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My beautiful grandmother was born in the slums of east London in 1901. Her blessed Soul was with us until 2008. The utter destitution and poverty is unthinkable to modern sensibilities. Grandma's hell was added to by a drunk reprobate dock worker for her Father. Neglect of his responsibilities for alcohol was further exasperated by his tendency to impregnate his wife in between beatings. Upon giving birth to a 7th child, born into utter despair. My poor great grandmother bundled herself up with the newborn to her breast and walked to the closest bridge crossing the Thames. She stoically walked to the center and threw herself with child into the icy water. The Salvation Army rescued the children and sent them to Canada. My mothers side of the family, my grandmother's side holds Williams Family reunions every 5yrs at a Salvation Army property retreat. The gentlemen that adopted grandma has well over 200 direct descendants. Most are Salvation Army members who serve. They are humble working class salt of the earth Human Beings actualized.
Thank you for sharing such a touching story. My Great Grandfather was also sent to Canada as a "home child," where the sufferings of a hard, laborious life awaited them.
It's so heartbreaking, how people toiled and suffered to provide for basic needs. Sadly, my own father, throughout the 1960's and 70's breathed in deadly asbestos fibres from drop ceiling tiles; doctors gave him 20yrs to live and they were spot on. My father slowly suffocated to death from Asbestosis. I can relate to these tragic stories. Thank you as always.
That's terrible! The effects of asbestos were known in the 1960's, yet it took another 20 or 30 years before the evidence began to be taken seriously. Where I worked in the '80s and '90s there were people in the workshops who had used lathes in the '60s and '70s to turn out shapes in asbestos.
My 2nd great grandpa was a police Bobby in London, his wages ensured they lived a decent life during Victorian times, he later went back to Ely in Cambridgeshire when he retired.
@Fact Feast my great great grandfather was a police Bobby in London England from 1856 till he retired in 1883, he didn't marry my 2nd great grandmother till 1879, first 4 years of marriage they lived in London on his police Bobby wages, he then went back home to a hamlet close to Ely where he was born they owned their farmland and that is where they raised kids, from their farm, and his police Bobby pension. Even with 6 kids from 1880 to 1890 they had, I am sure they were not living high off the hog so to speak, I imagine it still would have been a struggle.
Unfortunately true. Middle classes being hit with the recent living costs crisis and only now looking at alternatives. Lucky not as bad as Victorian era but if you homeless struggling rent sitting in dark due to cost of electricity and being treated like scum because you not employed even in low paid job and relying on food Bank having to pull out own teeth due to no NHS dental care! I don't think you be feeling any better off.
Last part of my research morality rates for children in victorian era were high and even if you survived childhood, many adults didn’t live past 50 years . In this era death was certain and people prized elaborate funeral services because of this . Many families saved for years to pay for funeral service . Infectious diseases were greatest casues of victorian morality such as smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza were old scourges . 1831 Britain suffered first epidemic of cholera, life is hard in Victorian era . Luxurious were not available to millions of working poor . Kids worked on farms, at homes as servants and factories. Happy mother day to you all mothers around world we celebrate mother day as well as you in March in Arabic countries as England. Best wishes for you your family friends.
Some of my own ancestors lived in South East London. They led desperate lives - just as depicted in your films. One area they lived in was so bad that it was cleared in the 1890's. The families continually moved from house to house and could never settle in one place for long. They were continually surrounded by death and starvation. I have just discovered that one of my ancestors had a criminal record. From a genealogical perspective this is brilliant, because prison records are amazing. However, he was less than 5 feet tall, and weighed only 6 stones. This alone is an indicator of how appalling life was. He was imprisoned for several offences - mostly involving stealing food or clothing. - Things needed to survive.
That's really interesting. You will see in my Victorian police mugshot videos how much shorter people were generally, relative to today. Thank you for your comment.
Sad times indeed for the common man. Those were the times when labor unions benefited people, I don't have a family, and I can't imagine providing for one on barely a pauper's wages. Sad to hear of people dying before old age, but maybe that was the merciful way out. Great presentation 😊!✌️
Heartbreaking hat the businessmen could not or would not pay a bit more. The poor workers kept pushing themselves, knowing their families depended on their paltry wages. Sinful.
