East End Literature - Poetry

Poetry

Future Prime Minister Clement Attlee wrote a poem In Limehouse (1922) about that district. Beside the Thames, Shadwell Dock Stair is immortalised in Wilfred Owen's poem "Shadwell Stair".

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