amazing how you can destroy a postcode. quite sad to what it was to what the hell hole it looks today.

Brilliant, I miss my Edmonton 1949 - 1978

@elizabethsheffield6609

8 жыл бұрын

+Glenn Everett lol best you remember it as it was. It's roads , schools, buses are all very full ;>(

@davidbanner9001

5 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@danran100

2 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethsheffield6609 And hardly any English.

Born in a nursing home in Belsize Park, but home was Tillotson Road off Church Street from 1948-58, then Lowden Road until 1963. So many memories of childhood in Edmonton, fishing for tiddlers in Salmon;s Brook, Saturday morning pictures at the Granada, swimming baths behind the Town Hall etc etc. Thanks for putting this together - some views I've never seen before. Deeply nostalgic, and very sad for what has been swept away.

@JohnSalmon

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Robert, thanks for your comments. I'm pleased you enjoyed the video. There have been lots of changes over the years. It's not the Edmonton we knew and loved any longer. My garden backs on to Salmon's Brook, I haven't seen much in the way of fish life for ages now. We had dace about 15 years ago but I've seen nothing since.

HAPPY MEMORIES, and thanks for showing so many in this video

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure morlrd I'm pleased you enjoyed the video.

Thank you John for a very interesting video. I was born and bred at Edmonton Green in the 1950's and I think it shows what a lovely place it once was full of old world charm. Alas no longer the case :-(. They destroyed it in the 60's with the concrete monstrosity of the shopping centre. I am sure nowadays they would never get planning permission to erase so many lovely historical buildings in one fell swoop and destroy the character of a place. ........Sad .

@JohnSalmon

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Janette, it's kind of you to comment. Although I loved the old Edmonton Green with it's indoor market, (my Mum had a little shop in there) unfortunately time marches on. The local population has increased rapidly and they've had to build to cater for that. I wish we could go back to the old days but unfortunately we can't. :) Thanks again.

@elizabethsheffield6609

3 жыл бұрын

.......we would have "thanked" (NOT) the Conservatives for the rampant destruction & "rebuilding/re-modelling" of most of the Edmonton Green Area because they were in local power then. And thank goodness we know much better these days and protect our heritage instead of just bulldozing the whole lot away as if it's just "old junk and old- fashioned"

@JohnSalmon

2 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethsheffield6609 I think they're planning on doing it again Elizabeth. Big changes ahead, again.

@danran100

2 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethsheffield6609 Protect our heritage ? You're having a laugh, it's not English any more.

Lived on Bury St, Hertford Road, tramway Ave so this is amazing!!! Thankyou 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

@JohnSalmon

4 жыл бұрын

Ah thanks Jax Music. Thanks for taking the time to comment. It's always good to get feedback. I took a look at your music videos and was impressed. 👍 I'm sure I've landed on your Channel before. It would be great to look back and see what Edmonton was like and what music and fashion was popular in a hundred years time. Let's hope KZread will still be playing our videos way into the future. Thanks again. It was good of you to comment.

I was born in Lorenco road little Russia my uncle used to tell me about the days when it was fields at Bull lane shame to see the place now great to grow up their in the 70s and 80s

@JohnSalmon

Ай бұрын

Hi Rich. Sadly that area along Bull Lane has become a very busy area with lots of industrial units. What with the North Mid and the traffic in that area now it's murder trying to get around. It's sad to see how things change so much for the worse as we get older isn't it? Thanks for commenting Rich. I appreciate it.

Really interesting to see The Stagg and Hounds and Little Bury Street and the people from those times. Really tastefully put together.

@JohnSalmon

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. That means a lot. I'll have a detailed look at your channel tomorrow. It looks very interesting. I love looking back at the old days like that. 👍🏻

Thanks John, very interesting.

Thanks for uploading,I lived in Edmonton from 1950 til 2000, brings back good memories.

@JohnSalmon

6 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Roy. I'm pleased you enjoyed it. :)

So lovely coming across this video. Born and bred Edmonton girl, 1979 till 2006, now living in Norwich with my husband & children. Missing home always x

@JohnSalmon

6 жыл бұрын

Believe me Tessy, you are far better off in Norwich. :)

Just seen this video brilliant iwas born in 1958 so brings back many happy memories of Edmonton am looking forward to seeing more footage

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks I'm pleased you had happy memories of our Edmonton.

