Victorian London's Most Dangerous Slum (Fenian Barracks)
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- The Fenian Barracks was a Victorian slum that even the police feared to enter. This London neighbourhood had a dangerous reputation as a wretched rookery of villains, with rats yet more terrifying. In 1897 Charles Booth sent an investigator into these streets for his inquiry into life and labour in London, accompanied by a police inspector for his own safety. You will hear, in the investigator's words, the reality of life on the mean streets and what he thought about the people he met. Find out why this was thought to be the worst slum in late 19th Century London. It was certainly a pocket of chronic poverty, but did it and its inhabitants deserve such a bad reputation?
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Source on Booth discussion - See Andy Carter, 2016 for Charles Booth's London 3: Immigration, the Police and the Irish
CC BY - Descriptive map of London poverty, 1889 (north-eastern sheet) by Wellcome Collection; Limehouse Cut, East London, UK by Gordon Joly; Portrait of Charles Booth, Social Reformer by Wellcome Collection; The Rat by Lily Green; Century old Public Health Infrastructure Replacement Project II by steven Davidson
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I’d be proud to be called a Fenian. My family come from a long line of Irish Republicanism 🇮🇪✊
No, thank you!
@@CashelOConnolly Its not that bad.
Honestly, it's stuff like this which makes me realise more than anything else why men from these areas joined the army in droves. Food, money, and a chance to see the world (forget the possibility of a cannonball splitting you in two), over spending your life in one of these hellholes.
Swapping one hell hole for another, damed if you do, damed if you don't! Victims of circumstance.
Still goes on in inner-city America to this day.
In Ireland, that's known as "taking the soup"... In that you were then employed by the British in order to feed your family during the famine.
@@kevincwilhite Also rural America.
What about the women?
Thank you so much for these analyses of the history of early modern poverty. A great deal has changed in the last hundred and a half years or so, but one thing that has certainly not changed enough is the _criminalization_ of poverty, and the refusal of classist systems of power to act with the knowledge that the vast majority of crime or anti-social behavior is the result of unmet physical or psychological needs, _not_ the result of inborn traits
I'm glad you found this worthwhile. The Booth investigations and maps are interesting and it seems there is much modern debate about what they tell us (and don't tell us) about poverty and social inequalities.
And thank you for the analysis at the end!
💯 agree
The criminalization of the poor I couldn't have put better myself. There has always been a section of society that will live outside the law.It seems government policies (social policies and employment policies) aimed at making the lives of less well off harder .Cost of living rises the increase in the use of food banks, the working poor,just some of the issues pushing normally law abiding citizens into petty criminality just to make ends meet and to survive. It seems very little has changed.
@Chompy the Beast. I've Seen And met people you describe as "unmet physical and psychological need", who have money and live in good areas...... And They are Still Behave, think and Act like Savages.
Back in the day a few inner city suburbs in Sydney Australia were slums, these days they are the most highly sought places to live. How times have changed.
This is interesting. Do you know the name of these neighbourhoods?
@@FactFeast Darlinghurst and Surry Hills, are two that come to mind.
@@JohnLee-pt5jz What about Paddington?.
@@mayena Paddington yeah, I think Redfern is still a bit of a slum area.
@@JohnLee-pt5jz nah they cleared out government housing in Redfern sone years ago. It's all gentrified now! :)
Fascinating stuff. One wonders not only about the one-sided nature of these testimonies but also the extent to which the alleged criminal and "vicious" behaviour was caused by having to live in such miserable circumstances.
One thing sticks out most. They have a tendency to romanticize the Victorian Era as if it was a grand time for everyone. It wasn't.
Who’s they? I don’t know anyone that romanticising the Victorian era as nobody is alive from then, I thought it was common knowledge that it wasn’t particularly pleasant, especially for the poor
No one ever toutes it as being, " a grand time for everyone." What a preposterous statement to make when one considers the novels of Charles Dickens and other writers, who expounded on aspects of the hard scrabble life of sections in London, during the Victorian Era. We were aware of this in elementary school. To have bought into the notion that everyone was having a grand time, or duped into mere romantic fancies, indicates acute naiveté.
Who is “they”?
