Description - Labour and Life of the People Volume 2 by Mr Charles Booth
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... clergyman who took a mission chapel in this district some years ago was astonished to find no ewer than thirty regular communicants, bat it turned out that these people had received most of the alms the mission distributed. He changed the system, and the number attending dropped to two; the others " could get more elsewhere." A hundred and fifty years ago the limits of this district on the north were far in the fields. Through fields the roads ran from St. Mary-le-bone through Tottenham Court to Battle Bridge, where is now King's Cross, and thence to where the " Angel" still guards the northern gates, and on anin through the fields of Finsbury to join the New North Road, which bounded Hoxton on the west, and so southward, skirting Moorfields, to London Wall at Moorgate. Where Great Eastern Street has in recent years been cut through densely packed houses, was then open fields, but Petticoat Lane, alongside of which runs Commercial Street, was doubtless then as now the market for East London, -nd the home of the Israelite. It was not until the end of list century that Lamb's Conduit and White Conduit Fields, extending from Marylebone to Sadler's Wells, were bnilt upon, and the northern limits of London extended as far as those of its central part to-day. At that time the inner ring was less clearly defined than now; for Regent Street did not exist to mark its western boundary, and the line of Oxford Street and Holborn was broken near St. Giles's, where New Oxford Street has since been cut through a mass of small streets. But there was no need to consider the question of inner and outer rings when a measured mile from the river bank covered almost the-whole of London. This area was formerly set about with great religious houses. The ...
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