‘Crawlers’ of Victorian London (19th Century Street Life Documentary)
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- Meet the poor Victorians who lived worse off than beggars in 19th Century London. This genuine account of the hard lives of ‘Crawlers’ is an accurate documentary of everyday Victorian poverty, the workhouse and slums as recorded in 1877 by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith. Thompson was a talented and influential photographer who joined with Smith, a journalist, in a project to photograph the street life of London’s poor. Their volumes were an early example of social and documentary photography in England. The descriptions really bring to life the photographs that accompany them and paint a picture of the Victorian era - in a time before moving pictures could do the same. What’s more remarkable is that the authors were careful not to varnish their words for an audience - what they saw and heard accurately reflects their interactions with street folk and, with ambience and sounds, genuinely immerses the reader in authentic Victorian street life.
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Video Glossary:
Mendicant - From the Latin: mendicans, "begging", being one who practices mendicancy and relies chiefly or exclusively on alms (food, clothing or money) to survive i.e. a beggar.
Casual Ward - Temporary admission to a workhouse for the night. Many resisted taking up permanent residence at the workhouse, where men and women would be separated, and would be required to work to pay for their board and lodging; once they entered, many only left when they died. Instead, from 1864, if the police in London certified that a person was genuinely in need, they could stay for one night on a "casual" basis, and leave the next morning, but they would have to queue up again for temporary admission the next evening. Poverty and vagrancy were pressing issues in Victorian London, and the issuance of "casual" tickets doubled from around 200,000 in 1864 to over 400,000 in 1869.
Urchin - A small child, especially one who behaves badly and is dirty or untidily dressed.
Oakum - A preparation of tarred fibre used to seal gaps. Its main traditional applications were in shipbuilding, for caulking or packing the joints of timbers in wooden vessels and the deck planking of iron and steel ships; in plumbing, for sealing joints in cast iron pipe; and in log cabins for chinking. In ship caulking, it was forced into the seams using a hammer and a caulking iron, and then sealed into place with hot pitch. Oakum was at one time recycled from old tarry ropes and cordage, which were painstakingly unravelled and reduced to fibre, termed "picking". The task of picking and preparation was a common occupation in prisons and workhouses, where the young or the old and infirm were put to work picking oakum if they were unsuited for heavier labour. The work was tedious, slow and taxing on the worker's thumbs and fingers.
Ha'penny - The British pre-decimal halfpenny coin, usually simply known colloquially as a ha'penny. It ceased to be legal tender from 31 July 1969.
Marylebone - An ancient parish of London and later a metropolitan borough, it merged with the boroughs of Westminster and Paddington to form the new City of Westminster in 1965.
Tweed - A river 97 miles (156 km) long, which forms the historic boundary between Scotland and England.
Mission Hall - A building used by the church for charitable community services.
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I knew the times were bad but I had no idea just how bad! I had never heard of crawlers before now thank you so much for the information.
You’re very welcome. Thank you for watching!
I grew up in a slum in London, to a single mum. She sent me out with a can to get esso oil for the oil fire, and to the launderette with my sister to wash the bedding. It was in the 60s. I went to hospital every Winter with asthma and bronchitis.In the Spring the housemice ran riot, sometimes over my bed at night. Despite this, I went to University, did Nursing, and trained as an aromatherapist. I raised a son on my own But, my childhood still haunts me, and Ive never had good health.
Thank you for telling your story. I’m sorry it had an impact on your health. May I ask which district of London this was?
@@FactFeast West 11 , near portobello road. thankyou.
You're an amazing woman. You have my respect. God bless you.
May the God of the impossible heal everything that ails in Jesus powerful name.
With the love of Christ,
Syreeta from Pennsylvania
This - and worse- exists in much of modern North America right now.
My gran, born 1892, never went to school, and went into 'service' as soon as she was old enough. In her 80 years she never owned a telephone, a bicycle, a car, a fridge, a sewing machine, a plumbed-in bath, a vacuum cleaner, an inside loo, hot water on tap, or a washing machine. I never remember her wearing a watch. She managed everything by hand.
I'm sure she was just one of millions of woman of the time...
I lived with her in my formative years, and couldn't imagine life without her. She was the kindest most loving woman imaginable. She'd give me her last sixpence. I was born on her own feather bed in 1947....
i am 31 and still have feather duvets and feather pillows made by my nan, theyre the best
Wow. Just wow. Humans can be amazing.
What I would do to find out more about my own family,
That's incredible. Thank you for sharing.
The poor woman...
When I start feeling pitiful I learn about people who had it way worse and feel ashamed and grateful instead.
Unimaginable deprivations and cruelties these poor souls suffered through no fault of their own... Thank you for this channel, it's hugely informative and interesting.
Great to know you find the channel informative, thank you! More to come.
“No fault of their own”- social justice didn’t exist then - their sin was being born .
We don’t know how lucky we are today , and our sense of entitlement shows our monstrous arrogance as a people believing the world owes us something !
I cannot imagine living that kind of life. What a strong woman. May she rest in peace now.
These are the people that Charles Dickens wrote about...to enlighten people of the day to the realities of the plight of the poor. There were many philanthropists who did much to help the poor, many were Quakers.
Thankfully there were people that cared about poverty. I sense that the journalists in this video really did care about the plight of the poor and hopefully helped the people they met.
I would agree, and we are lucky to have their reports to help give us an insight into what life was like all those years ago. I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to more posts. I feel it is very important for people today to know how our ancestors lived, and how far our society has come.
