Ebook: Poplar Memories: Life in the East End

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.;Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Memories of a Popular Man; Foreword & Acknowledgements; 1. An East End Upbringing; 2. Hospitals, Trams, Shops & Streets; 3. May, my New Career & a Tour of the Market; 4. The General Strike, Pubs & Street Traders; 5. The Blitz; 6. Friends & Neighbours.