TY  - BOOK
AU  - Venables,Yvette
TI  - An East End farewell: memoirs of an apprentice undertaker during the Blitz and beyond : the life of Stan Cribb 
SN  - 9780750541879 (hbk)
U1  - 363.75 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Long Preston
PB  - Magna
KW  - Cribb, Stan.
KW  - Undertakers and undertaking
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - East End (London)
KW  - Large type books
N1  - Subject's real name is Stanley Harris but is more commonly known as Stan Cribb; Adult
N2  - This is the memoir of an East End undertaker, Stan Cribb, who began his apprenticeship aged just fourteen, burying the victims of London's Blitz. During the last century, East End households had a special relationship with their local undertakers due to the large familes and high mortality rates. Since he can remember, Stanley Harris (more commonly known as Stan Cribb), spent his weekends captivated by the goings-on at his grandparents' funeral home. At fourteen, and much to the reluctance of his father, he dons his first suit and joins the family business as an apprentice to his quick-tempered uncle. Entering the profession at a time when an undertaker's role exposed them to the brutal realities of World War II, Stan spends his teenage years recovering dead bodies in the dark and standing guard over funeral carriages during air raids. After the war, with unfailing good humour, Stan takes us on a journey through his National Service, marriage and unpredictable life as an East End undertaker
ER  -