Edinburgh Old Town Slums (Poor Children of a Squalid Victorian Rookery - Episode 2)

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  • @FactFeast
    @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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  • @thevalveman9636
    @thevalveman9636 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Congratulations on putting into perspective today's gripes about living standards. Even in the 1950s and 60s Edinburgh like Glasgow had many squalid areas before the slum clearances which I personally witnessed. Today most commentators depict the UK as living an idealised high life off the back of its exploited empire. The vast majority of UK citizens were far from any benefits they were exploited, very poor, slaves to the industrial machine and very short lived. A brief investigation into any family history will tell this story. My grandfather was widowed twice by his 22nd birthday as his wives either died on childbirth or from infections caught in factories. His third wife when he was 24 lived or I would not be here. Thank goodness for modern life!

  • @mabel8179
    @mabel8179 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This poverty as described was so extreme; lives of utter despair and horror. Those poor children sounded like they were suffering from scurvy.

  • @geigertec5921
    @geigertec5921 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Imagine living in one of Edinburgh's squalid slums in this time and when you go home your roommates all have dysentery and the whole building is damp and reeking of urine and feces while rats scurry around everywhere. And then you remember you have to get up at 4:30 AM to work at the lead paint factory for 14 hours for 6 pence a day and half your coworkers have Cholera.

    • @SiiriCressey
      @SiiriCressey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I bet it made picking pockets look damned attractive.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A dystopian vision, but sadly with much reality.

    • @mijiyoon5575
      @mijiyoon5575 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FactFeast Agree

    • @geigertec5921
      @geigertec5921 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SiiriCressey I wouldn't have picked pockets but probably would have robbed Queen Victoria's castles, no security cameras back then and apparently it was dam easy to rob the palace. Some street kid named Thomas Jones did it all the time, like the kid just went in the castle and took whatever he wanted scurrying around like a rat.

    • @hicknopunk
      @hicknopunk 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      But hey, free rat meat.

  • @madeleinel6089
    @madeleinel6089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    My mother was from Edinburgh, one of 9 children living in one room. They lived in The Vennel at No 1 Browns Place, they rented the room which had originally been the Earl of Wemyss drawing room. My mother had a milk round when she was 11 years old, when my husband was doing our family tree, on my grandmothers side, we had been related to the Wemyss family a few generations back, just goes to show how times can change 😢

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That’s a very hard life to imagine speaking from today’s world, though no doubt a difficult and hard life in many ways - from living conditions to food. Thank you for sharing your story.

    • @madeleinel6089
      @madeleinel6089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@FactFeast you are welcome❣️

    • @the_birthday_skeleton
      @the_birthday_skeleton 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was on my way to east wemyss whenI had a stop over to meet some friends in Edinburgh! Beautiful little fishing town.

    • @celticwarrior777
      @celticwarrior777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aw so she rented from relatu

    • @aprilblossom9268
      @aprilblossom9268 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amazing..!

  • @jojo-hs9te
    @jojo-hs9te 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    So sad. My great granny was from Edinburgh and very poor, I do hope it wasn't this awful for her

  • @the_birthday_skeleton
    @the_birthday_skeleton 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I remember visiting the heavy flagstone capital of Edinburgh some four or five years ago; in no other city have I had so acute an impression of existing in the nineteenth-century.
    Truly, there is something so inchoate, so Dickensian about that dark, eternal city-skyline that one felt positively ransported back to the Victorian era.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you visit the Edinburgh Vaults? If you did, what was your experience?

    • @the_birthday_skeleton
      @the_birthday_skeleton 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FactFeast sadly not! I was only there for around half a day, waiting for other friends to continue a journey to east wemyss - I explored the castle though! Fantastic views; and that’s the vantage point where I had that experience of a timewarp.

    • @celticwarrior777
      @celticwarrior777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love itvediburgh seems captured in time

    • @aprilblossom9268
      @aprilblossom9268 ปีที่แล้ว

      My thoughts exactly when up London on a Jack the Ripper walking tour - so many new weird looking modern buildings with no real character which is why I love Edinburgh - my birthplace 💕

  • @katesleuth1156
    @katesleuth1156 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    It appears that at this time there were desperate slums in most large cities: lower Manhattan, specifically the 5 points neighbourhood, London, Glasgow & Paris. This happened after large numbers of people left the countryside for the city in search of what they hoped to be a better life.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My latest video discusses the Five Points slum in New York.

