The Industrial revolution

Charles Dickens' London: Victorian London was the largest and most spectacular city in the world.

Dickens had his personal routine and every day he walked a lot of miles-sometimes 10 or 20- through the streets of London.London's population was 1 million people in 1800, by 1880 it was 4.5 million, unfortunately only a part of it could enjoy the benefits of richness, most of the population was poor and exploited.WOMEN AND CHILDREN HAD NO POWER

Changes

A time of change and inventors: the first in the textile industry, the steam engine. Skilled work was born

Railway became more and more popular, stations like Paddington, London Bridge etc. were built but there was no central connection. It was possible to go from one to another by coach.

More people require more food: important markets were born and street sellers pushed their products on carts in the streets.

Houses are warmer thanks to fireplaces

Consequences

People left the country to go and work in factories in the city, work conditions weren't very good

Coaches were horse-drawn, as a result there was filth in the streets, because sweepers couldn't keep them clean.

Live cattle markets and slaughter contributed to the filth

Noise: the sounds of the market made the city very noisy

Pick-pockets, prostitutes, drunks, beggars, and vagabonds of every description add to the colorful multitude.

The Metropolitan Police, London's first police force, was created by Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel (hence the name Peelers and, eventually, Bobbies) in 1829 with headquarters in what would become known as Scotland Yard.

Personal cleanliness is not important, in close and crowded rooms the smell of bodies is unbearable

All the manure flows into river Thames till 1875 the first sewage system was born

At the time people used to drink water from the river but the water was contaminated and so cholera broke out a lot of times.

Soot covers everything