Thursday 7 June 2012

BBC - BBC TV blog: The Secret History Of Our Streets

BBC - BBC TV blog: The Secret History Of Our Streets: "Charles Booth's survey of London is the most ambitious social survey ever conducted. Starting in 1886, it took Booth 17 years to visit every one of its tens of thousands of streets.

When he was finished, he'd produced a series of stunning social maps, which colour-code each of London's streets according to the class of its residents - from yellow for the Servant Keepers, all the way down to black, for Vicious and Semi-Criminal."
Drawn map of Deptford High Street, London