The 1940s House (Complete Series) - Channel 4 (U.K.)
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- The 1940s House is a British historical reality television program made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 2001 about a modern family that goes to live as they did in the 1940s, with the purpose of experiencing life as a typical middle-class family in London during World War II. The series is narrated by Geoffrey Palmer.
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LOVED this program. The family was real and the boys were so sweet. Hard to believe that they would now be 27 and 30 years old! I hope time has been good to them all. ❤
Would love to know what they've become! Especially the little warden. He took his job so seriously and did quite well! Hopefully they have seen this show since and this has all had a positive impact on their lives!
@@skontheroad I searched for Ben Hymers a year or so ago (he was the big brother) and found a website where he is currently employed as a weaver, and produces amazing pieces of artwork from his loom. Even did one that was exhibited for Prince Charles and he apparently thought it was very well done. Not sure what Thomas is up to now but the photo of him taken recently did not really resemble his much younger self at all.
What really has to blow your mind is the fact that this was produced in the year 2000... Imagine the challenges for kids in 2020, with smartphones, the Internet, and so-forth! I'd love to see another series for the 1940s house, done today. How many *adults* could handle the lack of constant stimulation and dopamine-hits from their devices, never-mind the kids?!
Did you know that there were internet and mobile phone in the 2000' ....I know...hard to believe.
Imagine trying to black out today's cities!
@@zabou1030 a Sony Ericsson flip phone with wap wasn’t quite the same as today’s technology that dominates people’s lives I also would love to see a remake
As a teenager today personally for me it would be quite easy to put my phone and internet down because the 1940 and the 80s has always fascinated me I have days where I turn my phone and iPad off completely to get a break and sometimes I also unplug my telly spend time like going on walks, baking, reading, etc I honestly like having breaks from social media and society today. I once went 4 days without anything and I honestly felt amazing for it I do it at least once a week
@@brydie1233 me too I have always been fascinated with the Victorian era
My grandma was born just outside of London in 1935. She would have been around these children’s age when the war was raging. She passed away in 2021. It’s fascinating to see how she would have lived as a child. As a young child she and her sister were shipped off to the isle of sheppey. If only I could ask her questions I neglected to ask. I could sit for hours listening to her stories now as an adult. Before she passed I moved across the country and didn’t get to talk to her much. Wish I had made more of an effort. This show is incredible.
My grandpa was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1939. Died in 2022. Oh how I regret never asking him about life in post-war continental Europe behind the Iron Curtain, especially since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I am watching this series for the second time as It brought back so many memories . Born in 1938 this was my life, and now in my mid 80s I now regard this is my training ground for life. One of my earliest memories is the Blizzard on the Clydebank shipyards in 1941 . Thanks for the memories.
This series is 19 years old now, so Ben is 29, and Thomas is 26. Wow.
They probably have their own kids now....telling them stories of grandpa and the 1940's house
I would love to watch an interview of the family today to see what they thought of this adventure
@@jillygirl2024 me too
Wow I’d no clue it was that long ago since this series aires, thanks for sharing and letting me (everyone) who didn’t know, know.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your loved 🎄🎉🎊🍾💫🎅
How nice you have someone document a special experience in your childhood you can always comeback take a memory lane in actual vision!!
