This former Organ Builder's workshop is located in Italian Hill, its boundaries are recognised as Clerkenwell Road, Farringdon Road and Rosebery Avenue. As well as the Italian church of St Peter’s, there are several local shops and services run by members of the Italian community, including a scuola guida (driving school) for those who want to drive like an Italian, but the number of these premises is declining. The greatest concentration of Italians in the area was around the end of the nineteenth century. Before this, the Saffron Hill vicinity had been notorious for the pickpockets and fences portrayed in Oliver Twist and the authorities were glad to see these supplanted by the more respectable Italians.
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