Interview with Alice Burleigh who was born in 1907 in Sidney Street in the East End of London to immigrant parents. She describes her education at a non-Jewish school; her home; her recollections of the Sidney Street siege in 1911; her memories of the Pavilion theatre and her parents friendship with actors such as Dinah Feinman and Maurice Moskovitch; her memories of tailoring workshops in the East End; her memories of World War I; her marriage in 1934 and their move to East Finchley in the late 1930s; World War II and evacuation to Southport; her involvement with Combined Charities Committee and their work with Refugees from Nazism.