Four Meals For Fourpence
A Heartwarming Tale of Family Life in London's old East End
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4.8 • 10 Ratings
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died.'
FOUR MEALS FOR FOURPENCE is Grace Foakes's memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child's uncluttered eye, she describes the small details - shopping in the market, men waiting for work at the dock gates, the rituals of washday, the sights, sounds and smells of the old East End of London. She also describes the fear - of illness, of unemployment, of the workhouse - that hung over her family and thousands like them, and her determination that her own children would never know the kind of poverty she had experienced.
Customer Reviews
Four Meals for Fourpence
I wanted to read this book as my ancestors were born and brought up in Wapping. Sadly they are no longer alive to go give me an insight into their lives. This book evoked many memories of tales that my Grandmother told me and which I had forgotten. A wonderful treasure trove of information that I can use to tell my grandchildren about their forebears history.
Lovely easy reading,well done to all who made it possible.