Horrific Homes in Victorian East End London (Squalor in Star Street)
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- East End London was a horror for Victorians to live in - Star Street was filthy, where dozens of people were crowded into small dwellings. These overcrowded houses were squalid hovels for the working classes - dock workers, labourers and sweeps. Find out, in the company of a journalist, what it was like trying to survive jobless and hungry in one of the poorest steers in 1800s London.
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What a great voice and accent you have for this type of narration. What sort of UK accent do you have? It sounds a bit like a Northern Ireland accent or possibly Bristol....but I'm probably wrong. Thanks for your posting.
It goes to show the Royal Family are of no use whatsoever. All they are there for is to show us all ALL THEIR WEALTH clothes jewels holidays big carriages horses more than one residence etc they never cared and don't now either. Thanks to William Beveridge who started Social Security and Council houses at the time
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When one considers that at that time Britain was the richest country in the world with the largest Empire that had ever existed such appalling poverty was a national disgrace.
Very similar to the U.S today.
Like America now
@@user-pe2lw1ze8i Yet you people just keep coming to America!
People hating The British for the Empire should see how many people in Britain lived in the cities.
The people were not educated about not tolerating "their betters". The Russian film Potemkin was banned in England due to fear of the people revolting. People did not know that they didn't have to take it. The idea of monarchy has been odious to me since the age of 9. This shows how frightful it can be to people who are not the royalty and nobility.
I just realised that I read almost daily of yet another housing horror of mouldy and damp housing in today's towns and cities. The poor are still condemned to live in appalling conditions.
Hi how are you doing?
Helen.. you right..
My paternal great grand parents lived in the East End of London in areas such as Whitechapel, Shadwell, St George in the East, Mile End..They were Dockers, Carters, Stokers, Laundresses…. during this time. I’m very proud that regardless how very poor they were, they fought to survive and better their lives as each generation worked for a better life for their children.
No doubt these were hard, physical jobs. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, same here. And only one known death of the children in 1852 probably due to the cholera 😢
My paternal great grandparents where from the east end and my maiden name and theirs was Freeman .
Your family sound very much like mine! All East Enders!
That's because we aren't raised as victims no matter what part of GB we come from.and we don't blame any other race or culture for how things are.
And this while the Royal family , the aristocracy and the upper classes lived lives of luxury . A Great Britain for them , a living hell for the poor and destitute . The grinding poverty may have changed but the rich and the class system responsible for it remains to this day .
I completely agree with you clouddog2393
I think you'll find the poverty is just as bad today, the government & the media are just much better at covering it up. This country makes me sick.
Imagine life in the colonies. There was a reason American colonies rebelled
Wir alle sind nur Sklaven dieser Halunken und das auf der ganzen Welt.
And the people adore the monarchy.
Queen Victoria could have sold one Jewel and fixed that whole East End.
That is why I dislike "royalty", they've always been greedy, selfish "so called leaders".
The "royals" 🤢🤢🤢🤮
Back then they actually blamed poverty on the poor
Prince William's Daughter has over 2 billion dollars already......
It wouldn’t change men’s hearts.
I’m 3rd Generation east end and my daughter is still living there now so we go 4th. She’s a secondary school teacher 🙌🏼 but through my dad we came and landed from Ireland. From taylor’s, painters, dressmakers to dockers, train messengers to a schoolteacher. Proper grafters and proper people.
Be PROUD !!!!
My grandmother born in the late 1800s had a two up two down terrace house, granddad worked in the docks, pawn shops were a common weekly occurrence. Shopping down the market at nighttime, with lanterns hanging on the stalls, would mean cheaper fresh food as there were no refrigerators in those days to store fresh vegetables one half penny would buy enough for a stew. Second hand woman’s wool coats would be cut up for her sons short trousers.
Thanks for sharing. This was daily life for many people.
Thank you for this. Now we know why we see pictures of families sat outside these houses. There were so many people crammed into the rooms it was easier to go outside as long as it wasnt raining. These houses must have been teeming with infection as people lived so close to each other.
