Descriptive map of London Poverty Section 29 1889 H. Merke cultural and political changes within

cultural and political changes within those communities which have fundamentally transformed the city

piled stacks of timber and jetty for rubbish disposal are also shown in the painting

This is the prime version of the work

The panorama is similar to Canaletto's views of London from the same vantage point

George Davison Reid photographed this uniformed messenger boy crossing Fleet Street

Descriptive map of London Poverty Section 29 1889 H. Merke cultural and political changes withinSection 29 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty, 1889, compiled and hand coloured by Charles Booth and assistants. The section covers the area between Northampton Street in the North West; Friendly Street in the North East; the Thames in the South East and New Gravel Lane in the South West. The districts covered are Wapping and Stepney.