They like it if you're marvellous for your age. If you can't be that they want you down Plaistow Crematorium, not hanging about here, taking up bus seats.' So says Birdie Gibbs. On the seventh floor of an East End high-rise, Birdie lives on chocolate bars and yearns for action or at least for the re-opening of the Imperial Dance Hall. An ex-husband, Jimmy Dwyer, turns up with a retired greyhound and no fixed abode. Here today, gone tomorrow, Jimmy changes everything. When the Fruit Bowl Estate boils over, in the summer of ...
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They like it if you're marvellous for your age. If you can't be that they want you down Plaistow Crematorium, not hanging about here, taking up bus seats.' So says Birdie Gibbs. On the seventh floor of an East End high-rise, Birdie lives on chocolate bars and yearns for action or at least for the re-opening of the Imperial Dance Hall. An ex-husband, Jimmy Dwyer, turns up with a retired greyhound and no fixed abode. Here today, gone tomorrow, Jimmy changes everything. When the Fruit Bowl Estate boils over, in the summer of 95 and police leave is cancelled, Birdie gets all the action she can handle. More even than the night Hitler bombed Beckton gasworks.
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