Coin Street Chronicles: London's Vanished Old South Bank

By Gwen Southgate

"Coin Street Chronicles" is a tale of real-life drama set in the 1930s and 1940s, on London's South Bank area-now a cultural showcase, but then a grimy, raucous underbelly of the city. Among its many colorful characters are big-hearted, garrulous, chain-smoking Aunt-mum; yarn-spinning, practical joker Grampa Benson; and Gwen Southgate's unsquelchable, much-married, and perhaps bigamous, mother. The scene changes during World War II, when evacuation from London at the age of ten opens up wider horizons for Gwen Southgate and her two younger brothers. The story follows her subsequent journeying around England and Wales as she learns to live with the different foibles of many families and encounters bewildering incidents like The Rice Pudding Affair and The Sinfulness of Enjoying a Sunday Walk. The memoir ends as she, finally, escapes the culture of poverty-after a determined struggle spearheaded by her feisty mother. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059551670X
• ISBN13: 9780595516704
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: iUniverse.com
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 6.0"