A House Through Time

But the same is true of this house. Leeds history is intrinsically linked to the occupiers of this house, their occupation and success or failure, just as the house in Bristol was. History just doesn’t happen in a house! We followed the young couple to Sheffield to see how they ended up.
So I can’t agree with you. We need to see the wider context in order to make sense.

But somehow the programme about the Newcastle house was more interesting.

Unable to watch it as DH insisted on watching Silent Witness. Too hot to go into the kitchen to watch on the other TV. Hoping to catch up.

Yes you are remembering the right programme DILLY.
We haven't seen enough of this series to say how it will go, but the Liverpool and Newcastle series came across differently to the Bristol one in my opinion.

Ah I’m not going loopy, that’s a relief! threexnanny Unfortunately the iplayer doesn’t have the previous series, what a pity, I’d have loved to have seen the others too.

As an amateur genealogist, I enjoy this programme. For me, the houses, which, series-on-series, all seem very similar, are just pegs to tell the stories of the people who passed through them and to learn something of the social and municipal history of major towns and cities.

I wondered what had happened to Sir William Nicholson, the third of the generation of successful building contractors. I haven't gone too deeply into it but, by 1908, he was leasing the castle Hellifield Peel where he was still living in 1911. He became a friend of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. The castle subsequently fell into ruins and its renovation was featured on TV's Grand Designs. TV series meets TV series! A couple of newspaper articles which tell us more about Sir William and The Peel :

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8066433.bid-to-restore-historic-house-sparks-childhood-memories/

www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/countryfile/14410104.hellifield-peel-the-star-of-tvs-grand-designs-is-put-up-for-sale-for-165m/

I so much liked the first owner of the House, a Victorian welfare reformer. Did not like the second owner but I liked and felt so sympathetic to his wife.

I just watched first episode ready for tonight. I find the presenters voice irritating,slow without much expression and it's almost like he has a very dry moth and needs a bolied sweet to get saliva flowing. Other than that it was quite interesting but the same format as the previous series.

Really enjoy the programme but inadvertently deleted yesterday's which I wanted to watch again. Does anyone know if it is repeated?
What I particularly enjoy is the methods used to find the stories about the inhabitants.

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I just watched first episode ready for tonight. I find the presenters voice irritating,slow without much expression and it's almost like he has a very dry moth and needs a bolied sweet to get saliva flowing. Other than that it was quite interesting but the same format as the previous series.

But the format works and is part of its appeal.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!