City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Constance Street, the true story of one family and one street in London's East End, Charlie Connelly

Adult

Constance Street

Charlie Connelly

Magna

the true story of one family and one street in London's East End

'Joan's got something to show you.' She rummaged in a drawer for a moment, pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to me. 'Constance Street,' she said. 'As I remember it.'And as my great-aunt showed me the hand-drawn plan of Constance Street in the 1930s, so began the stories of one street and the true-life tales of my family, a tight knit group of working-class women in Silvertown in the East End of London, all set against a backdrop of hardship, struggle and war