Ripperologists etc
The most popular Victorian story is Oliver Twist the era isn't that romanticized in my opinion
My father's grandparents on both sides were Irish. He, himself never once claimed to be Irish at all. Just a 'bermondsey boy' and proud to be a cockney. A Londoner, and Englishman.
Your Father had no affiliation with Ireland other than having Irish Grandparents so its no wonder he never claimed to be Irish...but some do!
@@dannymcmince He would have been raised with Urish culture at home. Generally, it takes 3 generations to 'become' a place. Eg, Irish 1st gen, Irish/London 2nd gen, London 3rd gen.
Oh wow. I dont think i would ever be able to that as i always asked where i from.
In the UK, unlike the USA, claiming to be of a nationality that may sit well for political reasons with relation to anti British sentiment has never been, after a generation or two, somthng those with that ancestry would comfortably clame. There are a huge number of English people of German decent for example, who during WW1 changed their names for the same reasons. So, Mr Farmer went to war in 1939 instead of the original Bauermann.
Those slums would now be worth a fortune … £1 million plus each!
That's why many of the slums were bulldozed from this period onwards.
“.... this dystopian world this once was ....” - And rapidly moving back to one!
Great video. My mother's family were from the parish of St Clement Danes, just next to the parish of St Giles. It was pretty poor in St CD's too, but not as bad as St Giles. I didn't know about the Fenian barracks at all, so very informative My dad's family were Irish immigrants but came over much earlier in the late 1700s. The Irish that arrived later seemed to get the worse deal.
Very interesting. Thank you for your comment. I have a video about the slum of St. Giles (and Seven Dials) on my channel should you be interested.
@@FactFeast I'll have a look. You have a new subscriber!
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Mmy grandad was from isle of dogs , of Irish descent, he was one of the first to lie about his age to join WW1 as a blacksmith he was put in the. Royal engineers tunnelling and building whatever needed Building.
Especially after the famine.
Booth said that the Moss Alley area of Southwark (Bankside) was one of the poorest places in the whole of London. My Grandfather was born there.
Interesting. I will have to read what he describes. Thank you!
We old cockneys uped sticks and moved out years ago because we knew what was going to happen, it would be gone. We had the old Pearly King and Queen parades, street parties, local fairs, and trusted each other. There are some of us that still use our old slang, but even we are becoming a dying breed. But there are still the memories of our misspent youth. Great video. T.H.
I’d be proud to be called a Fenian. My family come from a long line of Irish Republicanism 🇮🇪✊
Co Tipperary??
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I live on Bow Common Lane, right on the canal (limehouse cut). I love watching stuff like this, it’s so interesting learning about the rich history, especially as I walk these streets every day! Thanks for the great content 🤗
Really enjoy your content.
My family are from Bethnal green, and it's mad to see how life would of been for them. Very interesting
I'm glad this video had meaning for you. Much of the East End would have had terraced housing like this, but here the Limehouse Cut added something foul. I have a video 'Stinky London' if you're interested in that history too. Thank you for your comment.
I just love the old photos would love to step back in time to see how they lived
We are like lucky to have these photos - a window on the past. I’m glad you enjoyed the presentation.
I loved it thank you and I enjoy them so much I can't get enough history on how people lived x
A lot of east London has been gentrified, but while there is money around, on a lot of the council estates (public housing) there is a lot of poverty to this day And there is a lot of crime,although an awful lot of that is drug related But make no mistake, the east end is still a tough place
It's fascinating to see on the map how, the further east one goes, the larger dark colored poor areas are directly behind the red houses on larger through streets. Like a facade of "respectable houses hiding the true poverty of the areas.
There really was a stark difference between east and west London as well. There are a few pockets of poverty identified on the western map sheets, but hardly any areas considered wealthy/upper classes on the eastern maps.
Yeah and how that's changed!!
Just a little more than 100 years later in some of these area you'd need to make £10,000 per month to afford a 'starter' home!!
Haha sums up Southport
@@FallenAngel53 Southport had slums?
@@FactFeast There were plenty of wealthy areas in East London. Upper Clapton in the north of Hackney was quite wealthy in the Victorian era. And Hackney itself was originally a wealthy area in the early Victorian era.
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Sounds like the Five Points area of Lower Manhattan in the 19th century where the Irish gangs were most powerful at that time. Poverty, unemployment and hives of criminality and violence.
