100 Fishponds Road: Eastville Workhouse's Paupers Remembered. 

To all the people typing "SO MUCH FOR 'WHITE PRIVILEGE'!!!" or such nonsense, your posts will continue to be removed. Firstly, 'white privilege' does not mean "white people have no problems", it means "white people don't suffer discrimination based on being white". It's that simple. Please actually read about white privilege from black people instead of whatever boring rightwing youtuber has been filling your brains with bile. Secondly, upper-class white people ran and operated these workhouses and middle-class white people approved. If you see a documentary showing the cruelty and barbarity of the white, ruling-class of Britain and your first thought is "how can I get angry at black people about this?", you really need to examine where this disgusting obsession of yours has come from. Thirdly, the Bristol Radical History Group were also part of the Countering Colston project that sought to remove Colston statues and Colston's name from public places across Bristol due to him being a slavetrader. So neither the filmmakers nor the people who actually put the time, care and love into this memorial project have anytime for your disgusting bigotry and fascist dogwhistling. In conclusion, racists get fucked and continue shouting into the void on here as your posts are removed one by one. Absolutely pathetic and I hope you're ashamed of your worthless existences.

Sue private Chanel leaves comments but you can’t reply to them ? Strange !

@@PauperProduction This maybe only tangentially germane but I share it to amplify your comment. In the media (see: Amanpour Report) a social scientist reported his research into motives for the Jan 6th event at the US Capitol. The surprise I had was that after years of denying the very existence of White Privelege, interviews with actors in the event vehemently resented the "changes in society" that put People of Color on a par with Whites concerning access to opportunities. My take-away was that though Whites denied special privilege, they indeed recognized that access to opportunities can be shaped and they had come to anticipate such regard as their due. Oh, the games we play in the backs of our heads....

Oooopppssss....I must have missed something. Am I to understand that all of the bodily remains were exhumed? I didnt get that from the video. Help?

@@brucesims3228 bones were discovered pretty much immediately - including those bones of children we show in the video. As it is their resting place, the bones were returned to the ground once the memorial was installed A lot of local people report that during the construction of the housing estate nearby - during the 70s I believe - a LOT of bones were unearthed. There are lots of stories about people picking up a skull on their way to work and then showing them off to their workmates. I dunno, kinda weird, but a lot of people report the same. The bones we discovered are back under that innocuous football pitch now As for your other comment, yeah a lot of people can only envision the uplifting of marginalised groups as coming at the expense of them. Instead of us lifting each other up together. European and American history (and white colonial history in general) is built upon privileges at the expense of others, so it's not surprising that the white psyche can only imagine other people acting in the same manner. So for working class white people who don't have much to begin with, there's a fear of losing the meagre privilege already afforded - altho ironically I think most people crying about the 'non-existence' of white privilege are actually middle-class white people

Heartbreaking to hear about the sad stories many children had...

TY for sharing this

My mum and uncle were in barnardos childrens homes because my mums aunt ruth ellis had just become the last ever woman to be hanged in britain and her sister muriel decided it would be better to live off selling books and articles about her sister than to raise her children. My mums never met her brother and the sexual and physical abuse she suffered made her very overprotective of us. Which at the time we hated but now we know why. When the girls got thier period they'd be given one sanitary towel to last the whole cycle and my mum was forced through a mangle as a punishment.

@@starrchild254 absolutely heartbreaking to hear that. The world is such a cruel place.

@@lesley4807 my mum doesn't like talking about it muxh but she's akways said her biggest regret is that she never got to meet her littke brother. Can you imagine the smell in a dormitory with thirty girls, with possibly 8 or 9 onthier period at the same time and each of them trying yo make do with thier single sanitary towel?

We don't know how lucky we are.

The new Poor Law was introduced in 1834. Its aim was to prevent those who were without work from living off poor relief. Thus workhouses were built. The conditions in these places were so terrible that people either looked for work or were prepared to starve rather than to enter the workhouse. Thank goodness those days are gone.

The irony is the modern community honour those people, but for the most part we despise the poor of our own era. Sure there's the dole - that isnt enough to live on, and social housing, but the stigma and the lack of care toward the modern poor is exactly the same. We ewven have homeless people who would prefer to live rought that enter the modern equivilant to the workhouses.

