- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Pimlico (2 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0712636250
- ISBN-13: 978-0712636254
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 491,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the 1880s to World War II, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breeding thieves and prostitutes, and for an enthusiastic disregard for law and order. It was the object of reform by church, magistrates, local authorities and scientists, who left many traces of their attempts to improve what became known as "the worse street in North London". In all that record, the voice of Campbell Bunk itself was silent. Campbell Road was eventually cleared as a slum in the 1950s. This title provides insight into the realities of life in a "slum" community, showing how it changed over a 90-year period. The author uses extensive oral history to describe in detail the years between the wars, revealing complex lessons betweem the new world opening up (especially for young women) in Campbell Bunk and the street's traditional culture of economic individualism, crime, street theatre and domestic violence.
About the Author
Jerry White is the author of the award-winning London in the Twentieth Century: A City and its People (2001) and Rothschild Buildings, his first book which won the Jewish Chronicle Non-fiction Book Prize in 1980. He is one of the three Local Government Ombudsmen for England, and is Visiting Professor at the School of History and Politics, Middlesex University. He is currently writing two books for Jonathan Cape about London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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