Skeletons found at New Covent Garden Market reveal harsh reality of life in 19th century London
As family historians we should always think about the social conditions that our ancestors lived in and the times that shaped their lives.
For that reason it is fascinating to read in the Evening Standard about the skeletons that have been discovered while work is going on at New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms. The human remains reveal what life was like for these people. The paper explains that they lived between 1830 and 1850 when mass industrialisation and expansion of the railways were taking place and thier bones reveal something of the lives they would have had.
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