Journey to Victorian Newcastle (Dreadful Slums and Horrible Work in North East England)
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- The slums of Victorian Newcastle were a harbour for human misery. Hidden amongst the smoke stacks of factory chimneys were not just families living in terrible poverty in the city's slums, but people suffering from the lethal effects of lead poisoning from working with chemicals. In this eye-witness account by a Victorian reporter you will hear real stories of people living in dismal, cramped rooms, alongside mud and rubbish - with even bleaker lives, relieved only by the ever present escape of gambling, smoking and drink.
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▶ Hell on Earth - A Journey to Victorian Manchester: ruclips.net/video/mxhKGduJJts/видео.html
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▶ Victorian Slum Hidden Behind Upper Class Regent Street: ruclips.net/video/NwNQmmgdpm8/видео.html
▶ Disease Infested Victorian Slums: ruclips.net/video/j6iC2nB_EdU/видео.html
▶ Journey to St. Giles Slum (The Worst Rookery in Victorian London): ruclips.net/video/RqttrGiqcHk/видео.html
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▶ Survival in Victorian London's Brutal East End Slums: ruclips.net/video/kDsWyeGUyXA/видео.html
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▶ Whitechapel (Victorian London's District of Wickedness): ruclips.net/video/STKn9O7Ulv0/видео.html
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I am from Tyneside ,North Shields
Not that evil a cursive destroyer of family life and virtue decency that they call alcohol who wants to put a thief in their mouth to the steal their brain
And people today think they have it bad when they live better than kings and queens did at this time.
My mother was born in 1903 and was born in these very hovels in a place called Vietches buildings.When she was 12yrs old she was gutting fish on the Newcastle Quayside. It was not a life in those days it was struggling just to survive.I am 90yrs old and often think i am lucky to be here when i think what my mother went through. She worked hard all her life died aged at 81yrs old with the cruel desease Alziemers. People today should thank God for the life they have now.
I'm 64 and my nana 1910-2000 lived by Dog Leap Stairs about 1924/25. Her mother sold fish on the Quayside. ❤
Things aren't much better now actually it just hard in a different way there are many houses suffering from black walls from damp I hear rickets has been coming back we are now poisoned by medication children and adults still going without meals and no coal fires means heating is expensive and inadequate my mam didn't make it to 81 neither did my dad
God obviously refusing to notice if he existed
@@balthiersgirl2658yes but a lot of what you bring up is mostly caused by bad life choices, the black mould was 100x worse back then, not to mention the drinking water and the cold, most if not all houses are insulated these days, not back then, most people these days live outside their means, greed, entitlement, laziness, drugs, alcohol and overspending is what people struggle with today.
Thank you for information. ❤
I was born in 1956 in the Birmingham City center . Raised in a back to back terraced house in Lower Essex Street . Shared outside toilets in a courtyard and a tin bath which the family shared . 👍🏴
Best of British we survived it and it made strong resilient people and hard working wouldn’t change were I came from a geardie lass through and through I miss the old days and my home town Newcastle upon Tyne byker
me too. but wasn't considered a slum.was clean, comfortable.we were the same as every one else.there was nothing else.no envy of the Jones's they had the same as you
Born '53 and raised in Latimer Street, Ladywood - exactly the same housing until 1964.
Yes born and bred the same in that era but in good old goodie land but its not now it's a third world country
I’m a 1952 boy, now 72. I remember our outside toilet, and tin bath hanging on the wall outside the backyard.
It is a wonder that anyone survived Victorian England.
The rich!
Infant mortality levels in Britain fell rapidly during the 19th century, more survived than ever before
@@GG-hu9dn using your logic we should all be rich then.
I live in sunderland near Newcastle and I've explored Newcastle so much walking around looking at all of the old victorian buildings looking for the old slums walking down the old alleys. This is fantastic to hear this historic recording
It’s interesting to think what Newcastle would look like today had some of these medieval chares survived the great fire.
@@FactFeast and that vast street, all those Georgian buildings torn down, it’s heartbreaking that.