    • @katesleuth1156
      @katesleuth1156 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@FactFeast Great.

  • @southaussielad2496
    @southaussielad2496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    There's a building in the city I live in that still has a rabbit Warren of random rooms and corridors. It's amazing to see how any bit of random space was bricked off and rented to a family. I'd love to get in there and take some photos before it eventually gets demolished.

    • @michelleduplooymalherbe2837
      @michelleduplooymalherbe2837 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Please, Please do, would love to see it

    • @hicknopunk
      @hicknopunk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Please do

    • @the_birthday_skeleton
      @the_birthday_skeleton 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would love to see that! I remember the warrens of alleyways and tiny little roads snaking all through the city; as Dickensian as you can get these days

  • @tlcferguson8243
    @tlcferguson8243 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    This makes me so grateful for what I have. Thank you for bringing the history to life in a very real way. Your way of story telling is amazing. Great video.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s nice to know you enjoy the way history is presented here and thank you for your comment.

    • @karenk2409
      @karenk2409 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now I know why my great-grandparents fled to America from Europe ...not that American tenements were better, but there was hope, and there was actually somewhere else to go (west!) Their grandchildren all went to college ... unfathomable in the class system in which they were stuck.

    • @siancameron214
      @siancameron214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@karenk2409 yes I agree with your comment. Since I've been living in the Uk, now I understand why my ancestors moved to Australia.

  • @321scully
    @321scully 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I have been in these vaults or homes in Edinburgh and I know the squalor these poor people had to live in. The spoiled society most of us live in now cannot imagine how cruel and sorry life was for the poor at that time.

  • @zoyablake9538
    @zoyablake9538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I wish history had been taught like this when I was studying it in school....you've made it come alive! I am thinking of starting a project on poverty with my own students here in Cambodia, and your videos and thorough research will be invaluable. Thank you!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’m glad to read that you feel this video brings life to the past and the channel content is of interest. Thank you for taking the time to comment.

  • @susannahdyro9518
    @susannahdyro9518 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wow we are blessed to be living in this time

  • @mgthestrange9098
    @mgthestrange9098 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I think this has been the hardest one of these to listen to, those poor souls. 💔

  • @patricialong5767
    @patricialong5767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The poverty is absolutely shocking! And children had to live like that!

  • @patricialong5767
    @patricialong5767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How very sad that children were/are treated like this!

  • @danniis9444
    @danniis9444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Awesome. Great to see another one on Scotland. Loving this. I swear these stories makeme appreciate what I have so much more.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I’m not sure when they will appear on the channel, but there will be more content from Scotland in future - published gradually among other topics. It’s nice to know it’s of interest, thank you.

  • @michelleduplooymalherbe2837
    @michelleduplooymalherbe2837 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    thank you so much, one tends to see the Victorian and Edwardian ages through rose tinted glasses, I know I do, but this is a sure wake up call and also they way you tell the history bring it to life

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s great to know you enjoyed the presentation. These children really did live in such abject poverty and I think it’s worthwhile bringing their stories to life. Thank you for your comment.

  • @johnbruce2868
    @johnbruce2868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Unique content, my favourite channel on TH-cam. Thank you for this forgotten history, the detailed research and the original descriptions.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      In a time before film, these accounts are as close as we can get to the past (with some photographs, albeit limited in number). Thank you for your kind words.

    • @agingerbeard
      @agingerbeard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      True TH-cam content, well crafted and interesting every episode. The original part of this is worth watching as well!

  • @agingerbeard
    @agingerbeard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Children can grow up out of truly horrible circumstances, and who knows the damage it does. Thank you for another fascinating video and narration 😀👍

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Many of these children had literally nothing and it was quite an eye-opener to learn that some never ventured far from the closes where they lived due to inadequate clothing. Thank you for your comment.

    • @undrwatropium3724
      @undrwatropium3724 ปีที่แล้ว

      People of today is the damage it does. Can you imagine if they all had guns. Mass shootings didn't happen until now

  • @cheapciggies
    @cheapciggies 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I look forward to hearing all the accents and have a laugh trying to mimic them, Somehow they transport you right there.... 👍👍

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's nice to read you enjoy the character voices so much and that they add to the story. Thank you!

  • @MrShuttz
    @MrShuttz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    How sad. Great work, what a reality check 🙂

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Many of these people had so little and yet had to pay to live in such terrible conditions. Thank you for your comment.

