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Maps Descriptive of London Poverty: hand coloured, 1894-1899

60 sheets of 25 inch Ordnance Survey second edition base maps 1894-1896 for the County of London area.
These are the working maps created by Charles Booth and his team of social investigators used during the period c1894-1899. They are hand coloured and use the 1897 Ordnance Survey 1:2500 maps as their base.

The maps are colour coded. The colour classifications are as follows:
Black indicates lowest class. Vicious, semi criminal.
Dark blue indicates very poor, casual. Chronic want.
Light blue indicates poor. 18 shillings to 21 shillings a week for a moderate family.
Purple indicates mixed. Some comfortable, others poor.
Pink indicates fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings.
Red indicates middle class. Well to do.
Yellow indicates upper-middle and upper classes. Wealthy.

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Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 20 - Stroud Green, Ferme Park, Finsbury Park

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 18 - Turner's Wood, Bishop's Wood and Ken Wood [Hampstead Heath]

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 19 - Highgate, Shepherd's Hill, Crouch Hall Park, Waterlow Park

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 21 - Stamford Hill, Walthamstow Marshes (part), Upper Clapton

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 22 - Walthamstow Marshes

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 26 - Cricklewood, Child's Hill, Fortune Green

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 27 - Hampstead Heath, Rosslyn Park

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 28 - Parliament Hill, Dartmouth Park, Upper Holloway, [Gospel Oak], Tufnell Park

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 29 - Upper Holloway, South Hornsey, Islington, Lower Holloway and Highbury

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 30 - Stoke Newington, South Hornsey, Clissold Park, Clapton and Hackney Downs

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 31 - Leyton Marshes, Lower Clapton, Hackney, Hackney Marsh and Clapton Park

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 36 - Brondesbury, Willesden Green and Kilburn

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 37 - South Hampstead, Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage and Primrose Hill

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 38 - Primrose Hill, Kentish Town, St Pancras

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 39 - Barnsbury, Canonbury, Highbury Fields

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 40 - Ball's Pond, Kingsland, Dalston, De Beauvoir Town, Hackney London Fields

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 41 - Hackney Wick, Homerton, Victoria Park, South Hackney

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 45 - Walworth

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 48 - Maida Vale, St John's Wood, Westbourne Green, St Marylebone

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 48 - West Kilburn, Kensal New Town, Kensal Green, Queen's Park

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 49 - Marylebone, Regent's Park, Euston, St Pancras, Somers Town

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 50 - St Pancras, Clerkenwell, King's Cross, Pentonville, [Finsbury]

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 52 - Bethnal Green, Victoria Park, Globe Town, Old Ford, Bow, Tower Hamlets

Hand Coloured Map Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-1899 Sheet 53 - West Ham, Mill Meads, Bromley, Bow