Description: | Stan Williams (b 1922) grew up in the East End in the 1920s and 1930s. Here, in conversation with Stefan Dickers of Bishopsgate Institute, he recalls his early life with his mother following his father's death from Tuberculosis. Mr. Williams's mother worked as a housekeeper in Cranbrook Street, Bethnal Green. Mr Williams and his mother lived in one room together. Following this, they moved to Green Street, East Ham, and his sisters, who had been sent elsewhere following their father?s death, returned to live with them. Cases such as this, of early death and separation of families, were common at this time. |