The new series starts tonight on BBC2 at 9 o’clock . This series the house is in Newcastle .
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I love it that history was stored on paper then..............
Sometimes I could cry that so much that was good about the past has been lost.........
Syd posted:Sometimes I could cry that so much that was good about the past has been lost.........
Kaytee posted:That's a nice house these days
Baz posted:How soulless have they made it ‘
Sterile and without character
Baz posted:How soulless have they made it ‘
My thoughts exactly.......
Baz posted:Lovely on the outside , but they’ve ripped the innards out
Exactly
Baz posted:Lovely on the outside , but they’ve ripped the innards out
The basement kitchen is ok, but too modern for me,not cosy at all
Kaytee posted:Baz posted:Lovely on the outside , but they’ve ripped the innards out
The basement kitchen is ok, but too modern for me,not cosy at all
I like cosy
Yogi19 posted:Kaytee posted:Baz posted:Lovely on the outside , but they’ve ripped the innards out
The basement kitchen is ok, but too modern for me,not cosy at all
I like cosy
Me too 😍
I wonder what the people of our future will make of the Newspaper clippings of today?
Yogi19 posted:Kaytee posted:Baz posted:Lovely on the outside , but they’ve ripped the innards out
The basement kitchen is ok, but too modern for me,not cosy at all
I like cosy
I like cosy too, warmth and homliness over 'fashion'....I suppose that comes with age...........
Baz posted:Syd posted:I wonder what the people of our future will make of the Newspaper clippings of today?
Yes .....pages and pages of brexit
And pics of shallow people with fake boobs and faces full of filler and Botox
Syd posted:Yogi19 posted:Kaytee posted:Baz posted:Lovely on the outside , but they’ve ripped the innards out
The basement kitchen is ok, but too modern for me,not cosy at all
I like cosy
I like cosy too, warmth and homliness over 'fashion'....I suppose that comes with age...........
Comfort over fashion for me too, Syd
Baz posted:Syd posted:I wonder what the people of our future will make of the Newspaper clippings of today?
Yes .....pages and pages of brexit
And robberies, petty crime and STABBINGS..............
Baz posted:Transportation for 7 years ...for two umbrellas
Really harsh 
Yogi19 posted:Those slums were awful
Terrible
Kaytee posted:Yogi19 posted:Those slums were awful
Terrible
Hard to even imagine how hard life was for people living in those conditions
Yogi19 posted:Baz posted:Syd posted:I wonder what the people of our future will make of the Newspaper clippings of today?
Yes .....pages and pages of brexit
And pics of shallow people with fake boobs and faces full of filler and Botox
Baz posted:I don’t like William stoker
Neither do I 
They are forgetting that boys of 14 weren't considered to be children in those days....and that they had no life to speak of here and if they survived would have been better off in Australia , and wouldn't want to return here anyway
Baz posted:Yogi19 posted:Kaytee posted:Yogi19 posted:Those slums were awful
Terrible
Hard to even imagine how hard life was for people living in those conditions
No ....makes a mockery of being hard up today !
Yes, the definition of poverty nowadays is light years away from the reality of poverty then
Church or Pub..............what a choice, what would I have chosen?.....
Kaytee posted:They are forgetting that boys of 14 weren't considered to be children in those days....and that they had no life to speak of here and if they survived would have been better off in Australia , and wouldn't want to return here anyway
Good point
Yogi19 posted:Baz posted:Yogi19 posted:Kaytee posted:Yogi19 posted:Those slums were awful
Terrible
Hard to even imagine how hard life was for people living in those conditions
No ....makes a mockery of being hard up today !
Yes, the definition of poverty nowadays is light years away from the reality of poverty then
Syd posted:Church or Pub.........
Kaytee posted:They are forgetting that boys of 14 weren't considered to be children in those days....and that they had no life to speak of here and if they survived would have been better off in Australia , and wouldn't want to return here anyway
I had those thought too...........
Syd posted:Church or Pub.........
Do what they do today....go down the Bigg Market, get plastered have a fight and wander off home 😂
Syd posted:Kaytee posted:They are forgetting that boys of 14 weren't considered to be children in those days....and that they had no life to speak of here and if they survived would have been better off in Australia , and wouldn't want to return here anyway
I had those thought too...........
My dad started his engineering apprenticeship when he was 14... in the 20th century.
Kaytee posted:Syd posted:Church or Pub.........
Do what they do today....go down the Bigg Market, get plastered have a fight and wander off home 😂
Kaytee posted:Syd posted:Church or Pub.........
Do what they do today....go down the Bigg Market, get plastered have a fight and wander off home 😂
Or what girls do today, trip over their high heeled sandals , get sick, scratch her mates eyes out over some bloke she doesn't even know.............etc.....
Syd posted:Kaytee posted:Syd posted:Church or Pub.........
Do what they do today....go down the Bigg Market, get plastered have a fight and wander off home 😂
Or what girls do today, trip over their high heeled sandals , get sick, scratch her mates eyes out over some bloke she doesn't even know.............etc.....
Syd posted:Kaytee posted:Syd posted:Church or Pub.........
Do what they do today....go down the Bigg Market, get plastered have a fight and wander off home 😂
Or what girls do today, trip over their high heeled sandals , get sick, scratch her mates eyes out over some bloke she doesn't even know.............etc.....
Yes
Thank goodness for buildings of beauty............
Syd posted:Thank goodness for buildings of beauty............
Syd posted:Kaytee posted:Syd posted:Church or Pub.........
Do what they do today....go down the Bigg Market, get plastered have a fight and wander off home 😂
Or what girls do today, trip over their high heeled sandals , get sick, scratch her mates eyes out over some bloke she doesn't even know.............etc.....
True 😂
They had to sit still to have their photo's taken, that is why they look 'stern'........
Syd posted:They had to sit still to have their photo's taken, that is why they look 'stern'........
They were frightened to move
Baz posted:He looks quite kindly
Considering they had to sit with a straight face for ages while the photo was taken he doesn't look half as severe as most late Victorian photos
Baz posted:Not bad for a cheese maker
Yes, cheese man did good
Hardly hard work telling the servants what to do😂
How lucky they were in the Winter............and chilly days in England.........
Kaytee posted:Hardly hard work telling the servants what to do😂
Yogi19 posted:Mice, rats, bugs and beetles
Plenty of those back then, even in posh houses😂
Baz posted:O/t I had to eject the first wasp of the year today !
An early one.
I have seen a couple of bees outside.
Baz posted:O/t I had to eject the first wasp of the year today !
Noooooooooo!....I bliddy HATE wasps!
Kaytee posted:Yogi19 posted:Mice, rats, bugs and beetles
Plenty of those back then, even in posh houses😂
Yes
Baz posted:O/t I had to eject the first wasp of the year today !
I've seen plenty of bees but no wasps as yet
Syd posted:Baz posted:O/t I had to eject the first wasp of the year today !
Noooooooooo!....I bliddy HATE wasps!
So do I. I have an allergic reaction to their sting.
Well done Joshua....getting a substantial pension from the government