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East End Kids ... and Other Animals! from grumpus ^Pro 821 days old

I was a child at the time and innocent of such matters, but I believe that just after the 1939-45 War, people had a different attitude towards animals ...

East End Kids ... Brotherly Love from grumpus ^Pro 825 days old

My brother Peter was 4 years younger than me, so he was just three when World War II ended. He grew up quickly in post-war East End London. At the age ...

Wartime Winter ... London's East End from grumpus ^Pro 840 days old

When I was a child growing up in London's East End, during and just after World War II, summer started in the middle of Spring and lasted to the middle ...

Surviving The Blitz ... London's East End from grumpus ^Pro 847 days old

During the Blitz and the years between 1940 and 1944, London's East End bore the brunt of the German bombing. Night raids, daylight raids, then the V1 ...

Smoking ... 1940's ... Part II from grumpus ^Pro 852 days old

[ ... ] of life. Sometimes I would be sent to a neighbour, "Mum says can she borrow a fag till Dad gets home?" Dad smoked heavily too. I remember him ...

Smoking ... 1940's Sophistication! from grumpus ^Pro 852 days old

When I was about six years old in London's East Ham (Newham now) it was quite normal for me to go off on my own on the bus to Barking to see my lovely ...

Cursing and Swearing East End Style from grumpus ^Pro 855 days old

As a child in wartime East London I learned lots of swear words but also learnt that only grownups are allowed to say them. Every time grownups spoke ...

London's East End ... In sickness and in health. from grumpus ^Pro 868 days old

During the war I think my whole family were obsessed with constipation and determined to avoid it at all costs. Every Friday night my brothers and sister ...

East End Schooldays from grumpus ^Pro 873 days old

So here we were in 1943 finally living in our own little house in East Ham, London E6. The upstairs flat had been vacated and we had the house to ourselves. ...

Our New House ... East End style. from grumpus ^Pro 875 days old

Dad had eventually joined Mum and I in London and found us a flat in a small end of terrace house in East Ham. We moved in with the barest of furniture, ...