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Bessy Schiffenbaum, who was unable to go to secondary school. (Courtesy of Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archive and Jerry White) Transcript of Bessy Schiffenbaum's interview |
| "My father still went to work until the shop began to pay, my two brothers were then, ... my younger brother was learning the tailoring, my older brother was working for a German firm in Chislehurst Street. So who should be in the shop? Me. I cried my eyes out! I said, 'Well why am I taking French, why am I taking extra' - my spelling wasn't very good. You see I was very good in everything, but spelling somehow - But then so Miss Roberts [the headmistress] coached me and I became very proficient, very good. And she was as upset as I was, even more so. So I never went for Matric." |