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Post by tommydark on Jul 17, 2024 20:18:02 GMT
So many of them knocked down instead of improving in the 60s/70,s
And up went the tower blocks.
Was it progress or a sideways England pass?
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Post by dohnut on Jul 17, 2024 20:21:17 GMT
I lived in one when I got married. Knocking it down was the best thing for it. Replaced by modern (at the time) terraced housing. But as a newly wed not yet earning a decent wage, we thought it was wonderful. In hindsight it was not.
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Post by tommydark on Jul 17, 2024 20:34:46 GMT
We rented one overlooking London fields park in hackney.
The landlord sold it for £30k in 1984.
Today after much work by the owners its value is £2million.
I'm dead envious I must say!
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Post by MungO on Jul 17, 2024 20:43:13 GMT
My Uncle Bob and his upstairs tenant Wally shared an outdoor toilet in their place in Plaistow.
Used to have to go out there with a kettle and melt it in the winter.
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Post by mrb on Jul 17, 2024 20:49:02 GMT
Yup! Remember it well..Dennets Road,New Cross ..Newspapers for bog rolls 🤦🏾♂️ And bloody freezing in winter!! 🥶
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Post by mujtahido on Jul 17, 2024 21:12:34 GMT
I remember when in the summer wd used to eat indoors and crap outside nowadays we eat outside and crap indoors
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Post by billericayo on Jul 18, 2024 0:49:31 GMT
Hah, the good old days, Bucket and chuck it.
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Post by captainhindsight on Jul 18, 2024 7:39:47 GMT
My great Nan and Grandad used to have one of these in Walthamstow. I remember the green front door that they all had and i believe green window frames too.
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Post by mrb on Jul 18, 2024 7:59:43 GMT
My great Nan and Grandad used to have one of these in Walthamstow. I remember the green front door that they all had and i believe green window frames too. Why were they alway green?? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2024 8:04:16 GMT
My great Nan and Grandad used to have one of these in Walthamstow. I remember the green front door that they all had and i believe green window frames too. Had no idea Shakin Stevens was singing about going for a dump. |
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Post by mrb on Jul 18, 2024 8:10:38 GMT
My great Nan and Grandad used to have one of these in Walthamstow. I remember the green front door that they all had and i believe green window frames too. Had no idea Shakin Stevens was singing about going for a dump. 😁 |
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Post by captainhindsight on Jul 18, 2024 8:31:02 GMT
My great Nan and Grandad used to have one of these in Walthamstow. I remember the green front door that they all had and i believe green window frames too. Had no idea Shakin Stevens was singing about going for a dump. Hilarious  Edward Road , in Walthamstow, i guess the green doors were because they were council / local authority. |
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Post by Fisch on Jul 18, 2024 8:57:43 GMT
It was the same on our council estate in Buckhurst Hill/Loughton. Doors, crittal window frames and iron supports holding up the little roof over the front door. All dark green.
I remember how the curtains would move slowly from the "big room" down the list of rooms with ever decreasing status until finally ending up at the little windows in the shed and outdoors bog
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Post by redshank on Jul 18, 2024 9:18:42 GMT
I think they tried hard enough after the war to make life more pleasant in the new towns.Some parts of the Debden estate in Essex are exceptionally beautiful along with the many Garden Cities.Nowadays it seems to be cram and scram.
The newest block of flats in New North Road Hainault must have used the old CCCP designs.Hideous any day of the year.
When we moved to beautiful Rookwood Gardens in 1949,that had an outside coal/coke store and an outdoor wc Obviously had one inside in the bathroom.So happy to play in the forst opposite and the brook and farmland past the famous five arches where the wild garlic still grows.
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Post by Thor on Jul 18, 2024 10:26:22 GMT
Had no idea Shakin Stevens was singing about going for a dump. Hilarious Edward Road , in Walthamstow, i guess the green doors were because they were council / local authority. no the green was the colour of the Warner Estate, they were not council, well I don't think they were. Warners built a huge amount of houses and flats in Walthamstow, along blockhouse Rd area, Lloyd's Park area, they are very desired today. |
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Post by redshank on Jul 18, 2024 13:28:54 GMT
I was told the story of the Warner Estate,but have forgotten what I was told.Maybe they run out of money and the LCC took them over.My first proper girlfriend lived in one in Chingford Mount Road quite near the bus garage.
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Post by stamfordo on Jul 18, 2024 14:03:57 GMT
Our outside toilet in our council house in Loughton was probably as warm as the indoor one without central heating
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