Little Green Street

Little Green Street

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History

The street is diminutive, with only eight houses on one side and two on the other. The houses were built in the 1780s, are Grade II listed, and remain one of the few intact Georgian streets in London. There are records of the small, bow-fronted shops selling ribbons and mousetraps, and previous inhabitants include manual workers such as carpenters.

One of the first official mentions of Little Green Street is in the court records of the Old Bailey for 10 July 1805, where Mary Lee, a female servant was fined and sent to the Clerkenwell House of Correction for "simple grand larceny" (theft). [ [http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_sessions/T18050710.html Full proceedings of the Old Bailey for 10th July, 1805] ]

Almost a century later, in 1898 or 1899, Charles Booth, in his survey "Life and Labour of the People in London", gave the following description of Little Green Street: : "Little Green St. (E. side of H. Road) with 8 old-fashioned cottages; 2 st. and 2 plus attics; round projecting windows; small panes of glass; quaint; been done up; decent. Pink. These on N. side. On the S. are 2 or 3 more modern but much worse houses; 2 and 3 st. light blue."

(The colours in this description refer to Booth's poverty classifications. "Light blue" was: "Poor. 18s. to 21s. a week for a moderate family". "Pink" was "Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings.")

External links

* [http://booth.lse.ac.uk/notebooks/b356/jpg/57.html Facsimile of Booth's notebooks from the Charles Booth Online Archive at LSE]
* [http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?sub=view_booth_and_barth&args=528596,185682,2,large,1 Resizeable Victorian map of the area]
* [http://www.littlegreenstreet.com http://www.littlegreenstreet.com]

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