Down and Out Maids in Victorian London (From Domestic Servant to Life on the Streets)
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- What happened to a Victorian maid who lost her job? This is a genuine life-story account of a maid in 19th Century London who fell out of work and onto the streets and had to find any work she could get to survive.
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Thank you so much for all these fabulous, often heart rending videos. 😢
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Pay attention people, we are headed back to that way of life. The haves and the have-nots
The streets are full of people living in tents already.
I don't think that will ever change and it's been going on for hundreds of years.
That is why they thought communism would be good, LOL.
But who wants to work like a dog and the other guy doesn't work..but you each receive the same amount of "payment"?!
Agreed
We're already there, with the billionaire elites, and millions of homeless people 😢
The good old days! They're coming back!
My great grandmother Hilda was in domestic service.
She was about 4'10", so I don't know how she managed heavy buckets, and everything else.
My grandfather (her son, born in 1917) told me that "it was respectable employment in those days, and not looked down on as it is now".
She was perfectly proportioned and pretty with big blue eyes, and caught the eye of her future husband (Harry) who had a good job as stationmaster in the railways in Melbourne Australia.
I'm not sure how or where they met, but he was in "essential services" and not expected to join the 1st Australian Infantry Force and fight in the Great War.
He was promoted to stationmaster at busy Flinders Street Station, after working in country towns.
Harry's older brother Les embarked in 1917 to France.
Hilda left her employment once married and focused on motherhood. She was always stylish in appearance, and her house was kept spotlessly clean. She misjudged the fox fur around the neck trend, as she was too tiny for it, and it rather swamped her.
When she was in her late 80s, she was up on the ladder at home washing the outside of the windows.
Her husband couldn't do it because of his poor eyesight, so she did it.
Good honest stock aren't we pal 😉 They did it all for us basically ❤️
Thanks for your genuine info, that was really nice 👌🏽
They don't make them like that anymore
Incredible that she lived into her late eighties especially in those times. Congratulations 🎉👏
Incredible that she lived into her late eighties especially in those times. Congratulations 🎉👏
Well, that was somehow less sad than they normally are. These always give me the perspective to appreciate all I have
I agree . When I am feeling down , I deliberately watch videos such as this and it gives me the attitude of gratitude, which always makes me feel better.
Less sad really? She swept the streets depending on people's generosity but when the left town then nothing!!! Very sad😢
@@traceyyoung1592Yes, less sad.
You don't seem to grasp people have miserable lives even today.
Seems you live an Amazon Prime life...
I think that's exactly the wrong way. Things will never change with that attitude, I think.
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'These always give me the perspective to appreciate all I have.'
Fine and well but much of what you have is because of scientific advances. But a lot, maybe the greater part is from people who fought to get rights for all of us. The video mentions that children were no longer allowed to work in the street [and probably not at all anywhere once child labor laws were enacted]. That was because reformers battled and struggled to improve social conditions.
Are we willing to fight to stop those psychopaths from taking what was so hard fought for? I hope so. because if we aren't we may be going back to those days or at least something like them. In places like North Korea [the Democratic Republic, hah!] conditions are still terrible.
Eternal vigilance folks. I enjoy those videos of colorised photos of the past. But be careful with the rose-colored spectacles eh? '
The future is starting to look a lot like the past.
Yes but not for born again Christians, read biblical end times prophecy and accept JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and Savior while you can!!! You can listen to Dr. Ron Rhodes on end times chronology.
@@albertafarmer8638Actually the
Conservatives are the ones actively worsening the US voting for people that have given massive freedom and all the power to corporations.
That's why Social Security was created for people so that as they got older, they had a little something to fall back on.
And though I keep paying into it from my wages, it will be a dried up fund before I turn 45… both parties have failed to fix this.
@WVgirl1959 Yes and too many idle people use it as a lifestyle.
@magesalmanac6424 They'd better damn well get it fixed.
Makes me wonder why Brits didn't go all French Revolution when you had a widow queen sequestered and feeling sorry for for herself while widows like this brave woman suffered.
You think it that simple? I suggest you read about how the French Revolution was engendered and its consequences. There is no comparison whatsoever. Educate yourself.
