Also, re Spitalfields High School, my high school, why was it torn down? I read somewhere, that the school was built over a 12th century nunnery, and when torn down, bones thought to be those of nuns were found. And I used to see men in Spitalfield Market walking with three baskets of fruit or vegetables on their heads, gracefully, not holding on to them. Shame to see them now pushing barrows, or has that changed too? Why did they raze the school and move the market? I believe Fournier Street was or is noted for French dissidents and is or was a furriers’ Street. Please correct if wrong. On m y last visit, I went to 122 Cambridge Heath Road, where my Polish-Russian Jewish grandparents had a grocery shop. There was a granary in the back of the yard where my Zada weighed and filled bags of beans or rice. Some of this experience appears in my book, Cockney Girl. I am now writing about being an evacuee from East London during WW2, sent to Newmarket and then Ely. Horribly homesick for East London until I landed though British-born, in a Jewish refugee hostel, The White House, in Great Chesterford. I was very happy there, last two years of the war.
My aunt lived in Maida Vale when it was still posh. Gilda Haber, PhD gildahaber.com

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