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Critic's Choice in the Daily Mail: August 15, 2008
'Priceless: true spirit of the East End. Piers Dudgeon has scrutinised the reports of dozens of elderly Londoners who can recall what life was like before the teeming slums and alleyways metamorphosed into shiny Docklands... Behind the nostalgia and colourful cliches, he uncovers memories of unemployment, hunger and dreadful housing... However - and this is the point of Dudgeon's fascinating book - despite deprivations and hardship, the shared values, the Cockney mateyness and the fabled community spirit reached almost mythical proportions... Inevitably, the Blitz changed everything... Tragically, a community that had knitted itself together over centuries to form the vital, vibrant people known as "the Cockneys" was destroyed within a generation.'
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‘The sheer variety of perspectives offered here reflects the multifarious, somewhat exhausting, nature of life in the East End . Even so, Dudgeon’s book leaves your curiosity piqued not sated' (Observer )
'[Piers] manages to capture and vividly portray the different strata and shifting population of this now forgotten world. This book is highly enjoyable, a tremendous read and makes a most significant contribution to the developing history of London' (Paul Doherty ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
'A wonderful book'
(Barbra Windsor )'[Piers] manages to capture and vividly portray the different strata and shifting population of this now forgotten world. This book is highly enjoyable, a tremendous read and makes a most significant contribution to the developing history of London' (Paul Doherty ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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