An East End Lady

[harry]

I remember a few years ago while working for a builder in Stratford that did quite a lot of work for Newham Council,they had in their employ a chap of Gypsy descent who could go to a timber supplier and buy all the timber pre machined to make double hung sashes,and make up a comlete double hung sash out on the pavement.
This he did without any of the traditional joints,all of the mortice and tenon joints were made using 4 inch nails,and when I asked about the  strength of these joints he  said when the window was made up no one could tell the differance,and by the time the windows failed he would be long gone!!.
You can still buy all this timber prepared known in the trade as Sash Stuff.
Rega rds Harry I.

[MBrennan]

Thanks Mick but that isn't the one, although she would have likely been pushing a pushchair up the high street in the 20s with my dad's older sisters. The one I am thinking of was quite close-up but a bit blurry from memory.

Re windows. I remember my dad saying he worked for a window fitting company for a while as a labourer in the 50s. Nothing to do with him, but he said they fitted some windows in some flats in Stoke Newington and a woman fell out of the window when the whole window fell out. No idea what the outcome was.