Any recommendations on a book of Victorian London , particularly Holborn/Grays Inn Road area

[seasider7]

something to compliment Charles Booth's work would be wonderful.

Thanks

[Harry Balls]

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli ng/2005/10/london_is_a_dum.html (http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2005/10/london_is_a_dum.html)

[Ashberto]

Oliver Twist a bit more Clerkenwell but features Field Lane & Hatton Gardens. Bleak House has Lincoln's Inn. Old Curiosity shop was actually sited (not the fake tourist attraction) in slums demolished to build Kingsway.

Perhaps you didn't mean fiction. John Richardson's excellent history of Camden includes the old parish of Holborn.

[Ashberto]

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45243

That actual link (quickly nabbed from my bookmarks) is for an area just north of the top of Grays Inn road but if you browse around on there you might find info on the areas you're after.

[seasider7]

I shall have to refresh myself with Bleak House.

I wasn't aware of Richardson's work, so will attempt to obtain.

My genealogical research has been very interesting, but I want to continue adding more to my research than just names and numbers; I want to visualize the life they had.

:thumbup:

[seasider7]

[seasider7]

There's some wonderful old Victorian footage of Strand, Covent Garden/Holborn on YouTube. Some of the streets my ancestors lived are now under/replaced by LSE, making research harder.

Thanks for the continuing help!

[Ashberto]

Apparently another had a dairy on Tottenham Court Road and kept cows on Hampstead Heath. The Booth maps are very interesting.

I don't know if you've checked out the Stanford maps:

http://www.motco.com/map/81006/
and
http://www.mappalondon.com/

Oh, and there's this:

http://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm

[seasider7]

1865 my Great Grandfather was born there.

He later moved to Northampton Road, Clerkenwell, and another couple of addresses close by.

That is a wonderful to hear of farm animals being kept on Hampstead Heath, how times have changed. My Great Grandfather later lived for several years in Covent Garden area, just a few doors away from a pub where my old girlfriend was the Manager. I walked past his old door hundreds of times without ever knowing.

[seasider7]

[Ashberto]

Clerkenwell too for me. Great-grandmother, Clarence Place, now Hull Road, off Lever St. 1881

[Ashberto]

[Ashberto]

Both of these painting from the first half of the 19th C, I think.

http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2006BH/2006BH7614.jpg

http://www.hampsteadheath.net/files/john-macpherson-,-cattle-on-hampstead-heath,-1870-s.jpg

[seasider7]

[seasider7]

[eastgermanautos]

[Ashberto]

[Ashberto]

was originally called Midden Lane - because it was, literally, the site of a ****heap. It was for hundreds of years the borders of the ancient parishes of Islington and St Pancras (and still today the border of the boroughs of Islington and Camden) and perhaps because it was the edge of both communities, everyone dumped their rubbish there. The area has been down-at-heel ever since, until now when a huge development north of Kings Cross, on the site of the old goods yard, attempts to drag it to prosperity.

I've no idea whether the Covent Garden Maiden Lane was ever a midden though.

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In fact, it was, as the southern border of the Convent Garden.

http://www.corpuschristimaidenlane.org.uk/history/

another nice map, Cross 1861 :

http://mapco.net/cross1861/cross27.htm