The Hell of Life in Victorian Slums (19th Century London's Rookeries)
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- Who lived in the hellish poverty of overcrowded hovels called slums of Victorian London? These warrens of dark courts with even darker activities were known as rookeries, because they were so overcrowded. In this video we take a closer look at the inhabitants of these abodes of the poor and unfortunate with a man of the church, as he journeys through the East End and across the River Thames. In this genuine account you will find out about the hard lives and terrible living conditions of some of the people he meets.
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@Andrew Phillips lol
Perfect voice over Sir
Throne. 😊. Dang homonyms.
No different than the US today.
Are the photographs real??
I had an uncle who was born in the East End of London in late Victorian times.He lied about his age so he could enlist in the army,and fight in the First World War.He did this to get away from the poverty and squalor he lived in.I believe he was at the Somme.
In the army he had 3 meals a day,,and certain ailments he suffered from,such as boils,all cleared up.He put that down to having vegetables in his diet,which he rarely had before.Also for the first time in his short life,he had boots that didn't have holes in them,and he had only ever worn dirty second hand rags before,so the army uniform was an absolute luxury.
He was very happy for the first time in his life,,running up and down the trenches carrying ammunition for the soldiers,despite the German shells landing nearby.
Thank you for sharing your uncle's story.
I have two great grandfathers on both side of the family tree who fought on the Somme and survived otherwise I wouldn't be here. Hard times back then.
good story
This is genuine history, thank you for sharing.
I read this comment for the first time half an hour ago, and commented. Now I have had time to really deliberate on everything you said. Your family story reminds me of how the military (in my case, in the US) has always seemed to target the less fortunate as recruits. It seems the MIC knows that even possible combat and death can seem like a better, and honorable, option when compared to a life in poverty.
My mum is 94 and is one of sixteen siblings, eight of whom survived to adulthood. Before doctors were free to visit in England, many families couldn’t afford to send their kids to a doctor if they were sick: they put them to bed and if they got up after a few days, all good: if not, you buried them. Mum’s siblings died from TB, diphtheria, measles: the usual childhood diseases before immunisation was available. I remember her telling me that one day, her little brother, Eric was in a bed downstairs as he was sick. My mum went to play with her friends and when she returned, her mum was crying. Eric had died. They hadn’t the money to bury him but a kindly neighbour whose child had also died let them put Eric in with their child. This is in Oldham and is in living memory, folks.
Count your blessings, love your NHS and vote for people who don’t want to profit from the sickness of others.
That's such a hard life and difficult to imagine what it must have been like in reality from today's perspective. Thank you for sharing your story.
Very under-rated comment.
Poverty, squalor, and disease is a great evil to bestow upon others. We seem poised to return to such barbarism on a grand scale. Lest we forget....
Wow
Yes!
They’d have had a better chance in Africa…..😂😂😂😂
No social welfare in those days. The common thought back then amongst the upper and middle classes was that the poor were poor due to laziness and fecklessness. If people became destitute there was always the parish workhouse which was absolutely dreaded by the poor. There families were separated and people had to do heavy work for long hours with no pay and very little food. The good old days????? They were only good for an extremely small percentage of British people - the rich.
Also these people were the ones responsible for the slave trade , I hate programmes like Downton Abbey and the Jane Austin stuff it only sends the message to people who do not understand history that we ALL lived a luxurious lifestyle
Makes me wonder why more people didnt commit crime back then? It would have been so easy to rob a bank, due to no alarms, no video cameras, no smartwater, no anything.
DISGRACEFUL!
The ruling classes and aristocraticy should be ashamed of themselves allowing such poverty on their own countrymen who by dint of birth didn't have much say in their plight unfortunately. The class system which is alive and well in the 21st century should have been done away with centuries ago. Oliver Cromwell did give it a go but unfortunately died too soon to see it out.
@@janeholmes9374 the slave trade was abolished by the British in 1807, way before the Victorians, Britain just stopped paying the debts they took on to stop this a few years ago. The only ones in the World to do so, yes Britain did trade but did the most to stop it
My dad, born 1932, always said there never was the good old days, he only knew the bad days… South Shields
My father was born in 1924 in Buffalo. My grandma had six miscarriages and my aunt and two eldest uncles were placed in an orphanage for a year because she couldn’t feed or care for them properly.
