St. Giles slum was overcrowded with filthy hovels, gin shops and London's lower classes. We take a visit into perhaps the worst rookery in Victorian Britain with Henry Mayhew to hear his first-hand account of the wretched housing conditions and lives of its inhabitants. From costermongers to thieves and prostitutes these are the people of St. Giles, London.

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CC BY - Halfpenny dinners for poor children in East London; Jonathan Wild, the thief-taker, sitting on a cart, is pelted; Attic occupied by a family of ten persons; Illustration depicting cramped and squalid housing conditions; A scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling; A scene in a dance hall; A Lodging House in Field Lane, Water tank in St.Giles in the Fields; Poor people having dinner in a workhouse by Wellcome Collection
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