Er, help! - "South of the River"

[James Kyllo]

One or the other.

Both the East and South of London are percieved as less favoured than
the West and North.  (The different connotations of West End and East
End are well known; anecdotally, black cabs are reluctant to travel
south of the river)

J

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:34 PM, János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
> In GR, page 742, describing The Fools' album cover, TRP writes, "near an old
> rocket-bomb site, out in the East End, or South of the River".
> Now the East End in London lies north of the Thames. Is this intentional
> (and if so, why?), or an error which no-one noticed (maybe out of tact), or
> am I wrong?
>
> János
>



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