Regent Street proposal, published 1813, titled “PLAN, presented to the House of Commons, of a STREET proposed from CHARING CROSS to PORTLAND PLACE, leading to the Crown Estate in Marylebone Park”.
Children in Spitalfields, London, 1912
Poverty map of Old Nichol slum, East End of London, showing Bethnal Green Road, from Charles Booth’s Labour and Life of the People, 1889
The streets are colored to represent the economic class of the residents: Yellow (“Upper-middle and Upper classes, Wealthy”), red (“Lower middle class - Well-to-do middle class”), pink (“Fairly comfortable good ordinary earnings”), blue (“Intermittent or casual earnings”), and black (“lowest class…occasional labourers, street sellers, loafers, criminals and semi-criminals”)
Letter from the Titanic
This letter written by John Snyder on R.M.S. Titanic stationary was addressed to a proprietor of a London tobacco shop. “While I sit here at the writing desk peacefully and complacently smoking ‘one of your best cigars’ I just want to thank you,” the letter says. It’s dated April 10, 1912. The Titanic struck an iceberg on the evening of April 14, 1912.
London smog, December 1952
London Alphabet, 1850s - part3.
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