Thanks for the video. Love to see my home town again

I thought this was Edmonton, Alberta. LOL. Figured it out thought. Was wondering why I never heard of any of these places.

@hexgamerzaedyn1448

3 жыл бұрын

Shane Lambert sane I was thinking to myself none of this looks familiar lol

@courierdude

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! 🙄😋

@christnumber2

2 жыл бұрын

This is the original Edmonton London, where the man who founded the Canadian city was born!

Stag and hounds and the beehive were both my locals. Went to them a lot

@JohnSalmon

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you LushLover. I'm pleased you enjoyed your trip back in time. The Stag and Hounds and the Beehive or both within a stones throw from where I live.

Brilliantly edited and I love the sound effects. Thank you.

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for taking the time to comment Al. It is much appreciated. I'm pleased you enjoyed the video.

.Love the accompanying Sounds........Soooooo peaceful & evocative! Thanks so much for this :>)

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Elizabeth, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. Look out for the other Enfield Time Machine videos too if you're interested.

Was the covered market called the arcade. Love to see more of your pictures. Thanks John.

@JohnSalmon

4 жыл бұрын

Some people probably called it the Arcade but you can see the entrance to it in the left of this picture if you're quick at 6:56.

I lived in Edmonton Alberta Canada and started watching this vid , whoa this isnt the Edmonton I lived in .when in England had to visit Edmonton

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

Ha Ha! We've caught a few out from Alberta like that. You're welcome to visit us any time. We'll make you feel at home. 😁

@funsweed

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSalmon Have been your way for a holiday twice ,visited with wifes relatives in Stoke on Trent

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

@@funsweed I hope you enjoyed your visits.

I lived in Bush Hill Park, went to school in Edmonton, spent my childhood exploring Enfield before emigrating to Australia in "68. Finally planning a trip home next year and wanting to visit some old haunts. You've bought back lots of memories and givien me more places to put on my list to visit. Thanks so much for the effort you put in.

@JohnSalmon

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your comments +Sheila Longden, I'm really pleased you enjoyed it and it bought back happy memories for you. I'm wondering if you have been back since 1968? I think you'll be in for some surprises in how things have changed so much over the years. Please, please let us know what you think after your visit. I'd love to hear what you think of it now.

@sheilalongden369

8 жыл бұрын

+John Salmon did my first trip back to UK in 2014 but nowhere near Enfield. looking forward to visiting next year including checking out Salmon's brook where I spent many childhood hours tadpoling

@elizabethsheffield6609

8 жыл бұрын

+John Salmon be careful of what you wish for!

@karengilbert2878

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@keithsykeshome

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Sheila... I went to Raglan, Rowantree and then Edmonton County before coming to Melbourne in 1970. Which schools were you attending in Enfield?

On one of the pictures the address was displayed over the shop “ 244 Fore Street, in the 1950’s I worked next door 246 Fore Street, that shop was a chemist shop; JT Davy.

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

That's interesting thanks Brian. My brother in law is Colin Rickard. He had an Estate Agency business at 247 Fore Street.

That was the best video I've seen. I grew up in Edmonton. There was a cinema called the Granada up the hill and Linwoods fish shop on the green. Thanks very much. Like to see more.

@JohnSalmon

6 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, I remember them well. :)

@jj8995

6 жыл бұрын

John Salmon Thanks john. The memories. That came back. Just brilliant. I think there were. 9. Pubs on the green then. Lovely.

@JohnSalmon

4 жыл бұрын

@@jj8995 My Mum had a little shop in the Covered Market. I used to love that place.

@morlrd

3 жыл бұрын

My Mum, Dad and I lived in Tiverton Road, and later in Delhi Road, Bush Hill Park, and my Mum always did the majority of our weekly shopping in The Green. Before the Granada was obliterated, along with so much else, I played drums on its stage, in the band I was in around 1962/3. Another SERIOUSLY SAD loss was the unbelieveably wonderful Regal cinema. More a complex than just an enormous cinema. On the opposite side of Silver Street was Dancy's record shop, where my parents (who became friends with the Dancys) bought their 78s, back in the 40s and 50s, then I took over with my 45s and LPs. HAPPY MEMORIES.

