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

[nanny jan]

BBC2 are starting a "reality series" on Thursday 8th January 9.00pm; Victorian Farm.

Life on a Shropshire smallholding with a team wearing Victorian clothes and using only Victorian technology.


Nanny Jan

[Daisypetal]

Many of them 

Thanks for the TV info, it should be interesting

Daisy

[Ruskie]

Is this a follow-up?

There was something like this (possibly medieval era) on (pay) TV here in Australia several months ago. I decided that it was a little too 'gritty' for my early evening viewing .... animal slaughter etc.  

But it did look very interesting.

[Lazylover]

They did a similar thing on BBC Wales with mining, they even had a "pit disaster" it was quite interesting, only problem was that the families only did it for a couple of weeks and there was no mention about not being able to speak welsh underground or any of the real hardships....

[nanny jan]

According to the "blurb" the team "survives" for a year;  historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn.

They begin by threshing using steam power and taking delivery of a flock of Shropshire ewes.


Nanny Jan

[silvery]

The Welsh mining one was called 'Coal House' and pretty good it was too!   It was almost live every evening (after edits) and showed all the difficulties of life in 1927 in a small rural cottage in Wales.  (Life in a city would have been very different at that time) But I could imagine cooking on the coal fire, and only having gas lamps etc would have applied in cities in earlier years.

Real families, and their children, were the people involved, and it would perhaps have been unfair to ask them to go out of the modern world and back to the very different life of 1927 for longer than a few weeks.

To be honest, I thought the hardships were real enough. 

NannyJan,  thanks for that link to the aglab one, sounds good. 

[Daisy Loo]

oh, many of them!  Thanks...looks interesting...I'll put that in my reminders

[Jean McGurn]

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

[silvery]

Thought it sounded vaguely familiiar.   I bought the book and dvd of Tales from the Green Valley, only read the book as yet.   so it should be well worth watching!
The people though are committed historians etc and it took years to get the farm as it should have been,

Coal House was very very good, as it was just ordinary people who, in a sense, travelled back in time, as in other series, notably the 1901 house and the one set in the war.  I wish they'd repeat them.