‘Bone Grubber’ (Worst Jobs in Victorian England)
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2021
- The ‘Bone Grubber’ was a job as dreadful in reality as it sounds - driven by sheer poverty; it’s hard to think of a worse job in Victorian England. You will learn, in detail, about the wretched conditions of those who found themselves trapped in this form of ‘work’ in order to earn money to feed themselves.
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My father done this 80s and 90s rag and bone man was good to see how it all started
👍 Shared. I just found this channel and the narration is wonderful.
The men pictured at 4:10 are holding “spuds,” which were tools for digging potatoes. “Spud” as a slang term for “potato” came from somehow transferring the name of the tool used to harvest it to the vegetable itself.
I appreciate the information. Very interesting!
Interesting thanks , do you know if the word tramp (homeless people) comes from the trampers in this video ?
As I watch this , a older gentleman is outside my window collecting cans . It seems the need never changes , just the medium and technique used to alleviate that need . Great Video . Peace , Be Free .
In a civilized society no one should be reduced to being a bone scrubber.
The modern version is the collectors of thrown out deposit cans and bottles. I once found an endorsed check for $54,000. I located the owner and my reward was…nothing! Not even, “Thank you!”
Typical hey?
Same. I once found a lady’s drivers license, and thought I’d do the right thing and take it back to her. I found the address and knocked on the door. She answered and was talking on the phone at the same time. She literally snatched her license out of my hand and slammed the door in my face.
You did a good deed. I hope karma rewards you.
Marie! Is that a 🦚 peacock 🦚?
I really enjoy listening to these wonderfully narrated stories of difficult life for the poor during the Victorian age. Makes me really think and put my life in perspective to appreciate all the good going for myself and family.
Me too oh me too!! X
Your voice acting skills are put to great use in the narration of these stories. I'm glad to have found your channel.
Glad you like them! Welcome to the channel.
I totally agree!
I will admit that I play the video at 1.25 speed though
I disagree, I wish you would just talk normally as you would everyday rather than putting on these silly accents. They don’t sound anything like the should and for me, distract from the content.
Thank you though for all the information
Agreed. Very much so
When I hear these stories from the past and how poor the people were and what they did to just make a little money to buy food or to find a place to eat, my heart hurts for them.
There are equivalents now
It still happening now in many places
It still happening now in many places
@@franciscopineda2594 Where is that?
@@francinel8154 mexico I have seen. Likely Guatemala. I can't speak for the different Asian countries though?
The poor had such a grim life. Thank you for outstanding historical content!
Great to know it was interesting for you. More coming soon!
had?
Yeah being poor now is super easy. Have. Not had.
Shoes. Shoes are highly important.
How humans were able to populate the earth to over 7 billion is quite remarkable given how many lived on the edge of survival through the ages.
For my next job application I'm going to include 'bone grubber' as one of my previous professions. I will include it right next to a litany of my other endeavours - 'rag picker', 'gong farmer', and 'Groom of the Stool'.
Some of these job titles sound classy, which is ironic considering what dirty work was involved.
Utterly horrific. If Henry Maythew hadn't made the effort to document the lives of these poor people no one would have a clue as to the grinding reality of the everyday struggle by 000s a for basic existence. And now, 200 years later, centuries after they've died a tiny few come alive by the miracle of the internet.
Mayhew's accounts are like a window into a dystopian world. Thank you for watching and your comment!
God help me if i lived then ,i wouldn't be able to sell a single Lucifer or a scrap of fly paper. The human will to survive any hardship is amazing. Excellent episode.
It really was a horribly tough life...and there were many more such 'jobs.' Thanks for watching!
You’d find a way or perish, for as you say the human will to survive is amazing.
Brace yourself. You haven’t seen anything yet…
Not all who lived in London lived like this my gr gr grandfather was a police Bobby from 1856 to his retirement in 1886, he came from farming community near Ely Cambridgeshire, and returned when he retired. He lived a long life and supported his family well.
Captivating narration..Had to come get my fix..😉
That's great!
