Incidentally, these two Victorian roads meet at Cambridge Circus, which I find to be the most confusing location in central London. It is the one and only spot in the West End where I still feel ...

At the end of the 19th century, however, some local authorities did start to build council housing, which offered a new solution to the problem of housing the poor. Next Previous Published: 2004-11-04 ...

Charles Booth's London. A cat’s meat man outside a poor home in the East End, c. 1901. These men travelled the streets with their barrows, selling leftover scraps of meat from slaughterhouses as ...