Tue, Feb 12, 2019
The homes that Phil visits in this episode include: Usk Lighthouse, Regency townhouses in Brighton, Apartments converted from an old workhouse, Canal working boats, a Weymouth Harbour house, Ann Hathaway's cottage, a Cottier's cottage in Ireland, Lincoln Black Mill and Glasgow 1850 tenements.
Tue, Feb 19, 2019
We visit homes from 1850 to 1880, when a lot of change was taking place, including better sanitation. Some of the homes that were built quickly for the poor, are now sought after. In the Rhonda Valley in Wales, where coal mining drew in workers from all across the nation, many small homes were erected to house the influx.
Tue, Mar 5, 2019
Phil visits the house in Sussex where the Bloomsbury set lived or stayed, and debated, wrote or painted. When men were away at war and women were not allowed to sign up, women worked in factories in around the year 1916, and homes were built for them to stay in at such places as Gretna. During the Great War, WW1, many stately houses were turned into convalescent homes for injured service men. Frognal House in Sidcup, Kent became one of the most vital military hospitals for injured soldiers, from 1917 this 8 reception room and 13 bedroom house became a life changing house for 18,000 men in the space of 12 years. Some say it was the birthplace of plastic surgery in Britain as they specialized in face and jaw surgery in WW1. We see what a Nissen-Petren house is in Yeovil, Somerset. Then a post-war semi as there are 3 million of them still standing in the UK. Phil explains that as the middle classes were moving to the suburbs, the rich were moving to the coast, and so we see a 6000 sq ft Art Deco home, called The Sandcastle in Eastbourne.
Tue, Mar 12, 2019
Phil shows us how PreFab houses of the war era that are still standing and some are beloved homes. We see the famous Ainsworth complex in London that is captured in so many TV series, especially crime dramas. He discovers houses that were homes to evacuated children in WW2, and we see a stately home that was divided up into apartments.