BACK IN TIME FOR TEA - TUE 8pm bbc2

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Love these kind of programmes

Over the course of 6 episodes the Ellis family experience first hand what life was like for working families over the past 100 yrs

Beginning 1918

If they were working class they probably wouldn't have staff, although there could probably have had informal arrangements to pool labour amongst neighbours and family, minding DCs while at work or helping each other out with cleaning when I'll etc?

Looking forward to watching this series.

I'm working class northern so I'll report back on how realistic it is and watch out for any howlers.

I’m annoyed that Sara Cox is well known for being Lancastrian but the new series is set in Yorkshire!

I realise that I am probably alone in this annoyance.

The kids would have had to help and mum wouldn't have had a job outside the home, though she may have worked from home.

I enjoyed it although it felt a bit rushed trying to do 2 decades in one episode - would have been better to just focus on one decade like they did with the Robshaws. I liked the family though.

Does anyone know if they get to live normally when they’re not actually filming - do they change all the bedrooms to fit the time they’re in or do they get to use their normal bedrooms with 21st century stuff? This has no bearing on anything, I’m just interested!

Ah I didn't know this was new! I'll try and catch it.

I liked it, I love these social history programmes too , great that they're doing a more working class northern family. I like Sarah Cox , she's just right.

Those women did work outside of the home in the mills, dangerous work it was too.

Indeed peat. For anyone in the West Yorkshire area (and Lancashire too?) we have some fabulous industrial museums with mill set ups.

I haven't been to the one in Leeds since I was a child (standard schools visit - look how people like you lived 100-150 years ago sort of thing), but have recently bought a year's pass for the Leeds paid museums etc, so will be making a point of visiting this year.

www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/home

I went to the Bradford Industrial Museum a few weeks ago, which is small (and free) and there's lots of interesting things about life working in the mill, such as pay rates (low, and overtly lower for women and children) and working hours (long).

Also the accidents, with people losing limbs and getting hair and clothing caught in machinery. Children were required to run under looms to repair broken threads and pick up dropped bobbins etc. So, so dangerous.

The Bradford mill also reminded me of the information board in the Peak District at the bottom of a hill between Hope and Edale, that told of, as well as working 12 hour shifts in the mill 6 days a week, people used to walk from one valley to the other over the hill there and back each day, a good hour's walk, which would have been in the dark in winter. When it snowed and wasn't safe to walk, they would sleep in the mill to save making the journey.

Cant' wait to watch it now.

Yes Barbarao Talk about exploitation, it was sickening. I don't blame the Luddites one bit!

I’m annoyed that Sara Cox is well known for being Lancastrian but the new series is set in Yorkshire!

I realise that I am probably alone in this annoyance.

No, I hate this lumping together of different and diverging places as 'the north'!

I really enjoyed it and at least this lady knows how to use a tin opener. Great family, very forthright and funny asides.

BMW6 Yes to the tin opener! They did seem a nice family; it was a little odd that her 14 or 15 year old daughter didn't know how to peel an onion!

I much prefer this family theyre very likable and Mum seems reasonably well clued up on how to actually cook food except that suet roll which should have been steamed on top of the boiling veg and not boiled itself.

I found the Robshaws very annoying at times especially with that tin opener incident.

oh i loved the robshaws

I liked the Robshaws too. They were such a nice bunch.

I liked the Robshaws too but there's room for another nice family IMO!

I haven't seen this one yet, so am reserving judgement on this bunch for now

I seem to remember one of the Back in Time shows used a different family, actually, who weren't as nice as the Robshaws.

I'm originally from Lancashire but I really don't care that Sara Cox is from there and the series is set in Yorkshire.

Sara did a good job and that's all that mattered to me.

The boy last night had fun, in his swimming costume , with the pig's bladder, fishing and go-karting with his dad. interesting how the men managed to get the vote. need to read up on that

Slarty Even more interesting that women got the vote in 1918 BUT only if they were over 30 fgs!!!!! I can't work out why that should be!!!

I like the Robshaws too but think it is right that they are doing the show from a working class perspective.

The lives of the Robshaws with their maids, nice house with indoor plumbing, life of leisure for the women (mostly, there were a few episodes where Rochelle was tied to the kitchen) and nice office job for Mr Robshaw isn't something that many people living in the UK 50-100 years ago would recognise.

Does the house in the new series have an outside toilet? That was the norm in many areas of northern England in the early 20th Century - only the rich and middle classes had indoor plumbing.

I enjoyed this and liked the new family BUT as someone with working class roots in London I don’t like the implication that it was grim up t’north and the land of milk and honey down in London. My ancestors in the slums of the East End were poor, had no food and did shitty and dangerous jobs too. I understand that the social history of the north is far less discussed in mainstream media than life in London but still, we had our problems down here too.

I kicked myself for missing this yesterday but I've just watched it on iPlayer. What a lovely family the Ellis crew are!

I can't wait to see what they make of the next 20 years. I wish we had lots more of these programmes, they're so special and give historical context for people who didn't live in those times.

I have the 1940s house as well, that's one of my all time favourites, the family were amazingly adaptable. The 1900s could have been great but the family were a poor fit and didn't make the most of it.

I'm setting an alarm for next Tuesday at 8pm, that's for sure.

I agree, Fell, and that narrative is still at play today. It's at best partially accurate.

Fell When I was writing my post about the industial museums upthread, I did wonder if spinning and weaving in mills was exclusively a northern thing, or if it happened in the south as well, because I wasn't sure?