Golden seems to have remained living in London all her life, always being most interested in the pockets of the city where people worked; friends remember her loving to watch the people on the Thames from to top floor of her house in Southwark. This is the 1951 edition of her book Old Bankside which tells the stories of the famous Londoners who congregated by the river (a sort of precursor to Gillian Tindall’s The House by the Thames).