Disgusting Victorian Slum Hidden Behind Upper Class Regent Street (Rich V Poor in 1800s London)
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- The fashionable Victorian shops of London's Regent Street hid a dark secret - behind its grand façades, down alleys and courts were some of the filthiest hovels in West London where many of the capital's poor lived and worked. John Nash, Regent Street's architect, believed the construction of Regent Street would divide the upper classes and nobility of Mayfair to its west and the working classes of Soho to its east. Regent Street was designed for shop keepers of fashion to rival Bond Street and appeal to this rich clientele - the " riff raff " butchers and greengrocers who used to make a living in the neighbourhood were not allowed. Find out how, behind this famous London street, was to be found a dystopian world of dark alleys, filthy overcrowded hovels and poverty unlike anything the wealthy shoppers on Regent Street could possibly imagine.
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Great videos as usual. Is there any chance of doing a video of Birmingham Uk?
Thank you very much. I hope to do something on Birmingham as it's a significant city with much history.
The area immediately behind Regent Street on the east is where today you will find the London Palladium, Liberty department store and Carnaby Street today. It is sometimes forgotten that during days of empire the ruling classes and wealthy treated the poor classes as a disposable resource, most of all the ones on their own doorstep.
As I understand it London still has widespread slums, mainly, but not only, in east and south London. It was my misfortune to have spent about nine years living in east London on the Isle of dogs. Whilst the poverty is obviously not as absolute as it was back in the nineteenth century, there was plenty of misery and deprivation. The council housing estates are all in bad repair with dampness being the main complaint. Overcrowding is quite normal. Although things have of course improved, there is still plenty wrong with the place. We haven't moved on as far as we like to think
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden lived on the Isle of Dogs at one time.
Obviously not recently, but still.
Isle of Dogs has been redeveloped and is increasingly affected by the spread of nearby Canary Wharf. A lot of money has been sunk into dock lands develops and in particular riverside new residential for wealthier people has displaced the lower income folk.
The gentrification of Shoreditch and Hoxton is well established and even Bethnal Green is becoming fashionable today.
Of course some of the post war housing developments planned with the best of intentions to replace substandard housing and homes lost to aerial bombing have not worked out so well and are slowly being replaced.
We keep importing poverty so its not surprising
There's plenty of run down slimy areas up in North West London that part of London does not get talked about that much
@@peterwillson1355importing poverty? Sure, but not the main culprit, we’ve been very good at creating it from within
And now no one can afford living there
Landlords are apparently the same then as now or now as then ...😠 as long as it was allowed it continued & now too
Would it be possible to do a video about life in Glasgow during the time of the tobacco merchants & warehouses? So many of the buildings still stand & are now high end apartments & I often wonder what it was like back then.
It’s that time of the week where once again I’m all horizontal and extending gratitude to Facts Feast for another video that he’s dropped like a fielder who positioned at silly mid on 😉
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@@FactFeast We could have a tennis rally of thank you’s because I thank you for all the hard work that you do of compiling these amazing stories together !
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Well if the economy continues to be as bad as it is with inflation going through the roof, we may just start seeing a situation like this all over again. All the homeless camps in the USA and many other countries is a precursor to the future.
I’m a milkman in this area at night 5 nights a week and it has a special feel to it especially summerset house I love it!🇬🇧💜
Yep another keeper .
And these times are repeating themselves again.
Sounds like Miami 😂. The brachfront is high end and shiny and everyones pretty but one block away from the beach is a demilitarized zone.
Well I don't know what they could have expected, when they built all those cute pretty little shops, but obviously they weren't thinking about these poor people. They have nowhere to go so I don't think one should be so surprised to see that they simply stayed where they were.😢
Thanks F.F.❤
A pleasure! 😊 Hope it was interesting.
This time I've outsmarted Google/TH-cam! I am here and ready to learn. It is a good Sunday.
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Damn, it's Monday in Australia.
