Paul Asling
Bio
I share a special love for London, both new and old. I began writing fiction at 40, with most of my books and stories set in London.
MY WRITING WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH, CRY, AND HAVE YOU GRIPPED THROUGHOUT.
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Stories (80/0)
RAGGED SCHOOLS
Victorian Ragged Schools were charitable associations founded around the 1840s and dedicated to society’s most needy children’s free education. The schools provided free education, food, clothing, lodging and religious instruction. The idea of ragged schools was to educate children and integrate them into society. They based this on police statistics that showed that almost half of the persons taken into custody were with no occupation. A third could neither read nor write, illustrating the relationship between poverty and juvenile crime.
By Paul Asling2 years ago in FYI
NIGHT SOIL MEN
By the middle of the 19th century, life in London had become hazardous to your health. The air was fouled by coal smoke; the graveyards were brimming with the urban dead, and the rivers were open sewers. Literally, tons of horse manure coated the streets. Cesspits contaminated streams and wells, leading to outbreaks of typhoid fever. One of the most unpleasant occupations of the day, of which there were many, was that of the ‘night soil man.’
By Paul Asling2 years ago in FYI