How Victorians Survived the Brutal Workhouse (Breaking Rock for Food)

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@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

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@SinghSingh-vr9fy 5 ай бұрын

I'm living in a workhouse converted to flats in West Yorkshire

@bigshot0987 5 ай бұрын

Are they nice

@queenligoo7556 5 ай бұрын

I'm from Leeds, Morley, Dewsberry and Armley. The area has lots of workhouses, mills, etc. it is very interesting.

@MarianneKat 5 ай бұрын

Do you still have to pick oakum

@gail2500 5 ай бұрын

If only the walls could talk. 😊😊

@vapormissile 5 ай бұрын

@@MarianneKathe passed away from the consumption Tuesday last. His family was sold to pay his death fee.

@Contessa6363 5 ай бұрын

My mom's mother lived in a tenement in the early 20th century in NYC with her 5 siblings. Many times she and her sister had to be dropped at the Salvation Army for months at a time. Her father couldn't work. We believe he may have had blood cancer. It affected my grandmother a lot. She always donated to the Salvation Army when she grew up.

@stephencotton2694 5 ай бұрын

My Great Great grandmother spent most of her life in the dorking workhouse with her 6 children eventually they all got out except 1 child who lived her whole life there dying in the workhouse at the age of 29

@victoriadalrymple6497 5 ай бұрын

How cruel to push men into hard labour. Only to feed them bread and water. How anyone survived is surprising

@MarianneKat 5 ай бұрын

That's what most poor people ate. Only the rich had meat.

@johnhenderson131 5 ай бұрын

That how the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. It’s less noticeable today but it still goes on. Today it is mostly on an international level, you can’t have wealthy countries unless other countries are poverty stricken. And North Korea is a perfect example of the wealthy have everything (especially education) and the left poor left to eat bugs and cream of steam soup with no health care available and no civil rights whatsoever! It’s disgusting and a dark stain on the entire civilized world that this has been going on since the end of WW II and is still going on in 2024. But I wholeheartedly agree with you. Take care, John

@valfletcher9285 5 ай бұрын

people were lean back then

@paulguise698 5 ай бұрын

What a good vlog, sir, I can remember this feller he would walk around Whitehaven dressed like a tramp, holes in his trousers and Jumpers, people used to feel sorry for him, when he died he left £158,500 to St Mary's church Whitehaven, appearances can be deceptive, people were in shock just how much money he had, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Choppy. I appreciate your comment 😊

@deuteronimus750 5 ай бұрын

I knew a guy who was homeless and when describing nis life he said "you have to keep moving at night". When we walked downtown he would always keep his eyes focused on the sidewalk and it was amazing all the lost change he would find.

@seeleunit2000 5 ай бұрын

That's quite sad. Everyone has the right to a permanent place to live and a livable salary to support themselves.

@jodyswallow1008 5 ай бұрын

Good job Sir. Thank you for highlighting the past. Should definitely be shown in schools.

@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Nice of you to say.

@dancingdingo 5 ай бұрын

Wow! You've just made my day 😊.

@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it. Cheers!

@r3db0x 5 ай бұрын

This is my favorite channel on KZbin. I really love the subject matter as much as the telling. Thanks for giving us such educational and edifying content!

@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

You’re very welcome. Thank you for your kind words and support.

@adamogilvie6951 13 күн бұрын

It makes me wonder. The majority of Victorian Britain's were Christians, yet they treated the poor like garbage. Christ never treated the poor like this. Lastly, the amount of food thrown away every night by well-off Victorians could feed the whole of London. That makes me angry. Thank you, my friend, I know it has been a while. I have been my house all day, and while doing so, I have pretty much watched all of your videos. Absolutely love them. Thank you!❤

@ellstark372 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this video (as always). In my genealogy research I came across a relative who died in a workhouse and his occupation was recorded as "stone breaker". I wondered at the time how they could state this as his occupation if he was only temporarily in a workhouse, but after watching this, I am now wondering if he was a 'spike ranger'. I am now going to revisit his story and see what else I can unearth. Again, many thanks x

@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

Interesting! Thank you for sharing. Hope you are able to find out more.

