Slum Dwellers of Seven Dials (People of a Victorian London Rookery)
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- Seven Dials was Victorian London's slum of “last resort for the poor and ill.” Imagined as the ‘new Covent Garden’, it declined into a warren of dirty overcrowded streets and, like St. Giles adjacent, home to the lower classes, thieves and prostitutes. We take a tour around the rookery, its pubs and lodging houses with Henry Mayhew to hear his first-hand account of the lives of its inhabitants. From tricksters to pickpockets and prostitutes - these are the people you can meet in Seven Dials.
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My great grandmother x3 was born in Holborn- just by Fleet Street in 1801. She lived in Hosier Lane ( still there) and her husband who was a tallow chandler- around 1830/40ish. Hosier Lane is next door to St Bart’s Hospital, on the other side was Newgate Prison and Smithfield meat market on the other.
I think my grandfather got the fat from there for his candles. How totally grim! Death all around you, hangings and the noise animals being slaughtered . I cannot imagine how on earth my family managed. Dystopian hell. My grandmother lived until she was 89! I have one photo.
Her elder daughter married a rich man and they all moved to Hampstead. Her children became millionaires as financiers for Lloyds ! Her other daughter married an ordinary bloke and they lived in a poor mews cottage nearby. Of course- I’m descended from the poor side. Typical! 😅
This is great series! I love UK history But people suffered so much - we’d all be totally traumatised if we had to go back and experience such dire and grinding poverty. I’ve stood in Hosier Lane and tried to imagine what it was like- quite difficult when the whole area is now so smart and expensive. If you are nearby, go to ‘ Ye olde Cheshire Cheese’ pub. Been there for centuries, an amazing pub! Charles Dickens used to drink there .
This was really interesting to read - thank you for sharing! You must have done a lot of research into your family history to discover such facts. I'm glad you enjoyed the documentary.
Very interesting vidio I was born in London's East end and my great grandfather was a pickpocket! He spent time in Newgate prison! Fascinating to see how they lived back then and the hardship of daily life for them .
That’s an intriguing story! Thank you.
I love people that aren't afraid to admit their true history. Great job in your research.
That's really interesting. I wonder if he did well for himself or lived life on the margins or something in between? Were later generations able to separate themselves from (perhaps in his case necessary for survival) a parasitic existence? I'm assuming they did, but I do wonder how?🙂
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I’m from the East End too, and mum once told me that my granddad used to operate the Twopenny Drops in the really poor areas, which were ropes sling across a room that people would hang over to try and sleep.
In the morning, the rope would be cut, to wake everyone up, they were charged 2d for the night.
For those who think Britain just destroyed the old buildings, this was not the case. London was a mess after the bombings of WW2. There was nothing they could do to save some of them so a lot of these places were destroyed. It took decades to clean up London, I can remember playing in cleared bomb sites during the 80s.
I live in Belfast, it's meant to have the most victorian buildings still standing.... Apparently
Me too.
The local councils sent moralistic inspectors who decided to destroy many properties due to a middle class superiority
The narration is, probably, the absolute best I have ever heard. The subject is cool too. Well produced ... subscribed!
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This is why I love this series. They highlight the place affected by inequality and shows how the people there really did their best to take care of each other with any way they can. It reminds of the situation where I'm from here in 2021.
Much has changed in and around Seven Dials (including street names), though I believe there remain a couple of buildings from the time period.
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England has always been a place divided by its casts.
Even to this very day.
Your pictures transport me to the era and location. Chilling and satisfying...
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Thank you for another intriguing account of life in the past. It’s also nice to hear about people of the lower classes who didn’t have it extremely bad. It’s a pity that so many had to live in squalid conditions in those days. God bless them!!
I’m glad you found this appealing to watch. Mayhew met a wide variety of people in the slums and environs on his journey.
Your voice is epic! Really enjoying this.
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That's an Irish accent. Very soothing.
Love your channel. You give an insight into the reality and true history of working class people who were, and still are, the actual backbone of our country. Just look at us now after the main wave of the pandemic, our shops are not filled our petrol station not getting deliveries. Its not the so called brains (that's a joke) who keep a country going it's the thousands of working class, immigrants included 👍👍👍 who keep us going. Many other peoples from different countries am sure would have similar tales to tell. We are diverse, multi cultural and that's what makes us GREAT and Wonderful. Thanks again for great info
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Hear, hear!
But it's the brains of your country that have destroyed it by refusing to put Brexit to a re-vote!
This is the moment many north Americans realize that their true ancestors weren't royals or vikings. This is your true past not kings and lords.
Yes, very true. Many poor people were given assistance to emigrate. They were desperate and as a last resort emigrated in search of a better life. I heard, but not sure, that just until recently 10 pound fares were offered to those who wished to immigrate to Australia.
Actually we initially transported a lot of prostitutes and criminals to North America. But this is only ever spoken about in terms of Australia
Haha...hell yea. As an American with an English name, these are my people.
Nope just people barely making it
Actually Seven Dials doesn't seem like a bad area at all! Especially compared to White Chapel or the other neighborhoods covered on your channel! Very enjoyable post.
