9 Notorious London Slums & What They Look Like Today
2023年4月25日 · But London slums evolved and changed over time, moving away from one neighborhood and popping up in another. Here are some of London’s worst neighborhoods of 1890 that are rather posh today, all mapped by Charles Booth in his iconic maps. 1. Battersea: Victorian Slum Housing on the Thames
Inside London’s secret slums taken over by squatters
2024年7月2日 · Squatters group Reclaim Croydon collective has taken over disused commercial premises in London to provide beds for over 100 homeless people
The 8 Worst Slums Of Victorian London - London Walks
2023年7月17日 · Today, Notting Hill is one of London’s most desirable addresses, but in Queen Victoria’s time, it was awash with filth. Described by Dickens as ‘a plague spot scarcely equalled for its insalubrity by any other in London’, the Potteries and Piggeries (formerly known as Cut-throat Lane) earned its name when pig keepers and rowdy brick ...
Photos Show Grim Conditions Tenants Endured in London 'Slum' …
2023年8月21日 · Photos show the grim conditions inside a London house where officials say "slum" landlords stuffed up to 40 tenants at a time into a four-bedroom house.
Grim Realities of Life in London’s 19th Century Slums
Many of these slums were located in parts of London that are highly fashionable today. Spitalfields, just to the east of the center, is these days home to hip designers and artists, while what were once the slums of Holborn are now home …
The Surviving Relic From One of London's Worst Slums
2017年8月28日 · This kiln, built in about 1824, is all that is left of a slum that was once one of the worst places to live in London. The area was called the “Potteries and Piggeries,” though even before ...
South London's 'slum' estate where living conditions are so bad ...
2021年6月16日 · Housing. South London's 'slum' estate where living conditions are so bad bathrooms are riddled with slugs and it's hard to breathe in the corridors. The mould in one family's home on the Eastfields Estate in Mitcham was so bad it caused a mirror to fall off a wall and smash. News. By. Zak Garner-Purkis Chief Reporter.
East End of London - Wikipedia
The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames.
Inside London's 'last slums' where families made a home …
2021年8月26日 · Sadly, in 2021, there are still many pockets of poverty and deprivation in London and many Londoners are forced to live close to the breadline. But when you look back to how things used to be, it's a real eye opener to see the horrific conditions that many Londoners had to live in, even in relatively recent times.
Desolation Row: Victorian Britain’s Sensational Slums - History Today
2017年10月18日 · On 2 November 1895, Rosina Meagher, a young Welsh woman, was attacked by her husband. The assault left her seriously injured. Rosina lived in a notorious lane in Newport known as ‘Quiet Woman’s Row’, so-called satirically in the local press as a shorthand for the domestic violence – aimed at women – that was seen as typical of slum areas.