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Cockney Tradition
On the first Sunday in October, St Martin-in-the-Fields Church is packed for the Costermongers Harvest Festival Service. Costermongers
were old London market traders who elected 'Pearly Kings and Queens' as represent-atives to safeguard their rights. These
quintessential Cockney characters (a Cockney is a true indigenous Londoner) are a marvellous sight dressed in their traditional
extravagant pearl-button suits.
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