@@FactFeast anytime your in Derby come look me up on my socials and Ill give you a tour of the area, The Derby Gaol (which I think is still own by Richard Felix) has tunnels leading up Vernon St to the old Jail which only the front façade remains, then a little walk from there brings you into town, where the fishmonger is today also used to be a small holding jail. The tunnels which exist under the old railway and around Vernon St are now garages, though once was accessible from the original Goal to the Courthouses above , so when you walk out of the old courthouses which are now business and office spaces you can see the roads are wider than most as this allowed a steady flow for horse and carts to transfer prisoners, Im not the best person to explain this but I hope you enjoyed my wee fact feast 🖤🖤🖤
People in the big cities: It is the worst time ever!! People outside the big cities: What the hell is going on in those big cities? Looks like the worst time ever!!
Wages were & are now a disgrace here in the US too ... a job costs $400.00 per month to keep insurance for 2 people if offered at all is another $400.00 per month then taxes & in the US THX to RR SS is taxed since the early '80s ... if a spouse also works then it's double taxes ... it's a disgrace & businesses are suffering b/c nobody is working for this low pay if they can possibly not work
Mateee I’m shattered after a 9:30am - 5pm shift at the archive’s - goodness gracious I can hardly imagine how quickly I would crumble under the standard workdays of Victorian working-classes 💀 And I’m not malnourished, dirty and sleeping in overcrowded slums, your entire family to one room and a single bed 😢 I shudder to think- I don’t even have any kids to support, and am lucky to have the support of my parents, siblings and grandparents plus friends and others Most of These poor, poor people were all on their own… Truly soul destroying work 🙇🏻I don’t pray often, but I’ll Make an exception here God grant these poor unfortunates rest, peace and the love they so desperately deserved in life 🙏✨ 💯% _I’d be a raving-pauper in a month, _*_maximum_*
@@FactFeast thank you im much better for an early nights kip and a bit of grub this morning (also a day off this week so no complaining over here! and i'm a librarian who lends their services to the specialist local history room in the library, and am starting to learn and do more hist. research and archiving under the tutelage of some very wonderful local hist. stewards; my archival knowledge pool expands by the day, but i'm not all the way there yet. let me know if you need any research done in south-east england/surrey/south croydon/tandridge (we specialize in this area heavilyyyy)/tumbridge-wells to a lesser extent etc etc I could def dig up some info for you. let me know im down whenever!
That sounds like a job where you could discover some fascinating stuff! Genuine accounts of life (in the public domain) are of interest - family, work, food, police, punishment, prison, workhouse etc.
@@FactFeast we have lots of rare,?reference only texts that aren’t readily available online and a lot of other interesting local historical authors and books specific to south London/Surrey Do let me know if you’d like any ancillary research done for yourself? It’s my job, after all and I can put it down as a public information request from a customer 👌🏻✨
I deleted my previous writing, but when I hear of the injust of the British Empire of those overseas, I felt, I needed to comment, those forget what everyday people had to endure on their own homeland....
Your thumbmail image is perfect ...this keeps buffering so much I can't watch it all ...tried yesterday & again today ...my signal I guess ...I'll have to try it later b/c it does look interesting. My signal is getting worse & worst at times
times then were very hard, but in a way life today is a joke to, people living on the streets, foodbanks,poverty,working and still struggling to keep you heating on, rubbish wadges, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, like many people i left school and have worked many jobs, and all were low paid, and why should people like doctors and loyers get better pay, than a man that sweeps the streets and removes your rubbish on a rainy cold day, after all we all need our rubbish removed and streets cleaned
I can’t fathom the greatness of the poverty. Unfortunately it’s not better today. I don’t think the starvation is quit as bad. We have food banks, food kitchens, churches, associations, food boxes, food stamps etc.. If you have mental health issues that’s a whole other animal. It’s not easily available. One reason we have so many homeless. There are no asylums in the United States. Private mental health services are expensive. The state owned the asylums and shut them all down. They didn’t think to bring back asylums that were new and improved. They just ignore the whole thing!
