Turn Back Time - the High Street ... anyone?

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Not sure that any of them are going to make a profit!

The baker bloke seems pig-headed as his wife is the professional but he's ignored her advice ...

The butcher seems very limited if he's only selling pork. If I was only allowed to shop there, I'd be a bit disappointed ...

However, the people shopping in the grocers seem to be taking the p*ss - one woman asked for sunblock! Did she not realise it is set in the 1800s??

The blacksmith doesn't seem overly bothered about selling stuff; just playing in his forge (I know he's selling the stuff but ...)

Still, gonna stick with it

Why is that baker showing him how to make bread when his wife's a master baker? Surely no self-respecting Victorian wife would stand and watch her husband waste perfectly good ingredients?

He completely ignored his wife and it was a disaster!

See how he's listening to the 'expert' ... oh hold on ... she's the artisan

why is that dough trough at such a daft level? back breaking - yes. why is it not higher up?

Right - If they're bending the rules with the flour, surely they're going to let the wife do some of the baking ... we'll see ...

i want a cheese that big

LOL - it is rather impressive, isn't it I hope it sells!

Hmmm.
Well, it seemed to be a bit of a whistle-stop tour. I suppose they want to get breadth as opposed to depth.
Will watch it next week to see ... not as if there's much else on

blimey this programme was like blue peter, BBC please put kids programmes on at tea time

Recorded this for DD. She adored the coalhouse and loves the evacuee series when she catches it.

I didn't hold out much hope as soon as I saw that shouty Gregg Wallace was on board. And when I heard him claim that 'not many people nowadays would even know what an ironmonger was', I gave up.

OK, I can see that they wanted to try and develop some sort of spin-off from the Victorian Farm/Pharmacy programmes, which were great, but they did actually do things properly on those, and didn't insult our intelligence by, for example, forbidding the woman baker to actually bake, and 'hilariously' leaving the pork pies to burn in the oven.

And despite the clueless comments from the people rounded up to go and shop there, I notice that they suddenly all loved it on the market day - in best TV doc style, things are going disastrously up until the last segment of the programme, then it all seems to be miraculously OK.....

The really sad, sad thing was seeing lovely Shepton Mallet apparently totally deserted and left to rot while everyone trolled off to the megastores out of town. What is the matter with people nowadays? We really have taken leave of our senses.

I dont really see the point of this programme

The thing is that, IMHO, they're trying to do too much - not only have lots of different kinds of shops but also change the era each week. So you don't really get any kind of insight as it's all too rushed.

Evenkeel - totally agree about the 'alright on the night' aspect

Total rubbish! My Dad was a butcher and he used to be up at 3am to go to Spitalfields to pick up his own meat. It would have been the same in Victorian era. Butchers would have gone to the local Wholesale meat market.
They would never have picked up a animal carcass that needed to be hauled by 5 men.
It would have been cut up in the abattoir into a size that a porter could carry to the market then to the customers vehicle which would have been a horse and cart. Even in Dad's army the only person allowed a van was the butcher. Not watching too daft.