ABSTRACT
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century there were some 6,000 people1 - men, women and children - who lived in the Nichol. The district was bounded by High Street Shoreditch and Hackney Road on the north and Spitalfields to the south. It was made up o f many alleys and courts. The principal streets were Boundary Street, the main playing street, Old Nichol Street, New Nichol Street, Half Nichol Street, The Mount - where the old clothes dealers were - and the only street with shops — Church Street. Arthur Morrison in his novel called it ‘The Jago’ .
