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All of them look so old and nothing can age you quite as fast as a constant sense of worry, anxiety and stress. Hard life.

My weekly excursion to edwardian england has been eye opening.having now returned to 21st century ireland i am fully appreciative of how lucky i am .thankyou for helping me count my blessings .

I love watching old photos and films, looking at people that used to live in this world makes me consider my own mortality.

Disorderly house lol I first thought she was being arrested for not keeping her home clean

These are very sad cases..such hard lives they led. Heartbreaking

Having just heard Jack London's "The People of the Abyss", These poor people resound so much more.

It seems like they were more lenient to the malignant types of criminals and harsher to the people who were just trying to survive and starving.

You sort of feel sorry for a lot of these people. One person had lost their job and was stealing food, another she and her husband were starving... 💗🌵

“William Lavory, laoborer, lowlife.” That’s an interesting job description.

Fascinating to see the photographs of those who committed the crimes & hearing their life histories

Poor people. I’m sure their lives were extremely hard.

What a wee gem of a channel I've discovered here. Going to be binge watching your back catalogue until I catch up. Keep it up.

Britain's legal system has always been about making lawyers rich and punishing the poor. I remember in the sixties a man was robbed so had no money for food. Hungry he stole a shilling packet of biscuits (the cheapest thing in the shop). He was fined 100 pounds (then about 5 weeks average wages), 2000 times the value of what he stole.

I was born in North Shields and grew up in Howdon. My grandparents lived in Wallsend. As I was growing up I regularly went to North Shields, Tynemouth and other areas mentioned here. It's fascinating to hear about these crimes from the place of my birth and where I grew up as a child.

The narration of your videos is fantastic. Great to listen to while working out. 👍Exemplary work!

You’ve got the best narrator voice on KZfaq

The poor fellows who were arrested for rough sleeping were likely glad to be arrested and have a place to stay and eat for a few days. Wonder if the ones who got hard labor tried harder to get an easier job...

Like you channel mate. Shout out from Tijuana Mexico 🇲🇽 🇬🇧

She was definitely not giving the police a discount. 🇬🇧👍😁

I always look forward to videos from you . They're great

I truly appreciate your efforts in providing me with this wonderful content. Not only is the subject matter interesting but your voice really adds an essential layer to the experience. Learning about the lives regular people of the past is far more entertaining than the lives of the rich. Additionally, the fact that you do not embellish the subject matter is also very refreshing. I wish you continued success. Thank you!

The harshness of these sentences is appaling- a month of hard labour for one night's sleeping rough, with no understanding of the debilitating effect of hunger.😥😪

What sad stories. Merciless times.

My great, great grandfather spent 4 years in Pentonvllle prison in the 1890’s for handling stolen goods. Was in the national newspapers at the time!

I wonder if William survived the 'Great War' or was ground into the mincer of the Front,like a chess pawn for the Robber Barons...

Just found this! If I watch long enough,I'll probably see some of my ancestors.The old Irish/Scots were all scofflaws, least mine were.

God such Minor Offenses! I would hate to live in those times. You go to jail with hard labor for a week just for sleeping on a haystack in an alley because you couldn't afford Lodgings? What a crack-pot time to be living in and I thought the Victorians were humanitarians. More barbaric than anything. Ughhh.

18:18 Shows houses in Mill Lane, Marsden. The railway was dismantled in the sixties but the houses remain, largely unchanged.

Australians can use this video to trace their family trees. :-)

What!? Hard labor for being lazy??? Thank you for the content my friend.

Thank you for all you do , I love your videos and appreciate them ❤️😊.

Getting arrested for being poor, oh the good ol' days. :P

Missed your channel. Really great. Just subscribed. Really great..

Fascinating information and well presented ! I’ve just subscribed and look forward to more glimpses into history. Thank you !

Love these videos, you are right up my alley. Thanks!

