Perhaps to non Ealing residents of old this could be viewed as tad dreary early 1980's documentary of some west London suburb. For me not so. I grew up only a 200 yards away from St Mary's Church and still live in Ealing. I found this footage really fascinating and I can clearly remember as a kid walking down the Uxbridge Road going past the Safeway, John Sanders, Lilley & Skinner and Lamertons and so on back to the parental home. The former Library at Pitzhanger Manor also raised a warm smile!
Lived in Hanwell. Ealing Broadway was my favourite, didn't like Ealing as much and looking on street view it appears its gone down hill. Moved away in 2004. Ealing Broadway centre was great in the 80s, seemed very modern. Watched Blue Peter turn on the lights in Ealing Broadway Centre in the 80s. Loved going to Argos. I remember when the Waterglade centre opened. That looked super modern and had the fancy see-through lift. That didn't seem to last long though as lots of shops moved out of it. Also remember where Woolworths used to be on main Street they turned into a big toy shop. The old cinema where I went to see star trek and T2, can't remember other movies I saw there (I see that is now gone).
born and raised (for the most part) in Ealing. this was a really great look into the history of this part of London, cant thank you enough for posting. will show the video to the rest of the family.
Great to have a trip down Amnesia Lane. I grew up in Ealing Common - 1980 - I was just 10 yrs old! I now live in the Netherlands (Haarlem) and can show my Family what they have missed ! ;P If you have anymore such docs on Ealing, PLEASE do share. As someone commented already, it does raise a warm smile for those grew up in Ealing!
How an entire Capital city and country can go from this to what it is now within 30 odd years is beyond me. I won't let anyone ever tell me i'm wrong. Disgusting what has been allowed to happen.
Raised in Ealing in the 60s. In the days when Ealing would shut down for half day closing on Wednesdays and on Sunday mornings the only people you would see were those going to Church. No shops opened on the Sunday. Went to Drayton Green Infants and Juniors when they had the 'Cinder' Track in the park (Drayton Park). Lillian Board (athlete) would train there. I remember the little shops on the hill leading to West Ealing Station. I remember seeing Matt Munro (singer) who lived on Sutherland Road in houses that we thought were really posh. I remember Daniel Departmental store being at the bottom of our road opposite Callows the Newsagent I remember Bensted Record shop where you used to go into individual booths to listen to the latest hit record. I remember FH Rowse as the big departmental store in West Ealing. Saw Jerry and the Pacemakers there at the height of their stardom. I remember the 'Triplets'... Woolworths, British Home Stores and Marks & Spenser, being side by side and opposite the Sainbury (Butchers and Dairy produce on one side of the store, tin goods and dry goods on the other side. Green Shield stamps were the must have collectable. Do you remember the Paraffin sellers in their Bedford Vans. Pink and Esso Blue. The Pools man would come and collect my Father's completed form and money without of being mugged. I remember the families that had the Fruit and Veg barrows on the side streets opposite Ealing Lido park I remember the old Mattock Lane Hospital or Ealing Hospital as it was known then. Mattock Lane Theater where you could see Charlie Watts (drummer) playing Jazz Ealing Grammar/Ealing Green had some notable musicians who were just ordinary school kids when I attended. I remember getting school lunch from Young's Bakers and having their fantastic home made Malt loaf (Mid 70s). Crusts (also shown) was a trendy new place for the cafe society. I'm sure there was a Pub on the corner next to the zebra crossing leading to the school. Lamas Park anyone?... I remember going to the 'Kinnocks' house when they lived near there... Is the tree still in the middle of the road, the one that is on the flag of borough? So many many memories living there from childhood
Wow. I used to ride all over Ealing and I remember all of those shops. Grew up in West Ealing and then moved to Ealing Broadway. I used to shop with my partner at the time in Safeways, the one in the video. Then a long walk all the way back past the station, shopping bags in hand, back up Madely Road to our bedsit. They were good days despite not having the Internet (as OkaniJMCA points out. Back in those days, we did things like visit people, start bands, go to places and create things. Not knocking the Internet or harking back to the "good old days", all days are good.
