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Was living in 19th Britain really that bad?
Introduction
• People moved into the industrial towns and cities to get jobs in the new factories & coal mines.
• There was very little public transport so everybody wanted to live close to where they worked.
• Landlords exploited this fact and built high density, low quality housing for the workers.
Each a house in this picture cost £50 to build in 1840.
Notice how close the sewage was to the water supply
People were forced to live in cellars & attic rooms
Everything had to be done in the same room
Washing
Sleeping
CookingRelaxing
Play
Inside a real working class living room.
Why was it called a living room?
Factory managers and overseers had larger houses and could afford some luxuries in their homes.
These people came to be known as the middle class.
All water had to be fetched by hand from a communal pump or standpipe
Clothes were
washed by hand.
Dolly Mop
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People queuing for standpipe water
Standpipe water was turned on for a couple of hours everyday.
Where did standpipe water come from?
People also dumped all their
rubbish & sewage into the local
rivers.
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Manchester(industrial town)Rutlandshire(rural area)
Comparison of life expectancy rates in town and country:
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This information comes from a report
written by Edwin Chadwick in 1842 for
the government. What action would you expect them to
take?
Edwin Chadwick’s campaign
Why use a cartoon to get a message across?
Edwin Chadwick’s campaign
What message were these cartoons trying to get across?
