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The Secret History Of Our Streets

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MR_MAGOO

MR_MAGOO Report 5 Jun 2012 13:32

BBC 2 Wed 9pm............6 programmes.

Charles Booth’s vast 1886 Survey of London ranked each one of London's streets according to the class of its residents. In a major series for BBC Two, in partnership with The Open University, The Secret History Of Our Streets returns to six of those streets to discover how their fortunes have ebbed and flowed over the last 125 years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2012/23/the-secret-history-of-our-streets.html

MR_MAGOO

MR_MAGOO Report 5 Jun 2012 13:52

The streets are................not in order of showing.

Reverdy Road in Bermondsey,
Deptford High Street,
Arnold Circus in Shoreditch,
Caledonian Road in Islington,
Portland Road near Notting Hill
Camberwell grove

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 5 Jun 2012 13:58

I have this set up on my Sky+ - set it up about 2 weeks ago.

Cannot wait

I do hope the chap doing this will produce a book

Will be reallyl interesting - have heard that the Deptford one is very good.

Know 3 of the six quite well - the South London ones
Have been down Caledonian Road
Have a good idea of Notting Hill (some family lived in the area)
But nothing about Shoreditch. Although I think that is the area where Petticoat Lane is, so might recognise some.

Love programmes like this, no matter what part of the country they are set in.

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

MR_MAGOO

MR_MAGOO Report 5 Jun 2012 14:05

There is a book..........

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Secret-History-Our-Streets/dp/1849904502

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 5 Jun 2012 19:31

Thanks, now off to spend some money!!!!

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 5 Jun 2012 20:07

Phil Moire works not very far from Arnold Circus ...
;-)

Researching:
The Man In the High Castle