Pretty disgusting you're trying to shine a "good" light on the people who actively exploited and hoarded resources that could have helped all these people. But that's capitalist brainwashing for you.
Dickens lost many a friend, in the end his closest friend. He was having an affair, and tried to get rid of his wife, despite supporting him and even wrote. He attempted to get her committed. Thankfully the psychiatrist and two friends refused. He was horror virtue signalling.
@@selkieseal545He was a complicated man like most geniuses
Again, what’s most appalling is because Britain was the most wealthy powerful nation on Earth. A small percentage of Brits lived their lives surrounded of unimaginable luxuries and the majority of the population lived in abject poverty and misery! That’s what sad me and angry me 😢😖😖😖
Thankfully there were people who documented the poverty and began a change in society.
It's the same in any other country today . a small group of elites powerful and rich rule over the rest and make laws that keep them in power with the cooperation of a few that are grateful fir the crumbs they are thrown .
If they were lucky they were arrested for something and transported to Australia
You are still run by Robber Barons,your royal family own most of it....
Sounds a lot like what's going on now.
For anyone interested in this topic, Jack London's book The People of the Abyss is a must read.
London immersed himself into the impoverished east end, known as the Whitechapel district, for a short time. He took nothing with, especially money. He tried to live under the same conditions that was typical of the east end. When his time in the Abyss was over, his view of the human condition was greatly changed.
You can find many of Jack London’s stories of life in the East End on my channel.
Thanks to both of you
@@FactFeastJust subbed, looks like a fascinating channel.
Welcome to the channel! I hope you enjoy browsing through the videos. Lots more to come too. Thank you!
Yeah East London will do that.
Mark Twain said of England whilst visiting the North said " surely if hell exists this is it " so shocked at what he saw
I was thinking the exact same thing last week
Mark Twain was from the southern US guess he never saw any slaves. When people in the Empire complain how they were treated , do you see how they treated their own.
Whatever makes a non-English person feels better
Jack London also wrote about it in his book, "People of the Abyss." I found it to be deeply compelling.
@@kindGSL marvellous book, the man had balls of steel
"The help that is forthcoming", I really hope that reporter DID go as far as helping her. When so little can make such a huge impact, everyone needs to have that chance, to give, and recieve.
I have a feeling that these journalists were decent and men of their word, so I hope the same. At least we know they sought to offer food and drink to these poor ladies. Thank you for watching.
Victorian writers wrote beautifully. Years ago, I was fortunate enough to be able to volunteer in an archive here in Dublin where I was sorting though numerous letters addressed to the Arch-Bishop of Dublin in the late 19th century. Virtually all of the letters were penned in beautiful cursive hand-writing and the use of language was wonderful. Truly, we have lost something.
Interesting you choose to talk of the loss of these writers rather than of the information the writer is relaying.
I don't know whether it's a regional or generational thing then, but when I was at primary school in the 80's we had to use a fountain pen to write (in year 5/6) and were taught to use cursive and how to write letters correctly. I went to a state school. Having said that, the people I know of my generation who went to the neighbouring primary's didn't do this, so perhaps it was just a whim of our teacher? Anyway, I'm grateful for those lessons. My children's handwriting looks like garbage....
Myself personally had the same thoughts and mourned what we could have maintained.
@@marymary5494 Interesting you assume they are shallow when discussing the loss of this type of intelligence.
@@marymary5494 Not unusual at all, as it was one of the notably good things about that era. Reading letters written back then are an eye-opener as to how much our language has lost since then. Our much inferior sentence structure and lack of adjectives in comparison to them, is very noticeable to any literary person. I really don't understand why that comment would bother you. It simply pointed out one more major discrepancy between that time frame, and our current one. People of that era have been noted by many to have had a superior writing skill, of which most of us cannot claim. Indeed malicant is correct...in that regard...we have indeed list something. We have regressed.
4:10 "...constantly dozing, and yet are never really asleep..." I've been this depressed before and, had it not been for my family and friends helping me, I'd have jumped off a bridge or ODed on my meds. I wouldve been a crawler for sure. I had too and pets and honestly their dependence on me was, at that low time, all that kept me going most days. I cried through this entire thing. I've never been so viscerally connected to history as looking into these long-dead people's faces and seeing my own eyes staring back.
Life is such a blessing and gift and it can be so hard, I know. My faith In God gets me through and prayer 🙏🏻
The Human Condition never changes.
I do so hope you are well and good these days
You keep your chin up . Things always get better. Me- I never had a depressed day in my life. Few years back I started dating a girl who have massive depression. She would not let me help her and I had to break up with her. I still think of her.
I understand what you say about your pets. Mine get me out of bed even on my worse days because they cannot look after themselves and they need me. They have saved me
@@everso2151 yeah if it weren’t for pets that need care, I have no reason to get out of bed. But I take care of them and go back to bed anyway. Sad.
What a severely depressing existence.
It really was! At least there were journalists like those in the video that recorded life on the streets to bring this poverty more attention. Thanks for watching.
I've been addressless and without service on my phone for a little over a year now and it's very hard to get a job without one... I can't imagine how hard it must've been for these people. Some people say "simpler times" but I don't agree.
I like the term addressless. I will use that in the future when speaking
There's lifeline free phones with free service outside the DPSS or outside of Walmart. Assurance wireless is one for example. In USA.
