🔴▶ NEW RARE VIDEO: VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN ENGLAND, 19th Century London, Victorian Slums, Titanic
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Explore a rare collection of old photographs from England during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, revealing a lesser-known side of British life in the 19th century. Discover the Victorian slums of London, where the working class faced harsh conditions as society advanced amidst the Industrial Revolution. See images capturing the reality of London’s streets, contrasting with the era’s opulence. Also, dive into the story of the Titanic, the ship that symbolized the pinnacle and tragedy of an age of grand ambitions. A must-see for history and photography enthusiasts!
#VictorianSlums #OldEnglandPhotos #TitanicHistory
Most of the photographs featured in the video are the work of renowned photographers Francis Meadow Sutcliffe, John Thomson, Adolphe Smith, and Peter Henry Emerson.
I'm nearly 70, and my grandad used to say ,Oh yes, the good old days. Then he'd go on by uttering, roach infested slums, rickets, high infant mortality rates, days without food, and dad's nearly always drunk because it took them away from reality for a short while. Yes the good old days, you can shove em. My grandad was a merchant seaman for most of his life, and was with the convoy that sailed to archangel delivering food and ammunition to the Russians in WW2.
I agree. I’m eighty six and can tell you the best time in this country was the fifties and sixties. It went down hill from there through immigration of people who didn’t want to be British but wanted to change our country into the country they’d left. Most third world. They call them communities these days.
Thank you for the memory of your grandfather. My grandmother told me about goods and munition sea delivery to the Archangels and Murnansk ports during WWII. God bless his soul!
@@brendaroseblade2858sorry to say they won't be communities for much longer.
British communities maybe.
Archangelsk..?
@@brendaroseblade2858. My grandad blamed the war for the immigration problems, he said if we hadn't have lost so many men in both wars, then the Korean war on top of it all, we wouldn't have had to bring in the colonies to help with the shortfall of menfolk to make up the workforce. That was then, since the end of the recent desert wars, we've had nothing but Arab terrorists and scroungers wanting money for nothing, and bringing barbaric Islamic laws into our British culture.
When will the suffering of humanity end. At least back then people still interacted with each other directly. Great collection. Very well presented. Thank you.
This was beautiful to watch. I have so much love for our ancestors and knowing how hard they had to work for basic every day things makes me incredibly grateful. Thank you for sharing this
Like our homeless people must do now
Fasinating look into the past. They were the good old days for the wealthy but a hell on earth for those without.
Yes especially when you learn what the Royals have been up to ! Following Dispatches on ch 4 last night ! 🤨
Not much change there then
@Lechaim11 Hell on Earth? You're here, aren't you? Which means every single one of your forefathers, from the beginning of the human race, all survived. Can't have been all bad.
@ruzziasht349 People survived concentration camps and the gulags too. That doesn't mean those places were "not so bad".
So sad
It’s incredible that we can look back at times gone by
Thanks
Wonderful photos, times of great wealth, poverty & philanthropy. Shows us little changes over the centuries.
My grandfather was born 1874 and lived with his parents and grandfather, the latter was born 1797 and died 1888. Even as an old man my great great grandfather had to work until he was no longer capable on the farm where they lived as tenants. There was no social security or pension. It was work or workhouse and a pauper’s grave.
Sounds like a interesting story
@@Joyce-id3dr Grandad was an illiterate farm labourer who joined the Navy in 1895 after his father died, the Navy taught him to read and write and he ended up as a Chief Petty Office on HMS Iron Duke and was present at the Battle of Jutland. He had a fantastic life in the Navy, He only exists in old photos and my mind.
@@AlbertH99 Thank you for telling more of the story of your Grandad
Wait 5 more years…
@@defendfreedom1390 we’ll be in the same boat
Yes I feel these, we're the hardest of times.. I think being a child of the 50s.. I have had the best of times, after world war 2 Untill the 1980s were incredible before the Internet and technology that have taken something away for human interaction.. Although the knowledge and me being able to watch this film makes up for some of it...
Even during hard times they still had people to talk to so why they could still get through it all but now we don't, not in any of the photos apart from the studio posed ones do you see them alone. I really want that back i'm done with the way technology is and i want people to interact again.
