A talk by Mike Steele. Presented in the 8th Stoke Newington History Talks event, Nov 14th, 2018 in St Matthias Halls, Stoke Newington.

1. A talk by Mike Steele
Charles Booth's 1897 poverty map:
The Stoke Newington notes

2. The beginning
My daughter Jessica
My granddaughter Eve

3. While studying in the London School of Economics, Jessica
came across the notebooks of three men who did the
research for Charles Booth for what became his 17-volume
“Life and Labour of the people in London” published
1889-1903

4. Meeting Phil Mernick, Chairman of the East London History
Society

5. In early 2018, the East London
History Society very kindly funded
the publication of the notes covering
East London

6. All the leg work for Charle’s Booth survey of
East and North London was carried out by
one man: George Duckworth.
From 1892 to 1902, Duckworth acted as
secretary (without pay) to
the philanthropist Charles Booth

7. He was knighted in 1927
Duckworth did all 68 walks in East and North
London between May 1897 and June 1898.

8. Duckworth was almost always accompanied
by a police officer whose job was to protect
him in rough areas but more importantly for
the project to give a great deal of local
information

9. Booth divided London up
into seven different
categories from
rich to poor

10. Chapted 11 is an area which
we decided to call the Far
North. According to Booth
this was the most prosperous
area.

11. How I got to be here tonight
1899 - Suffragettes outside Stoke Newington Station?

12. Stoke Newington

13. Stoke Newington
Paradise
Row
Church Row

14. Barn Street Church Row, Church Street
1min
walk
Now the site of the Town Hall

15. In an area between Evering Road, Downs Road and the railway line
known as Navvies Island "the roughest quarter of the district but much
better than it used to be" are the Rendlesham Rooms, a mission place
with an announcement of a meeting "for the band of Christian police"

16. “Jenners Mews a ramshackle stabling place for horses
and carts. Stellman Street has 8 shops and a beer
shop. ‘The shopping place of the district’”.

17. “Stoke Newington is very healthy and has a great reputation.
Nearly all the houses are small, it is very seldom that you will find
any of them empty.”

18. “Barn Street is a poor street, 2-storey, Purple (Mixed. Some
comfortable some poor) to Light Blue (poor). No trouble to the
police, all the children with boots on.”

19. “Then down Milton St to Howard Rd. Purple (poor). Working
class. Some 3rd rate shops. 3 public houses and 2 beer houses,
these last an almost sure sign that there are some poor streets in
the neighbourhood.”