Nanny Pat, queen of The Rising Sun: from landlady of an East End pub to Essex nan
by Brooker, Patricia.
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BookPublisher: Pan Books 2013ISBN: 9781447218784; 1447218787.Classification number: 920 BROSubject(s): Brooker | Only way is Essex | Television personalities -- England -- Essex -- Biography | Landladies -- England -- Essex -- BiographySubject: 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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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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