Interview with Mark Fineman who was born in 1904 in Meredith Buildings in the East End. He describes his family background, including his parents' origins in Russian Poland and their migration to London in 1902 with two of his siblings and his grandparents, his mother's anarchism and his grandparents orthodoxism, his mother's market stall; memories of his childhood in the East End including religious observance at home, attendance at school, street games and entertainment, the division between the Jewish and Irish East End, poverty, attendance at heder, his membership of Oxford and St George’s Club and the impact this made on his life; leaving school at 14 and receiving help from Basil Henriques in finding work at the Jewish Welfare Board; his work at the Board, where he remained for the rest of his working life, including his work as an investigating officer, the board's work with German refugees from Nazism, the Board's restructuring in 1967, the Board's home building programme; the move of his family and others out of the East End and the anglicisation of the Jewish community; his memories of Mosely and the Battle of Cable Street.