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I've just come across the site Charles Booth Online - he of the London Poverty Maps. This site has a list of the notes from the walks he made around the streets of London, accompanied by a local policeman, when he was researching the maps. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to have transcriptions of the notes, unless I've missed them, only digitised images of the handwritten notes. Which means I'm having difficulty reading his (or his researchers) writing. I'm sure it's fascinating stuff though (even though it is mostly from 1898)....can anyone else decipher the writing?
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Found this site featuring one of the walks, with added contemporary pictures;
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Hi, Joshua Rogan.
That first link is a substantial discovery. As you point out, it is somewhat out of the frame, time wise, but certainly is interesting. When I'm free later tonight I'll see if I can transcribe some of that scratchy hand . ..
Not Booth related but pictorially splendid in illustrating the buildings and streets people made their lives in and from the same Spitalfields site is this - http://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/12/26/the-ghosts-of-old-london/
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