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 & Pollys 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.