30 JULY 1988, page 42

Ordinary Decent Folk

I WAS honoured to be personally deputed to muster as many cheery Eastenders as possible to greet Her Majesty. Marvellous folk all, they are forever popping in and out of each......

Afore Ye Go

Leaves from the commonplace book of Wallace Arnold THERE has always been a special nook in the Queen Mother's heart for the cheery inhabitants of London's East End. When she......

Crossword

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of either Chambers Dictionary or Chambers Crossword Manual — ring your choice) for the first three......

Lovely, Lovely Lady

`NOW I can look the East End in the face,' she had said, all those years ago, after one of her corgis, too, had narrowly missed suffering a not inconsiderable hurt from flying......