Brilliant isnt it mate 💯💯🖤🤍
Ahh!
Newcastle, my old stamping ground. I'm 72 now but when I was younger, I used to get on the bus to Worswick Street and spend a whole day just wandering around looking at the architecture. When I was a kid, you could pay a penny (I think) and climb up the spiral stairs yo the top of Grey's Monument. What a view over the city.
I was born in Gateshead 1938 and had a very happy childhood we didn't know we were poor all the children played in the street no traffic
Thank you for this nostalgic piece of history I have lived in Australia for over 50 years I used to play in the castle keep every Saturday for sixpence
You’re welcome. I’m glad the video had meaning for you. Thank you for your comment.
I was brought up in a Tyneside Flat and we never had an indoor toilet / shower as shown on the plans in this video. We had a bath in the kitchen (or scullery as we called it) and the toilet was in the yard outside where we had to break the ice in the winter to use it and take lighted newspapers to see in the dark at night.
Luxury
These are the people who built Britain. 🇬🇧 ❤
Romans and Germans built England.
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I was born in Gateshead in 1960. In the building trade, i worked all over Tyneside. My daughter has recently been researching our ancestry. Long story short most of my ancestors were poverty striken. Some lived in Pipewell Gate on the Banks of the Tyne on the Gateshead side, and some lived at Elswick on the banks of the Tyne on the Newcastle side. Our lot worked as Foundry men, miners, cart drivers and Glass blowers. A great Grandfather, Frankie Brown, a WW1 veteren worked on the building of the Tynebridge. My great great grandmother Elen Hurley, Died in a Workhouse in Elswick in 1910. We recently found the spot of her paupers grave.
Thanks for sharing, so sorry about your dear grandmother.❤
It is hard to know how past ancestors suffered. But you raised your family up
Yes I've been enlightened to this by my son ,it was so poor and poverty the death rates
@@elizabthharris6741oh they really suffered had more hungry bellies than dinners in them
My great grandfather, a journeyman painter, died in Newcastle in 1900 of apoplexy. His wife, mother of six of his eight children, died in the Durham Asylum in 1904. Six months later my Gran, then aged eight, was taken up by Barnardos at the request of her aunt, having basically run wild in the streets of Newcastle for that period while her two older sisters tried to eke out a living as laundresses. In 1920 she gave birth to my mother out of wedlock in the Greenwich Union Workhouse infirmary. In 1924, aged four, mum was still in workhouse care...the good old days eh?
Such hard lives. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for keeping our history alive, absolutely love it.
Thank you for your comment. Lots more history of people’s lives in the past to come.
They probably didn't even know how bad it was because there wasn't anything to compare the conditions to ! It's just life as they knew it , i grew up in a family of 11 and we didn't know we were poor until someone told us !
I am from Newcastle so it is interesting to watch your video. I worked as a tipper driver in the '60s, my firm was demolishing the old houses at Scotswood to make way for multi-storey flats. I used to drink at the many pubs on Scotswood Road and Marlborough. I worked also at the Vickers Armstrong works on Scotswood Road, hard work for very poor money. I love Newcastle and I wouldn't live anywhere else.
Well as a geordie meself
I was born in the Bonny City of Newcastle upon Tyne.From the video
I can see how my Parents grew up.I am proud to be a Geordie.
Howay my Lads and Lasses.❤️.
fantastic work! i agree with a fellow commentor that your videos should be shown in UK schools.
All your work should be taught in Uk schools.I try not to be political but todays youth are not taught how horrendous conditions were for the white working class. I had a young girl using her phone to verify that there was such a thing as chimney boys . She just didn't believe it.
Sadly , the lot of the white working class has gone backwards in my lifetime - not least due to open door immigration by both the left and right .
In the working class area I know you can't see a doctor or NHS dentist . Housing shortages and buy to let landlords plus manufacturing jobs being replaced by low paid McJobs mean people can barely afford to live .
At least when I was growing up in the 50 's and 60's we had the Labour Party in our side .
America's too. The irish were treated horribly
Why do you say white working class?
