LONDON ¨C Much of Eileen Jeffrey¡¯s adult life has been shaped by a woman she never met and a prime minister she never voted for.
¡°I remember Margaret Thatcher, of course I do,¡± Jeffrey says, standing in the shadow of the South Quay Docklands Light Railway station. ¡°I didn¡¯t agree with some of the things she did.¡±
Jeffrey, 69, has lived on the Isle of Dogs in east London for 31 years. When she first moved here, she lived in a council house with her three young daughters and worked at the McDougalls flour mill on Millwall Dock. At that time, there was a community feel and Jeffrey knew all her neighbors¡¯ names but the transport links were bad: ¡°There was only one bus and no shops at all until they built Asda,¡± she says.
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