Hoxton – Architecture And History Over Five CenturiesSouth Shoreditch (out of print)
Christopher Miele In his monumental Life and Labour of the People of London(1889-90), Charles Booth characterised Hoxton as one of the most ‘crime ridden and pestilential areas of the Metropolis’. Petty thieves and pickpockets were said to thrive in its airless courts, and infant mortality there was among the highest in the nation. These unpleasant […]