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Description: | 'Polly Crow' is a cockney expression referring to 'Bow' in London. Traditionally a cockney was someone born within the sound of the bells of the Church of 'St Mary Le Bow' in Cheapside, London. Cockney 'rabbit' or slang, was developed as a secret way of communicating by costermongers, (those selling produce from a barrow in the street) so that they could carry out illegal street trade. It developed and came to be used more widely by Londoners who wanted to have a 'rabbit and pork' (talk), without the upper classes knowing what they were saying. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | J Cambell & Co, 11 Argyle Place, Regent Street, W | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Musical Hall Songs Musical Instruments | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Hunt, G W | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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