Our Street

'I remember the sound of the doodlebugs and how everyone seemed to hold their breath and wait to hear whether the engine cut out before it reached your house, overhead or beyond it'

It was a time of poverty and overcrowding. Food was rationed and gas masks had to be carried everywhere. The constant threat of death and destruction from German bombers meant that nights were spent in air raid shelters- and when you emerged the next day you could never be sure if your house or street would still be standing. This was wartime in the East End of London.

Focusing on the personal stories of East Londoners, Our Street tells their funny, sad and sometimes shocking stories, of what it was like to live through the six long years of the Second World War.

Recording the concerns, hopes and fears of so-called ordinary people, Gilda O'Neill brings to life those dangerous times and shows how East Enders survived them.