@bigshot0987 5 ай бұрын

Love the videos keep up the good work

@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

@clarencedavisiii1412 5 ай бұрын

Thanks ff😊

@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

You're welcome clarencedavis 😊 Great to have your support.

@victoriafinnin1215 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for all your hard research. Your incredible work is a time machine!

@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

You’re most welcome. I’m happy you like watching this history.

@JulianLong-u6z 5 ай бұрын

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@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words 😊

@eliotreader8220 5 ай бұрын

what was they sawing up wood for exactly? where they turning it into fire wood for use in the work house

@detectingadventuresscotlan6177 5 ай бұрын

They worked so hard have loads of Victorian coinage great watch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

@survivingthetimes 4 ай бұрын

They should bring these back.

@QPRTokyo 5 ай бұрын

It is always better to live in a village.

@Horaciowild1 5 ай бұрын

The years when my great grand mother was born

@altheeas Ай бұрын

had the 'victorian workhouses' playlist while on my morning walk, it was a lovely experience!

@FactFeast Ай бұрын

That’s great!

@mauriceclark4870 25 күн бұрын

A. Man I. Worked. Was a. Gardener at. Workhouse. Men would have. Break stones for road repairs. One barrow. Broken. Up. Got. Bread. N water. The. Foreman. Would have. Two. Barrowfulls. Some people. Were born. Evil. !

@Nina-fc8ey 5 ай бұрын

Vagrancy was a crime and sleeping on the street could get you arrested... so wouldn't that at least put a roof over your head and food in your belly if you got arrested?

@kellyshomemadekitchen 5 ай бұрын

Makes me think about all the homeless veterans in the US that intentionally commit crimes in the winter months for that very reason you mentioned.

@LaurieValdez-zk3dy 5 ай бұрын

So many people are homeless. 2024. Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸

@MichaelGloth-f7j 4 ай бұрын

Some of them want to be

@mauriceclark4870 25 күн бұрын

I often. Wondered. If. People. Would. Have done. Better. Had. We. Became. A. Republic. No. Royals. ??

@TomAdamson-m9i 4 ай бұрын

The great unknown holocaust was the systematic starvation of English people in industrial cities.

@ongie9736 4 ай бұрын

😂.. no coffee for breakfast. Thank you for the video. .... Haha 😅

@robnewman6101 5 ай бұрын

You never could survive.

@Khatoon170 5 ай бұрын

As always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s first of all definition of workhouse it’s place where very poor people, known as paupers, could go to live . Once they entered workhouse, people had to wear uniform and were given very basic diet . Main food they were given was called stir about, which similar to weak pat meal porridge. Families were spilt up once inside . They began in England and Wales during 17 th century . Beginning of workhouse go back to poor act of 1833 . Was designed to help to solve shortage of work after Black Death . After the state begin responsible for welfare of poor . After napoleonic wars was not lot of unemployment caused by machine taking over work from farm workers. Workhouse by using free labor of people. Most of them did not have skills get normal jobs , so that workhouse jobs included breaking rocks into small stones, breaking bones to make fertilizer, or pulling apart old ropes to reuse fibers

@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

A very basic diet for all that work they had to do.

@mijiyoon5575 5 ай бұрын

Googled *oakum picking*

@FactFeast 5 ай бұрын

Laborious and repetitive work, but at least not breaking rocks.

@WooWoo-co4jf 5 ай бұрын

From what I know from history it a a was a very common task in workhouses, it had a terrible affect on the hands, they'd be sore, blistered & bleeding from the coarse fibre they were splitting. It must have been horrendous for anyone with arthritic hands

@rachelknight6028 5 ай бұрын

It was an easy job to start off.... but once you got down to the very fine fibres, it became exceedingly painful and difficult on the fingertips. The tiny fibres got caught under the nails and cut into the skin. In such conditions, these cuts got easily infected and you were still expected to work.