When I was a little girl I lived in West hampstead , there as a rag and bone man. He had a horse and cart and would ride round the streets of North London ringing a bell. People sometimes bought up there old rags and scarp. Let me just say it was in the mid 60s not so long ago.
I’m sure they were still to be seen on the streets in the 1980s as well. Presumably replaced by scrap metal dealers.
I remember that as I was living in North London at the time!
Sadly we don't learn any of this tragic social history at school . . We might come to think of history in terms of the six wives of Henry the 8th .
Amazing narration, so interesting to see the police’s hostility towards the poverty stricken still has not changed
@Chelle Bright Girl bye
So basically they were dumpster divers before they had dumpsters.
These series are so depressing. The poor went through hell
Union Jack Groves
Sadly many still do, it's not nice to see.
They still do.
Because the poor allow themselves to be downtrodden.
@@esseker6320 what an astute observation
@@esseker6320 You mean by having other people vote to remove their rights, their support structures and to push them further into poverty?
Nothing better then laying back and letting your voice paint the story, me and my children listen to your story telling
That’s very nice to know, thank you! I’m glad you all enjoy listening.
Your narration voice an drawings bring it to life ... such a hard life
I'm glad you think the narration sets the right atmosphere. Thank you!
@@FactFeast This is not an all natural voice is it?
Your voice narration is extraordinary. It really sets the mood, and makes it a very immersive video. Whenever I have a hard day of work at my factory, I watch videos like these. Call me silly; but it puts things into perspective and makes you thankful for the things that you DO have........ which these poor, unfortunate people certainly did not. Well done!!
Thank you for your kind words. Your comment made me wonder how the lives of everyday people today will be thought of 100 years from now.
With your voice acting ability, it's seamless transitioning and historical knowledge, I'd love to have you at our D&D table, lol. You'd be an absolute machine for when my players encounter townsfolk. I regularly use the depictions of squalor here to describe slums in the cities of Faerun.
Keep up the phenomenal work.
Very good 😄
I never realized how interesting this was until i started watching these vids
Great that you find it interesting! The Victorians really had some horrible jobs.
Awh! I appreciate this so much! Long have I searched for this information. My Granddad was English, and his parents from England immigrated to the USA. To make ends meet, my Irish Grandmother said he gathered old rags and raised mules. I don't think she was proud of this, but with the little they had, they were able to meet very meager necessities. My grandmother raised me, and by the age of 12, I was sewing all my clothes and could cook an entire meal, that my dad said tasted exactly like hers. Everything from basic ingredients.
Ironically, I failed sewing in school because I did all my button holes and closings by hand and stitched them on a treadle machine, which I still have. Everyone else used button hole makers on new machines. But I was the only one who made my own school clothes.
I did excell in cooking class because I knew all the basics without a second glance. We worked in teams of 4, and our team always finished first with the best presentation and best tasting.
I still make some of my clothes because the quality of today's ready-made clothing is so poor.
If you have more references for reading about this class of people, I would surely appreciate knowing what they are.
I’m glad this had meaning for you and thank you very much for your comment. You can find lots more like this on my channel.
I wonder how high the suicide rate was back then. Death would be a friend under those horrible conditions.
In those days there were no synthetic fabrics. There was no mass production of shoes or clothing, I don't think? I'm sitting here wondering where the poor people got their clothes from? I imagine very few of them even had enough clothes to stay warm.
I'm amazed at how far they walked each day, especially while carrying such weight and no doubt being malnourished!
Got the clothes from dead people
Many purchased clothes from 2nd and 3rd hand shops.
You'll be surprised that one of the first mass produced disposable product was the clay pipe. The mass production of this article started in the XV century until the IXX century. Only six people in UK still producing this pipes with the same techniques than then mostly to be used on film sets
In 1973, 1974 and 1975 I was stationed in Seoul, South Korea. When I walked from the army base to downtown Seoul you could sometimes see poor young boys with huge baskets on their backs walking stooped over downcast with long metal tongs that they used to pick up scraps of paper which were flung over their heads into their basket. They took them to special collections sites and were paid for what they collected.
