Down and Out Maids in Victorian London (From Domestic Servant to Life on the Streets)

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What happened to a Victorian maid who lost her job? This is a genuine life-story account of a maid in 19th Century London who fell out of work and onto the streets and had to find any work she could get to survive.
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@FactFeast 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this please give it a like and share with friends. ▶ The Life and Crimes of a Victorian House Maid: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hzovxu9WMuM.html ▶ Miserable Life of a Victorian 'Slavey' Maid: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-22kMjKMFbV8.html ▶ Victorian documentaries (Playlist): ru-vid.com/group/PLLSSHJuYZhj5Nupw8SGZGGfVGg1hWjN6z ▶ Worst Jobs in Victorian History (Playlist): ru-vid.com/group/PLLSSHJuYZhj4UEBwfRdQFuMBSqHIwzwZJ ▶ Edwardian Documentaries (Playlist): ru-vid.com/group/PLLSSHJuYZhj4GekxnJ9dF4np2LakeH1LA

@firecracker187 3 месяца назад

Once again Great job, pal

@FactFeast 3 месяца назад

Thanks firecracker 😊

@firecracker187 3 месяца назад

@@FactFeast I always look forward to your fantastic narration

@Ann65. 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much for all these fabulous, often heart rending videos. 😢

@FactFeast 3 месяца назад

You’re welcome Ann. Thank you for being a regular viewer 😊

@caroliner2029 3 месяца назад

My great grandmother Hilda was in domestic service. She was about 4'10", so I don't know how she managed heavy buckets, and everything else. My grandfather (her son, born in 1917) told me that "it was respectable employment in those days, and not looked down on as it is now". She was perfectly proportioned and pretty with big blue eyes, and caught the eye of her future husband (Harry) who had a good job as stationmaster in the railways in Melbourne Australia. I'm not sure how or where they met, but he was in "essential services" and not expected to join the 1st Australian Infantry Force and fight in the Great War. He was promoted to stationmaster at busy Flinders Street Station, after working in country towns. Harry's older brother Les embarked in 1917 to France. Hilda left her employment once married and focused on motherhood. She was always stylish in appearance, and her house was kept spotlessly clean. She misjudged the fox fur around the neck trend, as she was too tiny for it, and it rather swamped her. When she was in her late 80s, she was up on the ladder at home washing the outside of the windows. Her husband couldn't do it because of his poor eyesight, so she did it.

@patrickrose1221 3 месяца назад

Good honest stock aren't we pal 😉 They did it all for us basically ❤️

@ranisrikumar5735 3 месяца назад

Thanks for your genuine info, that was really nice 👌🏽

@sarahmclean5620 3 месяца назад

They don't make them like that anymore

@tedoneilclark4710 3 месяца назад

Incredible that she lived into her late eighties especially in those times. Congratulations 🎉👏

@tedoneilclark4710 3 месяца назад

Incredible that she lived into her late eighties especially in those times. Congratulations 🎉👏

@MK-rt2gm 3 месяца назад

Pay attention people, we are headed back to that way of life. The haves and the have-nots

@tedoneilclark4710 3 месяца назад

The streets are full of people living in tents already.

@WVgrl59 3 месяца назад

I don't think that will ever change and it's been going on for hundreds of years. That is why they thought communism would be good, LOL. But who wants to work like a dog and the other guy doesn't work..but you each receive the same amount of "payment"?!

@washguy9577 3 месяца назад

Agreed

@Nat929 3 месяца назад

We're already there, with the billionaire elites, and millions of homeless people 😢

@FredPilcher 3 месяца назад

The good old days! They're coming back!

@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN 3 месяца назад

Well, that was somehow less sad than they normally are. These always give me the perspective to appreciate all I have

@rosemaryamundson4542 3 месяца назад

I agree . When I am feeling down , I deliberately watch videos such as this and it gives me the attitude of gratitude, which always makes me feel better.

@traceyyoung1592 3 месяца назад

Less sad really? She swept the streets depending on people's generosity but when the left town then nothing!!! Very sad😢

@Vicus_of_Utrecht 3 месяца назад

@@traceyyoung1592Yes, less sad. You don't seem to grasp people have miserable lives even today. Seems you live an Amazon Prime life...

