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Keith Bateman
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Looks good from the trailer!! 
Hope my cat doesn't scare yours!!!
Keith
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Biker
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A fascinating programme with great high quality film footage of working life in 1900-1910.
It's a series so if you didn't catch it tonight, worth watching next week when I think the theme is sport and leisure.
Good old Beeb
Jonathan
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Keith Bateman
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.....The Cheshire Cat
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What great TV
And I thought they were Smiling for the camera more than Sad as the commentator said - they all enjoined their Sunday promenade!! 
Well worth watching - remember that was all taken around the time of the 1901 census - now we see why mistakes were made!!
Cheers
Keith
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booger
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Pretty impressive. I wonder if it will ever be available on DVD.
My ancestors were East Anglian country people, but I still think it's interesting to see the way they dressed etc. and walked in the industrial north. Quite grubby and prematurely aged weren't they? I don't like crowds, so I would feel extreme discomfort being amongst the people leaving their mills. Must be inherited from my farmer ancestors.
Much more valuable than films of boring Queen Victoria and her descendants on their vast estates.
Booger.
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Biker
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Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon.
Just a reminder that the second in the series is on tonight at 9PM BBC2 (for those living in the UK) and the theme is leisure. Last week's was fascinating.
Jonathan
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Kazza
Welsh Lass
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Looking into Holes
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Thanks for that,
I had forgotten, so now I will catch it after all. 
Kazza.
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 Surname interests: Clementsten, Hobson, Hole, Marden, O'Clements, Pitten, Sharland, Vickery (Vicary), Williams. Area Interests: Cardiff, Bampton, Bideford, Crediton, Wollaston, Somerset, Tidenham, Norway, Australia to Bristol. |
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sarah
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If you find these films interesting then you might like to know about a forthcoming exhibition in Manchester starting the 16th of February.
With that I am off to make myself comfy infront to the gogglebox !!
Tonight there is a treat for football fans..............Manchester United playing 1902 
Sarah
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Biker
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Again excellent and a real eye on the world of 1900.
Loved the Fatty Foulkes bit - 6'2 24 stone goalie, brilliant footage.
The promendade of the working classes in their sunday best and a really interesting bit on the carnivals and street entertainers.
Suffragette stuff was good and the first woman graduate of Birmingham University
Well, it was all good ...
Jonathan
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Keith Sherwood
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Couldn't believe how clear the images and particularly people's faces were! (Didn't everyone look similar, though, under their caps and hats; there was hardly a bare head to be seen anywhere, especially at the football matches.) But did think the programme presenter was rather slow and laboured. Much more interesting listening to those relatives or descendants of the few people identified on film.
Keith
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Mobo
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Forever Searching
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I love these programmes, not just because some of my ancestors lived and worked in Darwen and could easily be in the films, but all the people in them seem so real and 'of today'.. Although their lives were very hard the majority seemed quite playful and ready to enjoy life. An impression you don't get from the old jumpy black & white flicks we normally see.
I also agree with Keith, there was too much explanation from presenter, Dan Cruickshank.
Here's a little taste of the film for those who can't see it.
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BUCKLEY, Ches. DUNN, Ireland & Lancs. EDGSON, Rutland, Leics & Lancs. LYON, Lancs. McNULTY, Ireland & Lancs. MORRIS, Beds, Hunts & Lancs. TURNER, Lancs. WILLIAMSON, Lancs. Website: http://www.ag19pfalz36.plus.com/All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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Mobo
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Forever Searching
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And yet another one - the Manchester Band of Hope
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BUCKLEY, Ches. DUNN, Ireland & Lancs. EDGSON, Rutland, Leics & Lancs. LYON, Lancs. McNULTY, Ireland & Lancs. MORRIS, Beds, Hunts & Lancs. TURNER, Lancs. WILLIAMSON, Lancs. Website: http://www.ag19pfalz36.plus.com/All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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nora T
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I've not edited my PROFILE yet
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Loved the carnival, in crewe, and hoping they would just come a few miles further, and get to stoke,loved the football and the big goalie, loved the womans hats, and loved all the fun at blackpool, loved the whole program, cant wait for next friday, nora
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i am researching the timmis family salop. staffs, and cheshire, also the culverwell family, congleton cheshire,and staffs.also jervis, jarvis, staffs and wales,also reece, staffs and dudley
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booger
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I wasn't too bothered by the re-enactments of Kenyon scenes in the first show. But since someone mentioned it in a previous post it really irritated me last Friday.
I'd rather see continuous old films and keep the commentry.
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