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I was born in 1946 and have lived in the golden age of the U k straight after WW2, given cod liver oil and vitamin C and little bottles of milk at school, very well taken care of, clinics everywhere and school dentists how far has that dream been eroded , so pleased I am the age I am and do not have to put up with this rubbish for years. We have forgotten what we fought for and it's not worth fighting for this country now, let the politicians children go and fight for their parents beliefs and leave our children and grandchildren alone
@angelafensom2941 We've forgotten what it is to be human at least some people anyway, and we've been too spoiled things are too much in abundance that it's not fun anymore we have nothing to look forward to. Then the environmental damage is making people squabble and the mobs have come out of the wood work as a result because fossil fuels are quickly being phased out of use so they're losing a lot of their wealth.
A lot of uncertainties that things don't make a whole lot of sense right now it's the end of an era and time as we know it. It's just terrible things have be such a mess while we're in the midst of so much change it doesn't have to be at all.
Born 1954. Yes it was the best of all periods. The feeling of freedom & positive thinking was everywhere. From Lambrettas to Norton Commandos, from B+W TVs to transistor radios, Radio Luxembourg to Alan Freeman....etc etc God, we were lucky🙏
Fascinating! Love these old photos.
This is precious work: we even dont't realize how class differences were at the time! Thanks a lot
OH YES WE DO, THERES HUNDREDS OF ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, FILMS AND DVD DOCUMENTARYS ABOUT IT. BUT I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT, MY MOTHER, BORN IN 1905, IN LIVERPOOL, USED TO RECALL HER LIFE BEFORE WORLD WAR ONE, IN AMAZING DETAIL. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT ERA AS ROMANTIC OR DESIRABLE. GOD FORBID.
@@MrDaiseymay Agreed! The past was never "romantic" or even an idyll
@@marcob4630 such was available technology of the time productivity was much lower
It will soon be that way again.
@@paulphillips7308 you're a dark pessimist !
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for letting us watch it 👍
Yes, i think its absolutely brilliant too proggs, sometimes for some bizarre reason we're almost one and the same multiple persons 🤔 🤣
That was amazing to watch. We need to keep this history alive. Total change from slums. Really feel for the people of the Victorian/Edwardian eras.
Those time-worn stone steps at 10:25 are astonishing. Just imagine how many exhausted feet trudged up those steps over so, so many years.
I'm sure I have seen a modern photo of those steps and yard: nothing has changed.
I thought the same thing.
I saw the wear on those steps as well and wondered how long they had been there for. I look at the people in the photos and I wondered how their lives turned out - especially the young children who look fresh faced and energetic. This was life only 140 years ago in the Victorian era. It was very tough for the mass majority of people. We don't know how lucky we are now. I know there is poverty but it is relative. Nobody starves to death now and medical treatment can help people against simple things that would have ended in death back in those times.
Yes I noticed the steps also. 😀. There was a massive factory near me all now new houses I actually served my time there 😃and near by is a set of stone steps the employees used every day and they are worn down exactly like those steps. 😀.
I noticed that the top two steps and the bottom two have less wear than the others, you can see that people take caution when stepping onto and off. All those hard working men's hob nailed boots....our lovely history.
I do not regret having my life in these old "good" days, but I regret not being a photographer in this era. Beautiful !
Today’s society will look very strange to our grandchildren. Take photographs now, while it lasts.
Just found this on my lazy New Year's day!! Thank you for the interesting photos with splendid narrative. Victorian England is such a fascinating and dark era in many ways. Thanks for the entertainment and informative video. Very well done.❤❤❤
Gorgeous photos...almost like beautiful paintings.
I thought the BBC say there was always a large population of people of color ?????? In the UK
Best set of photographs I have ever seen. Great narration aswell. Congratulations!
The TRUE Israelites.. (hence the blonde and red hair ONLY in the Pharos/plus the 100% Ancient European dna)
Gods only people.
That was thoughtfully done. Thank you.
Super atmospheric photos. Thanks for uploading.
Well done a good informative commentary on amazing historic photos.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful expose of life in those times. Really, people today have nothing to complain about when one realises how tough our ancestors had it.
So interesting thank you uk 🇬🇧
I agree with you!
