ABSTRACT
Should there be among our readers any admirer of life in its various phases who has never yet visited Stepney Fair, we advise him to do so at the earliest opportunity. Let him not tell us that he has, year after year, visited Greenwich – let him not allude to Wandsworth or to Battersea. We say again, if you wish to see a fair “as is” a fair, cast off the aristocratic prejudices with which you have hitherto regarded Stepney, and do not fail, next Easter or Whitsuntide, to pay it a visit. For our own parts, though we sometimes take a trip to Greenwich at holiday times, it is only for the purpose of observing the scenes in the park. Whenever we wish to see a fair, we avoid it, and betake ourselves to the less aristocratic regions of the East-end.
