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During WW2 one of my uncles was a conscientious objector. He worked in one of Dr. Barnardo's homes as "penance" and stayed on until he retired. When I went to visit him on my trip back to England (mid 90's) he showed me some letters from people who were still in touch with him. Gone but not forgotten.
I recall reading a Manchester area court report. Two 13 year old girls were sentenced to hang for theft as was a 6 year old boy for hhe heinous crime of stealing a bun. A comment elswhere noted that such appalling sentences were usually changed to transportation. One hates to think what awful lives these poor children suffered.
RUclips has been miserable in its simple task of alerting me that my favorite channel has posted! Ah, but I defy the algorithm. Splendidly done, as always. I apologize for getting behind on your posts! Thank you for your wonderful work!
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Agreed. Plus the 'evidence' put forth at the end of the video, stating how the boy held out his hand and then stood up would not hold in court today. Thankfully. Very thin 'evidence' indeed!
As ever, most enjoyable, very informative and the best social history available on the net. Street boys are a feature of the novels by Arthur Conan-Doyle. Sherlocks Holmes holds them in high regard as "The Baker Street Irregulars", youths who can "Go everywhere and hear everything". He pays them to gather intelligence and track down individuals. Although described by Watson as the dirtiest collection of "Street Arabs", it is intimated they are good souls trying to cope with living a very hard, unforgiving, life. Also potentially good soldiery, readily marshalled and grateful for 1 shilling pay per day. The French equivalent were the notorious Parisienne "Gamin", of whom Victor Hugo was similarly well opined. Thinking about it, "Gavroche" in Les Miserables shares many of Holmes' Irregulars' qualities. Thank you! Your channel always stimulates some new thoughts and ideas about the Victorian age. Looking forward to next week. All the best.
Poverty must be severe to motivate children to undertake the vile job of digging up a dead diseased cow, with the intention of some profit. The risk to the public aside, it would be a very vile job and hard work to process for resale. The ingenuity of this children is sometimes rather impressive. Given even a small opportunity for earning money legally these children have great potential. So much waste and hopelessness. I get a better understanding of the writings of Charles Dickens, Jack London etc by the information your videos provide. Thank you for yet another fascinating and informative video. I appreciate your efforts to make me a little less ignorant. 14:48
Fact Feast does it again. We all think Dickens Oliver Twist as we watch & listen to the depravity that young boys went through in that era. God only knows how young girls were treated, they probably wound up in the match factory resulting in getting poisoned working in a toxic environment.
My favorite poem is Villons Straight Tip to all Cross Coves. Pertaining to these subjects, I would love to hear you read it once. Its fitting. Love the channel. Thanks
Oh puhlease don't anyone know that Us history and Uk history are practically each other's history most of us on both sides of the pond are related lol😊
My father could remember the bare foot days in 1930s Gateshead. He said his school teachers would pay for a pair of shoes out their own pocket for a child turning up for lessons shoeless.
Wow Wow "its absolutely reality about were Victorian of mischievous children boys was very pauper and even impoverished by were abandoned family and even more Nursery Homes at Dr Barnardo and Charles Dickens in the 1860s and 1870s and 1880s and 1890s was have been seen a more widespread to poverty-stricken and even more poor areas of Victorian destitutions" 😢😢😢
If these street children were considered redeemable and suitable to be adopted, they were cleaned up, given a set of basic clothing and supplies, put on ships and sent overseas as Home Children to the colonies. There many faced new types of hardships being mostly exploited as cheap, free labor with little to no oversight or supervision from local authorities. These unwanted children did their unacknowledged but important part in helping to tame the wilderness and develop the colonies. They were relieved of their obligations to their sponsors (if they survived) and were free to start their own lives once they turned 18. This program ran for approx. 100 years, officially ending in 1970. It is estimated that over 100,000 children were shipped from the UK to the colonies during the time this program was in operation. Children as young as 5 years old were eligible to be shipped overseas. Once arrived at their destination, they were distributed across the country and advertised in the local papers as being available for free to anyone that wanted a child. There was almost no inquiries made into the safety or the background of the families the children were being given to.
The authorities should have done something to HELP those poor kids instead of punishing them for trying to find ways to actually *survive* their condition.
The authorities blamed them for being poor, the only place the authorities provided was the workhouse, and that was literally the last resort for anyone.
Their clothes weren't like ours, the fabric was really thick you can tell from the pictures and also really expensive compared to what we pay. That's why children often wore clothes which were too small.
No. The thing is that back then mass production did not exist yet so that is why clothing was so expensive. People had to stay in bed 4 days until they could get their clothes out of pawn.
