Dark History Unearthed: Minister Buried 12,000 Bodies Beneath His Chapel

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In this video, Baptist Minister Buried 12,000 bodies Beneath His Chapel, Kevin Hicks explores London’s dark history with the true story of the Enon Chapel in Victorian London. How did he do it? How did he manage to bury so many bodies in such a small space? This is a haunting reminder of the city's grim past. As London's population swelled during the 19th century, overcrowded cemeteries were commonplace, and Enon Chapel, like many other private burial spaces, resorted to using its limited space for mass burials.
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@yuin3320 11 месяцев назад

This might be unusual for a viewer to do, but I want to thank the patrons as well. I'm so glad to see such quality history content like this, that the money holders of television and the like have been failing to fund production of for far too long.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Wow, that's very kind of you, thanks. Our Patreon members are a smashing bunch and really help to keep us going. 👍🏻

@debbylou5729 10 месяцев назад

I’m grateful, as well. Even that small amount of money is something I can’t afford on social security

@clioflano421 10 месяцев назад

@@debbylou5729me too,..,so I make sure I always hit like

@peteallyn412 11 месяцев назад

The part with the sunday school children pointing out the “body bugs” is very😅…..unsettling. What a crazy story. Victorian times were definitely dystopia-esque and extremely strange.

@28pbtkh23 11 месяцев назад

They were indeed strange times, but also an era of great reform. People were shocked at some of going’s-on and strived to improve matters, especially social conditions.

@jormbus 11 месяцев назад

Mind boggling that someone could be caught with hundreds of body’s in a cellar and have no repercussions for it. Very interesting topic, keep up the great work 👍

@jamesrogers47 11 месяцев назад

Why would it matter? The bodies of the dead had to go somewhere. The proprietor provided a needed service at , one might say, a bargain basement price.

@garyfrancis6193 11 месяцев назад

Considering the last three years not unusual.

@benwinter2420 10 месяцев назад

Easier than shrinking them & sending them through two tuning forks to Mars/Christ as laborers

@agentmueller 9 месяцев назад

@@jamesrogers47Lmao

@sharonkaczorowski8690 11 месяцев назад

There have been incidents like this in modern times in the US…bodies dumped on the property, stacked on each other like cordwood, abandoned, etc, etc. etc. The morticians, when caught, have gone to jail. I imagine in the 19th century they got away with a lot more.

@graciemaca6996 11 месяцев назад

@sharonkaczorowski8690- Yes, you are right! I remember seeing about this happening last year in USA. Aside from adult cadavers, I think there were also bones of babies in the attic! So sad for the relatives who paid for their loved ones to be buried respectfully, but we're not.😢 A greater outrage to the funeral director (or mortician) who showed such utter disrespect! Glad he was 'found out'.👍

@williamberne 10 месяцев назад

I kind of remembered it, that was during the beginning of covid, right? They suddenly had so many dead bodies, the refrigerator trucks were full, so they started to make some mass burial ground on some island, it was soon discovered by drones.

@sharonkaczorowski8690 10 месяцев назад

@@williamberne Yes…most recently. We were nit prepared for an epidemic.

@vysheslavuzumati1269 11 месяцев назад

I heard the smell of a dead human body is probably one of the worst smells you can ever encounter, it never leaves you. I don’t know how that man was able to make it down to the cellar to encounter what was causing the horrible stench.

@supernoodles91 11 месяцев назад

Do you know the program MythBusters? The did an episode on the 'myth' that if somebody dies & decomposes in a car you can't get the smell out. Well, they put a dead Pig in a Corvette (I think) sealed it, left it for a week or so, cleaned it as best they could then tried to sell it......those that came could still smell it as soon as they opened the door!😂😂 It's grim and hilarious. If you haven't seen it you should look it up

@2bit8bytes 11 месяцев назад

Olfactory Fatigue

@vysheslavuzumati1269 11 месяцев назад

@@2bit8bytes like his sense of smell was so overwhelmed that it temporarily stopped working?

@davesheppard8797 11 месяцев назад

Yes.....and I wonder how he stood the stench living above it all with his wife?? 😖😖😖

@vysheslavuzumati1269 11 месяцев назад

@@davesheppard8797 i remember one time a opossum somehow died on the side of my house, it caused a fly infestation and smelled absolutely horrendous I couldn’t ignore it and wanted it gone that day so I called a local man who literally came and picked it up with his barehands and put it in a grocery bag and took it with him in the passenger seat of his car. I was beside myself seeing him do that he had no fear.

