Will Self researches 1911 residents of his Stockwell house

Writer Will Self, a longtime resident of Stockwell, has been looking at the 1911 census, which was released online this week. On the thisislondon website (aka The Evening Standard), he says:

"...living in my Stockwell home was the registrar for Lambeth, one William Edwards, together with his wife and 17-year-old son. Edwards was 71, his wife only 10 years younger: so they were older middle-class parents who'd only had a single child - very Noughties. They had a live-in maid, Florence Powell, who was 26. But while this substantial house had only four inhabitants in 1911, when I looked at the census for 1901 it was subdivided into three flats, with a total of 11 people in residence. The neighbourhood had been genteel to begin with in the 1870s, gone downhill, then been gentrified."

The 1911 census is available at www.1911census.co.uk. There is a charge for downloading.

Watch out for more posts on the 1901 and 1911 census (censi? censuses?).