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No Place Like Home.
By Caughey Guantlett.
A Look At Historic Homelessness.
Edited By Uncle Monty.
Part 1 of 2.
Images from the Web.
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"The subject of homelessness has attracted enormous
public attention in recent years. The media has revealed
horrifying details. So much has been written and said that
there is a good deal of uncertainty as to the true facts.
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"One reason for this confusion is that 'homelessness' can
be defined in various ways. For many, the word conjures
up a certain mental image: people who sleep out in the
streets, mainly tramps, vagrants and alcoholics. For others,
more closely aware of the problem, these are simply the
visible homeless, a small minority of the real army of the
homeless. Not all of these inhabit 'cardboard cities'. It is
also true that some of the homeless in our midst are to
some extent responsible for their own plight.
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Author Caughey Gauntlett.
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"It has to be acknowledged that in some respects at least
little has changed since the Victorian day of (William)
Booth's 'Darkest Engand.' For instance, the following
report by a Salvation Army officer in 1890 has a
strangely contemporary ring about it::
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There are still a large number of Londoners and a con-
siderable percentage of wanderers from the country in
search of work, who find themselves at nightfall destitute.
These now betake themselves to seat under the plane
trees on the Embankment. Formerly they endeavoured
to occupy all seats, but the lynx-eyed Metropolitan
Police declined to allow such proceedings.
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Horrible Near Death For The Rough Woman Sleeper ...
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"(Such led to) the first Salvation Army shelters being
established. The dossers (soon learned) where to lay
themselves down at night without being moved on by the
police. A similar form of astuteness is still discernable
today among those who sleep rough:
Here I found the poor wretches by the score [today on
the South Bank it would be hundreds!], some men, some
women, reclining in various postures, and nearly all fast
asleep ... the moon ... brings into relief a pitiable spect-
acle. Here on the stone abutments, which afford a slight
protections from the biting wind, are scores of men ly-
ing side by side, huddled together for warmth ... some
have laid down a few pieces of wastepaper, by way
of taking the chill off the stones.
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"In his his critique of Booth's scheme, (Lord William) Beveridge
comments (in 1942) that the number of people sleeping rough
in London was 'probably greater than ever before.' A census
taken by the London County Council (LCC) in January 1904
showed 1,797 such persons; a later count in February 1905,
showed 2,181. In one night, in November 1988, a Salvation
Army sponsored preliminary survey within a very limited dis-
trict in Central London showed 531 such (homeless) persons.
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Pictorial Posters Publicly Displayed of All The
Known Homeless People in one single US Town.
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"Further research (in July, 1989) has shown that about
75,000 people are homeless in London. They comprise
more than 18,000 in hostels of various kind, a 'guest-
imate' of 30,000 in squats and about 25,000 in bed-
and-breakfast hotels. The total for London as a whole
is obviously much greater than it was even in the
'bad old days' (of) a hundred years ago.
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"Beveridge commented sharply on 'the gratuitous distri-
bution of meals at midnight on the Embankment and
elsewhere.' He went on: 'The Vagrancy Committe in
1906 came unhesitatingly to the conclusion that both
free food and free shelter were 'demoralising to the
recipients and a source of danger to the community.'
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"It is an open question whether 'soup runs' are morally
justifiable. They were revived some years ago (in the mid-
1980's) during very cold winters. (On) The Strand, dossers
can regularly be found huddled in the doorways of prestigious
employment or travel agents and other businesses. They
include parts of theatreland, Lincoln's Inn Fields and
certain small parks in the West End.
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Soup Runs.
Soup Runs: Good or Bad For The Homeless? By Uncle Monty.
Anti-soup runs advocate Maff Potts and pro-soup.
runs supporter Alastair Murray.
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Is This What Life Is Meant To Be?
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"The bitterly cold winter of January 1987, (saw) media
reports of dozens of homeless people dying of hypothermia.
What happens in London is repeated in other large cities
in Britain (like) Glasgow, central Birmingham, Edinburgh.
(And also) even in such seemingly quiet and respectable
places as Norwich and Bath. (And) similarly in
Wrexham, North Wales.
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Drugz Are NOT a many-splendid thing ...
