To walk to Whitechapel Road, we would go down Greatorex Street, passing the bomb sites on the street, the little houses and the factorie…
To walk to Whitechapel Road, we would go down Greatorex Street, passing the bomb sites on the street, the little houses and the factorie…
Close to Blooms was the Whitechapel Art Gallery, where we would go, as they had programmes for kids. I think this is where my brother pi…
We used to go to Petticoat Lane on Sundays to shop. When we became teenagers we went more often and met friends and hung out there. We w…
Once in a while my mother picked up a roasted chicken from Blooms as a special treat for us. We would go there occasionally for a salt b…
When I was 13 or 14, in the early 1960s, someone got me a Saturday job as a shampoo girl in a little salon called Netties in Black Lion …
I got married when I was 20, my husband was 22, at the Great Garden Street synagogue in 1969. Our family had been going there since befo…
I used to hate to go to the London Hospital (when did it become The Royal London?) if we had to visit a sick relative. Plus any of my re…
I had a job at Netties hair salon in Black Lion Yard when I was 13 or 14 but most of Nettie's clientele were old, and I found it difficu…