The squalid and unsanitary conditions that were brought on by immense overcrowding made life very dismal for poor Victorian children and their families. With Michael Mosley. Victorian Slum House. The 1860s. There are still London businesses doing things in the Victorian way today, and Potter family patriarch Graham spent his first day working at a modern-day bell foundry that still does everything by hand.

In this landmark living history series, a Victorian tenement in the heart of London's East End has been painstakingly brought back to life. East London had the most well-known slums of that time. The rendering to the left is an artists first hand impression of what a Victorian slum looked like. PBS has renamed the show to Victorian Slum House, sticking with the naming convention it used for the shows in the US: Manor House, 1900s House, Frontier House, Colonial House. Episode 1 | 54m 10s | Video has closed captioning. On "Victorian Slum House," one of the new residents of the slum learned the hard way that unskilled work of the Victorian era was taxing. If you like the idea of reality shows but just can’t get with all the screaming, duplicity, and bad plastic surgery, Victorian Slum House will be right up your street. Victorian Era Slums. A group of 15 volunteers aged between 10 and 59 are transported back to Victorian London as they spend three weeks living and working in a recreation of the notorious Old Nichol slum in Bethnal Green in London's East End.