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Angel Meadow

Name: Angel Meadow
ISBN: 9781473880283

Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

Dean Kirby,

224 pages
English
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Angel Meadow

Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

Dean Kirby,

About this book

"A record of how a city of great wealth ignored the desperate poverty at its very heart . . . It is a lesson in the price of capitalism." —North West Labour History Journal
"It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls." — Manchester Guardian, 1870
Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution. In the shadow of the world's first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs.
Thieves and prostitutes keep company with rats in overcrowded lodging houses and deep cellars on the banks of a black river, the Irk. Gangs of "scuttlers" stalk the streets in pointed, brass-tipped clogs. Those who evade their clutches are hunted down by cholera, typhoid and tuberculosis. Lawless drinking dens and a cold slab in the dead house provide the only relief from a filthy and frightening world.
In this shocking book, journalist Dean Kirby takes readers on a hair-raising journey through the gin palaces, alleyways and underground vaults of this nineteenth-century Manchester slum considered so diabolical it was re-christened "hell upon earth" by Friedrich Engels.
ENTER ANGEL MEADOW IF YOU DARE . . .
"In this book the author expertly achieves driving home the grim horror that was Angel Meadow. These were conditions at the bottom of human endurance and conditions that go beyond imaginations of modern-day citizens." — Crime Traveller

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