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    • CommentAuthorAli
    • CommentTimeMar 11th 2008
     
    If you go to

    http://www.old-maps.co.uk/indexmappage2.aspx

    you can see old maps of Stoud Green. You may have to search on post code etc but you should be able to see an 1876 map with only the left hand side walking up actually built on. The likes of Victoria Rd, Florrence look like either fields or marked out plots for building houses etc

    Interesting now we have curent trend on history
    • CommentAuthorGiles
    • CommentTimeMar 11th 2008
     
    There have definitely been more posts on biscuits than history...

    One of the facts in "History of Hornsey" was that in the mid 19th century the population density was 1.6 people per acre.
    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeMar 11th 2008
     
    aladgodfrey maps have some good OS maps from 1879/96ish

    interesting to see how it was before the bombs fell
    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     

    http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55128&sheetid=5431&ox=1685&oy=2500&zm=1&czm=1&x=399&y=130

    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     
    http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55128&sheetid=5431&ox=1685&oy=2500&zm=1&czm=1&x=399&y=130
    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     
    I think I need a master class in how to paste a link. Why did no one prepare me for the modern world?
    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008 edited
     
    <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22518>


    a bit heavy going, but with luck you may find reference to the road you live on.
    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     
    http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?sub=view_booth_and_barth&m.l=0&m.d.l=0&m.p.x=8056&m.p.y=2278&m.p.w=500&m.p.h=309&m.p.l=0&m.move.down.x=9&m.move.down.y=9&m.t.w=128&m.t.h=80&b.p.x=13568&b.p.y=115&b.p.w=500&b.p.h=309&b.p.l=1

    this one shows Charles Booth's poverty map in 1899. The street parallel to Fonthill Road, now no more as it was cleared, was slum housing and full of the lowest forms of Victorian life.

    we are just at the end of the map as he didn't get any further out

    apparently, he had to have police protection when he visited the really rough areas.
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     

    Is 'Charles Booth' Busby's real name then?

    • CommentAuthorGiles
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     

    Geoff - are you my Dad? He was talking about Booth's poverty map yesterday. I'd never heard of it before then.

    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     
    @ Andy Hmm, I don't know.

    Is his name Geoff?

    How old is he?

    Were we talking on the phone, or was it in the pub?

    I have so many children I find it hard to keep track of the Andys.

    @ Giles You are a magician.
    • CommentAuthorGiles
    • CommentTimeMar 20th 2008
     
    @Geoff You were almost there with
    <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22518>

    All you needed to do to turn that into
    http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22518
    was to click the Format comments as Markdown button below.
    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeMar 21st 2008
     
    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeMar 21st 2008
     

    Awesome.

    I am now a fully fledged link poster!

    How on earth could I have remained ignorant for so long!

    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeMar 22nd 2008
     
    There's an exhibition of old postcards and photos of Finsbury Park being held in Finsbury Park today. Apparently, there is now an arts centre in the park. If this rain/sleet/snow abates I may take a gander down there.
    • CommentAuthorflembo
    • CommentTimeMar 22nd 2008
     
    I've been to the exhibition but luckily before the fun weather. You get given a coloured sticker to put on a map to show where you live.

    Campbell Road was the rough road and it was renamed and is now the street Whadcote Street.

    Has anyone ever done any history regarding the house/flat they live in? The furthest I've got is back is 1891. It's interesting when you see domestic servants and managers of business on the census. I wish I lived of my own means as well as the owner of 1901. I'm assuming my house was built between 1881 and 1891 as it's not on the 1881 census but the other side of the street is.
    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2008
     

    When we moved in the original lease was framed on the wall. The house was built by 1876 by a builder who lived in the last house on the left before you get to the park along Oxford Road.

    It cost about £500 for the 99 year lease which sounds like a lot of money to me.

    We also found lots of old newspapers stuck to the cellar walls which dated from 1907 - talking about the Kaiser and the Moors in Africa.

    Odd to think that we were the first people to read them for over 100 years and that the First World War hadn't happened by then. Truly a different world.

    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeMar 23rd 2008
     

    Also, I did have a map showing where the bomb damage was after WWII. I think the Germans were trying to bomb the North London railway - i.e. the Crouch Hill line.

    I had heard rumours as well that there was an Italian POW camp where the new building for the Islington Arts and Media school is, and that many people stayed in the area after the war. Maybe that is why we have such thriving pizzerias.

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