@rabbitcaroline666 3 месяца назад

I think that's exactly the wrong way. Things will never change with that attitude, I think.

@paulohagan3309 3 месяца назад

' 'These always give me the perspective to appreciate all I have.' Fine and well but much of what you have is because of scientific advances. But a lot, maybe the greater part is from people who fought to get rights for all of us. The video mentions that children were no longer allowed to work in the street [and probably not at all anywhere once child labor laws were enacted]. That was because reformers battled and struggled to improve social conditions. Are we willing to fight to stop those psychopaths from taking what was so hard fought for? I hope so. because if we aren't we may be going back to those days or at least something like them. In places like North Korea [the Democratic Republic, hah!] conditions are still terrible. Eternal vigilance folks. I enjoy those videos of colorised photos of the past. But be careful with the rose-colored spectacles eh? '

@veganman2945 3 месяца назад

The future is starting to look a lot like the past.

@albertafarmer8638 3 месяца назад

Yes but not for born again Christians, read biblical end times prophecy and accept JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and Savior while you can!!! You can listen to Dr. Ron Rhodes on end times chronology.

@lijohnyoutube101 3 месяца назад

@@albertafarmer8638Actually the Conservatives are the ones actively worsening the US voting for people that have given massive freedom and all the power to corporations.

@Nellia.20x 3 месяца назад

I watched “Victoria” on ITV a while back and nearly cried as the rich were eating their luxurious food while the poor were starving and dying I 🙏🏼 things get better for the poor.

@WVgrl59 3 месяца назад

That's why Social Security was created for people so that as they got older, they had a little something to fall back on.

@magesalmanac6424 3 месяца назад

And though I keep paying into it from my wages, it will be a dried up fund before I turn 45… both parties have failed to fix this.

@jeannemillsom9300 2 месяца назад

@WVgirl1959 Yes and too many idle people use it as a lifestyle.

@Moonewitch 2 месяца назад

@magesalmanac6424 They'd better damn well get it fixed.

@deebaker9199 3 месяца назад

It's like this for a lot of folk now! Especially in parts of USA. I'm a qualified professional but as a single mother living in remote parts of New Zealand I'd often work housekeeping via a temp agency and I remember terrible conditions...12 bucks an hour before tax and sitting on the floor of a work van (like cattle) with migrating folk off to clean for the rich resorts there.😮 Sometimes I've earned $20 ph working in mental health as Support Worker...with "complex clients" prone to violent outbursts etc. High high stress. That's Australia...for many. I'm Australian and as a single mother of one we are both of the "working poor" here. Earning enough for rent but all up not much more than that if you want to live in clean, safe housing... but there are many church services for free bread and vegetables here if you can get to them and "prove" that you're hungry 😂. Quite a demeaning experience but necessary for many. It's epidemic in less affluent areas post covid too. Also If you're ill in America you're really screwed I'd say! Work two jobs and still unable to get a tooth out! 😮

@Vicus_of_Utrecht 3 месяца назад

Cool story bro...

@tedoneilclark4710 3 месяца назад

Horrific I hope that something gets done soon 🙏

@absinthemindedJ 3 месяца назад

Yup!

@paulohagan3309 3 месяца назад

Oh boy, When I was a child around 50-60 years ago, places like the US, Australia and NZ were the promised lands. Just shows you how things have fallen.

@paulohagan3309 3 месяца назад

Oh man, when I was a child 50 odd years ago, the US, Australia and New Zealand were the promised lands [well for those of us with white skin at least ...]. Just shows you how badly things have deteriorated.

@michelledaniels-qj6gj 3 месяца назад

This makes me feel grateful to be alive today I have a similar job and I wouldn't have stood a chance then 😞

@LilyGazou 3 месяца назад

Enjoy retirement.

@maureenmcdonough7018 3 месяца назад

Me either how very hard it must have been

@Vicus_of_Utrecht 3 месяца назад

How weak. Be better bruh.