@@trishmcl9055The reason Petticoat Lane was called Petticoat Lane was because of ths number of second clothing vendors, who sold all sorts of clothes, shoes from previous periods in history often also. Provided the clothing was still hanging together, it was considered decent (Jack London's People of the Abyss). If you examine the property left behind by the victims of Jack the Ripper you see this. Frequently people wore all of their belongings at the same time, especially if homeless. Their appearance may have been outlandish, but at least that way they held on to their property. It is sad also to hear about the property they had in their pockets eg. A broken comb, half a bar of soap, an old thimble. Makes you almost feel lucky 💗🌵
@@craigr6842 In poor families people used to 'pawn' their belongings. To Pawn something meant they took things along to a Pawnbroker shop, who used to give money in exchange for the goods, they then held onto the goods until the owner came back with the money to redeem the items. It was not usually the poorest of the poor who would do this as they could never hope to get the money to get their stuff back. It would be the families with a man working, usually it was the man's Sunday suit that was pawned on a Monday and redeemed on the Friday (payday) The poor usually had nothing to pawn.
They wore clothes that was too small or too large because it was passed from one child to the next in families. It would be bought from a second hand shop that sold old clothing. They would never have anything made new.
Thanks for creating interesting content. I would like to suggest one topic. Baby farming which was unfortunately quite popular during Victorian times. Many farmers became serial killers for the profit.
Poor little souls, wasn't their faults being born. All small due to lack of food and sunlight. They had rickets as well. Just a shameful part of our history
Thank you sir for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. Honestly we have in Arabic region and definitely in all countries of the world street children who are homeless or poor children, known as thrown away children from single parents or divorced couples. They are subject to abuse , neglect. I thought it’s same meaning to wild boys . Wild boys means troublemakers or rebellious. Yes we have juvenile care homes for kids under 18 years old and everywhere. I read article dated 2017 , Tited ( fighting gangs of London . He mentioned wild boys of London . This article published on Tuesday March 14 th 1882 the pall mall gazette published following article . He mentioned wild boys were precociously clever criminals. They picked pockets, they robbed shopkeepers tills , they were expert in all those means and methods of crime which ingenuity of London thief has yet invented. Their lives was wild revel diversified by imprisonment. They were at one luxury, at another hiding in sewers and over their characters and achievements some human creatures, spurred by intelligible feeling of hunger , had in all apperant seriousness thrown thrown glamour of heroism and romance . I am sure wild boys need disciplined parents who treat them wisely. Thank you for giving us to read new information and improve our English as well. Best wishes for you your dearest ones .
They use to drink as toddlers as well. I have a book with old victorian news clippings and one of them was about the problem of drunk 3/4 year old unruly street urchins lol funny not funny
The industrial and agricultural revolutions completely changed society in the UK in a very short period of time. Cities like London, Glasgow and Manchester mushroomed. Thousands of people poured into them as there were no longer jobs on the land. I think Manchester grew to something like seventy times its size in ten years. So it took a long time for society to catch up and the infrastructure put in place to help people. Over the nineteenth century there were a series of reform Acts to make living and working conditions better and of course provision of free education. You also had the likes of New Lanark and Port Sunlight which were planned villages created by factory owners for their workers. Unfortunately the help was often very moral and judgemental.
I, for one, would never bow to royalty. This was in victorian times. In those days, it happened all over the world. America was full of squalor. Children suffer all the time. It's tragic, but an ugly fact.
Royalty was not in charge of the country, the government was. If you do your research you will find this sort of poverty was in every country, America, Paris, Germany etc etc.
People think that because England had an empire " on which the sun never set" we all lived in milk and honey. In fact the British working class , especially the women and children, endured a life of exploitation and hardship on par with slaves in the colonies. Yes they were free in theory, but in reality they were doomed to a life short and brutal with no choices.
I’m debating, with my heart and soul, about the brother “chucking” his younger brother into The River Thames if it was mercy, or murder. I cannot imagine what he was thinking when he “chucked” his brother into The River Thames. I think that children had it the worst, because they didn’t have any laws protecting them, and they had to do what they needed to do in order to survive. Yet, I don’t think they should have been executed for stealing food. I can’t imagine digging up a diseased cow, with the stomach turning smell, in order to sell the meat and get some money to stave off starvation, or homelessness. That, right there, posed a huge risk to the health of other people. Now, in today’s world, the prices of EVERYTHING is skyrocketing will cause people to do whatever they have to do to make it. We’re seeing poverty growing more and more, and the governments are doing nothing to curb the inflation. The rich are having zero problems, and the middle-class and poor are suffering. I can only hope and pray that things turn around, for all of us, and the poverty levels are eradicated. My firm belief is that politicians SHOULD NOT be allowed to own their own businesses while being a politician, own stocks, live in gated and armed security neighborhoods, or have armed security personnel. They SHOULD reside in neighborhoods where their constituents live, living on what they earn as a politician, and have to experience what their constituents experience. Maybe then they’ll understand why we’re so angry a them!!
