Online resource to support the Friday in the Jewish East End. March 1933 sensory story set.
Hessel Street Market sounds
Hessel Street had a famous Jewish Market running down it with a kosher chicken butcher at one end. It was said that you go to the butchers first and pick out your chicken and by the time you’d gone round the other market stalls and bought your beigels, challah breads and vegetables, your chicken would be butchered, plucked and ready for you to take home and cook!
The markets were often very busy, with the bustle of shopkeepers and barrowmen, the chatter of customers in Yiddish, Hebrew and English, and even the shouts of street food vendors or street musicians performing for spare change.
The Troxy cinema
In the 1930s along came cinemas and the Troxy in Limehouse was built about this time. It was very glamorous, with lots of electric lights outside, huge staircases, chandeliers and very plush carpets and seats – very Hollywood! At the cinema you would watch a silent film and listen to music played to accompany it on a Wurlitzer organ and then maybe 2 or 3 acts or mini films.
