Disgusting Victorian Slum Hidden Behind Upper Class Regent Street (Rich V Poor in 1800s London)

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  • @FactFeast
    @FactFeast  Рік тому +13

    ✅ Please support the channel by sharing this video on social media 📲 Like and Comment. Thanks for watching 👍
    ▶ Disease Infested Victorian Slums: ua-cam.com/video/j6iC2nB_EdU/v-deo.html
    ▶ Journey to St. Giles Slum (The Worst Rookery in Victorian London): ua-cam.com/video/RqttrGiqcHk/v-deo.html
    ▶ Slum Dwellers of Seven Dials (People of a Victorian London Rookery): ua-cam.com/video/Sn168_xeaHc/v-deo.html
    ▶ Survival in Victorian London's Brutal East End Slums: ua-cam.com/video/kDsWyeGUyXA/v-deo.html
    ▶ Victorian Underworld (Living Nightmare of 19th Century London's Slums): ua-cam.com/video/j9KMCDwo51E/v-deo.html
    ▶ Whitechapel (Victorian London's District of Wickedness): ua-cam.com/video/STKn9O7Ulv0/v-deo.html
    ▶ Horrific Homes in Victorian East End London (Squalor in Star Street): ua-cam.com/video/6rF_TI0-aD8/v-deo.html
    ▶ The Hell of Life in Victorian Slums (19th Century London's Rookeries): ua-cam.com/video/kbgAscHeRcE/v-deo.html
    ▶ Victorian London's Most Dangerous Slum (Fenian Barracks): ua-cam.com/video/RYQN7vm3bj4/v-deo.html
    ▶ Victorian London's Brutal East End Slum - Filthy Old Nichol Street (Bethnal Green/Shoreditch): ua-cam.com/video/e7b6fAdT_j4/v-deo.html

    • @deanmark11
      @deanmark11 Рік тому +1

      Great videos as usual. Is there any chance of doing a video of Birmingham Uk?

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  11 місяців тому +1

      Thank you very much. I hope to do something on Birmingham as it's a significant city with much history.

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 Рік тому +12

    Landlords are apparently the same then as now or now as then ...😠 as long as it was allowed it continued & now too

  • @Tammissa
    @Tammissa Рік тому +7

    Well if the economy continues to be as bad as it is with inflation going through the roof, we may just start seeing a situation like this all over again. All the homeless camps in the USA and many other countries is a precursor to the future.

  • @daveanderson3805
    @daveanderson3805 Рік тому +60

    As I understand it London still has widespread slums, mainly, but not only, in east and south London. It was my misfortune to have spent about nine years living in east London on the Isle of dogs. Whilst the poverty is obviously not as absolute as it was back in the nineteenth century, there was plenty of misery and deprivation. The council housing estates are all in bad repair with dampness being the main complaint. Overcrowding is quite normal. Although things have of course improved, there is still plenty wrong with the place. We haven't moved on as far as we like to think

    • @brianoneil9662
      @brianoneil9662 Рік тому +6

      Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden lived on the Isle of Dogs at one time.
      Obviously not recently, but still.

    • @MeTube3
      @MeTube3 Рік тому +3

      Isle of Dogs has been redeveloped and is increasingly affected by the spread of nearby Canary Wharf. A lot of money has been sunk into dock lands develops and in particular riverside new residential for wealthier people has displaced the lower income folk.
      The gentrification of Shoreditch and Hoxton is well established and even Bethnal Green is becoming fashionable today.
      Of course some of the post war housing developments planned with the best of intentions to replace substandard housing and homes lost to aerial bombing have not worked out so well and are slowly being replaced.

    • @peterwillson1355
      @peterwillson1355 11 місяців тому +5

      We keep importing poverty so its not surprising

    • @Blackisciple
      @Blackisciple 11 місяців тому +3

      There's plenty of run down slimy areas up in North West London that part of London does not get talked about that much

    • @jrr3613
      @jrr3613 10 місяців тому +2

      @@peterwillson1355importing poverty? Sure, but not the main culprit, we’ve been very good at creating it from within

  • @canadian_american84
    @canadian_american84 Рік тому +15

    And now no one can afford living there

  • @MeTube3
    @MeTube3 Рік тому +13

    The area immediately behind Regent Street on the east is where today you will find the London Palladium, Liberty department store and Carnaby Street today. It is sometimes forgotten that during days of empire the ruling classes and wealthy treated the poor classes as a disposable resource, most of all the ones on their own doorstep.

  • @bobcosmic
    @bobcosmic Рік тому +28

    It’s that time of the week where once again I’m all horizontal and extending gratitude to Facts Feast for another video that he’s dropped like a fielder who positioned at silly mid on 😉

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +5

      Thanks bobcosmic! 😀

    • @bobcosmic
      @bobcosmic Рік тому +5

      @@FactFeast We could have a tennis rally of thank you’s because I thank you for all the hard work that you do of compiling these amazing stories together !

