Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives covers the area created from the former Metropolitan Boroughs of Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney - the heart of London’s world famous East End. Our Grade II listed library building dates from 1860 and is conveniently located in Mile End.

This channel features digitised archive films and videos from our moving image collection, plus videos of our events and exhibitions.

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  • @terfteeps
    @terfteeps10 күн бұрын

    Lovely film, I worked at Queen Mary for 17 years and this brought back many memories of its better fays

  • @paulhelman2376
    @paulhelman2376Ай бұрын

    Very nice although I recall Mr. Greenberg remarking to a fellow thespian, " What you are I wouldn't eat!"

  • @swadhinatatrust8610
    @swadhinatatrust8610Ай бұрын

    Well done Dr Ullah.

  • @boyblunder8889
    @boyblunder8889Ай бұрын

    Lived in Stepney as a small child , from about 1962 - 1968 , St Paul’s way in a pre-fab house.

  • @keymeter1917
    @keymeter1917Ай бұрын

    Fascinating. Brilliant. They ought to show this documentary in UK schools.👏👌❤️💯percent.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @racheldoesacrylic4089
    @racheldoesacrylic4089Ай бұрын

    London where did you go ? down the toilet look at it now ,shame on all who destroyed people and communities ,no one even smile at you now in case you want sommin ? most out for themself and it will only get worse ,look back at how we used to be ,dear God x

  • @stephenvincent4989
    @stephenvincent4989Ай бұрын

    My Booba & Zaida Silver were caterers at Weddings at the La Boheme in the years before the second World War. In later years she catered my brother’s and my Barmitzvah assisted by my late father the great Solly Vishnick.

  • @Steven_Rowe
    @Steven_Rowe2 ай бұрын

    My dad was a bell hanger for the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, and during school holidays I also worked there, it was a great place the East end and I seem to remember opposite the foundry on the other side of Whitechapel Road was a street that i think mayhave been called Blacklion yard I had to go in the shops as i was the errand boy, often called to get lunches etc. I remember the jewish shops etc and the notion that all Jews are rich was a fallacy, these were EastEnd working class Jews. I lived in South Tottenham very closed to Stamford Hill and iconic Jewish area but rather more well heeled and very orthodox, you could buy salt beef sandwiches which were ro die for and of cause the local football team Tottenham were nicknamed the Yiddos, arch enemy of Arsenal known as the gooners.

  • @cianog
    @cianog2 ай бұрын

    No English people left now.

  • @betty-boo9821
    @betty-boo98213 ай бұрын

    Excellent

  • @hadror13
    @hadror133 ай бұрын

    Fast forward to 2024 Jews are not feeling safe again and planning to flee UK due to Islamists and left wing hatred and intimidation

  • @EpicAelflaed
    @EpicAelflaed3 ай бұрын

    Multiculturalism and diversity = no longer an English city RIP London England - You were once a great English city

  • @missj.d9187
    @missj.d91873 ай бұрын

    Worst ever decision made to give up the docks! It totally destroyed our community and it also gave up our little bit of independence regarding trade. Historical buildings that survived the war were pulled down and soulless concrete jungle put up but the actual people who originated from the area was forced out! My family was from that area and can be traced back nearly 300 years so far. We were forced out 20 years ago by an illegal land grab by the council. Tower Hamlets Council is the most corrupt council you will ever know and reminds me of the King in Mile End shown is this video backing out of the deal! Bless my Nan she was one of the last to go surrounded by bulldozers taking on the builders with her Yorkshire terrier. Everyday they took her garden a foot at a time and the whole family would turn up to support with the East London Advertiser in tow. I wish I wasn't to young to realise what was at stake.

  • @Baz-Ten
    @Baz-Ten2 ай бұрын

    @missj.d9187, Appreciate you sharing that. At every level it's the landlords who rule the world

  • @dadsonworldwide3238
    @dadsonworldwide32383 ай бұрын

    It's wild how these proxys since +/-1880s 1920s 1960s 2020s work as global socialist orders rage all the nation's push complexity down upon the people turning neighbors against each other. I was blessed to know 1st hand direct testimony of the first freed slaves black and white Irish who claimed land on a homestead act 350 hectors beside each other in usa and they grew up together through all these until passing in late 1970s. Share cropping together and didn't socislize until they was about 50 years old. I was a kid and sat under them as they canned tomatoes, sewed quilts and talked about how our own allys like uk ,france, German, Spain usa gov all proxy one another turning neighbors against each other agitating the youth. Pushing complexity down to break up like mined vote blocks forming through faith or just kids just getting to close to one another fearful of a wise generation to thr tricks of the politacal trade. Hearing both sides telling me the same account of history then going to school under a revision view from a more fringe extreme was very enlightening on how the majority is ignored but micro scope is put on a very few political front. .. 2020 usa a 1st class window seat Begin the day holding hands Marching end it defending your home or business from getting burned down . The news camera takes that picture ,runs that headline . Same moement proxy fighting each other. The politicians gets justifying bill to impose physical prescription grabs more power the divide deepens. Same story over and over across all borders