@@1337flite today people on the dole live in luxury compared to those poor people they have coloured TV fridges even cars .I was brought up in the 1940s and early 50s second eldest of 6 children we had nothing compared to today's unemployed and my dad was in full time employment but we were much better off than the workhouse .todays idea of poverty would be considered luxury in those days

How sad . To have such horrible memories relived.

That made me cry. What a terrifying feeling he had upon awakening. Truly breaks 💔 my heart.

Your Father's story is incredibly sad. Unimaginable how brutal poor children had it. Treated worse than dogs.

How very sad. May your Dad rest in eternal peace.

How sad for your dad to be back where his most feared childhood memories came from and even today in a lot of cities there are these old buildings that were turned into hospitals and my grandma was taken there before she died and looking back it must have terrified her..I bet the tears that were wept in these places would have filled all the oceans in the world...

Pretty prayer. Thank you.

There are people in britain TODAY living on £60 a week and rishi sunak wants to cut that by £20 a week

Those old times are coming back with universal credit and the food bank ! Down with capitaliism and yes to a new fairer society! Listen to those left behind before its to late

@@cosmicmusicreynolds3266 my point exactly

It's still happening

Yes and then those with lost limbs or damaged faces were once again judged and marginalized. Breaks a person's heart doesn't it.

Absolutely.Thats why England always had armies around the world.

AND THE ROYALS STARTED THE WARS

History has never been good / fair throughout the whole world

@@janeholmes9374 These same people worship the grounds these same Royals step on. All the upper classes would not spit on the working class if they were on fire.

It was in no way close to a concentration camp. People in the workhouse were given a bed of their own, three meals, and children were given an education. Was it fun? Not even remotely. Did people still die? Absolutely. But it was still better than starving and freezing to death on the streets. At least in the workhouse, you were warmer, cleaner, and fuller. It was the first attempts at social welfare.

It will not matter to Maria, what we do now.

i agree Nancy....that picture moved me very much.

When I look at their picture I wonder what their story was and if they were somehow saved from such sad lives.

That's mostly because men could get a job, but back then, it was really tough for women to find a job, and they were the ones who were left with the children to have to feed. It's always been the women who were frowned upon, regardless of what their individual circumstances were.

@@MimiJoys Not only that women generally didn’t even earn half of what men could.

Well said

Right on!

Exactly....evil sobs....

It is worthy to note and compare the conditions of free Englishmen and that of their enslaved dusky brethren.

And Boris is now spending billions on a new ‘royal’ ship (our money) whilst the poor get poorer and rich get richer!

My dad went down mines at 13 also this a v sad story

So very cruel. ⚘

Would these same people be willing to help a homeless person they see on the street.

Blame God,its his will that we live like lice.

@@weemac4645 There is no God per se as humans we have our own empathy and compassion to choose if we want to help others and how we live our life here will show where we end up in next incarnation or not

The British Empire was built on the mistreatment and deaths of it’s most impoverished workers.

My husband’s grandmother was sent to Canada at seven years of age to work in the kitchen of a well off home. She never had a childhood. She never knew family love and acceptance. This causes a breakdown in future generations of the family and takes many years of healing.

@@wrangler71 its against the law to employ a 7 year old child.

@@ninnyspencer4774 tell us

I remember my grandmother who lived in easton. Telling me about her cousin whos husband died leaving her with 4 very young children and how she ended up there. Her kids were farmed out. So sad

@@lyndabelcher2195 Slavery in modern times.

So what?

Indeed but they are all in better place now we hope

I did recall though that there are more people alive today than those that ever lived. That thought actually makes me more weary. Imagine then if those of us living were all to be buried?! I am being cremated so I should not be taking up too much space. It makes sense that some cultures prefer cremations, vertical burials or even sky burials.

@@TASIAawful1 Get real you dickhead.

Indeed.

My nan was very much the same. The Dudley Guest hospital was a workhouse, although she never was in the workhouse, my Nan went in the hospital as she was poorly, she was absolutely terrified, begged to be taken out. It seems the horror of these places were never forgotten.

