Ironmonger Street in i920, with its ugly tenement blocks and
tumbledown houses, is one of the most unsightly turnings m
Bermondsey; its residents arc hardened to the grim poverty of
their lives. In the slum block, Jubilee Dwellings, two smsters -
attractive, fun-loving Kate Morgan and the happily married
Helen Bartlett give birth to daughters: one is illegitimate, her
mother refusing to name the father, the other is disabled.
Though their mothers can never be close, Connie and Molly
grow up together playing in the gutters, slipping away,
truants, from school, and at fourteen finding iobs despite the
recession that ravages the country. Life may be hard, but with
all their Cockney humour and courage they enjoy it, too. And
wouldn t be parted for the world Until the day Connie gets a
new lob at the metal factory, Armitage s, and catches the eye of
handsome young Robert Armitage. Despite the differences in
their backgrounds, and the antagonism that dogs their two
families, they are drawn together and are de~ermincd to be
married. But war intervenes...
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