@PrimarisBlackTemplaDraven 10 месяцев назад

As a history buff your channel is a hidden gem.

@vanessahenry7238 11 месяцев назад

This was a great and unusual bit of Victorian history. Some may think what is was doing was wrong but as you first told - the real tragedy was that a poor person was practically priced out for a decent funeral or burial. For that what he did was a decent thing. Too bad it had to be in such a way as it was.

@shdwbnndbyyt 11 месяцев назад

Remember, Victorian England is not far removed from mass burials of previous times. It was COMMON, especially in urban areas to reuse burial sites, piling a new set of bodies over the old ones... It was so bad in Paris that they started collecting the bones of those who died in previous decades and stacking them in the catacombs/sewers.

@benwinter2420 11 месяцев назад

Ossuaries . . churches made from bones , a relative common practice in old area's in overcrowded Europe where burial land scarce & needed recycle

@rossbryan6102 10 месяцев назад

HE PROBABLY CONNED HIS SUPERVISORY BISHOP THEY WERE ATTENDEES OF HIS CHURCH SERVICES!! ALTHOUGH, THEY CAME UP QUITE SHORT IN COLLECTED TITHES!! LOLOL

@sarojinichaudhury179 10 месяцев назад

Churches made from bones ?

@redceltnet 4 месяца назад

*Victorian Britain

@micahlanboney7830 11 месяцев назад

What an excellent storyteller!

@MichaelWilliams-tv1bm 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing this story, it's one I hadn't heard before. With these practices it is hardly surprising that towns and cities had frequent epidemics, and that infant mortality was so high and adult life expectancy was so low.

@RegUnsworth 11 месяцев назад

My Grandmother lost a daughter as an infant around 1944, the cost then of burial was £1. I know this because I went through the church register to find her and the fee of £1 was entered in the plot column so I never found her.

@Paulftate 11 месяцев назад

a moneymaking opportunity 👍

@creativeideas012 11 месяцев назад

Super expensive even back then smh

@Paulftate 11 месяцев назад

@@creativeideas012 cost-effective.....you agree......actually nothing changes except time and places...people basically the same

@laneysmith1008 9 месяцев назад

My mum lost a younger brother about this time,( he was stillborn). I was told that babies back then who were stillborn were not allowed to have a headstone or anything similar. My mum brother was just buried with no marker.

@bigtex4058 11 месяцев назад

Cool Victorian undertaker outfit.

@Paulftate 11 месяцев назад

hadn't noticed until you brought it up 👍

@EspressoMoon 11 месяцев назад

Great video! What an interesting (and sad) story! I worked with some of the medieval skeletal collection housed at the Museum of London and it was fascinating to learn of their origins and witness the disease and vitamin deficiencies in their bones (rickets and scurvy were extremely common). I cannot imagine what that chapel must have been like for the residents of the area!

@Abnormallylargeorangutan 11 месяцев назад

Kevin your channel has taught me more than any history class I’ve been in keep the videos coming man👍

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! Will do!

@gloworm6387 11 месяцев назад

We had a somewhat similar scandalous event here in the States (Georgia I think). A crematorium breakdown & the owner was burying dead everywhere for years without the State knowing til he died. Worse thing, realitives recieving ashes found it was actually ashes from burnt trees.

@kmarch6630 11 месяцев назад

No, he didn't die. He went to jail.

@arlenedavis5770 7 месяцев назад

I remember that 😅

@JStrawmyre 11 месяцев назад

I was working with an electrician in a basement a few weeks ago when I found some human ashes from 2011, I decided to take them to the funeral parlor listed on the box she was in, they said her son still lives somewhere in Somerset New Jersey. I hope they are reunited.

@lanzknecht8599 11 месяцев назад

Sounds like a script for a horror movie. Post-mortem phototgraphy became popular in the 2nd half of the 19th century, too. So it seems there was and is a morbid fascination for this topic. Will you do a video about Burke and Hare, hopefully in the suit you are wearing in this one?

