Family history

I've been reading a lot of London social history lately. It is depressing that they mention some of the streets my ancestors lived in, as being centres of crime and vice. One such street was Mill Lane, Deptford (pictures above). My people lived there in the 1890s, just before these buildings were pulled down. Mayhew mentions the 'low lodging houses' there. There was a food poisoning outbreak, which was traced back to ice cream that was made there. There was prostitution, there were murders, apart from all the general thuggery and dodginess. The good old days indeed.