My parents, Donald Gocke and Susan Rickard, were born and brought up in the Canning Town area in the 1920s, up to and through World War II.

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Walter and Louise Eagle (my nan and granddad) married in 1899 and probably lived in Catherine Street most of their married lives and had 9 children.

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In 1811, Tommy’s great-great-grandfather James Spring, a British subject, arrived in London from the Caribbean.

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