Victorian London's Brutal East End Slum - Filthy Old Nichol Street (Bethnal Green/Shoreditch)
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- The Old Nichol Street in East End Victorian London had a brutal reputation as a filthy and crime-ridden slum. Its road was rotten with mud and water; its houses were dirty and repulsive; and, if you were a stranger, sinister faces looked at you from behind blinds and dirty curtains as you walked its rugged pavement. Work was the exception and robbery the rule. Discover what wretched living conditions people endured with a vivid description of the sum as told by an intrepid Victorian author who ventured into its streets.
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We are heading back to times like these again before long.
@@F4Insight-uq6nt I feel that too. 😨
Would you please cover Kilburn in late Victorian times if you can? My paternal grandfather was brought up there.
Excellent. Now we need a drama series or some sort of film series and it will be attraction to many...
Look like really strong women,you wouldn't mess with them old Eastenders
Doing my family history, I’ve recently found that some of my predecessors lived in this street in Victorian times. My relatives appear to have lived in the poorest parts of East London, and just about anywhere else that I’ve found them. What a struggle it must have been.
They lived in The Old Nichol? Great research.
Mine lived in baker’s row Whitechapel.i wish i could say that they moved into the suburbs and got rich but unfortunately they didn’t.my grandfather was a policeman and I often wonder if he walked the beat where the Jack the ripper walked
And funny enough I still live five minutes away from pitfield street hoxton 👍
And I must say, most of them were not hookers, but just mothers trying to meet the ends
@@replicanna6931 In the Narration it’s said that “most of them were Hawkers” (Not Hookers). A Hawker sells goods, a Hooker her body. Re the latter, if the women were simply attempting to put food on the table, what an absolutely soul destroying ‘trade’ this must have been! The toffs used to like visiting the East End, indulging those base habits that wouldn’t be tolerated at home. Even today, the toffs like to get a cab to the East end “to see how poor people live” (attributed to a member of Boris Johnson’s family, don’tcha know).
I have to say that you have one of the best history programs in early Britain. Being from the States and a historian I enjoy these programs. In 2013 I retired from work and planned to travel to Britain and other countries in Europe, but it was meant not to be I have MS and had a major relapse which has put me down since.. Because of UA-cam, I have been able to continue studying my topics of interest. Keep up this good work
I'm happy you're interested in this history as much as I am. I wish you the best for your health and hope that you will be able to travel to Europe. Thank you for your comment.
I wish you the absolute very best of luck in your life.positiviy peace and love ❤
Yes, but not till in the truth today it is full of drug dealers and muggers.
There are many alternative treatments for MS...I hope you are researching them. I have several autoimmune illnesses myself and teaching myself herbalism over the last twenty years has saved my life.
I suffer from PTSD/anxiety & depression & I often feel sorry for myself.... Watching videos like this makes me think twice.!
Thanks for watching! I hope this message finds you well. Have a nice day 🙂
Prozac helps me
God be with you. Never stop believing you can find the help you need...and take VERY good care of yourself.💕
Maybe coping skills could help, especially for anxiety........the feeling will pass. Coping skills can help you learn to sit through them.......best wishes❤❤❤mental health is wealth
Your problems are valid too.
Abject poverty in Victorian times.Very rarely shown on TV dramas.These mostly feature the middle and upper classes.Charles Dickens highlighted the real poverty in the UK at the time.
He knew first hand his family ended up in debtors prison and he had to work to pay for the prison
Nothing makes me more sad than children living in misery and starvation, and parents unable to offer them a better life. It's heart breaking 🥺
It was their own fault. If the parents, men especially, won't stop reproducing when they didn't even have money for bread, and didn't care that their poor little kids didn't have food or clothing, then I don't have any sympathy. Would you have a baby in those conditions? Would you? The babies grew up to be just as ignorant as their parents. And so the cycle continued
That is easier said than done. No modern contraception in those days. I think your comment is very harsh. People are only ignorant if they don't receive knowledge from education. Knowledge is power. The poverty and conditions for working people in those days was terrible. The real problem was the economic system capitalism. Capitalism is a rigged economic system against the working classes of the world. Capitalism puts profit before the wellbeing of people.
Must be a republican if it bothers you. And not blame the poor souls themselves. No that isn't a put down or smack. It should bother any man,woman or child.
Bit more nuanced than that I think !
There was no contraception available in those days.
These readings of these first hand accounts are just incredible...to be able to present so much detail as to the lives and sufferings of these poor souls.
I love these first hand readings!
Good job!
Excellent video for anyone who loves the nitty gritty details of history!
Glad you like them! Thank you.
