Bluegate Fields

Bluegate Fields was one of the worst slum areas that once existed just north of the east London docks during the Victorian era. Two streets in the area had actually been named Bluegate Fields at different times: present-day Dellow Street.
The area is visited by the eponymous character in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and inspired a scene in The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens. It also features in Arthur Morrison's novel The Hole In The Wall, published 1902 but set in an earlier decade. It is referenced in the title of a song by Marc Almond. It provided the title for Anne Perry's mystery novel Bluegate Fields, published in 1984.