I had to laugh when Lynn dropped the rations on the floor and the daughter said she didn't want to eat anything that had been on the floor. I can still remember this scenario happening with both my grandmothers (who came from the other side) and also my mother. How was it handled? You saved as much of the rations as you could (knowing your kitchen and bathroom floors were scrubbed clean (down on your hands and knees) every Saturday to keep insects and vermin out,) and then you "kiss it up to God," then "put your lugs back" and then "down the hatch". Yes, nothing but nothing was allowed to go to waste. My maternal grandmother kept a button box. Every time a garment became too worn out, she cut off and saved the buttons before repurposing the cloth to cleaning rags or quilt squares. She made all the clothing (including winter coats). As I grew, I can still see some buttons from outgrown clothing appearing on the newest school clothes. They were tough times, but they were far more authentic back then than what has come from all of our new-found materialism. 🍃
a lot of people (or at least girls) collected buttons in the old days, because they often were made of expensive material like Mother of Pearl
I wish the kids today could live like this for 1 month, I grew up in the 40s, we had no hot water. No gas or electric heat, no television.we had a large garden which we helped plant, we had to weed the garden and help with the canning so we had food for the winter, we had a wringer washer and no dryer, clothes we hung outside until the below 0 temperature hit and. The snow.We had now power lawn mower and a big yard we mowed with a push mower,we had grass sheers for the grass around the trees and house, life was really hard but we made it through.I don’t think the young people of today would be able to survive if they had to go back in time.
My parents rationed TV but not going to the library to read books mostly non-fiction and felt K-12 education held me back, so took my GED and went to a community college then college paying my own way. Thanks mom and dad!
A lot of people live like this today. There's a lot of people who can't get a job because the older generations has monopolized everything, hardly taught people how to live in the real world in schools and made it almost impossible to get a job.
it was a good times NO TAXES NO TV LICENCE NO CHaRGES FR ANYTHING A SHOES WAS LEATHER NOT LIKE NOW i'll survive easy n kids will do too 100%
I bet it was hard for you, I honestly prefer lockdown to the Second World War and my grandfather was also in the Second World War and I’m glad he survived this hell. During lockdown I can never sleep properly anymore because I just hear the warnings in my mind at night
I lived like this when I was a small child, it wasn't so bad, it's all I knew
Lots of respect for the boys. Especially the oldest one. He realized he had to become the man of the family at such a young age. Loved this video. Great job. It should be required viewing in all schools.
Watching this makes me even more proud of my nanna she had 7 children during the war had my uncle in the shelter how she managed on her own with my grandfather at sea incredible, we do not know how lucky we are nowadays
Makes me realise how my nana also neglected my mum due to this stress and my mum did it to me too
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My nana lives through the Blitz in London. She is dead now, but her stories live on in me. With this show I can show my children, and my grandchildren. Thank you
Jobs like house work, a job can be repetitive but, making a house comfy, keeping it clean and making a meal for the family is magic and VERY IMPORTANT WORK, turning a house into a HOME.
Ohh... I cried with the youngest little brother when he cried as they were leaving their own home and community! What a sweet and sensitive little boy.❤❤❤
1st the boys were so well mannered 2nd I love how strong the mom and daughter got dealing with all things and 3rd the gramma and grampa started to look younger as the series went on. Glad the grandpa got to finally build the shelter what a childhood dream come to fruition. Great series I learned so much and in 2020 made me appreciate even more small thing like toiletries.
yes, especially toiletries during Covid
I have just finished watching this series. It is now May in the year 2020. We are in a world wide pandemic due to the coronavirus covid 19. It is showing me some of the similarities that we are going through. Shops with empty shelves, growing extra food in the garden and sadly so much loss of life and so many risking their lives to take care of others.
Thank you for this series. It helps me to see how we can all persevere when we have to.
I am finding this in August 2020! Such similarities.
The one thing that has comforted me during this horrid pandemic has been that it wasn’t caused by human hatred and prejudice. Apart from that the similarities are weird.
Just when you have reached your limits you find more strength to continue
i was born in july 1939 in EASTBOURNE. i often wonder how i survived, thanks to a caring lady iin the country. i always count my blessings
I used to check this out at the Library. My mom and I used to watch this. Unfortunately my mom passed in 2014. This is such a good series. Thanks for uploading this.
My dad just passed this July....he would have loved this. Wish I had found it sooner. I love that you and your mom got to watch this together!
Sorry for both of your losses. Losing someone you love is the worst thing. I lost my dog nearly a year ago and my sister was in bits and so were we all. It brought back the memories of my friends horse Honey’s death nearly 2 years on and she’d be 32 now
Would like to see more families get to have this experience including myself. It's simply bound to make people more thankful and much less wasteful.