Walk around the back streets of the town I live in, modern day & in colour. Stray dogs & cats, crumbling damp houses, overflowing filthy bins, neglected filthy children playing with punctured footballs, sticks & iron bars. Rubbish piled high, druggies/alcoholics laying around. Rents ridiculously high, lack of housing. NHS collapsing. Schools underfunded & understaffed. Shops boarded up. Violence/assaults on the increase. And this is about to get a whole lot worse on a much larger scale.
Mega billionaires forcing us back into peasantry
but they dont care about us do they? never have. history seems to repeat itself so much that it makes this workd feel like its a simulator. same historic events over and over again, rich getting richer, poor getting poorer its really no different except slightly modernised to fit the era of technology
Bliss 😊
Well Queen Victoria let her people live that way while her family didn't want for anything.
YES, Queen Victoria was heartless.
Prince Albert put plans in place to help the poor with poverty, malnutrition and inadequate housing. He called for children to be sent to school and for people to grow their own food. He was a reformer a lot of good was done for the poor during Victorian times. There were a lot of laws passed during Victoria’s reign on safety in mines and factories , compulsory education for children, reforms in public health, prisons. The police force was also established during her reign. Every British child is taught this in school. It was a time of huge change for the better.
Well in the beginning of her reign a lot of reforms were made especially with alberts help..but when he died the more depressed she got the more her people suffered so it was 50/50 yes she did do some good to a point but she was very apathetic and out of touch and had a let them eat cake attitude not her ancestor Marie Antoinette.. however she did have a lot of yes men who told her sure we'll keep alberts vision alive..when in reality they lined their pockets and did the bare minimum and just told the old warthog they did what they said they would but nope...but honestly you two who commented are both correct..she did some good but the more depressed she got the more apathetic she got and she was also used by opportunists within her circle she put in charge of these things...but she was also very sanctimonious and elitist and enjoyed her food and was cruel to the poor especially with sending them to Australia and the poor houses..to punish one for poverty is insane..and she wasn't exactly known for her sound mind so theres truth to all you say ..I'm a history scholar and I think her great grand daughter at least did more than she ever did..
She also watched 2 million Irish starve to death on her doorstep!!
@@deanodog3667.yes and personally speaking I detest the old warthog..she did quite a lot of insidious things not just to her own people but the Irish as well my own family fled the famine to the states but was also indentured..and if I'm not mistaken some of my kin helped find the precursor to the IRA ..I think it was called the United Irishman party taking inspiration from the us patriots..and I think I had some kin sent to Australia for being poor..😢..I think a lot of us have this in our families stories
That's my area, Shoreditch! I'm going to tell all of my neighbours about this. I love learning about local history.
It would be great if you can share the video. It’s so helpful for boosting the video and my channel. Thanks very much!
You're lucky. The UK &The British were so good at keeping records ... It's astounding. And the fact it's an old old place of much of the early days..longgg ago / quite fascinating.
And so much in real life. Real writings, books. More..
Old Nichol street is not in shoreditch....technically its between Whitechapel and Bethnal green ..
@@thealchemist7871The Boundary Estate in Shoreditch was built on the site of a notorious slum called The Nichol. I think this causes confusion.
U know about the shoreditch vampire
They are taking us back to those days
Don't talk rot.
I found out that my dad's grandfather was a drunken homeless man. I saw on ancestry that he was charged with vagrancy and had to go to jail for these things. His wife, my great, great grandmother, kicked him out for drinking terribly..
Great grandmother
He would’ve gone to an asylum or the poor house. Where some of my ancestors went in Victorian London. Very harsh times indeed.
they still dressed as respectful as possible and stayed as warm as they could during colder weather. These were my great granparents in the great scheme of things in the UK and my grandparents told me about days before the second world war and what it was like for their relatives in UK during the first world war and before it too.
I love history but I’m obsessed with the British History. Always so interesting. Thanks for all your uploads. It’s appreciated! ✌️
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks for being here.
Same, British interests me the most
Merry old England!
Most cities were like this. My mother grew up in abject poverty. 8 people in one room. It should have been 10, but two siblings died. It left her with life long health problems.
Was this in the UK?
@@FactFeast Glasgow.
Glaswegians suffered desperate housing conditions. This is a topic I will be covering here soon.
@@FactFeast And it went on into the modern era. Look forward to seeing it.
It's coming back Macca.
2 3rds of my English ancestors hailed from the east end. My Great grand parents moved out in 1880. I have lots of Huguenot ancestors who started arriving there in the 1600's from Languedoc in France. Whole streets of the east end were full of my relatives from Bermondsey to Spittlefeilds . My Great grand mother lived at 250 Bricklane and the original house with a shop at street level still stands.
@Mercmad My ancestors were Huguenots as well came from France to the spitalfields to escape religious prosecution. I wonder if we might be related?