I was only ten back then, growing up in the nearby Hanger Lane area of Ealing. Seeing it back then with all the old stores etc brings back all the nice memories. It all looks dead grotty now.
Born and bred in Ealing. Very typical of all villages around London. The Victorian houses grew up around the main line stations: Ealing Broadway, West Ealing and Hanwell and Elthorne: and the 20s and 30s houses around the later built Underground stations, South Ealing, Northfields and Boston Manor..
I grew up in West Ealing, St kilda road. I lived there from when I was a baby until my early 20's. Although I don't live in West Ealing now, I still very much consider it home. Myself and siblings used to go to the swimming baths every Saturday, which was situated at the back of the town hall. I loved the department store Bentals, which was stood in corner, opposite John Lewis department store...Great video! 😊
You would be sad to find out how much ealing has changed. I have grown up in ealing for the last 20 years and find it fascinating to see my home unrecognisable 40 years ago
Lived in central Ealing from 1976 till 1996, this brings back some fond memories, shame it has progressed into something else now, the majority of people have moved on from these days.
Lived in the Borough my whole life, Acton then ealing common then hanwell than back to Acton now I'm back in Hanwell, both my grandparents were from southall and mum's dad from Paddington
@Iain McNulty Yes the new immigrants are extremely xenophobic towards the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English. Why do you want the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English to become a minority in the UK? If current trends continue the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English will be a minority by 2050.
I enjoyed this - although I don't know how much dear old Fred's presentation style would have appealed to anyone not from Ealing. I grew up in Hanwell, and left in 1983, just after this came out - this is the Ealing I remember. Haven't been back at all for over 10 years - maybe I should to check out how different it is from what I remember.
"I'm perhaps standing in one of the front gardens of the houses built many years ago". Probably true pretty much anywhere you stand in London. Gardens, trees, parks, ponds, all slowly disappear forever. Sad really. Meanwhile another great slow paced documentary from the ye olde BBC. Thanks for uploading.
Has anyone researched the brooks and rivers that ran through Ealing? A neighbour once told my son of a waterways that ran into Llamas Park, before the local railways. When the houses were built, my son heard how a gap was created between terraces that ran from the park to Little Ealing Lane. A narrow channel can still be seen running between Mt. Carmel school and the building alongside Our Lady of Hungary Church/Saint Istvan's.
Fascinating video...wasn't expecting to watch it to the end but was captivated. I've been living in Ealing for 4 years, interesting to see how Ealing Broadway looked in the past.
Nice to see a documentary without loud background music and cinematic effects, with a presenter attempting to look respectable who speaks in full sentences. Compare that with today.
Yes absolutely. It was of course a bomb site and there were a few houses left. I used to pedal down there fairly regularly. It was a real adventure. People also used to dump cars there too and I regularly used to prise bits off them and even have side and headlamp switch off an old Rover still.
Really interesting and some great shots of old Ealing. I remember the lady and her hub. selling flowers on the corner down from the station. Are they still with us I wonder?
Me too. He didn’t show the church that was permanently “condemned” because it was supposedly about to collapse at any moment. Can’t remember its name. St Stephen’s perhaps? Ring any bells?
@@madgemuso7314 Hi. Yes it was Saint Stephens at the end of The Avenue in West Ealing. Now converted into residential dwellings. I guess it wasn't mentioned because FH stayed within W5 of Ealing. 40 plus years on and Ealing is still recognisable - just. Looking back, the past feels to be better days❓
@@petercurry6222 Definitely simpler times in a lot of ways. My family lived high up on Mount Avenue. I went to Montpelier School on Montpelier Rd. My best friend lived in the flats at the far end of Hanger Hill Park.
Thank You a million times, just amazing to be able to watch people of that far away time walking and going about their business. We can't help but think fifteen years ago, this footage would have been accompanying other footage like it on a regular television series. Sad to say today many take this minor mirracle as "just another clickable video!" Well, either way, watching this is one of the good reasons for being here in our time.
