http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/list/1 EN Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:19:21 +0000 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:19:21 +0000 SE1 Discussion Phorum 5.1.6 600 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/54947/54949#msg-54949 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Lang Rabbie)
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/notebooks/b365/jpg/171.html

[url=http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?sub=view_booth_and_barth&m.l=0&m.d.l=0&m.p.x=9757&m.p.y=8450&m.p.w=500&m.p.h=309&m.p.l=0&m.t.w=128&m.t.h=80&b.p.x=16808&b.p.y=11870&b.p.w=500&b.p.h=309&b.p.l=1&b.p.p.l=2&b.v.x=312&b.v.y=103]On his Poverty map[/url] Mardyke Street and Crosslet street appear as two short pairs of black lines on the north side of Townsend Street as "Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal".

There would have been some slum clearance going on by the 1920s, so you would need to check the street directories etc in Southwark local history library to confim whether Westminster House was one of the nineteenth century blocks or one of the replacement blocks constructed by the council.

Everything in the area that wasn't blitzed was swept away in the early 1960s to build the Mardyke Estate]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/54947/54949#msg-54949 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:19:21 +0000 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/54947/54947#msg-54947 forum@london-se1.co.uk (sheilam) I think Mardyke Street doesnt exist any more.]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/54947/54947#msg-54947 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:29:38 +0000