I like to second that the
Photos of the people's of that moment in time are
Truely beautiful and sad at the same time Thank you for your wonderful interest
In pictures and History
May you long continue
SO MANY zombified people on here.....asleep to REAL truth.
Screaming how awful it was to live then.
This was ONE short era where the evil controllers CREATED all this misery & suffering.
It wasn't ALWAYS like this.
We were WAY more advanced HUNDREDS of years ago.....We had FREE ENERGY......& grew our own food & lived in communities where we looked after each other.
With REAL healthcare like we had then, people did NOT die young.
ALL that was wiped out.....& zombies like you never research REAL truth.
I kept looking at the little boys in these photos and wondered how many of them survived the Great War
Thankyou for sharing. Really enjoyed looking at the photos, so interesting.👍🏻🎄 Merry Christmas
Deepest gratitude for these amazing photographs. I never want to forget our history….🙏💙
I don't know why but I'm always fulled with pain and tears when I see people from the past like this in my country. Their hardships, their poverty, their hopes and dreams all long gone and forever forgotten. Unless we search for past relatives we don't know who they were. I just find it incredibly sad that life is hard and short and people suffer and for it all to just end and not be remembered.
I understand your feelings. England wasn't alone in these difficulties. Being an American, several of my ancestors came from Wales, England and Ireland. Hard life didn't end once a family immigrated. In these images you must look at how many people were smiling and just plain caring for each other. There are many places around the world where life is difficult and short. All of these people love, laugh and cry just like we do. It is human nature.
We're not supposed to be remembered in history, we're supposed to remember those close to us, who had an impact.
My father is long gone, his name will never be in the history books. But his legacy lives on in me, I'll never forget the lessons that he taught me.
He shaped me, and those around him.
That is more than enough.
Right up to the 70/80's [one can see it in some pop videos].
The left think we Whites were always privileged throughout our history. This is not so.
I'm 63 and rememver my childhood where we had to make our own entertainment/toys and where encouraged to go outside.
Todays kids are the privileged. So protected from germs/hurt that they have become weak and useless. I miss the old days as I hate what's going on today in the west!
Still happening today
That is the human condition and the human tragedy, unfortunately. "Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all his sons away..."
Great to see these as my Father was born in 1899 in Fifeshire, Scotland. I have a few family photos from the era as my Grandfather was born circa 1878 and lived in these times but it's so interesting to see these now and the relative hardship compared with today BUT life was MUCH more simple then. What you didn't know, didn't worry you.
You can never fully understand what it was like in ANY era, unfortunately, although photos and history books help......PLUS the information from the all-encompassing and ubiquitous UA-cam 👍AND the likes of Wikipedia too. 👍
How old are you?
I ADORE these looks back in time!!! I do not know how you access these prints but keep doing it!!!! Such "Real Peple
Excellent. The texture of some of the photographs make them look like paintings.
omgg For some reason.. I am crying, like a baby. I love this.
The photo of the three ladies at Shanklin Beach in the 1920's, shows how much standards had changed since the Victorian era. I'm sure there were some maiden Aunts of those girls who would have been absolutely horrified at such revealing clothing ... worn in public, in front of men! 🧐
I'm pretty sure they were sisters, not friends, as they all have the exact same knees.
@susancrawford5927 that's interesting; I thought exactly the same - their knees😊
I'm confused by the narrator's intent calling them "working girls". As that's also a euphemism for prostitute, are they literally women who work or prostitutes?
@@pippishortstocking7913 They have jobs, unfortunate choice of description.
Those old suits were vey revealing when wet. They didn't have any built up layers like today.
Absolutely fascinating and interesting photos! Thank you for this. 😀
Thank you for stopping me watching rubbish to be educated, entertained and interested in your well presented collection
Fascinating seeing these historic photographs!😮
Facsinating! Subbed and watching from the PHILIPPINES.
Such a lovely video of days gone by. How times have changed in such a short period of time. Thoroughly enjoyed watching. Thank you
Loved seeing this photos. I have British ancestors. Loved your calming voice and the info. Many thanks.❤
Britain is a country ffs you have ENGLISH ANCESTORS THIS ABOUT ENGLAND
@saorsa5 I have ancestors from Wales, Scotland ,Ireland and England. Was being specific ,but could have said England for the people there are British.