Another fab video. Soho is very close to my heart as I grew up as a kid in the area 50 plus years ago. It was squalid in places, old stairways still with gas fittings, some of the run down blocks were rancid! I played with a kid who said they had rats running over them at night and were use to it! 😳 I never did venture into those rickety block just by Gerrard St, now gone, a fire station there now. Some of the lovelier places off Regent Street going towards Mayfair are nice but the cross over to Soho was totally f]different and seedy. All gone now, all cleaned up, modernised and off the scale in prices now ! It still has its fair share of cut purses, highwaymen and bandits now though!
Thanks for sharing this interesting picture of Soho 50 years ago. As you say, there are a lot of modern blocks interspersed amongst the old there now. I’d be interested to see the state of what the old ones you mentioned looked like if there were photos.
Your narration is bold and true! You transport me to the period (notably, the Billboard Man and the Homeless shelters are two of the most well narrated stories I’ve listened to on YT! And, I’ve listened to many👍🏾😇
Wow, thank you! It’s nice of you to comment 😊
Yeah!!!! I was waiting for you!
Hope you liked it 😊
Excellent video. I’m thoroughly depressed.
Thanks for watching! I hope you’re ok.
If treated like a dog fight like one. By any means.
You bring me straight back to reading Down and Out in London and Paris, Orson Welles in year 11 English Literature class. Love it, thank you for your work and beautiful voice. And thanks for my brilliant teacher that helped me choose a well read life. Nothing better than a hammock and a good book.
A pleasure! Thanks for listening.
George Orwell my dude!
George Orwell, not Orson Welles.
Thanks for uploading, the Victorian Britain videos are always so eye-opening.
Thank you. More to come!
Another great video! As usual, timeless narration & expert editing (with outstanding artwork). It's amazing to me how conditions were back then. I mean, I knew it was bad...but I never knew how appalling it was until Fact Feast brought it to light on TH-cam. Every time I take a hot shower I count my blessings...
Wow, thank you! It’s good to know you like the presentation.
I really appreciate your efforts and content thou i must suggest you have more than addressed the poverty in the uk in the Victorian era. Will there be any other topics?
Great video. Thankyou 😊
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed.
Love youre work!
Thank you so much 😀
amazing art work. I was amazed to learn about the horses and cows living there. of course they did!
Yes, lots of stables. All the mews courts in London used to be stable yards to the grand houses.
I have a idea for a story - single building tells it’s story through time from construction to modern demolition. Rich to poor and back again.
I luv the photographs b/c they are an actual captured moment in time that will never be again exactly like the one taken ... being a photog myself I know how important photographs are in the decades afterward no matter the time they are set in📸🎥
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How are you doing sir thank you for your great cultural documentary channel. I gathered main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s regent street is major shopping street in west end of london . It’s named after George prince ( later George v1) laid out under direction of architect John Nash and james burton . Regent street is one of world most prestigious lifestyle destination , famous for flagship stores and international brands . It’s London distinctive home of fashion , dinning , wellness. It’s really strange next to this luxurious place slums where miserable poor people were living. Slums main features drunkenness, lawlessness, immortality, crimes . We appreciate your great efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English as well. Good luck to you your dearest ones .
Thanks for writing Khatoon. It’s nice to know this history is interesting for you.
Thanks!
A really Big thank you Brian for the super thanks! 🤩
Interesting
Great! Thanks for writing.
Thanks ff
A pleasure 😊
My ancestor lived in Dartmouth Street He was a shoe and boot maker
I hate to think of him and his family living in such poverty
say what you will but the poor at least take care of each other sharing their crumbs
I've lived in London and worked in social housing my whole life; we have a healthier environment than ever before.
Tower blocks still suffer some damp but only when tenants dry washing on radiators and open no windows.
Thankfully boroughs like Hackney, including Bethnal Green, have pulled down their towers and replaced them with low, canal side apartments which are warm and well maintained.
I've travelled widely and seen people living victorian like poverty today, in India, Cambodia and some parts of Africa.
Anyone who thinks the Isle of dogs is poor should visit it again, coming up to the Blackwell tunnel from South London at night can see it shining like a futuristic metropolis.
England may not be perfect but we are a proud, egalitarian people who only suffer today from a lack of proper representation.
History is fascinating, but I am sympathetic that people had to live like this! :((
😂 people still do!!