That’s a hugely interesting place and period in New York’s history.
David the kid came from Five Points
Billy the kid came from 5 points.
@@tommacik185 that's another myth about billy the kid he was born on Allen St lower east side near Katz deli there there was alot Irish immigrants lived there 5 points was very bad though like this
To read more about poverty in Victorian London I would suggest 'A Child of the Jago'. Such unbelievable crushing poverty.
This is a great recommendation!
@@FactFeast I actually read it as part of a Amazon Kindle collection called "Tales from Victorian London". It's got two novels and a collection of short stories all detailing life in the slums of London. It's only .99p for the whole collection.
A child of the Jago is the ‘Old Nichol’ in Shoreditch / Bethnal Green my husbands great- grandparents lived there
This is where i was born and went to school my ancestors where from there. Growing up in this place even in 1990 was rough lots of violence and poverty. Amazing that it was this way in the past as well, sad that the industrial revolution impoverished so many and enriched so few. Better now I hope I have not been back there for 20 years.
It's interesting to know you grew up there. I believe there have been many new flat developments alongside the Cut in recent years - some having to deal with pollution issues from the old industries. I have a video named 'Stinky London,' which is also about the Cut and Stinkhouse Bridge should you find it interesting.
@@FactFeast when I was a kid I Used to play on the old dockland yards and Victorian factories befor they where all either knocked down or sold as future flats. thoughtout the 90s there where a lot of abandoned buildings and old pubs. One time I jump off a roof of a old burned out pub in Teviot Street nail went strait through my foot. Spent a lot of time exploring so many old places as there was a lot of urban delay during my childhood. In retrospect these places were lethal dangerous. 🤣
The Cockney aren’t English? My Dad was Cockney and they are the people that most English people from elsewhere in the realm bring to mind if asked to “describe a Londoner.” Gotta be born “within the pealing of the bells.” True Cockneys are a very small group from a very well defined area of the metropolis. To use that word to describe all Londoners has always been insulting and incorrect. A slight
Fact is, back then, most of London was a dicey affair and nothing good ever happened after dark. To be honest it’s like any city of over a million denizens.
RULE 1: anything can happen at any time anywhere.
Covkneys are definitely English, although the area that thru lived in was very multicultural compared to the rest of England.
My grandfather was brought up with curry. Meanwhile, my dad never had spaghetti because it was too foreign, and that's just li ing in Kent.
Liverpool is the same,.... I spend 5 mins there and I can slip into their accent like I was there all my life. Liverpool was first stop for Irish leaving during the famine years in and around 1845.
‘Within the pealing of Bow bells’ The church is St. Mary-le- Bow, still standing after being renovated after heavy bombing in WW2. Of course with the ambient noise and building expansion of London, far fewer people are born ‘within hearing’ particularly as there are no maternity units in the area where the bells can actually be heard.
Oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clements.
You owe me five farthings say the bells of St Martins.
When will you pay me say the bells of Old Bailey.
When I grow rich say the bells of Shoreditch.
When will that be say the bells of Stepney.
I am sure I don't know says the Great Bell at Bow
Then all the bells peeled together and the words were "Here comes a candle to light you to bed.
Here comes the chopper to chop of your head".
My mother taught me that charming little rhyme during the very early 1960's.
Of course there can't be any real cockneys now as you had to be born to the sound of ALL the bells ringing out, and it's far too built up for them to be heard within each others range now.
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Major metropolitan areas still have their share of slums. Wonder if there will ever be a time that they no longer exist.
Thank you! Slums blight too many countries past and present.
Being called a Fenian is no insult my friend . The word is thought to originate from the word " Pheonician" . Glorio , Glorio , To the Bold Fenian Men !!
It depends what side you're on.
Definitely not an insult. Its derived from the old gaelic world for warrior
It's not derived from Phoenician, its an Irish word
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@@FactFeast I'm sitting in my apt. in the dark, my little lit up pretend fireplace heater is going here in Maryland as I binge watch your kool videos and listen to your wonderful voice.
Next to me are coins I found while metal detecting found mostly where a house once stood from the 18 hundreds, now towned down in the 1930's. I owe him a huge debt of gratitude as he luved Morgan Silver dollars and other coins, his house was chock a block full of them.
