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only1billybonds 10:59 Mon Aug 27
Petticoat lane,Brick lane,Club Row
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Any memories of these once great institutions of East End life?
Me and my sistet used to beg our mum to buy us a puppy from club row dog market. In later yeàrs would always pop in Percy Ingles for a salt beef baegal and on the way back get me grandads winkles from tubby issacs stall.
I took my other half to the lane last christmas as her family are from stepney (she's an aussue) and she always wanted to see it.
Fuck me,grim dont come close.
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Gavros
11:10 Mon Aug 27
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My old man used to take us down there. This was 30+ years ago when if I recall rightly virtually everything on Hanbury street was derelict.
Highlights were the Nazi war memorabilia salesman, the beigel shop, the bike sellers on what was club row and my dad always asking "john" who was selling his stuff on the floor how much he wanted for his rusty tools.
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only1billybonds
11:24 Mon Aug 27
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I think the pet market at Club Row had all but finished by the 80's. Seems unthinkable now but in the 60's there were 100's of animals up for sale every Sunday morning. And it was always heaving as was the lane. But i guess you could say that about all the old markets,Rathbone,Chrisp St,Rioman rd etc.
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Percy Dalton
11:51 Mon Aug 27
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I remember going down the lane and buying my mum a tea service from the bloke who used to shuffle the cups and saucers.
When I got it home and gave it to her there was only five cups.
He must have shuffled one up his sleeve.
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,
12:10 Tue Aug 28
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I remember all those places and as they have diminished and all but disappeared the Columbia Road flower market has grown from nothing and the price of the terraced properties there has sky rocketed.
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Cor Blimey
12:16 Tue Aug 28
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Used to walk to Brick Lane every sunday morning. Would go to see the animals for sale. Bought many bikes from there. Always walked home with a bag of apple fritters.
Used to stop at the bakers next to Woolworths in Bethnal Green Road to buy a Cake to have after sunday dinner.
Petticoat Lane was for the leather jackets and the bloke who threw the china dinner sets up in the air. My choice of grub to walk home with was potato latke's.
Haven't been near either for years.
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Any Old Iron
1:08 Tue Aug 28
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Me and a mate used to have a stall at the top end of the lane in 71/72 selling satin and velvet flares. Did alright, except a lot of fat tarts would buy the wrong size, bring 'em back with the arse ripped out, then scream blue murder if we didn't give 'em a refund.
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oudekerk kid
2:07 Tue Aug 28
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If my grandad wasnt working on a Sunday, he would be going down the lane , i often went. I remember the animals and people selling junk out of cases on the deck , cardboard city and dossers, salhi and salims cash and carry . Dinos grill He had a mate or two on the wasteland bit where you'd get the del boys putting there show on.
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Westham67
2:12 Tue Aug 28
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24 hour Bagel shop a haven for LUL night worker before hitting the Caxton early house
Petticoat Lane, I can't remember the buses but we used to get a red bus rover for 40p and to go there
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muskie
2:11 Tue Aug 28
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The Last Resort was where everyone used to go late 70's early 80's.
Tony Barker was down there all the time, heard Micky French died recently.
Excuse me, just an old geezer waffling on.
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Eddie B
2:18 Tue Aug 28
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Blacks shoe shop is still open, I think.
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eusebiovic
2:19 Tue Aug 28
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Due to my age I only went in the late 80's for the first time when it was still busy but probably past it's peak.
I got a rather nice leather jacket which looked like the one Ray Liotta wore in Goodfellas but as the film came out a few years later it was pure coincidence rather than any fashion inspiration on my part.
My old man bought a Russel Hobbs coffee percolator from the early 70's - the secondhand electricals had a bit of a dubious reputation but as far as I know the damn thing still works and he still uses it now and again!
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wanstead_hammer
2:38 Tue Aug 28
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Remember a lot of previous things mentioned (60s/70s/80s).
Used to be a little football programme shop down there as well.
Was down the lane on Sunday. Ave a mooch down there most sundays. Not a lot there now but can still get unusual, odd stuff, tinned stuff, half-inched bikes (aim for the smell of skunk), bit of clobber (Fcuk/marksys). He's West Ham on the stall.
Vinyl record stall (he's West Ham). Blackmans still going strong (guvnors son keeping it going (punters mainly tourists/hipsters now). Nothing much else along Cheshire st now (bit of junk at vallance rd end and a stall selling good value t-shirts/track suit bottoms/sweatshirts/hoodies. (Fruit of the Loom). Me dads old mates run it. Opp the carpenters and they're twins as well.!
Back up to the crossroads, go straight across and there's a small square with quite a few little stalls selling everything and anything. And a coffee stall where there's still a few old boys selling kettles.
And there's a burger/coffee stall on that bit.
Down towards shoreditch high st there's a few stalls, then a massive fruit and veg stall.
The Bethnal Green road end, quite a few stalls and the 2 Beigel shops (go in the smaller one as massive tourist
queue at the Beigel Bake).
The usual gypsies, tramps and tealeaves wandering about.
It's shrinking at a rate of knots but gotta tryn the tradition going.
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Eerie Descent
2:47 Tue Aug 28
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Westham67 2:12 Tue Aug 28
24 hour Bagel shop
Beigel shop
BEIGEL
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eusebiovic
2:52 Tue Aug 28
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wanstead_hammer 2:38 Tue Aug 28
As I grew up South - East Street Market just down the road from the Elephant was an amazingly vibrant place right up until the mid 90's.
I remember them celebrating their official centenary in 1982 and the market was as crowded as it gets...plus all the shops which lined the street too. It felt like it would last forever but that was probably it's peak.
Like most markets it's hanging on but is a pale shadow of it's former self. Much like the Brixton, Deptford and Peckham - still going but nothing like as united or vibrant as they once were - despite the Time Out still wetting their pants over them.
Dock closures, retail parks, the rise of the mega-supermarkets - Economics innit?
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wanstead_hammer
3:01 Tue Aug 28
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Yeh, me old man used to take us over East st now and again (*gobs on floor!). Used to ave a glass of sarsperella!
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eusebiovic
3:07 Tue Aug 28
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wanstead_hammer 3:01 Tue Aug 28
Sarsperella - a strangely addictive drink like a cross between Ribena and Root Beer.
Like Ribena, it was better hot...I have to say :-)
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Eddie B
3:08 Tue Aug 28
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WHAT SORT OF CUNT CALLED IT BAGEL?
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eusebiovic
3:19 Tue Aug 28
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I was delighted to discover that The Pride of Spitalfields pub is still going strong just off Brick Lane. I used to stop off there after games pre-hipster in the early 90's
Of course all the hipsters have discovered it now but like the Lord Clyde in Borough the interior remains the same.
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Lato
3:34 Tue Aug 28
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My old man used to take me to Club Row what seemed like every Sunday in the 70's. Feck knows why cos he never bought anything. And yes I always said the same thing to him " Dad can we get a puppy?" and he always replied " no your Mum would have kittens". We did however get that puppy in the late 70's when my Mum left us.
We went to Petticoat Lane once for a change and it was the first time I saw a glue sniffer. Strange how you remember things like that.
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Toe Rag
3:40 Tue Aug 28
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It’s not a patch on what it was 20 years ago and even that was way after it was at it’s best.
Really suffered when they knocked the Bishopsgate goodsyard down. Now all wanky expensive pop up shops and hipsters. Also loads of big brands have moved in and it’s just been commercialised to fuck.
Probably for the best that they stopped selling animals at club row really.
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