My parents immigrated to Canada from Scotland. As a child, I recall visiting my grandmother in Glasgow, she told me stories of her youth. She had girlfriends that worked for companies that manufactured matches made using white phosphorus. From what I recall, she told me they worked and ate at their work station. The white phosphorus was like a dust in the air and settled on everything including the food the brought (likely bread), she told me horrible stories of what she called “Fossy Jaw” or “Fossy Mouth”. The white phosphorus would get in the food they ate and this would dissolve the jaw bone causing infection, abscesses which caused severe pain, had a terrible smell, was incurable and lead to eventual death. Unbelievable that they had no protection from such a hazardous substance!
Thank you for your great work for highlighting those dreadful time's. It's shameful that even today a certain political party want's to drag the poorest back to that era! They like to blame the poorest for the ills of the country and unfortunately people believe and vote for them 😢.
I've only discovered this channel several hours ago from the list on the right. Can't remember what I had been watching before that but the link was at least 3 screens inside. Anyway there are certainly interesting-looking videos here including this one. The great British empire etc. etc.... but many of its people living in conditions that were decidedly wretched. Makes many in the colonies appear `rich' by comparison when it comes to living and social conditions. And these are what life is about. Not "how huge your country's empire is". -- Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Its astounding that the royals and the politicians sat idly by and reaped the enormous benefits without any feelings of guilt. All the time stating they were Christians. Tragic is the human condition. The police, those guard dogs to the rich bashed in the heads of the people who could stand no more.
As it was then, so as it is now. Believe it or not. Substitute one thing for another and our world mimics that one. I don’t think it’s really ever going to be different, because there are certain features of life, in all forms, and it’s tragedies are equal across the spectrum. Antelopes living in a heard that’s getting hunted by lions. We are all the same. Life may be meant to be hard.
That place had to really be a horrific place to Iive, not that you could call that living. I know it wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for the greedy and those people wanting to work people to death and a joke for a salary things would have been a lot better. But the greedy don't care. It's hard to believe people could do others that way when they just wanted to feed their family and not live in total misery. Sad situation.
This book is available for free online. It can be read in a day. I highly recommend it. What happened during the industrial age in London is happening today in American cities. No living wages. Multiple families living in the same house. Working homeless. Not enough jobs. Disability not paying enough to rent a place if you are not independently wealthy or without family. Our mentally ill living and dying on the streets
Claude,,, same,, I've got a purse full of old victorian money,, pounds worth,, that could of looked after a family for weeks,, and there in my draw ,,, useless.
How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. Actually we too in Arabic countries especially gulf area such as my homeland Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, uae . Till 1940s suffered from lack of knowledge, no modern medicine only herbs , midwives, worked as farmers , fishermen have very high percentage of deaths . Many women died in labor . Small pox was pandemic my mother told they began to vaccinate kids not all have vaccines my sister , cousin have smallpox have scars on their faces till nowadays. No educational institutes only learn Arabic letters and reading holy Quran . As always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s first of all I looked up for meanings of destination means poverty, indigene, penury. It is state it one with insufficient resources.
I’ve often wondered what the reasoning was for taking a person’s own clothing away when they enter those vile workhouses and making them all wear the same workhouse outfit/uniforms? Was it to further humiliate the poor souls and dehumanize them by taking away their last thread of individuality as a human being?! Make them feel like prisoners or inmates. And if a mother gained entry with children they were separated! Not a very charitable or remotely compassionate, kind act! God help you if you became I’ll or injured. 3:14
The poverty in 2023 USA does not compare to how it was in the UK or USA of the 19th and early 20th century. Most American poor have Automobiles, large screen TV’ s and eat well due to food stamps. The exceptions are the homeless , who suffer from mental illness and those with severe drug addictions. I have spent time in many American ghettos especially in Philadelphia, New York and Camden New Jersey the poorest city in the Northeast USA. My family thank God worked hard and got out of the slums. America is still exceptional and full of opportunities!
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My beautiful grandmother was born in the slums of east London in 1901. Her blessed Soul was with us until 2008. The utter destitution and poverty is unthinkable to modern sensibilities. Grandma's hell was added to by a drunk reprobate dock worker for her Father. Neglect of his responsibilities for alcohol was further exasperated by his tendency to impregnate his wife in between beatings. Upon giving birth to a 7th child, born into utter despair. My poor great grandmother bundled herself up with the newborn to her breast and walked to the closest bridge crossing the Thames. She stoically walked to the center and threw herself with child into the icy water. The Salvation Army rescued the children and sent them to Canada. My mothers side of the family, my grandmother's side holds Williams Family reunions every 5yrs at a Salvation Army property retreat. The gentlemen that adopted grandma has well over 200 direct descendants. Most are Salvation Army members who serve. They are humble working class salt of the earth Human Beings actualized.
