Born in 1911 into a close-knit family, Mary Rebecca Chambers (known to all as Polly) spent her formative years in the heart of the East End. This vivid account of life is told with passion & humour & is brimming with stories of how Londoners, & Polly`s family in particular, lived through two world wars & the Great Depression. Polly was a natural storyteller & this is a compilation of her heart-warming stories, arranged in chronological order, to tell the tale of life as she witnessed it, through adversity & danger, excitement & fun. The captivating anecdotes, poignant & entertaining, are suffused by the sights, sounds & smells of the East End in the first half of the twentieth century. This is a wonderful evocation of a bygone age & her affectionate memoirs will entrance anyone who reads them.