Yes, only tiny yards to the rear of houses shared by more than one family of several children. Unless it was a back to back or court - but not here.
and all we hear about is Slavery .... is this not a situation worth talking about ???😢
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Not true, have you never learned about this in school, did you not pay attention?? The tenements and the plight of the people there was taught in early 20th century social studies. Also books like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which is often assigned reading in school. The East Side Tenement Museum in NYC has been around a long time and other museums like it. But so many horrors of slavery were barely taught until recently! Mothers and sons forced to copulate to breed more slaves!! Babies taken from mothers! @patriciafarrell8620
Another sense battering historical narrative. You can almost see and smell the squalor, feel the grime. Horrendous. The census of 06-02-1861 records Star Street as consisting of 123 houses and about 1500 people of whom 300 were children and many were barefoot. I recall seeing children in Manchester slums without shoes in the 1960's. Amazing how quickly that cannot even be imagined by most people just 60 years later.
Thank you for this. As you say, it is hard to imagine - but I don't doubt it at all.
My Father grew up in Liverpool, he said some of the boys in his school, had no boot's, the teacher would call them to the front of the class, and they'd try to find a pair that fitted from a box .
Yes that 's true! I Recently I watched a documentary about Queen Vivtoria , praising her! It seems ridiculous to me, she constantly turned a blind eye to tremendous poverty, even in London! She didn't care about that! All she cared about was the welfare of the Rich and herself!
Charlie Chaplin said he could never eat pickles because it would remind him of the odor that came from the factories that put them out when he was a child.
John you are correct ..
This is a good reality check for the young adults of today!!!
Well said sadly today alot have a victim mindset
Well, for all of us.
People don’t know poverty the way our ancestors did. I’m grateful every day for the hard work of my family before me.
Awesome pictures! My great-grandmother's father was a coal miner and they lived in Lancashire. She remembered waving to Queen Victoria as the monarch went by on a train. In 1912 (guess the Titanic didn't influence them), she went to Canada with her mother and siblings, while her father sent money until he could afford to come. Gran would always tell me how dirty everything was where she had lived because of the coal dust. She never wanted to go back to "The Old Country."
Thank you for sharing your family story. In some industrial towns the air was think with smoke and, as you say, dust.
At the time Britain have the biggest Empire in the world and the richest country yet kids were running around barefoot in the Streets.
And we are told all whites benefitted from black slavery.
That is because we lived and still do live in class society. The nearer the bottom the less you matter
Because the rich despise the poor.
New subscriber - very interesting. Will binge some more of your vlogs! Thank you.
My Grandmother recalled her family living in one room in a shared house in Bermondsey and later Southwark, going on a special train crowded with other families to hop farms in Kent or Sussex in August, everyone working including the children, and considering it a holiday because they stayed in their own hut and made the most of the fresh air, ponds and rivers. The Salvation Army visited and gave out dried goods; she received her own bar of soap and kept it on her at all times, eking it out in hope of another bar and another holiday the next year. Eventually her Father was offered farm work with a tied two up two down cottage that had an outside standpipe and earth closet in a garden where he grew his own veg - her phrase was it was like winning the pools (lottery equivalent!).
Oh how our expectations have changed. It's almost impossible to understand the hardship, degradation and indignities the urban (and no doubt rural) poor endured in Victorian Britain.
An interesting story and thank you for sharing. Hop picking was a big thing. Fresh air - much needed - and some work. Welcome to the channel!
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Thank you it's no wonder my ancestors immigrated from the UK to America..Hardy souls survived this.We need to honor our forebears. ❤
Hard times. Though the slums in the big cities of North America were no better. I have videos on 1800s New York. Thank you for your comment.
this is the 1800s not the 1600s...
I do hope your ancestors are not now living on the streets of down town LA
You spelt honour wrong.
Did anyone else notice the girl carrying fire wood at the beginning had natural matted hair dreadlocks.