2:57 - Preston Street, Bethnal Green, with Meath Gardens (formerly a cemetery containing hundreds of graves of the destitute) lies beyond the two pillars - which are still there today).
Fabulous history tour, many thanks.
Fascinating! Thanks for writing.
@@FactFeast My mum was born there in Preston Street, in 1930. Sadly, neither are no longer with us.
All the best, keep up the good work!
From Morpeth Street across from Meath Gardens….x
Wasn't Bethnal Green where the disgraced went to do a quickie marriage??
I was told that people were a lot tougher than the people of today. I believe it too.
Doing some research for an older friend (she just turned 90) we discovered that her own mother had grown up with her parents and older sister in one room of a 2up2down house in Oldham Lancashire. The working poor never did share in the wealth they created for the mill and mine owners etc.
Not all mill and mine owners were the bastards that today's wokists like to pretend. They actually looked after their workers, and their families. Doesn't happen any more.
It's still the same today, except that a majority of the factories are ultimately owned by 6 corporations rather than families.
And yet are not merely blamed for black slavery, colonialism, the Irish Famine, etc. -- guilty by association of skin colour -- but in some instances take the whole brunt when derogatory names (such as "Gammons", etc.) are applied to them (us).
Most of my family were employed in the mills..There's stories about the little boys having to risk life and limb, to run underneath the huge, dangerous looms to knot the cotton when it broke, women worked hard, one gave birth on the floor in the carding room...Sheer horrors!
@@margaretflounders8510You're right, these boys (girls, too, I believe) were called, _Piecers._ The worst of it is that serious injuries resulted in dismissal... and _without_ compensation!
Gripping, and heart-rending. Thank you so much for allowing these poor people to speak for themselves, and not 'interpreting'.
My own father lived in Bethnal Green , as did all the family , because in those times families stayed together. I have a photo of my father his bro and his mum and dad ,outside their house here. And yes grandad was a shoe maker , my Nan, and her sister were hat makers, ( milliners) . My dad became a watchmaker who worked in Bond Street LONDON . So it’s lovely to see real photos of a time past.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. These were typical trades along with, for example, seamstresses.
Don´t forget with hat making mercury nitrate was used it´s where the term "as mad as a hatter" derives
I'm not sure all families stayed together. My great grandmother was from bethnal green too (born in the late 1800s). She and her siblings all went in separate directions at a young age. Some went to New Zealand or Canada. She ended up living in Newcastle.
Most cities and large towns were like this in England in the 1860s. Thanks for the video. Really interesting
Yes - and Scotland, Wales and Ireland too. I have a few videos on conditions in slums of Edinburgh and Glasgow should you be interested. Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you found this interesting.
Many are like this today Mitch.
Your voice is gruff, unique, and nice. Very entertaining. Keep up the good work!😊👍
Great to know you enjoyed the narration! Thanks for writing.
@@FactFeast You'd make the phone book ( if we still had them ) sound interesting.
The vocal presentation makes me feel like actually being transported to those times, awesome my friend
Glad it worked for you! Thank you.
Seems like little has changed...in the US our dispossessed are in tents in parks and along streets 😳
Yes!..i have seen those video's,..very sad suitation.
Same in many parts of the UK even in large coastal towns, which never had such poverty until about a decade ago.
Yes its happening again around the world especially since the last 40 year's, sadly the only cure is a world war, crazy isn't it, then 50 year's later it's back again
Thank goodness we don't have whole areas in the UK like Kensington in Philadelphia. So that's and very scary. We have a real problem with illegal immigrants and those students deliberately overstaying after their visas expire. The problem the UK has is because oft times we are too generous to these people. Because of the World economic crisis, poverty is in the rise. Very worrying.
@@jegsthewegsoh stop it with you 'illegal immigrant' hatred, no different to those living in the times this video is talking about who screamed about Jews being murderous criminals
I knew it was a horror story to be poor in the East End and in other parts of London (St Giles, Seven Dials, Saffron Hill etc). Have you been reading Henry Mayhew's London Labour and London Poor? I like your narration, by the way. Thanks for the upload.
Thank you! You can find lots of Henry Mayhew’s accounts on this channel, including his reports on Seven Dials and St. Giles.
Throughout most of Britain poverty had its thrown
What a horrible time to live. We are so Blessed today, be thankful.
Cooking (and appreciating my good fortune), and listening to Fact Feast. The only way it gets better is by being able to replay it AND watch, while things are simmering!
Fantastic! Sounds a great way to listen.
We die fighting the wars of the rich and return to the slums to eek out a living.
