Picture No | 10111914 |
Date | 1850 |
Description | Bow-Bell Peal on Christmas Eve 1850 |
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Ringing the 'Bow Bells' of St Mary-le-Bow church, Cheapside, London : they were destroyed in the Blitz but recast 1961 : to be born in their hearing makes you a true Cockney.
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Source | Illustration in 'A Holiday Book for Christmas and the New Year', page 7 and also in 'The Illustrated London News', 21 December 1850 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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