Enjoyed this video it brought back many memories having lived through that period.
We would go to school early in the morning where we had breakfast dinner and tea.
Both parents working and we would be collected about 6pm.
We had an Anderson shelter in the garden and because there were so many air raids
we would just go to bed (my dad had built bunk beds) in the shelter each night.
I can remember being evacuated and having to carry a gas mask at all times and as regards
the family you lived with that was the luck of the draw.
Yes Spam and powdered eggs were regulars on the menu and ration books and clothing
coupons were the norm. I think we had dockets for blankets.
We didn’t have the luxury of toilet paper we had newspaper cut into squares and a piece of
String threaded through. This was then tied to the cistern!
As children we played out looking for shrapnel and then swapped our findings with each other.
Also we would explore and find new bombed out buildings and damaged shops with their goods
scattered all over the street. It wasn’t all fun we had chores to do and collect a loaf of bread
from the bakery each day. We were fairly self sufficient as regards veggies my dad had a good
Productive garden we had greenhouse for tomatoes and a cucumber frame.
Really I could go on. We L meet again and there L be Bluebirds over the White ....
Sung by Vera Lynn all so familiar. Thank you for bringing back these memories.
I am English (now 88yrs old) and lived in Manchester. J
Thanks for sharing this and so glad you were alright through the Blitz . Greetings from New Brunswick , Canada :)
I wish you would go on! I could read about it for hours… we really are a spoilt lot these days, everything comes too easily, and we just take it all for granted.
May god bless you 🥰
Thank you for writing this. I'm happy you made it through the war.
My mum is 87 now and she remembers the war from over here in Nova Scotia. There were shortages and rationing too but she grew up on a farm so there were many things they had plenty of, like fish and potatoes. Everything else was sent to the troops or to Britain.
Thank you, Ma'am for sharing your story. I hope this finds you well now. Greeting from Idaho USA!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us-please share more if you can. Hello from North Carolina (USA).
For those who are seeing this for the first time, you are fortunate to find it on TH-cam. As a DVD it is hard to find, and very expensive.
I cannot express how much this show brought new light to my mind and soul. My parents were married in 1943 and their first child born in 1945. Although in America, I just found it so difficult to fathom how life was so very different back then. Thoroughly enjoyed this series. Family was family as compared to each doing their own thing today.
Hello 👋 friend how are you doing hope you are safe in this pandemic outbreak 😷
I remember when this aired back 20 years ago , it came on just as I was having tea and made my whole family watch it then dragged my mum to the IWM to see the house 😆 I now love watching this when I’m just cleaning and tidying up the house , it gives me a boost and makes me think we have it so easy . I love the family and the boys are absolutely amazing for doing it all . I watch the other series they did on the 1900s house and that family just wenrt the same , they cheated here and there and didn’t stick to it like this family . Thank you for such an amazing tv show that is still one of my all time favs even after 20 years !
You picked a wonderful family to do this thank you. I watched one of your other shows from the 1900 in that family was horrible. This family was warm and friendly and I was rooting for them. They all work so hard thank you
The 1900's House family were the worst. What a stark contrast this family was. They were great!
I totally agree about the 1900 House family. They all did complain, especially the 16-year old girl. The 7-year old boy in the 1940s house is more mature than she ever was. The mom was ridiculous, the only boy, a nine year old, was a brat, and the dad just kept escaping to his job. Only the 11-year old twin girls were decent. As far as I can see, The 1900 House was a failed experiment, because of the family, albeit that's why that particular family was chosen. The 1940s House family is a breath of fresh air.
There's one called (I believe) "Texas Ranch House" that is the absolute worst, the wife is a total B*tch and tics off everyone around here,, total slobs to the point of being SO disgusting. One step above that is 1600 House, lazy and complaining. Frontier House is ok, have one gal that thinks she just knows everything about how everyone (3 families) "should do things, but can't handle her own problems! IMO, this is the best of all the "House" series done.
