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"We came to Ilford, I was a four year old in 1927. I had an older brother two years older and my parents... My father brought my mother to Ilford a few years earlier but she wasn’t going to stay there because it wasn’t what she was used to. She had come from Shoreditch, they all lived round, my

in-laws and my father’s parents mothers parents lived round Shoreditch round the bandstand."


"Yeah that’s right, there was boroughs there, bakers all sorts of things down there. Fishmongers. And I remember near Brick Lane there was a butcher called Simon, er Simons that went to Golders Green and I used to walk there, I’m trying to think when I started going to work, in about ‘53, we had to walk there, my father had his place in Fuller Street near there, and I had to walk past this butchers shop and it has this most terrible smell where they killed the chickens but today it’s a flourishing street, I’m told they have some very fine restaurants down there....  So times change. And we’ve got the famous bagel shop, beigel shop, in the beginning of Brick Lane that people stop at. "

Anonymous

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