My Great Grandfather came from Whitechapel and was living in Wentworth Court in 1881 census. He ended his days in the workhouse.
In the heart of the East End and Petticoat Lane. A fascinating district, much changed by redevelopment.
Ah bless him
OMG, I grew up in london, i knew that way before my times life was hard. Watching this, I realised, compared to what we thought was hard, was NOTHING compared to what we were told!!!! TODAY no-one would except this level of poverty without trying to help. I pray, that NO HUMAN should be suffering like this in the 21st century, IF WE ARE, WE ARE NO BETTER THAN THE PEOPLE IN CONTROL BACK THEN!!!!!!!
Yes, conditions for the poorest were terrible. Some endured unthinkable poverty. You can find more videos like this on my channel.
Well said🙏
Right in the heart of the World's Greatest Empire. Of course the class system still dictated whether your life had worth, but still...
Thanks for watching Brian.
Unfortunately still class system those who think they are entitled and middle class snobbery.
@@FactFeast Another excellent episode! Thank you for your hard work and for bringing us quality content!
My Maternal Great Great Grandfather came from Poplar .He was a Cobbler .Looking at those conditions , I'm not surprised he left for New Zealand back in the early 1860s.
Different clothes but squalor is still present today. No difference, poverty, filth, and ongoing homelessness.....worldwide.
The photos and drawings in these vids are stunning. Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome! I’m happy you liked the presentation.
How very sad!
Thank you for this enlightening and riveting presentation.
A few minutes in, I was struck by how rich most of us are these days by comparison, and what a miracle it was that anyone survived into adulthood in those days.
How did they battle against depression which must have been a daily feature of life?
I've been at a low point in life, and known poverty, and had to dumpster dive for food.
I sold all of my gold jewellery (there wasn't much) to buy food and pay bills.
These narratives have a remarkable resonance for us now, and fill the listener with respect for human resilience and survival instincts.
I also think about the vulnerabilities of the little ones playing in the street. Anyone could have predated on and exploited them by flashing a copper coin to a hungry little child.
It’s little wonder lives were so short, if childhood was survived at all. I hope you are well and find yourself in better circumstances today. Thank you for your comment.
Yep.. Caroline..
I don't know where you find your photos, but being so into Victorian England, I love your channel. I'm Australian, but visited England 3 times and loved all the back streets on night tours .I even went to Spitlefields and had a drink at the 10 Bells hotel. There was the most breathtaking tiled wall depicting Victorian Spitlefields. I think it's actually the original. Your so lucky to live amongst all that history. Thankyou so much, Louise.
You were in the heart of the East End! I'm glad you enjoy the content and thank you for writing. It's very much appreciated.
What I find interesting is that a lot of my ancestors lived in the east end from the 1600's until my Great grand mother left and migrated to New Zealand in 1889, but none of the ancestors called be called poverty stricken.Quite the opposite in fact. Because most of them were Wesleyan/Methodists,they were very socially active,working to support actual poor people. Star Street was a little over half a mile along Commercial Road and led southwards. It was originally designated Dock Street and then Planet Street, but became Star Street in June 1865. In December 1891, it reverted to being Planet Street again. Finally it disappeared in the 1960s.
It would be interesting to know why it went through a period of celestial names when Dock Street seems more fitting to its location. Thanks for sharing.
I lived in Richard st off Bigland st off watney market in the 50s , i remember the name ,but can;t place it.
The politicians are trying to send us working class pesants back to these kind of living condition 😡
Totally agree with you there mate, the sad fact is, is that they're succeeding as well & no one bats an eyelid.
Nobody knows what to do, I guess
In the US, also. Rich Men North of Richmond...
You mean like #Just_Stop_Oil ?..
