On 29 Dec 2015, at 04:40, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for that, Bob. Quite astonishing. He sure packs in the detail. I > wonder if London life really was that congested.
Well, my house is a 2-bedroom terraced property, built in 1896. 70 square metres. When it was built, what is now the bathroom would have been a 3rd bedroom as the toilet would have been outside in the back yard, and the people would have public washrooms. The Booth poverty map describes the street as 'purple', meaning 'very poor, casual chronic want'. A woman living here whom they interviewed, had been here only a short time and had previously lived in a tent. Her family made their living by scavenging tins from rubbish chutes and burning them to make solder. The centre of the street was 6-7 inches deep in mud and the surveyor commented 'what it is like in winter is hard to imagine'. The houses generally had 2 or 3 families living in them. In the 1901 census my house was occupied by one family, consisting of 8 adult males, the adult mother and a daughter of about 8 years old. B > > > -----Original Message----- From: Bob W-PDML > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 1:02 AM > To: Mail List Pentax-Discuss > Subject: OT: Doré's London > > I know engravings aren't photography, but they were pretty close for their > time. I've found this via a link from The Guardian, and what with everyone > feeling Christmassy and Dickensy it feels appropriate. A Victorian Salgado: > > http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/london-illustrations-by-gustave-dor > > Technically, being able to see these on an iPad (i've saved them as pictures) > is a great experience because the detail is magnificent. > > B > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
