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Jacob's Island, Bermondsey, 1813

Jacob's Island, Bermondsey, 1813
Engraving by Wise from a drawing by Schnebbelie, 1813

Jacob's Island, Bermondsey, 1813

  

Jacob's Island was Bermondsey's earliest and most notorious slum.

It is celebrated in fiction as Bill Sykes' lair in Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist'.
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