General Chat

'Turn Back Time'

returns to the 1940s



Mau

Hi Mau

I was reading about it this morning in the Tv times. it is new and looks very interesting I will be looking at it.

Rita

sounds like the type of thing i would enjoy thanks you for letting us know its on :-D

Thanks for the reminder. I saw that. I think tonight's Notting Hill and I bet there's not a millionaire in sight. Should be interesting.

Vera

Hi Rita,Joy and Vera :-) yes I'm also looking forward to the programme.

One of the families was interviewed yesterday morning and the two daughters were saying they'd found it hard to live without mobiles etc..... But their biggest problem was using the outside lavatory without a flush,definitely have to agree with them there... somethings we woudn't like to have back again and that's one of them :-0 :-(

Thanks Mau....Will be tuning in for that x

Hi Muffy should be very interesting :-D

we had a lavatory without a flush when I was growing up!!

We had an outside lavatory ....but without a flush Ann?.....not good :-0 :-(...live on a farm ? :-D

We had lavatory in the yard probably had a flush (2 rooms and scullery) - for 7. Then to a council house (remember them) with a lavatory and a bathroom.
It will be good to be able to compare but I imagine tonight's conditions will be much worse.

Vera

ours was on the side of the house - every so often Dad had to dig a big hole in the garden to empty it - we had wonderful veg and in the summer when we had been eating tomatoes we had stacks of tomato plants - now that is what I call recycling at it's best

horrible going out there in the dark - we never closed the door cos it just looked out over the fields and up the mountain - occasionally the old carthorse in the field, Star, would be standing there under the pine trees and stamp his feet - that could be a trifle unsettling in the dark :-D

Talking of lavatories made me remember the school ones. Anyone else remember the ones which were wooden bench type seats with a hole in. No individual flush but every so often the whole lot would flush horizontally along the row (goodness knows where it went) and heaven help anyone sitting there. I am talking now about the 40s/early fifties.

Vera tonight I think family have to share a bed!:-)

AnnC.......organic vege. then? but it must have been nice to have a horse.....and big roses :-D

Ann I do remember those :-0

I THINK ITS REALLY GOOD UP TO NOW :-D :-D

Really enjoyed it.

I could've gone in any of the three houses depending on which branch they took but I think I kind of decided that I would've been happiest in the poor house.....despite the hard work......nice jug of gin on a friday night and the music hall...pie from the pie man over the posh dinner party and privilege ..........yep that's my level lol.

My Russian Jewish immigrants were from the Poor section...lol x

It was very interesting, not sure I'd have enjoyed living in any of the houses. The upper class and middle class families seemed to find it hardest to live that way. I suppose if they had been born to it it would not have seemed so hard and the children would be used to it. I felt sorry for the little boy in the middle class family, he found it very hard that his daddy suddenly became very strict, the tears ran down his little face. Not sure I liked that aspect of the programme. All the older children seemed to adapt, and I tought the two girls Saskia and Genevieve did very well.

one of my sides of mymothers family were wealthy blanket factory owners
and the other side very poor struggling to make ends meet

dads side where master mariner
and his mothers tailors and land owners

so we are from a very mixed bag :-D

I was very surprised at how well the Meadows girls adapted to the working life,especially the older daughter. Think their parents were proud of them.

Don't think I would have liked to live in the upper class house. What a boring life the wives must have led,although of course they wouldn't have known any different then.
Didn't have the vote, it's no wonder the suffragettes became so militant,many of them came from the upper class.

It was interesting to see how emotional the families became.

Even with our country's economic state I think we are so lucky to live in this era.

We had an unflushable toilet when I was growing up - basically a bucket with a seat on it in a shed!!!
Worst year was when we had a hornets nest over the door. Dad told us, if we didn't make a fuss, they wouldn't bother us - and he was right - but we didn't stay out there long :-0

My ancestors (that I know of) at the time were probably between the middle class and the poor. No servants, but g grandfathers had steady jobs- one a ship's steward, one a master mariner, one a master blacksmith - the 4th is unknown!
The master mariner was a bit of a snob, but the ship's steward and blacksmith absolutely adored their children, and wouldn't have behaved like the middle class bloke.

Hornets! :-0 don't think I would have stayed long either Maggie.........if'n I didn't have to of course ;-)