    • @jonhelmer8591
      @jonhelmer8591 Рік тому

      Balls! (tennis balls obviously)

  • @rosierose5996
    @rosierose5996 Рік тому +19

    Would it be possible to do a video about life in Glasgow during the time of the tobacco merchants & warehouses? So many of the buildings still stand & are now high end apartments & I often wonder what it was like back then.

  • @jojo6028
    @jojo6028 Рік тому +7

    Yep another keeper .
    And these times are repeating themselves again.

  • @davidprobert168
    @davidprobert168 Рік тому +5

    I’m a milkman in this area at night 5 nights a week and it has a special feel to it especially summerset house I love it!🇬🇧💜

  • @Teeveepicksures
    @Teeveepicksures Рік тому +4

    Sounds like Miami 😂. The brachfront is high end and shiny and everyones pretty but one block away from the beach is a demilitarized zone.

  • @moondancer4660
    @moondancer4660 Рік тому +10

    Well I don't know what they could have expected, when they built all those cute pretty little shops, but obviously they weren't thinking about these poor people. They have nowhere to go so I don't think one should be so surprised to see that they simply stayed where they were.😢

  • @petermckenzie5124
    @petermckenzie5124 Рік тому +12

    Your narration is bold and true! You transport me to the period (notably, the Billboard Man and the Homeless shelters are two of the most well narrated stories I’ve listened to on YT! And, I’ve listened to many👍🏾😇

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +2

      Wow, thank you! It’s nice of you to comment 😊

  • @porkscratchings5428
    @porkscratchings5428 Рік тому +7

    Another fab video. Soho is very close to my heart as I grew up as a kid in the area 50 plus years ago. It was squalid in places, old stairways still with gas fittings, some of the run down blocks were rancid! I played with a kid who said they had rats running over them at night and were use to it! 😳 I never did venture into those rickety block just by Gerrard St, now gone, a fire station there now. Some of the lovelier places off Regent Street going towards Mayfair are nice but the cross over to Soho was totally f]different and seedy. All gone now, all cleaned up, modernised and off the scale in prices now ! It still has its fair share of cut purses, highwaymen and bandits now though!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for sharing this interesting picture of Soho 50 years ago. As you say, there are a lot of modern blocks interspersed amongst the old there now. I’d be interested to see the state of what the old ones you mentioned looked like if there were photos.

  • @dancingdingo
    @dancingdingo Рік тому +7

    Yeah!!!! I was waiting for you!

  • @lanacampbell-moore6686
    @lanacampbell-moore6686 Рік тому +7

    Thanks F.F.❤

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      A pleasure! 😊 Hope it was interesting.

  • @brianoneil9662
    @brianoneil9662 Рік тому +8

    This time I've outsmarted Google/UA-cam! I am here and ready to learn. It is a good Sunday.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +3

      Great! I hope the notifications are working 🤞😀

    • @sandy-quimsrus
      @sandy-quimsrus Рік тому +1

      Damn, it's Monday in Australia.

  • @j.b.4340
    @j.b.4340 Рік тому +4

    Excellent video. I’m thoroughly depressed.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому

      Thanks for watching! I hope you’re ok.

  • @granolabean1
    @granolabean1 Рік тому +4

    If treated like a dog fight like one. By any means.

  • @patricialong5767
    @patricialong5767 11 місяців тому +3

    History is fascinating, but I am sympathetic that people had to live like this! :((

  • @miisu111
    @miisu111 Рік тому +2

    Question why british people didnt Riot like the french did

  • @Andymancan604
    @Andymancan604 Рік тому +4

    I really appreciate your efforts and content thou i must suggest you have more than addressed the poverty in the uk in the Victorian era. Will there be any other topics?

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 Рік тому +5

    I luv the photographs b/c they are an actual captured moment in time that will never be again exactly like the one taken ... being a photog myself I know how important photographs are in the decades afterward no matter the time they are set in📸🎥

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 Рік тому +4

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому

      Thank you so much Miji 😊

  • @Viscount_Castlereagh
    @Viscount_Castlereagh Рік тому +5

    Thanks for uploading, the Victorian Britain videos are always so eye-opening.

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      Thank you. More to come!

  • @rootbeersodapopparodies9245
    @rootbeersodapopparodies9245 Рік тому +2

    say what you will but the poor at least take care of each other sharing their crumbs

  • @InglouriousBradsterd
    @InglouriousBradsterd Рік тому +11

    Another great video! As usual, timeless narration & expert editing (with outstanding artwork). It's amazing to me how conditions were back then. I mean, I knew it was bad...but I never knew how appalling it was until Fact Feast brought it to light on UA-cam. Every time I take a hot shower I count my blessings...

