This living history series transports three families back to the south of
Wales’s coalfield of the 1920s. The families swap their modern luxuries for
the harsh reality of daily life of a coalmining family, living in coalminers'
cottages without heating, running water, washing machines, TV and computers,
and of course, for the men, there are long days down the mines.
分集介绍
Part 1
In this first programme of a major new series, three families give up their
21st century creature comforts and time-travel back to face the hardships of
life in the Welsh Valleys, 1927. Over the series we discover whether the
community will survive without a microwave, mobile, fast car or fast food.
Life is already getting tough for the community with the men on first shift at
the coal face and the women working round the clock to keep the home fires
burning.
Part 2
As the families settle into the punishing routine of a 1927 mining community,
the men face a tough training period to equip them for life at the coal-face,
the children cope with school and discipline and the mams get to grips with
mangles, ranges and the first tin bath.
Part 3
It’s not just the coal-mining men who are finding things hard. Their wives
start to feel the pinch of life in 1927, with mouths to feed and a cleaning
routine to stick to. There’s some light relief, however, as the Cartwrights,
Phillips and Griffiths families enjoy a rare night out and celebrate a special
birthday
Part 4
The pressure is on for the families living in the Coal House during week two,
with the mothers working fourteen hour days to keep their houses and families
in order. The children are coming to terms with their 1927 schooldays and the
men are working at the coal face to make ends meet.
Part 5
For the men, things are not getting any easier at the pit, with new skills to
master and performance-related pay. The mams and children enjoy Halloween, but
the expense involved has left the families on the verge of the financial
precipice. For the children, exams at school are just around the corner, while
the men live the reality of the 1927 coalfield where pit closures were the
norm and poor wages all too common. Can the Griffiths, Cartwright and Phillips
mams keep the fires burning, and more importantly, keep smiling?
Part 6
For the mining men of Coal House, things are not getting any easier at the pit
with new skills to master and performance related pay. The mams and children
enjoy Halloween but has the expense involved left all the families on the
verge of the financial precipice?
Part 7
In the final week the heat is on as the families fight for survival. Washing
pit clothes, baking and cleaning has taken over the lives of the mothers and
daughters and the fathers and sons are exhausted and struggling at the coal
face to earn a crust. But the community keeps their spirits high as they look
forward to their return to the 21st century.
Part 8
For the children of Coal House, exams at school are just around the corner.
The men live the reality of the 1927 coalfield, where pit closures were the
norm and poor wages all too common. Can the Griffiths, Cartwright and
Phillips’ mams keep the fires burning, and more importantly, keep smiling?
Part 9
At the end of week two, money has become tight; food is short, and the
families pull together to survive. Halloween brings some scary fun for the
children but the mams and dads are worried about how to pay the butcher!
Washing coal-black pit clothes, baking and cleaning has taken over their lives
of the mothers and daughters. The fathers and sons are exhausted but struggle
at the coal face to earn a crust. But the Coal House community keeps their
spirits high as they begin to look forward to their return to the 21st
century.
Part 10
The families add preparation for the final concert to their exhausting daily
life. As the Coal House community thinks about its goodbye to life in 1927,
will the children be saying goodbye to the pigs and the mums goodbye to the
tin baths? The drama shows no sign of stopping in the Coal House! As the
experiment reaches its final week, the Cartwrights, Griffiths and Phillips
families prepare to return to normal life. Who would have thought that three
weeks in a Coal House could have created so many new friends, so much fun and
so much pain?