He hurried many of them in his once yard and in the woods. I've found many on that old property. Recently finding a metal box that had an old nice 18 hundreds jewerly box filled with beauitful Morgans that look as if they were just minted !
One such coin is an 1895 no mint Morgan, & none yet have been listed with the U.S. Mint !😁 It soon will be. Just 19 of my Morgans can probably fetch way over a million after reseaching extensively. Plus there's still many more to explore, including English coins form Queen Victoria ones, King George, King Edward and so on. What folks pay for some coins is mind boggling.
I took care of my mom & step dad for 17 yrs, they died just four months apart in 2010, the inlaws that were never around when the above were alive changed the 'wills' and in short I was left homeless. Eventually have been living in poverty for the last 11 years but hopefully that will soon all change. Take care of the money and it takes care of you, right?
I hope to soon sell a good many coins, and get a nice real home, furnishings ect and a truck with a cap on the back and maybe a really nice RV. Invest a bit wisely and make and sell doll houses and Castles all hand made, maybe open a hobby store.
How's that sound? I've metal detected for over 30 years and recently it's really paid off. Still the best find was a ring that a women had lost in the park, it was her grandmother's ring who'd just had died. After shearching of almost 6 hrs I found her ring. She wanted to pay me but I said seeing her happy tears were tmore then any money.
Shortly after that is when I started finding the Morgans, maybe her grandma has something to do with it, I like to think so.
Karma is real I think. Don't you?
Thank you again for the stories.
Thank you for telling your story. I’ve no doubt that it must be a great feeling to discover a little piece of history - especially if coins are valuable. An interesting and rewarding hobby.
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So the red bits of the map are where the folks are in the black and the black parts are where folks are in the red. Makes perfect sense. 🤔
I wonder how different this is today in poverty areas from the 19th century, today poverty includes the food banks ,there s 14 in Leicester city where i live, this is the new workhouse! Universal credit is the new poor relief act so we re going back to these days quickly !
At the very least, there are food banks. The government does a terrible job of feeding it’s population, so the slack is picked up by the public, including volunteers to help run food banks. That says something, doesn’t it? Food banks are never going away. 🍽
@@yvellebradley2502 its how long the food banks are supplied though
One thing that I find fascinating, is that in the old photographs, children are in the streets, happily playing and dressed in apparently clean clothes, for the little ones are wearing white smocks!
White clothes would be soaked in boiling lye to clean them. Generally, these photos depict moments of special occasions, therefore the children would be in their best clothes.
I’ve watched a few of your videos, and it’s interesting. In contrast to my family that was living in rural Texas and Oklahoma at this time. My Mom’s family that were in the United States were part of the Mohawk Tribe, they had ended up with the Cherokees in Oklahoma and lived tough lives in Oklahoma. The other part of her family was in Norway, apparently they were starving and left to come to America for food.
My Dad’s family I think is more relatable to the slums of England at this time. They had made it to rural Hillsboro, Texas and were working picking cotton and subsidising on barely any food or money. There was no option for education for them, no option for a future, and no shoes to be had. According to my grandmother who was born in the 1910s the best thing that happened in her early years was the weakest of her siblings dying in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic so food was more available. It was what it was, and even moving to Dallas meant a life just as bad with no family to help and much fewer work options than in London. I think we had the option of moving west, or onward at least though which made it feel less hopeless.
Think of Limehouse today with it's hipster bars serving craft beers, it's boutique shops and it's complete gentrification.
There are many modern blocks of flats completed or under construction now in the vicinity of the Limehouse Cut.
The Irish eventually assimilated and contributed to London.
The last photos look like something out of the land of Oliver twist
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I lived in the barracks in a previous life. They used to call me 'old hopsy' and 'coatsmith', though the latter was a bit of derisive funning because I made a coat from scrap rags one time. It was a hard life but not a boring one. I was a 'local character' who made my living drawing humorous advertising art for doss houses and selling bits and pieces. They called me old hopsy because one time I got so drunk I fell down and my jaw hit a table and knocked most of my teeth out, so I had a scrunched up old toothless guy face.
Excellent! Reminds me of story cassettes I used to listen to as a kid...
