What a wonderful video! I've been researching my own ancestors who were in service, and wondering what their lives might have been like. This beautiful presentation gives me some insight...thank you very much!
Hard as it was, Butling was a profession, and for all of them, usually, a clean environment, food, a bed with clean sheets and they weren't living in a huge, dangerous city, surrounded by strangers, working in a factory with no safety protections, or God knows where, having little education or prospects.
I don’t think we understand how important was the use of long handles for cleaning things! We take for granted that we don’t need to be on our hands and knees cleaning things all the time!
I wonder what it's like to be so close to your employer and taking care of them I mean you have any kind of relationship with them or are you just like a machine to them???
The lower servants, especially the house and scullery maids, would have had to stop and turn to face the wall if their employers entered the same room. This prevented the employers from needing to acknowledge them. 😳
England had (and still does to an extent) a defined class system with distinct societal rules. For practically a thousand years it evolved (after WW1 it loosened a little; taxes ate up the monster estates, it killed a generation of male aristocracy by the rule of aristocractic honor, the 1st to volunteer, the 1st killed, and killed or wounded the majority of male servants) everyone was born into a class and it dictated what you wore, what you did, how you spoke, who you socialized with, where you lived, and who you married. Everyone in society had a place, you knew it and accepted it naturally. It's my understanding, being in service was much like working for anyone, anywhere today; some people were much nicer than others and some were real boneheads. You were the servant, you served them, you knew your job, your place, and they knew theirs. They never overlapped.
@@patriciapalmer1377 some servants accepted their lot in life but many did not. When you read servant's diaries many despised their employers and wanted better in life. As soon as the first world war came many left service to work in other jobs with better working conditions. The upper and middle classes mostly did not care at all for their servants as they were not obliged to give them time off or provide medical care. I personally would rather be dead than live like this, no freedom and no life. Some people try to console themselves with the thought that servants were too stupid or not in need of freedoms and were happy with their lot. Servants who did not question their existence were institutionalised by this life and could not see another life for themselves. It was brainwashing at its finest.
@@lepolhart3242 thank you! Many people forget that people who are oppressed (especially if born into oppression) are sadly brainwashed. I agree with someone else’s comment on here, I would rather be dead than to serve another adult. In my family we go by “do you have two feet and a heart beat? Move”! Of course we are compassionate and take care of each other need be. But I hope you get my point.
So good. Wish this was longer, would be amazing as a whole series. And I’m definitely here bc just started Downton.
A well done depiction of servants lives. Certainly shows how hard every one worked!
Sure glad I wasnt born in those days! Long hours, short pay, and hard work.
It wasn't too bad, providing you were born into the household on the other side.
Butlers had it pretty good comparatively
Make sure u are in a Union. Or those benefits will easily be taken away.
wow, this video impressed me, I was imbued with the atmosphere, it would be great if there were more such videos
I would certainly 💕 for you to create more of these stories! This was too short….not enough 😢
What a wonderful video! I've been researching my own ancestors who were in service, and wondering what their lives might have been like. This beautiful presentation gives me some insight...thank you very much!
An insight into good old victorian society thank you
This was good.It was like actually listening to them.
Hard as it was, Butling was a profession, and for all of them, usually, a clean environment, food, a bed with clean sheets and they weren't living in a huge, dangerous city, surrounded by strangers, working in a factory with no safety protections, or God knows where, having little education or prospects.
My great-grandmother was a house maid. I often wondered what it was like.
The people in the photograph look 25 years older than claimed!
Good video
The amount of hard work and little time off doesn’t equate with the wages, sore aching body’s and quality of life.
They sound proud and relatively pleased with their lives actually
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
A hard life being in service. Not much time left for self or recreational activities.
Yikes. He looked 45 not 28.
I don’t think we understand how important was the use of long handles for cleaning things! We take for granted that we don’t need to be on our hands and knees cleaning things all the time!
They had brooms. Don't know why they didn't invent the mop. Though mop like tools had been around for centuries.
scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees much more effective than a mop
I wish i had been to sewerby hall when i could.
I wonder what it's like to be so close to your employer and taking care of them I mean you have any kind of relationship with them or are you just like a machine to them???
You were invisable
The lower servants, especially the house and scullery maids, would have had to stop and turn to face the wall if their employers entered the same room. This prevented the employers from needing to acknowledge them. 😳
England had (and still does to an extent) a defined class system with distinct societal rules. For practically a thousand years it evolved (after WW1 it loosened a little; taxes ate up the monster estates, it killed a generation of male aristocracy by the rule of aristocractic honor, the 1st to volunteer, the 1st killed, and killed or wounded the majority of male servants) everyone was born into a class and it dictated what you wore, what you did, how you spoke, who you socialized with, where you lived, and who you married. Everyone in society had a place, you knew it and accepted it naturally. It's my understanding, being in service was much like working for anyone, anywhere today; some people were much nicer than others and some were real boneheads. You were the servant, you served them, you knew your job, your place, and they knew theirs. They never overlapped.
@@patriciapalmer1377 some servants accepted their lot in life but many did not. When you read servant's diaries many despised their employers and wanted better in life. As soon as the first world war came many left service to work in other jobs with better working conditions. The upper and middle classes mostly did not care at all for their servants as they were not obliged to give them time off or provide medical care. I personally would rather be dead than live like this, no freedom and no life. Some people try to console themselves with the thought that servants were too stupid or not in need of freedoms and were happy with their lot. Servants who did not question their existence were institutionalised by this life and could not see another life for themselves. It was brainwashing at its finest.
@@lepolhart3242 thank you! Many people forget that people who are oppressed (especially if born into oppression) are sadly brainwashed. I agree with someone else’s comment on here, I would rather be dead than to serve another adult. In my family we go by “do you have two feet and a heart beat? Move”! Of course we are compassionate and take care of each other need be. But I hope you get my point.
Some good household tips
It's actually slavery by another name...
No it’s not
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Lovely video! Make more pretty please? 😊
And what ,if eny ,was the purposes of that.?