| Description | Track 1: Actuality with teenager George McArdle from Cable Street, East End, London and Charles Parker. McArdle talks about visiting his Irish family in Donegal, Republic of Ireland and going trout fishing there. 0.57 mins
Tracks 2 - 3: Recording of the young people and a youth worker making an object in a workshop.
Tracks 4 - 11: Actuality with 69 year old Eastender (born 1909), Ted Kirby and Charles Parker. Mr Kirby speaks about growing up in Cable Street in London. He talks about becoming an apprentice cabinet maker, and how he found a job and an interest in Trade Unionism through his involvement in a youth club. Mr Kirby talks about the Battle of Cable Street, where a racist march was stopped by a unified group of Eastenders of various religions. Mr Kirby talks about Oswald Moseley coming to speak at his youth club followed by a talk given by members of the Communist party. Mr Kirby describes the youth clubs in the East End area when he was younger. He talks about the racist politics and tensions in the area when he was younger, with reference to Oswald Moseley's influence. From track 10 a woman joins the discussion and speaks about the multinational mix of the area (Planet Street, Tower Hamlets, London) from the early twentieth century until contemporary times. She talks about how she felt that the youth clubs in her youth helped her education more than school, with reference to conditions in the Second World War.
Total: 32.56 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0079380 |