Four to eight pence a day … these people were living on practically nothing, even if one adjusts this amount for inflation.
Henry Mayhew describes the bone-pickers as looking stupid. I would, too, after a few weeks of that life. So would you, probably.
Hungry, dirty, tired, hopeless . Who wouldn't look stupid?
Nah, that's just not how any of this works. They aren't stupid because they spent too much time in the filth, they spend so much time in the filth because they are stupid. Now my advice to you is to pick yourself out of the filth.
@@BlastinRope What a typically disgusting and bigoted comment. People find themselves in these situations and you tell them that it is their fault? That's disgusting.
Yes, there will be some who's life choices led to these, but many got to the bottom through no specific fault of their own. They could beg, they could just give up and die, instead they are working and trying.
I am here about to get my sunday fix ,i will get back to you in a few minutes
You should do audio books. Your voice is incredible
I am subbed.
In my city. Bone grubbers are still very busy. Sifting through the recyclables, looking for beer /wine/liquor empties . And also metal is prized , as they push shopping carts loaded with scrap, on the way to the dealers.
Rag and bone men could still be seen on the streets in the UK a few decades ago.
The grubbers where I live, roam the streets picking up used cigarette butts 🤮🤢
Where I live in England kent I leave broken washing machines out for those chaps as well as other recyclable metal usually and it always goes away as you can earn a living doing scrap metal and stuff like that but there are too many people doing it here to make a good income from it
What a miserable hard Life in those days very well narrated like your videos keep them coming.
I'm glad you like the videos. Lots more planned. Thank you for taking the time to write a comment!
Great videos, thank you. Helps me to not complain about my job and self-imposed stresses, plus just the history of those usually ignored in the books.
i still remember the rag n bone man on a horse n cart in the early 70s
I remember too. My mother would send me out with a coal shovel to follow the horse to get dung for the rhubarb in the garden.
Fantastic narration and being an Englishman myself this shows the beginning of the rag and bone man later the scrap man of which my uncle made a living from the 1960's liked and subbed :0)
I’m glad you enjoyed watching. Welcome to the channel!
The 1st episode of 24 Hours in the Past depicts the team doing this job. It’s definitely worth checking out. Great video!
sad but amazing you have this information on your channel.
I hope you find the videos of interest. More ‘worst jobs’ content on the channel.
Love your channel, I have always been interested in our history, you have a lovely way of telling it. It sure was hard times back then, I often wondered how our own families got through it.
It’s great to know you enjoy the history on my channel. More ‘worst’ Victorian jobs videos on the channel and to come in future. Thank you for your comment.
Kind of like a modern day scrapper. Picking up scrap metal from peoples' garbage. A good day was finding $20 in coins inside a scrap dryer accidentally. Had that happen twice. Or finding a pool heater. $50 of copper inside that. Paid off my debt by scrapping about 8 years ago.
Me too. I take discarded small electronics -- televisions, DVD players, etcetera -- apart for the metal inside.
What miserable lives many people in the past have lived just to earn a living. Listening to this video made me feel grateful that I have never had to go through what they went through and made me more appreciative of the things I have. I think that the man who preserved his observations in writings was someone who probably felt some sympathy for their wretched states by bringing attention to it.
Great video as usual!
Thank you for your support. It’s really appreciated!
You have an amazing vocal talent. I enjoy each of your readings. I would love to hear you read Dickins or Stevenson.
Excellent narration.. glad I found your channel..
Thank you kindly! Welcome to the channel.
Fascinating stuff. Thankyou.
You're welcome! Lots more about Victorian jobs on my channel.
Excellent work. Liked and subscribed. I used to be a postman in Bromley/outside of "the big smoke".
04.13 There is a picture of Bono in the centre. I didn't realise that he was a London farm labourer.
Great video buddy, found this so interesting. Love your channel too
Thanks a ton!
The conditions these people were forced to live in is beyond wretched. And yet at night Lords and others worth millions and even billions partied and treated them like less than animals.