  • @crossroads485
    @crossroads4854 ай бұрын

    The police play very active part in empowering racists and some cases they walk n hand hand with racists. I remember gangs plane cloth police beating up Bangladesh youths in Cable street. Racists had a free hand, you could say a licence to attack with weapons, petrol bomb s homes, attack us at schools, work places, anywhere and anytime. The term Paki bashing still echoes on the east end. The police are still at it, and so are neo cons in Labour party.

  • @leepowis5215
    @leepowis52155 ай бұрын

    Born in vallance rd 61 lived and grew up there until the mid nineties drive thru there sometimes now sad to see what its become 😔

  • @bobmiah
    @bobmiah2 ай бұрын

    What u mean

  • @Steven_Rowe
    @Steven_Rowe2 ай бұрын

    Blimey the Krays lived in Valence Road

  • @topbanana4013
    @topbanana40135 ай бұрын

    La Boheme i been in there when it was a nightclub Benji's lol

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple8836 ай бұрын

    Tower block's were the worst buildings ever conceived of and built on this planet in this century. They are Hell on earth even today. They changed the name from Towers to Apartments. A dog by any other name, is still a dog. 🌈

  • @jboardy5439
    @jboardy5439Ай бұрын

    💯

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple8836 ай бұрын

    Most people don't understand why the Jewish people receive so much negative press. I believe they have done a wrong to a people by taking over their country and expelling the people that was in 1948. In 2023 they are at it again. Whatever good feeling their was for the Jews after WW2 it's gone now. Truth has to triumph. At the moment the planet in bathing in liars.

  • @GMT439
    @GMT4396 ай бұрын

    Pumping stations were not only about supplying water you know.. They were part of a hydro power network.

  • @RobespierreThePoof
    @RobespierreThePoof6 ай бұрын

    Remembered? But it's still there

  • @jasoncohen7443
    @jasoncohen74437 ай бұрын

    Absolutely brilliant 👍

  • @derin111
    @derin1118 ай бұрын

    Really enjoy this. I moved to this area in 1994. I worked at the Royal London Hospital when I first qualified as a doctor in 1995 and all three of my children were born there. It was a good area to live in then but I had to move for career reasons to Glasgow.

  • @mpd7878
    @mpd78788 ай бұрын

    I miss old bermondsey and the docks

  • @gabbswolfe509
    @gabbswolfe5099 ай бұрын

    Muzel tov 👍

  • @gillscott4721
    @gillscott47219 ай бұрын

    My dad taught at Raine's Foundation from 1947 to 1977.

  • @TheRedPeril
    @TheRedPeril10 ай бұрын

    This makes me sad. A great country, handed over to people who won’t fight for their own. We will be condemned by future historians.

  • @paulgriffin5237
    @paulgriffin523710 ай бұрын

    think they used some spare gold they had lying around to pay for most of it

  • @brendanstoran7555
    @brendanstoran755510 ай бұрын

    Who cares? There’s plenty to worry about all around us,,,,,

  • @PeterKeri-gw2ft
    @PeterKeri-gw2ftАй бұрын

    Idiotic Comment !!

  • @dawatsouthall8028
    @dawatsouthall802811 ай бұрын

    My dad went through this in Shadwell area.

  • @t.g.m962
    @t.g.m962 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating.

  • @eastlondona.m.w2886
    @eastlondona.m.w2886 Жыл бұрын

    I come from poplar but lived in stewart Street in the 80s for year's there's no communities there long gone most people that live on the I.O.D don't even come from East London.

  • @grahamjonathan762
    @grahamjonathan7626 ай бұрын

    Neither did most of the others that grew up there previously

  • @eastlondona.m.w2886
    @eastlondona.m.w28866 ай бұрын

    Lol Whatever mate

  • @robmorris1365
    @robmorris1365Ай бұрын

    There will always be new people in any area, but l feel l understand what our friend is trying to say. My Grandfather's people came from Devon to help build ships that required rivets, a skill that wasn't available in the area. They fell in love with the island and stayed. My Grandmother's Father was from Norway. He stayed for a similar reason. My Grandfather did not see himself as anything other than an islander, but his lineage did not really go back far at all. My Grandmother was exactly of the same mindset, but again she was only, at best, 2nd generation.

