East End Memories
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My East End
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Author : Gilda O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2000-09-28
My East End written by Gilda O'Neill and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-28 with History categories.
'Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has poured heart and soul into her book' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail The East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels . . . It is a place at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. Gilda O'Neill, an East Ender herself, shows there is more to this fascinating area than a collection of clichéd images. Using oral history and more traditional sources, she builds up a powerful image of this community - bringing to us, with wit and honesty, the real story of London's East End WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT MY EAST END: 'A true and detailed account of a community that has been sadly lost' Amazon Reader Review 'Excellent reading for anyone interested in the early life of London, one can't help being mesmerised by the hardships they endured!' Amazon Reader Review 'An extremely interesting and well-researched book' Amazon Reader Review
East End Memories
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Author : Jennie Hawthorne
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2005-09-22
East End Memories written by Jennie Hawthorne and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-22 with History categories.
Born in 1916 into an Irish Catholic family, Jennie Hawthorne spent her formative years in the heart of the East End, in a truly multicultural community. This vivid account of growing up is told with passion and humour - even though her drunken father struggles from crisis to crisis, and illness and crime are part of everyday life.
Our East End
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Author : Piers Dudgeon
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-10-25
Our East End written by Piers Dudgeon and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-25 with History categories.
This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book. Doesn't include original photographic and illustrated material. This oral history of London's East End spans the period after the First World War to the upsurge of prosperity at the beginning of the 60s - a time which saw fresh waves of immigrants in the area, the Fascist marches of the 30s and its spirited recovery after virtual obliteration during the Blitz. Piers Dudgeon has listened to dozens of people who remember this fiercely proud quarter to record their real-life experiences of what it was like before it was fashionable to buy a home in the Docklands. They talk of childhood and education, of work and entertainment, of family, community values, health, politics, religion and music. Their stories will make you laugh and cry. It is people's own memories that make history real and this engrossing book captures them vividly.
Poplar Memories
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Author : John Hector
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2010-08-10
Poplar Memories written by John Hector and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Poplar Memories is a vivid impression of Cockney London before and during the Second World War, set in a teeming, rundown docklands neighbourhood famous for being, well, one end of the Blackwall Tunnel. John Hector's spellbinding account of his early life in the 1920s and '30s conjures up a vanished era when simplicity and happiness went hand-in-hand. Halcyon days of 'talking pictures' and pavement buskers, Saturday night knees-ups round the piano, eel and pie stalls, chimneysweeps, 'boxers', Clarnico's toffees and Lloyd Loom furniture, and a little shop called Woolworth's selling 'nothing over sixpence' – unless it's a shilling. All this was to disappear forever in the horrors of the Blitz. The author was disabled by infantile paralysis – yet he became School Captain and embarked on a successful career at 14, surviving extreme poverty, panel doctors, dockers' riots and Hitler's Luftwaffe with an unshakeable belief in the ordinary people of Poplar.
East End Tales
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Author : Gilda O'Neill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
East End Tales written by Gilda O'Neill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with East End (London, England) categories.
Gilda O'Neill has gathered together her memories and personal recollections of growing up in the East End of London. It was a timeof unbelievable hardship and devastating change; yet also of great pride, kindness, courage, resilience and humour.
Are You Still Circumcised
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Author : Harold Rosen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Are You Still Circumcised written by Harold Rosen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with East End (London, England) categories.
Urban Grimshaw And The Shed Crew
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Author : Bernard Hare
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-13
Urban Grimshaw And The Shed Crew written by Bernard Hare and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
You're twelve years old. Your mother's a junkie and your father might as well be dead. You can't read or write, and you don't go to school. An average day means sitting round a bonfire with your mates smoking drugs, or stealing cars. Welcome to Urban's world. Bernard Hare was on society's margins, living on one of Leeds' roughest estates and with a liking for drink and drugs. So he knew what life in the underclass was like in '90s Britain. But even he was shocked when he met Urban, an illiterate, glue-sniffing twelve-year-old. And through Urban he got to know the Shed Crew - an anarchic gang of kids between the ages of ten and fourteen; joy-riding, thieving runaways, who were no strangers to drugs or sex. Nearly all had been in care, but few adults really cared. Bernard decided to do what he could. He didn't know what he was letting himself in for.
An East End Legacy
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Author : Colin Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018
An East End Legacy written by Colin Holmes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with East End (London, England) categories.
This is a memorial volume for William J Fishman, whose book, East End 1888, was 'a picture of life among the labouring poor of East London in Victorian times'. This book discusses the main themes of Fishman's book and chart changes that have taken place over 120 years, it delves into history and analyses issues which are still relevant today.
An East End Story
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Author : Alfred Gardner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-06
An East End Story written by Alfred Gardner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One evening in the long hot summer of 1959, Alfred Gardner was walking home along Commercial Road. Noticing a woman who had collapsed, he ran to a phone box to call an ambulance only to be beaten to it by an older man. Chance encounters often spark friendships and this was to be the start of a camaraderie spanning thirty-seven years. They were an unlikely duo. Gardner, in his late teens, had never journeyed too far from Stepney. Upson, in his early thirties, had an extraordinary life already. For Gardner, the Second World War meant vague memories of returning from evacuation in Hartlepool in 1944 to a Stepney now under threat from Germany's V1 and V2 rockets. But two years earlier, Upson had faced even greater dangers when the Japanese Air Force bombed Rangoon. The fifteen-year-old, who took up smoking and drinking to appear older, joined Burma's tiny navy. Nearly twenty years later, as they wander the streets, pubs and clubs of the East End, a fascinating cast of characters emerges. There are exotics such as Red Boots Danny, the reforming East End cleric Father Joe Williamson. At the Waterman's Arms, they rub shoulders with celebrities, noticing Clint Eastwood enjoying a quiet drink at the bar. And Upson seems to know everyone. His friend watches amazed as men, women, old and young spring forward to shake his hand and greet him. Gardner, meanwhile, pushes himself into the background. With his photographic memory, he is the camera documenting their travels. After Upson's death in 1996, Gardner makes a sentimental journey through Wapping, the walk that the two friends often took. Starting at Tower Bridge, he strolls down St Katharine's Way and on to Shadwell Park. Much of Wapping has changed out of recognition, the old wharfs replaced by new apartments and penthouses. He stops by Old Aberdeen Wharf to view Rotherhithe opposite. Just as Upson had predicted, the ships are gone, just a few rusty barges clank together ...
Historic England London S East End
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Author : Michael Foley
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2017-09-15
Historic England London S East End written by Michael Foley and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with Photography categories.
An illustrated history one of England’s finest cities - London and its famous East End.