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A memoir of working class life by the late John Gorman, born in the Stratford without swans and Shakespeare, at that time the largest industrial borough in England. This essay originally appeared in 'Outsiders and Outcasts', a series of articles in honour of the historian of the East End of Whitechapel and Spitalfields, William J Fishman, drawing on John Gorman's longer memoir 'Knocking Down Ginger'.