My Mum is a Eastender but not a Cockney because you were only one if you was born with earshot of the Bow Bells of St Mary’s Church! Unfortunately she was born in 1938 and had to spend her childhood in the start of WW2 in the Eastend and life pretty much went back to the squalor (Not as bad they had it) Victorian times 😢 The stories she have told are really disturbing! I’m hope nobody has to relive these times 😢
All these poor sad deprived people now long gone from their misery
I've read accounts from Henry Mayhew. He has some hilarious interviews with street beggars. With all that poverty the Irish especially managed to keep their sense of humor. Even the poorest of the poor were poets. One lady said she had her arm blown off at a glass works factory. He took her out for gin, and after a few glasses she started unraveling her arm which was perfectly fine. He inquired what happened to her burnt arm? She looked down at it and said, "Oh, Joseph, Mary and Jesus, me arm has miraculously been healed!" She looks at Mayhew, "Governor, this calls for a celebration in honor of 'Our Lady," bless her, what ya say about another glass of gin for both of us?"
This was the downside of the Industrial Revolution. Much of that pollution was a result of military mechanization in the pursuit of colonialism around the globe. The elite profited while the poor who sacrificed blood and bone suffered. They were, literally, expendable. The poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter", by Lewis Carroll, taken from "Alice in Wonderland" , is about exactly this. The walrus is the elite (over) educated, the carpenter is industry, and the oysters are the regular people just trying to get by. Worth a reread, if you're interested!
When people look back on the Victorian era as a 'golden one' I shudder as it was one of the worst eras in 'modern' history and has no excuse.
When I think about the early Soap Tax which made common soap unaffordable for the poor. Luxury item? I'm.a clean freak. Imagine being too poor for soap. Awful.
Poverty happens everywhere throughout time and its a terrible suffering for those who are poor
Victorian England when and where my working class grandparents were born was a really horrible life that most had to live .
I almost cry while you are narrating i can feel the suffering of these precious people 😢😢😢
The pictures to me go way deeper than the images , they shine a torch on the rich and the establishments greed who made these scenes possible, there utter greed and contempt for the populace they lorded it over animated these images, it was this greed that was the cause and these images were the effect !
I agree 👍 I think those foreigners who are asking for reparations due to the colonies should be shown these pictures.
Truly, the best history channel of its type, and the narration is superb! I am very interested in those times; My grandparents grew up in the late 19th century, in a rural environment... which was no tea and cake itself! But better that than this hellhole place, for which my heart grieves for the poor denizens.
Terrible conditions as always for the poorest! Great video and history 👍. People who think how wonderful it was in Victorian times! Think again!
Thanks very much👍
My Grt. Grandparents lived in Whitechapel and some were born in St. George’s in the East. They lived in several different houses but in 1891 were in Brick Lane, Whitechapel in a tenement house, 6 children aged from 2 to 16 and two adults in 2 rooms. GreatGrandma had 13 children , 7 of whom died as was usual at that time. Owned nothing but a few sticks of furniture. Grt Grandfather died aged 54. The entire area now a mini Bangladesh.
Yeah it's really been taken over....Bangladeshi street signs under the old English ones....historic buildings made in to their restaraunts....
Thankfully one set of my great grandparents came from Manchester and came to sunny Australia, he was a Carpenter. Now I can understand why now.
This is my new favourite channel. It's worth it for the photos alone.
Thanks! It’s great you enjoy the content.
I found your page today. And you have an amazing voice and it is facinating to learn about the past.
Thanks very much and welcome to the channel!
Looking at the photographs of all the people long gone now makes me a wee bit sad. My own dad passed September last he would have turned eighty eight late February .
I’m sorry for your loss stuartgmk.
@@FactFeast Thank you FF we moved to Australia in 1966 from Scotland . My dear old mum told me of the fear and shame her parents had off the poor house from days now long past.
I’m sorry for your loss and send comfort ❤
Living in London for about two years i use to stop there every day with the tube. I would never imagine it was like this in Victorian Era..
Good video highlights the conditions faced by the poor people of the east end.
Good documentary.
However the very first photograph was taken in Sandgate, Newcastle upon Tyne.
You can see the JOHNSON DODDS & Co warehouse at the rear.