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому

      Wow, thank you! It’s good to know you like the presentation.

  • @jeffreywilliams2091
    @jeffreywilliams2091 Рік тому +4

    Interesting

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      Great! Thanks for writing.

  • @canadian_american84
    @canadian_american84 Рік тому +5

    Love youre work!

  • @shereesmazik5030
    @shereesmazik5030 Рік тому +2

    I have a idea for a story - single building tells it’s story through time from construction to modern demolition. Rich to poor and back again.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 Рік тому +3

    How are you doing sir thank you for your great cultural documentary channel. I gathered main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s regent street is major shopping street in west end of london . It’s named after George prince ( later George v1) laid out under direction of architect John Nash and james burton . Regent street is one of world most prestigious lifestyle destination , famous for flagship stores and international brands . It’s London distinctive home of fashion , dinning , wellness. It’s really strange next to this luxurious place slums where miserable poor people were living. Slums main features drunkenness, lawlessness, immortality, crimes . We appreciate your great efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English as well. Good luck to you your dearest ones .

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому

      Thanks for writing Khatoon. It’s nice to know this history is interesting for you.

  • @louisemerriman1079
    @louisemerriman1079 Рік тому +3

    Great video. Thankyou 😊

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed.

  • @havestrength5802
    @havestrength5802 Рік тому +3

    amazing art work. I was amazed to learn about the horses and cows living there. of course they did!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      Yes, lots of stables. All the mews courts in London used to be stable yards to the grand houses.

  • @stuartgmk
    @stuartgmk Рік тому +3

    👍

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому

      Cheers! Glad you liked the story.

  • @junehawker2364
    @junehawker2364 6 місяців тому +1

    My ancestor lived in Dartmouth Street He was a shoe and boot maker
    I hate to think of him and his family living in such poverty

  • @clarencedavisiii1412
    @clarencedavisiii1412 Рік тому +3

    Thanks ff

  • @GlazzedDonut
    @GlazzedDonut 11 місяців тому +1

    Similarly I clutch onto the simple things that I toil for hours to obtain. After all we objectify every worldy object and give it whatever value we see fit most of the things that I have that are importa🎉nt to me have had no cost but Carry sentimental value. To the same thing when something no longer carries that same value to me I part ways with it and give it to someone else for free

  • @leanneknowles2290
    @leanneknowles2290 11 місяців тому +2

    Hi is there any chance you can do any videos on victorian manchester please.. im from bolton but live in radcliffe and would love to see what it was like back in victorian times.. i know bolton has loads of cotton mills and some of my ancestors working in them... i really like this channel and it would be cool to see victorian life in other parts of the uk and not just london... from radcliffe.. manchester ❤

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  11 місяців тому +1

      Thank you for writing - I’m glad you like my channel! I would like to do something on Manchester in future if I can find the right material. It certainly has much history to tell from the 1800s. I do have a video about lodging (doss) houses in Edwardian Manchester if you should be interested in watching. Here is the link: Brutal and Filthy Edwardian Doss House (Common Lodging House in Edwardian Era Manchester)
      ua-cam.com/video/Zq3iEWCWrOs/v-deo.html

    • @leanneknowles2290
      @leanneknowles2290 11 місяців тому +1

      @@FactFeast thankyou so much for replying and I'll give it a watch... again thankyou 🙂

  • @MrCostas32
    @MrCostas32 11 місяців тому +2

    We are steadily heading back that way under the Tories

    • @johnross2924
      @johnross2924 6 місяців тому

      Don't go thinking labour are going to get us out of this mess. Labour and tory are two heads of the same evil monster 😈

  • @MyriamRichardsdotter
    @MyriamRichardsdotter Рік тому +1

    That’s why so many of the people in that area went to the US… out of desperation.

  • @sandy-quimsrus
    @sandy-quimsrus Рік тому +7

    You bring me straight back to reading Down and Out in London and Paris, Orson Welles in year 11 English Literature class. Love it, thank you for your work and beautiful voice. And thanks for my brilliant teacher that helped me choose a well read life. Nothing better than a hammock and a good book.

  • @brianoneil9662
    @brianoneil9662 Рік тому +3

    Thanks!

    • @FactFeast
      @FactFeast  Рік тому +1

      A really Big thank you Brian for the super thanks! 🤩

  • @LaHayeSaint
    @LaHayeSaint 7 місяців тому +1

    During the Victorian period there was much pomp and circumstance regarding Great Britain, and how she ruled the waves and was overflowing with power and money. The problem was, that power and money was in the hands of the few. Most of the population was either poor or destitute, and they were working simply to keep the rich in place, whilst they themselves were almost dying. This would have been a perfect breeding ground for revolution. After all, they had nothing to lose.

