Descriptive map of London Poverty Section 26 1889

Descriptive map of London Poverty Section 26 1889Section 26 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty, 1889, compiled and hand coloured by Charles Booth and assistants. The section covers the area between Great Saffron Hill in the North West; White Horse Court in the North East; the Thames in the South East and Corn Wharf in the South West.

This print shows Somerset House from the south and Waterloo Bridge

The Huguenot refugees who arrived in the 1680s used it as their first place of worship

looking east towards St Clement Danes church

Essex Buildings

with its eight huge windows and light suspension bridge that connected it with buildings on east side of the street

Tracey Emin and Yinka Shonibare were among the artists who agreed to have their portraits taken for this book

Negative number: 7876

Equity and Comradeship

each with a different theme and all with their own musicians

He holds a CBE for services to literature

During a night raid of the Blitz on London on 10 January 1941

with the backs of warehouses in the foreground