anyone out from Middlesex, and do you know it's history? My grandfather's birth certificate from 1863 says he was registered at Mile End Old Town (District East) County of Middlesex. My dad always thought his father was from East London (Bow bells) but i guess the birth certificate put pays to that! So, Mile end old town - does it still exist? if so what's it like? and what was it like? What sort of people lived there etc.
2006-10-29 02:36:58 · 2 answers · asked by Dr Watson (UK) 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Stephen 095. when you say my dad was right don't you mean wrong? East London isn't middlesex is it? thanks for the other info.
2006-10-29 02:48:31 · update #1
Sorry i'm so stupid, i've just checked out the web site you kindly gave me and see that mile end old town was east london - i never knew middlesex was east london, but then i'm from east devon!
2006-10-29 02:51:37 · update #2
No, your dad was right.
This is the area near Mile End tube station which is in London now but used to be in the countryside and was part of Middlesex.
There's something about its history on the site below and a book you can buy there.
"Mile End Old Town - the first suburb
In 1763, James Boswell, the biographer and sidekick of Dr Samuel Johnson, journeyed out of London into the Middlesex countryside.
Half a mile beyond the Whitechapel Turnpike he was ‘pleased with the neat houses along the road’. As the day was cold, he and his friends stopped at a little tavern, drinking ‘warm wine with aromatic spices, pepper and cinnamon’.
2006-10-29 02:42:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hardly-they are mostly illiterate there
2006-10-29 02:52:14 · answer #2 · answered by Clint 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