My mother who was born in 1928 grew up in Hackney Wick. My father and mother used to know about the terrible conditions of the workhouses. My mother had a happy childhood herself and seemed to enjoy the war years although they disrupted her education as their school was closed.

Touching distance

Just seen this video, saw your comment and remembered the family name from the Easton area circa 70s, god bless.

Couldn't agree with you more, the monarchy is a great drain on society, living the lives of luxury when poverty is still very much a problem in the UK. I wish people would rise and make a stand to rid us of these parasites. We don't need them.

@@lesley4807 well said ✊

Not forgetting our government’s, that implemented the poor bill! The House of Lords ect, probably some of the worst perpetrators of the appalling treatment of the poor. Many would point the finger to the parish councils and those in charge.

Most of your elected presidents, from slave owners to Trump (need I mention that draft dodger and his opportunistic crimes) are not exactly smelling so pretty either. I was told by my father many years ago that Americans are jealous they don’t have a royal family and that very jealousy is why they ridicule royalty, yet embarrassingly brag about how great America is. It seems America takes advantage of its poorer workers, does not pay a living wage so many of these workers are poverty stricken and live in the streets homeless. I generally don’t think it is good form for people of one country to criticise another’s royalty or political processes but you brought it up. No one her has been denying the wealthier classes exploited the poor, but it is still continuing isn’t it, royal family or no?

@@lesley4807If you say this to a Royalist they will say we need them because they bring in the tourists and its tradition. Yet, having them you will have this class structure of Arisocrats, upper middle class, middle class, working class and the poor.

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I have just chanced upon this video. My Great-grandparents lived in Freeland Building, their daughter, my Grandmother worked as a cleaner in 100 Fishponds Road and lived in Berkeley Street. I was baptised in the church on Freeland Buildings.

Things have gotten so much better

Wonderful story to hear TY

Look how horribly Amazon treat's it's workers. The more things change.

God forbid..I'm in a terrifying situation...and there must be others too...

Yes and these poor souls had what the new professional victimhood in the usa call...white privilege..no such thing.it was and always will be class privilege in the uk.If only they were taught relevant history in schools or..real history and not this made up clap trap thats made up.

Some people that left Scotland and Wales for better lives abroad did not fare that well either apparently. Ozzie Osborne’s wife Sharon researched her history to find terrible things happened to her ancestors that moved to Canada, basically suffered terrible poverty, worked long hours but their wages just paid rent and all their children, bar eldest daughter, died. It sounds like they had left one living hell for another.

@@Dottydewinter3397 "White Privilege"...Lol, okay I must have missed the boat. Here in the US the "Victimhood" is indeed deep, problem is they have no clue. But the road we are headed down they just might find out.

So true. It's gross how someone equated this to Amazon employees of today. Like, really?

When I was growing up in the Midlands, we were only taught British History. When I saw what my daughter has been taught now in History i was shocked and a little angry. They do a little bit of social and Economic History and the its swiftly onto Nazi Germany. WTH?

@@sue3028 only existed since 2000, thats 21 years , a whole generation , you talk as if it’s Ok ! , no wonder the nation is going backwards , it’s that lack of objection that allows governments to normalise POVERTY .....disgusting mind set !

Those time are coming back but worse ask Prince Charles the globalist

Amazon warehouse......

Don't forget Universal Credit, brought in by that man who hates poor people Iain DUNCAN SMITH, plus the NHS being slowly sold under our noses

It is part of Britains history and should be taught and never forgotten.

She didn’t exactly like her own children apparently either.

She was a terrible mother. She said her babies looked like frogs. Then she was not raised by a loving, caring mother either. She did not care for her own so why bother with the people who had nothing. Difficult to believe that over 4000 people in a mass grave and no marker. Here in Canada though an unmarked grave of 215 babies and children buried by the Catholic church. They were Infigenous to Canada so seemed to be not worth more. Our countries shame in past governments. We know more will be found at the many residential schools for indigenous children who lie buried in unmarked graves across this land. Shameful history of government in many countries sadly.

Why would you think she would have empathy for children and poor ones at that. She could not bear her children, she has said so many times in letters. They saw the poor as another species and deserved what the got because they were poor through no fault of their own.