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Birmingham Journal Blog Taken from my blog, this is part one of the first meandering Ramble through the streets of Birmingham in 1881 Cheers Andy

Going forward if anybody are able to help me refine some of my data. Some occupations weekly income I found a little difficult to find, if anybody would be able to assist is source for me would be great. It's mainly the more professional jobs; a surgeon, optician and such. I could put a list...

Have just completed and uploaded to website a list of all the occupations by sector for the 101 streets as well as a ranking list for all the sectors. No.1 Occupation Group is 'Unemployed'..this is records of people saying on the census there are out of work or unemployed. But apart from that...

My Grandads bog ohh the memories

You are not wrong there

Thats a good idea, I'll create a page and put all the sources, publications I used there. Next step apart from finishing colour coding the maps, was to go through the various characters and look more into them. Writers, artists, a few French people, what drew then to Brass street for example. I...

Hello Derek Thats a very kind and thoughtful message and very welcome. You are correct on and unfortunately in some cases the figures have to be a guesstimate as, as you allude lies in the census was often made. I have seen instances where 3 sets of families with 3 'head of the family' have...

You might have heard of Charles Booth, he produced a massive volume of works called Labour and the Life of People based on London. He is quite well known for creating the poverty colour map of London Streets, it s where I got inspiration from. What a hard life they lived and high proportion....

Below copied from my first book of a couple of articles, says it all really The Birmingham Post, Tuesday February 28, 1884 - Artisans Dwellings Committee In Devonshire Street there were some houses built on swampy ground; the mortar contained one part of lime to fifty parts of sand, and the...

That sounds the same as my mum, she had pneumonia and was sent for convalescence for 6 months. It does seem with other comments that the fallout from the quality of the housebuild construction of the mid 1800's was dreadful. I am going to start on the next phase of my project, which is colour...

Of course Richard, as I say on my methodology statement: these can only be subjective and by no means can I state this will be ‘fact’ or concrete evidence that a particular family were in poverty or not, but using the information and data available, it does show a trend and for me, having...

Thank you Lyn

Ahh that would explain alot when I went through all the census records, I could never understand and thought it was recorded wrongly.

Thank you yes that good, I did take copies from the Birmingham Library of the 1886 map and research from the health office at the time Alfred Hill thats hows the number of deaths from Scarlet fever, measles and typhoid fever alarming. But this is more in the area I am working on so thank you for...

I am definitely putting that on Santa's list. I also downloaded quite a lot of articles from the Morning Article from 1850 & 1851 and yes entitled Labour and the Poor, although all saying "from our special correspondent" so thats cool have the author now. Thank you Attached one of the articles

I think your right, life was very hard but the community was strong, something we seem to have lost now. I do miss visiting those days of visiting Nan & Grandad on both sides, the banter and especially the arguments which were always fun to watch. I'm with you on the family history, after 20...

Attached is my first draft of the summary sheet for each streets poverty line and its ranking.

Thank you, will take a look

Hello Richard, this is true but the figures are taken from the census records and my 5 per house is an average for Villa Street. Although many households do have large families and in my spreadsheets calculations I work to the possibility for a family household containing upto 20 individuals but...

Hi Lyn, Strewth just short of a 100 years wow. Yes I have 71 no households for Villa street with a ranking of 98th out of 101. The worst family in the Street was no 10 Mr Doherty with no occupation, his wife was the only person bringing income into the household, she worked as a Laundress...