Memoirs of East End Life

The East End is home to some of the poorest in Britain although a rapid influx of Indians and Somalis has made it a muticultural area since the 1960s. Brandt photographed around and about the East End in the 1930s and 1940s. Read accounts by Gilda O'Neill of the original cockney Londoners who have become a declining presence in this city within a city. Read about the jellied eels, the cockney rhyming slang and their special codes of conduct.

FT review The was we was [pdf]