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London's Rookeries: Where 100,000 Lived in Darkness & Squalor | Victorian Slums Dark History

Beneath Victorian London's grand streets lay plague pits holding 200,000 bodies. But above ground, 100,000 Londoners lived in rookeries—slums so overcrowded, so diseased, so profitable to landlords, that they persisted for over a century despite everyone knowing they were death traps. Tonight we explore six of London's most notorious rookeries: St. Giles, where 30,000 people occupied 50 acres and 90% of children died before age five. Jacob's Island, the "Venice of Drains," where houses were built over tidal sewage creeks and residents drank contaminated water because no alternative existed. Whitechapel's lodging houses, where Mary Ann Nichols and Annie Chapman paid fourpence for beds on the nights Jack the Ripper murdered them. This is not the romantic poverty of Dickensian fiction. This is documented social history preserved in Henry Mayhew's 1,000-page investigations, Charles Booth's poverty maps, Parliamentary Blue Books containing thousands of pages of testimony, census returns showing 20-30 people per room, medical officers' reports documenting death rates double the London average. 📚 PRIMARY SOURCES USED: Henry Mayhew's "London Labour and the London Poor" (1851) - Available at British Library Charles Booth's Poverty Maps (1886-1903) - Digital archive at booth.lse.ac.uk Parliamentary Blue Books - National Archives Kew Census Returns 1841-1891 - Findmypast/Ancestry London Metropolitan Archives - Burial registers, property records 🗺️ VISIT THESE LOCATIONS TODAY: New Oxford Street - Built through St. Giles rookery 1845-47 St. Saviour's Dock, Bermondsey - Former Jacob's Island site Spitalfields Market - Dorset Street ran behind it Hanbury Street - Where Annie Chapman died Charles Booth Online Archive - Interactive poverty maps CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Introduction: The City Above the Underground 09:06 - Chapter 1: St. Giles - "The Holy Land" 24:20 - Chapter 2: Jacob's Island - "Venice of Drains" 38:15 - Chapter 3: The Lodging House System 53:37 - Chapter 4: Rookery Economics - Profitable Poverty 01:09:55 - Chapter 5: Demolition and Displacement 01:24:00 - Chapter 6: What Remains - Walking London's Ghost Slums #LondonHistory #VictorianEngland #DarkHistory #Rookeries #VictorianSlums #SocialHistory #LondonRookeries #StGiles #JacobsIsland #Whitechapel #VictorianPoverty #HistoricalDocumentary #BritishHistory #LondonSlums #VictorianLondon