Silvertown: An East End Family Memoir
by Melanie McGrath
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The story of one East End family, across three generations, living on the fringe of the Thames. Silvertown itself is a ribbon of marshland that sits beside the King George VI dock near Bow Creek. In 1944 Melanie McGrath's grandfather Lenny, bought the Cosy Cafe in Silvertown. From here Lenny, his mistress, his wife and his daughter served egg and chips, liver and bacon, eels and jellied custard to the passing trade from the thriving docks. Business was good. By the late 1940s Lenny was the show more only Cafe owner in the East End to drive a Cadillac. show lessTags
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 942.150820922 — History & geography History of Europe England and Wales London Tower Hamlets Borough
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- DA676.8 .A1 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England Local history and description London
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