And as we were talking about people who've written books about the East End, here's mine!
'E1 - A Journey Through Whitechapel and Spitalfields' is due for publication by Five Leaves in November. It's A4 format, full of photographs and already on Amazon and the like. I've tried a different tack in exploring the East End here - the book almost takes on the form of a continuous walk through the area, but as well as the obvious stuff such as the Salvation Army, Immigration, Jack the Ripper, Bell Foundry etc, I've also taken a peek into the less well-known aspects.
I am rather excited about this as it has been an ongoing thing for many years. I basically started it in 1991 on an old typewriter and then had lots of distractions such as real life, blah blah. But when I returned to it in 2006, it soon became an entirely different animal - some of it was out of date for a start, bits had to be chopped out and new stuff put in. I was pleased to get opinions and comments from a number of people who know or live in the area and the whole package is now up to date. That said, the East End changes rapidly, so who knows, if it does OK a revised edition may be necessary!
Anyway, just so you know, it does mention the Kray Twins and as they would say, "buy E1... or we'll send the boys round".
1 comment:
I look forward to reading your book. I hope you keep up this blog; I go for months without updating mine because of other obligations, then something worthy of comment comes up and I post an entry. As I wrote in support of the original Ripperland blog, it's one of the most fascinating on the web. Keep it up if you can, don't worry about long periods of silence; your entries are always worth the wait. All the best, Nick (Police Diver's Notebook)
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