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This nearly brought me to tears😔 I grew up poor and had times of homelessness,but it's no comparison to what these poor kids had to endure..I just can't understand how the royal family could live so lavishly, without even a care for those suffering so greatly..No child should go to bed hungry or have to walk the streets in rags..These stories help me to appreciate what I have and not take for granted that I can at any time be right back on the streets and not knowing where my next meal will come from..
Just because your life isn't as hard as these children doesn't mean you should be living in fear of losing your home. I'm happy you appreciate what ypu have but no person should have to go through that. I'm really sorry to hear and hope you find peace of mind soon.
God bless you I had the same happened to me my mother gave me up to my grandparents whom was broke and died when I was 16 making me homeless at the time.
@@Rob_Walker. I can’t start to imagine going through that, and while I don’t know you I do know that we are brothers. And as one of your brothers I’m pained by what you’ve shared, and I hope with everything in me that only good comes your way from now on.
When I was a kid in the Pennsylvania Coal field , I lived in a small mining village. Everyday I got up early to scower the culm banks for good chunks of coal that fell off the carts coming put of the mine on the night shift. My dad was a miner but we could not afford the price of coal, so we kids scavenged for it during our play time. Somedays were bountiful enough to have some coal to heat our pot bellied stove at home and had enough left over to buy fresh meat at the butcher shop. Eating meat once or twice a week was a treat.
Absolutely horrid to think what these peoples' live must have been like. Thanks for making the video, I love how you make content about what most peoples' lives were like during the Victorian era, not just the fancy rich people.
im from northern ireland, its so interesting to hear about how the potatoe blight effected people in england too, inaccurate historical reporting has let to tales like these being buried so well done sir in reminding us of the harsh lessons of history, amazing channel 👍👍👍
It really was a desperate existence being constantly wet, cold, dirty, hungry and relying on chance that the tide will bring enough to buy some food that day.
Given the likely-hood of stepping on something sharp and getting an infection, hunger, cold, and wading in such unsanitary water, I would be surprised if half the dead bodies found in the Thames were not those of mudlarks. This must be one of your most horrid episodes yet!
The unfortunate thing is, in many parts in the world, the life of the poor isn't much different. I was lucky enough to be born middle class in South Africa, the poor here live very much like the poor then in Victorian era London. People come around on garbage days to rummage through trash for food or valuables (bottles etc that can be resold). The garbage dump in my town is massive and home to a population of around 100 people who dig around in the landfill, again for valuables. Crime is rampant in the poor areas and extremely dangerous. Our government recently placed the poverty line for food (the most basic requirement) at US$45 a month with MEDIAN income at US$250 a month, and we're doing better than most of our surrounding countries.
@@ANWRocketMan I was in India a few years ago for work (I’m a social worker) and I saw some truly horrific things that will stay with me until the day I die. I live in the US but I live in an area that has been ravaged by mining companies. The area I cover for social work is some of the poorest in the country. We have some extremely poverty stricken families. People want to act as if this doesn’t exist in society today but unfortunately it does. Here it’s generational poverty. A long line of individuals who have been completely neglected. I love social work but it is a hard job.
@@ANWRocketMan if you're a woman and dirt poor you could try and break the cycle and not have kids. However, poor women never exercise that power they have. In fact they usually have a brood of 3-7 offspring. What a broken species we are.
I absolutely love your channel. I’m fascinated by this era, in and around this area and the lives of the people who lived through it all. It’s hard to imagine this being possible in a period not really even that long ago. Keep up the great content in the great way you do with the amazing stories from the actual mouths of the people themselves.
I believe hearing about the past from those who lived it first-hand brings a deeper understanding of how difficult everyday life was. I will be doing more. Thank you for your support!