I don’t agree either. Not many years ago politicians wanted us to return to Victorian values ?? Really?? If they want that heaven help us all. Bloody idiots
Simpler times they were for many. Especially in small towns. There has been suffering since the dawn of man and will be suffering long after man is gone.
more like short brutish times
I feel so bad for the elderly women and what misery they had to endure...
Get over it. They’re long dead. Concentrate on the awful world we have today.
Even now it is impossible to get off the bottom without help. You need basic safety, shelter, food, clothing, access to transport and, these days, a phone, in order to gain employment. Thankfully we do have much better help in place than back then, but we are naive if we think that people don’t still live like this both here and in less fortunate countries. Thank you for sharing xx
Education is the key to a good life, it’s just that a lot of young people do not realise this especially those from poor families
@@jackmason4374 Many in the U.S. are overwhelmed with paying huge student loans to pay for College and have a hard time ever getting ahead. Stagnant wages and skyrocketing cost of living and housing doesn't help.
Be nice if all it took to improve your life as little as Scotty wanted was a set of clothes. Not that they have a 'good life' but today's poor in western countries have so much more then the 2 women described in this vid
When I was homeless, living in a shelter it was very difficult to get enough sleep, so during the day one would try and find somewhere to put your head down for a few,hours
Being so deprived of sleep left one almost zombie like.
It was difficult to stay awake
and I think people assumed one had passed out drunk.
Also the shelter was a breeding ground for disease, I always had bronchitis and one time bed bugs ugh!.
@@jackmason4374 that used to be the case, now you have people with degrees and tonnes of debt stacking shelves.
What’s really sad is that this hasn’t really changed in all this time. So many elderly women end up homeless, especially these days with crazy costs of living. 😢
The strata are too rigid to flex.
rich ger richer poor get f....ed thats the way of Capitalism
That’s nonsense. Here’s a statistic: 40,000 job vacancies in Manchester, at the moment, and 18% in Manchester are on benefits.
Left wing open border isn't helping our countrymen out either.. We need to get rid of left wingism all together. Stomp it out and ban it.
WAYYYY more men end up himeless, but yeah women are a tiny part of the issue sure
This is positively, absolutely, what goes on day in, day out, on the sidewalks of the city of San Francisco, in 2021.
The people in San Francisco at least have the advantage of warm weather and volunteers that hand out food.
Everywhere, not just the cities.
You should see Detroit and Philly.
@@elviscobb5922 the city of San Francisco is not aware city. You may not have visited there.
In every era, the people with food and money are afraid to cast their eyes, ears and noses toward people who literally have nothing. It is fear that keeps their eyes averted. Fear that giving away their own fortunes will bring them closer to the fortune of those they have helped. It is also arrogance that makes them feel greater than the homeless--they are the cause of their problems. The homeless should get a job. Too many of the homeless are mentally ill or physically disabled. The reasons are the same 150 years later.
It's amazing how much has changed, and yet how much has stayed the same. I've been a social worker, and many of the situations and living conditions described are still going on in the US. Like the Victorians in England, most Americans just don't want to see it or admit that it's happening.
Except that now obtaining or replacing a set of clothes isn't as expensive as buying a used car and there are places where they can wash and dry them for a couple of dollars. And they can wash their bodies a bit in public restrooms.
Some situations are just as bad in England today, and England has less services than the US does. Also, England tries to ignore the drug use and overlooks its problem with alcoholism that is engrained in its society and has been normalized.
The majority are totally spellbound by the royal family.
@@zeldasmith6154• Nobody is "spellbound" by the Royal Family, but the more intelligent among us are appreciative of the value of them to the country as a whole.
Apart from being self-funding, handing over the entire revenue from the Crown Estates and getting around 15%-20% in return to cover all the working Royals expenses as well as the running of Royal Palaces etc., they support and publicise countless charities between them. Maybe you have heard of the Prince's Trust? This was set up and financed by the King when he was still the Prince of Wales. The trust has helped more than one million young people to start up their own businesses. His father, Prince Phillip set up the "Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme," which provides inner city deprived children with outdoor activities which they would never be able to take part in otherwise. The late Queen, Elizabeth II, personally raised over £1 billion in charitable donations over her lifetime. Prince William gave the Invictus Games £1 million of his own money to make up for the lack of donations caused by Harry and Meghan taking over the games and pocketing a fortune in expenses. He also privately funds the Earthshot Prize, which awards prizes for schemes which help the environment and to tackle climate change. King Charles recently gave the British Treasury £250 million from revenue from his own lands.
As well as financial benefits, the Royal Family are the best diplomats the country could produce, being non-political helps enormously in this respect.
Now, please explain what this has to do with the contents of this video, and whether or not the population as a whole is so "spellbound" by Royalty that we do not see homeless and other people who have fallen on hard times.
the place that is as proximate as this in its true sense or worse is Latin America, Africa the Middle eats and China. Where rural poor communities live under this, or worse.
My grandfather's ancestors lived in the poor parts of London. They got out of it by joining the military. I have photos of them in their uniforms in the 1800's. They looked so handsome.
It’s great that you have such photos of your family. It must be very interesting to research family history and know where they lived in London.
I've seen the photo before on TH-cam of this poor women, but didn't know her story, it was a fascinating insight to hear her story told.
I'm glad you enjoyed watching. Victorian London really was a dystopia for those living in abject poverty and I think their stories highlight this.
