Comments by "Christopher Winstanley" (@christopherwinstanley1348) on "Fact Feast" channel.

Great video. The Public House was a way for pitmen could clear their throat from the pit dust. In the days of the spit buckets, I can remember my grandfather spat on the fire, mixture of coal dust and alcohol. Yes, quite true that alcohol was their main recreation, and the women and home was their hardship really. The men would spend all day in the boozer and give the women a little to buy food and rent, very much a Catholic trait of the man being the head of the household. I'm not saying anything negative with Catholics. George Owel picked up on this in his publication Road To Wigan Pier. A lot of working classes didn't appreciate George Owel and was considered antisocial. This may have been his middle class background and didn't trust him in that respect within the actual working classes. George Orwell found the worst places, in the doss house. It would be a great shame for a man in those times to loose his job, and not be able to support is family, they had a benevolent fund among themselves, and their community was very close... so they'd take care of each other in that respect. The doss house was when noone else would take them in. So, for some reason they'd been outcasts from their community.
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Loved watching the video, as much as I like 19 crimes red wine 🍷 😊 in their description and very much with the height being just over 5 ft and shorter in woman. My attention was with poverty and nutrition during that period, welfare would have been hardly anything, or the parish fund was the church fund and wasn't actual money. Early childhood nutrition and during adolescent is growth period, their diet would have been bland, and probably calcium. My great grandmother was Irish decent, move to Newcastle, later moved on, would have moved from place to place. I know they couldn't find work, as her role in the community sustained her. And the work she food was dreadful. My grandfather could actually read and write which disadvantage him. History lesson 😊
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The workhouse was shaming, in the Irish immigrated. Can think of the Indignity in poverty. My great grandfather used herbal medicine and both gave themselves to their own community, in many ways childbirth, and sicknesses/death. Education would have disqualified persons in the workplace.
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