1900 House part09

The sci-fi drama of time travel meets true-life drama in THE 1900 HOUSE -- a four-part documentary that "transports" an actual modern family from 1999 back to life in 1900.
Part 9 of 23.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Victorian
• nineteenth
• century
• PBS
• 1900
• class

[lilanma]

You gotta do it the old-fashioned way--carry up buckets of boiling water yourself and fill the tub.

[sidekickmarie]

Haha, like how the butcher gets offended by the vegetarians. "They won't last a week". It was a staple food then as it is now, although not neccessary.

[jackie072389]

i see it this way the water mght be cold but guess what its water just jump in bc after a bit of time it does get to normal body tempture . the victorians had it hard yes but there is nothing wrong withtaking a cold bath ''suck it up an get clean''

[tstlkevanilla]

Sheesh.. that butcher got pretty offended at Joyce's vegeterianism. Maybe they should've found a different butcher that wouldn't take everything so personally.

[nickie74]

Pleased the mum backed down on her beliefs and bought the sausages, but I thought that was just for tonights tea..but then the butcher said that wouldn't last them a week. The thing is they haven't even figured out how to keep the milk fresh yet so it was best not to waste money buying too much meat until they know how to keep things fresh.

[nickie74]

Even just back in the 90's (when i lived in the UK) I remember plenty of times running back and forth with pans of hot water to help fill up the bath, as sometimes the hot water tap would run cold by the time it was half way done. Just a small boiler I suppose, but she's complaining of not enough hot water with the kettle steaming in the background...she should of had the pans boiling away for the extra top up.

[Learningbyhearing]

The problem with the range is that it doesn't have a proper heat exchanger. They explained that in one of the first episodes. They found that thing and the heat exchanger wasn't included so they tried to fit one.

[yomie100]

@lilanma Exactly what I was just thinking......I guess they rather spend their time complaining. :o)

[druniver]

@sidekickmarie You are right. At least if you are scratching your head and push the button on the remote control to make everything, that is doing the job for you, work for the whole day and call that exhausting labour. Doing all those physical work back then, indeed you will not last for long. Certainly not surviving financially, with 4 growing children. But let's see how they will dwell these coming months.

[Shangas]

That stove is really interesting. I woudln't mind having a crack at using one of those for a couple of weeks. The challenge sounds like fun.

[Shangas]

@lilanma Watching this series, I have often wondered WHY they didn't just do that. Boil water on the stove and haul it upstairs in buckets. Sure it took longer, but believe it or not, that's how it was DONE in those days. These people have running hot water (in a manner of speaking) - not everyone had that. People poorer than these folks would've had to carry the hot water by hand. It's little wonder that folks back then only bathed once a week...

[MagickDog]

'I'm just gonna have to get harrier and harrier...oh, GOD.'