| Description | Tracks 1 - 11: Actuality with a married couple in their 70s from the East End of London, Mr and Mrs Kirby, and Charles Parker. Mrs Kirby talks about her political awakening from the 1920s and the influence of a socialist school teacher. She describes her early employment and interest in trade unionism. The couple discuss how attending youth clubs helped the youth of their generation that attended them, and how it politicised them. Mr Kirby speaks about his involvement in trade unions from the 1930s, and during the second World War, with reference to working in the docks in London. Mr Kirby describes in detail the working and employment conditions on the docks. He describes the effect of the war on goods coming in to the docks. The couple speak about the different foreign sailors that lived in their part of the East End of London, including Jamaican, Lithuanians and Polish people. Mrs Kirby speaks about the food that they ate at their international friends' houses.
Total: 32.39 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0079480 |