Barbara Windsor Shocked By Matchgirl Conditions | Who Do You Think You Are

Barbara Windsor looks into her great grandmother, Mary Ann Ellis, who was a matchbox maker at the Bryant and May factory in Bow in the early 1880’s. Barbara discovers how Mary was likely involved in the matchgirls strike of 1888. This was one of the first significant strikes in English industrial history.

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Barbara Windsor traces her maternal grandfather to the East London docks and finds that his mother was a matchgirl at the Bryant and May factory. Barbara's father's family has generations of Cockneys, mostly labourers or costermongers and barrow boys. She discovers that her mother's ancestors were Irish, leaving Cork after the potato famine and that she's related to the artist Constable.

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