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East End Chronicles

» Ed Glinert

Penguin
Paperback : 29 Jun 2006

£9.99


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Synopsis

The East End:  Roman burial ground, medieval rubbish tip, Victorian hellhole, WW2 bombing target, 21st century gentrification template.  Always a rum place, the industrial revolution replaced rose bushes and hedgerows with metallic roads and iron railways, mudbanks give way to deep-water docks and sweatshops.  East End Chronicles tells the story of this part of London that has always enthralled writers and readers through the bizarre, the unusual, the arcane and the mysterious.  Chapters on the Silk Weavers of Spitalfields; Docks, Dockers and River Pirates; Murder and Mayhem on the Radcliffe Highway; Myths and Mythmakers; The Blitz and Bombs; The Jewish Ghetto and more reveal the real underbelly of the history of the East End.

Product details

Format : Paperback
ISBN: 9780141017181
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 336
Published : 29 Jun 2006
Publisher : Penguin

East End Chronicles

» Ed Glinert

£9.99


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