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SDEE 029

 
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Prospect Row/Silver St. In the 1800s every midsummer night was the excuse for a strange annual Druidic ceremony in Silver St with food and drink laid out round bonfires through which residents sang and danced to cleanse themselves of evil . For many years this was a very wild East-End occasion These buildings are clearly of much later period but still include the usual charitable institute as well as the inevitable pub. Photograph Norman Kirtlan, information from Len Charlton.