Victorian London's Brutal East End Slum - Filthy Old Nichol Street (Bethnal Green/Shoreditch)

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.

Now a slum thanks to the incumbent mayor

Modern life is equally misreble. inspite of all amanities youth are drug addicts, families are disintegrating.

Well, look at East London now. Exactly the same

Bethnal Green Tube Station was one of the major bomb shelters during the Blitz of WW2.

And what did Queen Victoria do about all of this misery and suffering in her country

Tommy Shelby did well here

Can’t watch. Too sad!

At least there were people on the street, there's something to be said for sharing poverty, at least you're on the same level as everyone else, today you're living among some working class snobs who think they're above their equals.

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Yes this was a time when Britain was rich,the time when a lot of people from ex colonial countries will tell you that in Britain we, were living rich off them,I was born in the 1930s, and it was not that much better then

At the height of empire as well I’m sure they were told with real sympathy that very sadly nothing could be done. The money could just not be found.

Go to Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight & see how the Queen of an Empire lived in pure luxury whilst poor peasants in London slums lived in a S**t hole unfit for human habitation similar to where its heading today??

Not much as changed

Sounds like many of the lives of today.
People doing what ever they can do to get by each day.
We call them side hustles today,or getting by any way possible.
Housing is so expensive today,and they build more of these high rise apartments. Everyday there are more and more homeless. Look any good size city now and all the “tent cities” that inhabit areas of that city. There are all kinds of people living in these tent cities. Many of those People who are junkies and other drug addicts and alcoholics.

Our neighborhood is going the opposite direction.
From upper class with mostly million dollar houses to a ghetto.
So is the effect of openborders. We gave it a good fight, but the Democrats and their business associates (low income housing developers) sued the residents and got their way. In just a few years living here has become intolerable. Being harrassed by immigrants while taking walks is common. Crime and violence has spiked. Coming out of houses are LOUD music like night clubs, often playing very late into the night. How their neighbors can stand it is a miracle.

Sounds like Australia is heading that way unfortunately but im still grateful for the little i have

Tories are bringing back character building destitution.

I always wonder what year people decided not to wear hats anymore l

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.

Started my first job in Spitalfields Market Shoreditch when I was 16 it was a fruit market then used to love the hustle and bustle of Market life even though I worked in market garages which was down the market good old days.

Who is the narrator, I could listen to him tell stories all day.

I lived on Kerbela St in 1968. It was bad but not this bad. Had some great times but I always knew I could leave.

Thank You!!

It makes sense that people living in such squaller, with no hope from day to day, would self medicate just to get away from what conditions they are in! So sad!

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looks like a paradise compared to modern diverse London

Victorian Brutal Attacks were made against Policeman.

This is the Tories idea of the future- at least, that seems to be what they’re trying to recreate

London is heading back to those ways with Khan as mayor

The woman who died of exposure most likely didn't help herself with the tot of warm rum she drank...
Yes, the booze would initially warm her throat up, but that's the effect of the alcohol on tissue. As we know, alcohol is a depressant and initially the heart will beat harder and faster, raising blood pressure, and probably contributes to the warmth people feel after a shot or two.
Though steady drinking will slow the heart's pulse and ergo the breathing ability too, as well as lowering the body temperature - the depressant affect then being more obvious.

Makes me extremely grateful for the life I have 😊

The woman still dressed classier back then what we see today

All of this was happening while royalty were enjoying the best that there was to offer , many palaces and money

My people barely escaped such places.

Sounds like the streets of LA California, in 2023

U know may of been hard times but in away I think its worse now in some ways. We haven't got anyone in charge that can sort the county out we will end up a 3rd world country

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...

Where those this artwork come from ? I'm addicted!! To this video

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Charles dickens novels describe the horrendous times in his day

Dog fighting vile

Despite the theft of african and asian resources they were still living like animals.

This was a morbidly fascinating video, even though it was incredibly sad. It’s hard to even fathom just how horrible conditions were for so many thousands of people. In fact, it’s rather surprising that so many managed to survive at all. The dirt and filthy conditions were unsanitary enough to make life unbearably impossible. The story of the man who couldn’t shake the cold was sobering. Imagine never feeling comfortable, well fed or rested?

And yet they were stalwart and resilient enough to persevere in spite of the harshness of their lot. I could only cringe that the narrator described the children as being “rats”……and they probably were treated like rats too. It’s no wonder that cycles of abuse still remain, passed down through generations even after things have outwardly improved

. It must’ve been hard to have had hope in the future but hope was something that they were obliged to hold onto, although it didn’t seem like there was very much to look forward to.

Thank you very much for sharing this piece of history. It really puts things into perspective, and in spite of how tough things can often seemingly be today, even the lowliest kind of living in our time is purely luxurious in comparison. 💔💔💔

In other words, nothing has ever changed in England (of course, like in many other places worldwide). While Queen Victoria, her court, and other rich people had rooms for 1 person to sleep that were bigger than entire houses, the poorest had to squash in with other dozens. In the 21st century that's not different.

Its mad to think but imagine a time traveller from a 150 year in to the future came back the present and came down with an accident or an illness. If it was us going back 150 years from now you would refuse medical help in case you was given Heroen for a cough, shock treatment for psychosis, Lobotomies, cigarettes and Chloroform to cure Asthma, Amputations without anaesthetic, Radium and many other medicines that would be seriously dangerous to your health. Now I know the medical world has come a hell of a lot further than that but I do wonder what a person from the future would think of medicine today.

The problem for the poor is that they haven't got enough money.