I remember staying at my granny’s house back in the 50s I’m 75 now…I remember going to her outside toilet in the dark winter nights. You would hold on going till you had too. Not to mention the old newspaper squares hanging on a nail to wipe yer bum afterwards….they weren’t all good old days but I look back fondly on some of the times although we didn’t take things for granted as they do nowadays.
Lol .. And we had a small oil lamp in the outside toilet for light and a bit of warmth.
I was born in 1950 and used to love staying at my grandparent's house. They only had an outside toilet with a small oil lamp which probably stopped the water from freezing.
And stop the pipes freezing up
Bloody great spiders in my grandparents outside Dunny 😆
So glad these aren't colourised. Much more atmospheric in their original form.
I desire to see a colorized representation of that period to examine the land, air, and sea.
@@carlosolivares7436 But you wouldn't be seeing the actual land, air and sea as it will be changed by computer-assed colourisation.
Those old photographs were wonderful to see!! Thankyou for making them so clear! I’m very impressed, and was surprised to see the girls swimming costumes like that! I thought they had to get in those huts on wheels right at the edge of the sea back then, and wear costumes with arms and pantaloons to cover their legs! What a change and only in 1920!,, AND taking their ow photographs!! Another big surprise!! Love the titles of where the places were. I live in Norfolk, and know the broads. The water was very high, can well imagine those poor cottage had all downstairs wet, furniture piled up until water receded …. Many thanks for your excellent work! 👩🦳🫶👏👏👏👏👏🌻🙏👍
Thank you for sharing these amazing photographs ❤
Well done! This is the best presentation I’ve seen, to date. Thank you for providing such an informative and entertaining video. Photo quality is excellent, by the way, which is greatly appreciated.
Truly 'timeless' & beautiful - thanks for showing!
Fabulous images of long ago.
Great photos of times gone bye.
A lovely and interesting compilation. During this era my people were farmers and coal miners in deep southern Illinois, a distinctly different culture, but hard, hard living all the same. There were many things about such a life that one might be nostalgic for, but go back and spend a week there, and I suspect you’d be forever cured of such nostalgia.
Fantastc! I enjoyed every minute.
Excellent video….thanks for posting
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Beautifully done! The last photo is really amazing. I am anxious for the true story of the Titanic and the Olympia to come out. Thank you for your lovely work! 🌹Los Angeles, CA
Thank you so much for the utterly realistic historical pics. I've given the due thumbs-up, subscribing to this excellent channel as well!
I often think what my great-grandparents and grandparents would think about our society today. Yes, there have been some amazing leaps for the better, but our society is damaging for future generations, in so many ways.
Beautiful old black and white photos thanks for posting
Many of Frank Meadows Sutcliffe photos my favourite photographer
Yes, these photographs are very popular in Whitby showing details of the old town which has changed very little. Sutcliffe documented valuable history of Whitby and surrounding areas, otherwise there would have been little recorded.
What an incredible set of images...and the last one what a treat, a photo of the two sisters I'd never before seen. Thank you so much!
Beautiful! ❤ I loved it. I recognized Queen Victoria but was still surprised as in the black and white it was hard to tell the poor from the rich apart.
You can tell from their clothes the middle class or poor wouldn't have those fancy gowns or hats it was expensive because it was tailored fit as well.
Poignant and wonderful photos.
Lovely to see Francis Meadow Sutcliffe's Whitby photography again. Different times.
I love looking at old photographs.
These ]people really struggled, no free handouts back then unlike today.
These people worked hard and still struggled.
This was real poverty.
Very informative narration backing up excellent photos of a century and more ago. Thanks for sharing and congratulations on the high quality of the photos and their presentation.
Thank you for these. Because they're great.
Very good and very, very interesting collection of images!
I love these old photo's. Thanks. 😊
Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful photos of a time gone by, I find it very fascinating to pause at some of the photos and think who they were and how their life was, very moving, thanks once again for sharing. Really appreciate that. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Great wee video. Enjoyed it very much
Thank you for the photo show and the narration!