I was born in West Ealing.Good old memories, remember passing that old Safeway on the way to school. It's all been turned into a modern day restaurant and coffee shop town. Government, the council and Enterprise rent a car have ruined Ealing with all the the road restrictions.
I worked at that Safeway after school and on Saturdays back when you could 79/80,saved most of my wages to buy a moped 😀 also worked at The Feathers pub across the road.
Live in west Ealing and Ealing since early seventies and it breaks my heart to see how you can much it has changed for the worse, I blame local people government, it's not about people, it's greed, money. Look at the councilors they have asked us to vote for, and try and get them to help you then you will find, you are completely on your own, I live in Broughton ct and we are plagued by Ant Social behavior, it is so bad you actually dread the sun shining
Unfortunately his comment regarding pubs seeming to always remain, isn`t the case now. The feathers the Bell, and the Green man have long gone and the latter i used to drink in after work at Art Wallpapers in West Ealing probably went about the time he was filming. It`s now an area that was like Southall was in the 70s.
Great to look back at Ealing as it was but also sad too it looks nothing like it now My middle school was Christchurch the memories are wonderful, they used to call it Queen of the Suburbs. Worked behind the town hall just great memories, then our politicians destroyed it
Fascinating stuff so glad this exists as someone born and raised here who can clearly remember those shops that no longer exist..pity the Bentalls building was not shown in it's full glory now wiped clean from existence...what I find ironic is that the council is planning to raise the civic centre to the ground built after this video..barely 35 years after it was commissioned...what waste of public money it was a contraversional building at the time costing tens of millions back then. That's progress eh..creation and destruction in less than half a generation..this is why new housing stock is literally worthless, it simply won't be around..
@@johnster1964 indeed it was a magnificent building with that sweeping stairway on the left as you came in the front, lead right up to the toy department. And the hair salon on the 1st floor... remember it so well as my sister worked there ! Sad it is gone along with John Sanders and Rowse in West Ealing .. those old school department stores had a certain charm and character about them.. always reminded me of the sitcom are you served.. hey ho gone but not forgotten
I have just finished digitising a lecture given by Janet Spavold “Discovering Your Place: Sources for the History of Local Communities in the Midlands” at St. Helen's House Derby 2- April-1982. It was clearly inspired by Fred Housego’s series of programmes “History on Your Doorstep”, he was even name checked. The series had a paperback book associated with it, I will have to search it out. Have you got any more episodes to upload?
What a difference 40 years makes. Mass migration is population replacement. What will the UK be like when the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English are a minority?
I think I remember. I think it was along side the three pidgeons pub. When Fred walked down it and looked to the right, You are at the back ofthe shops. I actualy belive that pitched roof outbuilding is still there Behind that builders fence would be the elevated road leading to the car park....I Think. Lamertons(beds and carpets) became an o`neils pub. The new building going up atthe end is opposite the Queen Vic.(finnigans wake)...I Think...Ealing born and bred, left 15 years ago.
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Harsh but true, i was raised in Acton, moved out of London in the 80s, used to drink in the New Inn in Ealing, and mum had her handbag stolen in Safeways.
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Perhaps to non Ealing residents of old this could be viewed as tad dreary early 1980's documentary of some west London suburb. For me not so. I grew up only a 200 yards away from St Mary's Church and still live in Ealing. I found this footage really fascinating and I can clearly remember as a kid walking down the Uxbridge Road going past the Safeway, John Sanders, Lilley & Skinner and Lamertons and so on back to the parental home. The former Library at Pitzhanger Manor also raised a warm smile!
I lived not too far from there myself, on the Tree estate. I also attended Grange Primary, so frequently walked around that area during the 80s!
Lived in Hanwell. Ealing Broadway was my favourite, didn't like Ealing as much and looking on street view it appears its gone down hill. Moved away in 2004. Ealing Broadway centre was great in the 80s, seemed very modern. Watched Blue Peter turn on the lights in Ealing Broadway Centre in the 80s. Loved going to Argos. I remember when the Waterglade centre opened. That looked super modern and had the fancy see-through lift. That didn't seem to last long though as lots of shops moved out of it. Also remember where Woolworths used to be on main Street they turned into a big toy shop. The old cinema where I went to see star trek and T2, can't remember other movies I saw there (I see that is now gone).
