Hoxton was not always the hip fashionable place it is now,
it was described as "the leading criminal quarter of London" in a report from the beginning of the twentith centryy and was a notorious slum area for a long period. Hoxton Street was known for being the rought Street in London as well as being home to its famous market. After the Second World War this Hoxton was changed as part of the slum-clearance promgramme which led the way to the Hoxton of today. Bryan Magee was among the people who was born there in its tough times and Hoxton was his home for the his first nine years until the outbreak of the was meant he became an evacuee. In this beautifully well written book he remembers the world of his childhood and brings Hoxton in the 1930's back to life.
