“I am seventy five years of age, and lived at number 36 Jubilee Street from 1917-1930, two doors from Shoesmith’s, the corn merchants, who stabled their horses under the steps, though there were flats above. Six of us lived in the house; two sisters, two brothers, my niece, Mum and Dad and me. There was a builder called Dumbrell’s, then another pub, the Crown Shades. They used to have a fight every Saturday night, mostly the women fought, not the men. They would be tearing one another’s hair out, and you can imagine trying to hold them back! None of the houses had front gardens, but they had nice window ledges jutting out over the pavement, so people who were drunk used to sit on the window sill to sober up; my mother would go in the top bedroom and throw water over them. There was often a bit of a skirmish, but they were no bother to anybody; the police used to come up and stand at the end of the road, and it all used to die down. I remember one night my mum made a dreadful mistake; a policeman was having a rest on the window ledge, she thought it was a drunk so she threw water over him!”

From Jubilee Street, turn right into North Road. Turn left onto Vine Street and then right onto Gloucester Road. Turn left into Gloucester Passage, passing through the passage into Gloucester Street. Turn right into Gloucester Street, and then left into St George’s Mews.