Filmed for 'PEARLIES' - a short documentary about George Major, the Pearly King of Peckham, we see a good old cockney knees up in The Lord Nelson, Sutton. George was good enough to arrange a charity event, serving pie and mash and organised coaches of cockneys from around London to sing old London piano songs.
The Pearly tradition comes from the Victorian era, when working class Londoners were living in poverty in the East End. Barrow boys from the markets started to raise money for the poor and the needy and slowly the tradition of attaching pearls and feather to your jackets started.
Nowadays, there are very few hereditary Pearly Kings and Queens, with most now being adoptees as a profession rather than for charitable causes.
George, and his brother, shown here, are two survivors.
Many of the cockneys have now left central London and live in the suburbs and surrounding counties, as they looked for a less inner city life.
So if you want, join us on a cockney sing along, not around the Johanna this time, but around a PA system.
See the film Pearlies here: • THE LAST PEARLY KING: ...
Filmed in early 2019
Негізгі бет COCKNEY SING-A-LONG TIME! The Pearly King of Peckham and cockneys having a booze up in a pub
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