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

It's definitely on my list 👍🏻

@arthurdoucette1786 11 месяцев назад

Greetings once again from nova Scotia, thanks for the morbidly fascinating video. I have a hard time wrapping my head around JUST how MANY people have lived in your home island, what an amazing, mind boggling subject that is. I think you have found your next awesome videos perhaps....... stay safe and as always best regards, Arthur

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

And this is why we moved to Canada.....all this space and less than half the population of that small island 😜

@arthurdoucette1786 11 месяцев назад

@@thehistorysquad greetings from nova Scotia, I kinda felt that may have been a factor in the decision to come here, I for one am very happy you chose Canada, one thing we do have is space for more. Best regards, Arthur

@judydavenport9636 11 месяцев назад

Can you imagine in the heat of the summer, no electric fans, no a/c attending Sunday service amid all that stench and flies. I guess that's what they were.. Horrible.. But what's sadder is the mass burial. All those loved ones who's names are forgotten. Husbands, wives, sons, daughters... all those identities lost.

@davesheppard8797 11 месяцев назад

I'm amazed that the people kept returning every Sunday......like the joiner for instance. You'd think the smell would put them off. Although most of London stank at that time. Bath was worse apparently, which is why they built the high pavement walkways because there was so much human waste in the streets as it just got chucked out of the window. All the Upper classes were carried around in sedan chairs!! Dave.

@creativeideas012 11 месяцев назад

Identities are lost every few generations now as well

@mrecamping5496 11 месяцев назад

This channel’s content never disappoints! 🤠👍

@Campfire_Bandit 11 месяцев назад

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Cheers!!

@mrecamping5496 11 месяцев назад

@@thehistorysquad For real sir! Wish I had you as my college history professor 😄

@okancanarslan3730 11 месяцев назад

Mr house seemed to be an honest man and really wanted to help the poor people as he let himself be buried in the same disgusting cellar

@chriscookesuffolk 11 месяцев назад

Thanks Kev for another macabre offering. One wonders if any of our modern day cultural practices will be looked upon in horror in years to come. I can think of a few...

@jodieg6318 11 месяцев назад

I remeber studying some of the history of London; had a neighbor growing up from North Hamptonshire who had worked as a mason in Londo , some of the stories he had from when they had dig, you couldnt nreak group anywhere without finding old fou foundations, cellars, and, more time than was comfoetable, human remains because not only the city of London overcrowded so were the graveyards, Particularly the paupers graves. (And just as i typed that you mentioned the boneyards) Of course they had survey maps and historical records but its impossible to be certain of everything so there was often a suprise or two that happened when excavating began.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

That's for sure. I'm just shooting a follow-on from this today that talks of more than the Enon Chapel scandal. As I dug deeper (pardon the pun) more and more information came out, it's pretty incredible. 👍🏻

@ELOAAMinistries 11 месяцев назад

Interesting! People are still struggling today to bury loved ones! He helped 12k families who couldnt afford it. When My Mom died after a long health battle, no insurance was left. I had to make payments.

@redraven1410 11 месяцев назад

I sat on a board of a cenetery district. Fought for 16 years to keep the grave costs reasonable and endowed. The real expense went to the undertaker who has you by the heart. Try to make arrangements before you need them. And cramation isn't as expensive as full burial, and you can keep the remains in any container at home.

@davesheppard8797 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating mate!! I know London in general was pretty pongy around Victorian times but around this area it must have been unbearable!! Another great video mate. After shooting my longbow today it has really wetted my appetite for the Agincourt part of your 100 years war series. All your videos are great though!! Dave.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Cheers Dave, I've dug deeper into this and plan to shoot a follow up, it's pretty incredible. I'll message you direct, but just wanted to thank you for upgrading your Patreon membership. I had someone on here today comment and thank the PATREONS for their support of the channel, so it's not just me & Julie that appreciates the support 👍🏻

@davesheppard8797 11 месяцев назад

@thehistorysquad No problem Kev!! Your videos are so good that it's worth every penny, plus you are working on things I want to see, like the 100 years war, Robin Hood and your own Archery videos. Fantastic!!

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

@@davesheppard8797 Yep, all to come 👍🏻

@petehall889 11 месяцев назад

A very entertaining film Kevin, if rather macabre. I was glued to the screen by your vivid description. I'm sure it was great fun coming home with bugs in your clothing! The smell in the cellar would have been really overpowering. I have experienced the sickly-sweet smell of bodily decay, (the polyamines putrescine and cadaverine are jolly whiffy), but multiply that many-fold with the number of bodies, it must have been horrific. On a lighter note, perhaps it was a sign of a tougher constitution in those days that encouraged folks to enjoy the pleasures of dancing on the dead. Death was a not uncommon feature of life in those days. I like your sketch of the Chapel cellar, particularly the seagull or duck(?) swimming happily in the sewer - there must have been plenty of tasty morsels floating by! ☠🤮

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

🤣 you spotted him huh? Cheers Pete, glad you enjoyed this one.