Doesn't make much difference where it was taken I suppose as it must have been pretty grim anywhere in Britain at that time.
What exactly did people do regarding the so called "pauper's funeral?". It came as a complete shock that the parish did not help with the dead? Thank you once again as always. I cherish your work.
Councils had/have a responsibility for people who died within their boundary, these were the pauper funerals (now called Public health funerals) and are no-frills services, the person who has died will be provided with a coffin (no flowers, viewings, obituaries or transport for family members.) You cannot choose a funeral director or the date or time of a public health funeral. Burials may take place in an unmarked grave, known as a common grave, that may be shared with other people.
One of the most haunting bits of human history, on poverty, exploitation, and suffering.
Again, I thank my great grandparents for finding their way to North America and to a better life.
This what the politicians want to return for the UK people.
love these, my family lived in or near Bow until I was born! apparently we used to have one of these types of houses, sold it before I was born , its about £4m now😭😭😭😭
How it it change in value ? I can see where the density was greatly reduced , but was the house torn down or just remodeled ? Did the house get destroyed in the Blitz and get “leveled up “ after the War ? I read war is a cruel form of urban renewal . The poor do not benefit.
@@shereesmazik5030 They had ALL the generations of the family living across four floors, it was super packed. Then gentrification started to creep in and they needed to move. Not anything too exciting, but its been split into flats now so far as we know, much like everything else in London 🙄
I was brought up in Jubilee Street Stepney Green in the late 1940s -50s ,Now some of these so called slums are grade II listed! 😳🤑
Another good one, Fact Feast!
Glad you found the history of Star Street interesting.
My 2nd Great Grandfather, was from ST George's area, so I've discovered. He left there in the 1800's for Middlesbrough, which was a new and booming Victorian town. He became a coal merchant and set up the 1st house, coal delivery service by horse and cart. He became very successful, which afforded him a decent life-style and a nice house, eventually in a good area. He could afford a servant and his wife and children, had respectable middle-class lives. i'm sure the people left in St George's probably died of illness or malnutrition, I'm thankful my Grt Grandfather left.
My mum grew up in 1920s Stepney. Just off Commercial Road. They shared their house with another household who lived upstairs. Researching family history I found much of her family lived in Whitechapel often sharing a house with one or more other households. But I found the same situation among my northern father's family and that of an in law. Even in the late 1960s in Manchester I lived in a bed sit in Cheetham Hill where local houses were in multiple occupancy. Families with up to 5 children living in one room with a baby belling or filthy old gas oven as their only means for cooking.
We forget the huge masses of poor in the past ; " Hard Work ' wasn't & never is enough . We only remember the very few who had beautiful things $ . We must understand how bad the vast majority had it in : " The Good Old Days ".
Poor poor children🥺😱😖
I love stories like this it's history
Great! You will find lots of them here.
Social history is always very interesting - here , we can have a look at a tiny area of the British Empire - and
though it is not easy to find out the actual conditions existing there in the great Victorian period , it can easily be imagined , and it also can befound that , the class sytem existed always in the whole world .
I love this channel- the narrator is amazing!!!
Thank you so much 😀
My grandparents were married in a church in Piggot St, Limehouse. Grandma grew up in Poplar. Her mother was a policewoman who hid a gun in a pocket in her very full skirt.
That’s quite a story!
Where my mum's family lived in late C19
This was so interesting! I learnt a lot as I had to keep pausing so I could Google certain things. 😂.
The cat's meat worried me, but I found out its meat for cats, not the meat of cat's! 😂.
I love all things Victorian. Great video! 👍.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
Back in the 1840's and 50's my great great great grandad was a stable lad at Cumberland lodge where Prince Albert kept his horses, he became head stable man and when he left it is recorded that he got a pension. I am sure the work was hard, but he was one of the lucky ones in terms of the poverty people lived in then. I wonder at the things he saw and lived through.
It’s really nice to be able to know your family history going back so far. A fascinating history. Thank you.