This was so sad. Such a great story to preserve. Just thinking about the few people who did climb their way up out of the slums of London, their hardship and determination for a better life anywhere except where they were. It’s heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. The whole family is caught in this mess, but the boy is determined to take care of his mom and sisters at the cost of his own life………..😢
Interesting that copper nails which are found in abundance on the foreshore, so much so that they are generally left there by the modern mudlarks, were such a prize in those days. The poor little mites barefoot and barely clothed out in the mud.
The value of a commodity for which they scavenged is now of less worth than the everyday objects they may have carried with them and are sought on the shores today.
We truly must thank our ancestors for their efforts merely to stay alive. For otherwise we wouldn’t be here to appreciate their hard work. You have the best channel. ❤️
Fantastic series. Essential to understand the historical details of common people and their lot in life-especially now, considering the rise of “popular” anti-government and anti-regulatory impulses in the UK & US.
The worst thing about people in this Era who lived on the fringes of society was that poor people's lives had no dignity and their existence was so utterly miserable 😢
It really was a dystopia for many and quite unimaginable for us today were it not for the honest reporting of a handful of journalists and social commentators.
These videos do an outstanding job on putting today's struggles in perspective. There are many in this world who are still doing it tough, but it does seem like we've come a heck of a long way in terms of living standards.
She looked like she ate her way out of mourning. The royals made me sick and still do but they seemed to live in their own little town in the castle and didn't have to go out for anything. I suppose it was easier to live with themselves if they didn't have to actually see anything like starving people especially the children. That is one screwed up situation having a king or a Queen. They govern the Catholic church. Which is a pointless thing. In the US you don't announce that your family tree goes straight up. But it's common knowledge about the royals. They can actually turn their noses up at people when they are all kin in some morbid way. It's almost funny if it wasn't a real thing. The Queen and Philip were cousins. Keeping it in the family is just their norm.
I watched a program once called 24hours in the past , presented by Ruth Goodman . The first of 4 episodes shows in particular the collection of horse muck and dog muck off the streets, back then they prized finding dog muck because they used it in the prosses of tanning leather !
Hi Fact feast , just watched the video you mentioned 'pure finders'really good vidio , there's one thing I've remembered though what i heard on 24 hours in the past and that is the majority of horse muck and other offel they collected in wooden barrels ended up in the West indies , used as fertiliser on banana plantations , apparently they couldn't get enough of the stuff ! Your stories get a big thumbs up from me , I'll be watching , many thanks, Rusty .
Subbed. I've subbed to many great history channels on TH-cam in their earliest days and watched them grow. I see the same for this channel. I truly think soon it will 100k followers if it keeps this level of quality up
The last 10 minutes the little boy whoms mother lost everything 5 years after his fsther died due to the potato blight broke my heart. He took care of his mother the best her cpupd and himself while she was sick. Regardless of how little he was. He was more of a man back then as a wee child. Than any man I've ever known these days. God bless him hope he was able to get a better life. For him and his momma. If not. God bless their souls.
The thing that is the most sad is the complete ignorance displayed by the child interviewed. He doesn’t know anything, even about his own city and country and where he was born! The whole situation is just horrible. I don’t mean to trivialize the physical aspect of being a child mudlark in anyway though.
I imagine that for many poor and working class people in London the countryside was very much ‘abroad.’ In the sense they’d never been and only knew what they had been told.
I watched in another video that some people would throw things of value in order to watch the mudlarks wrestle it out. However, this increased their chances of getting infected by their injuries. 😕
🇺🇲sailor told me they did something similar in South Korea where there was a bridge over sewage polluted water. 1 of the best things that ever happened to me was being expurgated from the service & continuing association w/squids & grunts.
The worst part is that they're mostly children because the odds of surviving 10+ years in that "profession" are slim. Edit: of course there's a chance to get out and gain a job day laboring too but I don't doubt that the harshness of poverty and conditions limited their lifespans
Mudlarking seems to be quite an interesting leisure activity nowadays for people with an interest in history, but certainly NOT to do it as a job! I could see it getting boring very fast! I'm quite tempted to have a go at it on my local river (The Mersey, Eastern end), seeing as I won't have much luck with gold panning LOL.
