Nanny Pat, queen of The Rising Sun: from landlady of an East End pub to Essex nan

Brooker, Patricia

Nanny Pat, queen of The Rising Sun: from landlady of an East End pub to Essex nan - Pan Books 2013 - 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates

Life for East End families like Pat's was always a struggle. She worked for years in Tate & Lyle's sugar factory while her husband Charlie took on two jobs so their growing family could survive. Until one day Charlie came home with a brilliant idea - they should take over The Rising Sun pub in Bromley-by-Bow. In this charming memoir Pat describes her years as a pub landlady and vividly evokes the East End community she served in the 1960s, the extraordinary characters she encountered and the changes that swept through society at that time.

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