@@serinadelmar6012what do you mean? England is historically white. This vid is about England in the pre1900s.
@@firecracker187seen how the blacks in America were treated? Slaves that time - weren't even allowed to use restaurants, cinemas, attend local schools, denied the right to vote etc until the late 1960s and later in some cases
Thank you for another fascinating story.
Great to know this history interests you. Thanks for writing!
What is fascinating about extreme poverty and misery?😔😔😔
Life in Victorian Britain was so miserable that even the Spaniards were living better... seriously. At least they had good weather.
@ruijorge3 I find the subject of history fascinating. Unfortunately, there's a lot of sad stories and a lot of terrible things happened. But good happened as well. We no longer have child labor in Britain or the US. We have OSHA. We live in a magical Era where we can turn on television and we have electricity
@@rachelbachel2 magical era? Is that really what covid brought us?? You can't be serious. Surely. 🤔
Wonderful narration as always. People now don't realise how bad it was for the average person. Needs to be taught in schools and the way you tell it would make it interesting for students. Reality check is needed nowadays for sure.
Thank you mamasinger49.
It's not much different today just in a different way we get black rot inside houses no coal fires so it costs a load and isn't even that good all the time lots of family's adults going without food to feed the kids
As a History teacher I can assure you it is taught in schools but there are hundreds of years of 'history' and only a very limited time to teach it in. Why don't parents take some responsibility?
Love this! More of the north east please!
I grew up in the slums off Scotswood road tey replaced the slums with tower blocks which were worse
WOW..everything my nana told me. I've got old photos of the streets in Scotswood and Newcastle. My great grandfather used to have a pub in Newcastle and it's still standing, my gran would have the back room in the pub, as the men drank separate from the ladies. The tails my nana would tell me your toes would curl. Thank you for the blast from the past.
Thanks for sharing!
Ah the good old days, where life was miserable but at least you died young by countless options.
Somewhat of a purpose though? Now, none.
On the other hand, nobody died of Alzheimer's !
Aye you right😂, every Geordie conservative needs to see this
Our rich neighbours got to eat their own shoes!,-'we used to dream of shoes,,,and eating,,we used to take turns at eating,,, biting your nails was considered selfish,
Earwax for lighting,,- but we were happy,,- some people used to say money can't buy you happiness,,,and we would say what's money.
But those days were precious,or precocious - we couldn't spell, so we couldn't care,, and we couldn't afford the alphabet!
Though your life didn't last long, it was still horrible for the people 😕
My cousins lived in Byker and I remember visiting on hot summer’s days in the 50s & early 60s when the smell from the glue factory on the Tyne was overpowering. The rotting carcasses piled high in the boneyard shocked me. How people who lived near it and endured the rats, flies and smell was hard to imagine.
Thank you for the grimy tour through history
You’re welcome. Living and working conditions were simply terrible and industrial legislation came too late for many people who suffered.
Dude almost perfectly described my current situation.😆
Cramped quarters-✔️
Squalid conditions-✔️
Poor diet-✔️
Appalling working conditions-✔️
Gambling, smoking and drinking-✔️
Being poisoned by my enviroment-✔️
Lead poisoning. 🚫
I come from Newcastle Upon Tyne. I was born in North Shields and grew up in Wallsend. There still old Victorian style flats like that in Gateshead just over the Tyne Bridge from Newcastle city centre. They are being updated slowly.
Im in Dunston and live in a victorian house built in 1901, there's still a hook on the ceiling in the dining room where pigs etc were hung, I call the house Olympic as she's old and reliable, never a spot of damage in any of the storms.
I remember going into Newcastle with my Granny, it was very grey/dull in the early 1950's.
If you compare North english cities and towns with southern equivalent ,its palpably obvious that ' levelling up ' is the biggest load of lies ever uttered by politicians ?