@@FactFeast this is from a 1920s Charlie Chaplin movie. But im sure reality was the same or worse. And the spoken facts seem pretty accurate.
@@Stevie-steel Really? I've always wondered about this photo and the story behind it!
So sad. We should count ourselves lucky we didn't live in those times. No matter how poor we think we are.
Who's that comment for Europeans or people from the east who indured and still do because of the west i thought the past happen for the west to have a bright future but u see we reap what we sow
@Tsunami Blue a lot of people didnt use to complain until they realised some people benefited from some for cakes and scones while people were treated like nothing for hundreds of years
Absolutely!
Still happens today.
Give it time bud, we're heading back to that situation.
That's beyond sad. In Australia a crawler is someone who is an ingratiating flatterer, brown nose or suck up. A lot of our slang came from London. I wonder if the epithet came from the pleas of these poor women.
Very interesting. Thanks for watching.
to ‘crawl’ after someone usually implies the lowering, weakening or the degradation of the less-fortunate participant. snakes were always associated with Satan, and in a massively Christian society the animal which was cursed by god to always ‘crawl on its belly’ for its crimes against the lord might have influenced the term. But however you put it tho, it’s awfully sad to hear about
Same meaning in Ireland - v sad when u consider the wealth that there was built on slavery and the empire
Means the same in UK a crawler is someone who brown noses.
Yes. That makes sense!
And now in the prosperous west, there are still uncared for elderly people living on the street. Humankind sucked back then, and it sucks now.
They're everywhere in every country on the planet.
CAPITALISM is the culprit
Same precious spirit wrapped in the same wretched flesh of utter dispair.Still around today and more shameful than back then in today's greed and opulence.Poverty of love is even worse than poverty of pocket.🤔
As for prosperous First World countries, this is true in only a few, such as the United States. We choose not to pay the taxes it would take to provide cradle to grave security because it's "socialism" which is a dirty word here.
After having grown up reading pretty much every word by Dickens and Orwell, then discovering and writing about William Hogarth, I have been looking for a channel like this for so long. Very happy to have landed up here. Going to binge-watch now!
I’m glad you found it. I hope you find the content interesting. More to come!
I'm also a huge fan of Dickens and Orwell. Also try Emile Zola, like a French Dickens, a brilliant writer who brought to life the grinding poverty of the Parisians and miners in Northern France in L'Assommoir and Germinal.
I love these local history stories because of the unadulterated truths, warts and all. As a child we hadn't a lot like most, we were a big family like most were. First up best we dressed. We knew we hadn't much but nobody had much.When we were young our distraction from life came from the outdoors. Any chance we got we were gone like the wind especially school holidays. From morning to night we gone. There was nothing at home to keep us at home. A time of stagnation in our country, dead, everything was a shade of gray
It set the tone for that time, it was miserable, just existing. We explored our city on foot or on made up bikes. If we managed to put one together from old part's. Our imagination filled in the bad stuff we had to contend with, we made do. We appreciated everything because we all had so little. We shared everything. I remember so much of my childhood, I believe it shapes us all for good or for bad. Going senile might not be so bad for me it will only bring me back to what I think of anyway. Like the music I listened to my parents music and my brothers and sisters music , I love all music and dancing . A bit of Frank, Sammy and Deno and the master of crowning Tony Bennett. I'll be in good Company, mine was from the King to Oasis. I'll have come full circle then. Such is life. Next time, I hope I'm posted to a peaceful planet with a bit more sun✌🏿✌🏻) , I'm in heaven .
: )
Maybe the ones sent to Australia as convicts in a perverse way were the lucky ones.
In some ways I suppose. They at least had access to fertile land to gather on and possibly plant crops
Life in the Royal Navy at the time was a much better option
Perhaps they were lucky to leave England but the Australian aborigines were cursed upon their arrival.
Glad my family got to Virginia and then Tennessee to Arkansas in the mid 1750s before this could happen to them!
@@TheAmazingHuman oh yeah, no, they don’t count we’re not too worried abt them
How has it taken me so long to fine this channel, this is brilliant.
I’m glad you did and thank you. More content to come!
Agreed!
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Glad I'm not the only one who thinks so. Narrator's voice is so REGAL!
With all the wealth the Crown has had, how could they let this happen to vulnerable citizens? 😪
Thankfully there were journalists like those in the video that recorded what was going on and started to bring such absolute poverty more attention. Thank you for watching!
like it wasn't happening in other countries as well. they are still stepping over the homeless in california today.
Religion
How did they remove food from Ireland and leave million ppl die from famine
Yes ! Victorian England was powerful and wealthy. Queen Victoria was out of touch with her subjects, being buried in her long term mourning for Albert. At a word she could have changed the acute suffering of her subjects. She spent a great deal of money erecting monuments of Albert. Just awful. 😔
your channel is so underrated! great documentaries and info, thank you. would love more about the Victorian London!
Thank you for your kind comment and for watching. Check out the Victorian playlist on the channel for more videos - more coming in future!
What a sad but so eloquent story..😔
Yeah but it really upset me the way he said that they prefer starvation to having to get up to beg. They're old and starving nearly Dead and he still putting the onus on them for what they're going through
@@jessicahay9305 I agree, that seemed quite harsh but I chalked it up to the sentiments of the times.. Having been homeless and hungry myself,I can guarantee that nobody would choose to slowly starve to death..
@@whispermcgaughy7251 And yet, sometimes there is no real choice...