Hi 🙋🏼♀️ @@sueclark5763 I’d no clue there were so many different “house series”. I’m grateful that you and all the other people in this particular comment section have written and told about your experiences about these other house-series. I hope they’re available on TH-cam.🙏❤️
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@@sueclark5763 My favorite is actually Manor House, where people relive an Edwardian manor, because all the servants were united in their hatred of the Fake Lord who was oblivious to how much they hated him. That was naturally a very dramatic and combustible situation.
“... but in actual fact it’s worked out that, it’s harder work for me, but in a way it’s better because it seems to me in this war, the more you DO do, the more you CAN do, and every day I seem to be able to take on more.”
Intelligent, well mannered boys. What a great mother they had.
That's British working class my love! Salt of the earth!
They had?? Did she die.?? And i was just thinking that they are so wonderful good mannered boys. Thats how all kids should act .thier age. These days they dont this family was great for this. The boys even were like how they would have been respectful and tou can tell its not just an act.
My grandmother lived through the Blitz and raised my mum and uncle through it; times were really hard back then and hats off to people like my grandparents who managed to get through that time.
This was extremely well done from start to finish and full marks to the family for volunteering.
I’ve literally been looking for this for about two years since it got taken down then re-uploaded...I bloody well found it.
Me too. This is excellent.
Me too!!! Hated that i didnt know how it was called so i searched for houres. And then, suddenly, it appeared in my reccomondations.
Lol saaame! I remember watching this then not even remembering the name couple years until tonight. I just googled british families that relived the past during the war time and it came up! So happy LOL
I loved this show. Makes covid lockdown seem like a cake walk by comparison. Kirstie and the Granny did a great job. The boys are adorable. The fuel warden is fantastic.
Right? Everyone should have to watch this to get a dose of perspective.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing also.
Having a stash of emergency food is a must for the rest of my life, I'm going to make sure I never run out of toilet paper as well, always having a whole year supply on hand. My family hasn't eaten at a restaurant for a year now, no take out, or fast food.
@@lisaanselmo326 No kidding. This show should be required viewing for all, particularly those who feel that being asked to do something as simple as wear a face mask is a huge imposition on their personal freedom.
Fuel Warden stinks LOL
Thus was a wonderful program. And an even better experiment. The family is lovely and it’s amazing to see how this experience has changed them in many ways. The best change is how close they became and their realization about material things. I’m not sure how I’d fare doing this. It was a lot of hard work and hardships suffered. Great job. I truly enjoyed every minute watching this.
I love ❣️ PBS who else grew up on it and still love it today?
you can always count on PBS to provide great quality programs that entertain as well teach something.
Watching this has certainly made me think how I waste & spend .thank you so so much for uploading.
I literally watch this everyday. I love the 40s although I am only 37 years old. However, my soul has always belonged to the period. So comforting. The kids now of days have no true true idea of lack of and struggles. Struggles for many kids now are that they are unable to order from Amazon, or dont have a apple iPhone...its ridiculous if you ask me. Blessings to all.
I enjoyed this very much. I always feel it is so important that we remember our history and learn from it.
Such admiration for them for going through this but Kirsty and her boys made my heart swell. She’s a real trooper, a fantastic mum and what intelligent, articulate, funny and well-mannered boys she reared. Good on her! 👍🏼
I hope the 1900's House family has seen this and woken up a bit. This family took the challenge seriously and respectfully. Yes, there were hard times and they mentioned them but they forged on. This family was fantastic!! Would love to see more determined families like this in these types of series.
The 1900 house family was maddening. Why volunteer for a experience if you are weak?
@@MearnieToonI was going to try to find that to watch it, but now maybe I won’t. It’s not interesting if the participants are a bunch of rebels who don’t even try and just whine about everything.
