Cheapside
We're heading to another market street this week - although you'd need to have been there a few centuries ago to see it! Cheapside is not, as you'd expect, named after the sale of budgies or knock off bargains - but because of the olde english word ceapan meaning "market". It's a long straight road in the city now. But it's history can be told through many of it's side streets and in fact the street it runs into - Poultry, Honey Lane, Milk street and Bread Street to name but a few.
It's also home to the Church of St.Mary-le-bow with it's spectacular steeple and rather famous bell. In fact it's the bells which are the infamous 'Bow Bells' in cockney ledgend - if you're born within the sound of the bells you are deemed to be a proper cockney. Gor'Blimey, strike a light.
Today there is an enormous amount of rebuilding work going on - nothing new really as the street has been razed twice in it's life time, by the Great Fire and by the Luftwaffe. It's a hectic busy place in the week and very quiet at the weekend - lots to see - lots of people to snap ... a bit of everything.
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