Photographer Chris Kelly and I went along to join Dan Jones when he paid a visit to his splendid mural from 1977 of children and their rhymes in the playground of St Paul’s School, Wellclose Sq, which ...

I present these extracts to give you a flavour of AS Jasper’s memoir of growing up in the East End at the beginning of the twentieth century, A HOXTON CHILDHOOD, which was acclaimed as a classic when ...