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Tue, Jun 26, 2012
Three houses are reconstructed to the way they would have been in the early 1900s. House #1 is a four story home at the height of upper class luxury with five servants, electricity, and a boiler for hot water. House #2 is an average middle class home with 7 rooms and running water but no electricity. The last is a two room "typical working class dwelling" with only one bedroom and no bathroom where each member of the family must work manual labor all day. Three modern day families each live in one for a week, determined by the status of their own Edwardian ancestors.
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Tue, Jul 24, 2012
Three houses are reconstructed to the way they would have been during the 1970s. House #1 has been carved into flats with one family's single mother being the upstairs landlady and another single mom living downstairs in a tight space with minimal luxuries. House #2 is an average middle class home with a video player, a chest freezer, and duvets on their beds. House #3 is a working class home with furry wallpaper. Four modern day families each live in one for a week, determined by the status of their own 1970s ancestors. The adults relive their childhoods but, this time, as the parents. They live through a time of political unrest, work strikes, power cuts, the three day week, a water shortage, women's lib, the Winter of Discontent, and Tupperware parties. All the mothers work (a café waitress, a district nurse, a lollipop lady, and a landlady). All the children go to school except one 18-year-old, who is a teaching assistant. The two fathers see themselves doing most of the housework and cooking.