The following are examples of stories from the digitised section of the Booth collection at the LSE, describing the poverty encountered on walks with police officers in the period of the late 1890's.

Sunday clothes are put into the pawnshops on Monday and retrieved on Saturday from Walk with Inspector William Dyball of the Y or Highgate Police Division, District 16 [Highbury, Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill], 26 and 29 November [1897] in Booth B348, p225-227.

Poverty stricken and vicious looking neighbourhood in Finsbury from Walk with Police Constable R. Machell, District 5 [Old Street, Finsbury and Shoreditch], 3 June [1898] in Booth B353, p41.

Pawnbrokers in Woolwich from Walk with Police Constable Clyne, District 48 [Woolwich], 21 May [1900] in Booth B371, p235.

Decline in Lambeth from Walk with Sergeant E. Scales, District 34 [Lambeth and Kennington], June [1899] in Booth B365, p45.

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.

Children standing in line for soup kitchen Bangor Street from Walk with Sergeant W. Hearn, District 28 [Kensington Town], 1 February 1899 in Booth B359, pp145-147. Transcription: St Agnes soup kitchen, busy, a tail of school children along the pavement. . Girls one side boys the other, about 30 boys and 40 girls waiting to get in, inside was full etc