@@ToranJShaw I live in Ealing too, specifically Alperton
@Axton Karson Definitely, been watching on instaflixxer for since december myself :)
@@trxp_raised2003 we don't class you as ealing lol you're more Wembley
Fred Housego is my great uncle! Jamie Jackson here Fred! You've always been my icon, hence I followed you in learning history
born and raised (for the most part) in Ealing. this was a really great look into the history of this part of London, cant thank you enough for posting. will show the video to the rest of the family.
Great to have a trip down Amnesia Lane. I grew up in Ealing Common - 1980 - I was just 10 yrs old! I now live in the Netherlands (Haarlem) and can show my Family what they have missed ! ;P
If you have anymore such docs on Ealing, PLEASE do share. As someone commented already, it does raise a warm smile for those grew up in Ealing!
This is 20th century Ealing. It looked awesome! This documentary film was excellently researched. And thank you for sharing.
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Fascinating seeing Ealing back in the 80s !
How an entire Capital city and country can go from this to what it is now within 30 odd years is beyond me. I won't let anyone ever tell me i'm wrong. Disgusting what has been allowed to happen.
The old people back then said the same thing
What happened?
Over crowded house prices to high and the only people that can live there and breed are benefit scrounges and asylum seekers
Your right and that's a fact.
People who lived in Ealing in the 50's would have said the same about it in the 80's 🙄
Aww my home town! looks so different back in the 80s
Everybody's hometown has changed like my hometown where I grew up Pinner. Too many Schmucks around these days! Not the place it was.
I grew up in Ealing and live near Pinner now lol
@@AnotherRandomFellow I grew up in Hayes and live in Ealing now !
Raised in Ealing in the 60s. In the days when Ealing would shut down for half day closing on Wednesdays and on Sunday mornings the only people you would see were those going to Church. No shops opened on the Sunday.
Went to Drayton Green Infants and Juniors when they had the 'Cinder' Track in the park (Drayton Park). Lillian Board (athlete) would train there. I remember the little shops on the hill leading to West Ealing Station. I remember seeing Matt Munro (singer) who lived on Sutherland Road in houses that we thought were really posh.
I remember Daniel Departmental store being at the bottom of our road opposite Callows the Newsagent
I remember Bensted Record shop where you used to go into individual booths to listen to the latest hit record.
I remember FH Rowse as the big departmental store in West Ealing. Saw Jerry and the Pacemakers there at the height of their stardom.
I remember the 'Triplets'... Woolworths, British Home Stores and Marks & Spenser, being side by side and opposite the Sainbury (Butchers and Dairy produce on one side of the store, tin goods and dry goods on the other side.
Green Shield stamps were the must have collectable.
Do you remember the Paraffin sellers in their Bedford Vans. Pink and Esso Blue.
The Pools man would come and collect my Father's completed form and money without of being mugged.
I remember the families that had the Fruit and Veg barrows on the side streets opposite Ealing Lido park
I remember the old Mattock Lane Hospital or Ealing Hospital as it was known then.
Mattock Lane Theater where you could see Charlie Watts (drummer) playing Jazz
Ealing Grammar/Ealing Green had some notable musicians who were just ordinary school kids when I attended.
I remember getting school lunch from Young's Bakers and having their fantastic home made Malt loaf (Mid 70s).
Crusts (also shown) was a trendy new place for the cafe society.
I'm sure there was a Pub on the corner next to the zebra crossing leading to the school.
Lamas Park anyone?... I remember going to the 'Kinnocks' house when they lived near there...
Is the tree still in the middle of the road, the one that is on the flag of borough?
