Our Street: East End Life in the Second World WarGilda O'Neill

'I remember the sound of the doodlebugs and how everyone seemed to hold their breath and wait to hear the engine cut out before it reached your house, overheard or beyond it'

It was a time of poverty and overcrowding. Food was rationed and gas masks had to be carried everywhere. The constant threat of death and destruction from German bombers meant that nights were spent in air-raid shelters - and when you emerged the next day you could never be sure if your house or street would still be standing. This was wartime in the East of London.

Focusing on personal stories of East Londoners, Our street tells their funny, sad and sometimes schoking stores of waht it was like to live through the six long years of the Second World war. Recording the concerns, hopes and fears so-called ordinary people, Gilda O'Neill brings to life those dangerous times and shows how Eats Enders survived them.