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Cracked Eggs and Chicken Soup - A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars - A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars (Paperback)
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Cracked Eggs and Chicken Soup - A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars - A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars (Paperback)
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In this revealing memoir of childhood, the author shows not only
what affected his family, but also reveals a large slice of social
history concerning the lives of all ordinary working-class people
struggling to live in the slums of the East End of London in those
pre-Welfare State days. He writes with sympathy, and sometimes
anger, of the overcrowded houses with families of anything up to
eight children, as his own had, living in just two or three rooms
with outside W.C. and water tap; of the reliance on charity and the
soup kitchen for food; of trying to eke out what little income they
had by buying stale bread and cracked eggs or other cheap food from
the many itinerant street sellers. Yet this is also a chronicle of
what was a turbulent time in British history, and especially in the
East End, with its then still large Jewish and Irish populations.
So here too is an eyewitness account of the Depression, and of the
provocative marches by Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of
Fascists through the area, culminating in the Battle of Cable
Street that saw the marchers turned back by the efforts of Jewish,
Irish, communist and socialist protestors. Above all, however,
Norman Jacobs writes with affection of the area and its
extraordinary mix of peoples, as well as the now-vanished aspects
of everyday life, such as the music hall, the two-valve radio, and
the first Cup Final to be played at Wembley.
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