The British would definitely have had civil war, because of wage inequity, but they dumped civilians in America, Australia and Canada! Also sent hundred thousand young men off to wars, Africa, India Afghanistan ect. Empire was much more than abusing poor foreigners for profits?🤔✌️
This is what I think of when people say… “The good ole days.” They weren’t. Life has always been difficult, sad and poor. 😢
Not everyone lived this way... and it wasn't all bad.
@@awkwardautistic Of course not everyone lived this way, especially not the rich but NO ONE should have to have to live this way and plenty of people did live this way.
Good compared to now.
@@luckyspock Your perception of "the good old days" was only true for the upper echelons. It wasn't true for the majority of the population. And who cares what language one speaks when one is forced to live in squalid conditions?
@@paraconsistentjojo Then I suggest you rip out all of your modern conveniences, get all of your family to come live in one room of your house and put the youngest children to work on the streets - the girls especially will makes a few pennies selling their 'wares'. Oh, and don't forget to eat rotten food and throw your sewage around for that truly authentic feel. Go on mate, give it a go!
A bit ironic that some of these slums are overpriced trendy areas now. Bermondsey is one that was mentioned in this.
@A Huddleston The last time I was in Bermondsey I phoned my Nan to tell her how much properties were selling for on her neighbourhood where she lived as a girl and young woman.
At this rate you're going to have the same buying power as the poor back then.
Gentrification
Naja die Leidenergie ist dort Sicherlich verblieben.
Das werden die reichen Leute dort spühren auf die eine oder andere Art.
It would have been the most dilapidated that would have been the cheapest to knock down, clean up and rebuild.
And obviously this was the playground of Jack The Ripper.
As a Ripper case fan I studied and still studying what are the economics, social and politics causes that gave the birth to the East End of London and the rise of the rookery.
Well done, sir.
It’s good to know you find this history useful. Thank you!
Slums and poverty the shame of the so called elites.
Their greed have always caused
this misery.
It still does. Sick of it
There always has to be poor people. Otherwise, the working class would become the poor.... wait that's already happening 😳
@@sassi7966 working class have been getting poorer for quite a while.
It's the community bonds between the English I worry about.
When I was young the community
Was for most people their world 🌎 now because of diversity it has been smashed.
forced from the 70s to take the power off the working class
Trickle down greed has been another nail in the coffins of my
People, till they no longer know or care who they are.
They say we are an ageing population again enforced so they could say we need more people
but not our own people no.
Have you ever thought that every time the English Scots Irish and Welsh started to get more educated more ideas more civilised, we had a war.
THERE'S A LITTLE ENLIGHTENMENT FOR YOU.
Slums and poverty aren't so much a thing in UK anymore, is it? That's what industrialization is for.
This was when Queen Victoria was on the thrown and we were the richest nation on earth yet the working class lived in abject poverty.
Throne not thrown.
Throan
Edward Harrington Hello and greetings to you, "The working class lived . . ." you write; not sure about that (though I know what you mean) for many, too many it wasn't "Living" so much as being alive to "Death" an agonising, dehumanising living death involving unmitigated suffering especially for children. A dying experience then, in a hell of man's own making, placing money as you relate and it's accumulation as the be and end of everything, resulting in complete and utter greed creating those Rookeries and all else. However, the unfortunate aspect is that the mass has always been its own worst enemy is so many ways. Also in these times too few people are unaware of their history they are all too busily engaged in drugs, drinking, med addictions, food addiction, football addiction, soap and porno addiction, history hidden away especially by those of the "thrown" and their ilk where and whenever possible. Santayana wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Let's hope and pray he got that one wrong.
I'm surprised she didn't resolve any of the poverty problems throughout England's large cities and stuff, at least from what I know. Surely Parliament did something to solve the problem; I mean, Charles Dickens technically blew the whistle against London's poverty and child labor through his novels and of course a lot of people read them. Somebody from Parliament ought to have a had a clue on what to do thanks to Charles Dickens' books.
No change then
It was part of my deceased mother's recollection that even in the early 20th Century, in the East End, an uncle and aunt had produced thirteen children and that he committed suicide, unable to find regular work even of the lowest sort. I wonder, thinking on this, whatever happened to that wife and children, and the thought is unbearable.
There are such accounts, like the one you mention. Very sad indeed.
You could research your tree ,I do its fascinating.
