Descriptive map of London Poverty Section 9 1889

Descriptive map of London Poverty Section 9 1889Section 9 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty, 1889, compiled and hand coloured by Charles Booth and assistants. The section covers the area between Clarence Road in the North West; Glyn Road in the North East; Crawley Road in the South East and Fremont Street in the South West. The districts covered are Clapton and Homerton.

Waterloo Bridge and the Lambeth Waterfront from Westminster Stairs

London Landscape by James Fitton

The 'Prisoner's Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health Act' of 1913 meant that imprisoned suffragettes on hunger-strike could be released because of ill-health

The districts covered are De Beauvoir and South Hackney

thousands gathered in Trafalgar Square for an anti-Nazi rally

The government issued this propaganda poster urging women to join the Women's Land Army during the Second World War

When children were evacuated out of London during the Second World War

the reader is drawn into an extraordinary world

Two years later he collaborated with the journalist

1847 Endicott (staff photographer PLA)

with two ladies of the town on his arms

Dace Road in the South East and Victoria Park in the South West