East End To Essex
Jewish Migration Routes
"No, none of them would have been paid well, I mean they were sweatshops. They worked terrible hours, for terrible wages. "
"there was the Tailor’s Strike, wasn’t there? They was striking for a tenner a day, a six pence, I mean they were earning terrible terrible wages and it was very seasonal as well, I mean the rag trade was seasonal so they were out of ... you know there were times when they were unemployed and there was nothing else for them to do, they were poor, I mean they were very very poor. "
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"When I walked between the two galleries down to Princelets Street I passed... found myself passing, so I went in I bought a cut black bread and i hadn’t had black bread for ... a long long time and it is my favourite in the whole world, I don’t think you can beat a Jewish black bread and I have images of my grandmother with a really large round black loaf, like a real Polish peasant and the bread knife cutting the loaf holding it under her arm and cutting towards her."
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"Okay yeah so it was NF and I was upstairs doing something in the bedroom, in the front bedroom and I heard a band and you know I love a street band, I just think it’s really nice thing to do and I hung out the window to see it and this NF march came past and... Although I’ve always had a bit of a big mouth I was terrified about saying anything at all because there were quite a lot of them and there’s me and now they... and if I say anything they know where I live and I didn’t say a word and I wanted to shout."
Carol Myers
"I wanted to .. and I just cried when they’d gone and I phoned my mum and told her what had happened and she said no.. she said I’d done the right thing and I couldn’t of on my own of.. but I did feel really, really bad about that. And it made me bad about.. you know a bit like being dirty about living in the house you know because they’d been past and yeah so that, that wasn’t a very happy day"