Great channel - thanks for the content.
Thank you! I’m glad you like the content.
FYI I did notice the volume got a bit lower once the intro was over, but again great video, as always! And love the thumbnail/shot that’s shown to present the video.
Thank you! It’s nice to get a comment about the thumbnail. They take some thought.
i absolutely love your channel your videos have a lot more information than some
Thanks for writing! It’s great to know you find the history informative.
I just wonder how people even procreated in them days because they must have been absolutely stinking !
It's hard to believe that a century ago our poorest had to resort to this sort of work or end up in the workhouses there being no welfare payments while just down the road the gentry lived in big houses and had servants, the same race of people in effect only separated by accident of birth. Most working class folk can trace their ancestry back to similar people farmers, labourers horsemen so it's testement to their hardiness and survivability that their strong genes have been passed down, that said I wouldn't like to live in them times.
I love this channel. The narrating is excellent x
That’s great to hear. Thanks for your support!
This is a great channel.
Thank you! A warm welcome here. Hope you enjoy.
Your voice is very unique.
You could tell me about anything and I would listen for hours.
But tbh to this subject there is no better voice than yours!
It’s great you enjoy the narration! Thank you for supporting the channel.
great story telling
Nice of you to say. Thank you!
Your content really helps to galvanize how important conscious social programs are, and how essential it is that we model our societies to benefit _all_ of our neighbors and not just the wealthy few on the backs of the beleaguered many
OMG, LOVE THE Liverpool accent!
I’m glad you like the narration and the characters!
@@FactFeast 😊
I'm addicted to those videos. I have this movie title in my mind '*''Les misérables'''. What a terrible way to live.
It was a miserable existence for bone grubbers. I'm glad you like the 'worst jobs' videos on my channel. Thank you for your support!
Me too. Diving through history, good and bad, is great!!! Keep on learning, my friend! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yet another very interesting but sad point of view on the lives of those in the past. Thank you for all that you do for us subscribers and viewers!!
Thank you for being a valued subscriber!
What did people use old bone for?
Boiled to make glue, essentially nothing was wasted.
If you're deperate enough bone marrow's pretty tasty and healthy
I've read the book London labour and London poor he also gave us an insight into criminals of the time he interviewed two burglars or cracksmen as they were known he also interviewed a returned convict and a few pickpockets
He went into a huge amount of detail. It’s a long and interesting read.
@@FactFeast it was in volume 4 were he went into detail about the criminal parts of London he also went over the methods used by criminals and the most professional criminals of the day were burglars as highway men disappeared in the early part of the 1800s
I read the parts of the book online I bet tracking down the originals would cost a few bob
Dang man this narration is amazing. Can honestly say I’ve not heard anything like this at all on YT. Awesome.
Thank you! I’m really glad you enjoyed watching. More content soon.
@@FactFeast looking forward to it!
I was thinking to myself there must have been many Irish there due to the famine, and then you said it😔☘🇮🇪🧚♂️
I read a fictional book on a rag and bone store owner and wondered how accurate it was, not too shabby on the author’s part and very informative video. Thanks for making it and posting it. Your channel is very interesting.
Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad it’s interesting content.
What’s the name of the book?
what is the title?
Do you remember the title? It sounds good!
I really loved the subject of the story and the narration itself. Very entertaining and informative! Subbed
Fantastic, thank you!
Why didn't these people seek rural areas to slap together a shack then fish and forage for their meals? Victorian street life was hell.
What an immersive and informative video. Cheers, really enjoyed that and learnt a few things too 😊
I’m glad it was a good watch for you. Thank you!
Love your style, really takes you to that time, visuals and audio are great, you do an amazing job
I’m really glad the video set a Victorian ‘atmosphere’ for you. Thank you very much!
When they said a Davos in our very near future we will have nothing and be happy perhaps they used this as the blueprint of our fate as the worst financial depression in human history is about to hit
Just subscribed! Thank you, Sir.
Welcome to the channel!
