What Is The Worst Job In London History?

[0:00]What was the worst job in all of London history? Let me introduce you to the Victorian Toshers or sewer hunters. This topic's been chosen by my patrons. If you want to join them, click the link in the bio. So these guys would go into the London sewers. They'd go up the pipes where they joined into the river. And they would stick their hand into the mud, right up to the shoulder. You can see he's not wearing any gloves and pull out whatever they could find. You'd think there wouldn't be very much down there, but these guys are finding like armfuls of coins, bracelets, silver plate, jewelry. And the smell isn't even the worst bit. You get used to the smell. The worst bit is that it's really dangerous. All this crumbling brick work can fall on you. You can be tracked in by the tide, and rats will straight up attack you. You might think a rat can't do much damage to a human, but these guys will go into the sewers in groups of three or four because they're so scared of the rats. So from the 1840s onwards, the authorities start blocking off the entrances to sewers so that people can't go in them. One Tosher at the time said, they fears as we'll get suffocated, but they don't care if we get starved.