This is such a sad story. Thankfully your grandmother was saved. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing such a touching story. My Great Grandfather was also sent to Canada as a "home child," where the sufferings of a hard, laborious life awaited them.
It's so heartbreaking, how people toiled and suffered to provide for basic needs. Sadly, my own father, throughout the 1960's and 70's breathed in deadly asbestos fibres from drop ceiling tiles; doctors gave him 20yrs to live and they were spot on. My father slowly suffocated to death from Asbestosis. I can relate to these tragic stories. Thank you as always.
I'm sorry for your loss. Asbestos took so many lives. Horrible material.
That's terrible! The effects of asbestos were known in the 1960's, yet it took another 20 or 30 years before the evidence began to be taken seriously. Where I worked in the '80s and '90s there were people in the workshops who had used lathes in the '60s and '70s to turn out shapes in asbestos.
My granddad who worked hard to provide for his seven children all of his life also died of asbestos poisoning.
@@kayb9979 Here in Canada the govt always knew but kept it secret for decades. They gave my father a "pension" until he died. Thanks for writing.
@@demonia2848 So sad, how industrialism wiped away so many people and created so much sadness.
My 2nd great grandpa was a police Bobby in London, his wages ensured they lived a decent life during Victorian times, he later went back to Ely in Cambridgeshire when he retired.
I'm sure Ely was very different to London. Very rural surroundings and an incredibly beautiful cathedral.
@Fact Feast my great great grandfather was a police Bobby in London England from 1856 till he retired in 1883, he didn't marry my 2nd great grandmother till 1879, first 4 years of marriage they lived in London on his police Bobby wages, he then went back home to a hamlet close to Ely where he was born they owned their farmland and that is where they raised kids, from their farm, and his police Bobby pension. Even with 6 kids from 1880 to 1890 they had, I am sure they were not living high off the hog so to speak, I imagine it still would have been a struggle.
yea same as today - police seem to get by with good wages while abusing/killing the working class
The well off didn’t care about suffering until it happened to them this attitude is still with us now in the present
Unfortunately true. Middle classes being hit with the recent living costs crisis and only now looking at alternatives. Lucky not as bad as Victorian era but if you homeless struggling rent sitting in dark due to cost of electricity and being treated like scum because you not employed even in low paid job and relying on food Bank having to pull out own teeth due to no NHS dental care! I don't think you be feeling any better off.
Last part of my research morality rates for children in victorian era were high and even if you survived childhood, many adults didn’t live past 50 years . In this era death was certain and people prized elaborate funeral services because of this . Many families saved for years to pay for funeral service . Infectious diseases were greatest casues of victorian morality such as smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza were old scourges . 1831 Britain suffered first epidemic of cholera, life is hard in Victorian era . Luxurious were not available to millions of working poor . Kids worked on farms, at homes as servants and factories. Happy mother day to you all mothers around world we celebrate mother day as well as you in March in Arabic countries as England. Best wishes for you your family friends.
Thanks for sharing. Best wishes to you KHATOON.
Thank you 😊
Some of my own ancestors lived in South East London. They led desperate lives - just as depicted in your films. One area they lived in was so bad that it was cleared in the 1890's. The families continually moved from house to house and could never settle in one place for long. They were continually surrounded by death and starvation. I have just discovered that one of my ancestors had a criminal record. From a genealogical perspective this is brilliant, because prison records are amazing. However, he was less than 5 feet tall, and weighed only 6 stones. This alone is an indicator of how appalling life was. He was imprisoned for several offences - mostly involving stealing food or clothing. - Things needed to survive.
That's really interesting. You will see in my Victorian police mugshot videos how much shorter people were generally, relative to today. Thank you for your comment.
Sad times indeed for the common man. Those were the times when labor unions benefited people, I don't have a family, and I can't imagine providing for one on barely a pauper's wages. Sad to hear of people dying before old age, but maybe that was the merciful way out. Great presentation 😊!✌️
Thank you! Kind of you to comment.
