The Cockney Sparrow

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I've seen photos in the excellent Strathwood book on Loco's of Stratford Depot and wanted to find out a bit more about it.

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of a "cokenay" as "a child tenderly brought up" and, by extension, "an effeminate fellow" or "a milksop".Finsbury Park was famed for giving white cab window surrounds to their Deltics, in the same way as Stratford's 47s had their silver roofs.

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Cockney is more and more influential and some claim that in the future many features of the accent may become standard. There's Tony Lambrianou and Frankie Foreman, both of whom served time for their part in the Krays' murder of Jack "the Hat" McVitie, in unimpeachably pressed whistles. Shoreditch-born Barbara Windsor, who plays wandering wife Maggie Gooding in a tight skirt, high heels and frilly white lace blouse with a cloud of blonde hair, embodies both ‘sparrer’ and ‘sparrow’. Cockney is a dialect of the English language, mainly spoken in London and its environs, particularly by Londoners with working-class and lower middle-class roots.The enthralling saga set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century London from the Sunday Times bestselling author. We see the Krays' drinking club in Sparrows' last scene, which degenerates into a mass brawl watched impassively by pensioners over their halves of stout. The current meaning of Cockney comes from its use among rural Englishmen (attested in 1520) as a pejorative term for effeminate town-dwellers, [15] [10] from an earlier general sense (encountered in " The Reeve's Tale" of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales c. The Cockney accent often featured in films produced by Ealing Studios and was frequently portrayed as the typical British accent of the lower classes in movies by Walt Disney, though this was only so in London. There's a striking poster (reproduced in her autobiography All of Me) with Windsor, aged 20 in stilettos and a bikini, advertising the Winston club's 1957 New Year's Gala.

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Two rivals (Charlie and Bert) line very different nests to coax Maggie home, but Charlie wins her heart as he seduces her in ‘the woods’ of the local park.The definition based on being born within earshot of the bells, [28] cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, reflects the early definition of the term as relating to all of London. Biological recording is the scientific study of the distribution of living organisms, biological records describe the presence, abundance, associations and changes, both in time and space, of wildlife. The saloon has large windows providing plenty of natural light and excellent views of the riverscape.

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citation needed] A costume associated with Cockneys is that of the pearly King or Queen, worn by London costermongers who sew thousands of pearl buttons onto their clothing in elaborate and creative patterns.Baby Christabel sits straight up in her pram like a chick in a nest waiting to be fed, and feathers fly everywhere: both real (in the feather bed Charlie humps upstairs, the headdress of the pub stripper) to metaphorical (the violent standoff at the pub, continued outside by Maggie and Charlie). And the cockney sparrows of Littlewood’s film are caught mid-flight, migrating from one home to another. The alveolar stops /t/, /d/ are often omitted in informal Cockney, in non-prevocalic environments, including some that cannot be omitted in Received Pronunciation. The accent features T-glottalisation, with use of the glottal stop as an allophone of /t/ in various positions, [48] [49] including after a stressed syllable. uk, which helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase, has had some recent improvements, including PlusBus support.