This photo shows three of my aunts, Violet aged 11, Winnie aged 14 and Doris Taylor aged 17 of No.2 Trinity Street and Mrs Abbott a neighbour and family friend.   It was the 12th May 1937 and Trinity Street in Canning Town held a large street party for the coronation of King George VI.  The front of every house was decorated and bunting and flags were stretched across the road all the way down the street.

A few years later Mrs Abbotts son Jimmy was serving in the Royal Navy during WW2. Some other residents of Trinity Street were Hetty Holdsworth who ran a small shop in her front room, shortly after the bombing started during the war they moved out and the following day their house was bombed.  Next door to them was a relation of theirs, George Talbot who had the first television in the street, it had a six inch screen. The Lindsell family lived opposite, they had a daughter Lilly who was a friend of aunt Win. At the far end of the street, on the corner of Forty Acre Lane was the rag shop owned by Charlie Taylor who was my grandfathers brother.

Photo: Private family collection