I have just found your channel and subscribed, I have always been interested in social history ,this is right up my street excuse the pun. My grandmother was born in 1899 and told me many stories. It is easy to see how so many infants and young children died in infancy. Regards from North Yorkshire.
Welcome to the channel! Thank you. You will find lots like this and more here.
It's hard to believe that this is what this generation went through , and it would be hard for those people of that year to believe how life would be in 2023
Bit like America now with there tent cities...nothing changes!
Omg I was looking at your tent cities, it said 50,000 are living on the streets in California. Is this accurate. I'm scared because Aussie homeless people are appearing now due to unaffordable housing. I'm thankful every day that I own my home.
Homeless everywhere, see eg. Arizona- not just Calif
I’m so glad I was born a many years later, my heart hurts for them 😢
I lived in New Road Whitechapel as a med student from 1978 to 1984.Happiest time of my life ,everybody was very friendly.The house/slum we lived in had an outside toilet and a sweat shop in the back.
I expect I might be able to buy it for a few million now!
No doubt they’re very expensive. Spitalfields too. A world away from the Victorian era.
Well that certainly puts modern life into perspective.
Jack the Ripper drew attention to their terrible plight apparently , as bad as he was. It was his crimes that inadvertently made Queen Victoria and the government more aware of the extreme poverty in East London.
And remember, this was at the height of english imperialism. many of the wealthy families owe their positions in today's establishment to East End London poverty.
In 2023 the state of the houses are still the same but now cost £30k per month to rent. Luckily children no longer die of the conditions, because no one can afford to have them.
And in such squalor Huguenot silversmiths produced such work of art.
The present king could do the same! So many are living hand to mouth and the few elite do nothing to help! 😡🇬🇧
why should they help?? If you're living hand to mouth, improve yourself and get a better job. Get yourself out of it. Why should others get you out of it? Lazzzzzzzy.
You sort of wonder why so many kids,? Then you realise there was nothing else to do, to cheer them up...and no contraception either......🌵💗😓
Thanks for the vid!
Thank you too 🙂
This must be the blueprint for the poor people in housing projects in America! The same conditions are found there today.
Those little children on the first slide. Cruel and sad to know they, especially girls, have a future of misery, drudgery, prostitution, poverty, disease and early death!
Prostitution was rampant among the poor. By the time a prostitute was 35 she was likely missing a few teeth and had multiple venereal diseases.
And the Royal family was living in absolut luxury, it was wrong then and is wrong today
Hackney East end no better in 1960, where i was born. No bathroom, outside toilet. Terrible poverty. I was taken away put in a home, Elephant castle childrens home
Parfett Street, Woodseer Street and Walden Street in Spitalfields and Stepney still exist today and give an idea of the type of houses Star Street would have looked like.
Although Star Street was probably less well constructed and poorly maintained, it will give people a good idea of what the hundreds and hundreds of terraced streets in London looked like.
I'll take a look. Thank you!
I feel like I'm going back in time listening to this!
Thanks F.F.❤️
Glad you liked it Lana. Thank you!
Some of these places still exist & actually look quite quaint now & are worth a LOT of money
I'm sure they are given proximity to the city. Some of the properties in Spitalfields are worth multiple millions.
@@FactFeast Yes, right near the market in Spitalfields & a few off the sides of Brick Lane.
I've a friend who lives in Gun St, but it's council housing & modern. Even the name of the street & the cobbled, winding pokey alleys are all so evocative of all you speak of.
This is also Ripper territory, as you must know!
I wonder why there was no work for people, allowing the living conditions we see here. I hear and read about men who couldn't find work during these times, but is there something that happened to cause it? Without work, and certainly no programs for the poor, it explains how things were so bad, but it's difficult to see how awful it was for them. How can thousands of people live with no money?
The industrial revolution caused massive unemployment.