Funny thing is they call us colonisers but most us our from people who never left unless you’re upper class, soldier or royalty
It's really interesting to see what sort of a place England was at the time they started sending people to Australia. I just wonder what it would have been like for my family if they stayed there. It really looks like a hard world back then, and of course dreadful weather. Grateful to be born in Australia
Grateful not to have been. 😁
I think it was pretty hard for your ancestors in Australia as well. Thank them for giving you the good life you have now.
My Mum/ Dad were in OZ ( Adelaide ) for over 20 years. They came back to UK in the 80s..
I was of the opinion that since the sun never sank over the British Empire, all the people lived decent lives. Now I know that all was not all well inspite of Britain having possession of India, one of the richest colonies of the world. This is a big eye opener and a piece of a time capsule. But the question is--where was all the wealth of the colonies going--not to the common man evidently! This story telling was extraordinarily well-crafted and absolutely captivating--the true history of commoners as opposed to royalty--which fills our texts.
My relatives were working hard in factories, inventing portable gas and long burning candles, farming, metalworking etc. They didn’t live in luxury but were building up the Country and helping the economy. Indian’s are usually ill informed and bitter.
So many people in countries that were once under British rule make the mistake of thinking the average British person benefited from what the ruling class stole from those countries.
Indeed so…✌🏻✌🏻🛝💩🎩🪜
My Great Great Great Grandfather was born in Shoreditch, Ebinezer Squirrel, & his wife Fanny, found them when looking into our family history, love the names 😅
Hahahahaah i love this too much
Crazy names!😊😅
Cracking names…x
This channel is consistently well researched and narrated. I too have been tracing my family tree (Ancestry), across Southern England. A few died in workhouses, I knew little about the workhouses until finding Fact Feast. Every video is a wonderful snapshot of times past. x
Great to know you find the history useful and thank you so much for your support. It’s really appreciated!
The UK IS RETURNING TO THIS KIND OF LIFE WHILE Charlie GETS A RASE OF 50,000.00 pounds
The cruelty of wealth...it always produces poverty. Such extremes are not healthy, physically, mentally, and socially. Yet we never learn...😪
That's capitalism for you!!
Even a fairly wealthy person like a doctor or an engineer back then would be much poorer than their modern counterpart.
@@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685 Thanks to capitalism a working class person in the US or UK today has a better standard of living than a doctor would have in the victorian age
Well said
Rubbish
In high school we had to read Victorian literature. I found Les Miserable, Great Expectations and all of Dickens extremely depressing. I don’t think it was helpful in my own dealings with adolescents. It just made me grim and joyless. To top it off my mother would tell me to enjoy childhood because life was hard and unforgiving
Pity you could not say no to such misery reading. In Australia, found English anything depressing except their comedy shows.
Les Miserables is French….
@@Marlaina same time frame
If only there was a doorway back , a lot of my ancestors lived in these part's, one was an aqaintence of
Mary Jeanette Kelly, so sad the way of things then ,i love this channel, definitely the best for informative information and knowledge of these times ,thank you so much for all the research and work dedicated to this brilliant channel 💜
You’re very welcome. Thank you for taking the time to comment 😊
Oh, wow. Felt a little shiver. Tyvm for sharing!
Who?
And yet we were the richest country in the world at this time what a disgrace.
Bethnal Green is totally gentrified in the last 20 years, the proper locals cannot even get a flat. In 1989 a Victorian two-up-two-down was on the market for £60,000, with a bit of work, and maybe less with a bit of price negotiation. These houses are now going for half a million plus. And they are going, fast. A two-bedroom ex-Council flat on a council estate is going for £280K. Impossible to buy for first time buyers who were born and raised in the East End.
Yep we have no chance anymore England isn't England long gone
I hope you don’t think it was easy to raise £60,000 in 1989. Life is always hard, especially if you have a victim mentality
@@jacobjorgenson9285 No, I did not think it was easy to "raise £60,000 back in 1989". If I thought it was I would have gone for it and applied for a mortgage. I didn't bother wasting my time, I knew no building society or bank would give me a mortgage. And, no, I don't have a victim mindset; I was simply commenting on the facts of that time period.
We had a shop in bethnal green road, when we doing building work in there we found lots of clay pipes and bottles of alcohol and animal bones.
Bethnal green has better housing, but still has it problems.
My grandparents had a shop in Bethnal Green road too
The 'original' photographs that accompany this video are truly fascinating/upsetting.
My father's family all come from the East end of London. This must've been how they lived because they were very poor, too.
Thank you for the history about London I really appreciate watching this.
That’s great! Thank you for writing.
Working throughout east London, I can confirm these people still exist throughout the area. There is just fewer in number, also they are normally heavily sedated by some sort of self medication or alcohol. I’ve seen people dying in the street and people walking around the body. That was in Holborn, and that’s not even a rundown part of London.WC1…
Agreed 😊😢
They must be getting on a bit now.
