Polly
Memories of an East End Girl
Published on 30. November 2011
128 pages
978-0-7524-7793-0 (ISBN)
Description
Born in 1911 into a close-knit family, Mary Rebecca Chambers (known to all as Polly) spent her formative years in the heart of the East End. This vivid account of life is told with passion and humour and is brimming with stories of how Londoners, and Polly's family in particular, lived through two world wars and the Great Depression. Polly was a natural storyteller and this is a compilation of her heart-warming stories, arranged in chronological 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 memoirs will entrance anyone who reads them.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
File size
1,64 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-7793-0 (9780752477930)
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Book
03/2012
The History Press Ltd
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Person
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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Origins and Early Days (1900-12)
- 2 The First World War (1914-18)
- 3 School (1915-25)
- 4 A Woman on the Bus (1916)
- 5 Standard of Living (1920-8)
- 6 Derby Day (early 1920s)
- 7 The Holy Cups (about 1920)
- 8 The Prize (about 1920)
- 9 A Daughter's Story (about 1925)
- 10 The B Family (1920-7)
- 11 Families (1925)
- 12 The Goose (1921)
- 13 Working Life (1925-54)
- 14 Meeting and Marrying Fred (1929-32)
- 15 The Second World War (1939-45)
- 16 The Blitz (1940-4)
- 17 The Dirtiest Woman in the World (1940-50)
- 18 War Babies (1940-5)
- 19 Farewell to Arms (1940-3)
- 20 Produce (1940-5)
- 21 Doodlebugs and Rockets (1944-5)
- 22 Early Post-War (1945-50)
- 23 The Fog (1950-1)
- 24 The Flats (1952-6)
- Postscript
- Copyright
