Barbara Windsor was the Cockney queen of EastEnders but you’re more likely to hear her famous accent in Essex now rather than London.

A Yiddish music hall song from around 1900 jokes that East Enders live on“poteytes un gefrayte fish” – a Yiddish version of the cockney staple fish and chips.

Cockney speakers are now more likely to live in Essex than in the traditional heartlands of inner London's East End, according to research.

By that she means she retains the cockney accent and grammar. Not all East Enders speak the cockney slang of rhyming words once or twice removed that is indigenous to East London and ever-changing ...

She was a cockney icon, born in 1937 in Shoreditch, east London. She was best known for her impassioned cries of 'get outta my pub!' as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.

Theatres and pubs overflowed with audiences eager to see the immigrant experience in Whitechapel represented in all its perplexity and pathos, with a good measure of slapstick comedy. A Yiddish music ...

Cockney speakers are now more likely to live in Essex than in the traditional heartlands of inner London's East End, according to research. Historically the dialect was used by people from the ...