Drugs more like..🙄
Many are now living in Clacton and other enchanted places throughout Essex and Kent !
Have a look around England right now. Homeless people, substandard housing, food banks unable to keep up with demand, people deciding on "meat or heat" as the country heads toward winter ... time for a real change in leadership there for sure.
Yes but at least the illegal immgrants are sleeping and eating well Sobs.
Im sure a lot of people today would not be able to cope living in these conditions, and unfortunately these conditions still exist today. How would kids today cope without their technology or excess of possessions. I was recently watching american freshmen going to university and one girl had about 20 pairs of trainers/shoes, thats more than i use in 5 years. I find it sad that we as humans take too much stock in possessions, what we have, can get and how much is wasted.
My Sunday supplement is listening to the great Fact Feast
Cheers bobcosmic! I hope it was interesting.
Same😊👍
@@FactFeast It's always is never, disappointed. Thanks for the reply it's appreciated
It's no wonder that young men volunteered for the horrors of the Navy at the time, or like mine, set out for Australia in the 1850's.
My entire family on both sides come from here going back hundreds of years and some only moved away within the last decade. All decent law abiding hard working family people who morals must have been tested in some of the hardest of times. I can honestly tell you they were the bravest hardest working but kindest people you could imagine and I'm beyond proud to come from this bloodline. So much of my families blood was spilt to protect this country and how was we all thanked .We were forced out of the area with compulsory purchase orders from the corrupt Tower Hamlets Council or we would all be there now walking the same streets our ancestors have been for hundreds of years. Good luck to any original families still hanging on in there!
I doubt anyone would argue that the Industrial Revolution did not lead to significant progress in the western world, but for some the loss of their work that resulted led to an entire lifetime of misery. For example, the invention of the automated loom started rioting and arrests in the early 1800's and led to the Luddite movement. It was a terrible time to be a skilled labourer where your skills were suddenly no longer relevant. And what did we learn about technology and the impact on those whose jobs become unnecessary? Do we re-train to ensure 'progress' will not cause misery and poverty for those left behind? Do we ensure that our educational institutions will keep up? When everyone can see the historical writing on the wall that clearly shows industrialization can and will lead to misery and poverty for some, we continue to do nothing to prepare those who are going to lose their jobs with an alternative skills, in the name of 'necessary progress'.
There's a. novel called A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison. It was written in 1896 and is set in the Old Nichol where family of his previously lived. It was written kind of as a realistic response to Oliver Twist (there's no happy ending, for example, and it's almost relentlessly grim). I recommend it if you're interested in the subject. Also People of the Abyss by Jack London. That's a journalistic report of his travels around East London as a 'pauper' at about the end of the nineteenth century. An early form of embedded journalism. Old Nichol itself was hell on earth from all descriptions I've read of it, including this video.
Thank you for your comment. have several videos on my channel with Jack London’s stories of his travels through East End London. This is a link to the first of them: A Tourist in East End Victorian London (The People of the Abyss)
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I remember reading that book at school and I was just thinking about that.
And Morrison's "Tales of Mean Streets" (1894) gave Scorsese his title for his 1973 film "Mean Streets".
At 3:05 - "overrunning with.... " You forgot "rats, mice, lice, fleas, probably cockroaches, and general filth".
Cholera was rife & other diseases,
Sir, I live in Halifax Nova Scotia which was founded in the early victorian Era. there are lot of parallels to Victorian London in Victorian Halifax, and in fact there is a book called "Life & tImes of Victorian Halifax." replete with these kinds of reports....Halifax is quite Notorious. if you ever find interest to look into Victorian Halifax NS I would be thrilled sir!
That sounds really interesting. Thank you very much for the information. It’s much appreciated.
I think an interesting story is the " Little Matchstick girls" and the factory that still stands today a beautifull building too they made the matchsticks in ..
Mark Twain travelled round England in the 1800,s and said surely if hell exists then this is it,
So too George Orwell he wrote road to Wigan pier he moved to Wigan in 1935 a year before my dad was born and only a few houses away on Warrington Road
This is so very, very sad………and humbling😢.
Remember, back then, they knew no better. They lived well as long as the children ate.
Sorry,...I just couldn't hear anymore I didn't finish listening because I was sick to my stomach...!!!! I ask myself what the hell were the authorities doing about such a disgusting situation and I don't even ask myself what the heck was queen victoria doing.what a disgrace to live like that ...I feel embarrassed but I'm not even English I was born in Argentina, but my greatgrand father was English, what a shame on the queen.
Me too!! Had to take a break. Terrible story! Excellent storyteller! I will be back when I've decompressed. 😭
The Crown has little to do with England.
