Modern Cockneys: the new generation of famous Cockney people true to the East End’s sparky spirit
Some say that Cockneys are a dying breed but a new generation of modern Cockneys is showing that the spirit
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Why Hammers’ Emerson Palmieri is putting his name to Cockney pie n’ mash
What goes together better than West Ham & Pie and Mash? Footballer Emerson Palmieri visits G Kelly on the Roman
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Jean Fullerton: ‘The Queen of the East End’
The Queen of the East End turns from saga fiction to memoir, transporting readers to the gritty reality of Cockney
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Cockney roots: remembering Stan Jones and his collection of royal memorabilia
Six months after his passing, Stan Jones’ family and friends remember him by decorating his East End home on Lichfield
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Is the Essex accent ‘reimagined Cockney’?
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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What Cockney rhyming slang for money endures in the East End?
We put it to the people of East London to find out whether Cockney rhyming slang for money can survive
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Why people are coming to Roman Road for the Big Beauty look
Big hair, strong brows, deep tans, long talons; more is more when it comes to beauty on Roman Road. Less
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What are you called if you’re from Bow?
Putting it to the residents once and for all: how do the people of Bow define themselves? Everyone knows that
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The history of back slang: the covert language of the East End
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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Meet Chris Ross, the East End poet keeping Cockney culture young
We talk to Chris Ross, the Cockney poet taking social media by storm with his poems about everyday life in
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A cockney holiday: East Ender’s favourite seaside haunts
With foreign travel likely off the cards this year, we rediscover the seaside holiday destinations that East Enders have long
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Cockney rhyming slang history: the roots, the rhymes and the reasons
Ever fallen down the ‘apples and pears’? Have you had your ‘barnet’ chopped recently? Called a mate on the old
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