ABSTRACT
Before reaching general conclusions about the location patterns of the older trades, it is necessary to reiterate a distinction between what the Barlow Commission called the service industries, and what it called the basics. This distinction is well drawn by Aves in his conclusions on London industry in the final volume of the Booth Survey:
Certain of its operations in distribution and in trading; all forms of service rendered to persons or groups of persons; all labour expended on permanent fixtures, such as buildings or streets, must, it is true, be necessarily carried on in its midst. 1
