, the first was Lakeside which killed the town centre, the second were the multiple housing developments that ended up connecting Lakeside and Grays and essentially over-populating the area, and the third was mass migration from immigrant communities from the old East End of London, to fill the new housing - this killed off any residual sense of community. I moved away in the 1990s but still have friends and family there, most are trying to move north to Suffolk and Norfolk

Dont recognise much other than the state cinema from Saturday mornings back in the 50s and the railway crossing, used to be a old pow camp outside town headind toward sth ockendon

Hi Paul, missing your videos, hope all is well.

I moved from hackney in 2001 to Essex lol my last flat was stokey gibson gardens so I see a lot of the krays homes and I'm 45 so remember vallance road as it was xx

What an absolute shithole

Heres why Grays is run down BBC Panorama A series of disastrous investments has left Thurrock Council effectively bankrupt. Services are being cut and council tax raised to try to cover the second biggest deficit ever run up by a local authority. Most of the council's cash was invested in one man's business. Liam Kavanagh promised his solar farms would provide a safe return, but his companies have been wound up and the council faces big losses. Reporter Bronagh Munro reveals how the millionaire businessman spent council cash on himself and left local people to pay the price.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voss . Is this any help?

Where do the steps lead to ?

From Bethnal Green left 1989 joined the Army not been back much but the City is amazing great channel mate 😎

Had some great times in Oxford House youth club. Errol and Julie also. If I remember rightly, Julies son was in the Heinz Baked Beans advert - big deal at the time.

My cousin lived there for quite a few years. Been to the Smugglers a few times. Nice by the river in the summer especially.

11:32, did you know the peach building is a church? I go there and its a good church! ;)

I'm from tilbury! it is a peaceful town compared to grays esp in the neighbourhood from my knowledge..as I'm from there. .😂😆

Looks like Chicago, San Fran, NYC, St Louis

Now condom's needle's

The structure at 8:06 is an old toilet , it serviced the pub that was just a little further up the alley (the name escapes me now ) , coincidentally it was the only pub in the city without a toilet .

You must of known my aunt she lived above the bank

where are you Paul? ...I hope everything is ok

Super Tour and im glad you went to the Worlds end and the fort . which is well worth a visit . and glad to see the litter was to a minimum.

Thanks' Paul. Great post! 👍

can imagine Ronny slunging away on the cobbles

Paul. Really good video mate. It’s nice you took the time out to do this. I’m 41 and used to live by the taxi arches on collingwood street in the 80’s till the turn of the millennium. I used to go with my nan “down the lane” at the Sunday market and come back with useless crap lol still loved it. We always used to say hi to Charlie who sold used office furniture warehouse on Bacon Street off brick lane next to the Bigel shop. He was a lovely man . RIP … Steve. Always loved the east end even if it has changed . Barmy park fun fair, museum of childhood , white horse kebabs , noodle king , weavers park , Rude Bimmers / Mercs . Perfume pat on her stall opposite Percy ingles . Also, liked the jungle tune you put at the end of the video! My era of course haha . All the best.

It’s a shit hole. It’s always been a shit hole

The other end of Voss street only looks posher cos the kids ran out of paint by the time they got there.

Very interesting paul

38 now

Well done Paul, nice remembrances. Do some more Paul cheers

Boring video with no history or knowledge to share

Absolute shit hole mnow ! Mini Bangladesh

Also @4:24 a film called Bothers Grimsby was filmed there

@3:47 as you mention pubs, you were standing right outside a building that was tiled on the outside. This used to be a pub called the Ship, and i remember it being on the front page of the sun for holding the record of more landlords in a year than any other pub.. it was roughest pub in England from memory :)

Im born and bred in bethnal green been here 51 years

i live here and my mum works in a pub

I am sure most of us remember Bootsy, even today I am ashamed of the way as a kid I treated her

Thank you for this video! I'm going to Kensington tomorrow. (We're from America). My great grandparents were married in St. Mary's Abbott Church.

Lived at tilbury from the late 90s for a few years at Byron gardens, I liked how easy it was to get to lakeside for work( bus or train), pretty handy if you didn’t drive

hey Paul where have you been ? I do hope everything is ok for you

Born and raised in and around the Grays area and just recently moved away. The truth is that Grays was a great, lively town until the early 90's. That monstrosity Lakeside opened and killed the town stone dead. All the big shops moved away, all the money went out of the town and to fill the empty shops a wave of Afro Caribbean hairdressers, euro mini marts and pound shops moved in. The State cinema was an amazing place and a big part of my childhood, but as with lakeside, two out of town multi screen cinemas killed the State and Morrison's (who bought it as part of the deal to build a store in grays) failed on their promise to keep the State in a good state of repair.

Good afternoon Paul. Its been a while since you presented your subscribers with your slant on the nooks and crannies of London. I continue to view your work from time to time as the fancy takes. I hope that you are healthy in all respects and that you may at some future time take up your video camera once more. Best Wishes, Paul.

How the f--king hell do they paint pictures right up there? I left Bethnal Green in 1965, it was a bit different then. Lived in Old Ford Rd, about a hundred yards from the York Hall. Learned to swim there.

Hardly somewhere to park.