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Amy Walker is a historian specialising in histories of poverty, ‘ordinary people’, and heritage. She completed an Undergraduate degree at the University of Greenwich and a Masters degree at the Institute of Historical Research. She is currently working on developing her project on the history of streets demolished by the London County Council during the 1930s. As part of her MA, she created a trail on Layers of London, showing different events of her Great Grandfathers life,  https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/trails/south-east-london-from-an-ordinary-person-s-perspective-1895-1952. The topics explored in this trail relate to what she is currently researching, she regularly uses this to accompany her current project. She also regularly posts on her Instagram page, @amywalker_historian, exploring a diverse variety of historic items and topics. Thank you to Amy for this wonderful addition to our Academic Practice & Digital Humanities Series! When I first started researching my family history ten years ago, I never expected it to evolve into one of my research projects as a historian. This project developed from my curiosity of searching locations relating to my ancestors. While studying at the University of Greenwich and the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), I focused on one street in particular, ‘Queen Street, Greenwich’. Many of my family members on my maternal Grandfathers side were residents along this street, some even being born there. Unfortunately, this street and the buildings that lined it no longer exist. In the 1930s, the London County Council demolished multiple streets with problems of poverty. In their place, flats were built to accommodate the growing population. Today, there is nothing that physically exists of Queen Street, even the knowledge that it was there. With this being said, maps have been one of the most useful sources used to uncover the unknown. They have captured places, roads and buildings that have changed over time, acting as a visual record of time before now. I want to build awareness of Queen Street, recovering the forgotten history of the road itself and the people who lived there. This blog will explore seven maps that have been of great use across my research. I will be evaluating the importance of using maps in a variety of different ways and express how I will develop my own maps from my discoveries. Some of the map that will be explored include a collection of maps from the Ordnance Survey Series and Charles Booth’s Poverty Map. Useful websites and links will also be included, demonstrating the accessibility to a wide variety of maps open to the public. Queen Street Queen Street has had very little recognition from other historians, making my research slightly difficult to compile but unique at the same time. Not many sources exist that support this topic, I have had to use my own skills to develop new discoveries throughout this research journey. I began to involved Queen Street into many of my MA assignments at the IHR, using maps in most of them. When it came to using maps in my research, availability and what was being shown in the map was an important consideration. Some maps did not focus on the Greenwich area, others did not show street names and buildings in great detail. These were of less use to me when trying to locate the demolished street. Layers of London (https://www.layersoflondon.org), a historic maps website developed by the IHR, provided a variety of records for me to search as well as Digimap (https://digimap.edina.ac.uk), a subscription-based website of historical maps for higher and further educational institutions. The National Library of Scotland also hold a large number of high-resolution, zoomable maps that can accessed via their website (https://maps.nls.uk). Most of the maps shown in this blog came from this site in particular, their wide variety of pictures allowed me to explore the changes in Greenwich throughout several decades. C. and J. Greenwood’s 1828 Map and Joseph Cross’s 1833 Map C. and J. Greenwood’s 1828 map and Joseph Cross’s 1833 map are two of the oldest maps used in this project. There are, of course, many maps of Greenwich that date back further but Greenwood’s and Cross’s maps are the earliest examples that label the words ‘Queen Street’ on the location of the demolished road. Greenwood’s map was made to depict the growth of London by using Horwood’s 1799 map as a comparison. Th 1828 map is highly detailed for its age, most during this period only tend to focus on main roads and famous landmarks. Not many went to the extent of adding details of ordinary homes and street names. Joseph Cross’s 1833 map was an updated version of his 1828 map of London. Like Greenwood, Cross published a highly detailed map to express the masses of developments made across London. The 1833 version is much more defined than his previous edition, reason why I’ve chosen to focus on the 1833 one specifically. When it comes to my research, these maps were the first to show me where Queen Street was originally located. Bringing attention to the date on these maps, they have also helped me consider how old the street was. Before using maps, censuses were my main source for researching the street, taking me back to as far as 1841. Greenwood’s map took me back further, proving the road was much older than censuses could show me. As mentioned already, there are older maps of Greenwich that include the shape of the road but does not have the street labelled with its name. This creates a problem with wanting to find the age of the road. Working with the information available, the age can only be estimated at this point. Ordnance Survey Maps, 1895 and 1916 The Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency of Great Britain. It is their job to construct and maintain detailed maps of England, Wales and Scotland. Map from National Library of Scotland. Queen Street can be found to the left Trinity Hospital.Ordnance Survey maps provide the most detailed depiction of Queen Street. The sizing and proportions of […]

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