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BACK IN TIME FOR TEA - TUE 8pm bbc2

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Blondeshavemorefun · 04/02/2018 14:22

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

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TellMeItsNotTrue · 18/02/2018 11:16

tobee I thought it was good to see the differences between each household living through the same time in the same location too. There was the man of the house injured, a family with young children who couldn't work compared to older boys who could join their dad, families taking in a lodger or working together to make flowers to add to the household income. There were fish and chip suppers that not all families could afford etc. I liked the series anyway as I felt it was more realistic less rushed with the mum worrying about paying the rent man etc, but felt it was added to by seeing how a slight difference in your family could mean a world of difference in your circumstances even in the same area at the same time

I had the same views about the channel 4 programme were there was about 4 houses going through changes in time with each house totally different. One maybe had servants while another had to send her older daughters elsewhere to be servants. Some were living in one room of a house or had to take in lodgers, while a young black man struggled to get a place to lodge because nowhere at that time would take black people. It brings it more to life and makes it more lifelike when you can see that this wasn't what life was like then, it's what life was like for some People at that time.

JessieMcJessie · 18/02/2018 13:49

Victorian slum also had a few families including a single mother who had to do a moonlight flit as she found it impossible to pay the rent. The whole family really did disappear halfway through the series.

tobee · 18/02/2018 14:25

Yes I think I've watched most of these programmes! It probably is about expense. Oh well!

Was there one called Turn Back Time: The Family? From the same lot as Turn Back Time: The High Street?

ppeatfruit · 19/02/2018 09:46

Oh yes I vaguely remember The High Street one it was good but I can't remember the details. it was about the shops wasn't it? They should repeat them!

TinklyLittleLaugh · 20/02/2018 02:20

Akire I would say that in the eighties there were massive differences between the north and the south.

Even nowadays I think that we up north get food and restaurant fashions a couple of years after the south.

ppeatfruit · 20/02/2018 09:39

Tinkly You should be so lucky you might even miss the curse of Heston Blum !!

McDougalMcPhee · 20/02/2018 20:23

what does tripe actually taste like?

wowfudge · 20/02/2018 20:34

We had those kitchen utensils they've got on the rack, but in the red colour way.

woodhill · 20/02/2018 20:46

Loving the music, best part of it

TheSpottedZebra · 20/02/2018 20:54

The utensils are Skyline - a design classic.

PhelanThePain · 20/02/2018 21:11

Oooh I could see the mother’s heart sink when she found out she would be staying at home all day to cook and clean for everyone else. I don’t blame her.

5foot5 · 20/02/2018 21:15

We went on holiday to that very caravan park in 1967! Pretty sure it was the same one anyway, Primrose Valley near Filey.

I remember a bed that folded in to the wall like that, my sisters slept in it.

I also remember there being a Butlins nearby on the clifftops and we could hear regular announcements on the tannoy for the campers. My Dad was very scathing about being told what to do on holiday, said he had had enough of that in the army. We definitely considered a caravan to be a cut above Butlins!

EastMids2 · 20/02/2018 21:24

Does anyone remember the name of the female TV cook showed briefly quite near the start of the show? I have vague memories of her (and it's not Fanny Craddock). Google search not throwing anything up and I now NEED to know!

Yorkshirebetty · 20/02/2018 21:30

I think it's Zena Skinner. My mum had some of her books.

EastMids2 · 20/02/2018 21:46

Yes! That's her - Zena Skinner! I can rest easy now, thank you.

Ickyockycocky · 20/02/2018 22:05

Great episode again, loving the music.

ImListening · 20/02/2018 22:23

Love this family but I loved the Robshaws also so no favouritism!

JessieMcJessie · 21/02/2018 00:12

We has those Pyrex plates with the squares round the outside, ate off them till at least the 1980s! Brought back a lot of memories.

Fionne · 21/02/2018 02:38

I think this family are great. Im really enjoying the programme.

ppeatfruit · 21/02/2018 09:06

I don't remember not having a fridge! I'm old ! I do remember that we left the milk and other perishables outside in the winter though (seeing it frozen solid by the backdoor). So we probably didn't!

I remember it in 63 or 64 and then we got a telephone too. My sister was frightened of it!

LoveMySituation · 21/02/2018 09:16

Am really enjoying this series. Last night was great, with the music, and how they conveyed how exciting it would have been to be a teenager in the 60s. Jessie my dad is still using that oven dish with the squares Grin

ppeatfruit · 21/02/2018 09:28

The thing is my sis and I WERE young teenagers in the 60s but just a bit too young and broke, to go to concerts, we ,of course, took everything for granted so we weren't excited!

We did go to the Marquee club and saw David Bowie when he was David Jones, we knew he was going to be BIG!!!

And we LOVED the Beatles!!!!! DH saw them live, he's 3 years older than me, he says you couldn't hear a thing because of all the screaming!

Inkanta · 21/02/2018 10:02

Ah really enjoyed that - and the music, the angel delight, caravaning and the nice family.
Like chicken soup for the soul Smile

Inkanta · 21/02/2018 10:03

'We did go to the Marquee club and saw David Bowie when he was David Jones, we knew he was going to be BIG!!!'

Wow ppeatfruit!!

ChessieFL · 21/02/2018 10:11

Another one who grew up with the plates with the blue and grey squares - wouldn’t be surprised if DM still has them!!