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"(Of about 4,000 people that the Salvation Army can
accommodate) most of whom have to be considered as
homeless, (comprises of) both men and women whose
marriages and homes have broken up. There are the job-
hunters who leave their families in areas of high unemploy-
ment. (While others) have been released into the comm-
unity from mental institutions of one kind ot another, and
they have no home. An increasing number of adolescents,
sixteen and seventeen years old, are being turned out of
their homes by parents, or step-parents, while others of
similar age and with the same degree of vulnerability, can
no longer live with the tensions and conflicts of their family
life. They too are now part of the floodtide of rootless,
homeless, and often hopeless people who constitute
the flotsam and jetsam of our (British) nation.
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5 FREE THINGS IN LIFE!
1. Unemployment. 2. Homelessness.
3. Starvation. 4. Lonelyness.
5. Death. Thanks For Caring!
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RIP for all the homeless dead.
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"The invisible homeless are those who may have a roof
over their heads, but who have no real home. They are
far more numerous than those who sleep rough, and
they represent a wide cross-section of society. We have
seen that family conflict and marriage breakdown are
major causes of homelessness. Alcohol or drug abuse,
associated with many homeless people, is much more
likely to be the consequence of one or other of those
main factors, than the direct cause. The shadowy
world of squatters is a relatively uncharted area of
homelessness. The great majority seem to be men,
who live in abondoned or derelict buildings.They
are actually an extenton of the community of street
sleepers. They are often withdrawn, and do not
usually want to relate to other people in the comm-
unity. They represent a subculture, many have
virtually dropped out of society.
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"(Of the overall hidden homeless population there are those)
who spend a night or two (in a range of hostels) while others
find an institutationalised form of security over periods of
several years (inside an hostel.) For them, such a place
represents home from home.
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My Home.
Story & Photos by Uncle Monty.
She was an American madame was Polly Adler
when she said, “A house ain't necessarily a home.”
How right she was!!
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Where Does He Go From Here? To His Deathbed?
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Always Remember: NeVeR BUY The Big Issue.
But, Always Give To Vendor!! All that The Big Issue
does is to rake in more and more money off the backs of
the homeless, unemployed, vulnerable, and marginalized in
the UK. Marking its upcoming 20th anniversary in Septem-
ber, vile and greedy John & Peter Bird, who own and
control the weekly magazine and their 5,000+ street vendors,
are set for another money kill at the expense and exploitation
of the homeless who get peanuts while the Bird Brothers
always run to fatten their ever fat bank accounts yet again ...
The only celebration for many a vendor, and also for many
an ex-vendor like me, will be the day The Big Issue goes
bust just like The News of the World did last Sunday!!
Good riddance to NOW and next to TBI and the ever foul
Bird Brothers and their venomous Vauxhall HQ gang ...
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Then we have The Big Issue's Prickhead Peter Bird
(shown below) who is the younger brother of Pigface
Anthony John Bird. The pair are vile and as brothers they
have treated me rotten, yet they don't give a bugger!! After
5 years as a street vendor for them, they just got rid of
me based on the evil stories given to them by the odious
and fake US 'bishop" Joseph Colin James, III, of Love-
land, the well-known Colorado cunt and old Internet troll
who has for years sought to destroy and abuse me and
many others with his malicious leaks. The Bird Brothers
never gave me a chance to defend myself against such
a callous cunt who contacted them and they then just
arbitrarily and capriciously did CJ3's dirty work. As a
result, the UK pigface and UK prickhead just deliber-
ately killed off my Covent Garden pitch - and also killed
off all of my many good and loyal customers - that was
a success by any yardstick. All the Bird Brothers'
talk of "helping the homeless" is hollow and is tanta-
mount to a con game of their's! I have the proof of that
by how they have treated me like a piece of shit, but
the true shit is them! John & Peter Bird will live
forever in my mind and I will do whatever I can to
show everybody what kind of shit they really are ...
Peter Bird is so base and banal, I will never trust
him as far as I can see him nor his big mouth and
big greedy asinine brother John Bird. I pray the
Good Lord will strike them down in poetic justice
against them and their ilk. I have no doubt He will!!
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Here's the un-holy brother of the prickhead -
Pigface Anthony John Bird, 65, is shown below.
He's as phoney as they come, he really is at The Big
Issue. I'm told they have dismissed my blog. So what!
I don't give a bugger what they think. All I care about
is how they have treated me and so many other ven-
dors over the years and gotten away with it like they
are a law unto themselves. Shakespeare said it all:
"Lawless are they that make their will their law."
