Re: accents

100 years later the south-east London and north-east London accents are different (I'm excluding the accents of those with recent Asian/African/Caribbean/European ancestry)even with the levelling affect of TV, radio and greater mobility. The accent in the north seems to open the mouth a bit more with more rounded, fruitier vowels. When I lived in Rainham, Essex people spoke of the accent of nearby Hornchurch as the 'Hornchurch Whine'.