Book description
Born in 1911 into a close-knit family, Mary Rebecca Chambers spent
her formative years in the heart of the East End, in a truly
multicultural community. This vivid account of life is told with
passion and humour and is full of stories of the special community
atmosphere that was London's East End through two world wars and the
Great Depression. Mary was a natural storyteller and this is a
compilation of her heart-warming stories, arranged in chronolgoical
order, to tell the tale of life as she witnessed it, through adversity
and danger, excitement and fun. The captivating anecdotes, poignant
and entertaining, are suffused by the sights, sounds and smells of the
East End in the first half of the twentieth century. This is a
wonderful evocation of a bygone age and her affectionate memories will
entrance anyone who reads them.
Mary Chambers' son Jeff Smith was born in Stratford in 1945. He
spent his career in the nuclear industry before being ordained as a
Methodist minister.