    • @Patrick3183
      @Patrick3183 6 місяців тому

      But it never happened

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 Рік тому +1

    Fortunate indeed to have had or have now only one child ... or better yet ... none. Just my opinion & I'm entitled to it

  • @toniremer1594
    @toniremer1594 Рік тому +12

    Every single one of these videos should have 100% likes. This is history, and it’s repeating itself today. The higher the inflation, the higher people are going to get poorer. There are many, many slums in Chicago, and that’s a shame! It shouldn’t be happening anywhere, but politicians are more concerned about lining their pockets than to make sure that their constituents are living in places that are up to code, prices are cheap, salaries can keep up with the cost of living, educational system is teaching children life skills than “CRT,” and gender ideology and indoctrinating their students. This world is gripped by Satan, and we better get right with God.

    • @lf1496
      @lf1496 Рік тому

      If you knew anything about CRT you would understand that it teaches how this class system from England came to America and was designed by craven men to pit poor people against each other to keep them distracted as their labour was exploited.. CRT shows how the rich STEAL the labour of the poor to enrich THEMSELVES. The illusion of Race was one way that these poor people from England, Scotland Ireland Germany etc were used in the US. They gave them a lie of superiority to shake off the shame of this squalid background, wiping it on Black people in the illusion of whyt privilege. They were used to oppress black people as a permanent under class and now the rich who created this illusion are oppressing them too, seeing them the way the always saw them, as expendable 😮 Look at the 🤚🏻drug addicts in Appalachia Cleveland Ohio Washington State Maine etc in homeless encampments the rich don't care about them l, sending them back to this 19th century reality.

    • @stuartgmk
      @stuartgmk Рік тому +1

      👍

  • @proud2bpagan
    @proud2bpagan Рік тому +1

    s'amazing how ppl used to do just about anything to get by w/o going on the dole

    • @johnross2924
      @johnross2924 6 місяців тому

      Yep, all those women turning to prostitution!

  • @Wheelchairspeeder
    @Wheelchairspeeder 2 місяці тому

    Lady's and gents there's slums and poverty on both sides of the pond maybe not like 19 th century filth and squalor but you still have pretty similar attitudes about the poor homeless disabled ect from the upper crusters and 1% ..just the " guilded age" is now the Botox age and punishment for pauperism..is basically replaced by beaucracy bs ... and the rich get richer and more apathetic and out of touch while the poor man does all the work 😢...alot has changed yet not changed or been set back 50 years plus..dear God help us all

  • @DWKThedogbreaths
    @DWKThedogbreaths 6 місяців тому

    I've lived in London and worked in social housing my whole life; we have a healthier environment than ever before.
    Tower blocks still suffer some damp but only when tenants dry washing on radiators and open no windows.
    Thankfully boroughs like Hackney, including Bethnal Green, have pulled down their towers and replaced them with low, canal side apartments which are warm and well maintained.
    I've travelled widely and seen people living victorian like poverty today, in India, Cambodia and some parts of Africa.
    Anyone who thinks the Isle of dogs is poor should visit it again, coming up to the Blackwell tunnel from South London at night can see it shining like a futuristic metropolis.
    England may not be perfect but we are a proud, egalitarian people who only suffer today from a lack of proper representation.

  • @johnlynch-kv8mz
    @johnlynch-kv8mz 11 місяців тому

    18:34 See? Even the poor ( in deed, only) know the way of Paradise. If only the rest of us would listen.

  • @MrPINKFL0YD
    @MrPINKFL0YD 11 місяців тому

    Nothing much has changed. It's just been moved.

  • @Mar4545
    @Mar4545 11 місяців тому

    It sure doesn't look much better this days ,,,,

  • @mariaefelices6543
    @mariaefelices6543 6 місяців тому

    And we panic buy toilet rolls !!!!

  • @qwave1322
    @qwave1322 3 місяці тому

    This writer needs a thesaurus. 😂😂

  • @johnlynch-kv8mz
    @johnlynch-kv8mz 11 місяців тому

    6:08 Amen to that my brother.

  • @martyboy-d2u
    @martyboy-d2u 9 місяців тому

    Swallow Street 😊

  • @zombie_snax
    @zombie_snax Рік тому

    100% victim...

  • @SusanSinclair-s4z
    @SusanSinclair-s4z 5 місяців тому

    😮

  • @paulukjames7799
    @paulukjames7799 Рік тому

    Just think a few years after the re set , great video though they were truly hard times

  • @esotericautist7420
    @esotericautist7420 Рік тому +2

    This is the most important history channel on UA-cam in a medium dominated by right-wing military worship.

  • @ZettieSpaghetti
    @ZettieSpaghetti Рік тому +1

    No sound 😢

  • @elsbet1656
    @elsbet1656 Рік тому +5

    YAY🖤😊