Gallery
Members of my family were used as inspiration for the Campbell Road series. The photos were incorporated along with some Campbell Road street scenes into The Street back pages. All of my family members below, lived in " The Bunk" .
The pictures of the Coronation Day celebrations are featured in the back of Coronation Day and are not of Campbell Road but of several different areas of London.
Kay's Great Grandfather
Kay never new her Great Grandfather, Jack, the inspiration for Jack Keiver in The Street. He died nearly forty years before she was born, in the Great War, on Hill 60 on the Somme. He was 37 years old. Kay's Grandmother adored her dad and from that Kay drew the knowledge that Jack was a thoroughly good man, although he had a wife and a life that presented him with many
challenges!
challenges!
Kay's Grandmother
Kay's grandmother who was the inspiration for Alice in The Street. She was born in Fonthill Mews, Islington and moved just around the corner to Campbell Road as a toddler. She finally left the worst street in North London at the age of 20 when she married Kay's grandfather and escaped to a new life in Wood Green.
Kay's Grandmother.
This photo shows a group of factory workers circa 1917. Kay's Grandmother is standing on the left at the back. During her working life as a factory machinist Kay's Grandmother lost the tip of a little finger that was cut off when tapping and dieing.
Kay's Great Grandmother
Kay's Great Grandmother who the inspiration for the feisty Matilda Keiver in the series of books set in Campbell Road. Matilda lived in Campbell Road from her early twenties till she died in a mysterious accident in 1940. She fell from a first floor tenement window and was impaled on spiked railings below, dying later in hospital of her injuries. It was never properly established why she fell. With her is her youngest daughter from her marriage to her second husband.
Campbell Road street scenes.
Campbell Road street scenes.
Campbell Road men on a beano to Southend.
Campbell Road street scenes.
Brand Street. Built 30 - 40 years before Campbell Road, Brand Street was typical of slums cleared between the wars.
Campbell Road street scenes.
The first floor back room at 27 Campbell Road, which 2 adults and 4 children occupied.
Campbell Road street scenes.
Campbell Road from Seven Sisters Road, taken at the start of the Peace Day celebrations of July 1919.
Campbell Road street scenes.
Campbell Road, the bottom end during the slum clearnce.
Coronation Day celebrations.
Londoners dressed in their finest.
Campbell Road street scenes.
Brand Street. Built 30-40 years before Campbell Road, Brand Street was typical of slums cleared between the wars.
Coronation Day celebrations.
Dancing in the street.
Coronation Day celebrations.
A group of woman dancing in East London.
Coronation Day celebrations.
East End woman cleaning up on the eve of Coronation Day.
Coronation Day celebrations.
Coronation Day parade.
Coronation Day celebrations.
Children playing in the street during the Coronation Day celebrations.
Coronation Day celebrations.
Sweets being given to children to celebrate the Queen's coronation.