Description: | Jack Lee (b 1918) grew up in Spitalfields in the 1920s and 1930s. Here, in conversation with Mary Richards of Bishopsgate Institute, he describes shops along Bishopsgate, on the edge of the City, when he was young. In particular, he recalls a large number of radio shops in the area, and the beginnings of television, with the first set along Middlesex Street, in Spitalfields, being owned by his mother-in-law. Radio broadcasts began in Britain in the early 1920s, with the medium rapidly becoming very popular. Television followed in the 1930s, although did not attain mass-popularity until after the Second World War. |