Thank you sir for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. I noticed most of your videos content about victorian era and lower class . Don’t be surprised please . We too in Arabic countries till nowadays have slums . As I read victorian slums were over crowded, unsanitary, dangerous place to live . There two main reasons for building slums population growth and governance. Victorian slums known as ( rookery) . In 18 and 19 th centuries were many victorian slums and , slums life effects of poverty related to growth of slums span everything from poor health to education. As informal often illegal housing, slums are often defined as unsafe/ unhealthy homes, lack of window , dirt floor , leaking walls and roofs , overcrowded homes . As I read Newcastle west end slums and short lived housing experiment that replaced them . Terraced streets classified as slums were being pulled down in Newcastle 66 years ago , but tenement blocks that replaced them stand for just 20 years . Slum is bad term refers to slum dwellers or slum residents as victims of poverty for their poor circumstances. Best wishes for you your dearest ones.
Thank you Khatoon. I appreciate your support.
Then later it was asbestos, another mineral that appeared a wonder material only to find much later caused much suffering and death but because of ignorance and the need to work to get food. So much of this still happens today and probably will continue where smoking is concerned. 😮
Another problem that affected mainly the working class originally.
Now the occurrence of cancer in young people is increasing because of all the fast food they consume.
Bloody hell, was living in some of these slums in Gateshead in the 80's. Not really any different today as lots of these homes still exists but at least the outside toilet has managed to find it's way inside.
Yes I recall some houses off Saltwell rd in Gateshead, had outside toilets until about 1983. My best mate lived in one.
YAY I love me some FACT FEAST!, Thanks for another awesome video. My friend x.. one of the best RUclips narrators
Thank you for the kind words firecracker. It’s great to have your support!
I m 70. My first job in Glasgow,I worked alongside a woman in her 50s who had grown up in a Gorbals tenement. One lavatory per "close". The women used urine as a moisturiser. Cook toast on a gass light . For all the hardship, my friend said the social fabric was for ever ripped away when the tenements were torn down and the occupants were housed far away in tall shiny(poorly constructed as it turns out) new homes. Many of them accessible to neighbours only by a lift to every alternate floor. No more drying the washing on the communal green,putting your head out to chastise the lads who are throwing dirt roundwhere the sheets are hanging, or not keeping an eye on the wains.Friendships fractured, support networks now the domain of gvt. departments and lonliness pathologised. Town planning is too often left in the hands of ignorant developers and beaurocrats. Its high time....beyond time, that they payed attention to a so called sheltered eccentric like the then prince Charles who didnt need to make a fast buck or win votes.
If you look at Newcastle today you will find people homeless living in property and destitution, has England really moved on and look after it's citizens,.
Yep. When he mentioned men paying a third of their wage for atrocious housing… it’s no different today.
Watching this I can understand the stories I was told about the conditions my mothers family had lived in from when my great grandparents came to Newcastle. My maternal great grandparents were Scottish and lived in a tenament in the Edinburgh district of Leith where between 1887 -1891 out of 6 children they lost 5 as babies the longest survived 13 days shortest a matter of hours so I suspect conditions must not have been much better than Newcastle. I only found out about these dead babies from the 1911 census which gave the number of children born as 6 and the number survivng as 2. I then backtracked to Edinburgh knowing their address from the birth certificate of their surviving daughter and through searching Scotlands people ( a lot more detail given for around 50 pence than on English searches) I found they lived on the same address on the 1891 census and did a seach for births/death with that surname and found the other babies who had been born & died at that address there were twins in 1887 before their daughter in 1888 and 3 sons 1889, 1890 and 1891. As this would in fact equal 7 children I can only assume the twins were counted as one pregnancy or they may well have had more childdren after arriving in Newcastle its difficult to ascetrtain a
When they moved to Newcastle sometime between 1892 and July 1901 (when my nana was born) with their older daughter presumably for a better life they must have been so shocked at the filthy conditions as my gt grandma refused to unpack her clothes in the lodgings and left her cases in locker at the central station going up daily to collect clean clothing. They eventually got somewhere better to live near Jesmond where so I was told my gt grandmother cleaned the building belong to the Seamans mission while my great grandfather was a canvasser for a Newcastle photographers businesss and often used his wife and children as subject examples then later his grandchildren so I inherited many of the lovely photographs which I treasure.
