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OH YEA!
London's official town crier
Peter Moore rang out a
traditional Christmas message
when Poplar's Chrisp Street
Market went 'Victorian' for two
days of cockney
festivities.
You would be
forgiven if you had thought you
were in another century. There
was a chimney-sweep , turning up.
to clean out your flue. There was
also a kid looking suspiciously
like Oliver Twist.
But the
giveaway was this youngster
didn't look as gaunt as Dickens'
classic character.
He and his
classmates from St Savior's
Primary School nearby had turned
up in Victorian clothes they 'had
sewn together at a fun workshop'
at the Ragged School Museum in
Bow.
The
chimney-sweep was one of several
actors hired in by Leaside
Regeneration who staged the
Victorian
extravaganza.
Hot on their
trail was a fire eater. But not
all shoppers fancied such a hot
dish, and turned instead to cafes
churning out good old cockney
grub like pie 'n' mash, bangers
'n' mash and fish 'n'
chips.
It was enough'
to put 21st century shopping
maIls in their place. |