@passionforlust 11 месяцев назад

Glad we live in this day and age, the smell of decay must have been terrible at times!

@Jsi01 11 месяцев назад

So pleased to have just discovered this channel. Thank you so much for your time!

@jacquelyndixon2788 11 месяцев назад

Another enthralling, well delivered episode. A great lead up to the fall and halloween season.

@tombstoneranch69 11 месяцев назад

I'm not an expert, but I would have to think that 12,000 corpses would be an absolutely awful substrate material for any kind of serious construction. I don't believe he got a permit from the planning department, there's no way they would have approved that. I can see why it never caught on.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

😜

@crystalclear6864 11 месяцев назад

😆

@benwinter2420 11 месяцев назад

Road of bones Russia gulag inmates used

@JohnDavies-cn3ro 11 месяцев назад

Would theree have been a planning department back then?

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

@@JohnDavies-cn3ro I imagine so, of sorts, though I don't know 100%.

@tamrielspirit3285 11 месяцев назад

A few miles from where I live is a church that is looked after by a local trust as it’s no longer in use.They have a diary from a vicar who was the vicar of that church in the mid 19th century.one of the entries in the diary says how the vicar encouraged his congregation to bring flowers with them to services , the purpose? So they could smell them during service so they were not distracted by the smell of decomposing corpses which were interned in the shallow vaults under the church floor.

@Wario-The-Legend 11 месяцев назад

This is absolutely demented and horrible, but fascinating at the same time.

@ericajohnson3504 8 месяцев назад

This was common in all graveyards. Once they were full, the Sexton just dug a deeper grave and buried the bones and coffin bits deeper, then put the new body in. Found in newspapers of the early 1800's.

@Holly-ro3yq 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this bit of history with us.

@nancyM1313 11 месяцев назад

thanks for very informative & entertaining uploads. ❤ History

@kenijonesESQ 11 месяцев назад

Great episode Kevin, great suggestion patreon

@thefatefulforce8887 11 месяцев назад

Crazy video! Great stuff Kev.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@chriswharton 10 месяцев назад

Excellent video.

@kenkloiber2989 10 месяцев назад

I just came across your channel & really enjoy it.TY for your efforts.

@thehistorysquad 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@yvonnepetty3400 3 месяца назад

As always Kevin. Very interesting. Would not have wanted live around that time. 😊🇿🇦

@thehistorysquad 3 месяца назад

Me neither, the poverty was awful.

@arlysdavis3694 11 месяцев назад

Wow. Thank you for all your unusual and interesting stories

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

My pleasure!

@frankieblue1945 11 месяцев назад

Excellent film. Thank you Sir.

@kerspaprogbalceram3669 11 месяцев назад

I work in meat processing, and we have to dispose of waste such as bones and guts. A company comes to pick it all up for further processing, but it has to sit for a few days before pickup. I can tell you the worst part isn't the smell, its the gases produced by the guts. The gas is so strong that it burns the eyes and throat and within a couple seconds you start to get lightheaded. You can get used to the smell but the gas is another story.

@TheSeptemberRose 11 месяцев назад

I used to live in a neighbourhood near a slaughteryard......what a horrible smell, ESPECIALLY in the summer.

@darrellpratt4479 11 месяцев назад

Wow. So interesting they buried people like that. Agreed very dark indeed. Glad to see more members joining as its such a quality channel that i cannot say too much great stuff about.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Cheers Darrell, hope the kids weren't too traumatised 😜

@Deetzbaby 11 месяцев назад

Great video Kevin, although it is a sad and tragic topic at least the honor and memory of those that were interred there are not forgotten. Also want to give a shout out and welcome to the new Patreon Members!!!!

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Yes, thanks! We've had a few new members recently. Hopefully when we do our next random Zoom chat we'll meet them in person 👍🏻

@lisaconner7609 11 месяцев назад

Thank you Kevin , another mind opening take on history

@ebmus9781 11 месяцев назад

I'm going to have nightmares after watching this! Seriously though, thank you Kevin for the time and research you put into each one of your videos.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

My pleasure!