Thank you! It's so nice you enjoy how this is narrated.
I'm also a Londoner, so this is right up my street... (pun intended). Subbed.
I enjoy you videos. I listen them just about every day. I find them very educational. All so some nights I go to sleep listening to them. Again thank you
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@@FactFeast that is what I use. Again thank you for your videos
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I really enjoyed watching the video whilst going on street view and looking at all the streets that have been mentioned, it s crazy that even though they are modernized now, you can still imagine what they could have looked like in the 19th century.
Btw, does anyone know what is the name of the "Eastward" street today?
Eastward (and Box) Street no longer exist. Furze Green now occupies the same land. I’m glad you enjoyed watching. Thank you!
Proud to be a fenian. T.A.L
As always,verry interesting,thanks.
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Racism against the Irish.Nothing new here
Very interresting! Thank you for your stories of the past.
Even in 'good & well to do' parts of cities & towns had their fair share of crimes.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
As you say, according to Booth even the west end had pockets of poverty in close proximity. Thank you for your kind wishes. Merry Christmas.
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You're welcome sir. I worked very closely with the Salvation Army for 7 years. I still help out with food boxes and all. I was in the Salvation Army untill a certain CPT did under handed stuff, not worth going into, but KRMA did pay her back, it has a way of doing that.😊
The folks in the Salvation Army DO do alot of good all over the world. I don't take pay for ringing the bell.
When folks Army & public good things can be done.
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Maybe an idea for a video might be about how a public drinking fountain killed many in London when the public used it and so did their animals.
Seems the water table under the cemetery that was high on a hill and somewhat out from the town broke through and joined with the town's drinking water. Many people and animal's got sick and died.
After the pump/fountain was shut down they said that saloved the problem.
I always wondered ...how did they devert the cemetery water stream to where? 🤔
Do you know the name/location/date of this event? I would be interested to read more.
It was very hard to get people to accept the authority of the police. At first they were o ky allowed to prevent crime on public property, so no burglaries.
Love this, feel so lucky, times were hard back then.
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Times haven't changed much. In the US, if you see a pawn shop, payday loans, buy a car with no credit, beauty supply store and a mini market, you are in a bad area.
Fenian barracks love the offensiveness of it me being a fenian to
I'm glad I ddnt live in these tough hard miserable times
And the birth of Queensbury rules boxing the 1840’s please do something on this ..? Great content 👏🏽 xx
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It’s amazing anyone survived
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Great reading! And those rats...urgh!
Ps really enjoying your channel.
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I used to live at Bow Church in 2009 there was a few Irish around there but not a huge amount. Never heard of the Fenian Barracks untill now, very interesting.
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My mum lived in Devon's Road. Her family were bombed out in the war.
I assume the blitz resulted in a lot of destruction and they eventually resolved to remove what was left - though the public house remained.
1894 was when rats were discovered to carry the fleas that caused bubonic plague. This was 3 years after that and I cringed so hard when the part of seeing all the rats were spoken about. 😬
It’s quite incredible how many Duckworth described seeing, their size and the noise they made. Imagine seeing them running down the street every time it rained, and it rains a lot in London!
The bacterium was discovered in 1894, it wasn't connected to rats or fleas until 1898. Not that people in the slums could do much about it without government assistance. That didn't come into force until the beginning of the NHS.
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Try Sommers town near Euston between the wars.., more pubs in a quarter square mile than you could get around in a session..had its own police station, Who called it little hell. Coppers patrol in fours 2 by 2 and a black Maria as back up 😆
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@@FactFeast Start with the Hugenots..work forward before that I'm hopeless lol
Somers Town was a slum until just a few years ago.
Absolutely fascinating!
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Unfortunately there's plenty of Fenian barracks up in the west of Scotland
I've seen rats big as cats in several places when I lived in a big city; I found one drowned in the toilet bowl ... have no idea how it came to get in there to begin with🐭🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀 I've heard rats teeth continue to grow, never stopping the growth & that is why they chew & gnaw continuously & they can gnaw through cement & this is how they keep their long teeth a normal size
😱🐀Terrifying! Used to be so frightened of rats, in some of the cities that I lived in.
