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Whitehall Street

Historical evidence and activities based on a street in Tottenham

Key Questions

Teaching Resources

Where is Whitehall Street?

Multimap: Allows you to search a street map of London online. If you click on the overlay button you can overlay an aerial photograph.

What is it like today?

Show photographs of Whitehall Street today.

You might want to ask questions such as:

Does it look like a nice place to live? Why/Whynot?
When do you think the buildings in the road were built? What makes you think that?
What sorts of jobs do you think the people living there do?
Are there any other types of buildings in the road?

What can we discover about life at the end of the 19th century from maps?

Click below to view a map.

1864

Ask questions such as:

Can you find a church, school etc?

How are houses, trees etc. shown on the map?

What do you think is represented by box 241?

What does it tell us about work, transport, buildings and environment in in 1864?

Ask questions such as:

What changed and what stayed the same between 1864 and 1894. Think about work, transport, buildings and environment.

Ask questions such as:

What would you see if you travelled over Tottenham in 1904 in a balloon. What can't you learn from the map?

What can we discover about life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries from photographs?


	Photographs of Tottenham High Road and THFC taken between 1880 and 1912.

What can we find out about life at the end of the 19th century from census data?

Download census data as an Excel file.

Download guidance on using Excel.

Download census data as an Easiteach file.

General Resources

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