Look no further than the vile Bird Brothers for such
a perfect example of such Bird lawlessness ... They
stink like The Big Issue, that's how I feel like so
many others who have contacted me since start-
ing my blog - allaboutthebigissue.blogspot.com.
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Continuing next week in Part Two, Caughey Gauntlett makes
further astute observations on UK homelessness in his 1989,
256-page, book entitled - "Today In Darkest Britain." I
have transcribed, abridged, and edited Gauntlett's chapter
"No Place Like Home." I will do the same for his next
chapters "Home From Home" and "Home - and Dry?"
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Truly, Uncle Monty.
+Common of the Saints (BCP), 2011.
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Feedback & Comments
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Ah, Yes! Welcome To The American Dream.
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"POWER TO THE VENDORS,
NOT TO THE BIG ISSUE."
Alex Albion.
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O Canada. By Uncle Monty.
When William & Kate Took Canada By Royal Storm.
No Wonder Her Majesty Was So Pleased With Them!
Of the few people today who make me proud to be
English, William & Kate most certainly do.
Big Bravo, O Canada & O Blighty!!!
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3 comments:
Good Evening Uncle Monty - I feel proud to have just joined your blog by becoming your latest online follower. I think
you have been more sinned against
by the Bird guys than you having sinned yourself. I have met you in
the past at Cafe Nero several times. You are a decent human being
that does not deserve to have been
treated rough shod by the Big Issue. I never bought the magazine
until I met you. Now that you have
gone from Cafe Nero, I have rarely
bought another copy. I did give to
a member I would see near where I work. Now just like you, he has also gone. He was thrown out of his patch I was told by the new member there now. I don't like the new one or his shoddy attitude. One thing with you, you always had a good attitude. You represented the Big Issue so well it seems unbelievable to me that they would bar you from selling the magazine. By them removing you they have only damaged themselves much worse. I really do enjoy reading your various blogs. The one in Canada of all your old news photos is great. Cannot afford to buy any of them, I am sorry to say. You are talented beyond the petty Big Issue. You have and will continue to grow and survive without it.
What is certain is that you will
be an enemy against the Bird guys
from here on out. They're mean
and stupid don't you think? Alright
dear Uncle Monty, I LOVE YOU. That
is all that matters to me. My love, Sue A, XXXXXXXXXXXX.
Guy Pelly, who you probably know is a long and close friend of Princes Wiliam and Harry, has been very wise. Had he at any point
opened his mouth about his intimate knowledge concerning them, he would have been swiftly "frozen out" by the royal family. If you yourself had followed Guy Pelly's example, you wouldn't now be frozen out by The Big Issue for opening your loose mouth. That's why you'll never be allowed to sell the Big Issue ever again. John Bird & Company was right to have frozen you out for good. Blame yourself for once, not them. Cry all you want for it is certainly too late to rectify the situation/damage between you
and the brotherly Birds. Why not ask Guy Pelly to give you a job at his Chelsea night club? He'd tell you to go jump in the Thames. That's also what the Big Issue has been telling you to do for more than a year now. So, go jump fast and make a final big splash at last for your useless self.
The rubblish you write speaks for itself. As for Sue with all her love and kisses for you, she's as crazy as you. Do you get my drift,
"Uncle" Who?
DEAR ANONYMOUS YOu'VE LOST THE PLOT. THE STORY IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND. MONTY WAS THE ONE WHO HAs
'FROZEN OUT' A.J & P. BIRD - THE
PAIR ARE NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE. THEY HAvE BEEN 'FROZEN OUT' BY THEiR BIG ISSUE BUYERS SINCE THeY CHUCKED
MONTY OUT WITH NO RECOURSE THAT IS
FAIR TO HiM. I HAVE NO IDEA OF WHO GuY PELLY IS. HE'S GOT NOTHING TO
DO WITH THe ISSUE AT HAND. SO WHAT'S YOUR BEEF ANONYMOUS? YOU CAN SUPPORT THE 'FROZEN OUT' A.J & P. BiRD. I WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT OUR UNCLE MONTY AGAINST SUCH PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND YOUR BIG ISSUE DUPES. YES, I'M A FIRM FAN OF "UNCLE BLOGGER". YOU CAN TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT YOU BIG DIPSTICK. LYNN.
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