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      Published in Great Britain in 2014 by Canongate Books Ltd,

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      This digital edition first published in 2014 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Ray Winstone, 2014

      Map copyright © Jamie Whyte, 2014

      For picture credits please see p. 251

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      eISBN 978 1 78211 244 0

      CONTENTS

       Introduction

       Map of Ray Winstone’s London

       1.Hackney Hospital

       2.Caistor Park Road, Plaistow

       3.Portway School

       4.The Odeon, East Ham

       5.The New Lansdowne Club

       6.The Cage, Spitalfields Market

       7.Ronan Point

       8.Raymond’s Tailors, Lower Clapton

       9.The Repton Boxing Club

       10.Chrisp Street Market, Poplar

       11.The Boleyn Ground, Upton Park

       12.Victoria Park Lido

       13.The Theatre Royal, Stratford East

       14.York Hall

       15.The Prospect of Whitby, Wapping

       16.Nashville’s, Whitechapel

       17.Benjy’s Nightclub, Mile End

       18.The 277 Bus up Burdett Road

       19.Gatsby House

       20.The Alexandra Tavern

       21.The Tate & Lyle Sugar Factory, Silvertown

       22.Hackney Marshes

       23.The Corner of Well Street and Mare Street

       24.Trossachs, Barking Road

       25.The Apollo Steakhouse, Stratford

       Picture credits

      List of Illustration

       Now and then – outside 82 Caistor Park Road in 2014 and as a bouncing baby 57 years before.

       My mum with Nanny Rich and the first of her three husbands.

       My mum and dad together before Laura and I came along.

       Me posing on a blanket like a dog at Crufts.

       At another wedding with my cousin Charlie-boy (I’m in the middle, he’s on my right). Not sure who the hatless kid was . . .

       Cowboy-style this time in hat terms – with Laura in Nanny Rich’s garden.

       Early morning – the Cage with the sun rising in the east behind Christ Church, Spitalfields.

       Old Spitalfields Market as it was – good luck finding a sack of King Edwards in there these days.

       My dad looking suave on the market.

       Spitalfields life before the clean-up, with The Cage, A. Mays and Christ Church in the background.

       West Ham bringing home the 1964 FA Cup on their luxury single-decker. All four of the Winstones are in that crowd somewhere.

       Repton boys at the London Feds . . . (I’m the one bang in the middle).

       With my dad after beating David Heyland (the tall one on the left) who was Essex champ. Although I won, I gave David the bigger trophy – winning was enough for me, and he was a nice kid.

       Ready to rumble.

       In The Sweeney in 1975, shortly before making my unauthorised escape.

       Me in Minder – with George Cole on the right and my fellow Corona old-boy Dennis Waterman between us.

       Shadow-boxing with my mate Tony London on the beach at Torquay – Elaine made the right choice.

       They called Esther Williams ‘A Goddess when wet’. . .

       In Quadrophenia with my leathers and my Liberace haircut.

       On honeymoon in the Canary Islands with Elaine and a camel.

       We got straight off the plane home and went to the premiere of Scum – note the suitcases and my Quadrophenia badge.

       The concluding

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