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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

Remembering Stan Jones: an East End jubilee devotee

June 6, 2022June 8, 2022 Victoria Miller 151 Views 5 min read

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

Is the Essex accent ‘reimagined Cockney’?

May 26, 2022May 27, 2022 Victoria Miller 197 Views 5 min read

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.

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

April 13, 2022April 14, 2022 Polly Nash 349 Views 4 min read

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

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

April 10, 2022April 12, 2022 Victoria Miller 266 Views 9 min read

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

What are you called if you’re from Bow?

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 Polly Nash 1047 Views 2 min read

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.

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

January 28, 2022February 24, 2022 Zoe Dowsett 316 Views 5 min read

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

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

July 1, 2021January 14, 2022 Evie Breese 1000 Views 8 min read

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.

A cockney holiday: East Ender’s favourite seaside haunts

June 20, 2021January 14, 2022 Anna Lamche 637 Views 9 min read

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

October 10, 2020January 14, 2022 Grace Boyle 34596 Views 7 min read

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

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Women dancing in the pub in Knees Up Mother Brown style

The real history of ‘Knees up Mother Brown’

August 25, 2020January 14, 2022 Megan Agnew 6277 Views 4 min read

The exact origin of ‘Knees up Mother Brown’ is unknown, but by the 1800s it had become a popular song in East End pubs and bars.

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Pearly Kings and Queens of Blackheath and Grove Park standing on street
Pearly Kings and Queens of Blackheath and Grove Park

The real history of the Pearly Kings and Queens

August 11, 2020January 14, 2022 Megan Agnew 12083 Views 6 min read

The Pearly Kings and Queens are a famous symbol of cockney culture and the second oldest charity in London, but what’s the real story behind the Pearl monarchy? How are they still spreading the original Pearly message? And how much do the suits really weigh?

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Kray Twins with Squibb walking outside flats in East London

Book Review: ‘Krays: The Final Word’ by James Morton

June 7, 2020January 14, 2022 Tabitha Potts 32762 Views 6 min read

‘This boy has been beaten by beasts’ are the first words in Krays: the Final Word, spoken by a Thames Court magistrate investigating the assault on a boy called Roy Harvey who was allegedly beaten with chains by the Kray Twins and their friend Patrick Aucott in Mare Street, Hackney.

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