Poor Tony. He keeps terrifying himself with heights- and each new one is higher! Since that's what bravery is-being scared and doing it anyway- i think he deserves a medal. Terrific series.

Coal mining continued to be highly dangerous and employed boys from a pretty young age well into the twentieth century. My great uncle, who died in January this year, started work down the pit in the early 1930s at less than fourteen years of age. He once told me that in his first few days on the job, he saw a man get killed. All the other workers said to him was 'Get used to it kid, happens all the time'.

@DreamBelief

2 жыл бұрын

so true, and it sadly is still highly dangerous, and exploiting girls and boys for labour to this very day all across the world :(

it seems like lots of these could have been done way easier with simple contraptions. what about a simple sideways chair or harness so the leggers could lay on their side and walk sideways on the walls? what about a press with a lever that squeezed the pottery in the press instead of pushing it down?

Every time I watch one of these "worst jobs" programs makes me happy for the hard job I have. I would have been dead a thousand times over if I lived back then. Any of these 'back then's. LOL

I read more about the phossy jaw condition. Really disgusting. I feel terrible for those women.

@MusicalMissCapri

7 жыл бұрын

Me too, of all the jobs in this segment, this one with the horrendous ill effects is really disturbing.

@maryanneslater9675

6 жыл бұрын

And less than a century later, it was the radium girls, the ones who painted radium on clock and watch faces to make them luminous. They were encouraged to lick their little brushes to keep them well pointed. They were riddled with cancer and had dissolving facial bones. It rather makes me want to smack the guys who claim women never had hard or dangerous jobs.

@terrorfire8505

4 жыл бұрын

@@maryanneslater9675 I agree as Male because without them we wouldn't have all the technology we have today

@PibrochPonder

3 жыл бұрын

@@maryanneslater9675 men had FAR more dangerous jobs.

@Invictus13666

3 жыл бұрын

@@PibrochPonder she didn’t say men didn’t. She said some men say women haven’t.

i like the title music

Thanks for up loading this, I love industrial documentaries.

some how i always end up watching these programs at this time of year

I've been to the Big Pit, it was absolutely incredible, and very, very interesting. And we were in the dark for a bit, too, you couldn't see anything

♥️🇬🇧😀 thanks for these posts. I missed this series 1st time around.

The waker upper reminds me of how in parts of the middle east people from the different religious groups would wake each other up eg jews or christians would wake muslims, and the muslims returned the favour waking them for important things. It worked really well given the different lifestyles etc of the two groups. I've forgotten the details of it unfortunately, but it's such a beautiful example of not just coexisting, but of actively using your differences to support each other. It reminds me of how during the protests in Egypt years ago muslims made a protective circle around coptic christians so they could pray safely, and the coptic christians did the same for the muslims

@PibrochPonder

2 жыл бұрын

The religious minority population of most Islamic majority countries might disagree with you. Christians in most of those countries are actually targeted and discriminated against by the Muslims. Christians in Egypt are a good example as are Christians in Nigeria. Individuals might be nice but unfortunately the evidence is most don’t get on in the long run.

My parents are in dubai at the expo there right now. The photos and videos I've seen definitely reminded me of the crystal palace (particularly an immense dome that has videos played on the ceiling telling folktales, history and so forth. Other things are in the dome too). I imagine the visitors to the world fair at the crystal palace probably felt very similar things to what my parents have felt visiting this expo - awe at the design and construction of the venue/s, fascination regarding all the different cultures and things on show etc.

@PibrochPonder

2 жыл бұрын

I guess you could also say that the poor workers doing the lowest jobs also had zero rights and got paid almost nothing. Just like the lowest paid almost slave live working conditions of those underlings in Dubai.

the glass was amazing..

I can't help but think there must have been a more efficient way of getting the barges through those tunnels...

@claudettegerety4349

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking pushing from the back with a pole. Or 2 people on the sides with poles and bricks on the sides to push against.

@PibrochPonder

2 жыл бұрын

Or put the tunnel on a hill so the water can take the boat through

the dead sheep soup kinda made me hungry

Jobs: - bridge builder - legger - bone cleaner - presser - buffer lass - knocker up - soap boiler - glassblower - matchmaking - Hurrier

Forgot to mention that Bryant was a leading Liberal , nor that the Salvation Army had their own match factory or that a new safe plant got built in Bow.

hard work for life

@DreamBelief

2 жыл бұрын

yeah very true. I doubt there was much retirement. Work til you drop dead practically. Although, in a lot of cultures family would take care of the elderly, so maybe there was a retirement of sorts. Not sure

How you get the wire rope across though?

@DreamBelief

2 жыл бұрын

Only one way really. Someone's got to take it across manually. Imagine how long it must have been! I know that a winch system was used to get it up to the top to anchor it, but unsure exactly when that method started being used. Even then, you still had to have someone take it across the water.

THANK YOU. I THINK. GARE

For the leggers, every day was leg day.

