Back In time For Tea

PasturesNew

Re 2-up-2-down, their house wasn't on the "very small" scale of things.

The show also failed to explain how everybody slept as they had a mix of girls/boy and parents in what'd have been a 2 bed house... and where's the tin bath?

I just looked up where my mum was living - it was part of the slum clearance in the mid 1930s and they moved into a newly built social housing house. I know how many rooms it had from the 1911 Census and they had 4 rooms, so 2up-2down. In 1925 the house contained:

Husband/wife (both aged 45)
7 children and one grandchild aged:
Son/24, Son/23,
Daughter/20 & baby/1, Daughter/15,
Son/12, Son/7, Son/4.

Within 2-3 years one of those adult sons married and left, one daughter left without her baby and the other daughter produced two more babies, making 2 adults, 5 children aged 7-26 and 3 grandchildren.

They were lucky to get a 4-bed "council house" ~1933-35 to house that lot - a decent home to live in ready for when the War started.

caronc

My house was originally a tied workers house. It was built in 1927 and had three rooms plus a scullery and bathroom. The original layout was front parlour complete with cornice and ceiling rose. Most likely kept for best. A bedroom and a living room/kitchen complete with range and a bed recess. These quite often had trestle bed underneath that a young child could use. Mum and Dad would have used the recess and any kids regardless age/sex the bedroom. When we bought the place it still had original bathroom complete with (disconnected) gas geysers about the bath & sink. I've not checked the census but as larger families were the norm I would imagine a fairly number of people lived here.

CapricornLass

I also got irritated by the casual assumption that it was all much easier in the South. Maybe in London it was, but if you lived in the country and from a working class background, it wasn't necessarily easier. True you could often grow some veg in your back garden, or poach some rabbits or forage from the hedgerows, but it wasn't easy to get jobs to earn a wage, what jobs there were were often very low-paid, and not necessarily the public transport to get you to local towns either. (Still the case . In fact, there was better public transport from my mum's village in the 1930s than there is now!).

That roly-poly pastry should have been much stiffer. The cloth that it was boiled in should also have been thickly coated with flourprior to putting the pudding in, and after it was cooked, then it should have been unwrapped put in the range oven to dry off and colour for 20 mins or so.

Hubby (ex-Salford lad born in Ordsall in the 1950s) thought that their house was posh. It certainly seemed very large! But also nice to see that they had found someone who seemed to have some idea to cook - and daughters who were more willing to pitch in!

skintmumof3

when my mums` dad died in 1939, they were living in a tied cottage, he was a farm labourer, my grandmother and mum were evicted with the first week as the farmer had another worker to move in....no social security back then and totally relied on goodwill of relatives and friends..and no compassion from the farmer at all......and this was in Berkshire......x

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

I've not checked the census ...

Go and do it now ... we'll sit and wait.

I'd have done that after I'd offered on the house and before I'd got the keys!!

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

Go and do it now ... we'll sit and wait.

I'd have done that after I'd offered on the house and before I'd got the keys!!

I'm not sure how to:o

ETA - it would seem (as far as I can tell) the 1931 census for Scotland hasn't been released

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I was never more aware of the North/South divide until watching the first of these programmes and the question 'do they eat pie down south?' was absurdity! Why on earth wouldn't we eat pie 'down south'? what do people THINK we eat??? earthworms? We are one nation not two different tribes in competition with each other, c'mon TV producers don't make bigger divisions between people!

purpleybat

nanto3girls wrote: »

I watched it. it was interesting.


The bacon,onion and suet roly poly looked gross.

I've not seen the programme yet but I make a version of this and it's very tasty. I would imagine i'm a bit more generous with the fillings than the original recipe.
I shall have to watch now to compare

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

I'm not sure how to:o

ETA - it would seem (as far as I can tell) the 1931 census for Scotland hasn't been released

You find all/any old censuses .... and slowly pick out a list of who lived there, then hit the online newspapers and find out stuff about them ... and use the newspapers with the address for a match.

Then use Google ... and local archives online searches ....

In the 3rd hour you .....

By the 5th hour I'd know all the neighbours' names and their business .... maybe who the house dwellers' friends were ...and I'd have got the outline of all the family trees of everybody who lived in the house ....



I'd be looking for scandals too ..... did anybody who lived in that house ever do something really naughty

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

You find all/any old censuses .... and slowly pick out a list of who lived there, then hit the online newspapers and find out stuff about them ... and use the newspapers with the address for a match.

Then use Google ... and local archives online searches ....

In the 3rd hour you .....

By the 5th hour I'd know all the neighbours' names and their business .... maybe who the house dwellers' friends were ...and I'd have got the outline of all the family trees of everybody who lived in the house ....



I'd be looking for scandals too ..... did anybody who lived in that house ever do something really naughty

As far as I can see the last census that has been released in Scotland was 1911, the house wasn't built then so nothing to track unfortunately:(.