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.
Camden
Description of Hampstead Heath
from Walk with Inspector Nicholls, District 20 Hampstead, 16 November 1898
in Booth B357, p87.
Greenwich
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.
Hackney
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.
Hammersmith and Fulham
Description of Wormwood Scrubs prison
from Walk with Sergeant W. Hearn, District 30 [Hammersmith], 4 February [1898]
in Booth B359, p189.
Islington
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.
Kensington and Chelsea
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.
Lambeth
Decline in Lambeth
from Walk with Sergeant E. Scales, District 34 [Lambeth and Kennington], June [1899]
in Booth B365, p45.
Lewisham
Description of Blackheath village
from Walk with Detective Sergeant Howell, District 48 [Woolwich], 18 October 1898
in Booth B372, p69-71.
Southwark
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.
Tower Hamlets
Reputation of Bryant and May Matchgirls
from Walk with Inspector Carter, District 12 [Bow and Bromley], 1 June [1897]
in Booth B346, pp75-77.
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.
Wandsworth
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"
Westminster
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.
Examples of descriptions of boroughs