There was one year (1910) when 10% of all new ships built anywhere in the world were built on the river Tyne.
The guy on Clyde came to Newcastle to learn how to build a steel ship! Some stayed because Glasgow was even worse in many ways?
Always love your channel and offerings so much, thank you.
You’re very welcome. Thank you for your comment. Your kind words are appreciated.
I thought you only done London vlogs about Victorian England, but its good that you've Newcastle also, what life must of been like, if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have vaccinations for TB and all the other diseases people died from, good vlog, this is Paul in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England
Thank you Paul. I have several videos about other towns in England and Scotland - Manchester, Preston, Glasgow and Edinburgh. You can find links to some of them in the description and the pinned comment. I hope to look at more towns in future as well.
@@FactFeast I would love it if you did Brighton! Thank you for your incredible edifying offerings.
Edit: or even Brighton hotels in Brighton! I had never heard that term before! Thank you ❤
This is now on my nightly list of watchables. Thank you for posting.
You’re welcome. Much appreciated.
Salute @FactFeast for this blast from the past
Thanks Bob!
@@FactFeast No problem you never fail to astonish me with your historical stories
Not sure how it is in our sister country, but atm real estate costs are skyrocketing here in the US. So to hear that people in Newcastle were being price gouged in the Victorian times as well leads to believe things haven’t changed much. People over here can barely afford rent & groceries
same in the uk now, we are going backwards
Tyneside is still way cheaper than anything you could buy in London or the South East... you get way more for your £ in the North East... my youngest lad has just bought his first home .. a new build on his own here in the North East just outside of Newcastle...
All before a labour government
@@alisonsmith4801Shhhh - don’t tell everyone or they’ll all want to come 😊
My grandparents lived in Newcastle upon Tyne in a magnificent double story home. I had a holiday there and it was so good to go back in time. The Mitcalfe family.
To wake up each day dirty cold ,not being able to look after or feed your children,what hell
That's what you call poverty 😢😢😢😢😢
Thanks, as ever, Mr Feast. We dine well thanks to you.
Thank you coconutsmarties 😊
I saw back to backs in a video, where you can take a tour. They were restored, one left original. It was in Birmingham .
Thanks for a good watch ❤ Love going back in time from time to time 😊
Thanks you! More journeys to the past to come.
@@FactFeast ❤️🧡💛
This must be the "white privilege" we hear so much about!?!??
Yes starvation deaths they don't know the likes that went on ,
I often make this remark when I see some of these very sad images, dirty, ragged, shoeless children. Yes, exactly ''white privilege'' all this crap about restitution, what about those that died in the trenches in WWW1 - every generation white or black have suffered to get where we are today. Important to remember when people think of black slaves, they should think of the white slaves. The slave masters were both black and white.
Yes, because if you were not white and living in Newcastle doing the same low wages jobs, it was even worse. The defnitition of white privilege is when being white gives you advantages compared to a non-white person whose job/circumstances is the same as yours.
Yes what a privileged life they had...and these poor souls worked to death to make this country great...so the spoiled brats of today can give it all away...
My Sunday evenings are complete when attending to the stories by FactFeast.
It’s great the history interests you. Thanks for your support!
@@FactFeast you rule.. buddy
❤ I’m a day late catching up but yes definitely, absolute gem of a channel.
My God. This is horiffic. Fascinating!
Just as bad today just in a different way
We the British are always made to feel bad about slavery the fact is that at the time that the slave trad was going on most British lived lifes that were was not much better than slaves working in factory's and mines or on the land with just subsistance payment oh yes the few rich people had there big houses and servents waiting on them hand and foot this is what should be tout in schools if you was lucky or unlucky depending on how you look at it you could live to be 35 years old with clogged up lungs and worn out body.
its getting bad again in Yorkshire for accommodation because of immigration.