This is true of rats and many other rodents. When I had pet mice and hamsters, I had to provide chew sticks and other similar things.
Thanks You A Brilliant Old Video Stay Safe From Blue
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Does anyone else notice the prejudice in the accounts of the people in the barracks - i spent most of the eighties in this area of bow, it looks different but it was wild
Hatless women, huh? It's always pointed out that a hat was important to one's dignity up to the 1970s.
I love the £100 reward poster in one of the pictures. That must have been a nasty crime as that amount would have bought a nice house back then.
This is the tories blueprint for all the working class, well done boris.
You sound a bit like Dara O' Briain.
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It just did it for me.
“Hat-less women” … the Horror!
I don't suppose a baseball cap counts. Lol
The total depths of despair, the rats had it better than the poor souls who lived there.
How are you doing merry Christmas happy new year we are as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English language as well i gathered main information about topic you talked about briefly here it’s in second half of nineteen th century London slum was attracted of journalists and social researchers who described them as area of extreme poverty degradation crimes violence called immediate public action to improve living and sanitary conditions of working class fenian barracks is slum district called by police marked black was perhaps most dangerous rookery in late victorian London red arrow shows fat refinery alongside Limehouse cut attracted even more terrifying at date 1898 source London school of economics author Charles booth thank you for your cultural documentary historical channel you encourage us to read learn new information improve our English language as well iwish for your channel more success and progress stay safe blessed good luck to you your dearest ones
Sorry imean terrifying by rat
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There were places just as if not way worst places in London then its difficult to say somewhere was "the worst" where crime and poverty were so common place back then
Yes, as you say, there were many competitors for this title. My next video release will feature an area that had a notorious reputation.
I appreciate all the time effort and research you put into these videos.
I'm so glad I stumbled across this great and interesting channel of yours.
@ Fact Feast. I would be so delighted if you know of any information or images of Crown Gardens. it was next to Aldgate East station, between the station and St.Botolph's Church. Now the 'Cucumber is opposite, and a huge blue-ish office block is where it used to be. Please help, if you can. Thank You :)
Damned shame they could no longer deport some of these people to The Swan River Colony any more. My ancestors that were transported here ended up having great lives once their sentences were done.
Clean wide open spaces- cheap land & opportunities that didn't exist elsewhere...
All some one need do was breed up some terriers and teach them ratting... could have made a fortune.
They did! There was a famous dog called Billy and he held the record for the amount of rats he killed in a certain amount of time, there is a famous etching of him.
Pets were only kept by the wealthy back then, it's how Crufts came about, and poor people kept dogs and cats to keep the vermin down. They could barely fed themselves let alone a 'pet' so dogs and cats had to earn their keep, as it were.
Whippets were popular in the neighbourhood, but for dog racing.
@@FactFeast Whippets & Longdogs were more for coursing than ratting. My family were Greyhound trainers & dog breeders so dogs have always been our life.
My husbands great grandparents lived on Hawgood St in1885 , it must have been horrific
That's very interesting. Other viewers have written comments here who had family living in the area too. If life was anything like it was described in the video then I'm sure it must have been hard. It would be fascinating if there were written accounts of living there. Thank you for watching and taking the time to write a comment.
They moved from the Old Nichol rookery in Shoreditch/ Bethnal Green , another infamous slum to be near the docks for work. He’s great grandfather lived to be 89, it’s just amazing
Could you make a video on the origins of the very first football hooligans this video reminded me of something I seen only briefly on tv years ago and why the word hooligan came about it was derived from an Irish surname although I can't remember much else as it was years ago what I did remember was it was from a second generation london irish family who were infamous for being good fighting men
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Like most towns and cities of UK during that period..
Some are still like that
Too many pleads for approval
Interesting 🍿
Glad you thought so. Thank you for your comment!
Why were pawn shops called Uncle's?
It seems to be Cockney slang, but I can’t find any definite reason for this. It may be that they were helpful when in need, like a family member. Perhaps someone else will share an opinion.
I can believe this,proper rough to a new level....take ya life in your own hands down there!!! Avoid !!
Those Victorian rats have nothing on King Chuck’s era
This in the world's Richest city in the World. Where was all this money trillions go?
Narrator of this channel is same guy that does Epic Economist . Cool !