Brenda unexpectedly became a single mum in the 1970s, after moving back home to the East End. She describes the ups and downs of bringing up her son with his grandparents living next door.

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Credits:

Narrator: Brenda Crew

Interviews and editing: Rosa Schling

Music: Luke Christie

Photograph: Sophie Polyviou

Kindly funded by the Gilda Street Trust in memory of historian and author Gilda O'Neill. 

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