Victorian Manchester was described in the 1800s as 'Hell upon Earth.' A grim industrial city of smoking chimneys set amongst the crunching gears of industry, with many of its people living in terrible dirt, poverty and squalor. Today, you will an account by a Victorian journalist of what he discovered on Manchester's filthy slum streets – wretched poverty, gambling, terrible food, hungry children and the ever present escape of the dram shop.

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▶ Victorian Underworld (Living Nightmare of 19th Century London's Slums):    • Victorian Underworld (Living Nightmar...  

▶ Whitechapel (Victorian London's District of Wickedness):    • Whitechapel (Victorian London's Distr...  

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CC BY Dwellings of Manchester operatives, The Society of Friends Soup Kitchen, The Cotton Famine, distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc. at the office of a District Provident Society, Manchester by Wellcome Collection
CC BYSA The rear of an old building on Princess Street, Manchester, England, believed to be an 18th century slum dwelling by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net; Workhouse Infirmary, Crumpsall, Manchester by Tricia Neal; Presumably the original entrance to Strangeways Prison in Manchester by Peter McDermott via geograph.org.uk; Three card monte by ZioDave

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