Aside from how at this point, Parliament and the House of Lords had a lot more real power (and so were usually the ones targeted when it came to things like political cartoons around the evils of the era), and how Victoria was generally thought to be quite a good and moral queen by the cultural consensus at the time (which included approving of her prolonged symbolic mourning period), there was also generally a prevailing idea that good fortune or misfortune and your 'place' in society was purely the will of God. This weakened later in the era but the biggest shift into a new way of thinking about the social order seems to have mostly solidified around WWI.
Also worth considering that the French Revolution wasn't exactly something most people wanted to repeat, seeing how it played out, particularly when it was still fresh in memory. It was called the 'Reign of Terror' for good reason, with a lot of massacres, with additional revolutions in response seeding chaos and upheaval that essentially only chilled out when they got a new king in Napoleon.
Brits have been limp wrists since the English Civil War. A bunch of farmers pushed their shit in back in 1775.
Too much forelock tugging, and there still is, with the English that is.
@@user-ev4ie2wx7k You seem like a know it all who snipes and snarks. Try being pleasant.
It's like this for a lot of folk now! Especially in parts of USA. I'm a qualified professional but as a single mother living in remote parts of New Zealand I'd often work housekeeping via a temp agency and I remember terrible conditions...12 bucks an hour before tax and sitting on the floor of a work van (like cattle) with migrating folk off to clean for the rich resorts there.😮 Sometimes I've earned $20 ph working in mental health as Support Worker...with "complex clients" prone to violent outbursts etc. High high stress. That's Australia...for many. I'm Australian and as a single mother of one we are both of the "working poor" here. Earning enough for rent but all up not much more than that if you want to live in clean, safe housing... but there are many church services for free bread and vegetables here if you can get to them and "prove" that you're hungry 😂. Quite a demeaning experience but necessary for many. It's epidemic in less affluent areas post covid too. Also If you're ill in America you're really screwed I'd say! Work two jobs and still unable to get a tooth out! 😮
Cool story bro...
Horrific I hope that something gets done soon 🙏
Yup!
Oh boy, When I was a child around 50-60 years ago, places like the US, Australia and NZ were the promised lands. Just shows you how things have fallen.
Oh man, when I was a child 50 odd years ago, the US, Australia and New Zealand were the promised lands [well for those of us with white skin at least ...]. Just shows you how badly things have deteriorated.
Gads, no retirement income or social security or safety net. Really tough. Big rich country at that time so should have been some assistance for downtrodden citizens. 😔
Nope!! This was the 18th century (as well as the centuries before) and women without husbands, widowed, or abandoned were in a tight spot. And, no, there was no government help for anyone.
Thankfully, that very mentality of if you are well enough to be at the situation where you are today and the way the country is say the amount of money that majority people have, you should be able to take care of the worst off. I really wish that a certain country that I live in would have the same mentality.
Life must have been an absolute nightmare. Not being able to afford medical treatment or a roof over their heads.
SS is no great prize either 😕 social programs always become a political money grab its sad.
No all the improvements in living conditions were fought for by the people themselves ,no one ever gave anything.As it still is now the rich could not care less
This makes me feel grateful to be alive today I have a similar job and I wouldn't have stood a chance then 😞
Enjoy retirement.
Me either how very hard it must have been
How weak. Be better bruh.
@@Vicus_of_Utrecht Yeah, be a strong peasant who knows his place, begging your pardon m'Lud and tugging your forelock. And don't complain when you're a broken down old man/woman sitting in a hovel hoping you can find some menial work to keep you going for another day in your miserable life.
Dreadful times 😥
@michelledaniels-qj6gj Yes I concur, but I do think welfare makes people dependent, I think it should only be paid to those who are genuinely ill or disabled.
I would hope the person taking the account of this older woman, would have at least bought her a hot meal after the interview.
These heartbreaking stories of struggle and survival are shocking, that they happened in the most prosperous nation in the world, at the time.
These stories of hardship fascinate me in another way too.
They make me wonder what my ancestors in my father's side of the family went through in England and Wales during these brutal times for the poor.