Children of the poor never really had "childhoods" & wore clothing in miniature of the adults & were expected to begin work as soon as they were able, to eke out the families income.
Only the children of the middle classes & the rich had childhoods & wore children's clothing & weren't expected to work.
If Them people went to Hell they couldn't tell the difference. It makes a world of difference what century you were born into.
The treated millions like this for centuries, it was shameful what went on in those street's. England was hell for the majority because the majority were poor. Shameful
@@deeppurple883
ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL. 😫😫😫🏴🏴🏴
God bless them with heaven after death
you are exactly right and some of us have sooo many “complaints” today…when really we have it quite good, even the poorest of us in the U.S.
My great grandparents had 12 children. What saved them was being farmers. They had access to eggs, some cream and cheese. They were bathed in a tin bath, were very clean, and every Sunday they were lined up, had their hair checked for nits ( which no one had), given a segment of orange each, and a tablespoon of caster oil. All made it to very elderly years 80+, in good health.
Kinda recently in Whitechapel archeologist found a burial site for prostitutes that were refused their last rites by the parish priest and yet the church took a slice of the money they earned. A church of England priest officially blessed the site and will be doing so once a year. Poor souls, there was no dignity for those women even in death.....
Thank you for your comment. There is a Crossbones Graveyard in Southwark, which sounds similar to this. There is a memorial.
That's disgusting! I'm glad a minister finally stepped up! Anyone could be a paycheck away from doing what those women did! Some had children. We're all human! Were they able to find the names of the people in there?
@@FactFeast Yes, that's exactly the place and it's not very well known and it should be. At least no one is allowed to step on that area except for offials of the church.
Well...they chose that occupation
@@awkwardautistic Jesus! They had no choice maybe and had to survive?
I have an ancestor who stowed away on a ship out of London around 1740. He was sold as an indentured servant in Charleston to pay for his passage. I always wondered what he was running away that made it worth being sold that way. This explains it. He was made an apprentice to a furniture maker. That was probably heaven compared to what he left in London.
I don't think 19th century New York, Boston or Philadelphia were much better to be honest.
was he Irish? Irish were commonly sold as "endentured servants"?.
@@garylancaster8612 Right?! A brave new world... Oh wait! 😆
ALL CULTURES HAVE 2 SIDES AND THE SAME KIND OF BRUTALITY IT IS ALL ABOUT MONEY
If he paid for his passage, he wasn't much of a stowaway - was he?
It's interesting that even in 1939, when Britain's Empire was at its greatest extent, there were still millions of working class British living in great poverty. George Orwell gives and idea of what it was like in a couple of his novels from that time. This was the largest and wealthiest empire the world had ever known so where was all the wealth going? Perhaps to the same elites who still run things behind the scenes.
Just like now
I would totally buy an audio book if you ever make one
It’s an idea. I guess you could use playlists on my channel a bit like audiobooks for long listening.
Me 2
Me too x
What a brilliant idea
A beautiful, gentle Irish voice.
these people were called scum but it really reflects the human disregard of the landlords
Like you still find today!
The biggest landlords in Victorian London were the church of England
The only scum were the politicans, and higher classes.
@@rosemaryedwards7239 not even remotely close
Ils n avaient le sens humaniter6
Je pense que il faut insinuer à enseig hier les respects humains ou VIS VIS DES animaux
When some one says your ancestors benefited from slavery show them this. The common people.
Don't try to change history and make out this was just as bad as slavery!!! How dare you ... Your ancestors were not taken from their lands to a strange country, made to work in the harshest conditions, raped by white men continuously, whipped daily, no food given, the idea of being a nobody, you weren't even a person, you were owned!!!
Such a terrible shame that the only crime for a lot of these people was basically being poor 😥
Same as now THERE GREEDY LANDLORDS WANT RICH FOR 3 THOUSAND RENT THROWEN TENANTS OUT ON STREET. CAUSE POVERTY.
Nothings changed!💔💔💔
And the fact that many of them were Irish made it worse for them.
The crime is having kids you can't feed!
Tories think that being poor is a crime ! Really they use them to slave for them !
My grandfather was brought up in one of the so-called courts, out of fourteen brothers and sisters only 5 making it to adulthood and his father dying in a workhouse. horrible times
Just horrible. We need to remember what our recent family members went through.
