East End of London
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The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north
Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss
The River Lea at Stratford, with the Olympic Stadium under construction in June 2011
Aldgate Pump: the symbolic start of the East End
The Tower of London was the administrative and geographic cornerstone of the Tower Division
Cockney
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Cockney is a dialect of the English language spoken mainly in London, particularly by Londoners from working-class and lower-middle-class families. The term Cockney is also used as a demonym for a per
East End of London
…area's large population, which has in turn become a source of people moving to settle in other areas. The influence of the traditional Essex dialect on Cockney speech suggests that a high proportion of early Londoners came from Essex and areas speaking related eastern dialects. Migrants from all over the British…
The church of St Mary-le-Bow