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A Home Fit To Live In
Housing in Canning Town in the 1950s, 60s and 70s
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Sound Clips
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Listen to the sound clips below to hear snippets of what home was like in Canning Town from the 1950s to the 70s.
These sound clips are taken from oral history interviews with Canning Town locals. These are now kept in our Hidden-Histories archive.
"You sort of get familiar with turnings and sharps and what's here and what ain’t. And that's what it's like here, I think, it’s just everything is where we want it." - Mark
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