This is the location of the Waterloo Bridge in London. Within this area it is common to have small thefts such as animal thefts, pick pocketing, small grand larceny and many more. Not only is it a source of crimes but it is a site of factories. To add to that the location around the Waterloo Bridge was generally middle class with glimpses of fairly comfortable  households (earning wise).

When it comes to the crimes in London specifically on or right next the Waterloo Bridge there are a few examples of pick pockets as well as the strange animal theft. It was a case of a man named Thomas Jones in 1694 stole 7 tamed pigeons, why you might ask, the source  has no reason to the act only the report of what happened.

“1694. THOMAS JONES was indicted for stealing, on the 19th of July , 7 live tame pigeons, price 5s. , the property of John Simmons Winterflood and John Brown .

ROBERT DUKE . I am an officer. On the 19th of July I searched the prisoner’s room in Steward’s-rents, Drury-lane, and found seven live pigeons; the prosecutor claimed them.

JOHN SIMMONS WINTERFLOOD. I know the pigeons – they were the joint property of myself and John Brown; I had seen them the day before on our coal-wharf, at Waterloo-bridge – the prisoner was in our employ – I would take him back again.

GUILTY . Aged 21.

Fined One Shilling and Discharged .(Old Bailey)

Now when it comes to the factory business around the bridge it was mostly local, for example there was a factory built shortly after the water-works were opened, “…a large shot factory was built close by, together with a fine wet-dock for the loading and warehousing of goods.” (British-history.ac.uk) since they were built near each other it helped the production, export and import rate. Later on they would open another shot manufacturer by Messrs Watts in the year 1789. This factory stood over 140 feet tall and is shown in the picture below.

 

Finally the levels of poverty in the area. According to the Charles Booth Archive map, it is shown that the poverty level around the Waterloo Bridge was relatively middle class with glimpses of Comfortable living households. This could be a reason for the pick pocketing crimes, due to the higher wealth the more poor people would come to this bridge (due to it location and how there were always people on it).

 

The way the Waterloo Bridge relates to the Sherlock Holmes story, The Man with the Twisted Lip; is that within the story at one instance it describes the location of the bridge and how it is used among the citizens surrounding it;

“In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted him. One of them held the horse’s head while the other led us in.” (Eastoftheweb.com)

It describes it as a place at which in one point of the day everyone would have crossed it.

 

 

 

References

Booth.lse.ac.uk,. ‘Booth Poverty Map (Charles Booth Online Archive)’. N.p., 2015. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.

British-history.ac.uk,. ‘Lambeth: Waterloo Road | British History Online’. N.p., 2015. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.

Eastoftheweb.com,. ‘Short Stories: The Man With The Twisted Lip By Arthur Conan Doyle’. N.p., 2015. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.

Oldbaileyonline.org,. ‘Results – Central Criminal Court’. N.p., 2015. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.

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Here is a link to my Google Fusion Graphs about athletes:

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With the Google Ngrams I had the honor of looking up the words Cricket, Hurling and Croquet. Since I am a sports fan I had to think of sports that were popular in the 1800’s because there is no way that they had soccer, football and baseball during that time. So I thought back to when I went to Ireland and what type of sports I played with my host family and what they talked about, and that’s how I came up with Cricket, Hurling, and Croquet.
With Cricket it was the highest of them all, I was wondering why and it seemed to be the oldest of them all, being invented in 1300 but it started international play in 1844, so that would make sense into why after 1845 it just kept increasing rather than having an inconsistent like graph.
It was at around 1846 when hurling and cricket were at the same percentage but not even a year later they were back to normal with cricket being very high and hurling back to normal level. Over all hurling stayed constant not moving as much cricket but still moving, the reason I think it is not as popular is because hurling was mainly popular in Ireland not really everywhere around Europe.
Now wit Croquet I have notice from 1860 to 1880 there are a huge peak and then it went back down. It was around 1873 that it was at its highest and that I believe was because only starting in 1867 they started to have matches with it. But when it stated to die down in the late 1870’s that was due to the increase popularity of tennis. Tennis hit a spark in the late 1870’s early 1880’s.
Overall the popularity of each of these sports were due to the popularity and demands of the towns people, such as that when they were fads and when they were not.

 

When you think of William Wordsworth you think of one of the greatest romantic poets. The man who help create the Romantic Age in English literature. But this blog post is not just about William Wordsworth it is about one of his books i obtained in our school library. This book is called The poems of William Wordsworth and it contains a collection of his poems as well as some interesting hand written things. Within the book there was hand written comments, which were varies titles of some of his poems. The inscription said “Strange Fits if passion have I known She dwelt among the untrodden ways I traveled among unknown men A slumber did my spirit seal” this is written in a type of writing that is originated in 1800’s to 1900’s. I am not sure on why this is important to this certain person who wrote it. It could be about one of his/her love ones or it could be about the pain that they are undergoing.  But this is not the only Marginalia that i have found there is another entree the reads “May have written this when he change from love to ammeter the hie setter quiet love” at least that is what i got from it, i am unsure if that is accurate. Yet i would love to see what that means in the sense it where it is placed, that was placed on page 123 and the bottom of his poem Lucy Gray; or, Solitude. This has to pertain to this writers view on William Wordsworth. I wish I could talk to these people that wrote these so i can see there logic and  what it pertains to, because these could be relating to anything in the word whether it be about their personal life or the world surrounding them.

Exhibit: http://holmesiana.net/exhibits/show/portraits/portraits

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Throughout my search in Lee Jackson’s “The Victorian Dictionary” i found quite a few things that interested me. Some of those following topics would be but are not limited to the food and diet portion, the childhood life, crime rate and activity, the type of disease that were present, and my favorite the actual people of the Victorian age. Since I am only limited to one topic in my blog post this evening, i am going to make it about the lifestyles of the Victorian Age, including how men and women were treated differently and what their  roles were in the society.

Where do i even  begin in the Victorian age, well women were set for one job, to be a mother and to take care of the beloved ones of the house hold. yet, why were women not allowed to do a mans job. its not like we are unable to do those said actions that only a “man can do”. as quoted in the article under the women category in the Victorian Dictionary “t is quite fair to argue that, if Women are to have their rights of citizenship, they must accept their duties, and that the acquisition of the elective franchise ought to he accompanied by the condition of liability to serve on juries, and to act in other capacities heretofore solely masculine.” It is quite apparent that women are not :made: to do a mans job, but if thy were to do a mans job they have to accept any repercussions, such as getting injuries or even sick from all the manual work, that they are not used to doing.

The diary in this link http://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm has made me realize that growing up in the Victorian age a a women would be difficult but you have to accept the fact that women are as strong or better yet strong and can handle the same amount of work, it is just how you set your mind to it, to see how far you will get.

Hey DHM293,

My name is Veronica Verstraten, I am a freshman this year. My interests include playing field hockey,  playing Basketball, and watching the Pittsburgh Penguins. My major is Molecular Biology.