@paulohagan3309 3 месяца назад

@@Vicus_of_Utrecht Yeah, be a strong peasant who knows his place, begging your pardon m'Lud and tugging your forelock. And don't complain when you're a broken down old man/woman sitting in a hovel hoping you can find some menial work to keep you going for another day in your miserable life.

@MegaLivingIt 3 месяца назад

Gads, no retirement income or social security or safety net. Really tough. Big rich country at that time so should have been some assistance for downtrodden citizens. 😔

@conmckfly 3 месяца назад

Nope!! This was the 18th century (as well as the centuries before) and women without husbands, widowed, or abandoned were in a tight spot. And, no, there was no government help for anyone.

@crazyasalways9272 3 месяца назад

Thankfully, that very mentality of if you are well enough to be at the situation where you are today and the way the country is say the amount of money that majority people have, you should be able to take care of the worst off. I really wish that a certain country that I live in would have the same mentality.

@tedoneilclark4710 3 месяца назад

Life must have been an absolute nightmare. Not being able to afford medical treatment or a roof over their heads.

@washguy9577 3 месяца назад

SS is no great prize either 😕 social programs always become a political money grab its sad.

@jeanbrown8295 3 месяца назад

No all the improvements in living conditions were fought for by the people themselves ,no one ever gave anything.As it still is now the rich could not care less

@michelledaniels-qj6gj 3 месяца назад

Dreadful times 😥

@jeannemillsom9300 2 месяца назад

@michelledaniels-qj6gj Yes I concur, but I do think welfare makes people dependent, I think it should only be paid to those who are genuinely ill or disabled.

@lindyc.2552 3 месяца назад

These heartbreaking stories of struggle and survival are shocking, that they happened in the most prosperous nation in the world, at the time. These stories of hardship fascinate me in another way too. They make me wonder what my ancestors in my father's side of the family went through in England and Wales during these brutal times for the poor. I wish I had a looking glass to go back in time to look in on all of them to be able to see their lives and what their daily struggles were. I know many of my fathers family were from the Lancashire area. Anyone know anything about what that area was like in Victorian times?

@mamasinger49 3 месяца назад

Being 55 then as opposed to now seems vastly different. No surprise given the lack of help available for people at that time. With all of her health problems it sounds more like being 75. Thank you for another great insight from actual people from the time, very well narrated as always.

@FactFeast 3 месяца назад

Thank you mamasinger. Yes, people lived much shorter lives at that time.

@washguy9577 3 месяца назад

We think we have it bad sometimes wow poor women broken world 😢

@jujubees5855 3 месяца назад

Makes me wonder why Brits didn't go all French Revolution when you had a widow queen sequestered and feeling sorry for for herself while widows like this brave woman suffered.

@user-ev4ie2wx7k 3 месяца назад

You think it that simple? I suggest you read about how the French Revolution was engendered and its consequences. There is no comparison whatsoever. Educate yourself.

@jengillies9747 3 месяца назад

Aside from how at this point, Parliament and the House of Lords had a lot more real power (and so were usually the ones targeted when it came to things like political cartoons around the evils of the era), and how Victoria was generally thought to be quite a good and moral queen by the cultural consensus at the time (which included approving of her prolonged symbolic mourning period), there was also generally a prevailing idea that good fortune or misfortune and your 'place' in society was purely the will of God. This weakened later in the era but the biggest shift into a new way of thinking about the social order seems to have mostly solidified around WWI. Also worth considering that the French Revolution wasn't exactly something most people wanted to repeat, seeing how it played out, particularly when it was still fresh in memory. It was called the 'Reign of Terror' for good reason, with a lot of massacres, with additional revolutions in response seeding chaos and upheaval that essentially only chilled out when they got a new king in Napoleon.

@Vicus_of_Utrecht 3 месяца назад

Brits have been limp wrists since the English Civil War. A bunch of farmers pushed their shit in back in 1775.

@Mounhas 3 месяца назад

Too much forelock tugging, and there still is, with the English that is.

@a.jlondon9039 3 месяца назад

@@user-ev4ie2wx7k You seem like a know it all who snipes and snarks. Try being pleasant.