A politician in the UK recently said that Britain’s was at its best in Victorian England , His name is Jacob Rees mogg , his name sounds like a villain from a dickens novel and he looks like one as well , His relatives would never have suffered like the working class did , Especialy when farming started to be mechanised and a generation of fears labourers were thrown on the scrap heap , so with people like mogg in the government it shows we haven’t come as far as we think
he was talk about the work ethic and economy not this. Get a grip!
Labour gave all our Housing away
@@sutty8526 the economy during the victorian era terrible for most people. When Karl Marx and Engels saw how terrible conditions were In industrial Britain he was prompted to write The Communist Manifesto. Millions were forced to emigrate , mainly to North America and Australia. Council housing was sold by the Conservatives in the 1980s " everyone is middle class now".
Communism and fascism are just more slavery
My Cockney forebears actually lived in Whitechapel at around the time of Jack the Ripper . My Great grandparents lived 8 people in a two roomed tenement house, the children aged from 2 to 16 years. They nearly all worked in the boot trade, which was sweat shop labour. Both grandfather and great grandfather were lasters ( boot finishers) They had 13 children, 7 of whom died. Grandfather put his age up to enlist in the army. He was in the cavalry and fought in the Boer War. House is still there in Brick Lane but no White British anymore. Grandfather died at 63 and Great grandad only 54 - youngish by today’s standards. They owned nothing all their lives but a few sticks of furniture. Sad.
Pretty disgusting when the Britain had an empire and was one of the richest countries at the time
Just like modern day USA, except the Empire part of course...... 🤷🏻♀️
Yep the drugged homeless looks horrific . Shame on the politition
Totally spellbound by this one. I just feel everything comes to life because of your amazing narration.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Sepulchral !
Fantastic! I’m glad you found it compelling.
I had it muted and on subtitles but it seemed to me like a American trying (and failing) to speak like sophisticated upper middle class - upper class Brit although I had it on mute and was only reading subtitles.
That’s how I talk in my normal conversation
@@mrbritannia3833 it's a irish man trying to hide his accent
I love listening to these stories of what life was like for you back in Victorian London
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The good old days!
I am very interested in life in the work house. I've heard a lot about it through books I've read, of course, but I'm very interested in their daily lives. I know that those places put fear in the hearts of many people from what I understand. If I'm not wrong, I think, that, poverty was considered a moral issue as well. I'm not understanding the correlation, but I'd be interested to see an in-depth look at life in the work house. My heart goes out to anyone who suffered that. Being a blind person myself, work is hard to find in this country. I have a job, thank God, but most people think that because I'm blind is very little I can do. It always amazes me that they know more about me than I do. So I feel for people who lived in work, houses and places like that. Would I be considered a moral ingrate because I'm blind? That's very scary. Thank you for what you do.
We all do.
😭😭😭😭
This world continues to be in denial about the very suffering that it perpetuates.
Nice narrator's voice.
This is the best voice I've ever heard on TH-cam or all the podcasts I've ever listened to!
The British would definitely have had civil war, because of wage inequity, but they dumped civilians in America, Australia and Canada! Also sent hundred thousand young men off to wars, Africa, India Afghanistan ect. Empire was much more than abuse poor foreigners for profits?🤔✌️ (Today?)
You sir, are a born narrator and presenter. Not to mention the quality of the "immense" content. A very gifted man.
I’m glad you enjoy the content and its presentation! Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment.
As a published poet I would love to write a series for TV titled "The Rookeries" I am also a retired Social Studies lecturer and have taught students about the dreadful conditions which people lived. Personally I am sick to death of programmes like Downton Abbey ,Sanditon, and other series which only revolve around the lives of the rich of which was only 1% of the population. I think it is time for viewers to see the real side of life of which the majority of their ancestors came from. I would be interested to know how people feel about this idea
Jane you have a great idea but it appears to me that most people are only interested in the sunny side of life stories. I am also a life story writer and as you, I love human interest stories and I am captivated by the stories of the common people. We are bombarded by stories of the affluent and, successful leader types as thought their lives are the ones which matter. I wish the best in your project.
