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There were many in Birmingham too! Thank you....

I know the area well, being a Bluenose and a Brummie I should do, I loved the Peaky Blinders series, and in real life the Peaky Blinders were not nice people. I can remember when the Garrison was open and sold beer, its in a sorry state now! My dear old mother (r.i.p.) bless her used the phrase cheeky blinder quite often and shouted it at the children when they were naughty I wonder if there was a connection? although she was not born until 1914 she had a much older brother and sister, and her parents were Brummies too with a Irish name surname of Coleman. Thank you Lucy that was most interesting.

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I love going on virtual adventures with you Lucy, I'm absolutely fascinated in Social History, even to the point I've researched my own family tree, and there were a couple of skeletons in the closet lol, thanks so much for sharing your adventures with us ♥

Wonderful! A cave home makes far more sense than what we live in today. Loving your channel all the ways from Kansas USA. Keep up the great content! ❤️🌻

Thank you thank you for keeping silent periodically. It gives one a chance to look about an exhibit in peace. Not that there is anything wrong with your narration. On the contrary!

Thanks for this video, very interesting 😊

Thank you Lucy , I really enjoyed your video.Well done your voice is so soothing . Always looking for your videos.Keep up the good work

Great Yarmouths heyday was probably the1950s, now its very run down but still struggling along. its probably the worst town in Norfolk now.

Growing up in Sunderland of the 1950s we didn't have a kitchen, the food preparation area was scullery that had a tin cupboard in the glass pane sticking out into the yard to keep meat and dairy cool. The sink emptied into a metal bucket underneath and if it overflowed the water would run away under the slats of wood you were standing on. All food preparation was done on the large cover that covered the huge enamel bath. The bath was rarely used as it was cold in the scullery and the underside of the cover was home to many creepy crawlies. We cooked mostly on the open fire. It was my job as a child to tell my grandmother when the potatoes were boiling...she used to tell me the fairies were trying to get out.

Last back to backs in the UK? Have you not been to Leeds? Thousands of them here

Lovely Lucy, I really enjoyed this.

Fascinating , the same houses in different periods. The tunnel of time , for sure. And I love to listen to your explanations about what the different items where for. Thank you for all your great videos, and also for the bonus one of Saturday about the peaky blinders.

Thank you so much, fantastic, enjoyed this so much😊 what a fabulous place😊look forward to every video 😊

I absolutely loved this and being a child of the 50s the 1955 house was a real blast from the past, same for the later ones. Our neighbour had their bathroom in the shed, and I have lived in a house with no bathroom, outside loo, and one cold tap. It's amazing how you manage to get round the inconveniences. Thanks Lucy, they were amazing.❤

I'm 67 and i can remember bathing in front of the fire up until I was 16 years of age , my grandmother took over a council house on the gurnos est so I'd go over there for a bath about twice a week, we didn't have a lot but we managed.

When I was little, my mum, dad and myself, lived in a little cottage, where she had to get water from the well, and cook on an open fire. This was in the 50s. Outside toilet. When it snowed my, mum boiled the snow for water.x

Thank you Lucy, most interesting. My favourite was 1950's. I can remember furniture being kept for years, not the throwaway world we have now.

Lovely video, and especially nice to see these terraced houses again. I went to St Fagan’s back in the early 90s and remember my delight at seeing them for the first time, probably because they’re not far off where I still live today. They were the original “tiny homes” that are today so trendy. If only we could get used to realising we don’t all need big houses in which to live. Two up to down, a back yard and a narrow front garden has done me very nicely for 34 years and I’m looking forward to the next 34! Thanks again for the video. Terrific job.

I 'm fortunate enough to own one of Sth Wales only surviving Iron workers cottages, it is grade II listed, built in 1750ish. Still has many original features. The cottage was originally two, but converted in to one.

As a coach driver my very first football run was from the Garrison Tavern where I picked up the Blues fans.

I was born in 1957 and lived in a terraced house in Battersea as a child. My grandparents lived downstairs, and my parents lived upstairs with three children. There was an outside toilet, and no bathroom. A tin bath hung on a nail outside the back door. It was brought upstairs to our small kitchenette once a week, and filled with saucepans of water. The whole family shared the same water and bathed in succession, parents first.

Brilliant that they've staged them at time intervals. Another lovely video.

Wonderful! I work at a living history in Canada and wish our interpretations were as meaningful and charming as what you do here!

I have visited about two years ago.Thank you Lucy for your excellent video and the way you express yourself with feeling . I can't pick a favourite because each one has its own unique time in history. DIOLCH 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🫶

The wallpaper in one of the cottages with birds and vines was far too grand. Papers were much less sophisticated in cottages more little flowers or geometric prints. That was the only jarring note for me.We still had an outside toilet in the 70,s and people moved into sheds in the garden and let the cottages to holidaymakers because we lived by the sea. Earth floors till the 80’s too!

Never heard of a living shed or a coffin drop! I love that they decorated them according to eras.

I lived in one of these in the sixties my mom dad 2 brothers and 1 sister 6 of us in one house no toilet apart from the communal toilets in the courtyard Aberdeen street Winson green Birmingham

That was hugely interesting and so well produced, thanks

Love it, I dont remember much of old days but our bathroom was in kitchen, had seperate door though 🤷‍♂️ toilet was outside, I hated it, was cold, icy full of spiders 😂

Thank you for another fascinating visit to this lovely place it was so interesting to see the cottages through time and I've never heard of a living shed before. My older sister got married in1965 and her terraced cottoge had a covered bath in the kitchen and an outside toilet, they eventually had one of the two bedrooms divided to provide a bathroom which had a fashionable avocado suite in the 1970s, she still lived there when she died in 2003 still with the same bathroom suite ! 😊❤

That's a great exhibit to show how living conditions evolved 😊 makes me want to go look up how houses in canada changed (if they did at all 🤪)

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Those pre-fabs were quite beautiful. In the US there were Lustron homes - basically the same thing. They did have a little bit of insulation (2-3 cm) though, and central heat through ceiling vents. There are very few left! We lived in semi-pre-fab for a while: apparently the walls were shipped as panels and then bolted together on site.

