Italians come to England "Little Italy"

[PastPresentFuture]

Hello,

Is there anyone else researching the italians who came to england in 1800's to set up home in London otherwise known as "Little Italy".

I would be very interested in any information

Kind regards

[Dancing Master]

There was also a "Little Italy" in Liverpool,  I have recently seen a book about it including photographs

[cathaldus]

And in Ancoats, Manchester!!

[PastPresentFuture]

Yes i have found lots on up north and not as much on clerkenwell london. It must of been very scary for them to be leaving there homes to come to big cities!!!

[dawnsh]

St Peter's (Italian) Church in Clerkenwell is stunning

http://www.italianchurch.org.uk/index.aspx

The history page is quite interesting

http://www.italianchurch.org.uk/The_History.html

Dawn

[PastPresentFuture]

Hi Dawn, thank you very much i do hope to visit it soon

Kind regards

[Suffolk Mawther]

My dad grew up in Hammersmith and there were several Italian families close by, all involved with ice cream making.

He said he had two good friends who were known by all the other children as DoyDoy and Troddon, never did know what their real Italian names were 

Certainly there are families in Ipswich who have been making ice cream in Suffolk for over a hundred years.

Guess the area around the brickworks in Befordshire has the greatest concentration of Italian families today.

Auguri cari a tutti,

Pat ...

[dragongirl]

The Italians certainly came to Wales  and set up  many a successful  catering business and only returned to italy on retirement.
 In the 50/60s a lot of italians were shipped in to help with
the foundries and steel works. They were mainly short  term  workers   2/3 years Of course some married and settled down/

[coombs]

Holborn and Clerkenwell was the Little Italy of London. When I was trawling through the 1881 census returns for Leather Lane once to work out the geographic location of No 69 I saw many inhabitants were Italians.