A House Through Time

travelsafar

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!

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.

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.

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.

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/

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Bother, hit post too quickly, I didn’t notice that, but I’ve never watched that show before that series. I enjoyed it. I found the history of the run away slave I’d I remember rightly really interesting and the history about the milk bar during prohibition. (Hope this is the right show, I tend to middle different shows into one!

threexnanny I didn’t notice

That's it threexnanny!

With the Bristol series it seemed to me that the story was focused on the history of the city and the house made to fit rather than the house dictating where the story lead.

Me and Dh watched it last night.
A fantastic programme.

Got house envy again. What a beautiful house…

Looking forward to this series. I enjoyed the previous series.

However, like Aveline I need to watch it when I am alert and not tired as the presenters soothing voice lulls me off to sleep

Although I was looking forward to this programme I actually gave up half way through. I was very tired. It's being recorded though so I'll catch up.
I agree about the last series. I found it strangely dull but I don't know quite why.

Enjoyed it as usual but did I detect a slight dumbing-down? He explained what an oil painting was (in order to convey someone’s wealth i.e. the real thing) which I wouldn’t have thought necessary.

threexnanny

Watched this last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the previous series set in Bristol went off track, but so far this looks like being as good as the first two.

Not sure what you mean as it was an identical format to every other house he has done?

threexnanny I’ve only watched the last series (through the first lockdown) what do you think was off track about it? I really liked it, I will have to see if I can watch the earlier seasons you mentioned on the BBC I player. Something to watch while I sort and iron piles of washing,

Watched this last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the previous series set in Bristol went off track, but so far this looks like being as good as the first two.

I love history and I have watched all of David's previous programmes. Fascinating stuff.

LadyGracie. The Yorkshire Vet is on at 8pm.

Thanks for this info, i really enjoyed the previous series.