You always get a thumbs up from me! Love your videos and your voice

Loved this ty

Absolutely fascinating mate , a belong South Shields, and found out some past family history from around this era don’t have the exact information but from memory that :Joseph price and a couple of others had been going to st hildas church in South Shields and pinching all the lead from the grave stones then selling it to a woman scrap dealer down at the quayside at the time it was all over the shields gazette and a think a bit of a scandal at the time in the area they all belonged commercial road and mill dam area the was quite a few other prices all brothers n sisters the was another one bit sad a think he was 6 yrs old caught pinching glasses from back of a pub and was up in front of the judge , hard hard times it must of been for them to survive. Thanks for this really enjoyed it

Another great fact feast thank u for sharing 🤘🥰🤘

North Shields is right here in my neck of the woods! Thanks for this and your other videos! Keep them coming.

I enjoyed this and subbed.

So interesting thanks 🙏

Very informative an excellent presentation ,you have to feel sorry for them

Hahaha I wanted to hear more details of the indecent exposure. 😄😉

Hunger has a lot to answer for 😢

My first ever video and its north shields. Geordie And Mackem territory hahaha. Of course. Very criminally driven back in the day hahahahaha. Liked and subscribed.

What surprised me was that some of these offenders had been arrested more than 40 times. Seemingly, a mild offense was mildly punished each time, without the concept to more harshly punish repeated offenses.

And these were the citizens of the greatest empire in history. Living in abject poverty. Makes one wonder.

Ahh The good old days .

Like this...Im very interested in Victorian period , London. England etc ...The class divide ...we are going back to that ..just rich the poor and the destitute.

I didn’t think I’d like this video but it was pretty cool tbh. Interesting to see the way crimes were handled back then.

Fact Feast: your videos are very good, and that's why I subscribed. But I get turned off by the long introductions, maybe making shorter ones will keep more people watching until the best parts. Just some constructive criticism.

You sounded like Thulsa Doom to me for a second there :-)

A lot of these people were just starving hungry

At least, one can suppose, that despite the obvious hardship in prison, those without food or shelter and charged with 'sleeping out' at least had a roof over their heads. I know so little about how they could have survived. So sad.

Aww the poor people were starving,,heartbreaking,,

Good very 👍

Hard times.

North Shields is just up the road from where I live I often get the ferry to Amsterdam from North Shields.

I’m struck by how lenient the sentences were compared to earlier days where any of them could be sentenced to death but nearly always were sentenced 7 or 14 years to transportation. “You call that Fair Dinkum Mate?” It’s wonderful to hear this narrator. This is no computer voice, lol. Rather it’s an ideal that anyone who reads orally should follow. I read to gifted eight and nine year olds for 35 years. It was a favorite time of day for all. I loved reading some old classics for children. A Little Princess was a favorite. I did a pretty good Miss Minchin. Reading with such voice means as a reader you have learned to scan ahead, plan for pauses, when to take a breath and so much more. When Americans hear a British accent they usually think that the speaker is smart. But so often we get talking heads here that have a British accent but speak cockswollup on Fox. On top of that, it’s an accent that might be regarded as somewhat vulgar in Britain. I was called a snob for telling them that my sister in Scotland paid oodles of money on tuition so her children would speak well. It’s how social stratification works in Britain. It doesn’t matter if you are rich, speaking well is what’s more important. You get culture and breeding points and that’s a leg up. If you fail, you still have that. I fully enjoyed your voice and presentation. BTW, I speak Bristle. Bristolian, lol. That makes reading Treasure Island aloud, easy. Keep sharing.

And yet people say that life today's difficult Tage.

Hard times. I'm very grateful for being born when I was 👍🇬🇧

Nowadays, the victims are treated worse than the criminals and have less rights than the latter. We need a happy medium and real justice must be done on behalf of the victims.

mick owen 11 sentenced to 3 and a half yrs for running out of a shop with box of sweets ( 1961 )

I did a project in grad school about this series of mugshots.

