Pearly Kings and Queens, known as pearlies, are an organised charitable tradition of working-class culture in London, England. The practice of wearing...
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Man, a story that has appeared in the comics anthology 2000 AD Pearly Kings and Queens American English slang for a hired killer Button Men, a dice game...
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London and founder of the working class tradition of Pearly Kings and Queens. Croft was born at the St Pancras Workhouse in Somers Town, London, and baptised...
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group The Flirtations Pearlies, slang for members of the Pearly Kings and Queens charitable tradition "Pearly", a Space: Above and Beyond episode Pearlie...
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East End of London (section Pearlies)
East End institution, there are Pearly Kings and Queens across inner London. A parade of real-life Pearly Kings and Queens was featured at the 2012 Summer...
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Costermonger (section Definition and description)
shimmering outfits and began wearing more and more heavily decorated outfits and soon became known as the Pearly Kings and Queens. Betty May spoke of...
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Sequins continued to be popular into the 1970s and early 1980s. Glitter Oes Pearly Kings and Queens Dukes, Tanya (4 December 2020). "An Abbreviated History...
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Cockney (section Pearly tradition)
working-class London speech, each spreading independently". The Pearly Kings and Queens are famous as an East End institution, but that perception is not...
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Nacre (section Structure and appearance)
purposes. The Pearly Kings and Queens are an elaborate example of this. It is sometimes used in the decorative grips of firearms, and in other gun furniture...
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Don't Dilly Dally on the Way (redirect from Hatchets and Hammers)
of season 4 in animated series. Tessie O'Shea, Kay Kendall and the Pearly Kings and Queens, sang an excerpt of the song in the film London Town. In the...
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