Word: shoreditch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shoreditch v. the City. Even Winston Churchill was hard put to it to pitch his disagreement. But he could not see the old traditions pass without a growling Churchillian salute. Said...
...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...
...When I grow rich," Say the bells of Shoreditch...
...Fields was one of London's first blitzed churches. A bomb penetrated the crypt, but the bells are sound. The Church of St. Sepulchre stands opposite Old Bailey, which was hit three times, but the church, whose tenor bell once tolled for executions, has so far escaped. The Shoreditch bells are untouched. Incendiaries burned holes in the roof of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, legendary church of all those born at sea. The windows were blasted, but the church and its bells are intact. Bow Church was damaged; its bells remain...