Singing

A Memory of East Ham.

I can remember sitting in our front room (every one had a front room) with my mum playing a card game called Happy Families and the house that joined us had all their family there and you could hear them stamping there feet on the lino (there were no carpets then) and singing all the old songs. I lived at 61 Stokes Road, that's how it was then. Also why don't you hear men whistle any more? Folk were a lot poorer but you could always here someone whistling, perhaps songs had more melody then.