So many many memories living there from childhood
Wow. I used to ride all over Ealing and I remember all of those shops. Grew up in West Ealing and then moved to Ealing Broadway. I used to shop with my partner at the time in Safeways, the one in the video. Then a long walk all the way back past the station, shopping bags in hand, back up Madely Road to our bedsit. They were good days despite not having the Internet (as OkaniJMCA points out. Back in those days, we did things like visit people, start bands, go to places and create things. Not knocking the Internet or harking back to the "good old days", all days are good.
Such a lovely comment :)
I was only ten back then, growing up in the nearby Hanger Lane area of Ealing. Seeing it back then with all the old stores etc brings back all the nice memories. It all looks dead grotty now.
Born and bred in Ealing. Very typical of all villages around London. The Victorian houses grew up around the main line stations: Ealing Broadway, West Ealing and Hanwell and Elthorne: and the 20s and 30s houses around the later built Underground stations, South Ealing, Northfields and Boston Manor..
So sad to see how Ealing and surrounding areas, have changed. I still live in Ealing. It's changed.
I grew up in West Ealing, St kilda road. I lived there from when I was a baby until my early 20's.
Although I don't live in West Ealing now, I still very much consider it home.
Myself and siblings used to go to the swimming baths every Saturday, which was situated at the back of the town hall.
I loved the department store Bentals, which was stood in corner, opposite John Lewis department store...Great video! 😊
You would be sad to find out how much ealing has changed. I have grown up in ealing for the last 20 years and find it fascinating to see my home unrecognisable 40 years ago
I lived in Ealing in 1982 and I used to go The Drayton Pub. Miss those times. I loved the video. Thanks for sharing!
Lived in central Ealing from 1976 till 1996, this brings back some fond memories, shame it has progressed into something else now, the majority of people have moved on from these days.
I grew up in South Ealing loved it my child hood years moved away 20 years ago now who remembers the do it all on South Ealing rd 👍👍
Lived in the Borough my whole life, Acton then ealing common then hanwell than back to Acton now I'm back in Hanwell, both my grandparents were from southall and mum's dad from Paddington
Looks so different now..... In a bad way
Multiculturalism
Iain McNulty too right
@Iain McNulty Yes the new immigrants are extremely xenophobic towards the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English. Why do you want the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English to become a minority in the UK? If current trends continue the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English will be a minority by 2050.
I enjoyed this - although I don't know how much dear old Fred's presentation style would have appealed to anyone not from Ealing. I grew up in Hanwell, and left in 1983, just after this came out - this is the Ealing I remember. Haven't been back at all for over 10 years - maybe I should to check out how different it is from what I remember.
I loved this video. Bought back many memories of the old. I'm thinking of doing a video like this but the present with my knowledge of 38 years.
I bet its not like this now Oh what have they done to dear old England
Basically the same, just different chain stores.
I was born in Ealing and lived there until I was 28, my family still live there, this was lovely to watch so many memories. Love Ealing 😊❤️
I always tell everyone I'm loyal to the soil when it comes to Ealing.
"I'm perhaps standing in one of the front gardens of the houses built many years ago". Probably true pretty much anywhere you stand in London. Gardens, trees, parks, ponds, all slowly disappear forever. Sad really. Meanwhile another great slow paced documentary from the ye olde BBC. Thanks for uploading.
Has anyone researched the brooks and rivers that ran through Ealing? A neighbour once told my son of a waterways that ran into Llamas Park, before the local railways. When the houses were built, my son heard how a gap was created between terraces that ran from the park to Little Ealing Lane. A narrow channel can still be seen running between Mt. Carmel school and the building alongside Our Lady of Hungary Church/Saint Istvan's.
+Isabella Wesoly go to OldMaps online. That will tell you all you need to know. The site of Mount Carmel was a huge pond in the 19th Century
Thanks Simon :)
Thanks for uploading this; a lovely little programme. It's actually from 1982 according to the BBC Genome website.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fascinating video...wasn't expecting to watch it to the end but was captivated. I've been living in Ealing for 4 years, interesting to see how Ealing Broadway looked in the past.
A very interesting video. I have been to Ealing several times.
Now when you walk through Ealing, you may as well be in Mogadishu.
