Dorset/Duval Street

[Diddles]

I don’t believe this, I’m defending the Germans, me Mum and Dad will be turning in their graves… Anyway, on the subject of Dorset/Duval Street you write:

“Der ursprüngliche Miller's Court, wie er auf den folgenden Bildern zu sehen ist, existiert schon lange nicht mehr. Der größte Teil wurde im zweiten Weltkrieg zerstört. An seiner Stelle stehen heute Bürogebäude und ein Parkhaus. Miller's Court lag in der Dorset Street, einem der schlimmsten Armenviertel im Londoner East-End“

This is not so. The north side of Dorset/Duval street was demolished lock, stock and barrel to create space for extensions to Spitalfields Market in June 1928. See: http://photos.casebook.org/displayimage.php?album=26&pos=13

The south side of Dorset/Duval Street was still standing in the early 1960s until it was finally demolished to create space for a multi-storey car park which, every time I've ever passed it, is invariably all but empty. A crying shame, but there you go.

See: http://photos.casebook.org/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=-26&pos=4

Finally, it is hardly accurate to call a single street which was what, a hundred yards long at most, an “Armenviertel”. All of Spitalfields was an “Armenviertel”, yes, but not a single street, a single street does not a district make. It was, along with Flower and Dean Street and Thrawl Street, one of the three worst in the district, nothing more, nothing less.

For a good article on Dorset/Duval Street, see: http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-viperdossier.html

Diddles

[thomas schachner]

diddles,
you are certainly right - give me the water bowl where i can wash my hands in innocence .-))

- we'll fix that right away...

btw....diddles = jules!?

take care
thomas.

[Diddles]

diddles,
you are certainly right - give me the water bowl where i can wash my hands in innocence .-))

- we'll fix that right away...

btw....diddles = jules!?

take care
thomas.

Wrong again, Thomas. My name is, whisper it, Tony Williams (NOT THAT ONE A DIFFERENT ONE).

Diddles is the infamous kitten of Mrs Elizabeth Prater, who lived above Mary Kelly in Miller's Court. He awoke her by climbing over her neck and it is then that she heard the cry "Oh, murder".

"Oh, murder", my foot. Mary Kelly would have screamed the courtyard down at the top of her voice had she realized what was about to happen, not half-yelled a half-hearted "oh, murder". Any money.

Am I promoted to Police Constable now?

Diddles

[Diddles]

On the other hand, Thomas, I will bet my bottom dollar that your great-grandad was responsible for this great big hole in White's Row, the parallel street to Duval Street:

http://photos.casebook.org/displayimage.php?album=109&pos=2

Diddles

[thomas schachner]

hi diddles,

very impressing, but i think everybody here knows who diddles was and that ain't enough to get promoted yet! .-)))

jules owns the nick "diddles" on various other boards so i just got a little confused, tony - not williams that is...

...i think my great-granddad mentioned that hole to me when i was a little boy.

take care
thomas.