I thought I new a bit about social history but I have never heard of a living shed before very interesting video . I had that exact 80's kitchen units when I had a council grant kitchen extension in 1981 as 1930's kitchens were classed as too small and that was the units they fitted. We had about 6 ft added with a big window overlooking the garden and a breakfast bar we thought we were posh. The builder kept trying to sell me more units so he could make more money but I insisted on the breakfast bar the kids loved to sit at it.

Very interesting history Lucy , they looked a rough gang and definitely no one looked like Cillian Murphy ! 😂❤

When I was a student in Swansea in the 1970's, the house we rented had a bath in the kitchen., which was a lean-to at the back of the house and very cold in winter. We mostly showered up at the college or sneaked into one of the halls of residence for a crafty bath! Oh, and the toilet was outside too.

What a treasure of a museum. Very, very interesting. Here in the US small homes like that were torn down to make high-rise (slum) apartments. Occasionally one finds row houses carefully preserved and updated over the centuries. Those "preserved in aspic" cottages are really helpful for us to remember.

I thought you did a video on Avoncroft museum ? Can’t find it.

Thank you so much for making these, I haven't lived in a house like this but my Mum's family did live in something similar in the valleys in the South. Love your videos, really enjoy the narration. :)

That was fascinating. Even though we might not have quite seen it, there was progress throughout the period such as from candlelight to oil lamps or lavatories where there were none. @13:31, the garden room is nothing new, then. 😂The 80s brings back memories and our family had much of the same things.

Thank you again for another enjoyable video. We used to live with my grandparents in an 1870s terraced house in Battersea, South London from when I was born in 1954 until 1966. This had a bath under a cover in the kitchen. Though we called this room the scullery. I suppose once the actual cooking would have been done on range in the back room, so this was called the kitchen. Though by this time the gas stove was in the 'scullery'.

Wow these council houses are lovely. Too bad newer builds aren't as nice for those in need!

Hi Lucy I was born in the old back to back in Henry street it was grans house I'm now 72 now living in Sheldon keep all the good work all best from ken

Around the same time you had the Jack The Ripper murders then this gang emerges(no connection), might be a first with soccer hooliganism and beat Millwall to the honour ! The police must have patrolled in groups within the area, these groups were hell bent on causing misery and fear! I think during WW1 put the fear of god into many of them... You'd think some of the harsh sentences would have put an end to it, sooner! Great video(get to the St Fagan's one soon!

I visited my UK relatives for the first time around 1990. My Uncle and his wife lived in Walthamstow in a terrace house. The house was small by North American standards but cozy, well organized and clearly loved. What threw me for a loop was the toilet out in the garden. To the right of the kitchen was an area with a shower, sink and laundry machines. You walked through this area to the back door which led into the back yard where the toilet was. Complete with chain pull. I'd also never seen an elevated toilet tank and kept worrying about it falling when I pulled on the chain 😂 As I was there in summer the garden toilet wasn't a problem but I kept thinking about what it must be like in winter! Also, because the bedrooms were upstairs it seemed a long way to travel to get to the toilet at night. My lovely Uncle and Aunt resisted their children's attempts to upgrade the house but finally relented, years later, to having an indoor toilet.

If you ever get the chance go to the People's Palace museum in Glasgow. They have a recreation of a tenement ' single end' flat ( basically a bedsit). Its shocking how small it is, considering whole families lived in them. I remember the Molly Weir autobiography Shoes Were For Sunday describing a family of 14 living in a single end and actually missing the older brother when he married and moved out. If I recall correctly that family let their one bed to a lodger who worked night shifts and slept during the day. When my Granny and Mum moved from rented rooms into a council house, they still shared a bed until my Mum got married in the mid 60s. There were two bedrooms but they kept one for visitors . Jeremy Paxman visited the Tenement House (NTS) in Glasgow when did Who Do You Think You Are. He was crying at the perceived hardship of life there. But the woman who lived in THAT tenement was affluent and could afford two large rooms for one person. Plus she had lots of lovely things. His poverty stricken Great Granny would have been in something more like the single end. Tenement House is well worth a visit too. Paxo thought it was squalor but i think it's lovely and would happily live in just one of her rooms, or in the wee single end ( but not sharing😂) if I moved to Glasgow, I' ve lived in worse. I love the living shed! That museum looks brilliant and I really like the idea of them showing the houses in modern times. I love the day to day stuff _ how people really lived. Another one you might like is the National Museum of Rural Life near East Kilbride, complete with a farmhouse frozen in time to the 1950s.

What an original way to show the different eras. You can see the evolution in how houses were lived in, used through time. First a bit Spartan with the focus on practicality and use. And then, gradually comfort and (non worship) decorations find their place. I enjoyed the video very much, thank you!

Thank you for yet another wonderful presentation of St Fagans. I live in Aberdare which is quite near Merthyr Tydfil, and as a child in the 50/60s there was a row houses exactly like Rhyd-y-car at the bottom of our street. I remember neighbours with outside toilets. And yes, I do remember people with baths in the kitchen which were hidden as tables. I now live in a house made from two cottages about the size of the houses in St Fagans. I have done some research and at one time in just one of the houses a family of two adults and nine children lived there. Also the street pump and well used to be in my garden!