Victorian London's Rat Catcher (Worst Jobs in Victorian History)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- How dangerous was the life of a Victorian rat-catcher? Jack Black was official rat catcher to Queen Victoria and paid well, but the rats nearly killed him! The life of a rat-catcher was, unsurprisingly, a dangerous one. Catching a rat inevitably meant being bitten, sometimes seriously - but rats also carried disease, which you could catch too from the festering wounds they inflicted. Today, you will hear the story of a legendary rat-catcher of Victorian London. The detailed account of Jack Black's life and work is told by Henry Mayhew, who interviewed Jack Black in the 1840s.
📣 JOIN to support the channel as a Member: / @factfeast
👍 Support the channel (donations): www.paypal.com...
Do you like history and mysteries? SUBSCRIBE and click the bell icon to keep up-to-date. Please support the channel by sharing this video on social media 📲 ✅ It really helps the channel grow so we can bring you more content to watch 📺 Thank you 👍
Check out Worst Jobs in Victorian History (Playlist): • Worst Jobs in Victoria...
Check out Victorian Documentaries (Playlist):
• Victorians
Check out Edwardian Documentaries (Playlist): • Edwardians
Credits: Narration - markmanningmedia.com
CC BY - A Kentish rat-catcher, A monkey dressed as a rat-catcher, The Morning Toilet, The Rat Catchers of the Sewers from Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor 1851 by Wellcome Collection; Bottle of extract of nux vomica, London, England, 1794-1930 by Science Museum; Jumping Black-footed Ferret by USFWS; New rats by Tatiana Bulyonkova; Pink eyed white rat, also known as an albino by Biboyo
CC BY-SA - Photograph of a man in a top hat, Photograph of a man with a leather apron by Beinecke Library; Rattus norvegicus, Muridae, brown rat, common rat, sewer rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat, Brown Norway rat, Rattus rattus, Muridae, Black Rat, Ship Rat, Roof Rat, House Rat, Alexandrine Rat, Old English Rat by H Zell by H Zell; Common linnet (Carduelis cannabina) foraging and singing by Natuur Digitaal (Marc Plomp); Stichting Natuurbeelden
#RatCatcher #RatCatchers #VictorianRatCatcher #VictorianEraJobs #VictorianJobs #VictorianLondon #VictorianDocumentary #VictorianLondonDocumentary #VictorianEraDocumentary #VictorianLife #FactFeast
Enjoy this content? Please like, and share it out wherever you can 📲 It really is a big help to grow audience. Thank you 👍
I love this narrators voices so much
That's fantastic to hear!
Thank you for the video. I enjoyed it in strange way. Life was so hard wasnt it? He managed to make a good living but with all the bites from the rats he was extremely lucky to to get over them.
Well said! I think he was lucky to survive.
"He let them run up his arms like squirrels!" Sooo funny!!! Hilarious video, one of your funniest!!! 😆
My God he’s a blooming Pipe Piper,he is ?🧀
It started off okay but then it got ridiculously silly and over the top from about the 30min mark with the laughing and whispering to LOUD sound that had me changing the volume every few seconds. So sadly a dislike from me this time.
Yeah!!!!!!!!! I just got notification about your upload and I dropped everything!!!! I need my Sunday fix of Fact Feast!😉 I was slightly off time last week as I was on holiday in a different time zone. ...sorry...but I'll never miss your uploads
Super! What did you think of Jack Black and his job?
@@FactFeast Sing "Ratman" to the Batman theme 😂🤣😂🤣
Modern day rat catcher here, very good video
That’s great. Thank you very much!
How did anyone survive this era
Ikr🥴😳
Crazy times in Victorian England!
gin for breakfast, opium for tea and maybe two slices of toast or so in between.
I’ve wondered the same thing!
@@alicerivierre crazy times in Victorian anywhere!
When I was a teen I actually caught a baby woodchuck with my bare hands. I was used to handling animals and I assumed it would be as manageable as a rodent. I pinned it with my right hand and quick as a blink it flipped over on its back with more strength than I had assumed it would have and bit me between my thumb and finger. It swelled up like crazy and I still have a double scar from its top and bottom teeth. Never tried that again, but also have never met anyone who has done that either lol.
