East Ender

Sue Kreitzman is an adopted East Ender and has lived in Tower Hamlets for over 25 years.

He’d spent much of his childhood on the small side, prior to an 11th-hour growth spurt, and like East Ender Tony had contemplated a career as a jockey.

We’d been gathering for weekly screenings of Apted’s films in the run-up to the ninth and final installment of the documentary series, originally conceived as a sociological study of children: posh public schoolers, working-class East Ender youths, wards of the state.

Lively East Ender Tony, for instance, a resilient study in candor, who ended up happily married and driving a London cab, remembers Apted’s lack of belief in him.

Lynn, the East Ender who said she was going to work in Woolworth’s, devoted her life to family and to literacy, working with kids, some with special needs, at libraries.