Victorian Servants Lived in Shocking Squalor (Slum Houses of London's Marylebone)

Victorian London's servants lived in horrible slums hidden behind grand mansions in wealthy Marylebone, West London. These mews houses were often rooms above stables for horses of the rich. Imagine the smell and dirt of working class families living cramped in these lofts. Find out, in this eyewitness account by a Victorian journalist, what life was like for servants and tradesmen in 19th Century London surrounded by wealth, yet living in poverty and squalor.

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