Violence, abuse and disease were all part of everyday life in London’s slums, and desperate times called for desperate measures. But what was everyday life like for those poor souls who called the slums their home? From sleeping arrangements to paying the bills, here we present 20 grim facts about life at the very bottom of Victorian society. 20.

2023年7月17日 · This area was bombed extensively in World War II – 19th century slum clearance compliments of the 20th century Luftwaffe! But there’s still trace evidence – the outlines of Jacob’s Island and even the feel of Jacob’s Island.

2016年10月26日 · Tyndall’s Buildings and their like may have been the archetypal slums of Victorian London but in fact slums came in many forms. In the early 19th century, as London grew and pressure on house-room increased, any open space – remnants of market gardens, marshy meadows not previously profitable for building, or the grounds of former ...

2024年3月4日 · Once known as Lambeth Marsh, the area became a slum in the 19th century. This photograph, from 1860, shows Fore Street. A family living in London’s slums, 1900s.

2019年11月8日 · Violence, abuse and disease were all part of everyday life in London’s slums, and desperate times called for desperate measures. But what was everyday life like for those poor souls who called the slums their home? From sleeping arrangements to paying the bills, here we present 20 grim facts about life at the very bottom of Victorian society:

While the city grew wealthy as Britain's holdings [clarification needed] expanded, 19th-century London was also a city of poverty, where millions lived in overcrowded and unsanitary slums. Life for the poor was immortalized by Charles Dickens in such novels as Oliver Twist .

A rookery, in the colloquial English of the 18th and 19th centuries, was a city slum occupied by poor people and frequently also by criminals and prostitutes. Such areas were overcrowded, with low-quality housing and little or no sanitation.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, London slums attracted the attention of journalists and social researchers, who described them as areas of extreme poverty, degradation, crime and violence, and called for an immediate public action to improve the living and sanitary conditions of the working classes.

In the 19th century, the slums of London revealed a dark underbelly that stood in stark contrast to the grandeur and elegance associated with the Victorian era. These overcrowded and poverty-stricken areas were characterized by squalor, disease, and social unrest.

2022年10月5日 · While some of London's slums were hastily erected shantytowns, other slums were made of centuries-old houses. This photograph from 1877 shows homes in Cloth Fair built after the Great Fire of London in the 17th century.