Well if you're being technical that has always been the case
To be a genuine cockney you need to have been born within earshot of the bells of Bow. Ironically Bow is now a quite well to do area so a cockney could arguably be the middleclasses:P
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riverghost servicing your mum since,
Mon 21 Jul 2008, 9:50,
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Only if the sound travels all the way through east London,
through the centre and passed into West London to where Hammersmith is. I suppose it could get the district line all the way, it's only take about 45 minutes.:P
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riverghost servicing your mum since,
Mon 21 Jul 2008, 9:53,
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Bow is quite a well to do area?
Didn't look it when I drove through it on Friday night....
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Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm...,
Mon 21 Jul 2008, 9:54,
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it's the classy part of the east end (coughs)
well compared with poplar n plaistow amongst many other rougher parts
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doph no time like the precedent,
Mon 21 Jul 2008, 10:10,
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