when i see those poor people with no shoes man, i got way too many makes me guilty to think how cold they must have been poor souls x
My mum was raised in Beaconsfield Street up the West Road, so my ancestors would’ve lived like this. Interesting - privileged? I think not.. hardworking & resourceful? Yes
My father was born in 1903 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Palmersville. His family worked in the mines. By the age of 12 many boys were working in the pits. Lack of fresh vegetables took its tole on their health and lemons were a staple in order to prevent rickets. My dad and hone of his brothers were born with poor vision. His brother was legally blind. He told the story that when the local band was in a parades the boys would suck on lemons walking just ahead of those playing brass instruments thus affecting their ability to blow into their instruments. All his life he referred to cigarettes as "fags." When he was 12 his family immigrated to Canada. I am 79 and 60 years ago when I was 19 I visited family in Newcastle and, in particular, Palmersville. My maiden name was Baker and I could 't believe how many small businesses had the surname on their signs. I took a picture of a crossing guard at a school near where he had been living and it turned out that my dad recognized the guard and had gone to school with him! This film has been informative and verifies what life was like. It is no secret why so many immigrated to find a better life.
Thank you for sharing your story. I’m glad you found the video worthwhile.
Poor poor people living in slums. Blame the poor. The landlords owned and were paid for poorly maintained properties. Landlords usually owned the land and had seats in the House of Lords.
It’s Scotswood Road not Scotsford Road
great content as always. i was among the firstb1000 subs and have watched every single video
That’s fantastic! You’ve been watching quite a while. Thank you for being here 😊
This was only taken last month and things have gotten worse since yesterday
My great grandfather his parents and 5 siblings came to Australia in 1865 from Newcastle Upon Tyne. Coalminers throughout their whole lives and their sons after them. Proud hard working people, love their histories.
To have a two bedroom house at 30% of the wage of a working man. Just the man alone!!!
Wow!
😂 Quite. I thought that sounded pretty good too, compared to today's rents for a Tyneside flat.
And one of the COLDEST places in England, I would not even want to live there in 2024 NO-THANK YOU.
Thanks 😊
You're very welcome!
Some great archive shots - always a shame the final frame has to be smothered with promos. It was a bit of a shame some of the old merchant's houses couldn't be saved from the slum clearances - but I am often amazed at how clean the streets are, even amid such destitution. Very interesting.
At last something that gives a genuine picture,rather than the "nicey,nicey"stuff in somany.
My Mum was born in Scotswood Road in 1914
These could be completely fabricated, but are still incredibly interesting. Nice channel
Love the photos
People have died in not so long in the past from asbestos whist working in the shipyard
Also there wife got it washing there clothes
I knew 4 Brothers from Gateshead who all died of asbestosis. I also had a mate, whose wife died of asbestosis. She got it from cleaning her husband's overalls.
The City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne. Was a county in it's own right since 1388 but the castle and garth were still Northumberland.
I’ve often wondered as we look back in time making our views of what it was like. That life was miserable and wretched. But if this was your way of life and all you know. Was it miserable and wretched as reported over the years.
Or did they still enjoy life and happiness as they got married and had children. Life has improved for everyone but still a lot live under the poverty line. Housing is supposed to have improved but still not enough for some.
As a child the home l lived in had not long got electric lights and the gas lighting removed.
No indoor toilet or bathroom, the toilet was outside but it was just for our family. Some families had to share the toilet. The bath was tin and filled with hot water from the boiler. This was used on Mondays to boil the sheets and towels nappies. It was with great pride that a line of brilliant white nappies, identified the wife as a goodly wife.
Meals could identify the day of the week. Cold meat mash and pickles was Monday, cottage pie was Tuesday, Toad in the hole with Mash Wednesdays, Steak and Kidney pudding Thursday, Fish of some description on a Friday. This was a large joint that made the next few days meals it might last long enough to make a beef stew. We always had pudding not a dessert was full of sand . We has spotted dick, jam roll poly, apple pie, bottled fruit that mum had made alongside her jam and pickles making, rhubarb and custard, crumbles No set desserts that was a surprise. But most times this meal was served in the middle of the day followed by teatime and if an adult supper before bed time. Everything was served with copious amounts of cups of tea. I’ve forgotten breakfast that was a meal to set you up for the day.
