Back In time For Tea

Owain_Moneysaver

JackieO wrote: »

re the post one of my grandsons Jack, who is a very bright almost 18 year old in his second year of 'A' levels actually asked me where he could buy a stamp as he wanted to post an appliction for a provisional driving licence off.

Remember how exciting it was the first time you could buy stamps from shops instead of having to go to the Post Office!

Uniscots97

I was really looking forward to the program until I saw who's presenting it. Sorry but her manner isnt suited to a show of this type, she's too jokey.

Are they also missing out years? I don't remember it being so rushed before

suki1964

They partioned the house to make it smaller, first words were " omg how small the kitchen is now"

Way too rushed for me as I love social history programmes and doing a year a day just didn't see the real struggle. All well and good putting your possessions in a hand cart and hiding them , but they got them back the following day so we never saw the struggle, or heard their thoughts

Whilst this mum is lovely, I don't think you can compare her to Rochelle. This mum is going hungry for a day, not a week as in the original series

Rochelle, whilst I know annoyed so many viewers here with her inability to cook or use a can opener, at least took on how life was so very different for women and how lucky her generation has been

PasturesNew

Uniscots97 wrote: »

Are they also missing out years? I don't remember it being so rushed before

Yes, they just ripped the calendar and announced: 1919, 1921, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1939.

Everything else was skimped/rushed too, with little outside of the house, mostly just "here's the dinner they might've eaten this year" and a little voiceover of the changes going on in the country at the time and how that might've affected the household and a tiny smattering of pastimes/activities.

moneyistooshorttomention

I get that people are finding it "rushed" compared to the original series.

We were told that the family in the original series were supposed to be middle class and they were giving them the middle class lifestyle/possessions.

This family are being given working class lifestyle/possessions - and I'd hazard a guess that change doesnt happen nearly so fast (well didnt in past decades anyway I assume) for poorer people. Whereas middle class are more likely to have the money to be "early adopters" of different lifestyles/more modern possessions/etc and I would think it likely that even the difference of a year might mark a noticeable difference in possessions/way of living for better-off etc people, but would make very little difference to poorer people - even before the age of first tv/then Internet telling people what "the latest" is iyswim.