@steverocky

Well better "Westferry Bob" as he is known in parts of the #eastend than #cruella herself! He could of course add one of "catwoman" herself in the form of #katharinebirbalsingh being fed cat food by #LeeAnderson !

If anybody wants an obscure book recommendation, you can do a lot worse than #AlexanderBaron's King Dido. It took me awhile to get into it but now I love it. Part Greek tragedy, part Dickensian exploration of the back alleys and slums of the old #EastEnd, it also owes a lot to Austen and her uncanny ability to draw characters who don't understand their own predicament

@JohnLoader6

It is now well known that Lady Dorothy had a long standing relationship with Robert Boothby. One of the Macmillan children - not the son and heir - was his rather than Harold's. Macmillan made Boothby a peer at his request. Boothby was at best a somewhat gamey character - blocked from ministerial office after a financial scandal - close to #eastend villains such as the #krays - and known to be bisexual.

#otd Sixty years ago John Profumo resigned. I am just old enough to remember it. He had lied to parliamentary about his relationship with Christine Keeler. Profumo had to leave politics and went on to redeem himself by spending many years doing good works in the #EastEnd of #London. The affair was the subject many years later of the #film "Scandal". The associated revelations changed attitudes in the #UK profoundly.

This mural is displayed in the #eastend #theatredistrict of #melbourne #Australia.

Spotted in an alleyway painted on the rear of an old industrial building, a woman, shoulders up, looks down over her shoulder, flanked by long, whispy bird feathers of some type around her figure.

The painting is around 60-70 foot (15-20 metres) tall in its entirety.

Long jet black hair, full lips and alluring eyes, this scene says so much. It could be described as sexually charged. Depending on your interpretation. Her look could almost be described too, as contemptuous or accusing. Again, depending on the observer.

The building is old and rustic, concrete cladded and the setting looks like a grungy back alley that was probably in its hay day in the early 20th century Melbourne. It stands at around 5-6 stories tall and is and is adorned on the periphery with air vents, plumbing pipes and guttering down pipes.

#altext, second image.

Artist: unknown.

#streetart #mastoart
#Australia #burbs #muralart #melbourne #narrm #muralart#Australia #murals #mural #muralart #mastoart #publicart #art #melbourne #victoria #aesthetichedonist #makesmehappy

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1940 - a trio of evacuee children examine their transit labels while dressed in ‘pixie’ hats - a fashion prevalent at the time. To read a little more of the people and places of the old East End visit http://the-east-end.co.uk #eastend #History #WWII #evacuation

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/The_East_End/status/1642182128149438465

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During WWII allotments sprang up on every available piece of land - including the moat of the Tower of London, but allotments have been around for an awful lot longer. The earliest allotments existed around Birmingham since 1732! http://the-east-end.co.uk #eastend #History

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/The_East_End/status/1640960259404574720

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LITTLE KNOWN FACT ALERT :- two of the lesser known ‘cathedrals’ in London, the Abbey Mills and Crossness pumping stations. They were designed and built to help shift London’s effluence. As a result, they became known as the Cathedrals of Sewage… #Eastend #Sewage

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/The_East_End/status/1640758808128487439

ああ、あの出っ張り、そういうことだったんだ。

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A gloomy East End alleyway - the peculiar curved concrete structures each side of the arch helped to stop men from peeing in the corners! Any urine would run down and splash their feet (it also prevented criminals from hiding round the corner)... #eastend http://the-east-end.co.uk

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/The_East_End/status/1640782026100944896

#OTD 22Feb1825 amateur #Boxer and member of the #EastEnd Fancy, Edward ‘Kiddy’ Harris is executed at #Newgate for the Robbery & Attempted Murder of Sarah Drew in October of 1824.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

East End Toy Manufacturers of 1917 (Spitalfields Life blog)

Seeking lost East End toy manufacturers by studying copies of GAMES & TOYS, a trade publication, I was struck by the irony of the tragic contrasts in this magazine...

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/02/04/east-end-toy-manufacturers-of-1917-2/

#toys #games #london #spitalfields #EastEnd

#London #EastEnd #FoodTour yesterday, to keep us walking around and dispel #JetLag:

Poppie's fish and chips, three different curries, bacon and butter sandwiches, an apple crumble with hot custard and scorched marshmallow, plus local cheeses.

My first #OneMealDay in a while!

Ghost from the past: Paul Holbrook's melancholic, haunting short film OLD WINDOWS (2022), (starring
Larry Lamb and its writer Laura Bayston) lands online today on Directors Notes
#ShortFilm #EastEnd #Cafe #Grief https://projectedfigures.com/2022/01/31/old-windows-2022

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Battle-Of-Cable-Street/

Street brawls between fascists on one side and ‘#Antifa’, communists, and anarchists on the other. Although this may sound like something from the news of Portland, USA in 2020, this is East London in 1936.

#antifascist #uk #EastEnd #london #history #antisemitism #CableStreet #NoPasaran

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A photographer accidentally captures the moment a V1 buzz bomb hits the Aldwych in London, taken near Fleet Street (I believe)... http://the-east-end.co.uk #eastend #History #WWII

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/The_East_End/status/1618911047322341376

At the back of our school. I liked the contrast of the wall and the frozen trees. #Scotland #Photography #Landscape #Photographylife #Glasgow #Eastend #Dennistoun #LandscapePhotography #Winter

At the back of our school. I liked the contrast of the wall and the frozen trees. #Scotland #Photography #Landscape #Photographylife #Glasgow #Eastend #Dennistoun #LandscapePhotography #Winter

It's taken 47 years for most of these photos from an East End pensioners' club Christmas party to see the light of day but a pleasure delayed is a pleasure doubled.
Many thanks to the one & only Gentle Author for giving them this show.

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/12/19/christmas-at-st-hildas-1975/

#christmas #party #xmas #pensioner #towerhamlets #1975 #eastend

#ChasAndDave #Christmas #KneesUp (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rizRsvBluAA&ab_channel=BlastFromYourPast

#ChristasKneesUp #Pop #PopMusic #Music #PubMusic #Cockney #Cockerney #EastEnd #London #LondonEastEnd #Party #ChristmasParty #Christmas #Xmas

Children playing in Clement Street, Limehouse, east London, 1959.

#photography #eastend #london