My mother and father had similar childhoods but schooling was not compulsory then.
Hello from Australia.
Thank you for sharing this account of your life and the home management of your mother, which is always interesting to me.
We've only had a life of comparative ease and comfort in the household for the last two generations really, and stupid governments are trying to push us back into hardship without a good supply of gas and coal fire produced electricity.
My great grandparents would be flabbergasted at this governmental madness. They started out with candles and oil lamps.
You wrote something about that you didn't have dessert but pudding and that it was full of 'sand'.
Is that a typo?
What did you mean to say?
Lard, perhaps?
I've come to appreciate cooking with lard, beef dripping and butter.
I use grated up sunlight soap (like yellow velvet soap) for washing clothes, dishes, and windows, like my great grandma did.
It works so well.
Would love to hear if you have any accounts from my hometown of Leeds.
I hope to have a look at several more towns and cities across Britain in future. Thank you for your comment.
Newcastle was one of the biggest ship building areas but Sunderland was the largest ship building place in the world.
I hope they are restoring some of these places for the sake of history
the smell must of been really bad
Has it changed that much for many in relation to the average wage
Victorian England was harsh. Very harsh. There are periods of English life that were more harsh
The industrial Revolution is something that was good and bad with equal measure.
Rich 19th Century man incredulous that "25-30% of the men's wages each week go into the pockets of landlords." 😂
How times change.
My grandfather was born in wall knoll in pandon , the poorest part of the quayside.
Ahhhhh my home town ❤❤❤
Bear in mind Tyne Bridge not built 'till 1928. I arrived in Newcastle in 1981 as a student, having come from Kent and Northampton, and never been further north than Nottingham . I ish I'd spent more time just mooching about the city and had taken photographs .
The caused poverty of the labourer was total distain for their lives.
Slum lords or hard yardage and terrible conditions in work and environment at home in squalid crowded room
They were sucked to death by anyone who had a disposable use for labour
There was always someone who would take the job or slum at Gangsters price
What choices 🤔 do you think was had ?
I actually li ve tight near here , and i know my history ,
And i can tell you this a lot of familys in earlier years there where whole family who only owned one set of rags betwean whole familys ,and they lived naked ,and frozen ,dont forget ,no heat no caroets ,curtains or beds , and it eould make you cry if you knew the starvation and death that went on
It was and still is a rich mans world, hopefully not for much longer 😁✌👍
I was wondering what the narrators homeland is, lovely speaking voice. But where is the “accent” from?
Ireland 🙂
@@FactFeast beautiful 🤩
1:19 what an amazing photo
I remember the TV series "what the victorian's did for us". I know what they did. Used and abused the poor civilian population. Including children. Whilst enriching themselves to the status of royalty. Shame on them. Things haven't really changed have they.
this was country wide, in 1831 nottingham was known for its squalor and its slums were considered the worst in the british empire!!!!!.
Please do something on Portsmouth 🙏
I think the places people lived in the 19th century were nicer than many places people live now. They had community, neighbours, shops, pubs, no dangerous traffic. People now live in isolated, soulless suburbs with few facilities, noisy, fast dangerous roads, and where you have to have a car to get anywhere.
Nothing’s changed there then !
What were theses buildings like when first built,??
Ahh the wonderful benefits of the British Empire
All when the royals and their pals were amassing their fortunes
No wonder people emigrated to unknown places far away, knowing they’d never be able to return. It would have been hard to do worse.
Can’t wait to go back to it after all this Tory rule.
Problem is we all ways have same leader both parties are same party reality promise big deliver nothing but you are right we’re going back to rich poor no middle both parties will change nothing we need new leaders (king)
Worry not , we will have the gulags back shortly .
Please come to Portugal... we'll welcome you with open arms. 😉😉😉
Yet it's Labour that is taking away the old folks heating allowance 🤔
My great grandmother's family worked on the Thames. They had barges and sold mussels and selfish.
nothing changed today
Really? We still have slums and workhouses with no provision for the poor?
Could be next 5 yrs 😮