Silvertown

Silvertown teems with stories of life in the docks and pubs and dog tracks of the old East End where Melanie McGrath's grandparents, Jenny and Len Page, scraped a living. Here are the bustling alleys where, in 1914, eleven-year-old Jenny watches the men go off to fight ; Jenny having her teeth pulled out on her seventeenth birthday ; the Cosy Corner Café, opened full of hope by Jenny and Len ; and an East End landscape altered forever by the closure of the docks.