Billy Go Wings 3:58 Tue Mar 3
Driving around Upton Park on non match days
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Second time this week I've had the misfortune of driving round the area due to work, Barking Road/Green St/ Katherine Rd etc and whilst match days can be depressing enough, non match days the area is depressing beyond belief and has just rubber stamped the need to me to move. Literally felt a foreigner in my own city.
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Roby
8:04 Tue Mar 17
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My Mum was born in Canning Town and lived there until she married my old man who was from Chadwell Heath.
She lived in a flat near the flyover and then moved to a maisonette opposite the old Pitts Head pub which has since shut and I think been demolished.
As 64 has said, the area was always rough, it wasn't until the mid to late 80s though when immigration just completely changed the whole place and I honestly don't think it was for the better. I can remember twice as kid where my Dad parked his motor outside when we drived their from Maidstone and some little Herbert smashed the window in the middle of the night to try and have the radio or whatever.
In those days the council properties were basically for those who really needed them not like now where every cunt just rolls up, gets given one and bangs out about 3 or 4 kids for the benefits.
I don't think they will ever clean the area up really.
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the last eastender
3:10 Tue Mar 17
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Aren't clean bandit ex Cambridge students?
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PlaistowIron
2:51 Tue Mar 17
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But they venture into town on a Saturday, they get ruthless.
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1964
2:47 Tue Mar 17
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Didn't think they allowed cars into cental studenty Cambridge thought it was all bikes.
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PlaistowIron
2:43 Tue Mar 17
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Think yourself lucky.
Have you ever tried driving round Cambridge during a weekend?
Those students are fucking terrifying.
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1964
2:39 Tue Mar 17
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I'm not sure about that. There were plenty of bad boys about there then. You went in the wrong pub and get ready for a nice zipper for you face down the hospital.
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the last eastender
2:33 Tue Mar 17
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Rough but there was some rules.
No mugging old people or taking liberties with kids unlike the vermin that infest the place now.
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1964
2:31 Tue Mar 17
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I went to school there (1960s) - it was rough.
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the last eastender
2:30 Tue Mar 17
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Amen 1964.
Was a different kind of rough in times gone by though.
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1964
2:28 Tue Mar 17
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Canning Town has always been a slum and what they are doing to it now building all those blocks will ensure it remains a slum.
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the last eastender
2:15 Tue Mar 17
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Gavris some people think building millions of rabbit hutches makes an area up and coming. That's what's happening in Silvertown and canning town.
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Gavros
2:08 Tue Mar 17
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It'll be difficult to gentrify canning town and custom house, simply because of the lack of Victorian housing and high number of council properties.
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the last eastender
2:04 Tue Mar 17
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Had the pleasure of driving round canning town this morning. Please don't try to tell me its up and coming it looks like one of those slums n America. Middle aged men sitting on the street drinking booze from plastic cups. Tramps pushing trolleys filled with scrap metal including boiler parts and old fridges.
Another so called up and coming area.
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joe royal
7:04 Mon Mar 16
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If you want a nice neighbor vote Labour
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the last eastender
6:51 Mon Mar 16
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1964
I hope the area does buck up. It's not gonna turn into paradise as opposed to Havering though.
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1964
6:27 Mon Mar 16
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the last eastender
Has always been Labour - says it all really.
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the last eastender
6:08 Mon Mar 16
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1964
Newham council will never throw out all its newer residents otherwise who is going to vote for them and keep them in power.
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1964
6:06 Mon Mar 16
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the last eastender 6:02 Mon Mar 16
Don't think it was just the council.
People moved out and sold their houses to private landlords who rented them to all they could get the money from. ie DSS immigrants.
This caused more to move out and the now richer private landlords to buy up more houses/flats ... and the cycle went on.
If you see a LET BY sign down your street then start worrying.
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the last eastender
6:02 Mon Mar 16
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1964
Of course not everyone down there is a druggy layabout still some decent ones left.
A shame the council flooded the area with shitcunts.
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1964
6:00 Mon Mar 16
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riosleftsock 5:56 Mon Mar 16
Ha Ha Ha Ha
Have I gone to heaven?
What day is it?
Where am I?
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the last eastender
5:59 Mon Mar 16
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Gavros
Just depends who your mate moves next to, he may just bite off more than he can chew?
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