Mile End
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Sep 19, 2026
Johnny VaughanHOST
Gav, what
Gavin WoodsHOST
have you got? I've got the old Mile End Mister.
Gavin WoodsHOST
What is your Mile End Mister? Being famous enough that your name has been accepted into the Cockney rhyming slang vernacular, such as Pete Tong or Johnny Vaughan, the Comte de Harrogate.
Gavin WoodsHOST
That's Robb.
Johnny VaughanHOST
That's fantastic.
Matt LewisHOST
And I think the, that crackdown was a little bit where they played with the history a bit too much in the film for me, in the, the idea of these charters and he was gonna give, grant them at Smithfield.
Matt LewisHOST
But in, in reality, th- they'd already got them at Mile End-
Eleanor JanegaHOST
Mm-hmm
Matt LewisHOST
... at the previous meeting.
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Eleanor JanegaHOST
Mm-hmm
Matt LewisHOST
...
Matt LewisHOST
Mile End with.
Matt LewisHOST
Um, and there were some incredible stories.
Vicki Shenkin KerrGUEST
I barely, barely leave London anywhere that's more than a 10-15 minute cycle of my bookshop on a you know on a day-to-day basis if I have to cross the river to the south of the river that's like nosebleed territory for me you know nothing against the south of London but it's just it's just it's like going to another city you know and even going into west London feels like an absolute trek so You know, East London in itself is kind of one hub, but within that hub of East London, we have our kind of, you know, smaller little hub.
Vicki Shenkin KerrGUEST
You can call it Bow, you can call it Mile End, you can call it Tower Hamlets, you can call it Hackney.
Vicki Shenkin KerrGUEST
People just refer to the area sometimes as Victoria Park.
Vicki Shenkin KerrGUEST
You know...
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
To the tower also as a place of safety flocked many of the citizens.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
But as the insurgents so strongly insisted on laying their grievances before the king himself, Richard agreed to go out and meet them at Mile End, where they preferred to him certain requests of which the principal was for a general abolition of bondage.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
This and their other demands the king felt it necessary to concede, and a charter was granted accordingly under the Great Seal.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
This charter was revoked after the insurrection was quelled, but it satisfied the assembly at the time, and the men of Essex took their departure homewards.
Tony SupremeHOST
Okay.
Haider RazzakGUEST
So I used to run at Mile End, and we were very lucky to train with the junior GB squad.
Tony SupremeHOST
Nice.
Tony SupremeHOST
And so when did your life begin to take a turn? When do you recall things starting to kind of shift a bit?
Matt LewisGUEST
That's what they're really keen to point out they're not there for.
Matt LewisGUEST
On the 14th of June, the following day, as London is in flames and smoke everywhere, Richard II agrees to meet the rebels again at Mile End.
Matt LewisGUEST
So Mile End is a mile outside the gates of the city of London.
Matt LewisGUEST
Richard II agrees to meet the rebels.
Matt LewisGUEST
This time he's not going to be dragged away by his advisors.
JoeHOST
Yeah.
Matt LewisGUEST
We just want to be free.
Matt LewisGUEST
And I imagine to the utter shock and surprise of everybody there gathered at Mile End, Richard II says...
Sam SwainsburyNARRATOR
Put it on a barge, ship it down here.
Sam SwainsburyNARRATOR
In the 19th century, East London authorities or vestries such as Mile End bought up land in Essex with the intention of using it to bury their rubbish.
Sam SwainsburyNARRATOR
As Lee Jackson recounts in his history of the filthy capital, Dirty Old London, a London County Council official in the late 1800s described the reason for using Essex as a place to dump waste.
Sam SwainsburyNARRATOR
The natural solution is to shoot it in some sparsely inhabited district where public opinion is not strong enough to effectually resent it being deposited.
Elizabeth KlettVOICE_ACTOR
Independent Labour Party, Greenwich Branch, on Thursday.
Elizabeth KlettVOICE_ACTOR
Monday, Social Democratic Federation, Mile End Branch.
Elizabeth KlettVOICE_ACTOR
Thursday, First Confirmation Class.
Elizabeth KlettVOICE_ACTOR
Oh, I'd better tell them you can't come.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
To the tower also as a place of safety flocked many of the citizens.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
But as the insurgents so strongly insisted on laying their grievances before the king himself, Richard agreed to go out and meet them at Mile End, where they preferred to him certain requests of which the principal was for a general abolition of bondage.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
This and their other demands the king felt it necessary to concede, and a charter was granted accordingly under the Great Seal.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
This charter was revoked after the insurrection was quelled, but it satisfied the assembly at the time, and the men of Essex took their departure homewards.
SaulHOST
There were, in... medieval times 10 leper hospitals in the city or lazar houses and when i say in the city they're actually located around it now saint james's lazar house which had been where the leprous maidens of saint james had once lived had disappeared when its buildings were absorbed into saint james's palace and St. Giles's Lazare House was taken over for use as a parish church.
SaulHOST
However, six of the others, located in dubious neighbourhoods like Highgate, Mile End, Kingland, Southwark, Hammersmith, and of course, the most scummiest of all, Knightsbridge, were now transferred to the administration of the newly refounded St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
SaulHOST
The Reformation, in London was therefore doing what it did particularly well in London, changing the skyline, rearranging institutions, knocking down buildings and redistributing whatever happened to be inside them.
SaulHOST
Sometimes that meant theological reform, sometimes it meant a palace, and sometimes, rather unfortunately, it meant a thousand cartlords of bones.
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