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Alex Scott sports presenter holding microphone.
Alex Scott, BBC Sport presenter and former England footballer and was born and raised in Poplar.
Cockney Cultural heritage Local 

Modern Cockneys: the new generation of famous Cockney people true to the East End’s sparky spirit

January 23, 2023February 2, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments Features

Some say that Cockneys are a dying breed but a new generation of modern Cockneys is showing that the spirit

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GKelly pie and mash shopfront, Roman Road
Cockney Cultural heritage Local 

Why Hammers’ Emerson Palmieri is putting his name to Cockney pie n’ mash

November 25, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

What goes together better than West Ham & Pie and Mash? Footballer Emerson Palmieri visits G Kelly on the Roman

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author Jean Fullerton with her parents in 1958, Globe Town, East London
Image courtesy of Jean Fullerton
Cockney Cultural heritage Life and living Local 

Jean Fullerton: ‘The Queen of the East End’

October 14, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments Features

The Queen of the East End turns from saga fiction to memoir, transporting readers to the gritty reality of Cockney

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The outside of a house in jubilee flags in Lichfield Road, Bow, East London
Stan Jones' photos were on display alongside the jubilee decorations. Photography Matt Payne © Social Streets CIC
Cockney Cultural heritage Local 

Cockney roots: remembering Stan Jones and his collection of royal memorabilia

June 6, 2022February 8, 2023 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

Six months after his passing, Stan Jones’ family and friends remember him by decorating his East End home on Lichfield

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Pearlies marching along Piccadilly in central London
Cockney Cultural heritage Local 

Is the Essex accent ‘reimagined Cockney’?

May 26, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 1 Comment Features

With similarities between the Cockney dialect and Essex accent, we set out to uncover, is Essex really Cockney? London’s famous

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Buying underwear on Roman Road Market, 1999.
Cockney Cultural heritage Local 

What Cockney rhyming slang for money endures in the East End?  

April 13, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 6 Comments Features

We put it to the people of East London to find out whether Cockney rhyming slang for money can survive

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A woman with designer handbag in front of graffiti shop shutters, Roman Road, Bow, East London.
Photography by Capella Jolie Buncher © Social Streets CIC
Cockney Cultural heritage Local 

Why people are coming to Roman Road for the Big Beauty look

April 10, 2022November 29, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

Big hair, strong brows, deep tans, long talons; more is more when it comes to beauty on Roman Road. Less

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Bow sculpture ar Bow Roundabout
Cockney Cultural heritage Local 

What are you called if you’re from Bow?

March 10, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments Features

Putting it to the residents once and for all: how do the people of Bow define themselves? Everyone knows that

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East London's bustling Roman Road Market in 1968
Back slang was common in East End markets in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Cockney Cultural heritage Local 

The history of back slang: the covert language of the East End

January 28, 2022December 14, 2022 Zoe Dowsett 1 Comment Features

Think Cockney rhyming slang was the only covert language of the Victorian-era East End? Introducing back slang, rhyming slang’s lesser-known,

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East End poet Chris Ross enjoying a plate of pie and mash at GKelly's on Roman Road.
Photo Tabitha Stapely © Social Streets
Cockney Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

Meet Chris Ross, the East End poet keeping Cockney culture young

July 1, 2021January 14, 2022 Evie Breese 0 Comments Features

We talk to Chris Ross, the Cockney poet taking social media by storm with his poems about everyday life in

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Walton on the Naze seaside destination in Essex.
Cockney Cultural heritage Heritage Lifestyle Local 

A cockney holiday: East Ender’s favourite seaside haunts

June 20, 2021January 14, 2022 Anna Lamche 0 Comments Guides

With foreign travel likely off the cards this year, we rediscover the seaside holiday destinations that East Enders have long

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Market stalls in petticoat lane
Cockney Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

Cockney rhyming slang history: the roots, the rhymes and the reasons

October 10, 2020January 14, 2022 Grace Boyle 8 Comments Features

Ever fallen down the ‘apples and pears’? Have you had your ‘barnet’ chopped recently? Called a mate on the old

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