@jordana7140 11 месяцев назад

Once again, so engaging. Amazingly interesting video and topic. I could listen to you speak on any history for hours.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoy it! Thanks 👍🏻

@damedavidfrith55 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for another cracking vlog very interesting 🎉

@Witchofthewoods. 9 месяцев назад

What an interesting story, and you tell it so well!! Can you imagine what that chapel was like! 😅😮 oh my. It's fascinating! I always love your videos.

@Sgtklark 8 месяцев назад

I watched a video that postulated that the reason so few bodies have been found at the battle site of Waterloo (one or two bodies found to date, I believe) was that a few years after the battle some business went there, disinterred the dead soldiers, and ground their bones to make fertilizer. Why didn't they use the bodies in this chapel for that purpose?

@thehistorysquad 8 месяцев назад

The company you're talking about is Halesowen Hoof & Horn who swept the battlefield of Waterloo for bones and from my research I do believe that some bones made their way from London to this company but don't have the details. 👍🏻

@samwillock7626 11 месяцев назад

Great video Kevin love from BirminghamUK x

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Cheers Sam!

@blueneeson9888 11 месяцев назад

Thanks a Brilliant Video From Blue

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Cheers Blue 👍🏻

@owenshale8719 11 месяцев назад

I did he even get in trouble because of his actions and I realize that he was trying to help people but it could have been bad in health of the city of London glad that you are going more videos keep up the amazing videos and have a wonderful year 🎉

@godfreymiles5865 10 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@thehistorysquad 10 месяцев назад

Hi Godfrey, thanks so much for the SUPER, it's much appreciated 👍🏻. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

@tracyracy 11 месяцев назад

I can't even imagine the stench of the bodies with the stench of the sewer. No dignity, even in death, for those people. That is so sad.

@mickusable 11 месяцев назад

Interesting and enlightening video Kevin, liking the out fit, think you would make a great undertaker 🤘🏹

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Haha, I was once at Blenheim Palace for Halloween. They had to ask me to tone down scaring the public 😜

@Ian-mj4pt 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating stuff once again Kevin. Sadly unscrupulous people will always abuse the poor or others for financial gain.

@crystalclear6864 11 месяцев назад

Tks for converting the old money into modern terms. Puts it in perspective

@terrydodson2351 10 месяцев назад

Informative enlightening tale. Australia.

@thehistorysquad 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍🏻

@DallingerM 11 месяцев назад

Looking very dapper there Kevin 👌🏽

@kirstyjarvis4545 9 месяцев назад

So interesting

@jbstepchild 10 месяцев назад

You sir are the best

@thehistorysquad 10 месяцев назад

Thanks very much 👍🏻

@user-ru4br1dl3r 9 месяцев назад

My first time travelling to London at 1984, homestay in garden house apartments paddington, I swear i felt this subject since that time, all gardens included bodies inside , always I said in London graves everywhere even inside rooms. Now when i see this video i made assured from that 😮💀 But even though i loved London and still loves it

@HarryWHill-GA 11 месяцев назад

You're the best Kevin. No bones about it.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

🤣 Love it!

@kiwifruit27 11 месяцев назад

What a fascinating story 😮

@willbrooks2013 11 месяцев назад

Hi Kevin, Great videos, I’m becoming as passionate as you for medieval history. What books do you recommend? Cheers.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

There are so many, but take a look at the Osprey series, there are some really good books on medieval warfare there. The Medieval Archer by Jim Bradbury is another of my favourites. 👍🏻

@sceema333 11 месяцев назад

say what you want about all of these people, but almost everyone involved had remarkable marketing and advertising skills

@francisdec1615 11 месяцев назад

I don't see how this is so bad. Here in Sweden it was considered an honour to be buried beneath the church floor in the 1800s.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Respectfully of course 👍🏻

@badkneesone 11 месяцев назад

Creepy but absolutely fun video

@WadeWeigle 5 месяцев назад

Nothing brings you closer to the Lord then the smells of loved ones rotting away under your very feet. So he was a poor grave keeper but a brilliant preacher!

@michaelpage4199 11 месяцев назад

Kevin…. No bones about it. This was an amazing bit of history 😀

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

🤣 love it!