People didn't work 8 hour days back then. They had to work 16 hour days and accept whatever the pay rate was, otherwise the employers would sack them and give the job to someone else. 16 hour days meant there would be half as many jobs as the comparable amount of work would produce today. We're heading back towards the same thing now - employers don't pay sufficient wages for people to live, so consequently the government (aka the taxpayer) has to subsidise work through universal credit. We also even have skilled workers like nurses using food banks. It's important that we get back to reducing the massive gap between the richest and the poorest. Make the very wealthy pay realistic taxes, pay workers proper wages. In turn they'll pay more taxes themselves and be less of a burden on the state by not requiring benefit payments, and our economy will be healthier as people spend more. The lessons from Victorian England are there for all of us to see. It wasn't the good old days, it was horrific. We can study history, we don't need to relive it.
I was poor when I was young and the unemployment rate was high (1970s) and I would take any job for any hours, any amount of money. The trap is that you cannot get ahead that way; you are always falling behind, financially, and (believe me) It costs MORE to be poor (high interest loans, no savings, no benefits, poor transportation choices, no sick day pay etc). @@stevehartley621
Thank you really interesting 😊
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
Most of the people died from sickness .very sad .
This denigrates the gradual decline of the tenants and says nothing about the poor wages, long hours, back breaking work with no benefits, and little to no healthcare. Factory and dock owners used these people and it wasn't until the Chartist movement in the 1830s, and the labor strikes in the 1840s.
No workers compensation either for on the job injuries
Just as today we’ve always been a poor country with a few very rich people
65 years ago I was born in the heart of the east end, but I’m glad I wasn’t born then.
Not a lot has changed since then. The rich get richer and poor get poorer.
This video is excellent, it shows the living conditions of that time, but it doesn´t explain why. If anybody can explain that I would love to read it.
Thanks in advance.
That place sounds sorta like parts of Baltimore….or Philly…..Detroit….Brooklyn….or LA 🤷🏼♂️🖤
This is off topic but are you 'Agro Squirrel Narrates'?
If so, that makes two channels where I love your work. ☺️
No, not the same. It's fantastic you enjoy it!
Upbringing, and not poverty leads to crime.
Try saying that if you are watching your child freeze and starve to death and theft is your only option.
Not always…
Man, are you arrogant, Samantha. Be careful, the gods punish hubris...
Very sad that the monarchs did not care about thuer people
Last part of my research in east London there were many pocket of slums were people tried to survive and feed their family. Honest people there managed to make living . In 1900s east London where poverty, slums . Many having relatively well to do housing only street away . There crowded and competitive environment and beginning of racism and immigrants were perceived to be taking housing and jobs . Immigrants of Jews were main target . Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information, improve our English language as well we appreciate your efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students. Best wishes for you your family friends.
Thank you KHATOON.
Ah yes....always the victims. Yet they still come here in their Thousands....they DO take housing....jobs? well not so much anymore....
@Khatoon170 Yet, amidst all the referred to racism of the 1900s, was the Battle of Cable Street in 1936 where the majority of poor and working class eastenders stood against Moseleys fascists and refused them passage through the streets, with many, many thousands turning up, estimated at up to 300,000, to make their feelings very clear that they would not be tolerated. There was hand to hand fighting and people even threw chamber pots at the fascists from their homes. Many were arrested and 175 were injured, including children.
80 years later, the commemorative event marched from Altab Ali Park to Cable Street. St Mary's Park, which was the site of a 14th century church that was destroyed in WWII fighting against fascism, anti semitism and racism, was renamed in 1998 to Altab Ali Park in memory of a young British man of Bengladeshi heritage who was killed in 1978 by three teenagers in a racist attack.
There was indeed racism, but there were and are far, far more people who reject racism and stood up against it, then and now.
Its modern poverty now😢
Thank you
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"You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy", truly fits this.
The BBC? Or DWP?
@@alancrane4693 Both and some more
Houses of Parliament
Any council building
Go to New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles. Or any Democrat run hell hole. It's all on display.
Great video! So sad....
I’m glad you found it worthwhile. Thanks for writing!
Found it very interesting. Thanks