The people of Woodford felt they belonged to a friendly, helpful community almost as unanimously as the people of Bethnal Green

Wilmott and Young expected to fund that the 'warmth and friendliness' that they had found in Bethnal Green had no equivalent in a middle-class commuter suburb, where the people were supposed to be frustrated, selfish  and lonely. But what they discovered was precisely the opposite. 'People in the suburb', they concluded, 'are on the whole friendly, neighbourly and helpful to each other. They attend churches and clubs together, they like (or at any rate profess to like) their follow-residents. ... [']The people of Woodford felt they belonged to a friendly, helpful community almost as unanimously as the people of Bethnal Green.'

D. Sandbrook, Never had it so good (2005), 125