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East London is full of history and I’ve put together a list of gifts that I hope will trigger those memories. From old maps of London to photography books of people and places now sadly long gone.

East London Books

East London Photography

East London Maps

Search online below for lots of East London gifts that will bring memories flooding back. Ideal for birthdays, Christmas or just to say “remember the good old days!” I receive a small commission per sale and this all helps to keep this blog alive, thank you in advance for any purchases made via this website.


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  • Joe Clarke 26th March 2019 at 1:27 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonOk see you there - I will bring a picture of the French family and it is sadly the only picture my mother has of George [Bernard]. I'm sure you
  • Charles Sage 26th March 2019 at 1:19 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonHi Joe , I will be there , called in there yesterday for lunch.
  • Joe Clarke 26th March 2019 at 1:11 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonCharlie - assume we are still on for 7.30pm tonight Bell Inn? Looking forward to meeting you. Joe
  • billellson 23rd March 2019 at 7:36 pm on Three Tuns City of London | WW2 PhotosMr Frederick George Motteram presided over The Three Tuns P.H., until his death on 21st December when his widow Ada Caroline Motteram née Gollar took over.
  • Chris Hopkins 23rd March 2019 at 2:00 pm on The Silvertown Explosion of 1917 – WW1 HistoryHi Gill, Regarding the cause of the East End Explosion, those that are convinced of German sabotage must explain why it was that supposedly trained German agents would use such
  • David Timcke (Porter) 21st March 2019 at 7:07 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonHi again Billy I now have the history straight, thanks to my mother! We are talking about the same person - George Walter "Billy" Adams. Your grandfather was my great
  • Brian Snowdon 21st March 2019 at 2:49 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonHi Avril , I was also born in 1946 and lived in Kildare Road off of Hayday Road . I went to Ravenscroft Infants and junior schools , and don't
  • Avril Summers 20th March 2019 at 1:30 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonI used to buy Lemon ice at Forinos and i have never forgotten the taste. I remember when it caught on fire and they gave my dad slightly burnt Honey
  • David Timcke 18th March 2019 at 11:21 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonHi Billy. I have just seen the posting you made in 2017 - better late than never!! My late Gran, Liz Porter (nee Adams) was the sister of Walter Adams,
  • Stanley Marshall 18th March 2019 at 9:19 pm on Britannia Theatre Shoreditch | WW2 PhotosWow! Small world. I commented earlier about my GGG mother.Court dress maker. I have recently found her birth certificate,, and other info. Her name was Sarah Debouss, or Debuse, hard
  • Nora 18th March 2019 at 3:50 pm on Hughes Mansions Stepney | WW2 PhotosMy mother lived there and during war lost one of her sisters after last bomb dropped. My mother was a war bride and came to America and would go back
  • Toni hills 17th March 2019 at 12:20 pm on London East End Street NamesHi all I lived at number 27 Murray square my name then was mason I had two sisters Tina and Debbie my mum and dads name was Jim and pat
  • Toni hills 16th March 2019 at 4:24 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonI lived in murrary square number 27 until 1969
  • Toni hills 16th March 2019 at 4:05 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonI lived in murray square aswell we moved to kent in 1969
  • Toni hills 16th March 2019 at 3:59 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonHi hun i went to star lane secondary i also lived in custom house when ronan point fell we watched it fall
  • Anthony Spencer 16th March 2019 at 1:35 pm on London East End Street NamesI am trying to find details of "Rosher Row Stratford" I have found "Rosher Close" but cannot find any references to Rosher Row. I am 99.9% certain it was Rosher