So interesting to get a glimpse of that era and what people went through during the war. That's why they were so tough. Delightful to hear them talk about how the experience changed their lives.
I couldn’t stop watching it. It was so well done. It shows us how truly spoiled we are! That generation went through so much. They were close. They were generally happy with the simple things in life. Thank you for showing us just what our parents and grandparents went through.
would of been better with a village of families as that community sprit was a big part
7:08 Now that is heartbreaking, hearing that boy talk about the meal he’s eating compared to what he normally has being so good. He likes homemade food. That made me cry.
Compared to the people who actually lived and survived WW2, we are a bunch of wingers.
In Covid Britain, this has strengthened me to keep my families. Mental strength up
Thanks for posting this. The continuous format is also a big improvement over separate episodes. It's really a fascinating story.
My grandmother always told me that "There is no house big enough for two women." Good Advice!!
I simply cannot thank you enough for uploading this remarkable documentary! It's every bit as gratifying as the Wartime Farm and the other programs featuring Ruth Goodman! Thank you a thousand times for sharing!!!
I enjoyed this video so much. Watching the transformation everyone experienced has been incredible to watch. It has been especially nice to see the relationship between mother and daughter strengthen. You're both very lovely ladies.
I absolutely would not have made it. I live here in America. But I admire those people in England who really had to live through this.
I love the 1940’s era, learned a lot about 20th Century History at school 1970’s..
My Father fought in the 1940’s in the “Battle of the Atlantic” I was born in 1957 still remember the talk of it all, remember the city of Southampton and the ruins still there in mid sixties, and the Spitfire was from SOUTHAMPTON.
My Father sang with Vera Lynn once, The house I bought was a 1930’s house similar to the one in your film…My Mother loved Tinned peaches..
Simply the most enchanting production I think I've ever seen.
Anyone living in this type of house in war time were known as 'money people'. Not everyone had a house of this size, or a garden to grow your own food. Both sets of my grandparents lived in 2 up 2 down terraced houses in rows and rows of streets in the north west of England. No bathroom, just a tin bath hanging on the back yard gate which was put in front of a coal fire weekly and when you couldn't get coal for the fire in winter you had to go out and pick coal from outside the coal yard that the coalman had droped on the street. No inside toilet, the toilet was in the back yard. One of my grandads fought and died in the war, my grandma didn't celebrate the end of the war with the rest of her street, she never remarried and had one child, my mother, who lost her father at the age of 6. My grandma had to work and keep house, the only person she could rely on was herself. My other grandad worked on the docks, which were bombed nightly, he and my grandma had 4 children, one who was evacuated to the countryside and even after the war was over he still kept in touch with the old couple and visited them until they died.
That was the grim reality for many ordinary people, just like my own family from working class Liverpool. Not this "jolly hockey sticks adventure".
I really don't like these types of program as they give no true insight into the emotional mindset and social horizons of the people who truly had to live through it. Just makes younger people think "ah yeah... that's that wasn't too bad". I personally could physically exist in an actual pigsty for a week, but I could never capture the emotional and mental state of someone who had no option but to do that, and had little hope of anything better in the future.
I have always felt I was born in the wrong decade. I love the 1930’s & 40’s. I would love to do something like this with my family. My favorite thing to do in our house is to go in our living room, turn on the record player, and listen to Cole Porter or Glenn Miller. I asked my husband last year if he could signs a month with no tv, no computer, no smart phone, etc. He looked at me like I had gone mad. 🤣
You must try Al Bowlly. He was hugely popular. Said to be the English Bing Crosby. Killed in bed.