Poverty, then as now, doesn't have to exist. There was & is enough wealth to take care of everybody. As a popular internet meme says, poverty exists because of the greed of the wealthy.
Actually . . . it's not the "greed of the wealthy" . . . it is "greed". Everyone's greed. Greed is the ultimate "sin". Even Yeshua when asked about the greatest commandment said; "Love God, and treat your neighbor as you wish to be treated . . . . all the other laws and rules stem from these . . . "
No amount of charity, greed, or something else can teach someone how to manage resources
This just makes me feel so glad I was born when I was. Life was so hard back then for normal people. And it wasn't even that long ago really!
That's the mad thing. I every now n then remind me self my grandad n grandma who both still alive. My grandad who is Alive his dad was born 1889 100 years before me. It helps remember that how the pasy is not that long ago. Cus if u think about it my great grandads great grandads great grandad u then going back soo far in time. This life makes the distant pass seem soo distant but its not
I feel a strange mixture of gratitude for my life and horror 😱
this is the intention of modern "historians" and fictional "journalists and writers", to thank this "wonderful" era that we live. :D
I began to read a book about the five women who were murdered by Jack the Ripper. I think it was called, "Five Lives." I had to stop after three lives. The stories I read were so sad, so dependent on chance, helpess, abandoned, and terrible that I could not bear to read any more.
Jack the ripper was a made up character by the elites. All murders were fear mongering psyops. The city wanted to get the people, especially women off the streets.
Can you remember who wrote it, sounds interesting
@@taraelizabethdensley9475 The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Book by Hallie Rubenhold
It's a good book, telling much about the victims life's.
The nicest narrater I have ever heard introduce a video. So have no problem ticking a like.At least was there was no words I did not understand .
It's good to hear you enjoyed it. Thank you for your kind comment!
There you go! A real life story out of a Dicken's novel! I'm afraid the Victorian era left many working women vulnerable. As no, pension, no work insurance in the work place long with heslth and safety standards until after 1914 onwards. What a bitter pill to swallow! I wonder what happened to the baby in the photograph? 🌹
It really was a hard and often all too short life. I don’t have any information as to what happened to the characters. I think the journalists at least offered food and drink for their interview time. We may never know. Thank you for watching.
Pensions are again gone.
I used to wonder why in the movie " My Fair Lady" there was so much poverty! It was set up for you to be broke, uneducated and hungry! I haven't seen it years and I doubt now, after seeing the truth, I would ever be entertained!!
Well for people out of the west had it have it worse till today seeds were sown
@@cindychristian1700 !, /
Really enjoyed this, we lived in a three story Victorian house in North London. We had the middle part of it and we had neighbours above and below us. No security in between just a council house with different families in it. Me and my sister used to go out and get pallet wood and stuff to burn on the fire as the house was soooo cold, tough times in the 70s but when I look back it was kinda special in a way as we all worked together to get through it. Think living in that house is where my interest in Victorian times came from. Thanks so much for uploading this
You're welcome and thank you for sharing your story!
My husband and I were both homeless as children. I can only attempt to explain what true hunger pains feel like. The deep awful knawing that causes your stomach pain that eventually cannot keep away and curl up into a ball, even though that does nothing to help. The same can be said of the aching dampness that seeps its way to your soul from the concrete. Even in the best weather the cold never goes away and you could use a hundred layers of cardboard and never know a moments rest.
I can afford plenty of good food now but am unable to eat more then one small meal a day. I've tried so many times but my body just can't adapt to what I call luxurious amounts of food.
My reaction is to check the fridge once day just to make sure everyone in my family has enough food just to make sure they never know the hunger pains their Father and I knew.
This looks like downtown Ottawa, Ontario. Canada, today, May 25th, 2021. Hundreds of thousands of homeless. While the Frontline workers are facing the fact rich people will make sure we can't afford homes.
Don't do drugs kids
@Andrew Phillips exactly. The streets you see everyday contain countless homeless and the housing crisis is happening in Ottawa Victorian London style.
A lot of people are hooked on drugs and alcohol .
@@mikeheaton8424--Not in some parts of Canada. Apartments are unaffordable. I saw an hour-long documentary on it. And they have no food stamps.
The sun never set on the British Empire in those days . Yet the average citizen could find themselves in this situation .
It was wrong then and still wrong today .
My papaw told me about the depression here in Tennessee, he didn't even know he was poor until someone from up north came down and told him. It really did pay to be a farmer, and a hunter. So they didn't starve.
Might've been broke financially, but your papaw sounds to me like he was rich in all the ways that count. When I think about the generations and what our ancestors endured so that we might actually exist, let alone live, I am simply humbled beyond words. Truly awesome in the real sense of the word.
I feel their energy levels, I have absolutely no trouble sleeping 18 hours a day. A strange thing after awhile the place I am while asleep is the place I prefer to be.
Have you sought out a doctor to discuss possible depression? I have it and take medication for it. Wish you the best.
Don't take medication for it ... Count your blessings and take control over your life
It probably is depression but also possibly a low thyroid gland. Get yourself an MRI if you have health insurance. I'm alive today because of that. I used to easily sleep 17 to 18 hours a day in my teens.
This reminds me of a Stacy Dooley documents I watched last week of kids homeless in Blackpool . One boy did a full days work then had to sleep on the street .
Sad.
