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Making a home in maritime London
What sort of accommodation did you have? |
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 Vanguard Estate. © NMM
| Arriving in London all alone was a daunting prospect. The lucky ones had friends or family they could stay with:
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One of my uncles owned a house here, and I stayed
with his wife, because my uncle was in Nigeria then.
(Grace, originally from Nigeria) |
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When we got married… [his parents'] sitting
room was to be ours. It was a sitting room-cum-bedroom. We were eating in with his parents.
(Maggie, originally from Liverpool) | Some people moved into council-owned accommodation:
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None of us had bathrooms
unless they owned their house.
(Jean, from Deptford) |
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| Connie from Vanguard Estate. © NMM | Others were less fortunate and had to make alternative arrangements:
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We squatted in a Nissen hut,
down Church Street.
(Connie, from Deptford) |
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