It wasn't up to the queen. It was parliament that made the laws & rules. The queen couldn't interfere with parliament by law. Even so, the queen's husband did try to improve living conditions for the working class
What are you talking about? This kind of poverty existed all over the world back then
@@mitchamcommonfair9543what are you talking about? This kind of poverty existed from London to Timbuktu back then
I’m surprised the little girls living in such poverty had pinafores. It makes sense they would need them whilst playing in the mucky streets; it just seems a luxury to my modern eyes. Thanks for creating this informative video!
I’m glad you found the video interesting. Thank you for your comment.
Many of those girls may well have had some work & needed to wear pinnies for their work.
They wore a pinafore because they usually only had one dress or skirt, and pinafores could be washed every day and dried quicker than a dress.
Yes, a tribute to women who raised children and washed and sewed their clothes. And to the men who worked to provide for them.
Every city in the UK had places like this
And Ireland
@@valward8195 .. hence I was born in New Zealand, my grand parents left both N Ireland and the South.
'Had'? Still has Stevo
So interesting, heartbreaking and well read.
Thank you.
Thanks for your comment!
My maiden name is Nichols.
My father told me that there wasn't much written or oral history that he could share. I'm 70 this July 2023. My father passed in Jan 1985. I do wonder if my family history comes from this area of London.
Wishing you a happy 70th birthday for this month. Thank you for your comment.
My surname is nichols, we are Irish, their was a well known criminal family of Nicholls in east London in 1960s they had a gang feud with the Tibbs family, I think, Nicholls means : conquering people'any we're lawyers aswell, I seen the. Name on monuments in Lincoln. Infields
That's has to be my favourite so far Fact Feast. I enjoyed it so much and your beautiful command of the English language ❤
Thank you! 😃 It's really nice of you to comment.
Then, as today, the loss of traditional trades and industry. The decline of employment and wages. All in all, we have not come far.
I come from a family of readers. I was brought up with reading. When I was still a child, 11 or 12 years old, my mother gave me her literature written by Neel Doff. There is at least one book that's translated into English: Katie Trottin (Keetje Tippel, in Dutch.) There's a Dutch movie made of this book, also. Neel Doff was a Dutch/Belgium writer, who experienced the hight of the Industrial Revolution. She lived in Amsterdam, later moved to Belgium. She made her personal diaries into books. Since then, I already knew how poor the circumstances were, as a child in the early 70's. I wanted to say: Now that I'm watching this documentary, I realise it was as bad everywhere in Western Europe. Heartwrenching and what shocks me most: it's not at all very long ago.
A can't handle seeing poor and filthy rich just passing bye
i grew up in the 1960s in shoreditch how lucky it was not 100 years before seeing this makes those street and court names that i knew so well scary places ,how lucky we are to have avoided that life
The Old Nichol Street area, one side of one street remains. The area was flattened at the end of the 19th century and the first social housing was built on the site - the Boundary Estate - and it still stands. In the centre is a garden mound and you can see in it the rubble from that demolition.
As hard as times are now for many here in the US I think it is much better than then ... the US does not have UBH or UBI fully in place but help is available if people will take advantage of what is offered ... life is hard
Oh there is, is there? You aren't looking very closely and must be in a nice area.
Life has always been "hard". I'd guess that LIFE is even More difficult for the affluent because their biggest 'problems' happen inside their heads, and even the Best shrink can rarely get that sorted out! Meanwhile, the rest of us normal people plod on, do the best we can with our resources, and many or most feature family & community, which is the bedrock of our society... But that is also where Love and Comfort can be found, and that makes a huge difference in one's life.
My recent ancestors lived in East London. Great grandfather Robert Renwick was an electrician and volunteered on the fire wagon in Leytonstone, where Renwick Road is now. He was written up in the local newspaper for saving a woman from a fire. I think they were doing well when they immigrated in 1910.
Great content. Your voice is full of character and delivers quality impact when you emphasize points. This is the second vid I've watched of yours from my recommended list. I enjoy history shows like this one!
The first I watched on my TV, so interaction wasn't possible. "Crawlers" I think it was. I thought I'd offer a recommendation that is small but would have made your presentation even more enjoyable: I presume you use a computer or pad for your script. I think for clearer line delivery, it might be helpful to break your lines into sections more for clarity sake than anything else. Literally the easiest method for this is to hit enter where you want your, breaks, beats, or strongly emphasized statements.
Use or don't. I didn't have any issue following you. But clarity might encourage even more viewership. Love the content. 😊
Thank you for taking the time to comment. I’m glad you like the videos you’ve watched. Lots more like this on the channel page.
London is heading back to those ways with Khan as mayor
I quite agree and am glad I no longer live there.
Do we get reparation for the appalling conditions some of our ancestors lived in - no of course not.
