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The Wedding Girls

By - Kate Thompson
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Pan Books, London, 2017
ISBN 10 - 1509822232
ISBN 13 - 9781509822232
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - England--London--East End
Shelf No - 10
Call Number - 823.92 THO
Physical Description - 423 pages
Book Information
For Kitty, Winnie and Joyce the streets of Whitechapel in London's East End were grimy and brutal. Their fractured home lives were as dark as cloud of war brewing on the horizon. But in one corner of Whitechapel, it was forever Hollywood. Renowned wedding photographer, Herbie Taylor of Taylor & Sons on the Whitechapel Road. The lavish images were in stark contrast to the harsh living conditions of the East End, and its dark streets, choked with decay. The young and betrothed of the East End, mainly seamstresses working dawn until dusk in the rag trade and their factory worker fiances, would pay money into a wedding club in order to fund the beguiling images to be proudly displayed on a tiny terrace wall, an acme of glamour in a shabby dwelling.

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