Genealogy Chat

I have just been watching an old episode of "Who do you think you are" and they referred to Booth's Poverty Map, so I checked it out and this is a map of all the streets in London in 1898/9, coloured to show how prosperous or how poor the street was at the time.

You can access it on the internet (just google Booth Poverty Map) and if you have ancestors in London you can look at the street they lived in and find out how poor or wealthy they were.

I wasn't aware of this map at all, so I have posted it in case anyone else would find it useful - off to look at all my London ancestor's addresses now.

Thank you for that. Just had a look - how interesting - thankfully mine weren't living in the "viscious" area where the only luxury was drink!

Karen.

just had a look and my family were well to do!! Not sure what happened over the years??

I just looked and my family were quite well to do when they ran a beer house in a street in Walworth, SE London in 1878 which was coloured red, but they moved to Holborn at the end of that year due to falling on hard times and lived in a street that was coded purple, meaning poor.

Its amazing how people can go from riches to rags. I did guess that from their Dec 1878 application for poor relief. There were 6 children involved as well.

Ben

Thanks for the tip ...will go and take a look.



nicky