@colinp2238 11 месяцев назад

Hi Kevin. This surprised me when I saw the content as it was a little off the beaten track for you. I found it interesting and I think the costume really suited you. I could picture you dressed like that playing the vicar at the begging of A Christmas Carol, the one that presides at the burial of Jacob Marley. You should consider it if they make a new film version. 👍

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it! I like to cover all history, not just medieval although it is my favourite period and have in fact done a version of a Christmas Carol if you fancy taking a look. 👍🏻 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V5fPWHgLqdY.html

@colinp2238 11 месяцев назад

@thehistorysquad Thanks I will check it out later.

@noradinneen1 7 месяцев назад

Tres interessant.

@francisebbecke2727 11 месяцев назад

Rough times our ancestors lived and died in. We are lucky to be here now.

@stephaniesiddall3012 8 месяцев назад

No lie. I would TOTALLY be on that tour...I would probably be on it more than once.

@bostonrailfan2427 11 месяцев назад

you touched on two issues that were huge in Britain then, especially London. the lack of burial space led to the rise of necropolis railways and cremation, i hope you consider those as possible future stories to tell as they’re unique and interesting ones. and i couldn’t believe how much people turned a blind eye to the rotting corpses and body parts showing up downriver, but i guess the old “not my job” concept was as strong then as it is now

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely. I ended up doing quite a bit more digging, pardon the pun, and plan to shoot a follow up 👍🏻

@bostonrailfan2427 11 месяцев назад

@@thehistorysquad it’s fun seeing dapper Victorian Kevin again so any chance to see that costume is a great video

@crystalclear6864 11 месяцев назад

@@bostonrailfan2427 a video of kevin in all his costumes!!

@ianstransporthistorystuff8175 11 месяцев назад

Very intresting and recently they were doing some work on the vestry at a church I go to sometimes in London called St Giles in the fields and the builders have discovered another burial crypt under a nearby building and they sent a camera down and found it still has burials.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Gosh, it doesn't surprise me. In the follow up film, I think St Giles will be featuring, although I'm not sure if there's more than one St Giles. 👍🏻

@ianstransporthistorystuff8175 11 месяцев назад

@@thehistorysquad That will be good 👍 and the st Giles I go to is right next to Denmark street ( tin pan alley) and original church was founded by Queen Matilda and famous for the 'st Giles bowl ' for condemned prisoners on their way to be hanged.

@wolfgangholtzclaw2637 11 месяцев назад

Funeral and an interment, two bits!!! Have to hand it to the economic pluck of the Pastor, Baptist as he was... But you have to ask: "What would Jesus have done?" Ha ha, I was raised Baptist, but in our small church our people mostly buried in the old cemetery between our town and the next. I think he may not have been working for the Lord. Been away for a while, I bought a house and moved. Then bought new furniture and other improvements continuing... But glad to see you still giving it to us in our funny bone Kevin. Good thing my Baptist mother is dead. I can hear her now saying: "Oh My Goodness" on hearing that a Baptist minister was capitalizing on funerals for a savings and burying them under the chapel. Ha ha!!! I loved the dark suit, worthy of any Minister saying the graveside as the relations weep and the nails are driven in the wooden box. Have a good one.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Ah, great to see you back! Julie & I were married in a Baptist Chapel on a hillside in Wales, the minister was lovely, nothing like Mr Howse 👍🏻

@wolfgangholtzclaw2637 11 месяцев назад

@@thehistorysquad I couldn't help but laugh at the total unashamed way in which he swindled the parishioners in total sinful greed, but if It had been one of my loved ones, I would have been furious. Congrats on the union of you and Julie, I am sure you treat her like a true princess!

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

@@wolfgangholtzclaw2637 Haha, of course, my Welsh princess 👍🏻

@keepitsimple4629 11 месяцев назад

You're looking good!!!!!

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Thanks very much 👍🏻

@clairestaffieri4398 11 месяцев назад

I am from across the pond and have just found your channel. I think you are an extraordinary story teller. I can't imagine sitting through a rotting guts story, but I just did. HA ! I have checked out other videos of yours and especially like the "womanness" you include. What I mean is that your story telling is about the human being living her or his life, not only the rich, famous or infamous. What they ate, where they got their food, how the bow was drawn. Please consider telling about what it must have been like to be a peasant on the land. Who owned the land how much was taken form the present working the land, what were the everyday living conditions? Thanks, Claire

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Hi Claire, thanks for watching and for your suggestion, I'll certainly keep it in mind 👍🏻

@clairestaffieri4398 11 месяцев назад

@@thehistorysquad Thanks for your reply and consideration. After re-reading what I had written to you, my question really is how did the upper class people fund their lifestyle? ie, taxing the peasants and pillaging the conquered. I hope I am making sense.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

@@clairestaffieri4398 Taxation both by the noble lord and the church. You could lose up to 2 thirds of your crop through taxation. The one thing people forget is that we, the common people, the Saxons/English were the vanquished, we lost our lands in 1066 and therefore the wealth always radiated up. There was a way to improve your station though, the rule of thirds is an interesting concept here...... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BHtBUDfI53I.html Hope that helps.