Wish labour would get back to their roots! Not standing in pikit lines with the medical profession is unjust to be called a labour party
Heartbreaking hat the businessmen could not or would not pay a bit more. The poor workers kept pushing themselves, knowing their families depended on their paltry wages. Sinful.
You’re terrific, Fact Feast! Please never stop
You’re very kind. Thanks for watching regularly!
I was able to watch this all the way thru w/out buffering after 11:00pm ... finally. *TY FF* ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Great! Nice that it’s working for you.
Love this channel, it's one of my favourites. Keep doing what you are doing. It's the only way these people will have their stories live on.
Very much appreciated!
Love this channel! Do you have any accounts from Derbyshire in the same timeline as we had 5 Gaols at one point and has as much history as London
I haven't discovered any yet. But I have heard of Derby Gaol. Supposedly haunted!
@@FactFeast anytime your in Derby come look me up on my socials and Ill give you a tour of the area, The Derby Gaol (which I think is still own by Richard Felix) has tunnels leading up Vernon St to the old Jail which only the front façade remains, then a little walk from there brings you into town, where the fishmonger is today also used to be a small holding jail. The tunnels which exist under the old railway and around Vernon St are now garages, though once was accessible from the original Goal to the Courthouses above , so when you walk out of the old courthouses which are now business and office spaces you can see the roads are wider than most as this allowed a steady flow for horse and carts to transfer prisoners, Im not the best person to explain this but I hope you enjoyed my wee fact feast 🖤🖤🖤
A new Fact Feast video! Ah, this made my evening, my Sunday my weekend, and it's a great start to the new week!
A sombre topic, though interesting I hope.
@@FactFeast Always fascinating! Excellently done!
Yeah! My favourite YT guy!
Thanks A Huddleston!
People in certain countries are having similar experiences in the 21st century.
Thanks for the vid!
Cheers Dead2RitesCrosshairs.
I subscribed because I'm crazy fun, always appreciated the Victorian era. Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲❤️
Thanks! I'm glad you like the history.
People in the big cities: It is the worst time ever!!
People outside the big cities: What the hell is going on in those big cities? Looks like the worst time ever!!
Thank you
You’re welcome! Thanks for the comment.
Wages were & are now a disgrace here in the US too ... a job costs $400.00 per month to keep insurance for 2 people if offered at all is another $400.00 per month then taxes & in the US THX to RR SS is taxed since the early '80s ... if a spouse also works then it's double taxes ... it's a disgrace & businesses are suffering b/c nobody is working for this low pay if they can possibly not work
Mateee I’m shattered after a 9:30am - 5pm shift at the archive’s - goodness gracious I can hardly imagine how quickly I would crumble under the standard workdays of Victorian working-classes 💀
And I’m not malnourished, dirty and sleeping in overcrowded slums, your entire family to one room and a single bed 😢
I shudder to think-
I don’t even have any kids to support, and am lucky to have the support of my parents, siblings and grandparents plus friends and others
Most of These poor, poor people were all on their own…
Truly soul destroying work 🙇🏻I don’t pray often, but I’ll
Make an exception here
God grant these poor unfortunates rest, peace and the love they so desperately deserved in life 🙏✨
💯% _I’d be a raving-pauper in a month, _*_maximum_*
I hope you've recovered. You work in archives? History of some sort?
@@FactFeast thank you im much better for an early nights kip and a bit of grub this morning (also a day off this week so no complaining over here!
and i'm a librarian who lends their services to the specialist local history room in the library, and am starting to learn and do more hist. research and archiving under the tutelage of some very wonderful local hist. stewards; my archival knowledge pool expands by the day, but i'm not all the way there yet.
let me know if you need any research done in south-east england/surrey/south croydon/tandridge (we specialize in this area heavilyyyy)/tumbridge-wells to a lesser extent etc etc
I could def dig up some info for you. let me know im down whenever!
That sounds like a job where you could discover some fascinating stuff! Genuine accounts of life (in the public domain) are of interest - family, work, food, police, punishment, prison, workhouse etc.
@@FactFeast we have lots of rare,?reference only texts that aren’t readily available online and a lot of other interesting local historical authors and books specific to south London/Surrey
Do let me know if you’d like any ancillary research done for yourself? It’s my job, after all and I can put it down as a public information request from a customer 👌🏻✨
I deleted my previous writing, but when I hear of the injust of the British Empire of those overseas, I felt, I needed to comment, those forget what everyday people had to endure on their own homeland....
