Contemporary maps & photos

[DGB]

One of my favourite threads on the forum is 'East End Photographs and Drawings'. However, I can find it a little monolithic now it runs to over 200 pages.

Therefore I'm proposing a thread featuring maps and photos contemporary to the crimes (say 1880 - 1900). Which could then form some sort of community repository to supplement the photo archive.

I'll kick things off (mostly maps from me).

[The Grave Maurice]

Good idea. I love maps.

[Ginger]

It's nice to have these collected all in one spot. Might I ask, though - the 'D' and 'S' which appear on the buildings - what do those stand for?

-Ginger

[Monty]

Hi Ginger,

D is for Dwellings

S is for Shops.

S & D is Shops and Dwellings.

Cheers
Monty

[DVV]

Excellent idea for a thread, DGB.
I'm longing (for years) for a contemporary map that would take all ripper sites into account, including the non-canonical cases (Mile End and the South Grove Workhouse, Maidman Street, Burdett Road where Smith has been seen at around midnight, etc etc).

[Carol]

Hello DGB,
Great idea! At the moment I'm ploughing through East End Photographs and Drawings and really enjoying myself in the process, but I have wished that we could also have the 'old stuff' together on a special thread.
Carol

[lynn cates]

welcome

Hello DGB. Thanks for posting this. Welcome to the boards.

This is very helpful. Formerly, I'd have to reread Sugden if I needed a map.

Cheers.
LC

[Ginger]

D is for Dwellings

S is for Shops.

Thanks!

[Carol]

Hello DGB,

I forgot to thank you yesterday for posting the maps and also to say:

Welcome to Casebook! I hope you will really enjoy yourself.

Carol

[DrHopper]

I like this thread! Great idea.

[The Grave Maurice]

We didn't scare DGB off, did we?

[Bridewell]

Thanks for these, DGB - a very useful addition. Welcome to the boards as well.

Does anyone know anything about the flight of stairs which seem to be shown at the closed end of Dutfields Yard? Probably not significant, but I don't recall hearing of them before.

Regards, Bridewell

[Monty]

Hey Bridewell.

Its the offices for Der Arbeter Fraint.

Monty

[Bridewell]

What are the blue circles on the Mitre Square map? I'd have thought street lights, but they look too large - unless they're not to scale.

[Monty]

Fire hydrants Bridewell,

Monty