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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

Barbarao They showed the outside toilet complete with ripped up newspaper on a nail!. The family were lucky not to be sharing it with the rest of the terrace.

It was true that, living in the S.E. my gm was always telling my dm that they were poor, but they had a 'daily' and my dm had a nurse\nanny! Only a 2 child family.

ppeat according to something I read recently the reason that only women over 30 were given the vote initially was because after the First World War the male population was much lower than the female population. If all women were given the vote this would mean more women voting than men. By limiting the female vote to those over 30 it meant that there were still more men with the vote than women.

Barbara I don’t think there were any Mills but all of my maternal ancestors- male and female- worked long, physical shifts in factories and lived in tiny rooms in slums. My paternal side had a slightly better time as they were county folk who moved down from North Wales to arable farm in rural Essex and Suffolk so that was a much better way of life, but the urban SE and in particular East London was grim as fuck from what I can gather. Even my grandmother (born 1932) lived in a three room flat with 8 siblings, her parents and grandmother and two unmarried aunts, all surviving off her fathers one factory wage! There was very little food.

Chessie Thanks for that It obviously made sense to government then All those LIVE white middle class males Arseholes .

i thought a lovely family

mum had a real go at the recipes

tho the tripe sounded rank , tho the suet bacon if cooked in an oven may have tasted nice

loved the outside loo

i wonder about the bedrooms,we never saw upstairs with the bradshaws so wonder if they sleepin nice beds/shower etc at night

Watching now with the DC.

I wonder where the mill is. Maybe the Bradford Industrial Museum.

Nice family, but found this a bit boring. Not as watchable as the previous series, and as a Northerner from a working class background I was really looking forward to it.

This series does not seem to be as in depth as the others, particularly with the 20 years per episode.

Even in tv making they spend half as much on northerners as on southerners!

I used to live near Bradford and remember the tripe stalls at Bradford market. This wasn't so long ago either - the 1980s.

Is the mill at Bradford Industrial museum? I went there years ago, and they started all the machines up. The racket was deafening. Mill workers learned to lip read because of the noise in t'mills.

A real gem of a museum is the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds, and they have a gruesome account of a young girl who was injured at work and who subsequently died.

Task for the weekend is to watch this programme and report back as to whether I think it was the Bradford Industrial Museum (I went a few weeks ago so should remember), possibly Armley Mills, or somewhere else, in which case, it might be somewhere else I'd like to visit.

I saw tripe in Leeds Market a couple of weeks ago. I'm not generally squeamish about food (no problem with boney meat and things that a lot of people won't eat like black pudding or liver, but even I think that tripe is a step too far).

I know I would find the Thackray Medical Museum interesting, but I've never been as I'm far too squeamish.

Has anyone eaten tripe?

Yes. I didn't like it.

Bikerun Well I suppose there are only so many days they can show the family just eating bread and dripping or jam!

I enjoyed it, it was a bit fast forward though with so many years in one episode, I thought the family were great, they had a bit of a laugh doing it.

I had tripe once, it was disgusting.

I've just downloaded it.

I loved the Robshaws, they were interesting, candid, and they got stuck in, but they had gone as far as they could I think.

There was an interesting series several years ago where a middle-class Welsh family lived in a pre-war/wartime coal mining community for a while.

This is looking like another great new food series looking at food of the past.

Much prefer the Robshaws...

Oh I quite like the new ones, esp. the Mum and Dad,. The dcs will become more relaxed I expect.

Chessie, the family are relatives of mine. They had to stay away from the house during filming, so 'lived' in their caravan.

I can vaguely remember being given tripe as a young child (I'm in my fifties) - but I can't remember the taste. Still I like liver and kidneys, unlike a lot of people, so maybe I would have thought it was OK.

When the seventies arrived my mum decided to modernise her cuisine I think. No more tripe, rice pudding etc. I think that probably sixties/seventies is when a lot of people stopped making that kind of food, and started with more exotic stuff like pasta and curries! I did think a lot of the dishes they were making in this looked most unappetising, like that bacon and onion thing in suet which they boiled. I would have preferred egg and chips, isn't that a cheap meal too? I guess if you were poor you might think it was OK. Hardly any veg and no fruit were in evidence, and not much in the way of spices, so it was possibly quite flavourless as well as unhealthy.

Thanks Puer.How long did it take to do all the filming?

@puer125 that’s interesting to know

Have never seen upstairs /bedrooms

So they kinda have to slum it at nights

Can you tell blondes doesn’t do camping /caravans 😂

Yes Pemba I was surprised they didn't eat more onions. (especially surprised that one of the girls didn't know how to peel one!).

If you use enough onions it gives good flavour. They did have cabbage didn't they?

Yes Puer Great to have insider knowledge thank you

I remember dd1 being in an ad. on location and the house they used, was full of cables, cameras etc. It was the 80s though maybe they don't have so much stuff now?

The family maybe could have stayed in the other half of their house?

I love these sorts of programmes, have enjoyed 1900s house, 1940s house, various back in time programmes, one where there were about 5 households in a little mining village, one on channel 4 I think were there were about 4 households in a street all with different experiences during the same times (part that stuck with me was a black man arriving in to the country and trying to rent a room only to find signs up in the houses saying no black people, he really struggled with that being what his relatives would have gone through)

From the first episode I would say -
I like the family
It's interesting seeing what a higher proportion of people would have gone through (certainly more true for my relatives than having servant Debbie)
The family seem to be trying the whole experience with an open mind and willing to give things a go
It feels odd without Giles turning up

The only thing I am disappointed with is that it feels rushed compared to previous series, it was living on one piece of stale bread for 10 seconds then suddenly they are off on holiday! There was nothing about how they felt not having the choice, not having enough to eat, would the mum have gone without to feed the DC and man of the house, was the mum stressing about how she was going to feed the family or the man of the house stressing about being out of work? No, it's all over in the blink of an eye and they are off on holiday