Genealogy Chat

The Corporation of London has an extensive on-line gallery of artworks and photographs, mostly of London buildings, landmarks and streets from years gone by. Images can be viewed and prints - hard copies or digital images - ordered on-line or by post at reasonable cost. The service is very quick and the quality excellent. I was able to find a painting of my 3xgt-grandparents family home near the Strand and an old photograph of my gt-grandmother's street in Hackney from the early 20th century. Web address (remove brackets) http://collage.cityoflondon.(gov).uk As mentioned in an earlier message, the Charles Booth archive held by the London School of Economics, is a great resource. Booth walked London's streets between 1886 and 1903 to create a social map, describing in detail the levels of poverty (or wealth) from street to street. He kept notebooks and drew colour-coded maps to represent his findings. A full index and introduction are on-line at http://booth.(lse).ac.uk/ (remove brackets). The maps can be viewed with the same Djavu system used by 1837 on-line.

I love the prints page Darryl. Will have to go back another time or I will be here all day!! One for the favourites I think. Thanks for the tip, Jean

Lots of London streets have changed their names and can be very difficult to identify. Try this site: http://members.(aol).(com)/WHall95037/londonc.html ( remove brackets ) for lost London streets Brenda

To follow up Brenda's helpful web site link, it's perhaps worth mentioning that the on-line images of Charles Booth's maps are shown side by side with a modern map of the same area, so you can more easily identify streets that have be renamed or which have been lost to redevelopment.