Campbell Bunk: The Worst Street in North London Between the Wars

by Jerry White

Most studies of the British working-class experience deal with labor aristocrats and the "respectable poor." Campbell Bunk gives the first full account of a "rough," sub-proletarian community and the forces which molded, changed, and eventually destroyed it. From the 1880s to World War II, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breeding thieves and prostitutes, and for an enthusiastic disregard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712636250
• ISBN13: 9780712636254
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"