For the most part it sounds like crime back then we're acts of desperation and Times of starvation and poverty. Not out of greed corruption of today.

I feel sorry for what happened yesterday more than 100 years ago.Yet I'm not immune from vain regret and grim remorse, as I'm visited by the ghost of the past nightly.

These people were just trying to survive just like now

Watching from North Shields right now, the only thing that’s changed are the buildings!

When I was in Las Vegas, a semi homeless man asked me for change while he had a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

Liddle Street sounds like quite a rough and dangerous area.

Listening no to this makes me think of what happens to people in our current times. We still get arrested for vagrancy, I believe, instead of offering housing; juvenile detention instead of therapy for whatever might stem behind the thieving for youths and still prosecute owners of brothels rather than facing prostitution will always exist and legalizing it; and others. I honestly feel things have gotten easier but we haven’t changed as much as we should have with some exceptions. The lady who swallowed the coin was no doubt never offered the opportunity to ask if she wanted to press assault charges, that sort of thing just happened to women, I believe and people stealing for food doesn’t happen as much and we have soup kitchens and the such although accepting food from food pantries is still a source of great shame for most people. Very interesting and thought provoking video. Thanks!

Well I can say the places haven’t changed much still full of ppl like this 😂

"Shake off that habitual tired feeling" Weren't these fellahs eating scraps, and covered in injuries and probably parasites?

You did a Yorkshire accent for Geordies ☺️

Done!

the harder life is for the poorest, the more people will act in desperation ! That is to take or do what they need to survive.

At 6:07 why does it look like he's exposing himself again lol

Well hello James Reegan 😏

I am confused, these guys get fined say 5 shillings and costs, these guys are literally starving to death, where the hell are they supposed to get the money to pay the fines, let alone costs.

poor old folks stealing to eat

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Those sail boat at 3:26 look like the ones Egyptians had

All of the sentences seem quite light, at least compared to modern cities in the USA.

Something I have never understood? How does fining people who have committed a crime due to poverty stop them from committing further crimes? *coming from someone who once was ticketed for being unable to afford to preregister my car on time. Then I had the registration fee and the ticket... lol it just snowballs on you. Thankfully my job at the time advanced me and then helped me with a raise. But for awhile there my bills were very much an exact thing. Those early 20's just out of college are rough! That was nothing compared to this. That way of thinking has never made sense to me.

Most of us would have been a criminal of sorts back in the day!!!just to survive!!!! Unless you were rich!!!

mama fratelli @ 7:12 :)

Those were the good old days when you could actually find a policeman

U know today it would be unheard of using clothes to pawn

you kind of sound like dara o’brien

Imagine this law of sleeping rough today. All the homeless people. 😢 God help them.

What was the point in fining them when they were stealing to feed themselves? The would never be able to raise the cost of the fine and so would inevitably end up in jail anyway!

McCauley's hands look quite deformed. Might this have contributed?

Cursive writing, I was taught that in Canada! Sorry, I’m so sorry about the individuals, but still! Cursive writing! 😂

I'm sure the descendants of these criminals are well established in Australia.

Days gone by? Really!?

Being poor and having no money or place to live was a crime punishable with prison? English justice alright! 😂

Imagine these days getting sent down for a month for being a loafer 🧐 there would be no “love island” as they’d all be locked up…..can we not bring this law back? Pleeeeease?!!

Yet another fantastic video!! I do wish that the attitudes towards beggars and loafers were a bit more stringent today as they were back then. While I’m not at all against helping people who’ve found themselves in a bind due to a stroke of unfortunate circumstances, I’m not for helping people who are lazy, liars, or thieves! Here in my town in Texas, USA there are people on street corners with signs all decently dressed and well groomed begging for money. Their signs state that they’re homeless, but most of them are not. They’ve been watched and followed getting into their own vehicles and or going into an apartment at a nearby complex. Some cities have an ordinance against begging and I wish ours did as well.