Hoot ~ Of course, re the churches; should have checked. But which is the cockney-qualification one of those? Bow Road or Cheapside?

No; he would still have needed the glasses, surely, for a clear view of Hackney Marshes: my mother a native of Hoxton, remember. And as for Chingford in the eastward or 'Endon to the westward {which was where I grew up & went to school: Hendon County School, & lived off Golders Green Road, which was then in the Borough of Hendon: tho born in Hampstead; 38 Compayne Gardens}; and Leather Lane, between Clerkenwell Rd & Holborn, 1 mile away: it is a bit hard to work out exactly where his little backyard was. About Palmers Green, Tottenham, Southgate way: but that doesn't really feel Cockney enough to me. Still it certainly gives Chingford & Hendon to E & W respectively; and Wembley is WNW-ish too...

~M~