@watchthatman7826

4 ай бұрын

Born in Edmonton 1959, I worked in Linwoods Fish shop for quite a few years. I should have been in school but I was out the back cutting fish. Alan Fowler was the boss. My wife worked next door Sybil Richards where we meet as teenagers, and still happy together. They put a roof on the market because when it first opened, people from the flats above, kinda let things fall out their windows, and called it a indoor market. I went to Latymer School. Then Aylward Great memories and yes catching Stickleback fish with my older brother at he brook. I left in 1985 and I went back last year, It was like somewhere else. Thank you for posting

Just memories now , destroyed by our politicians

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness they can't destroy our memories. I hope this video has brought back some great memories of the old Edmonton we loved for you. Thanks for your valued comment,

Being an Edmonton boy this was fascinating to watch, i worked at the old green in an arch selling seafood.

@JohnSalmon

8 жыл бұрын

+bmwnasher Thank you. I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

@jj8995

6 жыл бұрын

bmwnasher. Do you. Remember a chap called. Mr Yates. He. worked in Linwoods fish shop. Thanks.

Great movie John, now for challenge #4 may I suggest the forgotten underbelly of Enfield, N 18 Edmonton, I can think of thirty + or so old pictures you can draw from. That stretch of history along the Pymmes Brook/ old Nth Circ route Silver Street has an abundance of variety.

@JohnSalmon

8 жыл бұрын

+Clifford Raven Thanks Clifford but I'm only doing the areas that I know well and have lived in personally. I can't feel the same attachment for places that I'm not too familiar with. Thanks for your kind comments though.

@number1bulgariabob486

5 жыл бұрын

I live in N18 its not a great area

Very sad to see what Enfield/Edmonton has now become.

@JohnSalmon

5 жыл бұрын

Totally agree Danny. It's changed beyond all recognition to what it used to be like. We always had rascals and villains but now it's a completely different game. Wonder if these will be considered the good old days in a hundred years time. Scary isn't it?

@cars.796

3 жыл бұрын

@Jimmy Jones haha wonder what it would be like if fucking shitheads like you were still around

@jayden4381

3 жыл бұрын

@Jimmy Jones Do you really think that is acceptable to say?

@s1strz

2 жыл бұрын

@@jayden4381 what did he say?

@jayden4381

2 жыл бұрын

@@s1strz Something about immigrants. I can’t quite remember.

A great film of Edmonton, what I really liked was the it started with the wording "Bush Hill Park Edmonton" because Bush Hill Park is Edmonton, despite the postal services many years before the dreadful London Borough of Enfield was started. The GPO, Post Office and Royal Mail labelled the area as Enfield. Wake up all those people Bush Hill Park is Edmonton

@JohnSalmon

2 жыл бұрын

Pleased you enjoyed it Len. 👍🏻

Thank you for making the video, that was brilliant to watch as it gave me a real feel for what it would have been like for my ancestors walking and living around Edmonton. (the sounds really help with the visualisation of being there) Not entirely sure whereabouts in Edmonton they lived but as far as I can see I think they were there since the late 1700s then eventually my grandad moved to Essex after ww2. (unsure if this is true but I believe he's fathers house was bombed out during the blitz however this wasn't the reason for moving as he moved to Essex with hes own young family later on after the war) haven't been to edmonton but from what I can see it has changed significatly since the times of the photos in the video.

@JohnSalmon

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Alex, thank you for taking the time to comment. I really do appreciate it. I'm pleased you found it interesting and yes, I do think the sound does make it a bit more engaging for people, I'm glad you found it so too. Edmonton was quite a wealthy area at one time due to the railway links into London. Many of the houses which have now been converted into flats were built with servants quarters on the top floor. You can still see signs of the bells for summoning the maid in some of the larger houses. Sadly, it's all changed now and like everywhere has been spoilt with too much development in any spare bit of space. Anyway thanks again, it was good to hear from you.

This is Edmonton London. I am from Edmonton Alberta Canada. I know there is another Edmonton in Kentucky USA. Interesting to see this video : )

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your interest in Our Edmonton Douglas - the original Edmonton. It would be interesting to find out who it was that named the Alberta and Kentucky Edmontons and whether they actually came from and had connections in the Original Edmonton in England. Thanks again. I hope you found it interesting.