This is so sad and not much different than how I grew up but we didn't do mudlarking but definitely a lot of metal scrapping and pawning crap just to eat..and lots of govt cheese and food stamps that looked like monopoly money and just glad to have a home
Mudlarks or Bone Grubbers (I have a video about them too) would take bones to middle-men dealers - often called 'Marine Stores' - for money, and these dealers sold them on to factories for the production of soap and glue.
The tidal Thames is an incredibly dangerous river with powerful currents that can take you under. The water is full of filth (dirt. chemicals, sewage, bacteria, viruses) and it is freezing cold with the beaches full of sharp objects, full of tetanus. If you get stuck in the mud, it can suck you under or else hold you until the tide comes in. At high tide, the river reverses direction on top and flows upstream as fast as a galloping horse. The downward flow river flows underneath resulting in numerous life-threatening vertical whirlpools. The Thames is no place to play for adults yet alone children who would be unaware of the dangers facing them. Most people who attempt to swim across the Thames die, and today, it is illegal to attempt this.
These stories just break my ❤. The worst part of it, is that these are VERY close to truth. Explain to your grandkids that these stories really happened! O exaggeration! I think its a good idea to supplement these quick videos for kids studying History. Tweenies. I guess you can tell I miss my grand daughter!
Isn’t it bewildering? Look around you now, making a sweeping generalisations here Ik, but you are relatively comfortable, internet, food, heating, electricity and a home, only about 150 years later than this hell we hear about now. An entire century, generations toiled and suffered in the factories that in one way or another contributed to what we have today… their collective labour echoes today, we just seldom care to listen.
It pisses me off no end to see how these poor souls lived out their whole lives in abject poverty. Mere children consigned to hunger and suffering, while their 'sovereigns' plundered and pillaged the world, subjugating nations and stealing their resources, with no care or compassion for their own subjects. I hope their sovereigns are consigned to hell for never lifting a finger to help, while enjoying untold wealth and prosperity.
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Its crazy them days the kids will to live
This nearly brought me to tears😔 I grew up poor and had times of homelessness,but it's no comparison to what these poor kids had to endure..I just can't understand how the royal family could live so lavishly, without even a care for those suffering so greatly..No child should go to bed hungry or have to walk the streets in rags..These stories help me to appreciate what I have and not take for granted that I can at any time be right back on the streets and not knowing where my next meal will come from..
Just because your life isn't as hard as these children doesn't mean you should be living in fear of losing your home. I'm happy you appreciate what ypu have but no person should have to go through that. I'm really sorry to hear and hope you find peace of mind soon.
God bless you I had the same happened to me my mother gave me up to my grandparents whom was broke and died when I was 16 making me homeless at the time.
@@douggieharrison6913 Thank you 😊 I appreciate your kind words..
@@Rob_Walker. We both lived to tell our tales, that's definitely something to be thankful for..
@@Rob_Walker. I can’t start to imagine going through that, and while I don’t know you I do know that we are brothers. And as one of your brothers I’m pained by what you’ve shared, and I hope with everything in me that only good comes your way from now on.
When I was a kid in the Pennsylvania Coal field , I lived in a small mining village. Everyday I got up early to scower the culm banks for good chunks of coal that fell off the carts coming put of the mine on the night shift. My dad was a miner but we could not afford the price of coal, so we kids scavenged for it during our play time. Somedays were bountiful enough to have some coal to heat our pot bellied stove at home and had enough left over to buy fresh meat at the butcher shop. Eating meat once or twice a week was a treat.
19th century London was a terrible place ,that's all that can be said. Thankyou for these videos.
There were so many horrible ‘jobs’ that ‘worst’ is arguably a moot point when discussing what many had to do just to survive. Thanks for watching!