YAY🖤😊
Hi is there any chance you can do any videos on victorian manchester please.. im from bolton but live in radcliffe and would love to see what it was like back in victorian times.. i know bolton has loads of cotton mills and some of my ancestors working in them... i really like this channel and it would be cool to see victorian life in other parts of the uk and not just london... from radcliffe.. manchester ❤
Thank you for writing - I’m glad you like my channel! I would like to do something on Manchester in future if I can find the right material. It certainly has much history to tell from the 1800s. I do have a video about lodging (doss) houses in Edwardian Manchester if you should be interested in watching. Here is the link: Brutal and Filthy Edwardian Doss House (Common Lodging House in Edwardian Era Manchester)
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@@FactFeast thankyou so much for replying and I'll give it a watch... again thankyou 🙂
Just think a few years after the re set , great video though they were truly hard times
Every single one of these videos should have 100% likes. This is history, and it’s repeating itself today. The higher the inflation, the higher people are going to get poorer. There are many, many slums in Chicago, and that’s a shame! It shouldn’t be happening anywhere, but politicians are more concerned about lining their pockets than to make sure that their constituents are living in places that are up to code, prices are cheap, salaries can keep up with the cost of living, educational system is teaching children life skills than “CRT,” and gender ideology and indoctrinating their students. This world is gripped by Satan, and we better get right with God.
If you knew anything about CRT you would understand that it teaches how this class system from England came to America and was designed by craven men to pit poor people against each other to keep them distracted as their labour was exploited.. CRT shows how the rich STEAL the labour of the poor to enrich THEMSELVES. The illusion of Race was one way that these poor people from England, Scotland Ireland Germany etc were used in the US. They gave them a lie of superiority to shake off the shame of this squalid background, wiping it on Black people in the illusion of whyt privilege. They were used to oppress black people as a permanent under class and now the rich who created this illusion are oppressing them too, seeing them the way the always saw them, as expendable 😮 Look at the 🤚🏻drug addicts in Appalachia Cleveland Ohio Washington State Maine etc in homeless encampments the rich don't care about them l, sending them back to this 19th century reality.
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That’s why so many of the people in that area went to the US… out of desperation.
During the Victorian period there was much pomp and circumstance regarding Great Britain, and how she ruled the waves and was overflowing with power and money. The problem was, that power and money was in the hands of the few. Most of the population was either poor or destitute, and they were working simply to keep the rich in place, whilst they themselves were almost dying. This would have been a perfect breeding ground for revolution. After all, they had nothing to lose.
But it never happened
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Thank you so much Miji 😊
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Cheers! Glad you liked the story.
This writer needs a thesaurus. 😂😂
6:08 Amen to that my brother.
Question why british people didnt Riot like the french did
Fortunate indeed to have had or have now only one child ... or better yet ... none. Just my opinion & I'm entitled to it
18:34 See? Even the poor ( in deed, only) know the way of Paradise. If only the rest of us would listen.
It sure doesn't look much better this days ,,,,
We are steadily heading back that way under the Tories
Don't go thinking labour are going to get us out of this mess. Labour and tory are two heads of the same evil monster 😈
Nothing much has changed. It's just been moved.
s'amazing how ppl used to do just about anything to get by w/o going on the dole
Yep, all those women turning to prostitution!
And we panic buy toilet rolls !!!!
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Similarly I clutch onto the simple things that I toil for hours to obtain. After all we objectify every worldy object and give it whatever value we see fit most of the things that I have that are importa🎉nt to me have had no cost but Carry sentimental value. To the same thing when something no longer carries that same value to me I part ways with it and give it to someone else for free
No sound 😢
Turn up your volume? 🤷♀️
100% victim...
Lady's and gents there's slums and poverty on both sides of the pond maybe not like 19 th century filth and squalor but you still have pretty similar attitudes about the poor homeless disabled ect from the upper crusters and 1% ..just the " guilded age" is now the Botox age and punishment for pauperism..is basically replaced by beaucracy bs ... and the rich get richer and more apathetic and out of touch while the poor man does all the work 😢...alot has changed yet not changed or been set back 50 years plus..dear God help us all
Swallow Street 😊
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