Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Whitechapel, London.

1838		R. Nicholson Cockney Adventures 10 Feb. 119: Here’s them ere flats as we had the lark with in the ’Chapel this morning.
1853		Bell’s Life in Sydney 26 Nov. 2/7: ’I am a Jew what travelled has from Poland to the Lane, / And s’elp mine heart, I vish the ’Chapel I could see again’.
1883		press cutting in J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 110/1: You only know me, maties, in Ditch parlours and Chapel bagatelle rooms.
1885		M. Davitt Leaves from a Prison Diary I 152: I was jogging down a blooming slum in the Chapel when I butted a reeler who was sporting a red slang.