The slums of Victorian Newcastle were a harbour for human misery. Hidden amongst the smoke stacks of factory chimneys were not just families living in terrible poverty in the city’s slums, but people suffering from the lethal effects of lead poisoning from working with chemicals. In this eye-witness account by a Victorian reporter you will hear real stories of people living in dismal, cramped rooms, alongside mud and rubbish – with even bleaker lives, relieved only by the ever present escape of gambling, smoking and drink.
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▶️ Hell on Earth – A Journey to Victorian Manchester:
▶️ The Plague Slums of Victorian Glasgow (Outbreak in the 1800s):
▶️ Evil Slums of Edinburgh in the 1800s:
▶️ Edinburgh Old Town Slums (Poor Children):
▶️ Edinburgh Old Town Slums (High-Rise Hovels):
▶️ Terrible Victorian Terraces and Towering Tenements (Life in 1800s East End London):
▶️ Victorian Slum Hidden Behind Upper Class Regent Street:
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▶️ Journey to St. Giles Slum (The Worst Rookery in Victorian London):
▶️ Slum Dwellers of Seven Dials (People of a Victorian London Rookery):
▶️ Survival in Victorian London’s Brutal East End Slums:
▶️ Victorian Underworld (Living Nightmare of 19th Century London’s Slums):
▶️ Whitechapel (Victorian London’s District of Wickedness):
▶️ Horrific Homes in Victorian East End London (Squalor in Star Street):
▶️ The Hell of Life in Victorian Slums (19th Century London’s Rookeries):
▶️ Victorian London’s Most Dangerous Slum (Fenian Barracks):
▶️ Victorian London’s Brutal East End Slum – Filthy Old Nichol Street (Bethnal Green/Shoreditch):
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