It’s our privilege.
Why would you? Have you notice how well you have it today? NHS, you can make a good living if you have the mind for it
@@jacobjorgenson9285I think the point is, people from countries that were once under British rule seem to think that every day joe blogs benefited from what the ruling classes stole from their countries.
So why should the working class peasants of today pay them reparations?
Our ancestors didn't benefit back then.
I know you were only commenting on those today that think they are owed something . It was suffering for sure but not in today’s time. Our ancestors had no education chances, hospitals, nothing to provide the way out. Today we have choices.
They still tried to make a living ,not expecting to be taken care of .
Great video thank you .. Very sad to see them in such Poverty . !
yet Across the City lives a royal family that says she was your queen ? living the life of Luxury while Her people starve " ??
Oh Foolish people paying homage to such beings " While you all Struggle ..
Do research before assuming. Prince Albert was involved in the vast reforms that took place during Victoria’s reign. My relatives benefitted from the legislation that was passed to improve the lives of the poor.
Jesus American’s know nothing about British history. Prince Albert was involved in the many reforms and legislation that was brought in during Victoria’s reign to help improve the lives of the poor.
I worked here in 1970 - 73. The Shoreditch/Bethnal Green then was a whole lot different to what it is now. There were no bars and restaurants. Mostly Victorian warehouse/factory premises on the Shoreditch side which have now gone. The Bethnal Green side was mainly housing not a lot different than in your film. The railway station in Commercial Street nearby was derelict.
And yet the streets look cleaner than they are now.
No cars but a ton of horse manure, filthy sooty air, and sewage fumes.
Your best yet. This was a brilliant video.
Thank you rosierose. 🙂 I’m happy you liked the video!
I cannot grasp why people would be driven to London... people must have known about these dreadful living conditions...
buy out and close the farms - send 'em into the big cities...The grapes of wrath
Outside of London while less crowded conditions were possibly worse.
Think Irish potato famine and starvation
Same reason the chinese do it now, it was still better than the countryside
Desperation for SOMEWHERE they might be able to afford a roof of sorts over their heads.
My Grandfather was born in Shoreditch in 1872 and my grandmother in Bow 1873. Where was all the loot pillaged from the world at the height of the British Empire.
Loot?
The wealth looted by the British Empire is hidden in the most secure and secret vaults, I don't think even a PM would be aware of it.
The money was reinvested into further colonial expansion projects and the rest was hoarded by the rich.
No it's a mess now and very dangerous
So it has not changed?
It's neither. It's actually a very trendy area.
@@renacleerican7824it's changed completely. It's a very trendy area now. It's not dangerous in the slightest.
Certainly not our romanticized idea of "Victorian"
Not sure the Victorian era has ever been romanticized! The destitution & disease is well documented.
😮and nothing has changed. Poverty malnutrition homelessness worse than ever in England. It never changes.
I actually thought they were talking about today's poor Britian?
Thanks to the corrupt tories.
My great grandmother was born in Shoreditch . The family moved to America because they could not make a living in their own country.
If your child whines about not having enough comforts in their bedroom such as a television have them watch this. Small children wearing sacks and shivering in a dark basement with no furniture or even the warmth of a small fire...it hurts my soul to contemplate this harrowing scene.
My husbands great grandmother was born in Nelson street, Old Nichol in 1860.They changed the name of Nelson St in the 1870s s they thought it was a insult to Lord Nelson
Interesting to know this, thank you!
Looks similar to some parts of major cities in America today.
This is what the career politicians want bring back.
Career politicians take their instructions from the corporate sphere.
Wow! What a difference in the photos between the past and the present! ❤
It really is!
Charles dickens novels describe the horrendous times in his day
You mention Ireland being bad off also at that time;.seems like life was pretty mean in the old days.
My family came from the lanes of Limerick.
Well portrayed in the film Angela's Ashes.
Even in the colonies, we had a street in Dunedin New Zealand that was a slum and notorious for ladies of the night. Now it is a non controversial street near the town centre.
That,s because Ireland was under British Rule and most of say Dublin is similar to London.Havin being built by them.if you have a look at a place called Stoney Batter in Dublin North You will see loads of coronation Street type houses built for British soldiers. And middle class houses and .Drumcondra And in the City you will The upper classes who came from there manor houses up to Dublin for the season for Debutante Balls and opera plays etc.which where the then divided up into What became known as tenement houses
I would urge people to read a book called Strumpet City about Dublin and was made into a 7part series by RTE 1 it is full of white privilege oh how well off they were 😂
And is set around the 1913 lockout on the Docks in Dublin., Jim Larkin, A Great Character called Rashers Tierney he should have got an Oscar.
Some of you may remember him as the 1armed waiter in Robins Nest?
