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Clapham in the Twentieth Century is a collection of letters, diaries and memories of those who lived or worked in Clapham during the century.
Some names are familiar, including Graham Greene, Noel Coward and Jack Hobbs, but most are not. Caribbean immigrants housed in deep shelters under the Common and immigrants from Ireland, Poland, India and Kosovo write about their lives. Working lives which range from selling sawdust to butchers at the beginning of the century to computer software systems at the end; the South London Hospital for Women from its opening to the struggle against its closure; bombing raids and wartime hardship; school days for different generations; the replacement of small shops by bars and restaurants - all form part of the varied picture of the century.
In the words of those who witnessed them, the book tracks the changes in Clapham from the last years of Queen Victoria's reign through two World Wars, depression, revival and gentrification to the lively, popular family area that it had become by 2000.
£10.00 (members) or £11.95 (non-members)
You may order the book from the Clapham Society on the Order Form here, or from your local bookshop
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