Genealogy Chat

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.

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

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

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.