21st century London is a terrible place too
21 century London isnt that much better
It ain’t much better now
At least it was English
Absolutely horrid to think what these peoples' live must have been like. Thanks for making the video, I love how you make content about what most peoples' lives were like during the Victorian era, not just the fancy rich people.
You’re welcome. It’s nice to know you found this engaging to watch. Thank you!
im from northern ireland, its so interesting to hear about how the potatoe blight effected people in england too, inaccurate historical reporting has let to tales like these being buried so well done sir in reminding us of the harsh lessons of history, amazing channel 👍👍👍
Some poignant art work in this vid ... TY *Fact Feast* for teaching us how easy we have it now days ... horrific life then
It really was a desperate existence being constantly wet, cold, dirty, hungry and relying on chance that the tide will bring enough to buy some food that day.
Given the likely-hood of stepping on something sharp and getting an infection, hunger, cold, and wading in such unsanitary water, I would be surprised if half the dead bodies found in the Thames were not those of mudlarks. This must be one of your most horrid episodes yet!
Probably bigger criminals doing that.
Just remember there were also toshers they made plenty of cash but by going into the sewers themselves
It's a great treasure that Mr. Mayhew was able to document these experiences w/ every day people so we can see how far we have come......
We are lucky he wrote in so much detail about so many people 🙂
The narration is wonderful. Thank you for the vivid reality people lived in at that time.
You’re welcome and thank you! I’m glad it set the right tone for such a hard life.
How extremely sad!! God bless those little ones of the past for enduring such adversity. It’s a terrible shame that they had to live in that manner.
That is so pitiful, when little children suffer such pains and sorrows such as this, it breaks your heart.
I really don’t understand how people survived. Life was so hard! Honestly! How did they endure?! It must have been a living hell!
A wretched life indeed - suffered by children as well as the elderly.
The unfortunate thing is, in many parts in the world, the life of the poor isn't much different. I was lucky enough to be born middle class in South Africa, the poor here live very much like the poor then in Victorian era London. People come around on garbage days to rummage through trash for food or valuables (bottles etc that can be resold). The garbage dump in my town is massive and home to a population of around 100 people who dig around in the landfill, again for valuables. Crime is rampant in the poor areas and extremely dangerous. Our government recently placed the poverty line for food (the most basic requirement) at US$45 a month with MEDIAN income at US$250 a month, and we're doing better than most of our surrounding countries.
@@ANWRocketMan I was in India a few years ago for work (I’m a social worker) and I saw some truly horrific things that will stay with me until the day I die. I live in the US but I live in an area that has been ravaged by mining companies. The area I cover for social work is some of the poorest in the country. We have some extremely poverty stricken families. People want to act as if this doesn’t exist in society today but unfortunately it does. Here it’s generational poverty. A long line of individuals who have been completely neglected. I love social work but it is a hard job.
@@ANWRocketMan if you're a woman and dirt poor you could try and break the cycle and not have kids. However, poor women never exercise that power they have. In fact they usually have a brood of 3-7 offspring. What a broken species we are.
I cannot believe how hard life was for the poor back then. It makes me cry
Unfortunately the suffering of the poor can be as bad as it was back then even today. Despair and hardship have always been our companions.
Come to Skid Row Los Angeles
@@kenny6920 It's warm there dough and they can afford drugs.
I absolutely love your channel. I’m fascinated by this era, in and around this area and the lives of the people who lived through it all. It’s hard to imagine this being possible in a period not really even that long ago. Keep up the great content in the great way you do with the amazing stories from the actual mouths of the people themselves.
I believe hearing about the past from those who lived it first-hand brings a deeper understanding of how difficult everyday life was. I will be doing more. Thank you for your support!
Here in Portsmouth there’s a “mudlarker” statue erected right next to HMS Warrior,worth a “google”
It’s an interesting story. Thank you!
This is yet happening in Thailand, Sri Lanka, or anywhere where refuse is heaped.
Least it's warm there
And Africa for the makings for electric cars.
Your stories are always interesting and frequently entertaining, though tragic. Thanks for such great content!
