Parkgate Iron and Steel Co., Rotherham (1901) 

Where abouts in Pargate would that building have been. Thanks

Do the buildings still exist?

It was the first time it was caught on film

Not even slightly equivalent. The two are different gestures with different meanings in the UK. The middle finger gesture dates back to at least 400BC in Western culture, the two fingers are rather more recent.

Long before then. children as young as four. worked down coal mines in England. They were called ''Hurriyers''.

ah yes child abuse is great, totally such a shame that child labour was banned. please learn about stuff before glorifying something that needs no glorification

Happy harris

+Jill Harrison Bow Fingers: In contrast to the Continental Unifinger Violation!

It 99% doesn't date back to the hundred years war. bshistorian.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/two-fingers-up-to-english-history/

Necrovamp101 - Yes i agree - but as its a working class insult and thus is less likely to be recorded.

"even Churchill" would have been after 1901 though

@@Necrovamp101 Well, that looks legit.

it means fuck off.

NoNoNWO opinions are like arseholes , everybody as got one and fuck you because without nostalgia life would be pretty bleak and cold

At least the kids could afford better looking clothing than even people od status carry on themselves in these days... Jokes aside, your point is naturally correct. Child labour was prevalent and even needed in some segments of industry then, just as they are today in Asian countries where those industries have fled. We should, however, notice that matters weren't necessarily that bad before industrialization. Child labour existed, but at least it was mostly at home (with your actual family or with the master whose apprentice you were) and one would learn the trade wilst working, providing skills for supporting oneself in the adulthood. The work was usually considerably less back-breaking, too. Before judging this and exclaiming 'children's right to childhood' we should contemplate that before urban-industrial society schooling was largely unnecessary for substantial majority of population and taking the trade was the only way of survival. How much more freedom we give our children, locking them into schools for the daytime 5-6 days a week in order to pour science into their (often unready) heads? This is not to promote nostalhia towards industrial era (a bleak one in my mind), but it provided BOTH our material welfare of today (making this 'children's right to childhood' possible) AND need to arm our children with modern science from early age in order to make them useful citizens an market force. Just food for thought.

farmerne it was 1901 and the shit we eat today like KFC ,MCDONALDS. didn't exist harder times yes for a mear pittance of pay but they worked unlike the benefit scrounging want all for nothing folk of 2017 .

All food was homemade using natural ingredients unlike the processed crap in shops today.

@@Mr.Grimsdale jesus they would put chalk (like 40%) in bread because it was cheaper than flour. food was rubbish back then and not a lot of it.

@@badgerattoadhall Do you really believe that ?

@@Mr.Grimsdale absolutely i believe that.

They’re not policemen. Possibly postmen.

they'd be 124yrs old now 10 years later so its impossible now lol.

Postmen perhaps?

"Twit - Sod off." (behind camera) "Who said that?!" (turning) "Me!!"

@alphadawn2015 lennon Me too. thanx.

Yes she does. Doesn't even explain it's meaning correctly.

@@WgCdrLudditeI've been sat here for twelve long years waiting for someone to reply to this comment. Thank you, I can now get on with my life. 😏

@@JesseP.Watson Well that's my good deed for the day then !

🤣@@JesseP.Watson 😂 ...legend.

You know, it's quite unnerving seeing a comment this old written yourself... a letter or something is remembered... but a comment like this is completely forgotten and undated somehow, devoid of history or meaning, despite being written by a version of myself lives away... tis a mighty strange world we live in. I shall return in another 12 years. Will RU-vid still exist...? I rather doubt it... hmm. Until then, all the best.

Dont find out.

Fuck off if you dont know.

Micah stated it, but you may have took it wrong if you didn't know. ;) It's the same as our middle finger.

It's another way of saying 'get lost' or 'go away' but in a more aggresive fashion.

The V sign originated from the English archers showing the French they still had the two fingers used to draw the string of there bow. When the archers were captured by the French they had the two fingers amputated.

The mortality figures are skewed by the number of people dying before the age of five. Once you were past 5 you lived as long as most people

Spot on mate.

@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Who mentioned Muslims, they were Asian men exploiting young girls ,what was even more fucked up, people new what was happening...

@@grahamwilson2290 Calling them "Asian" men makes it sound like they are Chinese or something. They are almost all Pakistani Muslims. That's my point.

@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Maybe i should have been more specific...

um, they were vastly more religious back then