A House in Time BBC 2

[LouiseBrooks]

Anyone else watching? My house is around 150 years old and I've looked it up on a couple of censuses but there's nothing as interesting as this. (Mine is also much smaller.)

This I wish they'd teach domestic history like this at schools

To be fair though I remember the dc's doing local history at primary school.

I thought it was really interesting also.

Really liked the presenter who has quite an understated style which is a relief from the SHOUTERS. No need for daft CGI or hammy re-enactments, that kind of thing.

Great programme.

I enjoyed it but a couple of things wound me up.
Firstly the 1841 census rounds adult ages down to the nearest 5 years in general. Some pages do record actual age but most don't.
And the use of clerk pronounced wrongly was irritating. The second time they talked about clerks they had it right.
Minor things but it annoyed Aspie me :)

That info re the census is interesting, grockle. How do you know that?

(I’m not doubting, just interested)

Duck Have you been there? It must take a lot of money to replace everything that's gone with original (or reproduction) fittings.

:) It's one of those facts I internalised years ago when I started with family tree research as a hobby. I'm a bit obsessive about it all . But I think the notes about any of the 1841 census returns online usually say that. By 1851 they were using actual ages.

This was really interesting. I always wonder about former inhabitants when I look at these older buildings. The presenter is new to me and I loved his gentle and understated manner.

Someone who became a Hollywood actor used to live in my house.

I love house history.

Been where, ppeat? The house? No, i’m going by the footage on the programme and the pics on rightmove. Full restoration of original features does cost a few £££, yep, it sounds like you’ve done similar in the past.

I know the restaurant and the area as I have family there.

I need to catch up with this, meant to watch then DH went on GoT marathon.

David Olusoga is great, he wrote a book Black and British alongside the series last year.

Duck I admit I watched MOST of it, I recorded it and will watch it all when I get the time!

We moved into an Edwardian house in the 80s that had been sort of ruined by the last 2 families; I say sort of because all the rooms had their original cornicing and dadoes etc. which saved us heaps of money. The doors and bannisters had been "Barry Bucknelled" so the last inhabitants had removed the planks of plain plywood but had put up wood chip paper!!

Sadly the morning room had been totally ruined by the people before them! So we made it into a nice square kitchen with an open chimney above the hob. We put back a repro Georgian fireplace upstairs that we found in the shed!

It was great, really enjoyable .
There used to be one on about streets and I loved that too. Think the bloke from The Great Interior Design Challenge presented it.

Oh yes, I vaguely remember that one, coco, with someone Dyckhoff (that spelling may be off!)

I love social history - was accepted to study it at St Andrews but they pulled the course as not enough applicants.
Really interesting series so far, I do like his understated delivery. My parents live in a Victorian villa built for people moving from the city to the suburbs, I've always wanted to know more about it. My parents removed the hall carpet a few years ago and there was a gorgeous parquet floor!

They repeated it last year IIRC . It was about an area Sth of the Thames that the residents had fought the local council to conserve. They saved it from being demolished for a motorway I think.

Yes that's it Duck, Tom Dyckoff.

The thing about streets sounds good; does anyone remember what it was called? I quite fancy like Tom D.

If you googled it it would come up Rhiannon I can't remember it's name atm.

While we're chatting about other programmes did anyone see "A Stitch in Time" last week ? Also Lucy Worsley did a programme about Court Dress just before *A Stitch" that was fascinating, she was dressing up in it as she obviously loves to do of course!

Thanks ppeatfruit we watched it together this afternoon and really enjoyed it. I thought the presenter was excellent.

i thought it was a bit dull tbh - the streets programme was much much better.

Really interesting programme, and I'm looking forward to the next episode. I love social history.

But very little about the actual house so far, how it was decorated/used/furnished.

I loved that series about the streets - there was a fascinating episode about Notting Hill, how over the years it had sunk from respectable middle class, to multiple-occupancy slums, then back to gentrification again. There were a couple of lucky families who'd bought their houses floor by floor back when it was still a dodgy area, and were now sitting in multi-million pound properties.

Yes I watched the streets programme and loved it. I remember very clearly the one about Nottinghill and I'm sure in the second series there was a programme about a small.scottish fishing village.

I'm off to Google

I enjoyed the house programme too.

Yes I enjoyed it too, but also wanted more about the house and the women and children! How did Wilfred's mother raise him on her own? How did Orr's servant wife adjust to middle class status, presumably with servants of her own, but husband out all day working? How many kids and how did they raise them? Suspect Wilfred's weren't the only ones to die young, what were the causes of death? What was their daily life in the house like? Im wisting after the family dinners in time programme..