The London Labour office was led by Henry Mayhew with a team of collaborators, including publisher John Howden and collaborators Henry Wood, Richard Knight, Augustus Mayhew, and Horace St. John. The office published the London Labour and the London Poor serial (1850-52) after Mayhew broke with the Morning Chronicle in late 1850. The office was originally located at 69 Fleet St. but moved to No. 16, Upper Wellington St., in April 1851. Nos. 18 onwards were published from Upper Wellington Street., which was located off the Strand.

The articles below are texts that were published in the London Labour serial during the period when the office was located on Fleet Street. By plotting the Fleet Street office onto the individual maps for each article, the intention is to visualize where Mayhew and his collaborators were working from in London in relation to the locales and streets that were significant to their informants.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition:

Phase 1

No. 6, To Correspondents [Map]

The Sunday Morning Markets. [Map]

OF THE STREET-IRISH. (Volume 1) [Map]

Watercress Girl. (Volume 1) [Map]

Of Groundsel and Chickweed Sellers. (Volume 1) [Map]

Of the Publishers and Authors of Street-Literature. (Volume 1) [Map]

Of the Experience of a Street Author, or Poet. (Volume 1) [Map]

The Crippled Street-Seller of Nut-Meg-Graters. (Volume 1) [Map]

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