Thank you! There are several slums that come and go over the course of the 19th Century. I’ll be taking a look at some others in future.
Looks like old Kensington Liverpool
The problem with these retrospective analyses is that they leave out the ground psychology of the subjects. Yes these were very poor people, who committed suicide in the hundreds because of their debts (not nearly enough to call it en masse, but significant enough still). But the human survival instinct combined with an inability to be bothered about heavy suffering for long resulted in people who got on with it, and were generally happy and filled their lives with friendships and relationships and other types of joys. According to my late great grandfather’s stories, they only grumbled about upper classes in passing like the poor do now about capitalist moguls. They were not as miserable as this documentary suggests, nor were they as unscrupulous because of their condition as this documentary suggests.
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It’s nice to know nothing has changed in central London.🙄
loool facts the pickpocketers are still there waiting to snatch your iphones and making it therephones loool
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My hobby is building my family tree so videos like this are a great help in envisioning how my ancestors may have lived. I don't have ties with London except having being born there. My family is from Durham, Yorkshire and Norfolk. Some of these ancestors migrated to Durham from Scotland in search of a better life. I just subscribed and am looking forward to watching more of your content.
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Wow pretty mad how they mentioned Henry mayhew as I've just read a book by him recently about the poverty and dismay of Victorian London but I'd never heard of him previously and some of the stories of the people are heartbreaking, people of today have nothing to complain about.
When folk talk about empire and Britain's ways they should remember it was not the poor or indentured but the rich and powerful minority who ruled and invested in overseas ventures .
The poor majority were pawns at best or a nuisance to be sent abroad to soften new territory so the rich could get richer.
The rich got the profit, the poor did the work but everyone did benefit.
@@khaosssssss1727 eventually it trickled down and I agree everyone did benefit one way or another though those in power continued to propagate division and racism. People are easier to control when given someone to look down on or hate , keeps their minds off the fact they are being played big time.
It's going to take a long time to sort out the mess .
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When You watch this and go and walk around these Streets. It is very Surreal. The times I have been there and never Knew. Amazing.
The motor cars and modern architecture destroyed most of Georgian and Victorian London . As late as 1965 , the house where William Blake was born in 1757 was demolished , without by your leave . This was in Broadwick Street , only 2 or 300 yards from this rookery of Seven Dials .
Bombing helped, they had to demolish a large proportion of the Georgian/Victorian buildings due to bomb damage obtained during the blitz, which coincidentally occurred as technology and infrastructure were moving towards how it appears today.
I love this sort of history it’s not all kings queens lords and ladies 🇬🇧
Brilliant ,love the pictures ,. From Liverpool uk
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Keep them coming....I love having a walk around the area after watching your videos it brings so much more meaning to what I see knowing a bit about it's history.
Much has changed in Seven Dials and the vicinity (including street names), though I believe there are a couple of buildings remaining from the time period.
Yes I would do the same if I lived there. I was born in London, have to go back again soon.
I was only watching a video on CZcams a few days ago that said the seven dials was a built as a pretty high class estate, next to the notorious st Giles slum. Oxford street was built through the slum, obviously the slum dwellers moved next door.
I have a great-great-great-great-great-great uncle who stayed in a lodging house in 7 dials for at least a month in 1850. He was running away from home in rural Scotland, for unclear reasons. My family has possession of part of his journal. He was a gambler and once won 15 sterling in the course of a night, which he was very worried would get pick-pocketed. Anyway, then my great X6 uncle used the money to buy new clothes and a few nights in a much nicer lodging house where he met a man who got him a job working in a brewery. We think the brewery owner became his brother-in-law later on.
I forgot to mention the best part. There are notes in this ancestor's journal on the comparative breast sizes of multiple prostitutes. And in 7 dials some young men wanted him to join their gang, but he thought it was because his solo unruley behaviour was cutting into their profit. He didn't join the gang because it was never in my great x6 uncle's plan to stay in London.
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2 years ago! I did not realize how much time has gone by. I have been watching your channel since the very first episode!
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"Another coarser, featured dame, lolled by the end of the table...." lol 🤣 Great video, interesting stuff.
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How hard was it back then wow we don't no how lucky we are 🍀😮
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Great video and info. My family were from ‘The Dials’ (Monmouth Street) and my great grandfather was a trimming weaver there.
Stuart Taylor maybe he bought his boots from my great great grandpa on Drury Lane… bootmakers had uneven demand for boots. I think religious groups offered social and financial support. Have read the transcripts of the Lady Huntington’s Connexion. I remember reading the discussion of the plight of a local widow. She then received 10 shillings, presumably donations from the faithful. I’m sure that support was essential.
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Of course I like to see photographs if possible but for me, pencil sketches such as @2:15 convey more sense of life and movement and seem more real. The two women at the front shrieking and barneying couldn't have been photographed doing that with the photographic equipment at that time.
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Thanks! In the absence of widespread photography, there were some amazing graphic artists.
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Your channel/voice/content are all superb. It's almost like a Charles dickins novel being narrated...well done you sir and please keep them coming. God bless xx
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@@FactFeast thank you it's fascinating my family lived in London in victotorian times, so it's interesting to know what they had to deal with.