@jimferry6539 11 месяцев назад

There’s a little known place like this in Manchester, angel meadow it’s called, it’s a small park, about the size of a tennis court but underneath there is around 40000 bodies of poor Victorian workers, many Irish and workhouse people, very similar to your story. Apparently it had gotten so bad back then with the smell and the rats, people had actually reported seeing rats running round carrying human hands, must’ve been horrible in some places back then

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

It's unbelievable isn't it, yet it happened. 👍🏻

@magdimahmoud3365 4 месяца назад

Insane!

@Paulftate 11 месяцев назад

tells a good story 👍

@margaretdrew2844 8 месяцев назад

I am English . Find these history lessons very interesting .❤

@thehistorysquad 8 месяцев назад

Glad you like them!

@noonehere1793 11 месяцев назад

It seems to me that you don’t dare dig a hole on your property for fear of hitting some historical bit!🙂

@user-wy7ml3sd2m 11 месяцев назад

One hears occasionally, on the television news, more modern versions of this scandal. Undertakers with unburied clients, coffins (occupied) stacked in a back room etc.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Yes indeed you do - people don't change. 👍🏻

@burbuvs8911 11 месяцев назад

The hairstyle is the cherry on the top in this victorian outfit 😊

@GeetMonke 11 месяцев назад

I would love to hear you tell a story about the disappearance of Roanoke Colony.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

I like a good mystery, I'll add it to my list 👍🏻

@Butwhy313 10 месяцев назад

I must say you look dashing in your undertaker outfit!! 💕 love the history!!

@thehistorysquad 10 месяцев назад

😜

@Oakroot10 9 месяцев назад

Would you consider doing a film on Cross Bones Cemetary (RedCross Way/Union Street, London). It’s a fascinating history linked with the Winchester geese (medieval prostitutes licences by the Bushop of Winchester to work on his land). It’s now a shine and open space in memory of all those interred there. Cheers

@thehistorysquad 9 месяцев назад

I’ll certainly give it some thought 👍

@Football__Junkie 9 месяцев назад

This is the most unintentionally macabre English history channel 😂

@geraldmorgan2539 11 месяцев назад

Creepy but fascinating our history is amazing

@dmcarpenter2470 11 месяцев назад

Wow

@dennislindqvist8443 11 месяцев назад

When something becomes too expensive, illegal alternatives always appear.

@oneshotme 11 месяцев назад

Is the chapel still standing?? I did a quick search and only found a Baptist church with that name in England I enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

No, disappeared a very long time ago. Apparently the London School of Economics stands on the site now. 👍🏻

@J.n.A.1993 11 месяцев назад

Kevin you're one of those people that looks sharp in everything they wear. Somewhat jealous lol. Once again, another good video! Thanks!

@donaldhart2310 11 месяцев назад

Thanks Kevin! It almost makes you want to go dig around in the basement?😮 But It's only terrifying and gruesome, if you think about it....☠

@sharonwhiteley6510 11 месяцев назад

Love the attire. It's sad that it seemed no one who could help was interested. From graveyard to dance hall is amazing transformation but gross. Thanks for your research and excellent work.

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

My pleasure Sharon, thanks for watching 👍🏻

@graciemaca6996 11 месяцев назад

Very interesting video, amazing what's 'buried' in History. When you think how even just ONE body is enough to make a stench 😢, it must have been almost unbearable with hundreds of decaying bodies!😮 It's no wonder that the man went home with a headache! And, no wonder infant death rate was so high! It sounds like it was incredibly hazardous to the health with all those dead bodies, insects carrying disease, especially with an OPEN sewer. 😥 How did he get away with it?🤔 Ugh! Outrage indeed!

@thehistorysquad 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching, it really is incredible to imagine isn't it. 👍🏻