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This is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. I hope they won some type of award for this 😃
I remember when this came on PBS here in the United States. And it was somewhat of a big hit. Absolutely very fascinating. I love this family, all of them. The wife Lynn, is among my favorites. She has a really upbeat attitude. I love the way when she said "Thank God for twin beds". I know exactly what she meant. I wish the video quality of this was better than it is. It's not the uploaders fault of course. But God, I wish it would have been at least in 480. Would love to find out how the family is doing now. And actually if they've retained any of the things that they learn. I know Lynn was really moved. And I could see that she probably wanted to incorporate a lot of different things in her life. As I'm writing this at the end of July 2020, and we're still in the pandemic. It's amazing to me some of the similarities. Things not being on the grocery shelves, or hard to get. Food prices and everything else rising. As they say, what comes around goes around. There's a lot we can all learn from this. And incorporate into our daily lives now.
True, now add to all this, the Air Raids. Those figures for casualties, Dead and Wounded, and homes destroyed, we can only imagine.
I just had a search.
Ben did an arts history degree I think at Edinburgh and is a weaver and rug tufter artist. There was a mention that Kirstie has a daughter, which must have been post the tv series.
Thank you for the series. I watched it years ago. It was interesting to see the relationship between mother and daughter change from mom admitting always winning the arguments, with dad to back her up, to daughter taking charge and now they have a more grown up 'peer' type relationship. most parent/child relationships don't achieve that. Also it was great to see the older son take all the rationing as a school science project and kept track of everything being used it the house and congratulated when they saved energy, water and everything else.
Most certainly the best documentary I’ve watched in years! Well done to all who played a part in it.
The eldest boy… such a mature boy. Taking on the role of “man of the house”. … I really enjoyed him.
They remind ne of the children in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
Watching this series helped me to understand my parents more, and to appreciate all they taught me from what they learned thru their wartime experience. Their resourcefulness, ability to adapt, willingness to work as a team, and their gratitude for each day created a safe, organized life for me, born after the war, but during rationing. Thank you for posting this fascinating series!
What a wonderful experience. They each grew personally and as a family. I sometimes felt I was right there with them. More, please!
This has been a rrally interesting programme. My Dad was a fire fighter in Southampton during the blitz at night and Home guard during the day. My Mum welded Spitfires in a factory and had 3 children under 6. I remember her stories about being in the Anderson shelter during an air raid warming my sister's milk over a candle. She learnt how to sew and made all my brother and sisters clothes. She would go to jumble sales buy garments unpick them wash the fabric make newspaper patterns and hand sew clothes for my siblings.
Make do and mend was my parents motto. My Dad bred rabbits to feed his family and grew vegetables. My Grandmother drove ambulances my Grandfather was a milkman who had served in the first world war . Amazing resilience.
I stumbled across this video and so glad I did!!! Thank you for sharing.... it was done as real as you could possibly get it! Good job to the family and to the boys for being so willing to "finish" the project! I almost hated to see it come to an end. God Bless.
I'm from Melbourne Australia, we had a really hard lockdown this year for about 3-4 months....It was nothing compared to what our ancestors from the past endured....
I like how the ladies that come , the lady who invited the family into the house, the inspector, even the lady who comes to offer the daughter and mother to do volunteer work, are all so enthusiastic and nice. It’s also interesting the eldest son is so much mature, in some cases the most mature in the family!
I loved this series when it first appeared on TV. I remember seeing the replica in the Imperial War museum. My great grandparents had a between the wars semi like this. Seeing the fireplaces and the kitchen took me back to their house. Really happy to see the programmes uploaded on here. I think an updated programme like this would be fantastic to see how a modern family cope without smartphones and PlayStations, etc.
A FANTASTIC series. A joy to watch! Thankyou so much! xxx
I regularly re-watch this series. Besides my affection for this particular family, I have learned so much about how to live frugally and save. Also, the music is great.
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing. People were stronger and just better overall I think compared to today. Watching from Ohio, USA.
Thank you for uploading this! Seriously, best show I’ve seen in a long time!