It’s great you find the content so interesting. Thanks for your support!
This was so sad. Such a great story to preserve. Just thinking about the few people who did climb their way up out of the slums of London, their hardship and determination for a better life anywhere except where they were. It’s heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. The whole family is caught in this mess, but the boy is determined to take care of his mom and sisters at the cost of his own life………..😢
Fantastic read! This channel is like a looking glass thru time, thanks for sharing this video!
You’re very welcome! I’m glad you enjoy the presentation. Thank you.
Yay ! Thank you ! Have been binge watching your videos over and over. Your voice is perfect 👍☮️💫
It’s great to know you like them so much. It means a lot! Thank you.
Interesting that copper nails which are found in abundance on the foreshore, so much so that they are generally left there by the modern mudlarks, were such a prize in those days. The poor little mites barefoot and barely clothed out in the mud.
The value of a commodity for which they scavenged is now of less worth than the everyday objects they may have carried with them and are sought on the shores today.
I didn't know mudlarks are still a thing. It's beyond horrible that society still lets some people down that much.
Thanks
A pleasure! Glad you enjoyed the mudlarks.
We truly must thank our ancestors for their efforts merely to stay alive. For otherwise we wouldn’t be here to appreciate their hard work.
You have the best channel. ❤️
Thank you so much for your support!
Another great upload 👌, thank you for the work you put in and the great narrator 👍. Watching from Norway
Thank you for your support! It’s great that you enjoyed watching.
Fantastic series. Essential to understand the historical details of common people and their lot in life-especially now, considering the rise of “popular” anti-government and anti-regulatory impulses in the UK & US.
Another video my friend!!! Keep them coming! My wife and I are hooked!
I’m glad you both found this one engaging! Next Sunday’s video is connected to mudlarks, but I’ll let it be a surprise…
The poorest person in the West today is better off than these poor people of Victorian England.
I had an ancestor who was a 'scavenger '-sounds like he did a similar thing but was employed by the council.
Fantastic video what a hard life they had thanks again 👍☺️😌😌
You’re very welcome. Glad you enjoyed watching!
The worst thing about people in this Era who lived on the fringes of society was that poor people's lives had no dignity and their existence was so utterly miserable 😢
It really was a dystopia for many and quite unimaginable for us today were it not for the honest reporting of a handful of journalists and social commentators.
The best victorians channel. OLIVEIRA, PORTUGAL
been down in the mud beside the thames.. it's full of rubbish needles broken glass and it stinks
Just found you Excellent! Subscribed! 🏆
Welcome to the channel! Hope you enjoy the content.
Incredible hardships! Makes one very happy to have been born in this era, aye??
Seriously amazing work as always !!! 👌
Thanks for your support! It’s appreciated.
These videos do an outstanding job on putting today's struggles in perspective. There are many in this world who are still doing it tough, but it does seem like we've come a heck of a long way in terms of living standards.
Fantastic video!!!
Thank you! It’s great that you enjoyed watching.
Excellent work!!subscribing now..
Thank you. Welcome to the channel!
There was a movie made in 1950 called the mudlark. It was about a kid who was a mudlark who snapped Queen Victoria out of her mourning.
Wish she’d woken up enough to actually help her people!
She looked like she ate her way out of mourning. The royals made me sick and still do but they seemed to live in their own little town in the castle and didn't have to go out for anything. I suppose it was easier to live with themselves if they didn't have to actually see anything like starving people especially the children. That is one screwed up situation having a king or a Queen. They govern the Catholic church. Which is a pointless thing. In the US you don't announce that your family tree goes straight up. But it's common knowledge about the royals. They can actually turn their noses up at people when they are all kin in some morbid way. It's almost funny if it wasn't a real thing. The Queen and Philip were cousins. Keeping it in the family is just their norm.
To think we had the cheek to call others barbarian!