I wish I had a looking glass to go back in time to look in on all of them to be able to see their lives and what their daily struggles were.
I know many of my fathers family were from the Lancashire area.
Anyone know anything about what that area was like in Victorian times?
I watched “Victoria” on ITV a while back and nearly cried as the rich were eating their luxurious food while the poor were starving and dying I 🙏🏼 things get better for the poor.
Love history and one can feel grateful modern times. I was in sickness and poverty once but not homeless, so can feel for these ancestors of some of us. Fortunately got info better times, but no always possible then. Thanks for posting.
This starts me off on internet searching! I came across anecdotes from slaves in plantations compiled in the 40s,/50s. Absolutely fascinating. I'll have to see if I can find similar for these .... Thank you for piqueing the interest and bringing wonderful content!!
Being 55 then as opposed to now seems vastly different. No surprise given the lack of help available for people at that time. With all of her health problems it sounds more like being 75. Thank you for another great insight from actual people from the time, very well narrated as always.
Thank you mamasinger. Yes, people lived much shorter lives at that time.
We think we have it bad sometimes wow poor women broken world 😢
This is disgusting absolutely horrendous how could society be so ignorant and evil.
Roman times were even worse ...
Always fascinating, always presented fabulously. Thank you for your hard work in making history relatable! Kudos!
Many thanks! Glad you find this history as interesting as I do 🙂
What a brave little woman, what a cruel world.
Thank you very much indeed for this fascinating snippet of lesser known aspects of our social history ❤
Glad you're interested in how people in the past lived. Thank you!
It makes you wonder how any of us are here at all, half of these hardships would've seen most of us off 🙄
Count your blessings says I 😉❤️
No social security!
These rich people need to get off their lazy butts and do their own work !!!
They were ignorant times and still are. They will all receive their karma and be off to heides to be judged on their selfishness and greed.
These are my ancestors....and now they have the cheek to call us privileged.
I must be old because I can remember Olde Moore's Almanach
Me too.
How horrific and sad.
This channel is amazing. Glad I found it months ago!
Very depressing. Thank you for the video.
Love these stories ❤
I'm glad! Thank you.
I love history also! Thank you for this!
You're welcome. Glad you're interested in social history.
Todas las capitales industriales de Europa eran terribles en esa época. Y mucho más en las capitales frías, humedas, sin sol, con lluvia, viento, nieve.
En Paris los pobres vivían en las alcantarillas y debajo de los puentes.
S.XIX no XVI. 😢
My great-grandma worked as maid. She seemed to like it, but it seemed little pay for many tears. They fired her when she fell pregnant and had to marry. Sad. Loved her
Thank you very very much for this video
Makes me thankful for not being born then and having what I have now.
Like the old pictures. The street sweeping recreations didn't look so bad. Nice clean streets instead of being covered with horse poop like they probably were. I like the real stories, though, told by real people. Very interesting. Those poor unfortunate people. The past was the worst.
There were homeless women living on the street back then too.🤔
There will always be homeless, for one reason or another. We're about to see more of it.
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Thank you so much 😊
They had so many children and kept having even in deep poverty which did not help the situation
Thank you very interesting!
A pleasure! Glad you’re interested in this history.
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Welcome! Thank you so much 😊
Those people must have had strong immune systems to deal with all the squalor.
Street Sweeping was fun...It gets you out in the fresh open air !
Are you mental? 😂
Good video, better with an ending.
Poor Mary :(
Yes, she lived a hard life of work from a very young age.
And some people admire the Victorians ? Seriously, hearing about these atrocities is sickening
Thanks ff
You're welcome! Much appreciated.
Very interesting, shame the pictures dont match the storylines. Showing large ladies that are supposed to be starving , a proper bed etc
Hmmm. Why does the etching of homeless look familiar? Oh yes, I just drove past the park. Amazing, they’re still there!
So sad. Only the fittest survive.
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Thank you very much Miji 😊
Was that the white privilege that we were all supposed to have.my grandmother had to bring up 5 children on 10 shillings a week some privilege
He had options . Not having children
Wow yt ppl 😮
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