Bestselling author James Morton tracks the changing face of the East End from the 1870s to now, through opium dens & racecourse
...Always a rum place, the industrial revolution replaced rose bushes & hedgerows with metallic roads & iron railways, mud banks gave way to deep-water docks & sweatshops. This book tells the story of this part of London. It reveals the underbelly of the history of the East End.