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Description: | Leslie "Butch" Reid (b 1924) grew up in Hackney in the 1920s and 1930s. Here, in conversation with Lynda Pearce of the "Up the Manor" project, he speaks about the experience of growing up in poverty in the 1930s and describes Hackney at that time. He also describes the impact made on the area and himself by the Eton Manor Boys? Club, and one of its founders, Arthur Villiers. The club was founded in 1909 by a group of Old Etonians for the boys living in the impoverished area of Hackney Wick. It was renowned for the quality and variety of the facilities it offered in the areas of sport, art, amateur dramatics, music, and other activities. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Public services Leisure Home and Family | Temporal: | 2008 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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