Cotswolds - The Way We Were | Part 5: Poverty and Hunger
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- čas přidán 13. 05. 2024
- The 5th film in our Cotswolds series explores the desperate conditions faced by the poorer inhabitants of the Victorian Cotswolds in the 1840s.
Back then the area famed today for its beauty was an isolated part of the country and when hardtimes hit those at the bottom of the pile suffered the most.
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In the late 19th - early 20th century, Joseph Arthur Gibbs, Alfred Williams & others documented everyday life in the villages of the Cotswolds. Within a few generations the way of life they described was consigned to history, but thanks to their efforts it has not been forgotten.
It often conjures up an idyllic image of country life; but it also reveals that hardship, poverty and hunger were never far from the door.
This film uses evocative descriptions from Rev J Fraser combined with a wonderful collection of old photographs and archive film to bring to life the hardships of Cotswolds life in a bygone age.
If you share our love for the Cotswolds please let us know in the comments and be sure to like this film and subscribe to our channel to see more - Zábava
My father was born in 1901 in London Islington told me as a child he was starving no money around and little food
Very true. My mum was born in Islington in 1916,and told me about the poverty.
My Great grandfather ,a farm labourer in Cricklade,Wiltshire in the 1800's would have suffered this I'm sure!
Lovely video. Thank you. Innovation and better production reduced poverty. My ancestors, one and all, my family have been here longer than the oaks. Peace and goodwill.
That's the whole point of what Hardy spoke of..you weren't here long...that's the point...an oak has a finite existence much like you - the landscape endures but we do not..how long has your family been here? Mine back to 1365...you? It doesn't matter....the landscape endures and we do not - your family are dead and gone much like mine and few left to care...grow up..
Try to study existentialism too....and your actual family history..post it..
New subscriber and looking forward to watching more. Love the narrator voice.
Cider With Rosie set in the Slad valley in the early 1920s gives a good idea of Cotswold poverty.
Yes modern Tory’s would do this again…..
Of course the likes of Blair, Mandelson et al are true socialists?
D plan
And of course Labour wasn’t born on the philosophy of no matter how hard you work, we’ll take it away and give it to someone that doesn’t want to work.
Don’t make the mistake of picking politicians like people pick football teams, I’m with the reds or I’m with the blues. Or listen to the spin politicians spill out, this country has been sold off by a succession of politicians from both parties 😔 we’re all at the mercy of shareholders who s only goal is to milk as much cash from the British people as possible 💵💵 all with the blessing’s of our politicians 🙄🙄 Conservatives think all Brits 🇬🇧are lazy, there’s loads of jobs out there and no one wants to work 🙄. It’s all agency staff on temporary contracts now , where I work a guy has been on a temporary contract for 4yrs he can’t get a mortgage on a temporary contract ☹️ anyone complain and your gone. My mother’s careers work 70 hrs a week and are issued 2 pair of trousers and 2 company tops any more than that they have to pay for out of their wages. They regularly get sick and worse ☹️on their clothes while going from client to client with no change of clothes 😡😡. There boss drives a Bentley convertible yet can’t afford to pay for workers clothing 😡.
The government wants the boats coming to bring more cheap labour, big business lobby politicians and give party donations 😉 😉to make sure they get cheap labour and that’s why they aren’t trying to hard to stop the boats. Truth is you can’t sit on the dole you are offered 3 jobs and if you don’t take them your benefit is stopped.
@@xr6lad The Labour Party always had to face the few who clambered over their peers with. "The working class can kiss my ass, I`ve got the foreman`s job at last" and the rising middle classes derided the "feckless" poor as they profited of their meagre wages. If it wasn`t for self educated union men and the non conformist churches there would be no Labour Party, no NHS, no wage protection and a whole lot more. About ten years ago a survey confirmed that the Attlee government was the best government of the twentieth century. Before you knock the Labour Party consider who is in government now. 2024.
Which part of the 40s is this? wages in Kent in 1947 would have been £1 to their shilling.
Actually looking more like late 20s or 30s. Wasn't 1840s. ?
Video description above says 1840's.
1840s
Where's the white privilege?
The Tory vision for the UK
And they have damn near succeded
The socialist vision, Animal Farm, is so much better.
@@johnbruce2868
Touche 🎯😂😂
Ahh yes. Labour whose philosophy is no matter how hard you work, we’ll take it to give to people that don’t want to work.
@@xr6lad
Take it off the workers and give it to the shirkers. 😂😂
At 4:16 you've photoshopped another persons head on to the mans body, I've seen the original photo.
Easy to see why
Ah, l noticed that, too.
Unsubbed.
Why? I don’t get it.
Looks like an agenda driven need to show that certain people existed back then.
'Fraid so 😢
This was and should still be normal life. Not the selfish - gimme - gimme - gimme of today.
So very true its only when u look at these od films although it was tough they were nicer times
Starvation Poverty? You can't mean that.
5 people that up voted your silly comment obviously agree we should return to starvation and poverty?
How the hell can you come to the conclusion that people living in disgusting misery and poverty should be normal life????