  • @siancameron214
    @siancameron214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for your videos. Your voice and storytelling fit nicely.
    This forgotten history has made me realise how much despire people went through, and why families immigrated. 🇦🇺

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My pleasure! I'm glad you enjoy the content.

  • @leerequiem
    @leerequiem 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great to see your channel growing
    Love your videos

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much! It's great to have your support.

  • @maritaaarrestad7874
    @maritaaarrestad7874 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow, just wow! What a find your channel is! My family are fans…🥰

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m glad you enjoy the history content on my channel. Thank you so much for sharing with friends and family. Your support means a lot!

    • @maritaaarrestad7874
      @maritaaarrestad7874 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@FactFeast I love this type of storytelling. Campfire.

  • @deborahdick6527
    @deborahdick6527 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    what fasinates me is that many of the tenements in the old town are still standing and now cost a fortune to own or rent. The poor of today live in the outskirts in schemes many in poverty and some still in terrible housing. Many of the so called wonderful new flats are being pulled down and replaced in these schemes. what did the buliders of then know that we don't

  • @ktm42080
    @ktm42080 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    WOW! Learning the devil's lessons well, to be sure. Can't help but feel horrible for these children. Great video! Keep them coming!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, awful lives for many of these children. Their parents fell into poverty, but a lot of these kids were born into it and knew no other life. Thank you for your comment.

  • @robertafierro5592
    @robertafierro5592 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fantastic Docu and photos!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s nice to know this documentary was interesting for you. Thank you for your comment.

  • @kageshadowfairy
    @kageshadowfairy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic work, really an loving the way you do these videos. You have a voice I could listen to all day.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s great that you enjoy the narration! Thank you for your comment.

  • @1rjbrjb
    @1rjbrjb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Great narrative voice. Very expressive. Diligently researched. Of course, these people are long dead so my sympathy is fleeting. They'd be just as dead now if they'd had clean water.
    I wonder, if for a change of pace, you would do an episode on the sybriatic lives of Victorian capitalists, bearing in mind that dentistry was literal torture no matter how rich you were. But I assume they had cheerier lives. Britain was fantastically wealthy compared to the rest of the world (note, the US surpassed the UK in per capita GDP in the 1820s and never looked back, but Britain had a larger economy and reserves of wealth that were unrivaled).
    What about the sunny side of the street? Haven't we had enough scruffy urchins and disembowled prostitutes for awhile (no disrespect intended)?
    Overall > fine job.

  • @RHR-221b
    @RHR-221b ปีที่แล้ว +1

    To the Souls, especially the Beautiful Children.
    *Rest In Peace.*
    Rab 🕊

  • @mnj640
    @mnj640 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I would think that the previous generations of victorian times wouldn't have been any better.

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple883 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I lived in the Old Dublin Tenements babe in the early 60s before they were cleared.,, ✌️

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What was it like living in a tenement?

  • @FreyaCatherineMusic
    @FreyaCatherineMusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What is Otalmia? (a condition a girl you mentioned at 9:00 suffered from). I thought it might have been opthalmia but I'm not sure and couldn't find anything on Otalmia on Google.

  • @katiemarie82
    @katiemarie82 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Been a while since I've watched the uploads here I have alot to catch up on fact feast 🤘

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for returning to my channel. I hope you enjoy them.

  • @chalky7285
    @chalky7285 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great vid!!! It's still just as bad try bringing up five children in a three bed flat and seeing new build five beds going to people who have only been in the city five minutes so it is today.

  • @tinyGrim1
    @tinyGrim1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    💞👍😊🌄 Thank you for another great video.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My pleasure! Always grateful for your support.

  • @lpronovost84
    @lpronovost84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for your amazing channel.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I should thank you for being a regular viewer - thank you!

  • @petemullen842
    @petemullen842 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Absolutely great video love your stuff always looking out for it 10 out of 10👍😊

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Awesome, thank you!

  • @blueneeson9888
    @blueneeson9888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks Another Brilliant Video Stay Safe From Blue

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s great, thank you! It’s good to know these videos about Edinburgh’s slums are interesting.

  • @lukewebb96
    @lukewebb96 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Be glad you were born in this time

  • @victoriasavaski975
    @victoriasavaski975 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What kind of government lets all these building owners rent these filthy places to human beings! It never occured to me that people in England could live in such dreadful conditions!!!
    It really saddens me to know that so many women, men and children had a hopeless life for who knows how many generations? When I think of England I usually think of its beautiful gothic architecture, their great ships, their advance nautical skills, their great writers, poets, castles, kings and queens, of their industrial era, how proper they seem to be, after all they were An Empire for quite a long time. As we all know Empires are usually build to a great cost, and the prize is paid by the poor!. Thanks for sharing history.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  ปีที่แล้ว

      Great to know you found it interesting. Minimal building standards or landlord controls in those days.

