Sidney Day now lives with his family in Dorset. After the war he continued to work as a builder in London before following his daughters to the West Country, living in Yeovil with his wife. He ran a newsagent’s for many years and wheeled his wares around the town’s hospital until retirement. He became a fixture at local car boot sales and enjoyed searching for bargains and making a bob or two. He ran a tiny second-hand shop and was noted for driving an extremely hard bargain.
An extraordinary memoir from a man in his nineties who remembers everyday life in a North London now long gone: the hardships and deprivations of a life of poverty but also the resourcefulness and fortitude of a community determined to survive between the wars.
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