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Brits have clung with desperate strength to the very chains that bind them: classism and rigid social stratification are still the norm. The smart ones left for America, Canada, Australia and South Africa and put the squalor of Blighty behind…

Today, it is like the rest of London: completely unaffordable?!

In 1878 my GG Grandmother was 13 yrs old in the Fulham Workhouse. She had been living there for 16 months and came from a very poor family; so it wouldn't surprise me if she ended up as a "Slavey." Sadly, by age 28 and a domestic servant, she got "in trouble" and in 1891 gave birth to her son as a single parent in the Kensington Infirmary. Sounds like she had such a hard and solitary life. Thank you for this great article.

I LOVE YOU EDINBURGH, We will return. What a beautiful city.

Great video! I live on Hoxton street and love how rich it is in history. Anyone wanting to know more about the gentrification of the area, a documentary called ‘The Street’ came out a few years back.

The Victorians sure liked their statistics!!!!

History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme.Many U.S. cities today could be described in similar sentences.

Sounds like modern day Uk

Good old victorian values

I lived in 128,Hoxton Street . We squatted it. It has a really crazy history that building, and to this day I believe there is some sort of bad energy /spirit in that building. A lot of people lived in that squat and fell out with each other. Couples split up etc etc... It was a bad place. It's next door to the theatre there across from the Baccus Pub... I still think about that place and what happened there.

I worked there in the 80s , a great place, a real rubbing together of people while the city took off , interesting times, and I was very much on the lower rungs of change.

Victorian Era 1837-1901.

I would of gone out in the wild why on earth would you hang about in city's crazy you would have stood a better chance

The amount of mice and rats my cat nabbed and decapitated, then brought back to my backyard door when my parents first adopted him is probably at least 50 or so. Even a pigeon once. I understand that for cats, this is a gesture that they care about you and think you suck at hunting for food, so they bring it to you so you don't starve, but I sure didn't like disposing of the bodies every few days. Cats are ruthless against these rodents. The cats of rat catchers probably had a feast every day.

My great great grand parents lived in Baising Square, Shoreditch from 1860 to 1888. My great great grandfather worked as a Leather cutter at John Carter & Sons, which was within walking distance. John Carter & Sons building is still there. Most of the children of my great great grandparents left England in the 1880’s for America and Australia, no doubt seeking a better life.

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At least it was not as bad as Copenhagen in the early 1850's. In London it was 7 people living in a house on average. In copenhagen it was 30 on average.

Known for stabbings these days

That's why the mafia started because they discriminated against them so badly

My Mum grew up in the area in the 1930s and 40s. I spent years searching maps for Laburnum street in oxton. Took me years to twig she meant Hoxton.

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5:54 -- What is a "costermonger"? I am not familiar w/ this term. Also part of me wonders whether or not if dear Prince Albert had lived longer than what he did whether or not London as a whole or the country for that matter would have gone downhill as precipitously as it did if only he would have lived perhaps another 30 or 40 years. I said all of that to say this because it is my guess that had Prince Albert lived I don't think that he would have allowed the city to go as far downhill as What It ultimately did by the end of that century. I also wonder given how old Victoria would have been by that time in the 1880s and 1890s it makes me wonder how much she was even aware of what was going on in the lower echelons of London housing society.

Although I am not a Brit nor do I live in Britain I can honestly attest to the fact that I was a witness to the beginning transition of portions of london. I actually visited London twice 6 months apart once in 1999, and again about 6 months later in the spring of Millennium year 2000. When I came there in 1999 yes I did see vestiges of different downtrodden areas that were torn down run down and just not too desirable as we say in america. However even when I came back I'm near 6 months later and was seeing bits and pieces of a beginning transition it was hard for me to get my head wrapped around it. And then flash forward to the present 2024 and seeing this video now allowing me to see things in the reverse. I have to agree with one of your commenters that is difficult to go back in one's mind and remember a time of what once was. While I am happy to see the transition which of course meant things were only for the better I also worry and wonder about how many families were basically run out of those areas who were already barely able to hold on to what they had and now seeing the very upscaled transition for people but now we're able to afford probably three or four times as much as the prior tenants who could afford next to nothing.

So just like today then.

Fantastic as always, you obviously do so much research. It must take a good amount of time to find the great images to go with the narration of these fascinating Victorians.