I also had a pet rat who was very tame but he actually bit both of my earlobes when I let him on my shoulders. He only did it the one time each. Luckily nothing ever came of those bites.
That's something I have learned today - I have heard of a groundhog, but not it's other name woodchuck. Big teeth!
Jus damn, dude. I've been bitten by dogs, cats, horses, goats, iguanas, snakes, birds, fish, and various small rodents including pet rats- but a wild woodchuck is some sincere commitment! I salute your crazy *$$ 😂
Eta- I can't imagine some of those bites before antibiotics! I'd probably have died from several of them
How far did you chuck the woodchuck?
Groundhogs are pretty cool. Cranky, but cool.... Unintentionally, I've been feeding two of them. It's unbelievable how fat they get. Even more remarkable, through all that girth they're almost still as flexable as a weasel.
Thank you for posting your videos I love getting notification ever week
That's fantastic! It's really good to know you watch regularly.
Waited a long time for Jack Black...not much epitomizes the bad side of 19th century London more than the rats. Thank you!
Jack Black, on her majesty's service! Hope you enjoyed watching.
The man sounds a lot like Hornet King's ratcatcher counterpart.
Me here in bed cuddling my ferret Ted laughing 😆
Cosy
When he said that he got his ferrets at 10 I had to laugh. It's so hard to believe that this is real life sometimes. The past was the worst
Very interesting! Seems he knew his trade very well!
Lots of years in the job... and lots of stories too!
My great grandmother used to breed those little terrier’s. I heard they were not friendly. Thinking about it from this point of view it was probably for the rats. I’m sure Chicago was full of them 100 plus years ago.
It sounds a real possibility.
Jack Russell's are fabulous pets I had one as a child and he was so protective no weirdo would come close yes he growled a lot but the only time he bit was when you picked him up as he hated it he hated fighting arguing and used to try and slow me down going fast down hill on children's little toys he tried by grabbing my laces
Chicago still is full of rats. It’s one of the most rat infested cities in America
While listening to this I couldn’t figure out why they just didn’t use large pokers and stab them through so they wouldn’t have to handle them
Very underrated channel
Kind of you to say. I'm glad you enjoy the content!
@@FactFeast oh I grew up watching and reading things about this time frame but in America. The only thing I know about English 1800s history is from Dickens, certain movies and a couple of books. To see it gone into even more detail is very interesting. Hats off sir!
What an interesting and colorful fella! 😊
He certainly had an eventful life, and a good memory for all his tales. Thank you.
I'm surprised he survived some of those bites with how sick he said he was a few times.
He was a lucky man!
Rabies has a 99% mortality rate
His body probably got immune after years of being bitten.
What a great narrator, well done Sir!
Right when I was about to make dinner!!
Really?
How the hell bored did y'all used to be to have rat fights??
I've never heard of that
Rat🐀for the algorithm.
Hello there. I find your brutally honest videos on the Victorian slums morbidly fascinating. Can you recommend any good books on Victorian London in general? Furthermore - I don't request this enthusiastically - but perhaps you could create a video on the horrors of pimping and prostitution in Victorian London at some point? I've heard abuse was common if they didn't meet the 'demands' of their clients.
I might have a look at that subject generally, but not necessarily as specific as you mention due to the platform. Peter Ackroyd has some useful history books, but if you take a look through the comments section on many of my videos you’ll find viewer recommendations for reading.
😳 there must have been easier ways to catch diseases...
In Victorian times such as under scrutiny here you didn't have to catch the diseases, they all too often and all too easily caught you.
Covid 19 has entered chat.
It's amazing the way certain breeds of dogs are fab at ratting. It's instinct, we had a dog years ago, that killed a rat, and I couldn't believe her reaction to killing a big rat.
Well you can’t stop there!! What was the reaction?
What breed of dog?
@@djquinn11I've got a little pit mixx and she is one hell of a ratter, we have 100s around us as we are close to a canal, She's lightning fast and dispatches them within three shakes and then straight on to the next. Im getting a bit fed up of disposing of all the corpses.
