Maps of Hackney

Maps of Hackney

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Charles Booth's 'Descriptive Map of London Poverty'. Detail showing the City of London and the East End

The East End of London is the hell of poverty. Like one enormous black, motionless giant kraken, the poverty of London lies there in lurking silence and encircles with its mighty tentacles the life and wealth of the City. So wrote J H Mackay in 1891. It was acknowledged that the blame lay with overcrowded housing and with a surplus of labour, which kept wages low for those lucky enough to find work. Statistics for 1888 showed that the East End had 8,465 official paupers - people 'living rough'. According to Charles Booth's survey in 1889, over a third of its inhabitants lived on or below the margin of poverty. His 17-volume survey included this coloured-coded map indicating London's poverty and prosperity street by street. The key to the colours used is as follows: Gold: Upper-middle and Upper classes.Wealthy. Red: Well-to-do. Middle-class. Pink: Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earning. Purple: Mixed. Some comfortable, others poor. Pale Blue: Poor. 18s. to 21s. a week for moderate family Dark blue: Very poor, casual. Chronic want. Black: Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal. Booth, Charles
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London NE.

1 : 15840 Stanford, Edward
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Handy Reference Atlas of London

Edinburgh : John Bartholomew & Co.,
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Insurance Plan of London North & North-East District Vol. E: Key Plan

1 : 21120 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1899 series of fire insurance maps of London that were originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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London VII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Militärgeographische Angaben über England.

Generalstab des Heeres, Abteilung für Kriegskarten u. Vermessungswesen IV. Mil.-Geo
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The Jew in London. A study of racial character and present-day conditions.

Arkill, G.E. T. Fisher Unwin
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An Actual Survey of the Parish of St. Leonard in Shoreditch, Middlesex, taken in the Year 1745 by Peter Chassereau. 4

1 : 3000 Plan of the parish of St. Leonard in Shoreditch with title in cartouche at top left, compass at top right, scale bar at bottom centre and key to streets, courts, alleys, squares etc. in table at lower right. Each field in the parish is shown with the name of the landlord or tenant and the dimensions. Chassereau
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A NEW PLAN of the CITY of LONDON and BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK, Exhibiting all the New Streets & Roads &c. Not extant in any other Plan.

1 : 14080 Thomas Jeffreys was an exceptional cartographer and publisher whose productions included maps of North America, considered to be among the finest of the time.This map of the City of London and the Borough of Southwark shows important buildings such as the Tower of London and St Paul's in plan form, differing from many earlier examples, which show them in elevation. It is dedicated to the Right Honourable Lord Mayor Aldermen and to the Commissioners of the Sewers, Lamps and Pavements. Jeffreys, Thomas
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Newcourt's 'Map of London', detail showing the East End

Richard Newcourt’s map, made in 1658, represents the first complete survey of London since the 1550s. It shows the City and its surrounding countryside in the closing years of the Commonwealth. Though most buildings are depicted in a conventionalised way, the map gives some idea of the actual appearance of more important places, such as churches and livery halls. The inclusion of their coats of arms in the map's decoration suggests the Livery Companies may have commissioned Newcourt's work. The map provides a fairly accurate picture of the development of the City's eastern suburbs, already spreading along the roads that reached out across the countryside towards the surrounding villages. As well as being the docklands of London, this was the area where the first native English school of chartmaking, the so-called 'Thames School', was getting underway at the very time this map was made. Newcourt, Richard
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Essex LXXIII.SW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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PLAN FOR LAYING OUT THE PROPOSED Eastern Park TO BE CALLED VICTORIA PARK

1 : 4320 The title and imprint of the proposed park in Hackney with title appear at top centre,with a scale bar at bottom centre. The plan was commissioned by the House of Commons and issued in the 18th report of the Commission of Wood, Forests and Land Revenues. The project of a public park in the East End of London was financed by the sale of York House in St. James, Piccadilly. The park, designed by Pennethorne, opened to the public in 1845. Chawner, Thomas
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PLAN of the CITY ROAD

1 : 4800 Survey of the City Road, London, from the Angel Inn in Islington to Finsbury Square with title and imprint at top left, compass in the centre, scale bar at bottom right and note on paving of Finsbury Square at lower right. Wickings, W.
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Insurance Plan of London Vol. xi Regent's Canal and Vicinity: Key Plan 3

1 : 4800 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1891 series of fire insurance maps of London that were originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.4 (includes: Bethnal Green; Hackney; Poplar Borough) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (Edition of 1894-96) XLI (includes: Bethnal Green; Hackney; Poplar Borough) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (First Editions c1850s) XIX (includes: Bethnal Green; Hackney; Poplar Borough) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.8 (includes: Bethnal Green; Hackney; Poplar Borough; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (Edition of 1894-96) LII (includes: Bethnal Green; Hackney; Poplar Borough; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (First Editions c1850s) XXVIII (includes: Bethnal Green; Hackney; Poplar Borough; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.12 (includes: Bermondsey; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (First Editions c1850s) XXXVII (includes: Bermondsey; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.3 (includes: Hackney; Islington; Shoreditch; Stoke Newington) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (Edition of 1894-96) XL (includes: Hackney; Islington; Shoreditch; Stoke Newington) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (First Editions c1850s) XVIII (includes: Hackney; Islington; Shoreditch; Stoke Newington) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.7 (includes: Bethnal Green; Shoreditch; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (Edition of 1894-96) LI (includes: Bethnal Green; Shoreditch; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (First Editions c1850s) XXVII (includes: Bethnal Green; Shoreditch; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.11 (includes: Bethnal Green; London; Shoreditch; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Insurance Plan of London Vol. xi: sheet 372-1

1 : 480 This detailed 1891 plan of London is one of a series of forty seven sheets in an atlas originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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