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"In this book, writer Melanie McGrath has given us a vivid and poignant memoir of the East End. McGrath spent years wondering about her East End roots. At the turn of the twenty-first century the places where her grandparents lived out their lives - Poplar, East Ham and Silvertown -are virtually unrecognisable; her grandparents, Jenny and Len Page, are long since dead and already half forgotten."
"Silvertown teems with stories of life in the docks and pubs and dog tracks of the old East End where Melanie McGrath's grandparents scraped a living. Here are the bustling alleys and lanes of Poplar in 1914, where eleven-year-old Jenny watches the men go off to fight; the Moses sweatshop on the Mile End Waste; the London docks, then the largest port in the world; and Jenny having her teeth pulled out on her seventeenth birthday. Here too is the Cosy Cafe, opened full of hope by Jenny and Len - later a home to their troubled marriage - and an East End landscape which is altered forever by the closure of the docks and the disintegration of this close-knit community."--Jacket.
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Social conditions, Social life and customs, Family, Biography, Families, East End (London, England) - Social conditions - 20th century, Manners and customs, English Authors, London (england), biography, London (england), social conditions, London (england), historyPeople
Melanie McGrath (1964-)Places
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Silvertown: an East End family memoir
2003, Isis Large Print
in English
- Large print [ed.].
0753152231 9780753152232
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SILVERTOWN is the story of one East End family, across three generations, living on the fringe of the Thames. Through the story of her family, Melanie McGrath recounts the history of this traditional inner city heartland.
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