Word: shoreditch
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...creative hub, attracting young artists and entrepreneurs who front one-off shops, edgy galleries and innovative restaurants. I've lived in London for over 15 years, but without that three-hour walk I'd never have discovered Westland, the beautiful architectural antiques dealer housed in a restored church in Shoreditch; or Concrete Hermit, a gallery showcasing works by up-and-coming graphic designers; or Serbian fashion designer Dragana Perisic's quirky boutique near Spitalfields Market. Nor would I ever have found the mysteriously nameless plimsoll shop on Cheshire Street, identifiable only by its scruffy cardboard sign, where $10 still buys...
...BELLS OF SHOREDITCH, by James Kennaway. An acid satire of a weak-kneed young Socialist who is down to his last slogans until his wife goads him into trying to copy the big boss, revealing within him a rich vein of pure capitalist...
...BELLS OF SHOREDITCH by James Kennaway. 211 pages. Atheneum...
...encased in high button shoes, kicking up to show legs that would flatter a Tottenham Court soccer player, she belts out a medley of Noel Coward cockney songs-London Is a Little Bit of All Right, Saturday Night at the Rose and Crown-that ring all the bells of Shoreditch...
...They [the government] have destroyed the identity of the City of London and have purloined its name. ... It is now to be submerged by the constituencies of Shoreditch and Finsbury.* There are a lot of very good people in Shoreditch and Finsbury, but I really do not think they will wish to walk about under the false pretense of being the City of London...