I have a friend who's living on the streets in a very wealthy area of California and he works almost every day but has to choose at the end of the day whether he wants food or a place to sleep for the night. And on days he can't find work he faces the same choice because there's a soup kitchen on one side of town where you have to line up a couple hours ahead of time and then there's a shelter on the other side of town where you also have to line up a couple hours ahead of time and that either place if you don't get in line early enough you might wait in line for all those hours and still end up with nothing
@@jessicahay9305--Los Angeles County has a General Assistance program that will give people $220 a month and sometimes give them a temporary room.
Felt my heart wanting to explode. Those humans just needed some help, rest and kindness in very short supply. Still see that now with the homeless population.
Heart goes out to them as well.
When I visit the city and am in a hurry, I still find time to nod a pleasant hello to the homeless on the street corners, trying to make a dollar or two.
I am homeless in america.
A huge portion of the current day homeless weren't simply down on their luck as this woman had been, but instead involved with drugs and mental instability.
As a New Yorker and 2nd generation American, I have part Welsh roots, I think to how hard mining life was in Appalachia frontier....It's ....mind blowing...this is what we escaped from and this is why Europeans are strong, well educated, and preach a trade or college degree as the most important thing next to faith.
Love your name
And now you are known as the cushy pampered race now 😂
It's so sad that these people lead such a hard life bless them
The police had orders to move any person who was trying to sleep in a doorway or a public stairwell etc or on a park bench.
Can you imagine getting a few hours of sleep per night and then waking up freezing cold or damp etc, absolutely worn out before trying to earn a few pennies for a cheap breakfast before trying to find a full days work on the docks or some menial job.
If you were lucky you might earn enough to get a 4d bed in a stinking and filthy Common Lodging House in a dangerous slum, before starting all over again to the next day.
If you couldn't earn enough for a bed you had to face another night on the streets.
What a terrible way to live.
The 'moving on' law was yet another battle the homeless faced on top of the struggle to find food and money. A new video on the points you mention is coming soon.
Police still move homeless people one today... Sad and tragic
@@mrbigglesworth_Official Yep in the Netherlands it is illegal to sleep ''on or near the public way'' and you will get moved on, but first you will get your details taken and handed a ticket which means you have to pay a fine. Senseless. Got moved on a couple of times there, once I got a fine. It's also illegal to even be in a wood or forested area between dusk and dawn there, again if forest rangers catch you sleeping/camping there you get a fine and moved on. Many homeless there just collect tickets which of course they have no way of paying until winter comes around and accidentally on purpose then get caught and have to spend a few weeks in prison for non-payment.
@@simonh6371 😒😒😒
@@FactFeast--How did they get clean or wash their clothes? Or did they?
Not much different today, with our homeless camps in cities like L.A., Portland, ect.
In our area they have moved the homeless off from where they were to "Develope" the area ! Thus creating many different areas of homelessness !!!! Times Haven't changed Very Much
Precisely. The modern version wouldn't survive a day in these people's shoes. Shallow, selfish sods.
It's very different today. Did you not watch/believe this?
@@KittyKat-vb1nd the modern version of what pray tell? Having experience homelessness more than once over my short 52 years in this life I am not selfish, shallow or a sod. I have had some extreme up and down times. Even now the house i live in has no electricity or water but I'm buying the land i sit on and am working slowly but surely to get the utilities here. There are people with life situation that are indescribable that put them where they are and not always help for it. Please try to see we are all just people. Poor or homeless does not mean undereducated or lazy or criminal in some way. Blessed be
Thanks for making me laugh. Really?
Oh! So that's where the word "doss" comes from! I had no idea.
It’s a interesting what is revealed in these accounts about language and culture as much as the daily struggle to survive. Thank you for watching!
Jack London’s book entitled, “People Of The Abyss” is another book that dismantles the facade of Victorian philanthropy and exposes the hypocrisy of the elite. Also the book highlights the grim reality of poverty and although supposedly free, the people of the abyss are no more free than an Afro-American plantation slave.
I remember reading a account by Jack London about the family in Liverpool England living in a cellar during the colera outbreak. They were thought to have just all died of colera so the cellar was being filled in with Quick Lime. When Jack asked a policeman how many died in it, the policeman replied that no one would chance going in to see if they were all dead. The instructions from On High were , Just fill it with lime ASAP.
What a fantastic account, he had a great eye and word for detail!
The same was true of the Irish immigrants in the USA in the 1850's on....They, at least did eat, but they lived in squalor and worked MANY hours just to eat. Some people swear it was the Irish youth and not the Italians, who started the gangs.
@@deutschedog3259 😥
i wish people would stop saying that!! there is a BIG difference and NO comparison between poverty and slavery.
so that's where 'dosser' came from, how interesting...we used to use the word a lot back in the 70s, both as description and verb. In Lincolnshire.
A whole group of my ancestors were Londoners ,Living around the east end from 1600 onwards. Towards the end of the 19h Century Many of my family ,whilst still living there were doing well but their religious beliefs compelled them to do charitable works ,and in those days were quite well known. Many a newborn baby boy was named after my 3 times great grandfather who is buried in the Wesley chapel in City road.
This is interesting to read, thank you. There really was abject poverty in many parts of the East End at this time - Whitechapel and Spitalfields being perhaps the most well known neighbourhoods.
Well, i think these days may return if we are not careful
These days never left. The same things happen today.
Stories like ones of these poor women remind me why I love giving back to the homeless communities as much as I can, such a tragedy 🥺
This was such an interesting account.many thanks.poor poor people who lived in the past.
