Now in the UK they no longer have Work Houses, instead the very poor are homeless and live on the street. At least 309000 people homeless in England today 2024. Yeah they've come a long way.
Having previously suffered under Cromwell in the 1640’s, we Irish suffered under the workhouse system during the 1840’s in the Great Irish Potato Famine - and a version of this system was adopted by the Irish Catholic Church to create industrial schools under the Christian Brothers and the Magdalene Laundries under several orders of Catholic Nuns including the Irish Sisters of Charity, along with the Mother & Baby Homes and several other institutions
The first slaves sent to Jamaica were Irish… the Irish were always persecuted by the English sadly, it’s quite hard to believe in this day and age but apparently the Irish were forbidden to grow anything other than potatoes which they were forced to sell (cheap) to England… that’s why when the famine hit it was as absolutely awful as it was… they had no other food cos they couldn’t have grown any… these poor souls often get forgotten
My 3rd great grandfather left his wife and 3 sons ages 10, 3, and 1 in the knaresborough workhouse in 1842 to come to America. I have no idea why, but his wife died while there. He did bring the boys to America, but it has always seemed a tragic story.
My grandmother, her baby sister, and 3 aunts were in the workhouse in the infirmary in Scotland after being abused by my Grandma's mom. Once she left prison she came and took the baby but left my grandmother and aunts. Eventually Grandma and 1 aunt went to Quarriers the other 2 chose to stay at the workhouse. One died within 6 months of pneumonia the other of consumption a year later. Thanks for sharing this documentary. So very sad but important part of history😢
Looked into my family history for years- have found family members in so many different workhouses all over the U.K, one being in Islington (now flats) and one in Bristol (Fishponds) x
To those living on the streets now, at this moment, in this winter, I suppose a roof over one's head, in this particular building, would be an improvement rather than a sleeping bag in a door way in the wet and rain.
Yes it will have! Clatterbridge Hospital use to be a workhouse and we had ghosts there. In the nurses home we frequently heard a girl sobbing. Apparently it was the ghost of a young unmarried girl who had her baby taken from her during the work house era.
My mother and her 3 brothers along with their mother were abandoned by her usband and their father at the Hexham Workhouse, The mother then disappeared in 1908. and she went on to have another 3 children by the Warder in charge, I was able to see the inside of the remaining building. My mother spent 10 years before she was "adopted" to be a skivvy for the lady, She never spoke about it but when I started research found out about this dreadful life,
The workhouse would have been a bad place to live but I guess it was better than being homeless I was poor as a child but we had a home we rented and always had food
How is that any different to the working homeless in Australia today???? They are working and unable to afford basic housing. So the government's solution is to give people tents. However, they aren't allow to camp in public spaces, otherwise their property is taken from them and thrown away. (and if they did manage to stay a while, citizens have been known to throw eggs at the homeless, and they are more likely to be attacked. It's just a sad situation.
and those on low or minimum wage who manage to find rentals, skip meals just to keep a roof over their heads. It's a sad state of affairs that the government fails to address due to their greed.
I have 2 maternal great and great great grandmothers who spend a stint in the local workhouse. One in 1886 due to her father dying when she was only 3 years old . The other was in 1915 when she died in the workhouse, also due to her husband dying.
Love this video. Alan Titchmarch is fantastic! Why though have the National Trust put wallpaper in the workhouse infirmary? I am sure it would have been just the bare brick on the walls and not paper.
Please can you do a documentary about the colonial territories, I'm from Malaysia (previously Malaya) and I would like to see how our colonial "overlords" once lived through your depictions. Thanks.
Oh men this was in 1842+ nobody that was poor anywhere in the world didn’t have a great place to live. A baby sleeping in a drawer was not that unheard of. Many sleeping in one room was not that uncommon . The work house maybe not great,but it was better than starving in the cold streets and they did have medical care which they did not have on the street. Come on the world is not and has not been great for the poor. You just can judge the poor 200 years ago with today’s standards.
What amazes me every time a historian talks about Victorian England (or let's be honest, England at any time of feudal monarchy) is that they never mention how absurd it is to celebrate a queen that let the majority of her people struggle in horrific poverty and despair for her entire lifetime and never did a single thing about it. Monarchy is a failure of a system. It's amazing to me that the English never overthrew it.
They actually did overthrow it for a brief time with Oliver Cromwell in charge until he died and they invited Charles the second to come be king and restored the monarchy.
