Charles Booth

Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in London

Charles Booth's Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in London, undertaken between 1886 and 1903, was one of several surveys of working class life carried out in the 19th century. Booth drew up a series of maps, on which streets were coloured to indicate their relative poverty, based on data noted down by members of the Police force.

Those addresses in these pages with a Booth entry are shown below, together with links to the maps and notebooks.

Black: Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal.
Dark Blue: Very poor, casual. Chronic want.
Light Blue: Poor/ 18s to 21s a week for a moderate family.
Purple: Mixed. Some comfortable others poor.
Pink: Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings.
Red: Middle class. Well-to-do.
Yellow: Upper-middle and Upper classes. Wealthy.

Cathnor Street	Purple	map	notebook
Elwood Street	Pink and Purple	map	notebook
Homer Street	Purple to Pink	map	notebook
Isledon Road	Pink and Red	map	notebook
Maygrove Road	Pink	map	notebook
Russell Street	Red	map	notebook
Sherborne Street	Purple	map	notebook
Tunis Road	Pink to Purple	map	notebook
Wyndham Street	Pink	map	notebook

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