@DreamBelief

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if they also worked on their arms, or if they ended up the opposite of those guys you see who have chicken legs under a massive upper body lol. Not judging anyone who does that lol. If you like your chicken legs on an ape's torso who am I to say anything? haha

It's like nobody thought of putting a couple ropes and pulleys together to pull boats through tunnels? I mean u could just use a couple floats and lines if u don't want to use and endless rope (loop) type setup

@PibrochPonder

2 жыл бұрын

It’s 3.6 miles long

The canals were a great idea. Instead if trucks congesting roads you've got boats moving freight. They had the same Idea in Washington DC, but sadly and shortsightedly they paved most of them over. Constitution Ave was once a canal They also use maggots in archeology and forensics to clean bone

@Invictus13666

2 жыл бұрын

@Celto Loco cesspit. 😂 @ sess

@Invictus13666

2 жыл бұрын

The canal was essentially impassable at low tide, filled with silt, and became nothing but an open sewer. Does no one read history?

@salfordlad3829

2 жыл бұрын

You obviously don't. You don't get tides on canals, there static

@Invictus13666

2 жыл бұрын

@@salfordlad3829 I recommend the National Park Service article. If you’re actually able to read.

Sitting in the dark wasn't that bad - the kids were not afraid. But having to pull these horrible loads, no matter if child or pony (which never saw the light of day again; once in the mine, the poor horse would have to work until it dropped dead) in crammy, dusty and badly ventilated conditions and the chance of collapsing soil, now that is inhumaine

Should see them making jello

For the canal tunnel, why didn't they run a rope through the canal and then pull on that? Wouldn't that be easier?

@Veaseify

9 жыл бұрын

Phillip Cowell I guess because they still had to walk the horse round to the other end so it was probably quicker to use leggers.

@rogervoss4877

7 жыл бұрын

Miles of rope in the water? That longest tunnel was more than three miles long. Even put on floats to hold it up, imagine pulling six miles of rope. You'd be dragging another rope through behind, to be hitched to a boat going the other way for a return trip. Legging through a number of boats could go one way, then a group heads back the other direction. With a 3-4 hr trip through, direction of travel can't change very often.

@kingravenink

6 жыл бұрын

Could've installed handles or stuck your fingers into the gaps of the planks where you lay. laying down on your side instead of on your back, walking normally (forward, instead of side step) on the wall. The men changing sides along the way. Could even RUN, too. Although, this might be easier said than done.

@johnDukemaster

6 жыл бұрын

Or a ladder attached to the ceiling. Lay on the back and just "climb" using all 4 limbs. :-)

@tncorgi92

6 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. You could have even strung a rope like a ski lift, using pulleys, and have a winch or capstan at each end that would be horse-driven. All the boater has to do is clamp the rope to his boat.

Who woke up the knocker up?

@janethompson5153

6 жыл бұрын

He didn't go to bed

@MicBassLights

6 жыл бұрын

I believe they called him "naked grease man"

Black Lung and Brown Lung coal dust and fibers from fabric.

The show needed subtitles for that Ceri Thompson guy. His accent makes the English all slurred together. Couldn't understand half of what he said.

Iv goy yo wach this for school home work and make a poster

all this talk about cogs in a machine.... working conditions and definitely safety has improved, but dont think much has changed overall. certainly they werent in as much debt as us!

dayum 😒

The match strike only lasted a little while & most demands were met

lucifer, they still call matches that in my country

@klinzons

4 жыл бұрын

S Dew what country?

He is always ready to take his clothes off. Lol. Ine.of the reasons he is so great

Tony remarks that during the industrial revolution workers were exploited. Although work conditions were appalling by today’s standards, these workers voluntarily chose to do so. It merely highlights how dire the conditions were at the time when the majority of people lived in the countryside, where families were large and there was a surplus of labor. The free market offered an opportunity for employment that did not exist in the past.

@uunbeliever

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, they chose to be exploited rather than die.

Interesting that being pregnant, especially unwantedly, is being "knocked up", whilst the one man who knew for certain a husband had gone to work was the "knocker up".

@IsallPeachy

3 жыл бұрын

Your child deserves a better mother!!

@DreamBelief

2 жыл бұрын

@@IsallPeachy what on earth were you on when you wrote that? lol and I thought I was off the planet

@kirstenpatel

7 ай бұрын

Very small gene pool then 😅

15:27 that kid looks artificial

The workers wanted jobs & fought to keep their crappy jobs. If it wS so bad & bad pay, no one would have done it. In fact worker fought & even killed those trying to take their chap pay jobs. Actually unionism started with fighting to keep your crappy job, and keep others out of it & nt allow non union members to do it.

@PibrochPonder

2 жыл бұрын

Ok so I guess starving and getting made homeless is better than working in a crappy job.

Anyone here for school?

Even when mechanization came out to eliminate gross jobs, workers often attacked the machines so not to loss their crappy jobs.

@goldensloth7

5 жыл бұрын

yeah cause their families were going to starve, it wasn't cause they loved working in mills

@DreamBelief

2 жыл бұрын

@@goldensloth7 er that's exactly what they said. They didn't say they loved them. They literally said it was so they didn't lose their crappy jobs.

@goldensloth7

2 жыл бұрын

@@DreamBelief yeah no sarcasm! I always mess up tone in comments

Not correct on the water wheel. He poured huge time & money into it & it broke him financially. He dedicated his life to it.

@Invictus13666

2 жыл бұрын

You really don’t know this isn’t true?

Only here for school lmfao 💀💀

@infinite_hyperspace

9 ай бұрын

So, you're not interested in learning something, are you?

@-Emonem-

9 ай бұрын

@@infinite_hyperspace no. I prefer other aspects of history.