I really enjoy the Victorian England pictures, Thank you for sharing🥂👍
Brilliant viewing ,
Makes you realise , how fortunate we are today ,
Great stuff
People today don't know or bother to learn about history. If they did there just might be less complaining about life today
Fortunate? There was no diversity back then.
In some ways we are but in other ways we aren't it's a whole other crazy mess these days. It was harder because they lacked the tools and technology to do a lot of stuff but it was easier because it didn't matter what they were going through it was simpler and they had people to talk to. I'd trade good people over computers any day.
I am very much aware of how we live in a time of unprecedented luxury, even 'poor' people - it's just a shame so many others don't.
Let's not forget that Thatcher's 1981 conference speech was entitled "A return to Victorian Values.".
Forty three years later a lot of pensioners might die in their homes due to not being able to afford a heating bill. Whilst homeless people will die on the street en masse because cash strapped councils simply cannot afford to provide even a basic standard of living in what has now become a failed nation.
Excellent collection of photos from long-ago England.
I love the historical content of your posts ❤
Amazing...Thank you for sharing
I grew up in Whitby, so many people have these photos framed in their homes from the Sutcliffe Gallery. I took them for granted growing up so thank you for the reminder anr sharing these beautiful photos.❤
I used to go to Whitby as a young girl in the fifties. I love these photos from an earlier time.
@@genevievedolan1288 I bet it was even nicer then! I grew up there in the 70s and it was such a safe and lovely place to have a childhood.
Back when people had something to do all day every day .
Whitby and staithes my favourite places in England
Great pictures so interesting! 👍👏👏👏
Very good. Thank you for the excellent commentary.
The good days before diversity
Wonderful photos thank you for sharing them hope to see more 🥰
Fascinating social history.
Thank you I will be 77 soon , these photos bring to life stories of my Grand´s , who were born in the early 1880´s / 1900´s mostly in the USA of mainly Welsh and German immigrants and shared then with me in the mid 50´s till and well into the 70´s /80´s . Smiles Billy D
I’m from the Isle of Man and I have a copy of the photo of the herring girls. Spuds & herring was a staple food here in those times 🇮🇲
Sounds great
Wow! What wonderful historic photographs, so interesting to have a glimpse at past life
I’m not surprised my grandfather moved from Yorkshire to Australia back then. It must’ve been a breath of fresh air! And it was his own choice.
Are you sure it was his own choice 😂😂
@@Mattherat15You beat me to it 🙂
A interesting and historical watch thank you
Love to see a glimpse of time that has passed. When life was hard but simple....thank you for sharing.
Thank you I really enjoyed seeing these photos of a more gentle time
So much of our nostalgia for the good old days is nostalgia for the lifestyles of the rich we glimpse in period films. Most of these photos show how most of us would have really lived in the good old days. There were times when looking at these photos that I thought my heart would break from sorrow at how unfair life can be.
Then you missed something! See how the individuals worked together, supported each other, had time in their working lives to speak to their neighbours and fellow workers. Of course there were hard times {like the evicted families}; there are always hard times in life. But day to day they didnt compete materialistically - they were focused on working together to survive. That sense of belonging can't be bought however much money you throw at it.
@@amandamorton-king2112 Of course what you say is true. But the reality is that grinding poverty and social injustice do crush and suck the life and hope out of people's lives. I would also agree that money does not buy happiness, friendship or love. There is a mystery to all of this. There is an old American Evangelical hymn whose refrain states, '"By and by Lord when the morning comes, when the saints of God are finally home, we'll tell the story how we've overcome. We will understand it better by and by." Part of society's dysfunction today is we no longer believe this or have any faith.
For them it was just normal life, they did not know any better.
A hundred years from now people would pity US for the harsh rough life WE live! 😂
@@Tugela60 A hundred years ago they did know better. All throughout the history of the West there have been rebellions against political systems that oppress. There were peasant rebellions even in the Middle Ages. Please do not tell me that the poor in 19th century London did not realize they were hungry or cold or that they were unaware of the lives the wealthy lead, as they lit their fires, scrubbed their floors and helped them maintain their estates. Do you think that the poor chimney sweeps were unaware of the houses whose chimneys they were cleaning. Why did Dickens write the Christmas carol? I am very conservative by nature and abhor both revolution and Marxism. This does not make me blind however to the fact that the past was for most, not a romantic gilded existence. Watch the film Cabrini. America's streets were not paved with gold either, as the immigrants found out.
