A is for ‘orses…

Victorian Londoners would have thrilled to the Cockney Alphabet in the hallowed settings of an East End Music Hall. Here of an evening you would have discovered the famous Pearly Kings and Queens delighting in the witty wordplay and doing the Lambeth Walk. Everyone else, lacking any education, would simply laugh at all the rude bits and then set about beating each other up.

Music Halls may have long closed down, but an East End night out hasn’t changed much in 100 years.

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