Criminal Kids of the Past (Vintage Mugshots Documentary)
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2021
- Witness vintage Edwardian mugshots of children and hear the nefarious activities that led kids to a Police Court, in this documentary compilation of historical photos from early 20th century England.
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Hard times for the young and poor. Thank you for their stories.
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Poor little mites; they stole in order to survive, and for this, they were treated as criminals and thrown into prison. Unbelievably harsh times.
Some of them mugged young kids, others stole from their coworkers and comrades in arms. Not all on the list were as innocent as you make them out to be. That being said, recidivists who were mentioned got off very lightly - these days they'd get real proper jail time, years at the very least.
@@andreyradchenko8200 that may be true but there was not much rehabilitation back then, even nowadays many prisons in the US do not reform. If you are that young and homeless back then where orphanages and workhouses were terrible, then you might turn to mugging people in order to get some money for food. You can’t make those kind of speculations if you haven’t lived that life. There are people today who get sent to prison or jail because they steal diapers for their baby. Actual legitimate thieves who do not need to steal do deserve punishment.
People need to be helping one another. Not selfish, and is sad to see a small child in such distress..
Many were accused of stealing from a parent relatively small amounts because of hunger.
But thievery is still thievery regardless of age. Jail is extreme to us but that’s how that time was. At it wasn’t for years.
I happen to live in North Shields, I'm only 21 so it is crazy how close my age is too some of these people and how different our lives are. Amazing too think I have most likely stood in some of places they have committed these crimes. This is an AMAZING random find of a channel! Thankyou for this will show too my family!!!
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I'm in North Shields too, and this showed up randomly on my feed. I'm currently in bed (it's early on Sunday morning) watching this video on my phone but I think I'll watch it again on the UA-cam app on the TV.
Its crazy how these kids were both treated as kids but could be taken to an adult jail and work very hard lives
Doing what they must do to survive.
The first youth Alfred Yarrow aged 17 yrs but through malnutrition he looks to be about 12 yrs old. His remand into custody would ensure he had three meals per day and a clean bed to sleep in. As a long since retired police sergeant I dealt with many young teenagers from very poor backgrounds and feckless parents who did at times steal to survive and looked younger than their years through stunted growth, malnourished, eye sight and dental defects due to lack of parental care. To a certain extent it still exists today and commonly referred to as latch key kids.
Yes, that is a spot on observation. Examinations of the remains of Victorian era children show severe malnutrition, including rickets and scurvy. Their growth and development were stunted and had lasting effects if they survived to adulthood. The fact that these children were shown almost no compassion at all is heartbreaking. Many worked 10 hour days in the factories under dangerous conditions too until that was outlawed. So often the Victorian and Edwardian eras are romanticized, but for the majority of the population, life was hellish.
Rickets have recently started to appear again in those families that have very little. Those families that have to rely on food banks to survive. Also up until the 2000s children had free multivitamins so rickets & other vitamin deficiencies were rare unfortunately now making their effect felt.
That's so messed up. If you're born to parents who dont care, you have a rough start in life already. Some overcome it some never do .
There was a family on the road I lived on as a child in the 60’s too many children and not enough money but they were loved, all survived and did well for themselves. I have feeling they wouldn’t be so lucky now, or back at the beginning of the 1900’s
@@loris7660 Q Victoria mentioned the working conditions of mine children to Lord M.She was concerned about their welfare.He said he didn't think taking away their livelihood would endear her to them.Typical Politician.
The real crime was the implementation of a system that allowed children to be prosecuted to this extent
A system that expected them to work, in dangerous conditions, that treated them like cheap labor and gave them almost no rights. A system that left them to starve and freeze to death in the streets if they were unlucky enough to be born in poverty and put them in jail if they were foolish enough to grab a piece of bread they couldn't afford to eat. Nobody asks to be born.
No rights for anyone other than well off men in those days. No right to vote etc. Basically those who worked were treated as property. How things have changed and people have forgotten, it’s not so long ago
@@rachelk4805 Did u hear about a guy a couple of yrs back,who took his parents to court for giving birth to him without his consent?Don't know the outcome,but honestly!!
@@rachelk4805 the system was the problem not the kids, eating is not a privilege
Can we just have some appreciation for the neat cursive handwriting on those slates? Thank you.
It really is impressive.
Well spotted 👍👍👍
Before computer literacy was a standard requirement for clerical jobs, it was "typing 50 wpm." Before that it was, "good penmanship."
My mother wrote much the same
Impeccable cursive. Quite difficult to forge a tardy slip for school.
If you trace your roots, you will probably be looking at images of census records handwritten by anonymous forgotten clerks each with a different writing style.
Probably they only time they have ever been photographed.
