Do you have an Ag Lab in your tree? TV programme

[coombs]

Hi

I enjoyed the programme. It was very informative and very moving as well. Imagine how hard it was for our ancestors having to ag lab in all kinds of weather, not forgetting the actual farmer who employed everyone.

Ben

[Jean McGurn]

Don't know if anyone noticed but when they showed the start of the ploughing with those lovely horses there was a snippet of the original type of wooden plough.

I am sure this was from Tales of the Green Valley as the legs of the ploughman had breeches on, as worn in the 17c.

It quite interesting to see just how hard our 'ag lab' ancestors (and their women folk) worked every day of the year.

Jean

[nanny jan]

Reminder:       9.00pm  BBC2   tonight.


Nanny Jan

[kerryb]

Set to record on series link now as it's well worth keeping for a while.   

Kerry

[LizzieW]

Sorry, have to say I found the programme quite boring.  It was too faked for my liking, but unless an old film was found, I suppose there's no other way of showing life in the Victorian Ages.  I just felt that all the problems the two men and the woman had on the farm was because they hadn't been born into that life and had older family members with experience to help them out.  And where were all the other women at the Christmas table, that was totally unrealistic, surely there would have been wives and girlfriends, even if the TV film company didn't want to show children.

Lizzie

[skyblueFF]

It's the same team that lived 12 months 17th century style in Tales from the Green Valley.

According to the Radio Times the programme was filmed over a year in Shropshire on an estate in Acton Scott, (presumably they don't mean a housing estate).

Jean
[/qu Acton Scott is a wonderful place, it is a sort of farming museum near Church Stretton. It is run as a farm with animals and life as it was  in Victorian times

[genjen]

I am finding it all a bit too clean and easy to be realistic. I can't get my head around the fact that there is a film crew in the background, which is obviously the case but somehow I hoped it might be a bit more cleverly done. I wish that woman would stop laughing all the time and why are the men staying somewhere else? It said last week that only the woman was staying in the cottage. Do they go home to a nice clean hotel with all mod cons at night?

Jen

[kerryb]

Jen

I think they mentioned last week staying elsewhere on the estate, so perhaps they are living up at the big house 

Kerry

[genjen]

How very authentic!