Edwardian Promenade | The Worst Street in London They tell me it is a poor look-out for the School Board officer who pokes his nose into unwanted quarters of Dorset Street, The children are trained in the gutter, their first lessons are in oaths and crime. They learn ill as they sip at their mother’s gin, and you can see them at six and eight years’ old gambling in the gutter-ways.~~ Frederick A. McKenzie, Daily Mail (16 July 1901)

Edwardian Promenade | The Worst Street in London

They tell me it is a poor look-out for the School Board officer who pokes his nose into unwanted quarters of Dorset Street, The children are trained in the gutter, their first lessons are in oaths and crime. They learn ill as they sip at their mother’s gin, and you can see them at six and eight years’ old gambling in the gutter-ways.~~ Frederick A. McKenzie, Daily Mail (16 July 1901)