Atdtda22: [42.1i] Not fashionable, 607

[James Kyllo]

It's hideously fashionable now.

On Nov 14, 2007 5:28 AM, Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com> wrote:
> [607.39] ... Seven Dials ...
>
> An American view, from the late-nineteenth century:
>
> It is not very far from Covent Garden to Seven Dials. This place is so
> called from the fact that by the meeting of seven streets seven corners are
> formed, at each of which there was once, it is said, a dial. This place has
> a reputation like that of Five Points in New York; and it is remarkable that
> the meeting of many streets should in both cities have been followed by a
> degradation of the neighborhood. But Seven Dials, although I found that it
> richly deserved the ill odor in which it stands, is not, as Five Points is,
> or was, the lowest and most wretched part of the town. There are
> neighborhoods in London which are to Seven Dials as Seven Dials is to May
> Fair.
>
> From: Richard Grant White, England without and within, Boston: Houghton
> Mifflin & Co, 1881, 109.
>
> An earlier reference in AtD: "The Last Judgment (XX) was a streetwalker from
> Seven Dials, sometimes accompanied by her pimp ..." (226).
>
>



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