I'm glad you found this short account of these poor women's lives worthwhile and interesting. Thank you for taking the time to comment.
When I first saw the film Titanic I wanted so much to be like Rose (Kate Winslet). But I eventually can to realize than I AM her. I sit on my fat bottom, in my own house, warm, drinking coffee wearing coloured fabrics and jewellery. A house built on the fields in which I would have worked in back then. Those poor bloody souls!💗 Thank God things have and do continue to change since then!
Thankfully for those poor souls (living in absolute poverty), there were journalists like those in the video that sought to record this and start to bring about change. Thank you for your comment and for watching!
Liar
"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
Strangest comment I've read.
The abject misery into which they are plunged is not always self - sought and merited.
It's never self sought nor merited and continues unabated today ! The only difference , the ruling classes unwilling necessity to now offer various welfare programs to help keep hidden the blatant fraud of their debt based economic system ! In fact , there is overwhelming evidence that without these various modern day welfare programs the poverty their system has generated would far surpass anything ever seen. Take away the handouts for survival and you'd find the majority of the populace is the poverty class. The current form of this debt based system has become ludicrous! The working class is already a majority of the poverty class and if continued as is will eventually become the entirety of the slave class. Now accepted as , " normal " , when a major corporation lays off 2000 workers claiming economic restructuring yet increases the CEO's 200 million yearly bonus to 300 million. ...No, nothing has changed except now the so called elected political body is entirely owned by the ruling class and the coincidences are now the planned agenda !
@Another Wacko maybe that would be a good thing... a chance to start anew, with knowledge of the evils of the past...
@@willyD200 Yes! Bring back the guillotine! I WILL Knit!!!
@Another Wacko Um. That might shock 'em into some semblance of actual justice, although I wouldn't hold my breath.
To any none Brits watching this. I hope you understand, when you hate on Britain for colonisation or whatever other evils our ruling class has done, this does not represent the people of Britain. Our ancestors were just as much under the thumb of an oppressive, evil dictatorship as you were. We weren't all sitting around with monocles drinking tea with the queen. We were 10 years old working 12+ hours with no breaks or footwear in extremely hazardous conditions for a pitance. Britain's economy was not built on its colonies. Infact, maintaining our hold on them cost more than the resources we stole. Remember the industrial revolution started here. It was built on the backs of the good, hardworking and honest people of Britain.
Disagree, the colonies were run on the cost of the tax money collected from the colonies itself. As far as this is concerned, basically it's a hierarchy
1) British elite
2)Indian elite
3) British working class
4) Indian working class.
This is how the hierarchywas designed.
@@iantaylor691 Well you’re wrong. British working class people were treated like garbage and when they weren’t used as cheap disposable labour in factories and mills, they were being used as cannon fodder in wars. They were treated appallingly but fought back with trade unions etc etc. It took almost 2000 years for ordinary people to get a vote and have some sort of status, as lowly as it was. So don’t presume to know what it was like for the vast vast majority of ordinary people in the uk.
I highly recommend ‘Neverwhere’ by Neil Gaiman... it’s all about the people who fall through the cracks.
That's a really good book
It is. The folk in it are more like beggars in wealth, not actually crawlers.
I love that book!
I love Neverwhere!
I read that book in highschool and profoundly effected me as I was homeless and still going to advanced honors highschool. I remember reading it in the 90's in Florida by candle light which may sound romantic but I can assure you isn't. My 10th grade economics teacher found out about my situation and left 2.10$ every other day out for me to get food with till he retired the next year. I'll never forget the kindness he gave me for no reason except he was a truly good person. All my teacher's knew I was homeless and did nothing to help and as odd as this sounds I never expected them to help. I still went to school everyday as my Grandfather stressed how important education was to having a stable job and good future.
I recommend that you show parts of Booth's map of London Poverty c.1889/90....It is very interesting to see where our great grandparents lived....
Charles Booth's poverty maps are a very interesting topic and I may have a look at them in future as a topic in relation to slums. Thank you for watching!
I would say a lot of them felt so broken and developed extremely severe and crippling depression as a result that led to them losing all functioning, energy, or joy. Mental health treatments were so poor it was obviously unrecognized and nobody could treat it to start
I’ve seen a lot of poverty in Africa, but never have seen anything as dire as described here.
A lot of these are aired on the BBC and everytime they air I watch them even if I've seen it. I don't know what it is about this time period I find so amazing! I'm so glad to have found your channel!! I'm definitely subscribing right now!!!💖💖💖
Thank you for watching and glad you subscribed. More to come!
People need to remind themselves that this is still the case for much of India and developing worlds.
Thank you for this marvelous video. I appreciate the style of narration derived from its original source. I encourage you to make more if you are so inclined. I'll bet there are so many stories of the past that have been, up to now, overlooked and full of stories aching to be told. Again, thank you very much.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for watching. This channel has a playlist on the Victorians and you can find links to videos from the same Victorian journalists on the channel page or in the video description. I am pleased to say another one is in production now.
Fact Feast-- hearing the words as written by a real journalist of the time ... Street Life... was the video's crème de la crème! The life of the street really comes alive... I hope you'll be able to find more first-hand sources. Best of luck to you! 🍀
Thank you for uploading this shorts insights of the condition of the poors during the victorian ages. It gives a lot to think of
You’re welcome. I’m glad you found it to be useful and thought provoking on the subject of poverty. Thank you for your comment.
