Hoxton was Victorian London's leading criminal district and a poverty-stricken area on the city's edge, a slum that acted as a fence between the rich and the poor, according to the social investigator Charles Booth. In this eyewitness account from the 1890s, find out what he witnessed and how people lived on the hard streets of Hoxton.
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CC BY - Frog old street sign by Yves Cosentio; Hoxton overground station by Ben Sutherland; Panic by Yves Cosentino
CC BY-SA - Boot street, hackney by Ewan Munro; Electricity Showrooms by Fabio Venni; Former timber merchant Hoxton Street by Jim Osley via geograph.org.uk; Ghost sign Hoxton Street by Jim Osley via geograph.org.uk; Ghost sign Kingsland Road by Jim Osley via geograph.org.uk; Hoxton Street N1 and Old Street EC1 by trailerfullofpix; Old street ghost sign by Jim Osley via geograph.org.uk; The Hoppole Pitfield and Coronet Street Hoxton 1978 by Sludge G
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