Gavros
9:42 Fri Oct 10
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I was down there today as we are having talks with the trust that owns the old north Woolwich station about making that a new home for the Thames ironworks. Lovely building, grim area still.
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mashed in maryland
9:24 Fri Oct 10
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the last eastender 6:40 Mon Oct 6
For once I make you 100% right.
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Eddie B
11:36 Fri Oct 10
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They went to local people, but local in the sense that they'd recently moved into the area from abroad and were happy to work for terrible money and live in the same bedsit as 20 other people.
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the last eastender
7:21 Thu Oct 9
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Hello Eddie
I have been very busy hence I don't come on here much.
its a shame for E16 , things like excel and airport promised much and delivered little apart from low paid jobs, hardly any of which went to local people.
charley
you mention quite a few names there, I don't think any of the old families are left round there.
like I say it was rough years ago but it was a tighter community in fact I think people were tougher way back as they were not as spoilt and mollycoddled as they are now.
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claret on my shirt
5:15 Thu Oct 9
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I am actually working for an I.T company at the excel today and the Excel is pretty nice, area around it certainly not nice.
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1964
3:20 Thu Oct 9
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Northern Sold 2:36 Thu Oct 9
Grays isn't it?
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Northern Sold
2:36 Thu Oct 9
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all that's happening is the councils are off loading some of the shit out of the boroughs.
... and Essex (nee Westcliff on Sea)
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charleyfarley
2:29 Thu Oct 9
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I was born in Custom House lot of boxers around, the Reddings Varley rd same as cockney rejects. Tibbs had a scrapyard and a pub in Custom house. Glen Murphy had wallpaper shop in Prince Regents Lane. The Kaylors were in Baxter Road. Billy Williams was Jenkins Rd although that was probably in Plaistow
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Eddie B
11:41 Thu Oct 9
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Fucking hell, the last eastender! Where the hell have you been for the last two years?
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the last eastender
6:40 Mon Oct 6
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E16- my old stomping ground. Don't believe its gonna turn into paradise it wont sorry Gavros et al.
what have city airport, excel etc done for the area
? Nothing its still a dump, always was rough.
difference was it was a different rough no mugging crap etc, plenty of crime and crooks but not like the pussies nowdays.
people mention hackney etc, it don't matter how many artisan bakeries and craft beer pubs open up its still got the nastiness around it, all that's happening is the councils are off loading some of the shit out of the boroughs.
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Eddie B
12:00 Mon Oct 6
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bruunno, what a marvellous bit of fishing. i hope you catch something.
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bruuuno
9:33 Sun Oct 5
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I dont understand why people live in shit areas
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mashed in maryland
9:03 Sun Oct 5
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hub hub hub hub 8:45 Sun Oct 5
Think there's a law that's been passed in Newham stating that if you're Polish and outside you must only walk in groups of 2-4 all carrying cans of lager.
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mashed in maryland
9:01 Sun Oct 5
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She's got a kid with my mate who she's been with about 8 years joe so I could introduce you but you probably won't get what you're after.
PS who are you?
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hub hub hub hub
8:45 Sun Oct 5
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If you mean yuppified by groups of black teenagers on every street corner (mainly outside the chicken shops) and most streets being over run by eastern europeans then yes, its very much yuppified.
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joe royal
8:38 Sun Oct 5
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Katie Bush
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fred flinstone
5:20 Sun Oct 5
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I remember going to see the Mekons back in 1980/81 at Chat's Palace in Homerton, me and my brother went into a boozer round the corner before the gig and there was a geezer standing at the bar, probably in his 50s, with both his hands on the bar, his arms straight out in front of him. We must have been in there for an hour and the cunt never moved once. It was like going back to 1955 !
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joe royal
5:07 Sun Oct 5
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Mashed , can you introduce me to your fiend Katie?
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Gavros
4:35 Sun Oct 5
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Ive been looking at places close to the station as an investment before the crossrail opens. there's loads of tarquins and ophelias looking around there. mark my words within 3 years it'll start to look very different.
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