Book description
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. Piers
Dudgeon is the author of many works of non-fiction. He worked for ten
years as an editor in London, before starting his own publishing company
producing books with authors as diverse as John Fowles, Catherine
Cookson, Peter Ackroyd, Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Conran, Ted Hughes
and Susan Hill. Subsequently, he left London for Yorkshire and has
written books about Catherine Cookson (a no. 1 best-seller), Barbara
Taylor Bradford, Josephine Cox, J. M. Barrie and Daphne du Maurier, the
lateral thinker Edward de Bono, and the composer Sir John Tavener.
