Jack The Ripper like
series of murders has Victorian London all of a pickle.
London's shit enough
now, but it would've been even worse for anyone poor back then.
"Dinner? I
peeled some rats earlier, fry some if they ain't turned green yet"
"Cup your
bollocks over the cobbles guvnor? Only a penny a mile"
"Spit bath! Get
yer spit bath here! Shilling for warm, half shilling for cold"
"Open sewer boat
rides, kids go free!"
We went on a guided
tour of Highgate cemetery a few years back, (well worth doing, fascinating
history stuffs) the guide explained how the average age on a pauper's grave in
1880s London was 22.
"Fred died
yesterday"
"Well, he had a
fair innings, he was 24."
"True. Good
genes, his grandpa lived to be thirty."
"Thirty? Fuck
off I don't believe it!"
"True, I
swear!"
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