These pictures are from the book Ten Years in a London Slum: Being the Adventures of a Clerical Micawber by High Church Anglican priest Desmond Morse-Boycott. Boycott joined a brotherhood attached to St Mary the Virgin, Seymour Street (today’s Eversholt Street), Somers Town, just east of Euston station, in the 1920s, before much of the neighbourhood was demolished by the London County Council for social housing. This was to be one of the LCC’s grand successors to the Boundary Estate (see various stories on this site).


Below: the priests laid on charity meals for local children, a crèche, and a small basement school/workshop. In the mother-and-toddler photo are Father Basil Jellicoe, on the left, and Father Percy Maryon-Wilson on the right. For further information on their slum work, see
http://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/father-basil-jellicoe

This Flikr site, meanwhile, has some wonderful pics of Percy Maryon-Wilson and other Anglo Catholic priests https://www.flickr.com/photos/61357634@N06/5585674049/in/photostream/

And finally, below left, I hope I’m right in identifying The Polygon, the very unusually shaped late-Georgian housing development (where Harold Skimpole lived, in Bleak House); plus, on the right, the house in Johnson Street where Mr Micawber lived in David Copperfield.