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All my dad's family were east end Irish descended. My great great grandparents seemed to run a sort of Irish immigrant receiving house in Whitechapel, they lived at the same address over three census records (1841-61) and were head of house, the house always had several other young Irish people listed as residents there besides their family. The fact that they lived at the same address for at least twenty years is i think unusual. It was mentioned in the video about the girls with black hair, my father and his mother and her mother all had jet black hair. My grandmother, who was born in 1883, liked a drink and was well known about the whitechapel pubs evidently! It's all very fascinating to me, thanks for another great video 👍

I was also born there in 1950 living in pitfeld street some fond memories of the place, buying live eels on a Saturday for my mother to cook and jelly, plenty of bomb sites to play on going to Andersens the bakers to get a long cut tin. Last time I went there was 2005 I didn’t recognise it properly then, now I think I would get lost. I originally left there in 1972.

Both my parents families lived in the East End in the 1800's. Census returns from that era show they mostly lived in multi occupation houses with large families often living in one or two rooms. The husbands were mostly skillled or semi skilled workers such as carpenters or bricklayers so they may have beeen better off than many but many of their wives and daughters were servants.

In the US the press drew the irish as monkeys notice the face in every drawing in every paper they did this,a monkey face.

As always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s hoxton is area in London borough of hackney in east London . It’s was historically in county of middle ssex until 1889 . It’s lies in north east of London city financial district, it was part of civil parish and subsequent metropolitan borough of short to incorporated into London borough of hackney. There are book titled clouds of glory a childhood in hoxton , written by Bryan Magee . Book review hoxton today is one of most fashionable parts of inner London, before blitz . It’s was capital of most notorious slum area . It’s was London busiest market for stolen goods , centre of pickpockets trade , home to razor gang that terrorised race courses all over southern England. Main borough , hoxton street was known as roughest street in Britain. But among people born there in heyday was Bryan Magee , journalist, academic, philosopher, radio and television broadcaster, member of parliament. For him it’s was home for his first nine years, until he became evacuee on outbreak of war . In this moving and beautifully written book he recalls vanished world of his childhood and brings to life again . I hope you like my research. Good luck to you your dearest ones . Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel.

You should do the modern conditions of people staying in the bed sits in east london for over £1000 a month with over 5 housholds in one house, serf living still continues in london today and probably worse in some ways.

It was a Rookery a crime ridden mess of badly built houses and other buildings..

Your channel often springs to mind whenever I'm walking through Broadmarsh in Nottingham.

Truth be told ,it is repeating 2024 in America.1 example is Aurora Colorado.So far they are beginning the journey going forward thats being told here in retrospect .anyone else see history repeating?

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going into the dark of the Strand (bridge) had me. Roxy Music - earworm

booty street 😝

Here we are once again with our weekly flashback from the voice known as FactFeast. In 2024 Hoxton is now full of trendy Wendy’s & wilful Walter’s, oh how times have changed. Gentrification has claimed more territories than the local gangs. Once again thanks to FactFeast. P.S. Shared to Elons app

As I have mixed feelings about breaking 112yrs of family history in Hoxton by being the last of us about to move out of Hoxton/London, in a way I do count myself blessed to have witnessed , and been part of, so many changes in Hoxton that they would have called you mental if you had predicted them 40-50yrs ago. We ( dad/brothers) had a fruit & veg stall along the market and I eventually opened a butchers shop after being given choice of 5yrs butchers apprenticeship or borstal. I miss the old days with all my heart and the community spirit and unity that could never be replicated again was something that only comes from those who have all suffered together with the echo's German bombs still in many memory's & being piss poor and ignorant living in a craphole council flat. I may miss nostalgia but the modernisation and evolution of a historic poor run down area has seen a standard of living increased for so many undreamed of not that long ago. The pubs closing & changing into flat and the 2nd hand shops now converted to selling hand made beers, nothing stays the same forever. Hoxton still has it's scumbags and faults , but I now see a modern vibrant area and wonder what my old mum & dad would think knowing we were recently listening to classical music coming from Shoreditch Green, that was once just rows of bombed out houses with the streets lined with corrugated Iron fences and a bunch of asbestos panelled pre fab bungalows the council put pensioners in to live, while sitting in the same family garden they once sat in, not worrying about the rat's coming in from the bomb sites.

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Looks dreadful today all that graffiti art awful

We owe a huge debt to those reporters and writers of the time They shone a light on things then, and now we are indebted to them for showing the history not in the books.

I have never been disappointed in any of your videos, and this one is no different. It kept me engrossed from start to finish. Thank you.💙