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• ↓ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London
• ↓ Marie Iles, Machinist
• ↓ George Cruikshank’s Summer In London
• ↓ A Voyage On the Raybel
• ↓ Swan Upping On The Thames
• ↓ Summer At Bow Cemetery
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"Apart from memorable excursions outside London as an evacuee, Marie Iles lived her entire life within a quarter mile of Stepney and it suited her very well. Those wartime experiences taught her the meaning and importance of home, yet living close to Stepney City Farm she still enjoyed a reminder of the rural world she grew to love as a child."

"A natural storyteller, Marie laid out the tale of her formative years for me with confidence and eloquent precision. Blessed with independent thought from an early age, Marie quickly learnt to stand up for herself and to appreciate the moral quality of people’s actions, whilst she was suffering enforced exile from her beloved Stepney amidst the tumultuous events of a world war."

"It was the meeting with her husband Fred Iles that provided the sympathetic resolution of Marie’s dislocated early years and resulted in an enduring relationship which sustained them both for over sixty-five years."

"“I was born on 9th August 1930 in Fair St, Stepney, while we were living upstairs in two rooms in my nan’s house, and when I was four or five we moved to Garden St. But I usually lived with my nan – whom everyone knew as Aunt Kit – because I loved her so much.  I had a happy childhood playing in the streets, games like Hopscotch and Knocking Down Ginger. We was always running around and the police would pick us up and take us to Arbor Sq Police Station and give us bread and jam."

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In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London

Marie Iles, Machinist

George Cruikshank’s Summer In London

A Voyage On the Raybel

Swan Upping On The Thames

Summer At Bow Cemetery