  • James Toone 16th March 2019 at 7:35 am on London East End Street NamesI've only just found this website; hence my late response. Yes, 'The Balloon' was the name of an inn: a member of my family, Hugh Hopley, apparently was, in the
  • Lisa Davies 14th March 2019 at 2:31 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonYes cribbs was across the road, I lived opposite The White House for 25 years on Shirley Street til 2005, I never see coffins in the windows... Still give me
  • Tom Garnell 14th March 2019 at 11:23 am on History of Canning Town East LondonThe White House was really The Hallsville Tavern. It was a triangular pub facing up Raffy. I hated passing Cribbs with all the coffins, empty I suppose, standing in the
  • Tom Garnell 14th March 2019 at 11:21 am on History of Canning Town East LondonI was born in Plaistow, Beatrice Street backing on to Chargeable Lane, moved at the outbreak of war to Dale Road, bombed out in March 1941. My father worked for
  • Valerie Connelly 14th March 2019 at 7:15 am on The Silvertown Explosion of 1917 – WW1 HistoryMy grandmother Nell Greenwood had a ship's laundry in Constance Street, Silvertown where she serviced the ships in the docks. My mother was a small baby at the time of
  • Mackenzie Smith 13th March 2019 at 9:45 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonI remember ian the son who went to a private school when he came home on a school holidays he would call round my house to play I'm not Jewish
  • Mackenzie Smith 13th March 2019 at 9:18 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonYes the white house opposite was cribbs the undertaker
  • Ann Terry 13th March 2019 at 6:00 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonHi Elaine Apparently my father (now deceased) named Lewis (Louis) Terry was fostered to an Aunt in Clarence Road, Canning Town in the 1920s, her name was Fanny Wells and
  • stanley Marshall 12th March 2019 at 9:37 pm on Britannia Theatre Shoreditch | WW2 PhotosHello all, I find these memories amazing. I was born in Bethnal Green 81 years ago. I found out recently that my GGG G D, had a daughter who was
  • Jane 12th March 2019 at 5:46 pm on Britannia Theatre Shoreditch | WW2 PhotosLoving these East London posts, Malcolm! Would be interested in 19th century silk weaving stories. An ancestor who lived on London Street, Bethnal Green (where the rail line goes through
  • Pauline Williams 12th March 2019 at 4:18 pm on White Horse Hotel East Ham | WW2 PhotosMy fathers first wife and son aged 4 were killed in an air raid in Gyledune Gardens in 1944 they were the only casualties in that area that night. The
  • Stan Marshall 12th March 2019 at 3:20 pm on Hughes Mansions Stepney | WW2 PhotosVallence Rd., had some very interesting tenants, especially at 178. Iremmber the address as I also lived at 178 But not Vallence RD. I did go to school with the
  • Tim 12th March 2019 at 3:06 pm on White Horse Hotel East Ham | WW2 PhotosPub was rebuilt (am not sure when), but has now been demolished and new flats being built as we speak.
  • Mackenzie Smith 12th March 2019 at 2:25 pm on History of Canning Town East LondonYes the pub opposite caters supermarket ,before the supermarket I lived in the round top Nisson huts ,I was Born in Howard's road plaistow 1948 I lived in Lawrence street
  • Bry Carling 12th March 2019 at 12:16 pm on History of The East London CockneyMy dad’s people were from Mile End... they came there from Yorkshire in 1820. The family had 22 children quite a number of which survived. 14 to be exact. I
  • Frank Oakley 12th March 2019 at 11:44 am on Hackney a Brief HistoryI also worked in Hackney on and off till 1995,and still ave family living there,if only I could drive in there and park.
  • Malcolm Oakley 12th March 2019 at 10:46 am on Hackney a Brief HistoryWe share a great surname ;)
  • Gerry O'Neill 10th March 2019 at 11:06 pm on The Silvertown Explosion of 1917 – WW1 HistoryMy great, great uncle worked at the plant. He was, as they said at the time, a "bit simple" and he was only employed to sweep floors. On the day
  • Frank Oakley 10th March 2019 at 10:08 pm on Hackney a Brief HistoryI lived in Homerton from 1940 and moved out 1964 to Plaistow when I married.Hackney was a great place too live then.

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