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I was at the Jack the Ripper exhibition at the Museum in Docklands yesterday + whilst I was looking at Charles Booth's 1889 Poverty Map I noticed a long road near Grove Hill Road/Ivanhoe Road called Cut Throat Lane


http://www.umich.edu/~risotto/maxzooms/se/seh1112.html


http://www.umich.edu/~risotto/maxzooms/se/sej1112.html


Can anyone throw any light on this please?


Thanks

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sillywoman Wrote:

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> kidder Wrote:

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> > Check out this map which clearly shows Cut

> Throat

> > Lane undeveloped and not much going on in ED.

>

> Wow! do you have a date for that map. It's fab. i

> love stuff like that.



Here you are, it's facinating. South east london

In the past streetnames reflected a little more honestly the trades and activities that went on therein.


I always crack up at the thought of Grope**** Lane which was near what is now Barbican, renamed Milton St, I'm sure he'd have been proud...err so to speak..


I rather like Cut-Throat Lane, no worse than Nunhead in honour of some poor decapitated sister (citation needed).

Interesting, Crystal Palace Road is Harris Road, don't know when the name actually changed, but it was obviously after the great exhibition centre was moved to Penge.


Also, no St John's Church on Goose Green, which surprised me, but a chapel more or less where Jojo Maman Bebe is these days :-S

Jeremy Wrote:

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> That map actually says "Cut Through Lane"... which

> makes a lot more sense than "Cut Throat".

>

> Probably from the first half of the 19th century,

> seeing as Camberwell Grove is there, but none of

> the (Victorian) residential roads exist in Dulwich

> yet...



baring in mind "the cut" in waterloo, "cut through lane" does make a bit more sense, but it just dosent have the same ring to it as "cut throat lane".

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