@@mannyg9059 Hi Manny, if you want to work with me I am sure that people would be engaged in the melodrama of different families and how their lives evolve in these conditions . Viewers sometimes like the fighting spirit which these people must have had . What is needed is a foothold in the door ( not easy } I was rejected several times before my first poems where entered into several anthologies. Poetry is much harder to have published because there is not the same interest
Jane, have you ever watched BBC's "Call the Midwife?" It definitely deals with how "real" people really lived, set in 1950s London. Should be right up your alley. It's up to ten seasons now, and still going strong.
Go for it Jane. Good luck.
The circus in Paris was much worst
And Jack the ripper was far from the only serial killer walking those streets, just the one who got the press.
It's so profoundly sad that the only thing people had the energy to do was survive......their quality of life was abysmal, they had nothing to enjoy or be proud of
And the rampant violence for which no police would come.
It felt as if I was there walking the miserable place and experiencing it first hand. Incredible storytelling. Thank you!
Thank you! Great to know you think the narration is fitting for the history.
This man's voice keeps you gripped to the story
Great!
Poverty is still a problem in the 21st Century.
Not like this
@@Michelle-qd9gm in 3rd world countries
Yeah like this. In some areas, even in the so called first world. I reckon it'll only get much worse as inflation surges. Maybe some of us will even get to experwince this hell. Maybe all of us. Gnight
Yes and it's so sad! It's going to get worse!
I witnessed some slums in Argentina in the early 90s and I can tell you the stories from this video are not far from what I've seen in occasions
I remember my grandmother terrified of the workhouse to such a point that in the 1960s she was very suspect of the welfare ‘state’. And refused all help available, having heard that meals on wheels were bad would refuse any attempt to help her . Made it difficult to help her.
Laura, my Granny was the same way! I thought I was the only one! She made certain her children never accepted help outside the family!
My mother in Texas was always afraid of the "poor house". In 1963.
That's because the poor woman was brainwashed into thinking that the Royals,the Church, Rich and powerful were something special and she was nothing,nobody,a burden on the state.Poor woman.The ones on the top were good at torture, humiliating and killing.They ALL worked together to keep ordinary people in poverty and sending them off to fight wars and destroy their familias and their souls.
Smart woman.
Wow, thanks for posting... like it took years for people to trust banks again after the Great Depression...
I have worked in some shady places, but nothing like this. I can not even imagine.
Very dark indeed, in space and time.
@@FactFeast sad thing is that somewhere someone people are still living this wretchedly
what kind of places?
Imagine what they would say about these tent cities on the side of roads with trash all about.. in a sense, even tho still harsh, I admire the options and community of extreme poverty that existed and made due in any manner they could. It's weird how it almost seems worse off today for the poorest of poor because we just don't have any options here in America. And trust me a ton of us are just one months rent away from going homeless so I really hope we address this poverty low income problem here very soon. The cost of living is just so unbelievably unbalanced compared to wages and most people's incomes.
It's getting worse.
If you're just a paycheck away you need a money manager. I've been really poor. I've lived on $125 a month. You know how to do it? No cable, no phone (not a cell...a PHONE), no nails, no salons, (super cuts was too expensive), no candy, pop, chips or ice cream. Your pending homelessness is your problem
@@debbylou5729 You forgot alot of other factors too. Things are not always just that simple, particularly for elderly, or families or individuals with medical issues.
@@debbylou5729 that 125 didn’t include rent, heating, electric, taxes, travel to work or medical expenses or you couldn’t have.
@@amethyst5538 someone who makes sense 👍
I love your voice and content! I'm fascinated by the way they used to survive without fuss.
I’m glad you find the history presented here so interesting. Thank you for your support!
I'm gonna assume there was a whole lot of fuss 😏 but I could be wrong.
Think it was a case of shut up and put up… no privilege’s there 🥴
I guess thy had no choice
People find a way to survive.
We do take so much for granted.
One legacy of London slums is the term 'hangover'. In alcoves or cubby holes a person would charge a penny to sleep, fill it up and tie a rope across to keep people from falling out because they slept sitting up on a bench. Passed out drunks would always have their arms and bodies hanging over the rope....and still be there in the morning that way with a 'hangover'.
I have a video on my channel about Penny Sit-ups using ropes called 'Sleeping Rough,' should you be interested.
@@FactFeast Thanks!
Tis program just sent chills to the core of my being, we are so very fortunate in today’s modern era, where even the very poor can be taken care of medically with way better living conditions, the middle class as well has all the bare necessities covered, we are extremely lucky in the 21st century.
