The Victorian Slum coming soon

[Guest]

dont know if any of you have seen the ad for this its going to be on BBC 2 soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IYX0muHVXM

[Jill on the A272]

Just the job for watching on iplayer while my OH watches football! Thanks Val

[Guest]

hope its as good as its being made out to be, so many aren't

[Vacumatic]

My great grandfather, born in 1847, lived in what must have been a slum in 136 Scotch Row in Oldbury. a tied cottage to some glassworks with 8 children, at one point an eight year old had their occupation shown on the census as 'labourer' - poor mite.

I will be watching with interest and I suspect some degree of horror.

Thank goodness the world has moved on.

[Guest]

they certainly had a hard time so many children died very young.

[Uncle John]

My mother did her teacher training in Deptford in the 1930s. Her photos of the children reflect considerable poverty.

[Gwyn in Kent]

Starts next Monday 10th October BBC2 9pm

......for 5 weeks I think.

[Guest]

I have 3 wonderful photos of children in school Toms mum and Sisters are amongst them
school2.jpgschool1.jpgPauline at school.jpg

[Gwyn in Kent]

Starts tonight BBC2 9pm

[Guest]

am ready and waiting

[Guest]

I really enjoyed that gave you a real eye opener to what it must have been like.

[Jill on the A272]

I've just watched on iplayer, really felt for the poor grandad when his back seized up so he couldn't work.

[Darksecretz]

I missed it!

[GallowayLass]

I enjoyed this first part.

[Guest]

Julie try and watch it I thought it worthwhile.

[maudarby]

Hi
Really enjoyed it but got a bit confused with the money. Grandad earned £10 for his day's work, very little in today's money & far too much in Victorian wages. The watercress was selling for 9 pence a bunch (old or new money?) & to "hang on a rope in the dosshouse" 2 pence (old or new money?) It was interesting when they said that single women/widows often turned to prostitution to earn a living & I have a strong feeling that my gr gr grandmother did just this in the Limehouse area of the East End. Luckily due to a bequest in her sister's will her later life improved & she lived into her 70s being "of independent means" in later census records.
Moggie

[Guest]

I would have thought they meant old money
There is an interesting article here about female prostitution

http://rictornorton.co.uk/though13.htm

[JudithM]

I think they said that they were giving the amounts in modern money terms - so that we could see how little they earned against the average = eg £10 for the very long day which grandad worked, would be well below "breadline" compared with today's "national living wage" of £7.20 an hour or £57.60 for an 8 hour day and at 9 pence a bunch they would need to sell 640 bunches of watercress in a day to achieve the living wage.

[Guest]

thanks for that Judith that explains it

[lennon2011]

I enjoyed it but didn't agree with the money, surely they should have used the amount it would have been in those days? Make it truly authentic.

I am thankful that none of my mine were in the slums shown, however the Phillips side would have witnessed it because they lived a few streets away from there. Then again everyone in those days would have been in a house classed as a slum wouldn't they?

If you are interested here are the photos of Stockton's Slums- Housewives Lane they called it.

https://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/?s=housewife+lane&submit=Search