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| | cockney history, east end history, canada, emigration, Poplar, Bow, Isle of Dogs, Limehouse, Stepney, Mile End, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | We read an awful lot about immigration to the East End – the history of our area is all about the multitude of cultures, races and languages that have poured in to the East End over the centuries. |
 | | The East London Emigration Fund was one such body, set up by the Honourable Frederick and William Hobart, the Countesses of Ducie, de Grey and Denbigh, ‘and other ladies of distinction’. |
 | | And though their forebears may have come from the Essex and East Anglian countryside, this must have been quite a shock to the recruits, who ‘came principally from the districts of Poplar, Bow, Isle of Dogs, Limehouse, Stepney, Mile End, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Clerkenwell, Shadwell, St. George's East, and Spitalfields’. |
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