Esos países tan industrializados de Europa en el s.XIX eran horribles en esas épocas para pobres, obreros de las fabricas y los niños. Véase Dikens y sus relatos de la realidad social industrializada. Eso no pasaba tanto en países mucho menos industrializados y más agrarios y ganaderos. Los niños corrían más por el campo, como España, Portugal.... El horror de las zonas fabriles de la Europa industrializada.😢
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▶ Why was Victorian Childhood Brutally Short? - ruclips.net/video/PjTfX2zhIqc/видео.html
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During WW2 one of my uncles was a conscientious objector. He worked in one of Dr. Barnardo's homes as "penance" and stayed on until he retired. When I went to visit him on my trip back to England (mid 90's) he showed me some letters from people who were still in touch with him. Gone but not forgotten.
I recall reading a Manchester area court report.
Two 13 year old girls were sentenced to hang for theft as was a 6 year old boy for hhe heinous crime of stealing a bun.
A comment elswhere noted that such appalling sentences were usually changed to transportation.
One hates to think what awful lives these poor children suffered.
RUclips has been miserable in its simple task of alerting me that my favorite channel has posted! Ah, but I defy the algorithm.
Splendidly done, as always. I apologize for getting behind on your posts! Thank you for your wonderful work!
Thank you for your support Brian! Always worth checking you’re still subscribed as I’ve heard other channels mention that their viewers sometimes become unsubscribed.
@@FactFeastI am still subscribed to your channel and will continue to do so until the end of my existence.
Thank you for the work you do to bring the past to life.
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just little children trying to survive on the streets...what else can one expect.....
Agreed. Plus the 'evidence' put forth at the end of the video, stating how the boy held out his hand and then stood up would not hold in court today. Thankfully. Very thin 'evidence' indeed!
Mir läuft ein kalter Schauer über den Rücken. Einfach nur der Horror.
As ever, most enjoyable, very informative and the best social history available on the net.
Street boys are a feature of the novels by Arthur Conan-Doyle. Sherlocks Holmes holds them in high regard as "The Baker Street Irregulars", youths who can "Go everywhere and hear everything". He pays them to gather intelligence and track down individuals. Although described by Watson as the dirtiest collection of "Street Arabs", it is intimated they are good souls trying to cope with living a very hard, unforgiving, life. Also potentially good soldiery, readily marshalled and grateful for 1 shilling pay per day. The French equivalent were the notorious Parisienne "Gamin", of whom Victor Hugo was similarly well opined. Thinking about it, "Gavroche" in Les Miserables shares many of Holmes' Irregulars' qualities. Thank you! Your channel always stimulates some new thoughts and ideas about the Victorian age. Looking forward to next week. All the best.
Thank you very much for your comment. Much interesting information. I really appreciate your support.
Poverty must be severe to motivate children to undertake the vile job of digging up a dead diseased cow, with the intention of some profit. The risk to the public aside, it would be a very vile job and hard work to process for resale. The ingenuity of this children is sometimes rather impressive. Given even a small opportunity for earning money legally these children have great potential. So much waste and hopelessness. I get a better understanding of the writings of Charles Dickens, Jack London etc by the information your videos provide.
Thank you for yet another fascinating and informative video. I appreciate your efforts to make me a little less ignorant. 14:48
Thanks for your work and time ❤
You’re most welcome 😊
I love all the sketches too.
The faces are hilarious, but tragic too, verging on cartoon caricatures.
Fact Feast does it again. We all think Dickens Oliver Twist as we watch & listen to the depravity that young boys went through in that era. God only knows how young girls were treated, they probably wound up in the match factory resulting in getting poisoned working in a toxic environment.
Thank you Bob!
And worse. Babies were sold into human trafficking.
My favorite poem is Villons Straight Tip to all Cross Coves. Pertaining to these subjects, I would love to hear you read it once. Its fitting. Love the channel. Thanks
Thank you for your kind words!
I love this stuff. I'm a Yank as well as an anglophile.
So you’re a Yank? Confession is good for the soul😂😂 We all welcome you on board.
