Cockney Rebel singer Steve Harley, who died at the weekend from cancer aged 73, had a confession about his time as a young, rebellious ‘cloak and dagger’ reporter on the East London Advertiser in the ...
Do you know your skin and blister from your trouble and strife? In your vocabulary, is Hampstead Heath a body part or a location? And who on earth IS Mickey Bliss? We're looking to find true Cockney ...
East Londoners are cracking up at a graphic that has renamed East End tube stations in cockney, ‘as they should be’. Non-cockneys have been given schooling in the correct pronunciation of stops on the ...
It's a remarkable feat for anyone to live through four heart attacks and a close involvement with London’s underworld, but Stanley Melvin, 72, laughs as he tells me his tale. Known to his mates as ...
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Cockney speakers are now more likely to live in Essex than in the traditional heartlands of inner London's East End, according to research. Historically the dialect was used by people from the central ...
What does our accent say about us? Why do we still judge each other that way? And why do so many of us still feel the need to “improve” how we speak to fit in? Cole Moreton did that as a teenager, ...
I was born at the Bricklayers' Arms in the Old Kent Road and was known as the Cockney Kid because of my knowledge of the cockneys and cockney rhyming slang. It's a misconception that to be a cockney ...
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