Aubrey Knowles of the Anglo-Italian Family History Society illustrating his talk with historical photographs and maps, Aubrey spoke about the immigrant Italian community that settled in Clerkenwell, East London, at the turn of the 19th Century. His great grandfather was one of them; he was an engineer and worked for the Daily Telegraph in Fleet Street. The Italians turned their hands to a variety of skilled and unskilled jobs such as ice-cream making, furniture importing and spectacle manufacturing. Alongside respectable businessmen there was a notorious mob of criminals known as the Santorini Gang. The area became known as Little Italy and the Italian community was instrumental in the building of St Peter’s Roman Catholic Church. They maintained their links with home by keeping festivals such as the feast of the Madonna of Carmelo every July and with street processions and ‘beating the bounds’.