Elizabethan Shoreditch was little more than a shanty-town, an unsanitary overspill of "poor cottages" and "alleys backward" spreading through the fields and marshes and dissolved monastery gardens outside Bishopsgate.
We all had to run back to the cottage – this poor girl hopping along – and dry off.
It is from the cottage of the poor that all these spring".
Someone will probably pay more for a well-maintained flat in central London than for a small cottage in a poor state of repair.
"Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man's house," it read.
Draws against Arsenal and Chelsea on the road this season have hinted that Jol is finally finding an answer to Fulham's traditionally poor form away from Craven Cottage, although Berbatov was often too isolated on his return to north London.
He was right to back off the caravans, the "cottages of the poor".
Often he just found and recorded underappreciated beauty in poor neighborhoods: the weathered condemned cottages, posters layered on brick walls and laundry hung in alleys.