  • @K._Oss
    @K._Oss 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude these videos keep making lyrics come alive. In this case, Sham 69’s “Angels With Dirty Faces” comes to mind.

  • @undrwatropium3724
    @undrwatropium3724 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video. Very informative

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you enjoyed, thank you!

  • @mikesmanstuff
    @mikesmanstuff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You have a new sub from Norway
    I love Skottland and specielie Glasgow 🙏🥃🥰

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Welcome to the channel! Thank you. I’m glad you enjoy the history content for you here.

  • @SSanf
    @SSanf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That's what happens in limited space without birth control

  • @nolancoates4856
    @nolancoates4856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting Sherlock Holmes 💂‍♂️💯

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's great! Glad this trip back to Edinburgh's past was interesting for you.

  • @88amona
    @88amona 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Humbling and inspiration to help others 🤙

  • @celticwarrior777
    @celticwarrior777 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your voice is awesome its so perfect deep interesting are you scottish I can't tell sounds a bit irish

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Irish ☘️🙂

  • @TheFacrecords
    @TheFacrecords 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hey, you kids clean this place up!

  • @The.Pickle
    @The.Pickle ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Technology and attitudes has lifted most out of poverty, in our western countries, however it seems the behaviour and corruption of the richest hasn't changed much at all, so much so that I feel they are pulling us slowly bach to the Rookery.

  • @Perfidious_Hollow
    @Perfidious_Hollow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the vid!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Always a pleasure! Thank you.

  • @angr3819
    @angr3819 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m glad you found this journey back to Edinburgh’s past interesting. Thank you for your comment.

  • @jerrycapanear8227
    @jerrycapanear8227 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I swear, how can I not suffer from a great amount of misanthropy,.!!!

  • @brianoneil9662
    @brianoneil9662 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Having German and Irish ancestry I've never heard much of Scotland's woes. I find myself morbidly fascinated and think I see why the Scots have such a reputation for toughness and fatalism.

  • @elayneyoung1837
    @elayneyoung1837 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's full of air b n b now!!! And unaffordable to actual people from the city!!

  • @lanacampbell-moore6686
    @lanacampbell-moore6686 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks FF😍

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You’re welcome! Happy to know it was interesting viewing.

    • @lanacampbell-moore6686
      @lanacampbell-moore6686 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FactFeast 😁

  • @ScottishPagan
    @ScottishPagan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Erm aye so we no gonna talk about mary Kong close or The Edinburgh Vaults
    Edinburgh’s South Bridge is an 18th century road bridge within the city centre. When it was built, a series of chambers were created under the street, within the arches of the structure. Originally, local businesses used them as storage. But the chambers were dark and damp and became unsuitable. So, over time, criminals began to use them for illegal activities such as gambling and making alcohol. There were even rumours that the notorious serial killers, Burke and Hare, may have hidden bodies there. Many Edinburgh ghost stories are set down here in the chambers of South Bridge. And today, you can visit these arches under the bridge yourself disappointed 😞

  • @EdDueim
    @EdDueim 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Aye, but you could make a packet renting them out in the Festival.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel we appreciate your great efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English language as well as always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s first of all definition of slum is part of city or town where poor people live they may not have basic needs some of these people may also have social disadvantage there are slums in most big cities of the world and slum kids due to poor living conditions infants morality was very high in slums about 1 in 4 children died before they were one year old slum children had to work to help provide for their families jobs were often low paying highly dangerous dirty young boys may work as chimney sweeps or clean streets of horse manure and the important fact victorian children worked for long tiring hours at factories doing hazardous jobs especially boys around eleven or twelve years were clean chimneys Stay safe and blessed good luck to you your family friends

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mortality rates were high unfortunately due to a combination of unhealthy living conditions, diet and disease. The hovels of the Old Town have a particularly squalid description and the streets and gutters outside no better for children. Thank you for your comment.

  • @ahuddleston6512
    @ahuddleston6512 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yeah!!! My man iwas waiting for you.im 1st!!!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fantastic! I hope it was worth the wait. Thanks for your support.

