The long-retired writer for the East London Pioneer, who still has the notebook from his interview in the early 1960s with Jimmy Sowerbutt about the Battle of Cable Street, said: "Jimmy was a legend in the East End. He helped loads of families during the war and in the hard post-war years. With the Attlee government, the Reds tried taking over the building unions with all the construction going on. Jimmy wouldn't have it, sending his boys into the building sites time and time again. Lots of fights, probably a few bodies in The River. In the end, he took over most of the sites in Poplar and surrounds. Got things moving and families housed.
"He disappeared in the fifties, never said where. When we heard he was back, we were very keen to interview him about Cable Street - 25 years on. He was always shy of publicity, but I think some of his old mates persuaded him to set the record straight. He came into our office in High Bob and some of the things he told us made our hair stand on end."
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colour-Lemon-Surrender-1940-ebook/dp/B008USR7FA
"He disappeared in the fifties, never said where. When we heard he was back, we were very keen to interview him about Cable Street - 25 years on. He was always shy of publicity, but I think some of his old mates persuaded him to set the record straight. He came into our office in High Bob and some of the things he told us made our hair stand on end."
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colour-Lemon-Surrender-1940-ebook/dp/B008USR7FA
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