# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVdxGakCOyq
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59840802-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/4e5ff38924.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-03-04T14:14:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

London, 1850. Annie is 7. She scavenges in the Thames at low tide. The river is raw sewage from 2 million people. She wades through it barefoot, searching for coal, rope, bones—anything worth a penny. Her hands are cut and infected. Cholera lives in this water. Last week a boy died from an infected cut. She earns 3 pence a day. It’s the difference between eating and starving. She’ll die at 14 of cholera from the river that fed her. This was survival. #Mudlark #VictorianLondon #London1850 #ThamesHistory #childpoverty

## Stats

- **Views:** 12,509
- **Likes:** 1,871
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 51

## Tags

victorianlondon, childpoverty, thameshistory, london1850, mudlark

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