Dark and Dirty Slums of Victorian Drury Lane (London Poverty in the 1800s)

Victorian Drury Lane was a maze-like labyrinth of dirty alleys with fighting, shouting, drinking and destitution. In the 1800s, the street was infamous as a slum of dark and dirty maze-like alleys with low lodging houses to accommodate working class people. Charles Dickens described the street as having more filth and squalid misery than in any part of London. Travel back in time, with an account by a Victorian journalist, to the dark corners of Drury Lane in the early 1880s, to discover how people lived and worked among the dirt and fetid refuse of its shadowy, crowded streets. 👍 Support the channel (donations): Send a Super Thanks from the video page 📣 JOIN to support the channel as a Member: Do you like history? SUBSCRIBE and click the bell icon to keep up-to-date. Please support the channel by sharing this video on social media 📲 ✅ It really helps the channel grow so we can bring you more content to watch 📺 Thank you ▶️ St. Giles Slum (Worst Rookery in Victorian London): ▶️ Slum Dwellers of Seven Dials (Victorian London Rookery): ▶️ Victorian London’s Most Dangerous Slum (Barracks): Victorian documentaries (Playlist): Edwardian Documentaries (Playlist): Worst Jobs in Victorian History (Playlist): Criminal Past (Playlist): Victorian workhouses (Playlist): American Slums and Tenements (Playlist): Credits: Narration - CC BY - Road sign of Drury Lane, WC2 by Elliott Brown; The ’Magpie’ Drury Lane from an original sketch in 1840, a woman standing in the street St. Giles London, Lodging house in Field Lane, poor people having dinner in a workhouse, Wentworth Street Whitechapel by Wellcome Collection; Theatre Masks by Gary Knight CC BY-SA - Aldwych Theatre London by Terry Rees #VictorianLondon #VictorianDocumentary #VictorianLondonDocumentary #VictorianEraDocumentary #VictorianLife #Victorian #19thCentury #VictorianEra #VictorianSlums #HistoryDocumentary #FactFeast