I remember seeing a juvenile mugshot on the wall of a store fitting room, captioned, "Pictures your family will treasure."
Many of the places and street names you mention around the Shields area, still exist to this day, puts things into perspective when I walk up or down them in future.
Also a lot of the surnames of people are still quite common on Tyneside, amazing!
Poor little children needing to feed themselves and help their families. Especially sad for the little girls.
These poor lost souls may they Rest In Peace. They stole a bit of food for that they had horrible deaths
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Yeah I enjoyed this video. Just might wanna make sure not to use the same pic of the same kid but a different name. Maybe it was an accident
@@curtisvance853 yup, I caught that too. Same kid called 2 different names.
These children are pathetic. Living in abject poverty, how tempting it would've been to steal, in order to eat. Many had no family, and were homeless. At least in jail they were probably fed.
It's outrageous how a lot of them got time just for asking for money. The rich had a strong strangle hold over the poor to keep them in their place.
Feels familiar. Just slightly less obvious now.
They still have
As always very enlightening .I wonder how many of these children fought on the western front. Some of them would have lived to see the 70s and 80s .hard lives lived ,but oh so interesting. Thankyou for this food for taught.
You never fall to draw me in!!!! I love this era. I love how you narrate and you make it come alive. I get disappointed when they get done I think you should make longer videos!!!!
Thank you! They do take a long time to make, but I promise that there will be more.
@@FactFeast I'm looking forward to them I tune in every day. Bless you and your loved ones
Little compassion for the poor then and now. Made me feel ill to see young children starving and no one really caring, It was not their fault.
Treating them like they are the problem instead of helping them with their problems so they actually can contribute something to society. 🤬 Malicious idiots love their condescension.
@@rachelk4805 Cry me a river, you have no idea what it was like back then. You go by what you read or hear only
Maybe they knew if they were caught, they’d get a bed and a meal.
So South Shields was a much more honest town. I love how everybody was photographed wearing a hat.
They were arrested, charged, but not helped. They need to eat.
stealing from your mom is ok!
A different time, and perception. They could have gone to the workhouse. Worse was to come in 1914
I don’t know how I found this channel but grateful I did. It’s fantastic. 👍🏼 Poor kids..😔 They had NOTHING. These are so interesting. They’re babies. Mom of 3 here 😩 Breaks my heart. Life was rough on everyone, but I can’t imagine being a child in deep poverty and no social help but for asylums or evil orphanages.
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The workhouse and the local diocese church had funds for the poor, but some of these children were already schooled in criminal behaviour.
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These poor, destitute children! They were likely conscripted into the army in WW1 and, with more than 880,000 killed, did not survive to see better days. By comparison, we live in luxury!
I'm sure their lives after 18 years of age wasn't much better
there was WW1 then the stock market crash of 1929 I'm sure they had
very had times.
A lot of them had homes, they were just miserably poor.
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Another great video. I think these photos and commentaries are a necessary antidote to looking back to the past with romantic nostalgia.
William J Kay and John Scott seem to share a mugshot. When you look at the clothes, you realise how desperately poor these kids were.
I know a few youngsters today could do with the same treatment by the law
I was born in 82 so its mad thinking I was alive when people from this time were still alive , I at the very beginning of my life and them at the very end of theirs now half that time later 40 years and we are light years ahead in technology and in society , As bad as we may think the modern world is we basically live in paradise compared to them and take technology they couldn't even begin to dream of for granted. I bet us now will look just as basic in 120 years from now
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They stole in order to survive, yet, were treated like common criminals and thrown into prison. Unbelievably harsh times.
They used to send you to Australia for stealing bread adults and children I'm sure you already know this. 🇬🇧 👍
Not everyone stole to survive.
they weren’t innocent, moat stole for their own good rather than surviving
Those poor poor babies..they just needed to live., I wish I could hug them..may they be at peace in heaven with bellies full and warm , loved ,,God Bless the poor sweet kids
…the first one stole FROM HIS OWN MOTHER!
Thank you for sharing , life was tough then . To think most kids today get PTSD from not having a phone or a constant supply of junk food in their hands.
How times have changed.
@@kevinadamson5768 not for the better .
Yes, life was tougher then. But I think your additional comment is mean spirited. Most kids nowadays aren’t interested in drinking or smoking and tend to study harder than any other generation. They are far more aware of the world than the past couple of generations and tougher because of it.
"inst." is an archaic abbreviation from the Latin "instante mense" and means "of this current month".
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That poor lad, getting 8 strokes of the birch at the age of 13. Just 13 years old, imagine that. Think of the excruciating pain he suffered, wonder what he was thinking when it was happening to him. You just can't imagine how much that must have hurt on an already probably emaciated body.
Watching for a second time. Brilliant film. Thank you!!!
