This is an exceptional quality, museum-grade reproduction map which represents an important part of our social history. Social researcher and reformer Charles Booth conducted one of the first surveys to systematically study poverty experienced in the nation's capital. This map - sheet 1 covering Isle of Dogs, Poplar, Surrey Quays and West India Docks - was one of twelve such maps produced in this comprehensive survey. View the above picture to see the modern-day equivalent area which this map covered.
Areas of interest include:
• Millwall Docks • City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery • Stepney Workhouse • Poplar & Stepney Sick Asylum • East India Docks
The detail provided is extensive and shows the conditions in which inhabitants lived in Victorian London. The colour coded key ranges from "Lowest class. Vicious, Semi-criminal", "Very poor, casual. Chronic want" through to "Middle class. Well-to-do" and "Upper-middle and Upper classes. Wealthy"
This is a much sought after work which provides a centrepiece for any room and looks stunning mounted.