Such an idea ignores the fact that welfare provision is so low as to not allow anyone to sustain basic human needs. Requiring a recipient to work to ‘earn’ any state assistance effectively prevents them from actively seeking paid work, which should allow them to earn much more. It also overlooks the effect of such a condition on the labour market, whereby those in work on very low wages are out-competed by recipients of welfare obliged to work in order to receive anything from the state.
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No one does documentaries like the Brits!
So much history to explore...
I suppose in the English speaking world, they have the most focus and obsession in the past
I love these documentaries. It makes me so grateful that I live in 21st century.
And are you free now, are we free from slavery….nope.
Well, it's at least heaps better as a pregnant woman and mom!😂
I’m thankful I had never seen this side of poverty.
Me too 😢
Now in the UK they no longer have Work Houses, instead the very poor are homeless and live on the street.
At least 309000 people homeless in England today 2024. Yeah they've come a long way.
Yeah they came from other countries and need deporting lol
Having previously suffered under Cromwell in the 1640’s, we Irish suffered under the workhouse system during the 1840’s in the Great Irish Potato Famine - and a version of this system was adopted by the Irish Catholic Church to create industrial schools under the Christian Brothers and the Magdalene Laundries under several orders of Catholic Nuns including the Irish Sisters of Charity, along with the Mother & Baby Homes and several other institutions
Not just the Irish my friend.
The first slaves sent to Jamaica were Irish… the Irish were always persecuted by the English sadly, it’s quite hard to believe in this day and age but apparently the Irish were forbidden to grow anything other than potatoes which they were forced to sell (cheap) to England… that’s why when the famine hit it was as absolutely awful as it was… they had no other food cos they couldn’t have grown any… these poor souls often get forgotten
My 3rd great grandfather left his wife and 3 sons ages 10, 3, and 1 in the knaresborough workhouse in 1842 to come to America. I have no idea why, but his wife died while there. He did bring the boys to America, but it has always seemed a tragic story.
Now I see why the poor, homeless family in A Christmas Carol would rather live on the streets and be together instead of going to the work house.
My grandmother, her baby sister, and 3 aunts were in the workhouse in the infirmary in Scotland after being abused by my Grandma's mom. Once she left prison she came and took the baby but left my grandmother and aunts. Eventually Grandma and 1 aunt went to Quarriers the other 2 chose to stay at the workhouse. One died within 6 months of pneumonia the other of consumption a year later. Thanks for sharing this documentary. So very sad but important part of history😢
Looked into my family history for years- have found family members in so many different workhouses all over the U.K, one being in Islington (now flats) and one in Bristol (Fishponds) x
These small houses were a big step up from the workhouse even if they did not look much and they were basic anything better than the workhouse
To those living on the streets now, at this moment, in this winter, I suppose a roof over one's head, in this particular building, would be an improvement rather than a sleeping bag in a door way in the wet and rain.
I bet there's alot of ghost and haunting in that mansion
Yes it will have! Clatterbridge Hospital use to be a workhouse and we had ghosts there. In the nurses home we frequently heard a girl sobbing. Apparently it was the ghost of a young unmarried girl who had her baby taken from her during the work house era.
@lesliejones6018 aweee why did they call it clatter bridge hospital
@@Eli-Family-xg5ngGood question but I don’t know. It has got me thinking I will try to find out.
@@lesliejones6018 Thanks
@@lesliejones6018 wow
My mother and her 3 brothers along with their mother were abandoned by her usband and their father at the Hexham Workhouse, The mother then disappeared in 1908. and she went on to have another 3 children by the Warder in charge, I was able to see the inside of the remaining building. My mother spent 10 years before she was "adopted" to be a skivvy for the lady, She never spoke about it but when I started research found out about this dreadful life,
This makes me grateful for all I have.
Absoloutely terrible to be separated from children and families …
A bit like sending your children to boarding school
The workhouse would have been a bad place to live but I guess it was better than being homeless I was poor as a child but we had a home we rented and always had food
My son slept in a drawer when he was tiny
Yep mine too.
i live right near to were charles dickens was born ' i see the place everyday '
cool 😎 (I think)
@_John_Tyree_ i take it for granted ' i suppose ' but its a lovley old hse 👍
I would've hated to have lived in the Queen Victoria era.