There's a fella still using mink and dogs to catch rats. Joseph Carter The Mink Man.
He has a very detailed channel on how he does what he does.
Mr Black truly was a _rat-king_ 🙃☺️✌️
Another excellent Informative video. thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
@@FactFeast Very, thank you. As a writer, I'm inspired by your excellent historic videos. If you haven't already, you may be interested looking into, ''Hurriers''. You g children working underground in coal mines. Thank you so much. Best wishes. Pete.
Thank you again for a good vid
It's great to know you found it good to watch. Thank you!
i would think anyone doing this would live pretty well
Dude I know you were near dying reading this and i loved it.
Jack Black is hilarious. What a character!
Definitely had a full life story!
I loved him in School Of Rock.
The only difference is there are professional rat catchers still as many rats and big ones in Newcastle back streets for year's seen them myself down back of Stowel street China town and behind the pubs on other street's
How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel as always iam gathering main points about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s rats were everywhere in Victorian London catching them was big business they would be sold to publicans who operated rat pits where they would make rats and dogs fight. Rats catchers wages ranged from two shillings to one pound and Queen Victoria is deathly afraid of rats on her birthday is ruined when rats overrun cake she freak out her uncle duck of Cumberland and sir John conroy plot to use hysterics as way of declaring queen insane and installing legacy.
I think Jack Black and rat-catchers generally made a lot of money compared to some other 'horrible' jobs of the Victorian era.
If you do what you love you dont work a day in your life...
I'd say he was very lucky not to die , even dried rat urine injested of ov a contaminated coke can could kill you never mind getting bitten by dirty sewer ratts
Ive wiped the tope of every can of anything I'm to drink for 15 years now, i remember my mates mum coming into his bedroom and telling us about a couple that were going on a boat trip (if I recall correctly) and the wife drank from a can with dried rat piss on it and ended up dying.
Disgustingly fascinating 👏
A great description!
What a performance sir of your voice...after a while I thought I was hearing the man j.black himself
Great! It's really nice to know you were immersed in his story. Thank you for your comment.
One great storyteller! I enjoyed this!
Excellent! Thank you 🙂
The amount of mice and rats my cat nabbed and decapitated, then brought back to my backyard door when my parents first adopted him is probably at least 50 or so. Even a pigeon once.
I understand that for cats, this is a gesture that they care about you and think you suck at hunting for food, so they bring it to you so you don't starve, but I sure didn't like disposing of the bodies every few days.
Cats are ruthless against these rodents. The cats of rat catchers probably had a feast every day.
Charlie work.
My city is currently going through a terrible rat problem. Canada's capital city is gross.
Some how I could see Tim Burton turning this guys story into a dark comedy ..either using comedian jack black or his favorite pirate Johnny Depp haha cpt jack gets a new job as a ratter..😂😂😂😂this is oddly hilarious to listen to with this guys narration 😂
I seen a fella use mink and dogs to hunt rats. Joseph carter the mink man on youtube.
He is awesome.
Rat King, Jack Black, the Queen's Rat Catcher's Rat Facts
The narration is quite simply amazing 🎉
Glad you think so!
A job that continues to be done in exactly the same way today. Well, with maybe the exception of having live rats run over you. There are plenty of channels on UA-cam that have rat catchers plying their trade at farms.
They still use dogs and ferrets. These are still superior to any modern technology in clearing rats.
"That strain of black and tan terriers was the best ratters"
Manchester Terriers!
Back when people literally gave a rat's behind. ..And then got rid of it.
Jolly good show 🎖️
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed the story and thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
Them impersonations 👍😂😂😂
He was a character!
Great accent 😄
Thanks 😅
*_ratJAM_*
thumbs up!
Thank you! Cheers!
You are such a talented narrator ❤❤
Glad you enjoyed the rat catcher’s story!
I know a girl in high school had a white rat and she kept it in an aquarium and she would get it out and it would love on her and and it would go get the ball and bring it back to you like a dog
I live in Washington DC, the city has a serious rat problem. The city now spay and neuter alley cats to control the rat population. The cats are now employed by the city. I and many neighbors feed the alley cats.
Doesn’t feeding them make them less likely to hunt rats?
