Victorian London's Spitalfields Slum - A History of East End Poverty

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[@spudspuddy]

the old guy writing the book obviously didn't know spittle used to mean hospital, until 1600 known as a spittle house from the knights spittlers, spittlers is where host-spittlers came from now shortened to hospital, nothing to do with preachers spitting

[@dianamontgomery1722]

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[@tonicastel2390]

I just finished an excellent book called “The worst street in London” about the East End. It discusses the history of the Huguenot silk-weavers in detail. Fascinating book on this topic.

[@LostintheTangle]

I sympathize with the silk weavers. In my lifetime, I've seen a profession I've honed for years (fine sewing) come to pay almost nothing. I'm glad my working days are done.

[@lindaf426]

Good day.I read your post with much interest. Would you mind telling me what country you are from? How old are you.?I thank you 😊 Linda

[@vickywitton1008]

It is a wonderful hobby though. I still love seeing and prefer doing it for my self than working in factories. there are some that still appreciate your skills

[@anyaharris5617]

Yes, such a profession pays nothing these days, but it's a nice hobby. Also, it's good to be able to make something yourself, especially if you live in a remote place and local shops never have your size. First of all, it's cheaper to make it yourself. Second, it will be sonething unique, rather than of the mass production. I've lived in the Falkland Islands for 20 years, and shops there are quite limited. Besides, I've always been slim, but for some reason, local shops only stocked large sizes. At the same time, the Falklands were never short of fabrics. So, my sewing skills were quite handy. I was always nicely dressed, and my expenses were reasonable.

[@raquellofstedt9713]

I see this with knitting as well. People have no idea of the cost of material or labor.

[@louiseharper7850]

The Silk weaver's were in poverty because velvet was invented and literally killed the silk trade, everyone wanted velvet!

[@sirdudleynightshade8747]

My dear Nanna grew up in Spitalfields Workhouse. A nicer, more kindly lady you could never meet.

[@chegeny]

Nice doc. Enjoyed it very much. It often seems the most exquisitely made products, as these fine silks, come from the hands of the poorest people to be enjoyed by the richest.

[@hugh_ghennaux]

Thanks for this, very interesting. I found from old records that my Huguenot ancestors escaped to Bethnal Green from Le Havre in the 1680s. At that time Bethnal Green was just a village in the county of Middlesex.

[@FactFeast]

Yes, very rural back then. Just a village. Now very much inner London and on the doorstep of the City. Thank you for your comment.

[@TinaButcher-r6m]

My paternal amcestors were spittlefields silk weavers living right opposite Bedlam

[@shawnaellcey6970]

Another informative episode! Loved it! Who else is watching these to ease the pains of inflation as well as enjoy history? 😂❤❤❤❤❤

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[@Lucy-ym8ch]

Oh yes

[@mauricedavis2160]

Enjoy history, learn from history and then look outside and realize that history repeats itself the only difference is date and technology, so yes my friend, we all are living history, this isn't progress it's criminal, keep the faith it's going to get better for us 99.99%ers...🙏✨👌👍🦉🐲❣️

[@piratecove3323]

HaHa! I was born in Spitalfields many moons ago, the old veg market, and getting chased by the beadles when they saw us tea-leafing, but they never caught us. Totters on the knock, and the weekend knee's up at the rub-a-dub at the weekend nights, How times have changed, nearly all of us old cockney's left the smoke years ago, but I can still remember the days of my misspent youth. We all knew what would happen to the old place, and we were right. A great video. Cheers.

[@TheShorty7183]

If you don’t mind, could you explain tea-leafing, Totter’s on the knock, and the weekend knees up at the rub-a-dub? I’ve never heard any of these phrases. Thank you ❤

[@piratecove3323]

Because you ain't a cockney me old mucker.

[@jujumulligan43]

I enjoy so much finding books in my library across the state of North Carolina USA the vast number of books available belonging to this period of time. I need not describe it, for You have done so Very Eloquently !! Thank you so very much for creating these fascinating videos!!! ❣️

[@moondancer4660]

Very entertaining video today❤

[@FactFeast]

Thank you moondancer. It’s nice some of these buildings survive to this day - some of the grand houses, though the many modest workshops have gone.

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Just subscribed, thoroughly enjoyable channel, great narration, good voice. 😊

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[@cocojo242]

Thank you .

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[@LaHayeSaint]

It is incredibly difficult for artisans who have known nothing other than silk weaving, to change jobs and risk another trade. It was even more difficult, as these people who moved form France under persecution from King Louis 14th, were French and a sizeable number could speak no English. Removal of French silk duties in the late 1890s condemned these people to abject poverty and destitution. It was very sad, and people suffered greatly.

[@laurahodgson6531]

My great grandmother (born in 1872)and grandfather lived in the Whitechapel/ Spitalfield slum in their early lives and my grandmother was born there in 1914. Difficult to imagine how much more difficult their lives were.

[@janesykes4483]

Look forward to these ❤😊 thank u

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[@dondouglass6415]

Fascinating... 😊

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So ready for this. I waited a few days cause i needed to commit a day to your content. Im still back watching

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[@blueneeson9888]

Thanks for This Beautiful Video From Blue

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[@svenja27esprie]

I use this to come into sleep mode at night...calming voice and speaking rate...it's all about rhythm. 😂😊

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[@Lucy-ym8ch]

I listen to TWR; Max McLean reading the Bible. But this too

[@sharonhubbard2035]

Ahh. Another vid. Thank you.