Most of these poor souls perished due to crime, illness and gruesome unsanitary conditions, what a horrible time to be alive, not very different from Europe’s Middle Dark Ages…Thank You for posting these informative and most interesting lectures, I’m taking my time, one episode at a time, sincerely…a loyal subscriber.
Human trafficking, Discrimination, government corruption ,slums ,state sponsored violence still exists just as much as it did back then ,yes there are some differences but it's not a world away from back then .
You do realize that some of the poor still live in horrid conditions today right? In wealthy western countries too.
Good voice over, kinda reminds me of my old primary school teacher who would do voices like this while reading books
Hope it brings back good memories for you. Thank you for your comment.
The worst slums in Europe during Victoria's reign were in Dublin. Imagine, worse than what's being described here.
Absolutely. And why do the English still adore their Kings and Queens. I don't get it
@@franbrooks605 The kings and queens had very little to do with the living conditions in slums. The Prime minister and the parliament were responsible for all the fiscal policies.
@@franbrooks605 we adore them because the royal family have been part of England for centuries. They are part of us. We love the pomp and pageantry and they work hard for this country. They had little to do with these issues.
@@franbrooks605 YES. IT IS OBSCENE AND DISGUSTING THE WAY THE ROYALS LIVE COMPARED TO THEIR POOR.
The worst slums were in London. Ten times the population of the whole of Ireland.
You make me feel like I'm actually there,the details you project is truly needed,i try and imagine myself as if I was there and you help tremendously
I’m glad you think we set the right atmosphere for the Victorian era, thank you!
@@FactFeast you did and I love it
The narration is next level excellence, I was completly captivated.
I was 100% absorbed into the video, you know they way where lose any thoughts of who you are, where you are, things you need to do etc, that hasn't happened in long time, thank you.
Wow, thank you! I'm glad you found it an experience. We aim to bring life to history.
Get used to it folks, Victorian Era 2.0 is just around the corner. Don't we just love "retro"?
God bless the souls of all those people !!!😔
I find myself fascinated with White Chapel, and everything to do with it. Whether it's regarding the black plague, or Jack the ripper, or just simply hearing about how the residents lived their lives. They were truly amazing and resilient people, who overcame struggles we could never imagine in our worst nightmares.
Many interesting tales come from Whitechapel and Spitalfields. I’m sure I’ll be covering some of them on my channel in future. Thank you for your comment.
I know. Something about Victorian London from childhood to true crime really fascinates me
I actually live in one of the poor places in East London Shadwell apparently it was very dangerous back then it was filthy vile place sad to see how harshly people were treated and lived back then 😔🤷♂️
Some parts of 'poverty inflicted London', appear to be more attractive to journalists than others. The city was inundated with slums, east, west, south or north, with plenty more right in the centre of town, mere minutes from the gentry.
I think the homeless in Oakland California got it worse, but..just sayin.
We’re heading back this direction.
I love the character in your voice and whisper at the right times. Great narrating.
Thank you! 😊 I'm glad you enjoyed listening.
Fascinating time period, The People of the Abyss, Joseph Merrick, Jack the Ripper, Workhouses, harrowing stuff for sure....Subbed, and definitely gonna be viewing many more on this amazing channel!!!
Welcome to the channel! Thank you. Lots more content like this planned for the future.
Harrowing squalor..lasted into the sixties in some areas.
I’m getting wrinkles from all the wincing at the descriptions of this dystopia.
Love these videos fantastic narration can you imagine being there not that long ago scarily!
Glad the atmosphere works for you. Thank you!
We are heading back to those times !!..(pretty scary 😟).& there are folk /families living in those same conditions today ..😔💔..god help us all
That’s what you got fighting for the British Empire, choice was death or living in slums, great choice for the working class.
What a wonderful voice you have. It really pulled me in!
I’m glad you found the narration compelling and thank you for your comment!
I trained at The London Hospital Whitechapel in the 70s, Brilliant time true East End but now its crazy!! far too expensive to live,not always good living accommodation greedy landlords..so nothing new from the past and now.No handouts for these poor souls...very interesting video.
It’s interesting that you have a connection to Whitechapel. I’m glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for your comment.
At a time when Britain was one of the richest countries in the world.
It still is one of the richest countries in the world.
