Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
charles Booth - social researcher and reformer
Most famed for his innovative work on documenting working class life in London at the end of the 19th centuary Charles Booth was an English social researcher and reformer.
I find his social maps fascinating.
Does anyone know if he documented on a map the social status of any areas in Haringey? Ive looked everywhere and can't find them - I've watched all the BBC documentaries but i can't seem to find anything on Haringey.
btw If anyone wants to watch the documentaries i really recommend them - there available on youtube.
Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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If I'm reading the 1898-99 mapping correctly, the closest he got to Harringay was Brownswood Road/Lordship Park off Green Lanes just south of the old pumping station, now the rock climbing centre. When he started out in 1886 little of Harringay was built. As for modern-day Haringey, the map just about includes Finsbury Park station, but the nearby houses surveyed are now in Islington or Hackney - you can see the park entrance, that's all.
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Permalink Reply by Peter on
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Thanks, thats interesting, I find it fasinating how maps can tell stories of the past!
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Permalink Reply by Betty Careless on
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They have a giant Booth map in the Museum of London and I'm fairly certain it covers the Ladder (I might be wrong but I have a dim memory of finding my road on it).
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thanks - must go and visit this... i assume its an original? sounds interesting
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It's a copy of the original which has been blown up to cover a wall - its downstairs in the the 'modern' galleries. i'm hoping that i am right though - as I said its a while since I saw it and I may have mis-remembered
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This earlier1889 map [link] on Wikimedia Commons shows the percentage of poverty within areas (rather than individual streets on the 1898 maps at the online Booth archive) and goes further north than the digitized mapping but the only section of modern-day Harringay covered would be Hermitage Road/Eade Road, if they were even built then.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Hi, this is all really interesting. I am not sure Booth's maps come this far north. I am sure you will have seen the online map. I think they stop just shy, somewhere near Fins Park.
What I can tell you that may be interesting is my wife Emma Guest (nee Booth) is one of Charles Booth's ancestors (I believe a (great...) grand daughter of the man). Sadly we do not have much of his archive here but at least there is still a link to North London through the generations. It is not something she shouts much about, but I find it fascinating, hope she will not be mad with me for sharing this!!!
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