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A must visit!
I was at its last game. Was like being at an absolute rave with a football match in the middle of it.
Very interesting.

I do wonder exactly how dependant the area was on the ground when there are what, 25-ish games there a year ? leaving 340 days of normality.
The memorial to England’s 1966 World Cup triumph depicts West Ham legend Bobby Moore, along with fellow West Ham players Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters, as well as Ray Wilson from Everton.
I have visited this statue I was with a group who were all bigger football fans than I, They wanted to visit every major football ground in London.
In those days Upton park was still the home ground of West Ham.
I was at the last game after 44 years of regularily going there. Great night. Sad to see it demolished but life goes on.
Talking about the cuboid flats... I drove from Stratford to the (world famous in Bow) Bow roundabout a few Sundays ago.

What an utterly depressing sight! A canyon of bland uniformity utterly devoid of any redeeming features what-so-ever.... It looks like that part of Upton Park will go the same way.
Ashamed to say that I never went to a match at Upton Park (although I did go and have a look once) despite being an armchair West Ham fan since 1975. My grandparents lived just up the road and kept their season tickets up even after moving to Romford (before I was born) and then Brentwood.
Builderspeak...The "vibrant gardens" that the builders constantly glow about runs east/west, so will be in gloomy shadow all day from the tall buildings on the south side. "Roman Road market 10 minutes away"! There are no Boris buses in Green Street. What other features on the cgi and spiel will not be the same in the finished product?
Those flats are really the basic type of dense housing London could do with now. A similar size to the mansion flats of North West London. 5 to 7 floors, along the roads, or forming squares, rather than ghastly tower blocks of recent times. Obviously affordable rent would be nice, but I suppose such things could be built further out, near stations.
My Nana was rehoused in a flat when the house she had spent a long time living in was pulled down. If you stood on her balcony you could see a corner of the Boleyn Road pitch and one goalpost. Wasn't much good on match days, but the noise was impressive
@Kevin - 'the area' almost certainly was not dependent on the club, but I'm willing to bet that a lot of the pubs and takeaways took a huge proportion of their income on matchdays, not to mention t-shirt sellers, burger vans and the rest.

I can't tell you how much time and money I spent in that place. The new ground is most definitely not the same.
My home team only visited Upton Park once, and as it was quite an occasion for them and I'd recently moved to Libdon I went along. (They were having a good season, they also visited Spurs)

That was over 30 years ago. And they lost both fixtures. But what goes around comes around, and on Saturday they will be at the Emirates. Third time lucky?
If anyone watched the Last Whites of the East End back in June on the BBC, it was definitely interesting programme about the area. Now the football club is gone, there is not going to be much heritage left, and no doubt the pubs will be closing. One has already gone near Plaistow Station because of the move.

Genetrification, this is a real shame, which is why the originals are moving to Essex.
Minor correction, before some pedant picks me up.

The West Ham and Spurs matches I watched were in consecutive seasons, not the same one. And a clarification that there had been earlier fixtures, before their opponents on those occasions had become my home team.
@neyagness. The Central 400m up Barking Road closed last month as well.
@Will Yeah, the new place doesn't look like a fun place to watch football.
At least we no longer have the Police blocking local residents from using the station because of the football fans arriving or leaving.

Might be worth noting that East Ham (and West Ham) were semi-independant 'County Boroughs' of Essex until 1965 - technically not part of Lonson and therefore not the East End
For those talking about the pubs that are or have closed due to WH moving:
The Cenral - Closed
The Duke of Edinburgh - Closed
The Wakefield - Closed
The Victoria - due to close.

That's without The Castle and The Green Gate which closed a few of years ago.

The Stanley, The Boleyn, The Denmark, The Queens - can't see all of these surviving, I would think that at least 2 of them will close.
The Duke of Edinburgh went years ago and the Victoria has been hanging on by the skin of it's teeth for years. I'm surprised the Lord Stanley is still open but I think the Queen's still has the market trade and the Boleyn seems to be diversifying into accomodation.
timbo -- you said above you had recently moved to Libdon. Is this meant to be Lincoln or London? Whichever it is, good luck on Saturday!
In response to Agent Z, the Duke of Edinburgh and Wakefield closed long before the club left. Pubs have been closing for a long time before the club said it was moving - such as the Green Man on Katherine Road local to me. I suspect it is more to due to the change in demographics - not saying other cultures don't drink, just don't use pubs.

And some that have closed are no loss, often pretty shit.

The Hammers - now Red Lion - has had a rebirth. Gentrification perhaps but we need decent pubs and restaurants, not betting shops and chicken shops.










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