❤love this channel 😮
Thank you so much!
Just discovered your content a few days ago and these are some of the most harrowing stories ive ever heard.
Your thumbmail image is perfect ...this keeps buffering so much I can't watch it all ...tried yesterday & again today ...my signal I guess ...I'll have to try it later b/c it does look interesting. My signal is getting worse & worst at times
I hope the signal improves for you. Thank you for the compliment.
@@FactFeast Thank You also, this is a rural area I'm in so the single is often wonky. I will keep trying b/c it looks like a good video
times then were very hard, but in a way life today is a joke to, people living on the streets, foodbanks,poverty,working and still struggling to keep you heating on, rubbish wadges, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, like many people i left school and have worked many jobs, and all were low paid, and why should people like doctors and loyers get better pay, than a man that sweeps the streets and removes your rubbish on a rainy cold day, after all we all need our rubbish removed and streets cleaned
Thanks again .We have come a long way but then have we .
Thanks for the visit!
True, but we seem to be heading back in the wrong direction.
I can’t fathom the greatness of the poverty. Unfortunately it’s not better today. I don’t think the starvation is quit as bad. We have food banks, food kitchens, churches, associations, food boxes, food stamps etc.. If you have mental health issues that’s a whole other animal. It’s not easily available. One reason we have so many homeless. There are no asylums in the United States. Private mental health services are expensive. The state owned the asylums and shut them all down. They didn’t think to bring back asylums that were new and improved. They just ignore the whole thing!
It's a lot better today. It is still terrible but it's a lot better.
Shelly please look at Kensington & Allegheny avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania. It's been this way for decades. Thank you. 🙏
@@ladyhonor822 I just saw that, it's very very sad.
The Clintons
They are too busy giving that money to Ukraine because the news said so.
This is so sad how did the employer sleep at night. Poor everyone especially the children.
My parents immigrated to Canada from Scotland. As a child, I recall visiting my grandmother in Glasgow, she told me stories of her youth. She had girlfriends that worked for companies that manufactured matches made using white phosphorus. From what I recall, she told me they worked and ate at their work station. The white phosphorus was like a dust in the air and settled on everything including the food the brought (likely bread), she told me horrible stories of what she called “Fossy Jaw” or “Fossy Mouth”. The white phosphorus would get in the food they ate and this would dissolve the jaw bone causing infection, abscesses which caused severe pain, had a terrible smell, was incurable and lead to eventual death. Unbelievable that they had no protection from such a hazardous substance!
Thank you for your great work for highlighting those dreadful time's. It's shameful that even today a certain political party want's to drag the poorest back to that era! They like to blame the poorest for the ills of the country and unfortunately people believe and vote for them 😢.
I've only discovered this channel several hours ago from the list on the right. Can't remember what I had been watching before that but the link was at least 3 screens inside. Anyway there are certainly interesting-looking videos here including this one. The great British empire etc. etc.... but many of its people living in conditions that were decidedly wretched. Makes many in the colonies appear `rich' by comparison when it comes to living and social conditions. And these are what life is about. Not "how huge your country's empire is".
-- Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Its astounding that the royals and the politicians sat idly by and reaped the enormous benefits without any feelings of guilt. All the time stating they were Christians. Tragic is the human condition. The police, those guard dogs to the rich bashed in the heads of the people who could stand no more.
Good Afternoon F.F.😊
👋 Hi Lana. Thanks and have a nice day!
@@FactFeast Ty & you too❤️
I often think.that in about 100 year's will people look back at us alive today and see us as people who are always suffering.,
They’ll look at the minimum wage paid,and say oh they didn’t actually banish slavery you see..
Interesting and relaxing 🙂
As it was then, so as it is now. Believe it or not. Substitute one thing for another and our world mimics that one. I don’t think it’s really ever going to be different, because there are certain features of life, in all forms, and it’s tragedies are equal across the spectrum. Antelopes living in a heard that’s getting hunted by lions. We are all the same. Life may be meant to be hard.
That place had to really be a horrific place to Iive, not that you could call that living. I know it wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for the greedy and those people wanting to work people to death and a joke for a salary things would have been a lot better. But the greedy don't care. It's hard to believe people could do others that way when they just wanted to feed their family and not live in total misery. Sad situation.