It was a very interesting walk back in time. Thank you for the excellent narration.
I think the little barefoot girl in rags was carrying beer home, as my Grandmother told me she used to go to the pub with tankards and she would bring them home to her Dad...she was given money to pay for them and children were allowed to do this back them. Im nearly 60yrs old, so it would have been around 1910 or earlier.
Beer was safe to drink, water was not always
People nowdays seem to forget that not all that long ago people used to die regularly from dysentry and similar hygiene related diseases.
Thank You so much for this wonderful look into the past
VERY INFORMATIVE SIR ! ❤
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The man at 3:44 is Isaac Veril and is a long distant relative of my family on my Fathers side.
Veril is a Staithes name
Veril is a Staithes name
When taken the photos were commonplace scenes of everyday life, just like our everyday sights we think nothing of. but over time they gain layers of meaning and emotion. It makes me look at my everyday world and think how precious and transient it is as time continues to push forward.
Yes I've often had that thought too
This video should be compulsory viewing for those legions of people who watch old films or photographs and wax lyrical about the good old days. Poverty, hunger, exploitation, short life expectancy.
yep white privilege
Yes you are spot on. The main ones are having warm homes and running hot water to bathe or shower in ! Back in those days it was a tin bath in front of a fire filled up from a very limited supply of hot water boiled in kettles ! Now most people can have a long hot shower at the turn of a button and have warm fresh towels to dry off in, in a heated room. Massive changes.
And yet most look well fed and happy, there will always be “haves and have not” it was a hard life back then but ppl survived or we wouldn’t be around
"The Good Old Days", were ONLY for the rich and/or 'connected'. Real people were subjected to ALL forms of ill treatment. Beautifully summed up by the phase : "The poor are always with us" ! Never forget at the time the British Empire was at it's height, there were at least 8,000 prostitutes UNDER the age of 12, in London alone. Literally selling themselves for a crust, for themselves and/or younger siblings. In the county, the "Ag Labs" were worked from dawn to dusk, and even beyond at harvest time ! Oh yes ! Good old days, THE MYTH !
And what's different now.
Stunning pictures !!!❤
How different it all was, indicating how different it will all be after us.
I can’t imagine where technology will take the world in only the next 50 years. Glad I won’t be here to see it!
Incredible images!
It just shows how tough life was back then for most ordinary people. Even in the most developed nation.
So many slim, normal people and no sign of the diversity myth we are fed morning, noon and night nowadays!
Didn't see any tattoos or piercings either.
Thank you, l really enjoyed that. Seeing things as they were all that time ago is amazing, l love it. Thank you 😊
One wonders just what they'd make of what we've made of the world here in 2024. There's been more change from 1850 to 2024 than in virtually all of man's past. Very interesting collection of photos. Thank you.
Not all of man's past. When you dig into books like zechariah sitchins wars of gods and men you will find there's nothing new under the sun
SO MANY zombified people on here.....asleep to REAL truth.
Screaming how awful it was to live then.
This was ONE short era where the evil controllers CREATED all this misery & suffering.
It wasn't ALWAYS like this.
We were WAY more advanced HUNDREDS of years ago.....We had FREE ENERGY......& grew our own food & lived in communities where we looked after each other.
With REAL healthcare like we had then, people did NOT die young.
ALL that was wiped out.....& zombies like you never research REAL truth.
They'd be horrified that we've given the country away to foreigners
Excellent educational video. Very enjoyable.
Awesome! Thank you!
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It’s lovely to visit the past
And to see real people in theses videos and what their lives look like
Did anyone else notice how clean the streets and pavements were - even in the "slums"?
Because everything was used, by someone.
Suppose there were no snacks and sweets
@@sallytyler4252 lucky if you had enough food! That’s one thing that was never wasted.
No McDonalds. 😂🎉🎉
It rains a lot in England in the colder months. If it were scratch and sniff we would no doubt have a different perspective. At the turn of the century open sewers were common in the poorer hoods in London.
Amazing work here with these photos...