  • @duneideannaer5990
    @duneideannaer5990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My beautiful dùnÈideann.

  • @asamanyworlds3772
    @asamanyworlds3772 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sadly there's no lack of suffering of kids rip to my ancestors

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Just imagine if free birth control or any at all available (there were ways) from the 17thc how fewer of us would be here now 🤔 can't expect that when they lack food, clothing or anything else; not even basic care or shoes for their feet. In one of your previous vids you said they drank beer instead of water b/c beer was healthier ... no doubt it was. Human misery is w/out end in some places even today

  • @celticwarrior777
    @celticwarrior777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can't imagine living like that its horrific, we whine about our lives of poverty now its nothing like back then

  • @asamanyworlds3772
    @asamanyworlds3772 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My ancestors came from here was street lighters Cole miners

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Very hard physical work. Thanks for watching!

  • @simonyip5978
    @simonyip5978 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    At 1:02 the women are wearing clothing that doesn't look that old, I'd guess maybe 1920's-1940's? It just shows how bad the housing conditions were even within living memory.
    At 9:50 the picture looks like the burnt remains of a ship.

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "The good old days" eh? ☹

  • @sunnydayzie1202
    @sunnydayzie1202 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did many not have PTSD then , or were they simply hardier mentally than today , or did they just bury it and keep going despite the mental anguish? So many of us have ancestors from places like this...at what point did it get better for them, which generation did it happen in, and how did it happen? Clearly millions died but...many didn't and somehow rose out of it. It's unimaginable to think of not just the children but the parents helpless to improve their children's lives. Unreal that civilized nations with affluence allowed children and poor to suffer this way.

  • @kelb6073
    @kelb6073 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So many illnesses ran rampant back then. We are very lucky.

  • @jamesdouglas7345
    @jamesdouglas7345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As crazy as it sounds, someone of great importance did say, "Is it not the rich that oppress you!" Again, you could have $10 and be an abusive POS not just $10 mill or bill. I thought the wealth of a nation was the heart of her people.

  • @stevengray932
    @stevengray932 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    the place hasnt changed much then

    • @chalky7285
      @chalky7285 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your no wrong

    • @davieleerio
      @davieleerio 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your spot on there!!

  • @brucegibbins3792
    @brucegibbins3792 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And from circumstances like these, an empire was populated. Stolen lands were occupied, treaties cynically torn up, Dominions created where fresh air could be breathed and a new start hoped for.
    Even then and as towns became cities, slums and poverty were to rise again, twelve thousand miles away.

  • @RHR-221b
    @RHR-221b ปีที่แล้ว

    💓

  • @iainlindsay5687
    @iainlindsay5687 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    tragic lives these poor souls had to lead. the rich always exploit the good working class.

  • @felix-maxknuller5918
    @felix-maxknuller5918 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Enjoy the rest golden Times will be gone very soon...

  • @williamschlenger1518
    @williamschlenger1518 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Over population & the poor keep having children.

    • @pennyc11
      @pennyc11 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is because our society depends on a poor working class to do the heavy labor. It is a purposeful, shameful act.

  • @c.norbertneumann4986
    @c.norbertneumann4986 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is astounding that a revolution of the working class never happend in Britain as Karl Mrx had predicted it.

  • @hicknopunk
    @hicknopunk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I live away from other people, on purpose. Society has nothing to give me. I cannot imagine living this way.

  • @phillipward2741
    @phillipward2741 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If STURGEON has her way. Scotland will return to these conditions. Whilst she will be living in the EU. On a fantastic pension

  • @lynettekomidar2819
    @lynettekomidar2819 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    God Save the King/Queen

  • @celticwarrior777
    @celticwarrior777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Its not scotch its scots

  • @MegaVuvu
    @MegaVuvu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    it was humans who did this not the devil. humans. keep that in mind.

  • @a.s.l711
    @a.s.l711 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    imagine those people from those days wear todays fashion, they will kinda look boring....

    • @AsiaMinor12
      @AsiaMinor12 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They would definitely look better. Last thing I want to do is put on a ridiculous business suit and work 13 hours in a industrial building.

    • @celticwarrior777
      @celticwarrior777 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think 5hat was the least of their worries. More trying to not freeze yo death or starve to death

  • @undrwatropium3724
    @undrwatropium3724 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is why we need safe legal abortion. This is what happens when you have children that you can't afford.

  • @leerequiem
    @leerequiem 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great to see your channel growing
    Love your videos