  • @youngpr3z156
    @youngpr3z156 Жыл бұрын

    I am a true stepney by blood name and origin my father his father his father his father and his father were all stepneys

  • @bobmiah
    @bobmiah2 ай бұрын

    My chicken burger meal is from stepney aswell

  • @sf2explus184
    @sf2explus184 Жыл бұрын

    i was born in 1983. I lived near west india dock road for 15 years best years of my life as a kid i saw the development of canary wharf. i think they finnished the building around 1990 the early part of development and still carries on today.

  • @mctasty6094
    @mctasty6094 Жыл бұрын

    The visuals are bad.

  • @lisarumble3518
    @lisarumble3518 Жыл бұрын

    So much change, so fascinating lives once lived, wish we could go back to pre industrial times, i lived on island for few years, grandad from Millwall, windmills

  • @michaelleiper
    @michaelleiper Жыл бұрын

    The centre at Beaumont Grove at the end of the video closed earlier this year.

  • @diane5891
    @diane5891 Жыл бұрын

    I was brought up in Stepney, early years a large Jewish presence, later years Bangladesh. East End people were finally pushed out

  • @christ-thekey3246
    @christ-thekey32467 ай бұрын

    They took our poverty so we could move up ?

  • @garethjones9605
    @garethjones96053 ай бұрын

    You were not "pushed out", you chose to leave...

  • @georgecommons839
    @georgecommons839Ай бұрын

    The east end has always changed way back french imagrent s to Irish who built the dooks to Jews to Bangladesh to east European I love them all the mix is my eastend

  • @JfK--OBJECTivE
    @JfK--OBJECTivEАй бұрын

    @@garethjones9605 IDIOTIC comment. Would you like to live in an area where 99% of the culture is not your own?

  • @scarfacezalusky8238
    @scarfacezalusky8238 Жыл бұрын

    pքɾօʍօʂʍ 😆

  • @johnrider5701
    @johnrider5701 Жыл бұрын

    How many jobs were created for locals not that many ,

  • @movesky6696
    @movesky6696 Жыл бұрын

    local people not seen do care

  • @graceproby2662
    @graceproby2662 Жыл бұрын

    I lived in Stepney until 1970 then moved to Bow until 1977. Moved out of London completely then. I would still go back to King John Street even as it was then, I loved it. Not the same now. Only 2 people I know still live in the area. I lived around the corner, literally, from the Jewish Hospital. I spent four days there in 1964 when I fractured a bone in my arm. It was Passover so certain things I couldn’t eat. At 11 years old and not jewish there wasn’t much I liked. I would eat them now but as a child…. It brought many happy memories flooding back from when I lived there,

  • @janetcozens4623
    @janetcozens4623 Жыл бұрын

    Ooops It

  • @janetcozens4623
    @janetcozens4623 Жыл бұрын

    We where told that our maisonettes should of been down at least 10 years before Harcca I was Brought in it Killed all the community spirt that was there before Poplar and Bow. T'hats what killed the East End Bloody Harrca

  • @janetcozens4623
    @janetcozens4623 Жыл бұрын

    Ilived in Poplar n bow back in the 1980s oh what a brilliant time I had 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @yzsr4
    @yzsr4 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting regarding the efforts of the Jewish people to open a hospital..

  • @sahelanoor1981
    @sahelanoor1981 Жыл бұрын

    Now how it looks it’s much bettee

  • @Baldieman1
    @Baldieman13 ай бұрын

    no,it is soulless and characterless,and only for the poshos

  • @chrisferns5352
    @chrisferns5352 Жыл бұрын

    Just London called progress a dock yard working class moved on

  • @medfitconsultant
    @medfitconsultant Жыл бұрын

    The whole area is completely changed now. I grew up in Tower hamlets, Stepney Green precisely, yet my recent visit to the area seems unrecognisable. Its new world entirely.

  • @syamin72
    @syamin722 жыл бұрын

    At 9:22 you see tarling estate in its original form. They should have refurbished those two blocks rather than demolish & rebuild

  • @remrettgorden2566
    @remrettgorden25662 жыл бұрын

    This is a very informative and fantastic video! Thank you for uploading it!