Exactly.
@@djquinn11 Perhaps, but cats don't need an appetite to hunt. Ask anyone who's ever had their cat bring home something dead as a "present."
Oh rats! Them dang rats! 🐀🐁🐭
Hundreds of them (according to Jack Black)!
@@FactFeast yikes! Nope!
Were dogs used too..schnautzer..
minature..the ratter
Now we have huge 2 legged rats in Governments. 😊
OMG😳 Not 🐀's🥴😵& Thanks F.F.❤️
Those Victorians had some horrible jobs, and their free time activities, like the rat pit, were gruesome too!
@@FactFeast I don't know how anyone survived it all lol🥴
I won't watch a show were they hurt dogs.
That was excellent...well done.
Would love to see one on the old Victorian pheasant poacher like from the book 'tales of the old poachers'.
I'm glad you enjoyed the story. Thanks for your comment!
We can’t ignore the fact he was called Jack Black can we? 😂
Ah vintage charlie work😒
Thanks!
Thank you very much! 😊
Thanks!
Thank you so much! 😊
The rat catcher is a real hero rats are disgusting and spread disease.Not All heroes wear capes, but he should have wore gloves one bite is enough to kill a person good video.
Funnily enough, I read recently that 'The Pied Piper' was based on a famous rat catcher. Im sure I've seen depictions of him (Piper) wearing a cape 😂
Thanks for the vid!
Thanks for checking it out!
Last and most important part of my research jack black was rats catcher mole destroyer from batters a England during middle of nineteenth century black cut striking figure in his self uniform of green top coat , scarlet waist coat and breeches with huge leather with cast iron rats black promoted himself as queen official rats catcher he never held royal warrant. Between 1840s and 1860s Jemmy Shaw and jack black bred and sold many different colors Of fancy rats and their work aided in establishment of them as pets fancy rats proper did not begin until Mary Douglas asked for permission from national Mouse club to bring her pet rats to exhibition at ayles burg town show in1901 . Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information improve our English language as well we appreciate your efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students stay safe blessed good luck to you your dearest ones .
A really interesting comment. Thank you for sharing!
I love these videos! I am currently homeless, ill, skint and have at least three teeth that need attention ASAP (being British and all😂). I must say I have a lot of good people around me that help in many ways, for that I'm incredibly grateful and hope i can soon show my appreciation. I normally like this type of thing out of a genuine interest for times gone by, but I admit I'm kinda using them to make me feel better about my own situation 😅. It works, people had it so bad back then, it makes my low point seem like a highlight! Thanks for all the work you put into these brilliant and informative videos.
Thank you for your kind words about my channel. I really hope your situation changes for the better soon.
@@FactFeast thanks, I'll make sure it does 👍 Happy Christmas 🎄
Thank you and Happy Christmas!
There is more than one way to catch a rat.
Nice one. I wonder if any of his fevers were Weils disease. Always wear gloves when ratting.
Definitely a risk!
the funny voice thing got a bit too much for me on this one.
Kenneth Williams "Snide" character makes another appearance. Love these videos but this is the one and only voice you do of all the great voices you do where it really takes you out of the experience.
All feedback is appreciated and thank you for your comment.
You fo a fantastic job. My 11 yr old American stepdaughter and I listen to your videos. Your content is superb. Thak you.
Secret Services?
Easily one of your most hilarious videos!!!! The voice characterizations are excellent!! Thank you so much for making me laugh!!!!!
Great! 😊
Thanks for another wonderful post.
You’re most welcome! Glad you enjoyed and thank you so much for writing 🙂
I hope he isn't related to Jack Black, the movie comedian.
Not to my knowledge :)
🐀 the other white meat
Amazing content, but please, no more of that voice for 45 minutes! AAAH
The descendants of white rats came from a pet albino 🐀 from Jack black.
In the 1960's the Pope made a declaration that it is not a sin to steal food if you are going hungry or starving with no money.
Who cares what a billionaire pope thinks.
Monkey pox in New York
Transmitted by rats
No, it's transmitted by air and close contact with those who have been exposed. Get your facts straight.
@@leafiddick2976it's an std, it's not airborne.