Nice to see a documentary without loud background music and cinematic effects, with a presenter attempting to look respectable who speaks in full sentences. Compare that with today.
Thanks for uploading. I recognised every shot..even Safeways. Does anyone remember the adventure playground that was behind it ?
Yes absolutely. It was of course a bomb site and there were a few houses left. I used to pedal down there fairly regularly. It was a real adventure. People also used to dump cars there too and I regularly used to prise bits off them and even have side and headlamp switch off an old Rover still.
Really interesting and some great shots of old Ealing. I remember the lady and her hub. selling flowers on the corner down from the station. Are they still with us I wonder?
Me too. He didn’t show the church that was permanently “condemned” because it was supposedly about to collapse at any moment. Can’t remember its name. St Stephen’s perhaps? Ring any bells?
@@madgemuso7314 Hi. Yes it was Saint Stephens at the end of The Avenue in West Ealing. Now converted into residential dwellings. I guess it wasn't mentioned because FH stayed within W5 of Ealing. 40 plus years on and Ealing is still recognisable - just. Looking back, the past feels to be better days❓
@@petercurry6222 Definitely simpler times in a lot of ways. My family lived high up on Mount Avenue. I went to Montpelier School on Montpelier Rd. My best friend lived in the flats at the far end of Hanger Hill Park.
I used to cycle to Pitshanger Lane near Brentham Way to go to the little newsagent there to buy sweets or a comic! They also had cheap toys.
Some real memories. You must have been @ 10 years old ? It is an inescapable fact that times change. Ealing is a very different place. Thanks.
Wow went to Benedict’s school
in the 70s nice you look back on Ealing
I went to St Augustine’s
Its now a historical document of the changes since 82
1982, blighted by studying for O Levels.
My dad was working at the travel Agency when the queen visited Ealing
I remember him on The 6 O Clock Show on Friday with Michael Aspel. To me here he was like a news reporter. A bit like Michael Brunson
Thank You a million times, just amazing to be able to watch people of that far away time walking and going about their business. We can't help but think fifteen years ago, this footage would have been accompanying other footage like it on a regular television series. Sad to say today many take this minor mirracle as "just another clickable video!" Well, either way, watching this is one of the good reasons for being here in our time.
So glad you enjoyed it - makes uploading them worthwhile.
"far away time",its not the middle ages.😁😁
I was born in West Ealing.Good old memories, remember passing that old Safeway on the way to school.
It's all been turned into a modern day restaurant and coffee shop town.
Government, the council and Enterprise rent a car have ruined Ealing with all the the road restrictions.
I worked at that Safeway after school and on Saturdays back when you could 79/80,saved most of my wages to buy a moped 😀 also worked at The Feathers pub across the road.
5.00 behind the church are now awful "luxury" tower blocks.
What happened...💔
3.57 that supermarket is long gone now it’s Ealing Bdway shopping centre which is barely hanging on
Rather interesting to see how Ealing was back then, considering I were only 8 year old the time and resident there for 3 of those years! I
40 years next year since this was made. Anyone fancy retracing the steps of this program now? I somehow think it wouldn’t be possible.
My family housego
Just how I remember growing up in London every body English and not a mosque in sight
Live in west Ealing and Ealing since early seventies and it breaks my heart to see how you can much it has changed for the worse, I blame local people government, it's not about people, it's greed, money. Look at the councilors they have asked us to vote for, and try and get them to help you then you will find, you are completely on your own, I live in Broughton ct and we are plagued by Ant Social behavior, it is so bad you actually dread the sun shining
Wow, that must have been rough - I agree though, I love how diverse, and accepting our new educated society is! Yay for acceptance love and liberty xx
@@camillar7920 Totally agree - I've been here since '88, I love how it's evolving.
Proper London accents too.
There have been mosques in London since 1926 and in Britain since 1889. Perhaps you weren't looking hard enough!
Unfortunately his comment regarding pubs seeming to always remain, isn`t the case now. The feathers the Bell, and the Green man have long gone and the latter i used to drink in after work at Art Wallpapers in West Ealing probably went about the time he was filming.
