All three of you have brought so much information to us. Complain about this comment (Comment number 59), Some weeks ago Ruth mentioned an Edwardian cure for nits. Three people of the team that made "Tales of the Green Valley" in 2004 came back and recreated the Victorian Age (2nd half of the 19th century). BBC 2014 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. A field is ploughed, harrowed and sown with the next year's crop using horse-drawn implements of the era. The E coli outbreak in June involved two visits and a council health and safety report recommended essential works costing 130,000 were required. Because of the popularity of Victorian Farm, Lion Television went on to produce a daytime series, Ben Fogle's Escape in Time (a format devised by Victorian Farm producer David Upshal) in which families were given the opportunity to live at Acton Scott for a week, learning and competing in historical skills. Tip the flours, salt and bicarbonate of soda into a large mixing bowl and stir. but was surprised to see a latchet hook being used for rug making. Children worked very long hours with little breaks and no fresh air. Even children worked hard on the farm from as young as six years old. First of all, many thanks to all the team, and to the very hard-working presenters. https://www.wildfood.info/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2912#unread, Holy Flying Circus: Making a drama of Monty Python, The Attenborough Collection: Working with Sir David. I am very interested in the Edwardian recipes you are using and have tried to find similar recipes online but I can't find any. 5. Modern rural life gives us that choice. Can't find anything similar on the web. Complain about this comment (Comment number 20). Complain about this comment (Comment number 21). 3. There were many peasant revolts. Love watching Edwardian Farm, especially Episode 9. We have hugely enjoyed watching the Victorian farm programmes. We have visitors from all over Australia, America theres a big Canadian following.. We do some of the growing now, but age has meant that we decided to give up the animals. These are some of the popular topics this blog covers. At harvest time he was given a jug of beer by his master. No separation of liquid and solid matter? The farmers paid rent to the landlord, paid tithes and employed many labourers who otherwise would have been unemployed. Victorian Farm. i loved the victorian farm series and really enjoying the edwardian farm. Are they the same as Devon splits? The use of steam power led to the introduction of farm machinery which was far more efficient and easier to use than horses and hand tools. My apologies if you have already done this, I've had a quick look on the site to see if I could find them but no luck, if they're on here somewhere just point me in the right direction! I always did wonder why we had so many strawberres coming up in the garden each year when I first moved here. Our Edwardian Farm year is over! Complain about this comment (Comment number 1). I am a teacher and have discussed you work with my students. Happy painting! A mum claims her baby is a "goth" and has decorated her nursery in black, dresses the tot in Victorian clothing and fans say her little girl is a "miniature Wednesday Addams". Living conditions for Victorian farm workers were often cramped and basic. Extensive research supported this and we opted for the method which was most authentic to not only the period but the regional practice. So far they have made: The Victorian Farm, The Edwardian Farm and Wartime farm. Complain about this comment (Comment number 96). The odd contraption in the woods was regularly fiddled with and lovingly supplied with fresh juicy maggots throughout the summer. Complain about this comment (Comment number 91). Now, his talent for understatement is earning him some big roles in Hollywood. The protagonists are historian Ruth Goodman, and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn.The series was filmed in Shropshire county in England, on the Acton Scott Historic Working Farm, and Blists Hill Victorian Town.The series shows how farm work and house work were done in the early Victorian Era, then shows machines and innovations that were introduced later. Many employers hoped for the servants they hired to have at least some elementary literacy and numeracy. Builders in Victorian days did not have the capacity to easily span large spaces, so the numerous walls really were . bbc two,history, Ruth Goodman | 12:00 UK time, Wednesday, 10 November 2010. I have a strong interest in clothing history and wanted to be closely involved in what I was wearing. Victorian Farm: With Stephen Noonan, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands. All very informative. Complain about this comment (Comment number 79). I'm pleased to say it worked, and we grew a very successful oat and potato crop there but you'll have to wait until eps 11 and 12 to see for yourself when we harvest the crops. A Victorian Mental Asylum | Science Museum Following on from the hugely successful Victorian Farm, archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and domestic historian Ruth Goodman now experience life on an Edwardian farm.. Victorian Farmers from Yorkshire CC0 via Rawpixel, Farming Village at Twilight by Van Gogh CC0 via Rawpixel, Spring Ploughing iStockphoto / duncan1890, Howard's Patent Lever Horse Rake CC0 via Rawpixel, Portable Steam Engine used on Farms CC0 via Rawpixel, Woman Working With Scutcher Machine CC0 via Rawpixel. I have also watched the complete series and thoroughly enjoyed it. 8/10. The same was true of my great aunt and she lived of the village of Mor-well-ham. By the end of the Victorian era, half of the people living in Britain lived in cities. The series was filmed back-to-back with Victorian Farm Christmas in September 2009 and shown in July 2010. If you were poor and couldn't afford to live in a very nice place, it was easy to get sick. I home educate one of them and am grateful for this help with history so I have spread the 'Victorian Farm' word to the home education groups that we belong to.The subjects have been fascinating and the presenters are so likeable. The official book to accompany the new BBC2 6 x 1 hour primetime series, Victorian Farm