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

Religious influences in Holloway from Walk with Inspector Mountfield, District 17 [upper Holloway], 21 December [1897] in Booth B349, p201.

Church service at All Saints Church, Ripon Road, Woolwich from Account of a service at All Saints Church, Ripon Road, Woolwich, Sunday 28 May [1900] in Booth B371, pp225-227. Transcription: About 250 people present at service. Church not quite half full, but looked fairly well filled. Middle and upper class congregation; top hats and black coats

Unfinished church Holy Innocents with Gymnasium and soup kitchen, Dalling Road, Hammersmith from Walk with Sergeant Stevens, District 30 [Hammersmith], 24 February [1899] in Booth B361, p63.



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