LIVING CONDITIONS

Obviously, if there are more people in a place, there are more difficulties. The factory managers had to provide accommodation for all the workers that worked in their factories so they built houses for each and every one of them. The problem was that there were no rules in how to built the houses so the factory owners built them according to how they thought they should be built. The factory owners obviously didn't build anything near to a mansion because of the shortage of time and also because their class was fairly low. The factory owners built reasonable houses because land cost money so they attempted to build as many houses possible on each chunk of land.

An early trolley bus passes a wide load, while people watch near their houses in 1911.

'The houses were built back-to-back in long rows. There were no gardens and very few windows. Rooms were small and since families were usually large, conditions were very cramped'-Living through History. The workers at that time had big families so it was very cramped in the houses. The majority of the worker's houses had running water so they had to walk to the end of the street and get water from a single pipe. The other problem was that there were no toilets and around 200-300 people lived in a street so it was extremely difficult and unpleasant in sharing a toilet with them. The toilet would have been a wooden seat over a hole called the 'cess pit'. The 'cess pit' was so unpleasant and disgusting that workers emptied it out only in the night.

In the city, there were also deadly diseases like cholera spreading rapidly throughout houses and factories, which was also dreadful. Pollution was everywhere in Bradford. It was in the air, in streets and rivers.