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Map of London Poverty, Brockley, 1890

Map of London Poverty, Brockley, 1890

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By the 1890s the fields of Brockley in Deptford had been covered by the middle class housing of the Wickham Drake estate.

The fact that some of the residents were very wealthy is indicated by the yellow colouring of two streets on this map, designed to indicate riches and poverty.

In Brockley in Lewisham, by this time beginning to be called Crofton Park after the station, development was only just starting.

Charles Booth, Descriptive Map of London Poverty, 1900.


< Historical Maps of the London Borough of Lewisham

 
Historical maps of Lewisham
 
Map of New Cross, c. 1743
 
Map of Sydenham, c. 1797
Sydenham, c. 1797
 
Map of Southend, 1930
 
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