Re: Islington address
- From: myths@xxxxxxxx (cecilia)
- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:58:28 GMT
"Don Moody" wrote:
[...]
However grotty it might sound in the modern day, getting a tenancy in
a Peabody was a sought after privilege until long after WWII. It was a
lot lot better than the tenement alternatives [...]
Rose Gamble in her autobiography "Chelsea Child" writes of being one
of five children in a family living in one room (the same one for
seven years) after WW1, and the mild deceptions used to get into the
"buildings" that were being built towards the World's End. "... the
builders were not putting up blocks of flats, but buildings. There
was an enormous difference. Everyone knew that posh people lived in
flats, but 'buildings' were something we could hope for."
They achieved a three-bedroom flat "which was sixteen-and-six a week
plus fourpence for the shed, a mere nine shilllings and sixpence more
than Mum paid Ethel for our room". In the room, the furniture had
been a folding-in-three-sections double bed for the parents at night,
and furniture used for seating in the day that became the children's
"bunks" at night: two upright chairs tied together with a pillow and
small cushion on them for the youngest child, a reclining chair
(reclined - one was very dilapidated) for each of the next two
children, and a saggy single divan bed shared between the two oldest
girls.
I've never done serious research into *what* buildings were involved
in this specific case, but they may well have been Guinness buildings
- the Guinness Trust put up in Chelsea "four five-storeyed blocks in
1929-30, designed by C.S. Joseph and containing 160 working-class
flats, each with a bathroom/scullery." [From: 'Settlement and
building: Twentieth century: up to the second world war', A History of
the County of Middlesex: Volume 12: Chelsea (2004), pp. 79-90. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=28697. Date
accessed: 08 November 2007.]
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