Hell on Earth - A Journey to Victorian Manchester (Slums, Poverty and Drink)

Victorian Manchester was described in the 1800s as ’Hell upon Earth.’ A grim industrial city of smoking chimneys set amongst the crunching gears of industry, with many of its people living in terrible dirt, poverty and squalor. Today, you will an account by a Victorian journalist of what he discovered on Manchester’s filthy slum streets – wretched poverty, gambling, terrible food, hungry children and the ever present escape of the dram shop. 📣 JOIN to support the channel as a Member: 👍 Support the channel (donations): Send a Super Thanks from the video page 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 ▶️ Disgusting Victorian Slum Hidden Behind Upper Class Regent Street: ▶️ Disease Infested Victorian Slums: ▶️ Journey to St. Giles Slum (The Worst Rookery in Victorian London): ▶️ Slum Dwellers of Seven Dials (People of a Victorian London Rookery): ▶️ Survival in Victorian London’s Brutal East End Slums: ▶️ Victorian Underworld (Living Nightmare of 19th Century London’s Slums): ▶️ Whitechapel (Victorian London’s District of Wickedness): ▶️ Horrific Homes in Victorian East End London (Squalor in Star Street): ▶️ The Hell of Life in Victorian Slums (19th Century London’s Rookeries): ▶️ Victorian London’s Most Dangerous Slum (Fenian Barracks): ▶️ Victorian London’s Brutal East End Slum - Filthy Old Nichol Street (Bethnal Green/Shoreditch): Check out Victorian documentaries (Playlist): Check out Edwardian Documentaries (Playlist): Check out Worst Jobs in Victorian History (Playlist): Check out Criminal Past (Playlist): Check out Victorian workhouses (Playlist): Check out American Slums and Tenements (Playlist): Credits: Narration - CC BY - Dwellings of Manchester operatives, The Society of Friends Soup Kitchen, The Cotton Famine, distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc. at the office of a District Provident Society, Manchester by Wellcome Collection CC BY-SA - The rear of an old building on Princess Street, Manchester, England, believed to be an 18th century slum dwelling by Mike Peel ; Workhouse Infirmary, Crumpsall, Manchester by Tricia Neal; Presumably the original entrance to Strangeways Prison in Manchester by Peter McDermott via ; Three card monte by ZioDave #VictorianManchester #VictorianManchesterSlums #VictorianMachesterDocumentary #Manchester19thCentury #VictorianDocumentary #VictorianEraDocumentary #VictorianLife #Victorian #19thCentury #VictorianEra #VictorianSlums #HistoryDocumentary