Originally posted by Wickerman
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Indeed. Did you watch the BBC programme The Victorian Slum which was on TV a few years ago. It took 21st century residents and had them live in a 'slum' for six weeks with each week representing how people lived in that decade. Week one was the 1860's, week two was the 1870's etc. I thought it did an excellent job of portraying slum life and the different social statuses within the slum. You had the shopkeepers and tailors who earned a good living and lived in good comfortable lodgings, the destitute who could not make ends meet and ran up arrears in rent before moving on elsewhere and starting the cycle again, those who treaded a fine line and ran the risk of destitution if unforseen circumstances occurred, immigrants who arrived with only the clothes on their back and sometimes worked their way to a better life and those who used the Common lodging house- sometimes choosing between eating and a roof over their head. It was an excellent show.
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