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Street urchins & guttersnipes. Excellent presentation & most enjoyable.
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I was born in North Shields and grew up nearby in Howdon. I lived in Wallsend until I was three. It is fascinating to hear about these child criminals of the past from the area of my birth.
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It would be interesting to find out how their lives turned out.
...most likely not well...☹
Probably ended up in Australia. If this was the 1990s they have had a 2 week holiday at the seaside paid for by the tax payer,!!!!
@@dawnmason9558 bah humbug
So many of those kids were probably slaughtered during WW1 anyway. Who knows? The girls may have become nurses and saved lives during the war. One shilling was a great deal of money in the day. My dad, born 1913, used to say that his mother sent him to the local grocer to buy a penn'orth of broken biscuits, which was a decent paper bag full.
Locking up kids for stealing to eat is the biggest crime here
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Here we go again, I don’t understand the point of fining them! The fines they impose are surely more money than this lot would see in a year! How on earth were they supposed to pay it! So many parents putting their kids in!
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A shilling would be worth 6.2 US cents in those days. so he stole roughly 25 cents worth of goods.
A shilling was worth a lot in the 60’s so to have stolen that amount at the turn of the century pay for a domestic servant was £2 a year but they lived on site and worked very long hours. Once they married they had to leave. My mother was a maid and she said it was an awful life, she’d been denied grammar school although clever, because her father a farmer land owner didn’t approve of girls being educated past 14 so she was a servant and companion to a rich cousin. 20 Shillings in a pound so 40 shillings a year! That’s without costs and most of that money would have been sent home no fripperies in those days! If a lone woman was found on the street after dark she’d be arrested for soliciting and transported to Australia!!
You have to use the inflation calculator. How and why would he steal FABRIC worth a quarter and sell it for seven cents, that's ridiculous.
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Nice video i love those kind of stories anything from the vantage years i love
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What a miserable existence these poor lads had.
I live in North Shields and its so weird hearing street names that are like around the corner from me but interesting tho
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This is truly disgusting!!! All of these KIDS were literally starving and just trying to exist!!! Sad
Terrible to be hungry and break the law to survive but today a lot of youngsters break the law when greedy for more.
Those poor brits, and the poor Irish..kids,too..
Very interesting indeed
One great story.
Great you think so! Thanks for watching.
north shields was a rough neighborhood!
Your awesome ty
Wow!, the last lad aged 17 and already had done 4 years in the Army. Hard times for sure
William J. Kay and John Scott must have had the same dad, a remarkable resemblance.
It’s the exact same photo.
It was the same photo. I was thinking ‘ there’s a smart one uses an alias’.
John Brownbridge, I caught that too. I guess he thought nobody would notice.
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I realize this is very late (!) but just confronted him directly about this on another comment thread. I am doubting the veracity of a lot of these, much like the post-mortem photography collections.
What most don't realize is that the judge put them in jail so that they could eat, bath and get well. In many , many cases it was an act of kindness.
Bless the beasts and the children, for they have no choice.
one stole from his poor mother…how exactly is that not having a choice when she was the same
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Jail was probably a welcome reprieve a place to sleep and food.
All of these charges were laid at the North Shields police station.
Speechless that somebody could be booked for stealing a silk handkerchief worth one shilling.
I don't know if you're in the UK but if you are, did you see the brilliant A House Through Time in the 2nd series when the house was in Summerhill, Newcastle upon Tyne? A child stole an umbrella from the hallway of the featured house, and his sentence was transportation to Australia.
I cannot recall the amount,but if you stole something worth more than that amount,you could be hung for it,child or not.
@@susanmccormick6022 That had been stopped back in the reform era 40+ later. Most sentenced to be hanged in the earlier era were usually transported or given a sentence instead but itis horrifying we ever hanged people for stealing.
I dont live very far from North Shields, some of the street names are still existant from those early 1900s
Its so barbaric to think of those very young people being jailed because of a few shillings with which to feed themselves.
I know i shouldnt say it but if todays youngsters had a taste of how awful it was in those days & saw & experienced only a quarter of the punishments maybe theyd think twice about thieving or causing mischief.
I cant get their poor little faces out of my mind
So sad.
I love all of your content, but I get startled and very slightly confused at the abrupt end. The previously mentioned feelings may be due that I tend to listen, (while drawing or such) rather than, for the most part. I’m sorry that I have no suggestions, sir.
North Shields hasn't changed in over a 100 years, you can still find the streets which are mentioned in this video and also there's still alot of criminals in shields, its a rough place 😂
Wonder how many survived ww1?
how lucky are we xx to live today,xx
Makes one rethink physiognomy.