Thank you, wonderful, as always!
Much appreciated! Thanks for being a regular viewer.
@@FactFeast You create such informative, beautifully unique, and sagacious videos, I really enjoy them. Thank you so much for all the work you do!
🙋♀️ This is sad, depressing and heart wrenching, yet simultaneously interesting. I felt as you narrated. Poor souls. 😢
And it’s a darn shame they didn’t know about birth control yet. That part of these kind of tales always bothers me most. Also, I think I noticed only one half-smile in the whole lot.
Thanks for the history lesson. Regards from the southern (presently-boiling) USA. 🇺🇸
Birth control and abortion are almost everywhere now and more are in slavery and starving than ever before.
@@rcjdeanna5282once again need collective action and reasonable return and security for our efforts. Before the gazillion Aires mechanise everything and we're all gig economy slaves
What do you mean they "didn't know about birth control yet"? They were POOR not bloody morons. They had lots of children to bring money into the house and because of the high rates of infant mortality. Who would look after anyone who grew old or fell ill if not their family? Some people actually LIKE children too.
What a strange thing to say. Birth control (i.e., the pill) wasn't invented so they couldn't have known about it? Obviously they knew having sex = babies. That was the whole point.
@@kubhlaikhan2015a vast majority of comments on videos about the poor are about reducing families, as if that somehow would mean they would land a job as a wealthy land owner just because they didn’t reproduce. They would still be in poverty being in the low rungs of society and working a thankless job for peanuts. I suspect that a lot of these sentiments are an attempt to bolster the wealthy and keep the others down and dwindling.
Not to mention that they don’t stop and think that if the population was reduced back then that the commenter wouldn’t exist to write such comments.
My dad was born here in 1914 he had no shoes his father drank his mother suffered with very poor health and was sent to a near asylum he worked in spittlefield market instead of going to school as no one cared only the Jewish community who often fed him . The authorities took him and his sister into care aged 10 and 12 . So it was well into the 20 th century not just Victorian 🤷♀️
Yes, you’re right. Poverty and suffering didn’t go away and even a lot of slum housing was still being lived in well into the 60s even after clearances and the blitz.
@@FactFeastyes and I was a little girl in Bethnal Green that lived in one. I remember it looking the same as in these pictures. Lol
We had to share a toilet with the other tenant. Lol
Yes and it going back there fast. Same in the rest of Europe and USA.
I reckon it’s already started! I grow all my own vegetables and spuds. I been growing them over 35 years. But having to give up soon back problems.
England is slowly going back to the victorian days with the homelessness destitution and poverty the rich and the middle class on one side capitalism and the poor destituted on the other.. England is looking more like a third world country in the world now...
America is starting to look similar, very sad…..(USA) AirB&B,s are sucking up housing to the point that average working people can’t afford a place to live.
This was the site of the notorious "Jago" slum district made famous in Arthur Morrison's novel, challenging even Dickens' "Jacob's Island" in Southwark where Fagin held sway. An alleyway off Shoreditch High street that leads into the area still has the two iron posts at its entrance which were referred to as "the posties" at the time. It's unlikely to be around much longer as the glass prisms of the city continue to spread north and east and engulf it...
I wonder if they swept the streets before the photos were taken as in all of them the surprising thing was the cleanliness of the surroundings,no weeds,graffiti,rubbish.
They didn’t have enough to make rubbish much less a reason or time to make graffiti
My ancestors lived, worked and grew up in Bermondsey from at least the early 19th century until they moved out to Plumstead in 1870. I am sure it was no better on the south side of the river.
My great grandfather came from a family of Watermen and he married into a family of Leather Workers. He then bettered himself and became a Corn Meter, hence the move to Plumstead.
Thank you for your comment. There was much poverty on the south side of the river too and I hope to have a look at that in future.
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The coarsest order of prostitutes? Well best avoided then. Thank you for another smashing history lesson. I'm a Londoner and frequent most of the parts of it that you talk about. Thank you Sir!
It's interesting that the Boundary Estate is a Victorian redevelopment, but they kept the Old Nichol street, if not its houses. Thanks for watching tezzingtonsir.
disagree 😁
These women were the poorest of all, had been r*ped and abused already as kids, and had no choices for survival, except sxx. And then people look down on them, to punish and scorn even further, call them degrading names for being abused and poor from birth. Many people think these desperate women deserved to be murdered (by the person who was Jack the Ripper) and that’s why serial murderers get away with it for so long, like Peter Sutcliffe, Gary Ridgway, hundreds of others since, and now Rex Heuermann in Long Island.
@jimrolfe2894 Shameful answer. 90 percent of the women were exploited because they were poor and couldn't feed their children.
Very vivid! Very impressive! You have enabled me to time travel that era!