Fantastic video as always, it really is like stepping back in time! Thanks for sharing this 😃🖒
You're very welcome and I value your support! Glad this was interesting content for you.
@@FactFeast sometimes TH-cam doesn't notify me but I try and check back regularly, all the best! 😃
Thanks for the vid!
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Bermondsey street in south east London still have early Georgian builders they are grade 11 listed. Absolutely stunning.
Good video, thank you
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And this was at the height of the British empire. 😤
I recommend reading Charles Dickens to learn about how life was then too.
I am always fascinated as in how humans lived & SURVIVED this... I suppose you do the best you can, given the situation. It makes me sad that so many didn't know that there was a better quality of life that could be lived.
Hmmmmmm, only the strong survived. Nowadays, well, we keep the infirm alive to mingle with the strong…..disgusting
@@Gfysimpletons I know...I'm one of the infirm who mingles with the strong...hurts everyone. 😉
Drinking a piping hot cup of tea watching this right now. Cheers!
Very nice! Thanks for watching.
As I've noted before, this description is the exact telling of areas in Chicago, Charleston, Oakland, San Diego. I've been in most. One would think the cities of the west too young, or the south too small to grow such overwhelming filth. But I tell you 150 years is enough time to build layers of filth. Walls weeping with grime. Add to that the horror of generational drug abuse , child neglect and poverty and you have misery so deep the worker/observer is at a loss as to where to begin. Major anger ensues.
And the American attitude to the poor is the same as the attitude in Victorian England. They're lazy, they should be made to work, it's their own fault, they're morally corrupt, etc. Very "Christian".
No wonder they spent their free time drinking. Facing that life sober would be unbearable
OMG I had to read this twice, I thought you were trying to say these cities were like this TODAY, and I was SMH, thinking that Fox News is a hell of a drug
San Diego?????
@@JackAShepherd I suggest you read it a third time.
I don't know whose living conditions are worse, the people in East London, or those in Lower Manhattan showcased in Gangs of New York. How sad.
Otto Beckmann has a book "The Good Old Days-They Were Terrible" Check it out for a USA version of this.
That movie is so good
This was excellent! I could listen to your narrating forever. Thank you
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Thank you for this video
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Engels and Marx also gave some astonishing reports of the english working class conditions in their famous work on the topic. I would recommend it to anyone interested in this topic.
There was one report in particular that really affected me. It was the report explaining the all too common phenomenon of children under the age of 12 being permanently disabled - due to working up to 14 hrs a day on the factory floors.
Many of the children employed were too young to have adequately developed muscle and skeletal strength. Consequently the long hours standing in place would eventually produce a curvature of the shin bone - which would eventually bow out into a semi circle.
This eventually rendered the children irreparably disabled invalids for life. As much as this was a grotesque tragedy for the child who had an utterly bleak, and miserable existence to look forward to, it was also a tragedy for the poor families who now also had to care for invalids - when they could scarcely care for themselves.
My younger self was in disbelief that such things could have been tolerated. I have come to be less surprised the more I learn about the world.
Terrible conditions indeed. Thank you for sharing this information.
@mcjeebusyes you are right, proper communism has not yet been implemented.
My life is so good in 2022.
I would have lived like this 150 years ago. No old money in my family.
Makes me thankful.
Poverty is a low life that every nation have to endure every day money can't buy happiness and relationship but can provide descent life, education,food
I love your chanel and adore the way you tell stories.You have helped me so much to take my mind off the recent death of my hubby.Ive always loved Britain's rich gritty history I'm 29 and would much rather watch your chanel than TV.Thank you 😀
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Outstanding x loved this
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I love listening to these videos. No wonder people was sick the filthy homes, streets an air
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New slums: yesterday was like any other born on 23 floor of high rise with no electricity or elevator. Cities of 25 million without toilets or washing facilities in 2022.
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell is a great read covering this subject
We’re still ruled by a party that would love to return to these times
Utterly mesmerising. I loved the narration, really brought it all to life, the ghastly squalor of those long-ago times.
Thank you! Glad to breathe some life into history 🙂
Excellent narration brings these images to life. Really great !
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The past repeats itself, we are headed there again, unfortunately.
