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    For a brief period in the late 1880s/early 1890s, my granddad and great-grandparents lived in Deptford. The programme certainly demonstrated both a displacement and a retention of local personal heritage once the anchor of place was gone.

    There's a super site here, with the Booth maps and information http://booth.lse.ac.uk/.

    My own family's area is long gone. The maps show for one address that it was a pink classification of "fairly comfortable, good ordinary earnings". In that pink area, though, families were living two to a house on average, three rooms per family, and Booth notes that they were a "very mixed set of people ... all classes". Fascinating.

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