Awesome narration. I could feel her, as if she was sitting right next to me.
Thanks very much. I'm glad you think the narration was fitting for her story.
It's great when I can find the time with a clear head to enjoy a short story. Usually I wouldn't have the patience for this.
It’s great to hear you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
THIS IS THE KIND OF CONTENT I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.
Great that you found it! I hope you enjoy the history for you here on my channel.
I must've lived a past life in Victorian London. I'm drawn to watching stuff from that period
You will find lots of stories from Victorian London here, and other places in the 1800s!
I cannot finish this. I'm an Empath and I feel other people's pain almost as bad as they do. I've been this way since a child. I'm 62 now,and it has taken it's toll on this old girl. I do love your channel,though,and gave a 👍. Just a little too sad for me today.
I understand! I'm the same way. I feel exactly as if it gad happened to me. I went to therapy a few times a couple years ago fir it. It was a tough time for me.
Same here, intense to be an empath.
For sure. But it's possible to use sage or crystal to cut these cords we feel for others in order to save some strength and well being
You are making this about u?😂
Those who love to say the world has gotten so much better are not the ones who experienced otherwise, and those who love to say "It eventually gets better" are only heard because those who it never got better for aren't around anymore to say that...
You showed one picture during the entire time, I was looking forward to more photographers.
I find it so ridiculous when I hear people say they would like to live in the Victorian era. They always assume that they would be in the comfortable class, while in reality very few were in the comfortable class. Most were very poor and these people who wish to go back in time would most likely be in the poor class. Illiterate, always hungry, working 12 to 14 hour days in dangerous jobs that often permanently injured you and made you a beggar or often killed you. Your pay enabled you to eat base meager meals, rent a dark dirty unheated room without electricity or plumbing, and buy 2 outfits of the most humble clothes. There was no heathcare no medications, no dentist, often no place to bathe, no eyeglasses, no soap, no shampoo, no toothpaste no toilet paper, no oppertunity for even the most basic education, no transportation other than walking Life was mostly a day to day struggle to keep yourself and any loved ones alive and little else, The most happiness you had was having a meal to eat or somewhere and some time to sleep. These wannabe time travelers would not last 2or 3 days, many not a few hours.
Thank you so much for this. I'll be showing it to my students, as well as subscribing.
Thank you! I hope they find it interesting.
I hope they find it interesting. Thank you!
All of our trivial complaints about minor inconveniences in todays world...these people lived such a hard life filled with suffering and pain. I can't imagine.
What an Amazing story,
Love all the Detail...
Thank you ❤️ 🙏🏻
You’re welcome. Thanks for listening!
Thank you again for another this story.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching.
Who would let a family member live like that with an infant just because they’re annoying? What a world.
Honey that's not what"aggrivate" me ears in this context. She was "aggrivating" the situation,as in, by living there she was taking food from her daughters mouth so she left. Sacrificing herself for her child.
Amazing No dss in those days.... This was when queen victoria with her 90 inch waist through eating was ruling rich got everything poor nothing and nothing has really changed?
Love how the narration. Could feel the pain in my heart with the picture.
This kind of thing is a cycle .. it will happen again. We never learn from our mistakes!
Such an absolutely stupid species we are, on the whole...
There has not always been a middle class. Read writings from Alexis de Tocqueville
Exactly. Think workhouse.
Middle class came after ww2. And is gone again
Growing up I knew very few middle class people . Nearly everyone I knew was working poor and that was in the 80s !
Oh, God! Just.... oh, God! (tears)
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Thanks for posting this wonderful video
I'm glad you enjoyed watching. Thank you!
Your channel popped up on my news feed. So interesting thank you so much for this. New subscriber here 👍🏻
I'm glad to have you subscribe! Thank you for your kind comment. More to come in future :)
Quality channel. Informative, realistic and engaging narrative. 🙌🏻
I appreciate your kind words, thank you. I’m glad it was so appealing for you!
This is depressing. But beautiful writing and words
A very descriptive account, which makes the reality of the terrible lives these women endured all the more vivid.
This was amazing, history comes alive. Thank you!
Thank you! I’m glad you found the history compelling.
Sadly, so many of these conditions still exist. The problem of not having an address for which to apply for a job is still such an issue.
I have seen this Image many times and often wondered who and what her story was. Thank you so much for telling her tale.
Glad you found it interesting. Thanks for watching!
No watching TV for me I love history brilliant
I’m glad you enjoyed watching. Thank you!
“the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”
Its disgusting that things got so bad. Nowhere else in nature has such a set of circumstances facilitated such deprivation. All natural resources and land have been taken, leaving people unable to fend for themselves, unable to make a shelter or catch food from the land. There are a group of thieves who need to give back everything they have taken, everything they proclaimed themselves 'owners' of. Man's treatment of man...its indescribable. These situations must never happen again.
, history repeats itself.... and yet those “ thieves” are still wanting more to day!
Liked and subscribed..never heard of these poor souls
Thank you!
Would be nice to see more than just the one picture...... such a history, and nothing else to look at....
A fascinating and insightful look at poverty in these times. I found this particular era interesting despite its insidious toll on alot of its citizens. The narrator is excellent. I will be watching more of your videos. 🤔
Wow, thoroughly engrossing. Will share.
Thank you very much! Your support is much appreciated.
I been going through your older content.... wonderful
I’m glad you’re enjoying the history. Thank you so much for your support!