The workhouses didn't shut down until 1948, so it wouldn't have just been the Victorian era sadly.
unless you were rich
How is that any different to the working homeless in Australia today???? They are working and unable to afford basic housing. So the government's solution is to give people tents. However, they aren't allow to camp in public spaces, otherwise their property is taken from them and thrown away. (and if they did manage to stay a while, citizens have been known to throw eggs at the homeless, and they are more likely to be attacked. It's just a sad situation.
and those on low or minimum wage who manage to find rentals, skip meals just to keep a roof over their heads. It's a sad state of affairs that the government fails to address due to their greed.
I have 2 maternal great and great great grandmothers who spend a stint in the local workhouse. One in 1886 due to her father dying when she was only 3 years old . The other was in 1915 when she died in the workhouse, also due to her husband dying.
Love this video. Alan Titchmarch is fantastic! Why though have the National Trust put wallpaper in the workhouse infirmary? I am sure it would have been just the bare brick on the walls and not paper.
Please can you do a documentary about the colonial territories, I'm from Malaysia (previously Malaya) and I would like to see how our colonial "overlords" once lived through your depictions. Thanks.
Terrifying to be in the workhouse !!!
Those houses are great! If there was existing ones left, id rent it in a second!!! Love it!!!!
Lol
My ancestors were here my 5x nan died there
Oh men this was in 1842+ nobody that was poor anywhere in the world didn’t have a great place to live. A baby sleeping in a drawer was not that unheard of. Many sleeping in one room was not that uncommon . The work house maybe not great,but it was better than starving in the cold streets and they did have medical care which they did not have on the street. Come on the world is not and has not been great for the poor.
You just can judge the poor 200 years ago with today’s standards.
I need to watch this in school i cant do this
What amazes me every time a historian talks about Victorian England (or let's be honest, England at any time of feudal monarchy) is that they never mention how absurd it is to celebrate a queen that let the majority of her people struggle in horrific poverty and despair for her entire lifetime and never did a single thing about it. Monarchy is a failure of a system. It's amazing to me that the English never overthrew it.
I imagine she was too busy having babies .
The royal family is Englands biggest money maker when it comes to tourists
They actually did overthrow it for a brief time with Oliver Cromwell in charge until he died and they invited Charles the second to come be king and restored the monarchy.
Which purposes of those of those workhouses were? Servants factories by chance?
they found jobs for children ' hardwork '
To look at yesterday with todays eyes and make judgements is very easy.
Not hard to wish queen an eternity in her own hovels that she avoided in life.
Ebenezer Scrooge loved workhouses.😳
Imagine how they made an umarried pregnant woman feel and how she was treated??
How disgusting to treat people this way just because they were poor, barbaric an inhumane
So strange that people are repulsed by the idea of workhouses, but they like the idea of a work for the dole scheme
Such an idea ignores the fact that welfare provision is so low as to not allow anyone to sustain basic human needs. Requiring a recipient to work to ‘earn’ any state assistance effectively prevents them from actively seeking paid work, which should allow them to earn much more. It also overlooks the effect of such a condition on the labour market, whereby those in work on very low wages are out-competed by recipients of welfare obliged to work in order to receive anything from the state.
If herbert had so many children, how was he and his wife intimate with such limited accomodation though???
By dad was born in one😥
😢
Such patronising presenters... If not for the BBC, no one else would employ them!
Anyone watching this for A Christmas Carol homework? 💀☠
I'm here for the David Goggins Winter Arc Sigma Male Grindset inspiration.
No, because I'm 40
I would be transported to Australia over the poor house
The architecture of the building just looks like a large English farmhouse to me but okay
@Purelotus689 I said what I said. English architecture is not what I would call warm and cozy. It all has a harsh, prisonish vibe to me
Pretty grim but not sure it’s as bad as residential schools in Canada
Sadly, both were horrible places.
there not really comparable, one was a tool of genocide and the other a place to put people away
How can you say they failed? SERIOUSLY!!!!
Watt about their Dark Secrets??
Was this house haunted? Should have been.
Punished for being poor.......work that one out !!!
A face that could chop wood! 💀
punished for being poor...😢
The world is a vampire.
Give your children away?😮
It's difficult for me to understand that that totally awful 1980s graffiti is considered art and is "saveworthy". Yuck!
Art is subjective. People went nuts over a painting of a can of soup too, but it's one of the most famous paintings in the world 🤷
Wonderful! Why don't we have them anymore 4 all these so called "refugees"?
Refugees will be living like kings as they do now. The real 💯 true people will starve
Today's workhouses are Amazon
And Walmart ect
I wanted to watch this, but too many luvvies.
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