CHILBLAINS AND BEDBUGS

According to my birth certificate, I was born at the address of  Winterton Street, in the district of Whitechapel, in the east end of London, although this was only the first of many homes I have occupied throughout my life, of which the first six were before I had reached the age of ten.

Winterton Street has no memory for me.  One of my earliest pictures, taken during my first year, has me being held by my maternal great grandfather outside the home of my mother's parents.  We are seated outside their Bromehead Street home where for several years I can recall our sharing the Sabbath evening meal of the traditional Cholent with my parents and grandparents, but I suspect that great-grandfather had departed very soon after the photograph was taken.

An early immigrant - my great grandfather and me, 1930