Sometimes, I feel like there are no flattering depictions of London until World War I.
I hit the like button, AND hit the sub button! So glad I found you're channel! ❤️😋
Also, could you be a bit more louder?
Welcome to the channel! Thanks for your comment.
For the brilliant content you do, I don't think the name of your channel conveys the unique topic you cover in the Victorian Era itself. I would suggest that you should change the channel name to something more related? Just my opinion, may or may not help. You work hard and produce excellent content you deserve more subs.
I understand the point you’re making, though I had the intention to introduce some content from different eras in future.
Excellent suggestion! Many people seek out Victorian content because it is so beloved.
Well done great content
Thank you! More to come soon.
Subbed!
Welcome to the channel!
Very cold then,still getting over the mini ice age,it is know wonder 40 was old then.
I still go down the river in Wapping looking for pieces of ceramic pipes
There must be so many of them as they were ubiquitous. Do you find any highly decorated?
@@FactFeast no. Plain ones
Also would it be possible to do accounts of the complete opposite classes of society? I’ve always been so curious to know how the wealthy of the time got their wealth and their lifestyle and daily thoughts too, thank you!
The same way they do today. Controlling resources, lying, and extorting.
@@wesbaumguardner8829 true 🙃🙃🙃 but I’d still want to hear diaries of their lives
The gap between the poor and rich always amazed me. We know the Victorian and Edwardian era with the opulence. The guy calls them “stupid” but clearly this was the cards they were dealt with in life and that’s all they knew.
Same as today.
Amazing
Great to know you enjoyed watching!
I love your video,s
Thank you so much! Lots more to come.
In Edinburgh we called them the rag and bone men. You would run out to get rid of your stuff like the ice cream van.
Subbed
Welcome to the channel. Thank you!
I think that kid from liverpool had spent some time in Birmingham judging by his accent 🤣
So feeling blessed my grandma side from England nor my Grandpas side were reduced to this nor the workhouses, talk about a hand to mouth existence.
Many family trees will have some ancestors in work houses, mine included. Primarily it was the social reforms, including free education for all that helped get them people of the workhouses - destroy the support structures and education and it will all come back again (we're heading that way). Some of my my ancestors were born and also died in work houses. What many people don't realise is that this was better than the alternatives.
what were the bones used to make ?? the " rag and bone man " was active in the 60s never saw them buy bones , mostly clothing and metal , thanks for a very enlightening history of Victorian London..
Bone Grubbers took rags and bones to merchants in exchange for money. Rags were sold on for making cheap clothes named 'shoddy.' Bones were sold to factories producing soap and glue. I hope this is useful and thank you very much for your comment.
@@FactFeast another gem info the origin of the phrase " shoddy workmanship " explained 🙂🙂👍👍👋👋
The bones would be sold to merchants to be boiled and made into glue and fertiliser.
See !!! I'll be fine. Philadelphia USA
Not like Sherlock Holmes with everyone riding in carriages.
What kind of boot was that at 12:20? Has a heel iron,hob nailed,and toe iron. Looks like marchsteifel but there's a toe box so I'm not shure tbh what boot that is
Dickens just scratched The Surface....
Wonder why these human beings didn't just hop on a boat and cross channel to a better life instead of working hard and building a better country .
I have a question.. what did people do with the rags and bones, they bought from the bone grubber?
Rags and bones were taken to merchants/marine stores to exchange for money. The rags were sold on for making cheap cloth ‘shoddy.’ Bones were sold to producers of soap and glue. I hope this is useful and thank you for watching.
So Sad 😢
It’s so sad that in some places there are people that still live like this.
They could have prob used the fat and grease to weather proof their clothes and tops and sides of their shoes against the rain. Too late now obv but I'm just saying
Your voice acting is ace, homie. Just stick with Anglican and Celtic accents lol.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the narration.
So what are the bones used for?
They were boiled down for glue, and they possibly ground them up for fertiliser but not sure about the fertiliser.
I was going to ask the same! I did not understand why a piece of dirty bone could be useful?
Making gravy