@Jenifer_G 3 месяца назад

Love history and one can feel grateful modern times. I was in sickness and poverty once but not homeless, so can feel for these ancestors of some of us. Fortunately got info better times, but no always possible then. Thanks for posting.

@tedoneilclark4710 3 месяца назад

This is disgusting absolutely horrendous how could society be so ignorant and evil.

@paulohagan3309 3 месяца назад

Roman times were even worse ...

@alisonmccracken-mills5381 3 месяца назад

This starts me off on internet searching! I came across anecdotes from slaves in plantations compiled in the 40s,/50s. Absolutely fascinating. I'll have to see if I can find similar for these .... Thank you for piqueing the interest and bringing wonderful content!!

@terrylynn9984 3 месяца назад

I would hope the person taking the account of this older woman, would have at least bought her a hot meal after the interview.

@kanefarmer6505 Месяц назад

He did give her money

@michelodonnell7240 3 месяца назад

Thank you very much indeed for this fascinating snippet of lesser known aspects of our social history ❤

@FactFeast 3 месяца назад

Glad you're interested in how people in the past lived. Thank you!

@freemorox5896 3 месяца назад

These are my ancestors....and now they have the cheek to call us privileged.

@brianoneil9662 3 месяца назад

Always fascinating, always presented fabulously. Thank you for your hard work in making history relatable! Kudos!

@FactFeast 3 месяца назад

Many thanks! Glad you find this history as interesting as I do 🙂

@patrickrose1221 3 месяца назад

It makes you wonder how any of us are here at all, half of these hardships would've seen most of us off 🙄 Count your blessings says I 😉❤️

@TheGryphonSun 3 месяца назад

No social security!

@carollewis5931 3 месяца назад

I must be old because I can remember Olde Moore's Almanach

@jeannemillsom9300 2 месяца назад

Me too.

@lb8141 3 месяца назад

How horrific and sad.

@annepoitrineau5650 3 месяца назад

What a brave little woman, what a cruel world.

@j.b.4340 3 месяца назад

Very depressing. Thank you for the video.

@marthaperdew 3 месяца назад

These rich people need to get off their lazy butts and do their own work !!!

@tedoneilclark4710 3 месяца назад

They were ignorant times and still are. They will all receive their karma and be off to heides to be judged on their selfishness and greed.

@jillwiegand4257 3 месяца назад

Love these stories ❤

@FactFeast 3 месяца назад

I'm glad! Thank you.

@brendanmallon1479 3 месяца назад

Lovely Chanel just discovered it ❤❤

@FactFeast 3 месяца назад

Welcome! Thank you so much 😊

@Vicus_of_Utrecht 3 месяца назад

This channel is amazing. Glad I found it months ago!

@computergrant1 3 месяца назад

I love history also! Thank you for this!

@FactFeast 3 месяца назад

You're welcome. Glad you're interested in social history.

@mn4169 3 месяца назад

My great-grandma worked as maid. She seemed to like it, but it seemed little pay for many tears. They fired her when she fell pregnant and had to marry. Sad. Loved her

@melissawheatley4970 3 месяца назад

Makes me thankful for not being born then and having what I have now.

@avagrego3195 3 месяца назад

Thank you very very much for this video

@peggyjaeger9280 3 месяца назад

Like the old pictures. The street sweeping recreations didn't look so bad. Nice clean streets instead of being covered with horse poop like they probably were. I like the real stories, though, told by real people. Very interesting. Those poor unfortunate people. The past was the worst.

@editaedita473 3 месяца назад

Thank you very interesting!

@FactFeast 3 месяца назад

A pleasure! Glad you’re interested in this history.

@jenniferkennedy4773 3 месяца назад

Thanks!

@FactFeast 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much 😊

@marysue7165 3 месяца назад

Those people must have had strong immune systems to deal with all the squalor.

@anacasanova7350 3 месяца назад

Todas las capitales industriales de Europa eran terribles en esa época. Y mucho más en las capitales frías, humedas, sin sol, con lluvia, viento, nieve. En Paris los pobres vivían en las alcantarillas y debajo de los puentes. S.XIX no XVI. 😢