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Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 4 002 Send Message	VIVinHERTS	Report	24 Nov 2004 18:31
	Am I safe if I travel with you on Saturday Helen? LOL Viv
	Researching: Researching Tucker in London/Australia. Cliff in U.S.A. Fuller, Eaton & Sa(u)nders(on) in Bedfordshire. Turner, Morley, Blythe & Webb in Cambridgeshire/Suffolk. Want in Hertfordshire.
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	24 Nov 2004 17:28
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	I recently bought a small book called "Criminal Islington" as I have rellies from the area, and it seemed like a useful slice of social history. It was excellent, but I was disappointed there wasn't much detail about Holloway where my rellies lived. However I found an old map which clearly showed where my husband's great-grandmother was born. He was surprised to find that it was in the centre of a "rookery" a place overcrowded with thieves, drunks and prostitutes, and that only 10 years after his gt gran's birth, it was demolished. When I said it had been replaced with social housing from the Peabody Trust he got his A-Z out. A few years ago he worked near Old Street, and had walked passed the Peabody estate regularly, with no idea that his gt gran had lived on that site! nell