Victorian Era Housing For The Poor

Victorian Houses or Homes depended on the financial status of the family. Poor Victorian children lived a much different life than the wealthy children did. In Victorian society, rich and poor could find themselves living very close together, sometimes just streets apart.

During the 19th century more people moved into the towns and cities to find work in factories. Victorian London Streets by Gustav Dore 1872 Victorian Education If you have a look at my post on Elizabethan Education, this will explain how education worked in Tudor times. By the Victorian era, education as we know it hadn't changed much.

Educating a child was still an expensive business and only for the wealthy. So most poor children learnt their letters and number at a local dame. Social Housing History: The Victorian Age The early history of social housing in Britain Introduction Developing the Housing Early Housing Legislation Southwark in the 1800s London's East End Introduction There are very few examples of social housing in Britain before the 1850s.

Before, any housing built for "the workers" would usually be tied cottages. Poverty and Families in the Victorian Era This article by Barbara Daniels gives an overview of the causes and the effects of poverty on poor families and children in Victorian Britain. At the time of writing Barbara is a Ph.D.

student with the Department of Religious Studies, at The Open University. What home life was like for rich and poor in Victorian society. Huge numbers of new homes were built in the Victorian era - hardly surprising in view of the demographics of the time.

Census returns for 1801 and 1851 show the population almost doubling during those years; between 1801 and 1911 it almost quadrupled, rising from about 9 million people to 36 million by 1911 (Long 2). The workhouse authorities eventually succeeded in finding rooms for the family. It occasionally happens, such is the generosity of the poor to the poor, that the younger and weaker children when evictions take place are accommodated for a night or two by the poor neighbours who are still left in peaceable possession of a roof.

The specter of the Victorian Poorhouse haunts both history and literature. The surviving image, although not entirely accurate, is a grim reminder that not everyone flourished during an era whose very touchstones were progress and prosperity. No single historically-accurate image of the poorhouse remains, however, as each poorhouse has its own history.

Each facility differed dramatically from. Some Victorian philanthropists addressed housing for the poor: for example Octavia Hill (1838-1912) worked towards providing good quality rental housing for the poor.