This book explores Cockney London before and during the Second World War The author's account of his early life in the 1920s and 1930s talks of pavement buskers, Saturday night knees-ups round the piano, eel and pie stalls, chimneysweeps, Clarnico's toffees and a little shop called Woolworth's selling 'nothing over sixpence' - unless it's a shilling All this was to disappear forever in the horrors of the Blitz