Includes extensive photography of the farm workers' experiences Diary entries offer a personal take on this historical experiment Join in Victorian life with authentic recipes and practical projects Read more Print length 304 pages Language English You get the sense when you see him in period dress that he feels very comfortable indeed in it. Acton Scott Working Farm, Acton Scott, Church Stretton, Shropshire, England, UK. Particularly like the livestock. Alex goes out catching rabbits with a team of Victorian poachers. Complain about this comment (Comment number 40). Charitable Tax #12153 2816 RR 0001. A Victorian Farmhouse with Original Style - Romantic Homes How Did Victorian Women With just over 2,000 trees, they are hoping to pick about 100 tonnes of Frantoia, manzanillo, and kalamata olives this season. You can find it here: https://www.wildfood.info/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2912#unread, Complain about this comment (Comment number 93). thanks,K, Complain about this comment (Comment number 46), To kimathy7The house is Lanhydrock near Bodmin and the "Gentleman's House" is available on googlebooks.To the Team Thanks for bringing many happy memories back - I used own an old miner's cottage in nearby Gunnislake.Are there any plans to do any further series? Angela, Complain about this comment (Comment number 66), Dear Ruth, Alex and PeterFirst, many thanks for a really entertaining, instructive and eye-opening series. Viewers can be inspired to rush out and acquire animals thinking it's easy and requires no skill and this causes suffering and upset. for a longwhile some cider makers stored their cider in lead lined casks. It was only really in the latter 20th century when the introduction of the Chorleywood bread making process allowed lower protein level wheats from these shores to be used on their own. Answer: In the fashionable new developments in Belgravia, in Knightsbridge and in Mayfair. The shots of shire horses entering the field on a frosty morning, the hedge layers at work - all magical stuff. Complain about this comment (Comment number 16). They hand over the key to their landlord and depart the farm. In this dark era, photographing the dead was as common as bringing flowers to a funeral. As I (sadly) can't find anyone to build me a time machine, this series is the next best thing! Think you need a machine to do that job? Many were used as cheap labor. The freedom, the speed, you have no idea of the sense of liberation. Would someone tell me the names of the 2 heavy horses on the farm please. The recipe looks good, but didn't the one on the programme have milk powder in it, and that was what makes it bready? Vikings star Travis Fimmel: meet the Victorian farm boy dazzling Hollywood As Ragnar Lothbrok, the star of Vikings, Travis Fimmel lets his acting do the talking. Can you please advise where the Tannery was located? And did the normal tourists visiting the village get to see them and what they were doing? fascinating place! Few early Victorian ovens have survived in working order, explains one of the show's presenters, food historian Dr Annie Gray, but at Sacrewell Farm in Cambridgeshire an early 19th-century. Accompanying the television series, this book follows the team as they try to run a farm using only materials and resources that would have been available to them in the Victorian era. Some of the farm animals have already been sold. Can I also request a copy of the recipe for the CUT ROUNDS please? It is spring and there are lambs and pigs to be delivered, which means Alex and Peter need to master animal midwifery. Accompanying the television series, this book follows the team as they try to run a farm using only materials and resources that would have been available to them in the Victorian era. Complain about this comment (Comment number 64). The farm is on an estate in Shropshire owned by the gloriously named Thomas Stackhouse Acton , who is a Victorian enthusiast. Gleanings of corn were collected after the harvest and used to make flour and bread and they would make their own cider, ale and wine from fruit such as elderberries. Get the views of BBC bosses, presenters, scriptwriters and cast from the inside of the shows. As winter draws on, animal fodder and shelter is provided. Complain about this comment (Comment number 38). Following life on the farm over a whole calendar year, Edwardian Farm goes deep into a lost rural world where life was tough and working together was the only means of achieving anything. I'm really looking forward to the winter episodes of the Edwardian Farm, actually; they were there over one of the coldest winters in the British Isles in about 40 years. "If variety is the spice of life, then Edwardian rural life has proved to be one heck of a curry." -Ruth Goodman. Intelligent and good fun - but keep the fudge in the sweet shop please! great series as was the victoria farm but would love to know if Ruth tried spinning the wool from the sheep. We have may animated discussions in class and I teach maths! This was a crucial period in the history of Britain-rapid industrialization had radically changed life in the cites but rural communities used a mixture of centuries-old and pioneering modern practices. Farming Depression, 1873 - 1920s. Thanks. I love Edwardian Farm. This was first broadcast on Thursday 8 January 2009 at 9 pm. The farm was founded in 1975 by Tom Acton, whose family has owned the farm estate for more than 900 years. Form into a long round sausage and then cut from length the thickness rounds you require and place on floured baking sheet. I went to Morewellam many years ago and found the whole place amazing. Nor are they created to accommodate reading, exercise or other recreational pursuits. She patiently demonstrates how to make period costumes to the historic needlework group there, and as months go on, more and more of us complete our projects using methods and materials appropriate to the time, and then interpret the museum buildings wearing the clothing of the period. When it was suggested that we should have a go at hatching and raising trout for the sport fishing trade, Alex and I were rather sceptical, but Peter got stuck in immediately. Of the five Gloucester Old Spot pigs, only two are left. We had the Covid closures, and then the E coli outbreak. Thank you! 2. My father grew up on an Edwardian farm and he is having a wonderful nostalgia ride with this series. As I understand it though we had a lot of glasshouses and grew tomatoes up until the 1970's.We still have the old prep room and the outside toilet. ; The company was split into several platoons, each commanded by a lieutenant, assisted by a sergeant. Eddie Bing holding horse. sorry forgot to mention i am particularly interested in the teasets which had matching teapots. Langlands, Ginn and Goodman did not appear, though the latter's daughter, Eve Goodman, did feature. Complain about this comment (Comment number 57), brilliant series really interesting. It has been such a full year, hardly time to breathe let alone think. Ruth has a go at some traditional potions and remedies. Preheat the oven to 400F/200C/Gas 6. Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and I are now quite a long standing team. This was for a number of reasons As the population increased, demand for food increased too. Great job all round - it has set me off on a few enterprises and concerns. Still an ambition to keep some Tamworths and get a Shire. @Honoramorton - as a keen gardener I think I can answer this one - liquid waste would probably have been mixed with water and used as a liquid fertiliser, solid waste also known as "night soil" would have been buried in a technique known as "double digging" the veg plot. Great series. This historical documentary series finds archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and domestic historian Ruth Goodman on the Acton Scott estate, located in rural England and frozen in the Victorian era. I haven't been there for quite a few years, but it is a great day out. It was just wonderful stuff, engaging, interesting and intelligent popular history. In Victorian Farm we used a Victorian edition; this time we got hold of the updated Edwardian edition of his work. Complain about this comment (Comment number 68). I suppose it might imitate a bird!Carry on the good work! Complain about this comment (Comment number 71). Ruth Goodman is a participant in Edwardian Farm. Victorian Farm - Episode 1 1 January 2009 59min Audio Languages Audio Languages English The team move into a Victorian smallholding on the Acton Scott estate that hasn't been used in nearly half a century. The era of Queen Victoria's reign, though, had some pretty bizarre happenings too. Complain about this comment (Comment number 6), Another great piece of educational entertainment. Three historians re-create life on a Victorian-era farm at the Acton Scott Estate in rural Shropshire, England. Ramblings of a wandering Toon: Turn Back Time- The High Street: , Reprise Des Vols Internationaux Vers Madagascar, Is There An App To Identify China Patterns, Who Is Doug's Wife In The Liberty Mutual Commercial. I collect older teasets, such as the ones used, and use them at every given opportnuity. I painted a portrait of the 2 horses that were at Morwellham Quay in 2002, Rob & Mac, one looks like the lighter coloured horse with the grey mane but I don't recognise the darker of the 2 horses. I may not be looking hard but I can never find any sloes to pick. Hello to everyone who's taken the time to post comments on here. Complain about this comment (Comment number 22). It is the end of their year on the farm. Small and dimly lit, they will not even hold a modern queen-sized bed. It should be possible to achieve both. Our life on an old Welsh farm is closer in many ways to the Edwardian farm than 2010. Maedhros35 4 April 2009. Complain about this comment (Comment number 73). I thought it was slipping off the radar and it might have closed without anybody realising it was even an option. Definitely worth it though, we have had a great year, so interesting, loads of fun and wonderful, wonderful people. Your floor washing puts me to shame..time to get out the brush! Victorian Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in six parts, first shown on BBC Two in January 2009, and followed by three Christmas-themed parts in December of the same year. The boys make a predator-proof cover for the landlord's raspberry patch. Victorian farmers were considered an essential part of the economy and workforce, particularly in rural communities. Some wealthy landowners or independent farmers provided decent cottages for their farmhands, and these were generally free. Instead, in those days (and, I suspect, in Devon and Cornwall at the time), he made his own fuses from straw infused with black powder. Enjoying Edwardian Farm, as we did Victorian Farm. Complain about this comment (Comment number 82). Already there are concerns among the villagers in Church Stretton that the decision has in effect been taken. It would be insane to spread it on grass which would 'burn' the earth where nothing would grow for years. Domestically, the weekly laundry is done in a Victorian style. Traditional farming skills are showcased at Acton Scott Farm. Complain about this comment (Comment number 97), Complain about this comment (Comment number 98). Thanks for all you have done, looking forward to the next period series! This first episode has been a joy to watch, and I can't wait to find out more! With an hour long Victorian Christmas special as well. Just like in "Tales", the three reenact the period with the help of experts in the field . Read reviews and opinions and share yours on all things TV - your favourite episodes, live programmes, digital channels, the schedule and everything else. @northeastfirstaid: Sloes are the fruit of the Blackthorn and are most often found in a mixed hedgerow along with Hawthorn - the fruit is usually on the underside of the stem and in early October often behind the leaves - the leaves on the Blackthorn seem to stay on the bush a little longer the Hawthorne which means it can be seen from a distance in early autumn. the way the team tackled and would be no laughing matter for the goat or the edwardian family when they caused the mastitis by poor milking practise! The farm was founded in 1975 by Tom Acton, whose family has owned the farm estate for more than 900 years. Complain about this comment (Comment number 56). When we moved in, there was an . 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