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Cockney area: original research

This article should probably be refocused to deal exclusively with the dialect. The cockney area section is original research and poorly sourced. MRSC (talk) 08:15, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the above about Cockney area selection. The article implies that when the original church of St Mary-le-bow was destroyed there would have been no cockney area until a new church was built. Likewise, if a new, bigger bell was installed the area would increase in size. Both of these conclusions I think are wrong. My father was born into the East End in 1908, and he and my grandmother both used to say (back in the 1950s) that a cockney was someone born with the sound of the bells of the original (destroyed) church of St Mary-le-bow. So as far as they and other residents of the area were concerned, even though the church no longer existed it was a clearly defined area - and quite a small one at that. Pvandck 09:59, 21 October 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pvandck (talk • contribs)

The concept of a 'cockney area' is flawed anyway. The trouble is that most definitions of such come from somebody's grandad - and there are many contradictory definitions. pablo 10:09, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The traditional core districts

.....of the East End are Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Stepney, Wapping, Limehouse, Poplar, Clerkenwell, Aldgate, Shoreditch, Millwall, Hackney, Hoxton, Bow and Mile End. END QUOTE

Surely Lambeth is important. If not, where is Britain epicentre of teen preggo cases? Where does Charlie Chaplain, Ronny Biggs and Naomi Campbell come from? --85.164.221.69 (talk) 23:27, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]