At least you can take solace in the fact that the things you have pointed out have been equally true everywhere throughout all human history.
This book is available for free online. It can be read in a day. I highly recommend it. What happened during the industrial age in London is happening today in American cities. No living wages. Multiple families living in the same house. Working homeless. Not enough jobs. Disability not paying enough to rent a place if you are not independently wealthy or without family. Our mentally ill living and dying on the streets
I wish I could go back in time, take my huge jar of pennys and hand them out to the poor that needed just a penny.
Claude,,, same,, I've got a purse full of old victorian money,, pounds worth,, that could of looked after a family for weeks,, and there in my draw ,,, useless.
I am always glad to be born in modern times, I'm way too soft for all of this.
Life for some in the Victorian era was literally hell on earth
Seeing the sad faces of the children who are so hungry 😞 hurts my heart ❤️
this country is slowly turning back this way....wont be long
Some people truly are better off dead.😢
greed and evil
Metal/lead isn't good for anyone. RIP Angels AMEN Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲😇
Working to death with lead and mercury. Terrible.
A 17 year old struggled on to work knowing she was dying. This generation of youth phone in sick if instagram is down!
How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. Actually we too in Arabic countries especially gulf area such as my homeland Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, uae . Till 1940s suffered from lack of knowledge, no modern medicine only herbs , midwives, worked as farmers , fishermen have very high percentage of deaths . Many women died in labor . Small pox was pandemic my mother told they began to vaccinate kids not all have vaccines my sister , cousin have smallpox have scars on their faces till nowadays. No educational institutes only learn Arabic letters and reading holy Quran . As always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s first of all I looked up for meanings of destination means poverty, indigene, penury. It is state it one with insufficient resources.
Interesting information. Thank you for your comment.
This video is chronically underrated. A*
Ahh lovely. I feel nice and depressed, after listening to this.
Why did poor people have a lot of children they could not take care of ?.
I’ve often wondered what the reasoning was for taking a person’s own clothing away when they enter those vile workhouses and making them all wear the same workhouse outfit/uniforms? Was it to further humiliate the poor souls and dehumanize them by taking away their last thread of individuality as a human being?! Make them feel like prisoners or inmates. And if a mother gained entry with children they were separated! Not a very charitable or remotely compassionate, kind act! God help you if you became I’ll or injured. 3:14
Thank you for not romanticizing this time!
A lot. Of people. Have. Written. Lots facts about. Poor. Destitute people but. Not much. Too help them ,!
They are trying to get us back to the good old days aren't they?
The richest city in the world, eh?
Speaks volumes of the fabric of society - then a n d now!
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Thank you!
They'll be saying these things about us in another 150 odd years..
Didn't they have birth control in those days?
No they didn't, not till late 1960. And only if married
No. And they had more kids as the mortality rate was high. People were afraid of having no one to care for them when they were older.
Lots marshland. People died. Of. Ague in. Winter. In. Their. 30s mostly. Shepherds. Damp. Air. And. Mist.
I love your stories about the victorian era in Britain but why do you read of money in us dollars instead of UK pound and sterling
This account is by Jack London - he was an American, primarily writing for an American audience. I'm glad you enjoy the stories, thank you.
@@FactFeast ah right I get it now thankyou
Please please upload more I'm fascinated about the victorian era
There are lots more to come.
Are we talking about 2023 because it sure sounds like it... 😖
wheres your 'god'?
Nowhere! he never existed, saved in the mind and imagination of the deluded.
There was definitely no sign of anything remotely godly in those workhouses!
Yeah.....there all dead now !....thats when the BS starts !
Helps me not "self ending"( copirite youtub)
The greed of our supposedly learned class has brought such misery as this in 2023 Untied States of not exceptional America.
The poverty in 2023 USA does not compare to how it was in the UK or USA of the 19th and early 20th century. Most American poor have Automobiles, large screen TV’ s and eat well due to food stamps. The exceptions are the homeless , who suffer from mental illness and those with severe drug addictions. I have spent time in many American ghettos especially in Philadelphia, New York and Camden New Jersey the poorest city in the Northeast USA. My family thank God worked hard and got out of the slums. America is still exceptional and full of opportunities!