Even tho the 40s was a unsettling time with air raids, blackout, rationing etc. Life was so different, a slower pace of life but part of me would jump at the chance and live in the 40s in the country. Take away the blitz on Britain it would be a ideal life in my opinion. Where as today its a faster pace of life and just as unsettling as it was back then. This programme is pure bliss to watch and what a adorable family. Wish we could see more of this on TV. One of my favourite films is Goodnight Mr Tom with John Thaw set in 40s Britain. Its on you tube if it hasn't been took off. Anyone who hasn't seen that film and interested in the era I would put it too the top of the list to watch. A good Sunday afternoon viewing 😀
I think you may have missed out the World War, people dying part.🙈
Thank you for posting . We don't get this in the United States. Wish we have Channel 4 here.
PBS broadcasted this series in one night back in November 2002.
We have BBC America, and all we get out of them is star trek reruns.
I was born in 1942, my brother in 1940. This went into such detail that I realised for the first time what my parents went through. Mind blowing!
I hated seeing the fashion get destroyed when they got back to 2000
Kayla Jackson 1940s fashion is far superior in my opinion haha
This is absolutely wonderful! The boys are so great! Wonderful experience, as hard as it is, they will be forever changed.
Micheal must be very loved by his family for them to even enter this contest in hopes that he would see his dream come true
Of course you'd have eaten the food that was dropped on the floor. You couldn't afford to be precious as there just wasn't food to spare.
Absolutely. In fact, i would do that today. I can't afford to waste food.
Indeed. A good rinsing and it would have been fine. Though it does show the need to keep the floor as clean as possible just in case.
clean your floor properly and there's not a problem right?
Yes. The flour or sugar components would have to be replaced but certainly the fruit could have been rinsed off.
You'd have salvaged every scrap that wasn't in direct contact with the floor. Washed it if possible/necessary. Throwing away the dinner just because you dropped it is a ridiculous idea. TBH, I do this now. Can't afford to throw good food away.
Loved this show and the family! My grandmother had 14 kids my mother was the youngest born in 1943, throughout my mums life she didn't like anything over her face and chose to have all four of us kids at home because of the gas masks in hospital, even though she was just 2 years old when the war broke out, she had the phobia of the gas mask which was massive on the babies. Makes me appreciate how easy life is today and how lucky we are to have so much freedom and opportunities open to us. The people who lived through that era are all heroes in my eyes, the ones on the front and the civilians on the home front.
I have been looking everywhere for this!!! Thank you so much for posting this series! Even though I have no idea why they chose that family to do this “experiment”,(the man drives me nuts with his selfishness), but it’s been an unparalleled look into the everyday life that “normal” people experienced during an otherwise chaotic era.
They were a modern family. Though, the dad was fascinated by this time period and had some decent knowledge. He really wanted to do it. The rest were very modern w little scratch cooking. A lot of premade or takeout. Also covered 3 generations to show how the war affected didn't people.
I LOOOVED THIS !!!!! THANK YOU !!! 😞😢😘😍❤
I really REALLY enjoyed this! Thank you so much for taking the time to post this video. Much love 💓
The children in this are adorable, and coped with the experience extremely well, well well-done boys (and all in fact, thoroughly enjoyed this! thank you much inhightspeed this was fantastic! xx
I have watched this show around 11times. Love it
We sure are spoiled nowadays. Thanks for the history, I learned quite a bit! 💋💖🦋
You can make breads and even cornbread with milk that's a little sour, I know that my mom used to do that and so did Grandma
I was just thinking, these would be good skills to pick up. I tried to collect recipes with variations come from when you don't have all the ingredients. But I was wondering exactly that. Was there something wrong with using milk that was a little sour. Back then, you didn't throw it out. Remember my grandmother saying something about putting it in the garden. These would be some good skills to have.
It’s tasty in bread muffins.
Great for scons!!
Sourdough bread. Love it. And I make a lovely buttermilk lemon pie
My mom made a great chocolate cake using sour milk. She grew up in WW2.
Thank you for sharing this absolutely great video. I enjoyed it very much, I didn't want the series to come to an end.
This is such an inspirational series
The real transformation of the family after their visit in the 1940s house was tremendous.
