London Born

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Sidney Day was born and raised in "a street where there was so much villainry going on, so many drunks and gambling and Gawd know what, that at night the police would only come down in twos. Everyone knew it as Tiger Bay."

In a breathtakingly original memoir, Sidney Day, who is now ninety-three, remembers everyday life in a London now long gone.

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Sidney Day was born in Highgate, London, in 1912. He cannot read or write, but his granddaughter, Helen Day, captivated by the stories he tells, decided to transcribe his words and shape them into this memoir. They both now live in Dorset.

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