I watched a program once called 24hours in the past , presented by Ruth Goodman . The first of 4 episodes shows in particular the collection of horse muck and dog muck off the streets, back then they prized finding dog muck because they used it in the prosses of tanning leather !
They were called ‘Pure Finders’ and there is a video about them on my channel.
Hi Fact feast , just watched the video you mentioned 'pure finders'really good vidio , there's one thing I've remembered though what i heard on 24 hours in the past and that is the majority of horse muck and other offel they collected in wooden barrels ended up in
the West indies , used as fertiliser on banana plantations , apparently they couldn't get enough of the stuff ! Your stories get a big thumbs up from me , I'll be watching , many thanks, Rusty .
Subbed. I've subbed to many great history channels on TH-cam in their earliest days and watched them grow. I see the same for this channel. I truly think soon it will 100k followers if it keeps this level of quality up
That’s very kind of you to say, thank you! Your support is appreciated. Lots more content planned for the future.
And there are still children in Asia and South America who mudlark in the sewers and rubbish dumps.
Tough life back then. Lucky to be born today.
Grim. Must have been awful, but the well off lived in such elegance.
Our poorest in the West live in luxury compared to this.
The last 10 minutes the little boy whoms mother lost everything 5 years after his fsther died due to the potato blight broke my heart. He took care of his mother the best her cpupd and himself while she was sick. Regardless of how little he was. He was more of a man back then as a wee child. Than any man I've ever known these days. God bless him hope he was able to get a better life. For him and his momma. If not. God bless their souls.
The thing that is the most sad is the complete ignorance displayed by the child interviewed. He doesn’t know anything, even about his own city and country and where he was born! The whole situation is just horrible. I don’t mean to trivialize the physical aspect of being a child mudlark in anyway though.
I imagine that for many poor and working class people in London the countryside was very much ‘abroad.’ In the sense they’d never been and only knew what they had been told.
Plenty of kids like that today.. Funny how were all shocked and in awe about history but look away when it's present.
What a hard life 😥
The artwork is exemplary!
Glad you think so. Thanks very much!
We really have it incomparably easy ❤️
This channel is a gem
I have a question: what did they use the bone for?
Bones would be sold for glue and fertilizer production. I’m glad you like the channel!
I was also curious about this. Thanks
I watched in another video that some people would throw things of value in order to watch the mudlarks wrestle it out. However, this increased their chances of getting infected by their injuries. 😕
🇺🇲sailor told me they did something similar in South Korea where there was a bridge over sewage polluted water.
1 of the best things that ever happened to me was being expurgated from the service & continuing association w/squids & grunts.
The worst part is that they're mostly children because the odds of surviving 10+ years in that "profession" are slim. Edit: of course there's a chance to get out and gain a job day laboring too but I don't doubt that the harshness of poverty and conditions limited their lifespans
I'd be curious to know how many of those "non speaking" children were actually either "failure to thrive" children or mentally handicapped or both!
Got to catch up I've missed a few videos 📹 🙋♀️
I hope you enjoy!
Always do thank you✍
Mudlarking seems to be quite an interesting leisure activity nowadays for people with an interest in history, but certainly NOT to do it as a job! I could see it getting boring very fast! I'm quite tempted to have a go at it on my local river (The Mersey, Eastern end), seeing as I won't have much luck with gold panning LOL.
It was a dangerous activity in the past without protective equipment - nails, glass etc. Thank you for your comment.
Enjoyed the vidwo
That's great! Thanks for the visit.
What strikes me is how this isn't even that long ago...
He tried to make that kid seem unintelligent, but he made him actually sound really based lol
Absolutely appalling how those people had to try to get just enough for a little food
I've never been this early! 🤗😍
I’ll just stick to beach combing…
A much safer activity!
"God is God."
Probably the best answer honestly...
The disdain for the poor continues to this day.Yet it is often on their backs, that the world has been built, and fortunes have been made.
Seems to me that the child who didn't know God from religion was closer to God than most religious people will ever be.
