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.)

Fascinating program.

I keep wondering where everyone slept! First floor had master bedroom & top floor was for servants so where did the children sleep?

Felt for the woman (&dcs) who stayed with her adulterous husband & then brought up his dcs with OW.

I loved this ! Worked in Number 7 cafe and deli in the 90s in Faulkner Street. Beautiful houses.

Really enjoyed episode 3, seemed a much more rounded coverage of the families and also continuing the fascinating social history of Liverpool. One room per family, we don't know how good we have it today!

I think we should all post feedback about the series and the fabulous David on the BBC website so they hopefully commission another series.

Absolutely cracking series! Loved every minute of it.

This is the sort of programme that makes me happy to pay my TV licence.

One room per family, we don't know how good we have it today!

We really don’t! It must have been a horrendous life for those people. That poor woman who was beaten black by her mother! and that man with epilepsy working every day in the docks.

Really enjoyed episode 3, seemed a much more rounded coverage of the families and also continuing the fascinating social history of Liverpool.

I thought so too. Perhaps it gets easier to build up a rounded picture when you can find descendants who actually knew the people, or knew people who knew them. I think one thing the programme's illustrated really well is how precarious life could be unless you were at the very top of the tree - for the middling sorts who occupied the house a lot of the time, one moment they could be doing well, and the next everything could change.

Great series! Hope they do another one.

I was fascinated by the couple who improved their own circumstances (the wife had been beaten by her own Mother) and seemed to have a number of properties being rented out, but the conditions of their tenants was appalling, as they lived in cramped conditions with few facilities. Did anybody else get that?

Amazing series. I love these social histories. it looks like they are bringng back, Back in Time foe Tea, which I also loved.

I really enjoyed this programme and so did ds next day we went to Greenwich lots of Georgian houses and we wondered about their history it was a really good way to look at social history

The research was really good not just focusing on the more scandalous part (though that was interesting) and I really like the presenter

"I keep wondering where everyone slept! First floor had master bedroom & top floor was for servants so where did the children sleep?"

I thought that also!

I'm guessing top floor for children & there was a "maid of all work(?)" who slept in the kitchen?

Oh I loved this series!

Fantastic presenter, brilliant research and lots of intrigue. Truly fascinating to hear the life stories of the inhabitants of 62 Falkner St.

I was born in Liverpool and my memories of the city as a child are just like the photos on the programme from the late 60s early 70s. Such deprivation

Hope they make another, am so sad it's over!

It was wonderful, wasn't it? The young guy with AIDS was so so sad. I was a kid/young teen in the 80s so AIDS loomed large for me. It brought back a lot of the fear and confusion I remember from that time.

I've just done a YouGov survey where I told them I'd watched this and got to give feedback on it. I gushed unashamedly. We should all write to the Beeb as well and make sure they know how much a lot of people liked it; then hopefully they'll do another. There must be enough material out there for loads more series of it.

I can't help thinking the older neighbour (Joan? ) slightly embelllished her meeting with John Lennon
Wonderful programme, hope it returns,and Secret Of Our Streets.

Coco i got that sense too but she got a kick out of telling her story so what the hell. I enjoyed the last episode as I was born in the 80’s so I “recognised” so much of what was being explored. It felt like quite a jolt when he mapped out the HIV epidemic on the street and surrounding streets. Wow! So many people in such close proximity to each other. And then he referred back to cholera. It was kind of like you don’t realise how big something is when it’s happening until you look back at it.

It was kind of like you don’t realise how big something is when it’s happening until you look back at it.

Yep, really quite shocking. He made an interesting point too about how we think that epidemics happen to 'other people in other times'. That was a big part of why the emergence of AIDS was so very shocking, I think.

Yes definitely. That’s why the likening it to the cholera epidemic struck me. I hadn’t ever thought of AIDS as having been the cholera of the time.

Brilliant programme which has prompted me to find out more about the history of my house. I'm currently wading through land title documents from the turn of the last century - hand-written in beautiful copperplate but very hard to read!

Would love to hear what you find out about your house, squashy!

I'm tempted to do mine (similar age to the one in the series, in London). I assume it takes a lot of time though.

I've just written a fairly gushing feedback message to the Beeb about how much I liked the show and David O, and how I'd love to watch more of it and him. Hope they listen!

Just catching up with the last episode, absolutely fascinating.
I grew up in the 80s and went to Liverpool University, my building was just a block away from this house.
I loved the host, the footage, the interviewees. Just wonderful.

DH lived in Faulkner Street when he was a student in the 1980s. I think he must have caught it at a point in its history that isn't quite so glorious, judging by the size of the rat he says they used to see on the cellar steps. When I see the aerial shots of the street in this programme I always think of his story about how the four housemates used to climb out of the attic bedroom window and sit on the roof drinking and smoking. I quite like that image of him and the housemate who is still a close friend today, back in their student days.