Believe me, I would so much rather read the police reports myself. They aren’t meant to be dramatic, “Just the facts,” as the detective in the old TV show used to say. Maybe other people enjoy it, but it’s not for me.
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Pathetic. Parents today have kids that do worse at home and nothing becomes of it. Shop keepers and corporations do the same type thing and it's legal. These kids were homeless, neglected and starving. I imagine prison may have been desired. They have a roof over their heads and a meal.
William Wilson looks like that comedian Jeff Ross.
3:13 Haha! Quite a hustle she’s got going for herself…huh? Learning who people are then going to their office, saying “So and so’ needs 1 pound and sent me to get it”. 😏 She even got that same tough little brat look as some girls today got. I’m glad that story survived.
poor kids such injustice 😡😡🤬🤬
William Wilson, the image of the Irish actor keougan
looks like they were just hungry so sad..
Robert Peel (1788-1850) the founder of the first new Metropolitan Police Force Service at Scotland Yard in 1829. City of London Police 1839.
At 9:13 you have the the same photograph of a boy previously showed..(didn't no if it was an accident or just lack of photograph) I can't imagine it was or is easy to do so! I love your channel, btw, and have been binge watching for a few days now. 😊🥰
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They could help these kids instead of sending them to jail over and over.
Evil doesn't discriminate between race,age or gender.Desperation can make people vulnerable at any age.🤔
Currently there is a campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility in Australia to 14 (it's currently 10).
Who is the narrator of these fine videos?
Makes me wonder how they lived the rest of their lives. Did they get married, have jobs, children? They could have lived long lives right into the 1980's. Interesting to possibly see a photo of them in their old age.
They went to the Somme
Newgate Prison, London.
07:56 A young Mr Bean before he went straight. 🙃
Hi, Artful Dodgers in real life, in the Dickens novel "Bill Sykes" "Fagin" and "Artful Dodger" were all hanged!
Sykes fell to his death,Fagin was hanged,I think Dodger was sent to Oz.Although brutal,I do feel a lot of sympathy for Dodger, Nancy, Fagin & the rest.They stole to live.Glad Dickens stories helped to make life a little easier for poor folk when the authorities finally sat up & took some notice.
All these children, so sad but that was life in those days. Doesn’t make it right, so to make it “more right” in my mind, I have to think that the punishment could have been worse.
My Grandfather came over from we think, Liverpool. My mother never knew how old he was ~ he came over with his older brothers. How many brothers, she didn’t know. How old was he, she was never told that either. All the story she knew was that he was so small that he could walk under the ships tables - does anyone know how tall a ships table in the 1880’s would be?? He married “UP” when he married my Grandmother, she in turn married “D O W N”. He could barely read or write, probably not hardly actually. All the neighbors that he tried to work for, couldn’t understand him. So either my Grandmother of one of the kids had to go and explain his English. I guess they were happy enough, he did try to give the family the best he could. 13 children, my Mother , born 1900 , was the 2nd girl and 5th child I think.
Actually the sentences were just until after the war and we started to adopt a German young persons jail called Borstal. The Borstal system was tragically flawed and was cited as causing the rapid rise in crime in the late 60s.
Your story is very interesting. Thank you.
Shout out to North Shields
Just starting to watch the video and I'm hoping there are tarts & bints o'plenty
You sir are disgusting!
These people were probably pleased with prison so they could eat
I’ve said my ex’s name with less contempt than you did for poor William Wade 😂😂😂
The poor lads, and laddies..
These are..the victorians, peoples, hes, a lads, from a working classes, systematic.
The passed is'nt going..aways..but thise times not too..many org, fews..and also..no trains, org, either..the peoples, sure had knews not all..peoples, are middle classes, or richs..but is a sickness.stealing..and one shilling it'nt nothing..but the Victorian, era, poorest communities, cheated and..there's era..is't..poor expensives..also..
What?
1 shilling was a fortune, they stole from their own. The victorians actually were good to the poor better than previous times. There was work for those who weren’t feckless but they’d rather steal ! They could have gone to the workhouse for work, meals & a bed. The parish also gave money, but these were thieves they didn’t want to work, so they stole from neighbours who worked. Different times can’t be looked at through today’s lenses
It's a sad indictment that a countries poor have to resort to stealing to put food in their bellies and be punished so harshly. However those were hard times and there is no reason for anyone to steal today with a welfare system in place.
Well there shouldn't be,but some poor devils fall thru the safety net.
And people thought chavs were a new phenomena
💁🏻♀️ A Pence is 1 Penny
💁🏻♀️ A Shilling is 12 Pence
💁🏻♀️ A Pound is 20 Shillings
looking at the crimes what the children did then and children now bid DIFFERENCE the children then we're realy poor lacking food clothing and shelter it was out of despration
Magistrate's Court. HM Prison.