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[@sharonhubbard2035]

@@FactFeast All your videos are. Thank you.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

It's important to bear in mind that this poverty was deliberately inflicted on the working class of the UK in the 19th century. Workers then, as now, produced all the wealth of the UK yet received only a miniscule fraction of it in return. Poverty keeps workers willing to endure horrific working conditions, so they were - and are - kept poor.

[@nataliekhanyola5669]

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[@clowchan]

Interesting to hear about the Huguenots in London. I live in NY in an area where the Huguenots also fled to. Not sure if they did weaving here tho

[@bayonnealice7540]

My ancestor worked in a silk mill at the age of 12. Different times.

[@Khatoon170]

Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary sir . As always iam gathering information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s I read article titled untold story of spitalfields silk weavers Liz trenow author of silk weaver . She describes history inspired her new historical romance set in dangerous world of London silk world . She said I was born to family of silk weavers whose business started in early 1700 s in spitalfields , East London and are one of just three companies still weaving today ( now in Sudbury , suffox ) we can trace ancestors back to 1666 first recorded address I discovered was in Wilkes street , then called wood street to house is still there . House in Wilkes street where silk company bega. Corner of Wilkes street , princele street, called princess is house where silk designer Anne Maria Garth heart of silk industry, that produced over thousands patterns for damasks and brocades many of which are today in Victoria and Albert museum. She said my ancestors would have known and possibly worked with , most celebrated textiles designer of 18 th century, whose silk were sought after by nobility Britain and America.

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Very interesting. Thank you for sharing Khatoon.

[@tedoneilclark4710]

It's so painful I can't watch it all. Horrific 😢

[@francisfischer7620]

My great aunt made this silk. Amazing very fine work.

[@catherineloftus1376]

Thank you for this very interesting and informative video, London, and no doubt numerous other Towns and Cities in England have a such tales waiting to be told.

[@FactFeast]

You’re welcome. Yes, poverty could be found across the country. I have videos about life in Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh too if you should be interested.

[@kayb9979]

it's odd how Jack the Ripper is so often portrayed as wearing a top hat. The only descriptions of him that are considered credible portray him as wearing a deer hunter or a felt hat.(I'm not criticising you for showing the illustration: it's merely and observation).

[@dennycraig8483]

I think it’s something to do with the British class system, Jack often was rumoured to be from the upper class,hence the top hat. But I did like your observation..👏🏾👏🏾

[@deanodog3667]

Just bit of artistic licence

[@Azzsiamoamilano]

Ottimo video interessante ma che posti terrificanti

[@jenniferkennedy4773]

Thanks!

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[@JustMe-mh2pn]

I just all of this documentaries ❤

[@thehillbillygamer2183]

How does it benefit a population to let impoverished people move into the country and high numbers it don't

[@sallypettit7156]

Extremely entertaining

[@FactFeast]

Glad you find this history of the East End interesting.

[@sallypettit7156]

@@FactFeast I have been subscribed for months, and have watched 25%. All are entertaining, never knew about the silk weavers.

[@mht525]

The silk was grown by the royals for income. The poor spun the silk. ✌️🤘⚖️🇦🇺

[@deanodog3667]

Just facing 10 bells pub where JTR met his victims

[@thehillbillygamer2183]

Yeah if you going to be learning weaving now you'll be learning nothing else you know nothing else no school learning no nothing just leaving from daylight till dark a week

[@Corey_Lee_Slater]

4:47 That's Charles Emmerson Winchester the third, I know that face from M.A.S.H. ...

[@fredthejunkman]

haha! It does favor him.

[@mauricedavis2160]

Sound familiar!!!🙏✨👌🤔❣️

[@eileencorcoran3057]

So sad for them..

[@Lucy-ym8ch]

That picture of the man standing in the doorway looks very like Aaron Kosminski, the man suspected of being the Ripper?

[@Warrior84358]

Nothing as changed the oligarchs inslaving the Masse's

[@grahamquinn]

Those guys sitting on the benches on the far right is he wearing sunscreen on his eyes😅

[@nicksweeney5176]

Firrrrst...!!!

[@dancingdingo]

Dagnabbit! You beat me to it 👍

[@nerdvana101]

I think victorian poverty would have been more boring than modern day poverty now we have smart phones at least

[@johnwoods7650]

If you are poor, why would you have a smartphone, a house to live in, or food for your family? That was the reality in Victorian England for most of the population. Zero luxuries, perhaps sharing the basement of a house and an outside loo with 15 others and little food. To have that existence, the father of the family would have to work 12 hours a day in unsafe conditions with no holidays, no sick pay and no unemployment pay. The mother, who probably had 10 kids to look after (and no birth control pills!), would clean the house without a vacuum cleaner, wash the clothes of the whole family without a washing machine, change babies with nappies which had to be reused, shop for food and clothes, store food without a refrigerator, cook the family meals without air-fryers, microwave or gas/electric cookers and without pre-prepared food or take-aways. Doctors, dentists and hospitals charged for their services. If the father of the family lost his job or could not work, the mother couldn't get a job or had to take in washing for a pittance hopefully sending the kids to work too. If they got too poor to live, they might try for charity in the local workhouse where mothers were separated from their husbands and children to find a little food and accommodation. For their bread and gruel in the workhouse men would be set to work without pay. Should they all live to their old age, they'd receive no state pension and would have to go back in the Workhouse where they would remain until their death.

[@d4zzyb0y]

It's more of a slum now

[@deanodog3667]

Londons better tgan NYC in my very humble opinion!

[@mijiyoon5575]

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[@MichaelFitzpatrick-b9e]

When the Tory's talk about victoria values this is what they have in mind .😡

[@jenniferkennedy4773]

Thanks!

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