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Tell a lie, I get more long jobs than that. Today, Beckton. The most obscure, the most extreme part of the East End. London was the busiest port in the world. I had been there only once before, in the 1980s, as a despatch rider, although I cannot imagine why. A place you go once and it imprints on your mind. Grey, dusty, archetypal. Row upon row of cubical, terraced, gardenless, movie set dockers' houses and nothing else; no trees, colour, street markings or outsiders. All gone now, according to my passengers.

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lastcardcharlie

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Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 10,569

There are beggars at some traffic junctions. This young guy in Aldgate the other evening, apparently possessed of a cheerful disposition, has got one leg. The other amputated, no doubt, owing to injection of drugs, or what passes for them, in the doorways and alleys of Whitechapel. And that didn't stop you? What kind of mad childhood leads to that?