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A museum dedicated to London's Pearly Kings and Queens has been attracting visitors to a corner of Surrey for the last five years. The Cockney Museum in Stoneleigh opened its doors in 2020 and has ...
Werner said that Cockney slang, popularized in everything from Dickens novels to the BBC soap EastEnders, evolved in the 19th century partially as a means to speak in code.
Pearly Kings and Queens from across London gathered on Sunday in Guildhall Yard, in the City of London, for their Harvest Festival. The Pearly tradition was started by a Victorian street-sweeper ...
Cockney identity was deeply embedded in East London for a long time, but it has now spread much farther. The story of pie and mash begins in the mid-19th century, when shipping docks opened in ...
British musician Steve Harley, whose band Cockney Rebel had a huge hit with the song Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me), has died. He was 73. Harleys family said Sunday March 17, ...