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Examples from the police notebooks
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The following are examples of stories from the digitised section of the Booth collection at the LSE, one for each of the modern boroughs covered by the survey during the late 1890's.
Description of Hampstead Heath from Walk with Inspector Nicholls, District 20 Hampstead, 16 November 1898 in Booth B357, p87.
Arsenal Football Club, Griffen Manor Way Woolwich from Walk with Police Constable Clyne, District 48 [Woolwich], 28 May [1900] in Booth B371, p237. Transcription: Arsenal Football Ground with a grandstand and surrounded by a wooden paling. Crowded in winter. "Sometimes 25,000 onlookers of a Saturday" said Clyne [policeman]. Boys pay 3d and men 6d and 1/- different gates for each price.
British Xylonite Factory, Homerton High Street from Walk with Inspector Thomas Fitzgerald, District 13 [South Hackney and Hackney], 26 July 1897 in Booth B347, p3.
Description of Wormwood Scrubs prison from Walk with Sergeant W. Hearn, District 30 [Hammersmith], 4 February [1898] in Booth B359, p189.
Animals being driven through Islington to the Metropolitan Cattle Market from Walk with Inspector Arthur Mason, District 15 [South West Islington], 11 and 15 November [1897] in Booth B348, p211.
Tramps waiting in line for free dinners in Duke Street, Kensington Town from Walk with Inspector King, District 28 [Kensington Town]., 13 January 1899 in Booth B360, p71.
Decline in Lambeth from Walk with Sergeant E. Scales, District 34 [Lambeth and Kennington], June [1899] in Booth B365, p45.
Description of Blackheath village from Walk with Detective Sergeant Howell, District 48 [Woolwich], 18 October 1898 in Booth B372, p69-71.
Charges for prostitutes in Southwark from Walk with H. Barton, District 31 [Lambeth and St Saviour's Southwark], 17 May [1899] in Booth B363, p151.
Reputation of Bryant and May Matchgirls from Walk with Inspector Carter, District 12 [Bow and Bromley], 1 June [1897] in Booth B346, p75-77. Transcription: Bryant and May have a rough set of girls. There are 2000 of them when they are busy. Rough and rowdy but not bad morally.
Women drinking in Putney from Walk with Police Constable Mullett, District 39 [Wandsworth and Putney], November 1899 in Booth B370, p159. Transcription: "In speaking of drink [Police Constable] Mullett said that he was convinced that the lower class of poor such as are found in most of the blue steets of Putney drink as much as they did 20 years ago and the women a great deal more. On Saturday nights he says you will always meet two drunken women for one drunken man in the poor quarters off [Putney] High Street"
Description of Downing Street during the prime ministership of the Marquess of Salisbury from Walk with Inspector Stratton, of the A police division, District 2 [Strand and St Giles], District 25 [St Margaret and Belgrave], 7 February 1899 in Booth B360, p183. Where it describes houses being "coloured yellow" this refers to the classification used as the colour scheme for the poverty maps.
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