I really enjoyed and appreciated to watch this ❤️❤️❤️
If I’d have known about this house at the time of the programme, I’d have bought it, keep it exactly as it is, and run it as a museum. Or I could definitely live there myself in its original state.
Imagine having a B&B like this. Enthusiasts would be thrlilled to try the lifestyle out.
@@denisegore1884 People do. Around the world you'll find living villages from the past so one can experience how people lived in a bygone era and Amish sometimes run B&Bs so people can experience their lifestyles even if just for a night. great experiments to do.My mum is 98. A young women during the war and she always had plenty of stories to tell, also of her Dads experiences during and before WW1. 60 now, shock horrors, I can see how much has changed especially attitudes toward females. Going by your name you're prob in the same age group as myself so you would have noticed many changes too.My grandchildren are horrified of stories I can tell of normal daily like.
I was born in 72, until the mid 80's this was my life in rural Wiltshire.
Life was simple, healthy we all helped out.
We had a rayburn that used coal and an open fire usually using hardwoods.
We all pitched in, stoking, emptying ash, cutting wood and fetching coal.
We foraged, bought from local farms and had a meal or two missing when we were skint. But we went to bed warm.
Modern kids have no concept of hunger or fuel poverty. The 70's were hit and miss.
In 82 we were snowed in for 3 months, we had to collect wood for our fire daily...... I would go back in a heartbeat👍
Rationing didn't end with the end of the war! In fact it did not end completely until 1954.
I didn't know that! Would you please tell me more? What was the cause of that? I was disappointed that America as a whole didn't send food over to England. Do you know anything about that? Thank you.
@@krmccarrell Please rewatch the program. America did send shipments of food to England. Rationing in Britain continued into the 50's because a significant portion of British agricultural yield was sent to Europe to help aid those struggling to survive in the aftermath of WW2.
@@krmccarrell My Mom was in London, England worked as a telephone operator, Had to work there as a civil servant for communications.Her sisters went to war and she couldn't. Rations were done to save money for guns, ammo, weapons and other war stuff. Heard people on rations were actually just as healthy as today. Rationed were eggs, butter, chocolate! Pantyhose! Some would trade for pantyhose!
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When I was ill in February, every time the lights went out in hospital; I felt I was in 1940 and I was too ill to go outside
Great series. Love it. I Love the end song. My last re-enactment group learned this song. Great lessons in this.
"Apart from making Granny go bonkers, she's more relaxed." LOLOL
That kid was amazing, his little brother too. Altogether a fantastic family. I think granny should keep up the marsal (so) wave in her hair.
The whole production was a class act. Cried 4 times. it was so real, unlike any movie about Britain and WWII.
Wonderful Series! I have such a love for history and own an old 1930's house in a town in South Africa. The generation that lived through the war were my grandparents and parents. What an excellent generation! They learned through hardship to value what is really important. Conservatism and traditionalism is a rock for societies under stress. It ensures they survive.
Absolutely loved this I could easily watch it again thank you for sharing 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I was thinking about this only yesterday! And now I've found it. Was a memorable series - really interesting. Terrific telly!
My grandfather was a paratrooper and my dad was a GI baby left behind this was so fascinating to watch
I’d love to see one of these on depression era.
This is such a good series. I really enjoyed it
Thanks for posting this
This was fascinating and I am grateful that I had the chance to watch. What an inspiring experience!
Excellant! Well done, you guys were absolutely great!
I love this family, they really got into it, especially the boys!
Thank you for sharing the experiences this family endured during this difficult time in our history. It is an eye opener to knowing what is truly needed to survive in life rather than the luxury. Bravooooo to this family!
This was so amazing to watch makes u relise how selfish we have become how ungreatful are kids have become and how we have taken everything for granted. These would be good for these programmes to be used in history lessons in schools i think the kids of today would learn alot more about the wars and what family life was like. No internet no games no phones might learn what it is like to go without and how to talk to each other
The younger kid smiles takes away any concerns for the day 👍