Miscellaneous
Life could be pretty grim for children on the streets of Victorian London. Flogging, imprisonment, slavery and perhaps expulsion to a colony can almost compete with today's modern hardships of low phone credit or internet drop out, just some of many trials so coldly visited upon our younger generation. But life for Victorian street urchins took a turn for the better with the arrival of a man from Ireland. The song 'A Boy Like Him' inspired by this tale and included in this episode, is available for free download at www.songsfromthehowlingsea.com. The video accompanying this story can be found at the Songs From The Howling Sea YouTube channel.