Welcome Yank to the history of UK history.
Oh puhlease don't anyone know that Us history and Uk history are practically each other's history most of us on both sides of the pond are related lol😊
My father could remember the bare foot days in 1930s Gateshead. He said his school teachers would pay for a pair of shoes out their own pocket for a child turning up for lessons shoeless.
Excellent as always Fact Feast...!!!🙏✨👌👍🦉🐲❣️
Great! Thanks for watching.
@@FactFeast I'm always watching 👀, when I can, thank you and crew...!!!🙏✨👌🦉🐲❣️
Looking at these kids and then my 3 year old grandson and I just think that he’s born again Victorian child!
Why
Why? Do you starve him and make him live on the streets?
Wow Wow "its absolutely reality about were Victorian of mischievous children boys was very pauper and even impoverished by were abandoned family and even more Nursery Homes at Dr Barnardo and Charles Dickens in the 1860s and 1870s and 1880s and 1890s was have been seen a more widespread to poverty-stricken and even more poor areas of Victorian destitutions" 😢😢😢
My guess was wrong. I thought the boys dug up the cow to take its parts to be sold for use in gelatin or its hide for tanning.
I love this channel! Its my weekly pick me up!
Thank you so much! It’s great you’re interested in this history.
If these street children were considered redeemable and suitable to be adopted, they were cleaned up, given a set of basic clothing and supplies, put on ships and sent overseas as Home Children to the colonies. There many faced new types of hardships being mostly exploited as cheap, free labor with little to no oversight or supervision from local authorities.
These unwanted children did their unacknowledged but important part in helping to tame the wilderness and develop the colonies. They were relieved of their obligations to their sponsors (if they survived) and were free to start their own lives once they turned 18.
This program ran for approx. 100 years, officially ending in 1970. It is estimated that over 100,000 children were shipped from the UK to the colonies during the time this program was in operation. Children as young as 5 years old were eligible to be shipped overseas. Once arrived at their destination, they were distributed across the country and advertised in the local papers as being available for free to anyone that wanted a child. There was almost no inquiries made into the safety or the background of the families the children were being given to.
Awesome, thank you ❤
You’re welcome! Glad you liked it.
Not unlike Billy the Kid; just an abandoned child with no options but to survive by the seat of his pants.
The authorities should have done something to HELP those poor kids instead of punishing them for trying to find ways to actually *survive* their condition.
That's what happens when the people with wealth create laws for themselves
The authorities blamed them for being poor, the only place the authorities provided was the workhouse, and that was literally the last resort for anyone.
@@janetpendlebury6808Exactly, childhood was only for the middle classes upwards in Victorian times.
Heartbreaking!
Thanks!
Thank you so much Brian! Very kind of you 😊
Their clothes weren't like ours, the fabric was really thick you can tell from the pictures and also really expensive compared to what we pay. That's why children often wore clothes which were too small.
No. The thing is that back then mass production did not exist yet so that is why clothing was so expensive. People had to stay in bed 4 days until they could get their clothes out of pawn.
@@trishmcl9055The reason Petticoat Lane was called Petticoat Lane was because of ths number of second clothing vendors, who sold all sorts of clothes, shoes from previous periods in history often also. Provided the clothing was still hanging together, it was considered decent (Jack London's People of the Abyss). If you examine the property left behind by the victims of Jack the Ripper you see this. Frequently people wore all of their belongings at the same time, especially if homeless. Their appearance may have been outlandish, but at least that way they held on to their property. It is sad also to hear about the property they had in their pockets eg. A broken comb, half a bar of soap, an old thimble. Makes you almost feel lucky 💗🌵
@trishmcl9055 what do you mean by "get their clothes out of pawns"?
@@craigr6842 In poor families people used to 'pawn' their belongings. To Pawn something meant they took things along to a Pawnbroker shop, who used to give money in exchange for the goods, they then held onto the goods until the owner came back with the money to redeem the items. It was not usually the poorest of the poor who would do this as they could never hope to get the money to get their stuff back. It would be the families with a man working, usually it was the man's Sunday suit that was pawned on a Monday and redeemed on the Friday (payday) The poor usually had nothing to pawn.
They wore clothes that was too small or too large because it was passed from one child to the next in families. It would be bought from a second hand shop that sold old clothing. They would never have anything made new.
So sad 😔
Thanks for creating interesting content. I would like to suggest one topic. Baby farming which was unfortunately quite popular during Victorian times. Many farmers became serial killers for the profit.