@christnumber2

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSalmon From the Edmonton website....'It was named after Edmonton, England, the birthplace of Sir James Winter Lake, who was at the meeting of the governors of the HBC when the fort was established.'

@christnumber2

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSalmon There's also an Edmonton just south of Cairns in Australia too which I drove through. From a born, bred and still proud to be residing here Edmontonian! Great video!

@JohnSalmon

2 жыл бұрын

@@christnumber2 Many thanks. I knew there was an Enfield in Australia but didn't know about the Edmonton. Thanks for the info.

9:30 I lived on the moree way estate which I now behind where the Alcazar stood. There's a mosaic memorial to it on the back wall of the old Labour offices.....

Thanks John. I lived off Church Lane from 1951 to 1972. Visited my parents there until about 2006, when I sold my parents house on their death. From your video Edmonton looked nicer earlier than it did during its prolonged demise. I live in the hills now, but inexplicitly suffer occasional meloncholy for the place. We used to have an Anderson shelter in the garden. Our posher neighbours had a concrete bunker. Rabbits and chickens in the garden for food. Also an alcohol still for Grandpa. Winchester Road had a doodlebug. The army also closed the shops there when my uncle contracted Anthrax. Happy days!

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your comment Paul, you have some great memories of the area. Sadly, things will never be like they were back in your day. It's all changing and not for the best. My wife grew up and used to live in Church Street, bang opposite the Fire Station. We're still not far away on the other side of the A10 nearer Bush Hill Park and Winchmore Hill but still in the N9 post code. Thanks again for your memories, it was good to hear from an Old Edmontonian again. 👍

@aethelredtheunready1476

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSalmon At least Edmonton had a brook named after you. Constable painted it.

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

@@aethelredtheunready1476 I've painted it loads of times too Paul, it runs along the bottom of my garden. I heard that Constable painted it but I've never been able to find anything about that. Do you know of any copies of his work? Here's one of mine kzread.info/dash/bejne/oXuHu5aNf5S_j8o.html

@aethelredtheunready1476

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSalmon John. You're certainly a man of talent. I wish that I had a talent other than being feckless. I believe I was told about Constable by our artistic neighbours. I am still in touch, so I will enquire. I forgot to mention the most important memory. My mum received a serious stabbing in Church Lane in broad daylight, not far from our house. (Like there are other types of stabbings!)

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

@@aethelredtheunready1476 "My mum received a serious stabbing in Church Lane in broad daylight, not far from our house." Blimey, sorry to hear that Paul. If it was in the local press, we probably read about it.

My dad was born in Edmonton in 1929🥰. I’m a Tottenham fan so I do go back😘. I saw there’s a Larman Rd don’t know if it’s named after the family?. Anyone know why it was named Larman Road????. I would love to know. Names l know are Percy Larman & Bertie Larman

@JohnSalmon

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Barbie thanks for your comment. Hopefully someone will have an answer for you.

@dootst

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in Edmonton in 1928 so have seen a lot of you photos "in the flesh" as it were.

Ok hello from Edmonton Canada anyway! 😄😅

@JohnSalmon

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Canada. What did you make of the UK town which your Edmonton was named after? Hope you enjoyed seeing it.

@imasmurfy1

4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSalmon Very nice town. Thanks for posting :)

I wish there were a before and after picture i can't make out any of it. We moved there in 1985 when i was 14.

@JohnSalmon

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, it must be frustrating for you. If you find a view which you'd like to know it's whereabouts, tell me the minutes into the video and I'll try and tell you. For example the scene at 11:14 is Little Bury Street near Edmonton County School, Church Street.

@jahno7154

4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSalmon It's a great upload you highlighted every street it's Edmonton Green i can't believe how it's changed but that's fine I'm not frustrated at all i enjoyed the video.

There is not one photograph that was taken in Edmonton , Alberta. I must clarify this as I have lived in the Edmonton Aera for over seventy years.

@JohnSalmon

Жыл бұрын

You're quite right George. The Canadian city of Edmonton began as a trading post called Fort Edmonton, built in 1795. It was named after Edmonton in England, which was then a town north of London.

As a person who father was born Goodwin road Edmonton 1923

ah, this is Edmonton, London no? You might have said that.

I thought this video was about Edmonton/Alberta/Canada.

@JohnSalmon

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you weren't too disappointed but this is the original Edmonton in London.