"E're, This'll Make You Laugh"

About the Book

E're, This'll Make You Laugh is the true story of a young boy evacuated from London's EastEnd at the age four years and a half, to the small village of Henham in the Hertforshire countryside (now Essex), during the Second World War. It was an idyllic life for a young boy living on a farm surrounded by fields and animals. However the shocks awaiting young Dennis on his return to London after the War was over were alarming to say the least. The second part of the book is mainly of his upringing and schooling during his teenage years, and some of the escapades he got up to. This book is of special interest to people living in, or around these times, or younger folk interested in how the children lived and played in the forties and fifties.

About the Author

Dennis was born in london's Eastend in 1938. After returning from evactuation in 1945 he went on to attend Stewert Headlam junior and Mansford street secondary school in Bethnal Green, and left school aged fifteen. He worked as a shoemaker, butcher, and finaly in the garment trade before serving his country on active service for two years in the Far East as a National Seviceman. He later went on to work for Ford Motor Company as a gear cutter in Dagenham. After Fords transferred to Basildon in Essex, he followed them there, finnaly saying goodbye to the EastEnd, He went on run his own driving school, and later sold up to go and live and run a bar and resturant buisness in Spain for fourteen years, returning to England in 1990. He now lives in happy retiement in Leamington Spa, Wawickshire.