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Poplar Memories: Life in the East End by John Hector (Paperback, 2010)

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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. 'Much has been written about the East End but if I was writing about Poplar in the early 1920s I would need John Hector's books.' Dorothy (Dolly) Scannell author of Mother Knew Best. 'John Hector is a fine writer. His vast knowledge of the years before the last war is very nostalgic and beautifully written. Being of the same age and hailing from the same area, I can vouch for his accuracy.' Reg Varney, comedian, actor and author.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
The History Press Ltd
ISBN-13
9780752458236
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106416940

Product Key Features

Book Title
Poplar Memories: Life in the East End
Author
John Hector
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Local History, History
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
128 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
250mm
Item Width
170mm
Item Weight
340g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
John Hector
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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