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The 1900 House

  • TV Series
  • 1999–2000
  • 1h
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8.0/10
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The 1900 House (1999)
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A modern English family embark on a real-life time-travel adventure to late Victorian London.A modern English family embark on a real-life time-travel adventure to late Victorian London.A modern English family embark on a real-life time-travel adventure to late Victorian London.

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    • 11User reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    MGDelerium3

    Had the Potential to be SO much more!

    When you go through the pains of restoring a house back to 1900 detail, you really should make the most of it! I was sad they almost never talked about what it was like to live in gas lighting, or even the simple of reading in this low light. So many other missed opportunities to keep the kids busy other than having them just sitting around bored. Children in lower middle-class homes were expected to participate more. Maybe they should have given the family better guidance. Like not eating in the kitchen all the time or serving tea in the kitchen to guests was not something that would have been done. To get them OUT of their 1999 lifestyles. But everything was cynical it seems. Even the guy restoring the house that made the statement "It's gonna be a whole log gloomier and a whole lot nastier".. WHAT? You're really someone who love restoring old historic scenes and that's how you're describing this?
    10Sylviastel

    It answered so many questions about 1900

    I really can't recommend this documentary and experiment enough. It is really entertaining and brilliantly done to help us understand life in 1900. I found the Bowlers as a challenging adventurous family who was willing to undertake this difficult project. Mrs. Bowler is a remarkable woman who was wonderful. Her twin daughters passed time by creating a little theatre in their home. What she missed surprised me the most? They did not complain about the television, radio, telephone, or computer, almost necessary essentials in our times. Life was tough in Victorian times by their experience. I can't thank them enough for their efforts of three months as a Victorian family.
    10angied5460

    Loved this show

    I love the entire "House" series. This show in particular was very interesting. I am always fascinated by how people live/lived. I have had varying degrees of income (from very little to middle class and upper middle when I was a child). I take pride on my ability to withstand hardship and shows like this inspire me. To think what our families were able to cope with makes something silly like my cable going down very irrelevant. It is good to remember how tough people are and what they are able to do and this series does that very well. I can't wait for the next installment of House programs. 1900 House was my first introduction to the series and I immediately went out and rented other versions as well as eagerly awaited them on my television.
    ivan-22

    Wonderful people, wonderful idea

    There is a bit of masochism in having a whole family endure such hardships for so long, but this sort of documentary is quite endearing and informative. There should be more such programs.

    As to 1900, many of the hardships are artificial. Why for instance did women have to wear cumbersome clothes in a time before air conditioning, clothes that are very hard to wash? No vacuum cleaners? Big deal! Sweep! Our ancestors couldn't have been so miserable. There was plenty of fun even then, even a thousand years ago.
    10dark_horizon-1

    1900's

    I've never seen this before, it was quite amazing really the lack of knowledge of the family and their advisers. However, I have to admit they were chosen as lower middle class. which they fitted perfectly the snobbery and the self effacing , the did it perfectly. Parts of the family did better than others. I was surprised that the Male component were given a wide berth almost ignored.

    When I watched this I noticed the problem of hot water, I found this ridiculous it was 1900 given the rules of 1999. I lived in a house with a back boiler earlier than the 1900 house when I was a boy, you had to stack the fire but once the water was boiling , one heard a galumph of the water moving in the boiler warning you to run the hot water for washing or bathing or even just down the drain. In Glasgow at the time of the 1900 house we scrubbed everything when they said the Victorians must have accepted a lower level of cleanliness they were very wrong. they spoke of a time when there were no antibiotics the woman worked harder, the men worked so much harder than people now. Cleanliness was the difference between ones family surviving or not it was that crucial. The family were only there for 3 months, not nearly enough time for it it to make a difference. I hope they enjoyed it all the same. The problem of washing hair, lol they used pears soap lol, coal tar soap is what we used when I was little, but in Scotland we have better water for washing hair so it was never an issue, I did notice the water problem when we moved to england in the 70's luckily we moved back to Scotland some years later. Its hard to say if the Bowler family did well they were exposed to so little of it. They did so many things I did when I was little the helping with the washing, using the mangle heating the water in the kitchen with coal for the washing and heating the water for bathing, the thing I found funny was that I had thought what we did as normal in the time line. I had no idea we were so far behind the times lol. It all seemed so normal to me. I didn't live in a fully electric house until 1973. Much of what I saw in the 1900 house seemed familiar though the woman made a mistake with the shampoo, it was coaltar soap a half pint of beer and an egg white, where they got the use the yoke thing from I don't know. I still occasionally use it beats the silicon based 2 in 1 stuff we get now hands down, my daughter uses it a fair shiny tress she has too.Then again we have softer water here.

    All in all the 1900 house reminded me of all the things I'm thankful I don't have to do now. However I think we should return to some of those older values in cleanliness, there is no way people would die from simple hygiene problems as they do now in homes and hospitals if the code of cleanliness was followed even from the 1900's The 1900 house was a reminder of just how lazy we have become as a nation and the consequence's of that.

    The vegetarian diet, in reality could not have worked for the family lets make it really simple, name vegetarians by nature with large brains ....none, what gave the Bowler family the ability to be where they were was meat generations of meat eaters, choosing to eat only veg is a life choice it limits ones behaviors and ones ability to think, many think this is not true, but it is, they see it from the point of view of one or two lifetimes, but what a brain needs is the ability to work and that needs energy, energy not available from vegetables alone its not a hypothesis just a calculation, energy in work out , when it comes to survival of the species its that simple, its do you want your line to continue and be successful or not. all of us here now are here because of meat its that simple.

    The maid of all works, the lower middle class bowlers played right into the directors hands, displaying their petty snobbishness exactly as described, My grandfather said never let the lower middle class have servants for they will abuse them and treat them terribly because they are only a step off of service themselves. Having watched the 1900 house I can see he was perfectly correct.

    in the end it was a good view as a TV program well worth the watch even if only to see lower middle class snobbery, but one can see it work for the younger bowlers for them it was an adventure which the will never forget and one would hope the viewers also. I enjoyed it watching on 4OD,

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      • September 23, 2001 (France)
    • Country of origin
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