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.
9781447218784 1447218787
100=NOTNACO 600=NOTNACO
Brooker Patricia
Television personalities--England--Essex--Biography
Landladies--England--Essex--Biography
920 BRO
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.
9781447218784 1447218787
100=NOTNACO 600=NOTNACO
Brooker Patricia
Television personalities--England--Essex--Biography
Landladies--England--Essex--Biography
920 BRO