In the 1950s, Michael Young and Peter Willmott found something dose to paradise in Bethnal Green. The east London neighbourhood might have been shattered by bombs, and its houses were shockingly crowded, but the white working-class folk who lived there were convivial, decent and proud. In their 1957 book "Family and Kinship in East London", Young and Willmott described an almost miraculously cohesive society, where, as one resident told them, "you can just open the door and say hello to everybody."
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