Thank you so much for the super thanks! I will keep the topic you mention in mind.
Poor little souls, wasn't their faults being born. All small due to lack of food and sunlight. They had rickets as well. Just a shameful part of our history
Well times haven’t changed
Thank you sir for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. Honestly we have in Arabic region and definitely in all countries of the world street children who are homeless or poor children, known as thrown away children from single parents or divorced couples. They are subject to abuse , neglect. I thought it’s same meaning to wild boys . Wild boys means troublemakers or rebellious. Yes we have juvenile care homes for kids under 18 years old and everywhere. I read article dated 2017 , Tited ( fighting gangs of London . He mentioned wild boys of London . This article published on Tuesday March 14 th 1882 the pall mall gazette published following article . He mentioned wild boys were precociously clever criminals. They picked pockets, they robbed shopkeepers tills , they were expert in all those means and methods of crime which ingenuity of London thief has yet invented. Their lives was wild revel diversified by imprisonment. They were at one luxury, at another hiding in sewers and over their characters and achievements some human creatures, spurred by intelligible feeling of hunger , had in all apperant seriousness thrown thrown glamour of heroism and romance . I am sure wild boys need disciplined parents who treat them wisely. Thank you for giving us to read new information and improve our English as well. Best wishes for you your dearest ones .
Thank you for sharing this interesting information Khatoon.
It feels like listening the life of Dio Brando before been adopted by joestar family
They use to drink as toddlers as well. I have a book with old victorian news clippings and one of them was about the problem of drunk 3/4 year old unruly street urchins lol funny not funny
The book London, The Biography by Peter Ackroyd has a great section on Victorian London's crime & punishment.
The industrial and agricultural revolutions completely changed society in the UK in a very short period of time. Cities like London, Glasgow and Manchester mushroomed. Thousands of people poured into them as there were no longer jobs on the land. I think Manchester grew to something like seventy times its size in ten years. So it took a long time for society to catch up and the infrastructure put in place to help people. Over the nineteenth century there were a series of reform Acts to make living and working conditions better and of course provision of free education. You also had the likes of New Lanark and Port Sunlight which were planned villages created by factory owners for their workers. Unfortunately the help was often very moral and judgemental.
The thumbnail name it's hard as hell for like a group
England owning half the world and letting this happen? And bow to royalty. Are you people nuts?
I, for one, would never bow to royalty. This was in victorian times. In those days, it happened all over the world. America was full of squalor. Children suffer all the time. It's tragic, but an ugly fact.
BTW. Neither am I nuts.
Royalty was not in charge of the country, the government was. If you do your research you will find this sort of poverty was in every country, America, Paris, Germany etc etc.
People think that because England had an empire " on which the sun never set" we all lived in milk and honey. In fact the British working class , especially the women and children, endured a life of exploitation and hardship on par with slaves in the colonies. Yes they were free in theory, but in reality they were doomed to a life short and brutal with no choices.
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I’m debating, with my heart and soul, about the brother “chucking” his younger brother into The River Thames if it was mercy, or murder. I cannot imagine what he was thinking when he “chucked” his brother into The River Thames.
I think that children had it the worst, because they didn’t have any laws protecting them, and they had to do what they needed to do in order to survive. Yet, I don’t think they should have been executed for stealing food. I can’t imagine digging up a diseased cow, with the stomach turning smell, in order to sell the meat and get some money to stave off starvation, or homelessness. That, right there, posed a huge risk to the health of other people.
Now, in today’s world, the prices of EVERYTHING is skyrocketing will cause people to do whatever they have to do to make it. We’re seeing poverty growing more and more, and the governments are doing nothing to curb the inflation. The rich are having zero problems, and the middle-class and poor are suffering. I can only hope and pray that things turn around, for all of us, and the poverty levels are eradicated. My firm belief is that politicians SHOULD NOT be allowed to own their own businesses while being a politician, own stocks, live in gated and armed security neighborhoods, or have armed security personnel. They SHOULD reside in neighborhoods where their constituents live, living on what they earn as a politician, and have to experience what their constituents experience. Maybe then they’ll understand why we’re so angry a them!!
Esos países tan industrializados de Europa en el s.XIX eran horribles en esas épocas para pobres, obreros de las fabricas y los niños. Véase Dikens y sus relatos de la realidad social industrializada.
Eso no pasaba tanto en países mucho menos industrializados y más agrarios y ganaderos. Los niños corrían más por el campo, como España, Portugal....
El horror de las zonas fabriles de la Europa industrializada.😢
Nothing changed there then
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Thank you Miji. Much appreciated.