Adam Osak, I thought the same thing!
History repeats itself. To what extent is up to us.
This is so sad and not much different than how I grew up but we didn't do mudlarking but definitely a lot of metal scrapping and pawning crap just to eat..and lots of govt cheese and food stamps that looked like monopoly money and just glad to have a home
Interesting pronunciation of the word “iron”
Someone explain why bones? What were they doing with them?
Mudlarks or Bone Grubbers (I have a video about them too) would take bones to middle-men dealers - often called 'Marine Stores' - for money, and these dealers sold them on to factories for the production of soap and glue.
The thumbnail looks like Billy Butcherson the zombie in the film Hocus Pocus
The tidal Thames is an incredibly dangerous river with powerful currents that can take you under. The water is full of filth (dirt. chemicals, sewage, bacteria, viruses) and it is freezing cold with the beaches full of sharp objects, full of tetanus. If you get stuck in the mud, it can suck you under or else hold you until the tide comes in. At high tide, the river reverses direction on top and flows upstream as fast as a galloping horse. The downward flow river flows underneath resulting in numerous life-threatening vertical whirlpools.
The Thames is no place to play for adults yet alone children who would be unaware of the dangers facing them. Most people who attempt to swim across the Thames die, and today, it is illegal to attempt this.
The sun never sets on the British Empire, and kindness is never given to the poor
I forgot what exactly did they do with all the bonez they collect i have mixed thoughts
Soup probably
They sold them to glue manufacturers
Or they were ground to make fertiliser
@@rabbitskinner They also used bone once ground to a dust to make fine bone china , its what makes pottery have a pure white appearance !
This would be a good game idea
@24:26 that hurts.
These stories just break my ❤. The worst part of it, is that these are VERY close to truth. Explain to your grandkids that these stories really happened! O exaggeration! I think its a good idea to supplement these quick videos for kids studying History. Tweenies. I guess you can tell I miss my grand daughter!
Wow the history of Europe
MUDLARKS anagrams to DARK SLUM
So it is! I’m sure many mudkarks lived in slums too.
Isn’t it bewildering? Look around you now, making a sweeping generalisations here Ik, but you are relatively comfortable, internet, food, heating, electricity and a home, only about 150 years later than this hell we hear about now. An entire century, generations toiled and suffered in the factories that in one way or another contributed to what we have today… their collective labour echoes today, we just seldom care to listen.
Making a music video on this. It's too interesting not to. Thanks man.
Mudlark sounds like a cousin of the mudcrab from Skyrim!
At least they had a chance to choose the labor.slaves didn't have a choice.So slavery is the hardest job to have.
Slaves did not, typically, starve to death after working a full day.
I wonder if Nicola has seen this
the real fallout mudlark
Sherlock. Holmes. Used in. One of. His. Cases. Looking. For. Boat. Which. They found.
It pisses me off no end to see how these poor souls lived out their whole lives in abject poverty. Mere children consigned to hunger and suffering, while their 'sovereigns' plundered and pillaged the world, subjugating nations and stealing their resources, with no care or compassion for their own subjects. I hope their sovereigns are consigned to hell for never lifting a finger to help, while enjoying untold wealth and prosperity.
@Barbie Blues
That is some grade A+ bootlicking.
The rich didn't care about the poor then and they don't care about them now.
This is the world the Tories seem to be trying to re-create.😪
Must have language option ....
I hope the man collecting the children's stories gave them a hot meal and decent clothes and shoes.
So much for the British empire 🙄
Children are the realist ones.
Poor little children
I'll drink to that!
IbetVictoriadidntmudlark
I've seen people acting like this in india
If the conservatives had their way we would still living like this
Yes because Government Gibs and Wealth Inequality like what Democrats push is the best way to create a thriving society
Tony Almond, They have got their way, and the poor of our country are slipping into the pit
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Think I’d rather be a bonegrubber 😏
Hobson’s Choice!
Tories "the good old free market days"