I'm sat up in bed watching this on my samsung tablet. My sheets are good quality cotton and were placed upon my luxurious mattress this morning. The electric blanket is on level2, no different in truth to level 1, aside from the slightest of temperature increase at the foot end. The cocoa is warming and velvety with a small dash of whiskey having been added. I'm not wealthy by any means, but this is literally heaven compared to what some people have endured in the past.....and sadly continue to do so. (might nip downstairs for just one more Quality Street.....probably the Orange cream, or maybe the Purple one)
My bedroom isn’t heated. Heat is too expensive now. I pile up the blankets.
I have to say I envy you - I’ve sold the tv, and I won’t be using the heating much at all this winter… hot water bottles and socks in bed for me.
Your voice is really calming, I became sleepy listening to you talk about the squalor people used to live in.
This should have Slumerica playing quietly in the background
Just like Broad Marsh in Nottingham, desperate times aye .
Perfect narration voice especially for the period you're talking about👏😊
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@@FactFeast Yw😁
Woo hoo a new video.... I really do love this channel. The Narrator definitely brings these people to life with his accents. ❤
It’s great that you think so. The aim is to bring some life to the past. Thank you for your support!
Victorian life was so harsh, I would love to know who my ancestors are, so that I know what we thought for the best generation.
It appears staggering that no one witnessed Jack the Ripper. Fascinating and disturbing footage. Thank you for sharing.
What do you mean, fascinating. Oil lit lamps in the streets. If you're lucky, or gas. Who's going to see?
Perhaps they did and didn't care death was all around then
My poor Irish grandma had ten children because of my grandpa's constant demands for sex and his control of the money he earned . Saturday night in the pub , his baccy and a flutter on the horses left little for feeding the children born of his sexual needs . More evil came from the Roman Catholic nuns who just entered the house and took food from the starving family to provide for themselves . I'm 72yrs old and will never forget .
My mother talked of the Priest showing up on a Friday night for his pay. Before they had time to spend the husbands pay on frivolities such as food and rent. If the mother, who was constantly pregnant, was to die the family would be all broken up, some children sent into care, or sent to some colonial country.
You’ll never meet a starving Priest, I can assure you that…
baccy?
TreTed poorly myself by husband. It’s terrible. I get you. I’m so sorry sweetheart
@@PPikes *bidet
2:22 I always Love your opening. You’re a goodun!
My grandfather comes from the lanes o,;h;;f Ireland in the 1920s. Based on the stories he told us. The situation was very similar. His family had a two room house with 2 floors. Bottom floor was a kitchen. Upstairs just a big room with they had 3 beds all the kids shared he had 2 brothers and 2 sisters he was the baby. All 10-20 houses shares a outhouse at the end of the lane. He said it was always dark and wet no matter the weather. And that it was always loud from the men coming home from the pub everynight. My pap and his family came to America when he was 7 years old. While he said new york was a but better it was also very crowded and still fairly dirty and loud.
Beautifully and theatrically spoken. Thoroughly enjoyed listening to the ghastly description of Victorian England. Sadly, the slums of today fare no better.
Thank you for your comment. It’s nice to know you think the narration is fitting for the subject.
@@FactFeast where is the face behind the narrative?
FINALEMENT JE COMPRENDS ELLE NE VEUT PLUS QUON L APPELLE VICTORIA APRES SA MORT. C EST LES ANNÉES VICTORIENNE QUIL Y A EUX BEAUCOUP DE PAUVRETÉS HONTE À LA MONARCHIE QUI N ONT JAMAIS VENUS EN AIDE À CES PROPRES PEUPLES
ET CE N EST QUE LE DÉBUT. JE PENSE QUE SA VA REVENIR DU TEMPS DES 19 SIÈCLES
Interested to know who lived in these buildings when they were new, they were new once?
Amazing narration. Fascinating content! Subscribed.
Welcome to the channel! Thank you. Lots more history of everyday life here for you to watch.
I don’t know 🤷🏽♀️ what contraceptives we’re available back in the day, but today there are several contraceptives options. My husband and I have one child, and decided we will NOT have any more children because we can’t afford more children. We talk to our son frequently about
contraceptives because children can cause people to fall into poverty.
There wasn't. Not in the victorian era. Plus large families were common due to high infant and child death rates. Vaccines and basic healthcare/sanitation only started to improve in the 1900s.
It’s amazing anyone managed to survive in these times
Many still live in these very circumstances in todays world.
@@nelsonsibiya9204 exactly