Diskusjon:Mile End Waste

Lokalisering/om området

Between Mile End Gate and the famous music hall known as the "Paragon" there was the area known as "The Waste". On here was an open market, with itinerant traders of all types, - baked chestnut barrow, hot baked potatoes, the toffee maker, the old clothes man, the negro sword swallower, "jellied eels", cheap jack crockery, the whole lot was just one confusion, illuminated at night by countless flaring "Naphtha" lamps which frequently conked out, and released a cloud of paraffin vapour over all and sundry. In one spot were rolls of sheet lead belonging to the builders merchant shop. I often wonder how long sheet lead would lay safe without protection on that spot today. The same stretch of pavement contained also the ancient almshouses of Trinity House, the Great Assembly Hall, and the ancient weatherboarded hostelry "The Vine Tavern", the only pub in the Mile End Road, which was literally true, - it was actually in the road, isolated and alone. It disappeared just prior to the Sidney Street Battle.

Fra denne nettsiden.

«The open-air meetings on the Mile End Waste, surrounded by blaspheming infidels and boisterous drunkards; the processions down the Whitechapel Road, pelted with garbage; the placards carried with striking texts; the penitent-form and the testifying of the new converts, enlisted his unbounded sympathy.»

Fra denne nettsiden om William Booth.

Skrevet av Ulflarsen, 23. okt. 2008 kl. 11:19