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How fortunate for the observer tat everyone was properly labelled :-)
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How did Mayhew know that this or that person was a burglar or a pickpocket? This wouldn't be the sort of thing one would advertise, I should think.
Because the police accompanying them already knew.
This wasn't really a documentary. It was the writer's impression of whom he supposed those he encountered on his walk, to be, and not who they actually were.
Wow very eye opening
Intrigued as to what a coiner was....love the old job descriptions.
A coiner was someone who made counterfeit coins in this historical context.
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Why does everything sound better with an accent? ❤️
They did well at putting on air’s.
Ah the good old days when nobody was bad and everyone was polite all the time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Homeless and workhouse people would have DREAMED of this life.
You are my favorite thank you
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according to the victorian gentlement, werent the people so happy and contented in their lives?!..typically upper class snobbery of the time. No one thought to offer any help to get them out of their "LOW" states....
How did they know everyone were burgelers just by passing them in the street? lol
Stripey jumpers, old boy. Easy way to spot a burglar.
@@tamlandipper29 and a swag bag
@@fintonmainz7845 plus every now and then they will stop, narrow their eyes and look both ways.
The policeman that accompanied him would have known these people and told him.
It would not have cost much for the government to provide clean housing, food, and training for the poor.
The government only worried about social programs when they couldn't find healthy soldiers, all the young men had rickets and tuberculosis.
Not much has changed in many areas around the world !
When you look at old London maps the poor were often very close to the very rich. The main street may be but the street behind was wretched. I think public health and the welfare state has alleviated the problem but over crowding still has poverty and health side by side in London!
It's still the same, especially in central London.
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No wonder why Dio Brando was so aggressive and the way he was
Always amazes me how rural London was in Pepys time
Not sure if you knew this, but Pepys was 1600s this is the 1800s, about 1860.
This is coming back so get ready
Just watched this on another image, exactly the same!
I find it interesting how well dressed so many of the inhabitants are described. You think slum and naturally the mind goes to folks dressed in utter rags. But no. So many are described as being very well and fashionably dressed. From pickpockets to burglars to forgers.
Crazy
These buildings were owned by land owner. Royalty and members of parliament. Rent collectors were brutal. Tenements were not maintained. Trapped in poverty abused by land owners
And all those poor enslaved horses who never saw a blade of grass.....
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My kind of folk
Potato lady's got it goin on!
It seems like most of the burglars were the best dressed! Good disguise!
Same problem then as now world over, too many kids.
Same falacy as ever.
The poor are poor because they have so many children.
It is easy to notice how this reporter was writing for the pleasure of the wealthy. Generously identifying "thieves" and "good folk" with the awareness of all gossip columnists. All are Filthy and improving in hygiene simultaneously. Low and Triumphant. It takes nearly 15 minutes to mention that their "tribe" is Irish. The fellow even peeps into windows? Charming. Uncontrolled speculations are the "authors" stock in trade.
People were much easier to identify by their manner of dress down to the penny.
For instance a young well dressed schoolboy or older scholar in the area would have been most unlikely even unaccompanied so you would know that a bit dressed like that was an at least fairly skillful thief..the money to be made by crime was outside of the ghetto so you dressed like a sober workman or a delicate young thing and so on and so forth.
If the writer was going into the area then he would have paid a policeman to accompany him and any companions and the policeman would not paid whoever was needed to ensure safe passage in turn.
The police knew who everyone was and would have made some accommodation with them in day to day life.
They would have explained all of his to the visitors.
Slums are nothing new, and still exist today, sadly.
You forget that the proletariat were under curfew. The bow street runners were the private police force. Before the formation of a police force.
In my bustling American city we have many burglars hanging about too!
OXFORD STREET,
The lure to entertain in wonderous fancy enticing the Londonderry Society Of Fashionista.
Slumming in poverty , would never be given a job because of their CLASS.
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Therefore Oxford Street was a paradox. Those whom steal yet prospered consuming their frivolously,
Those whom stood on the opposite side of Wealth living with the baton of Class.
The story mentions a murderer named Connell, just wanted to say no relation. 😆
Noted... 😉
Exactly what a suspicious murderer would say.
I just hope , no one always mentions Jack the Ripper. He was a made up character, nothing ever happened. Great channel an .Sir, you should be a history teacher.
It is very interesting that they had poverty tourists back then just as they do now in third world countries to gawp at the slums. Not my choice, but then, I'm not them.
Ik they probably didn’t notice this but at 3:33 there’s an AMERICAN flag 😂 whoops
The commentator is referring to Broadway, New York, so New York and the American flag is depicted.
Really don't like the way you talk about prostitutes. They're not criminals or thieves.
Just women put in bad way
@@asamanyworlds3772 cost extra for a , bad way
He's quoting Mayhew's own words.
Cut to the chase. Your intro is tedious. No one has time for this kind of blather.
Cut to the chase for a 24 minute video?
You can always visit another channel. You are not forced to watch and there's no entrance fee.