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.)

Thank you!

Wow, wasn't that fantastic? Can't wait for next week's.

I'm so shocked that cholera could kill within hours!
So interesting.

The domestic abuse story was incredible. I would like to have learned more about the women who studied at Royal Holloway.

I feel sad for the woman who tried to get a divorce and the marriage was 'reconciled'.

And then had to live with the OW's dds.

I wonder what happened to them? Presumably, they will have checked the workhouse records, so as far as we know, they stayed with Ann.

I just watched tonight’s episode. I missed last weeks. Will get it on catch up. What a fantastic programme and a brilliant presenter. A gorgeous house too. I find it hard to imagine Those upstairs rooms being drawing rooms with socialising and things happening in them. And then servants right up top. It must have felt quite crammed in sometimes. That poor woman having to raise her husband’s children from an affair! Poor children too.

BBC Scotland did an interesting programme called the Secret History of our Streets. It was similar but looked at a whole street. It's not on iPlayer any more but maybe someone cleverer than me can find it somewhere else

Ah I see someone else has linked to this, I didn't see one about Notthing Hill though, it was all about Scottish cities. Maybe you got different episodes depending on where you live.

There were two series of Secret History of our Streets. London and then Scotland.

Saw a few episides of both series. Would love it if they did more cities. It was brilliant.

Portland Rd, Nottinghill - Youtube

Can't help thinking Henry Mayhews wife divorced him!!

I had to watch the Portland Road one as part of an OU course a few years ago, fascinating stuff. I watched last night's show tonight but kept getting interrupted and missed a few bits, I didn't pick up that Ann ended up with the OW's children. The divorce that never happened was a shocking lesson in how few rights women had in those days.

Caught up yesterday. It was a great episode, agree that they can only comment on details in the records and I think he is doing a good job overall at stating the ambiguity of sources and that some of the conclusions are 'best guesses', though he did let this go a bit grey with the Wilfred story.

I have a huge crush on Olusoga.

I love this series. What strikes me most about it is that back in the day, it was never seen as a forever home. It was a step up in social terms and it must have been quite precarious when children were involved. Obviously education and good schools nearby didn't play a part, but I loved that Ann Robinson took her daughters education seriously and ensured they had a promising future.

Opps I may have got that name wrong. But those watching know who I mean.

Her name was Esther Lubin.

Esther Lublin.

The Liverpool house is up for sale at £600K.

Yes, it was Esther Lublin? The Jewish woman whose daughters went to university? She was living separately from her husband but didn't divorce and he went back to Denmark eventually.

And Ann Robinson's divorce that never was. That was really interesting. The divorce was discontinued by the judge just about the time the oldest girl was born to Alfred's mistress. Wonder exactly what went on.

Yes Esther Lublin died from a thyroid disease that is curable now in the 21st century and the presenter had the same disease. She ensured that her daughters where educated to degree level.

Ann Robinson took care of her husband's lover's children, two girls. Their outcome is not known. Sadly.

Wow, what a fascinating programme. Love the presenter.
That looked like the Quarter cafe in the Georgian quarter he was sitting outside. Absolutely beautiful part of the city, although bordered by many rough areas. I used to park my car on Falkner St at university.

Really enjoyed the second episode. Now messing about on Ancestry trying to find out more about the Robinsons (clearly an hour's amateur sleuthing will reveal the fate of the girls where the might of the BBC research team failed!) Found them on the 1891 census but otherwise they are indeed very elusive!

I watched the first episode at the weekend - not had time to watch the second yet.

I did enjoy it, and I love the idea of tracing the history of a house. However, I was rather perturbed by the character assassination of the final guy in the episode - the one who moved in with mum, lost money when the cotton market prices fell, and went to the USA. On some rather flimsy evidence he was made out to be a complete rotter. I mean, I don't have any respect for people who made the cotton trade hum rather than standing out against it because it was based on slave labour from the southern states. But I don't think they were guilty of anything more than being willing and complicit bystanders, which so many people throughout history have been and so many people are today. Not laudable by any stretch of the imagination, but it doesn't make them villains. And how do we know that when he later joined the Union army, he hadn't seen the error of his ways and wanted in some way to atone? There was no actual evidence that he was a mercenary. It's quite possible that he was, as suggested, a despicable individual. But the problem is we don't have enough evidence to make that judgement, and he of course has no right of reply to the constructed story.

Won't stop me watching the rest, though.

Didn’t he serve a prison sentence? I thought that’s why they had him down as a bit of a thug. Might be wrong though, I kept missing bits to sort out the dc’s