It`s now an area that was like Southall was in the 70s.
Great to look back at Ealing as it was but also sad too it looks nothing like it now
My middle school was Christchurch the memories are wonderful, they used to call it Queen of the Suburbs.
Worked behind the town hall just great memories, then our politicians destroyed it
Lived at 30 St Stephens Road from 1969 to 1977, hence my RUclips name.
Love the intro music!
Fascinating stuff so glad this exists as someone born and raised here who can clearly remember those shops that no longer exist..pity the Bentalls building was not shown in it's full glory now wiped clean from existence...what I find ironic is that the council is planning to raise the civic centre to the ground built after this video..barely 35 years after it was commissioned...what waste of public money it was a contraversional building at the time costing tens of millions back then. That's progress eh..creation and destruction in less than half a generation..this is why new housing stock is literally worthless, it simply won't be around..
The Bentalls building was a beauty
@@johnster1964 indeed it was a magnificent building with that sweeping stairway on the left as you came in the front, lead right up to the toy department. And the hair salon on the 1st floor... remember it so well as my sister worked there ! Sad it is gone along with John Sanders and Rowse in West Ealing .. those old school department stores had a certain charm and character about them.. always reminded me of the sitcom are you served.. hey ho gone but not forgotten
Used to love this programme - the theme music still takes me back. Is it available anywhere?
If Housego walked around Ealing like that now he’d be mugged senseless.
Yeah Ealing isn't all that anymore like greenford , perivale northolt etc not very pleasant people at times
Haider Shahid yeah Housego would be confronted by road men if he walked around Ealing like that now.
I have just finished digitising a lecture given by Janet Spavold “Discovering Your Place: Sources for the History of Local Communities in the Midlands” at St. Helen's House Derby 2- April-1982. It was clearly inspired by Fred Housego’s series of programmes “History on Your Doorstep”, he was even name checked. The series had a paperback book associated with it, I will have to search it out. Have you got any more episodes to upload?
I have many tapes to go through but if I find any more I will be sure to upload them.
Ealing is famous for its many banks
23:22 "and this is the same place today" well today in 2021 it looks very different than the today in 1982 :D
My home town I lived in disraeli road W55jd
Wish I could go back and buy a property then in Ealing theres no chance now!
ha ha ha,so true.
All it needs is a few 20 storey blocks to improve it.
2nd March 1982
Just looked up the official statistics. Ealing is now 54% BAME.
I was born in Ealing but we moved away for five years before moving back and I can't remember what was where Dickens Yard is, can someone tell me?
Town hall car park and offices
Best place in London to live.....then! Now a complete disaster
Not many beggars in the area then, place is full of them now
I do wonder what Fred had been up to when he came out of the undergrowth during the opening titles. Probably no good.
What a difference 40 years makes. Mass migration is population replacement. What will the UK be like when the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English are a minority?
Still banging away with that old crap, are you? Stinking old racist filth.
Anyone work out where Bakers Lane was?
I think I remember. I think it was along side the three pidgeons pub. When Fred walked down it and looked to the right, You are at the back ofthe shops. I actualy belive that pitched roof outbuilding is still there Behind that builders fence would be the elevated road leading to the car park....I Think. Lamertons(beds and carpets) became an o`neils pub. The new building going up atthe end is opposite the Queen Vic.(finnigans wake)...I Think...Ealing born and bred, left 15 years ago.
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I thought Fred Housego would have had a Scottish accent.
Polish borough ;-)
This does not look like London.
Probably get stabbed now
When England was England 🏴
ealing not as nice as chiswick but thank christ it's not acton 🙏
Harsh but true, i was raised in Acton, moved out of London in the 80s, used to drink in the New Inn in Ealing, and mum had her handbag stolen in Safeways.
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LewisFilms ?
Interesting, although live seems really boring back in the olden days, just not much to do compared to now, no internet and that.
Lol "olden days"...only 30 years back which is a blink of the eye,