:00:17. > :00:23.The Family, it is where we love, laugh, shout and cry.
:00:23. > :00:27.It makes us who we are. But it hasn't always been the cherished
:00:27. > :00:31.institution it is today. To find out how the modern family came to
:00:31. > :00:37.be, a group of parents and kids from across Britain have turned
:00:37. > :00:42.back time. To face the same ordeals as millions of others over the past
:00:42. > :00:47.100 years. In the northern seaside town of Morecambe, the past has
:00:47. > :00:51.come alive. A row of terraced houses has been turned into time
:00:52. > :00:58.machines, to transport our families through the twists and turns of the
:00:58. > :01:02.20th century. From the age of service. I felt a bit emotional,
:01:02. > :01:07.because I knew she was there to take the children away. Which is
:01:07. > :01:10.quite difficult. Through the roaring 20s, to the great
:01:10. > :01:14.depression. Anything else of value will need to be sold. The fact it
:01:14. > :01:21.was in front of the family, I felt really useless.
:01:21. > :01:25.From life on the home front. Another year, another separation.
:01:25. > :01:30.To the swinging 60s. Slightly concerned about the length of their
:01:30. > :01:34.skirts. We are starting the rebellion right now. Now to the
:01:34. > :01:38.groovy 70s. I couldn't give a damn about material things, for me,
:01:38. > :01:42.family is the most important thing. The past has got personal, as they
:01:42. > :01:50.live the lives of their very own ancestors. Rather than just living
:01:50. > :01:54.in a museum, we are actually living an ancestor's life. She died of TB,
:01:54. > :02:04.consumption. I'm overcome, we take so much for granted. We are turning
:02:04. > :02:12.
:02:12. > :02:16.back time, to find out how history It's the 1970s, the final era our
:02:16. > :02:21.families will be experiencing. But the first within their living
:02:22. > :02:26.memory. This is a really cool car, it is the big-hair look.
:02:26. > :02:29.Taylors are heading back to the Britain of their child Hoo, the
:02:29. > :02:34.Taylor children are getting a -- childhood, the Taylor children are
:02:34. > :02:39.getting a run down from tad Michael, and mum Adele. This is living the
:02:39. > :02:43.life of your parents. I remember it as a child. I'm quite looking
:02:43. > :02:49.forward to this era, everyone looks so cool and groovy. It's going to
:02:50. > :02:55.be a bit of fun. The Hawkes family are heading back
:02:55. > :03:01.to Albert Road too, and for Rachel and Hayley's mum, sand dra, the
:03:01. > :03:06.1970s is also all about -- Sandra, the 1970s is also all about
:03:06. > :03:13.nostalgia. I was a teenager in the 1970, I remember the music, the
:03:13. > :03:17.Jackson five, Bay City Rollers, I was crazy about those. Joining the
:03:17. > :03:22.Hawkes and Taylor, are Susie and Phil Meadows, with Tories Genevieve
:03:22. > :03:26.and Saskia. I'm looking forward to this era, I love the car. The only
:03:26. > :03:30.thing I'm not looking forward to is listening to all of mum and dad's
:03:30. > :03:34.stories about the 70s. But the 1970s wasn't all about the
:03:34. > :03:41.music and fashion. It was a turbulent era, which saw
:03:41. > :03:46.Britain on the cusp of change. The country experienced political
:03:46. > :03:51.upheaval the likes of which hadn't been seen for almost half a century.
:03:51. > :03:56.Relentless industrial disputes, and shortages of essential services,
:03:56. > :04:01.disrupted the British family. After the divorce reform act of 1969, the
:04:01. > :04:08.family itself was fracturing. By the end of the 1970s, one in
:04:08. > :04:15.eight families was headed up by a lone parent.
:04:15. > :04:21.Single mum Lisa Rhodes from Oldham her two boys Harrison and Daniel,
:04:21. > :04:23.are Albert Road's newest residents. I'm looking forward to it. I have
:04:23. > :04:26.always been somebody whose quite sociable and gets on with my
:04:26. > :04:31.neighbours. I'm hoping the neighbours we have are nice people
:04:31. > :04:35.and up for a natter. Lisa has spent the last six years
:04:36. > :04:40.as a lone parent. Juggling two successful businesses, and looking
:04:40. > :04:44.after her two technology-obsessed boys. I have got like the top of
:04:44. > :04:51.the range computer, where you can do stuff that other computers can't
:04:51. > :04:55.do. I don't know what I will do without it. Look at granny there
:04:55. > :05:01.don't she look nice. Who's that? That's me.
:05:01. > :05:07.What will Lisa make of life as a 1970s single mum. The very life her
:05:07. > :05:12.own mother Cherylin lived back then. I think probably my expectations of
:05:12. > :05:20.a single mum in the 1970s is much higher than it is actually going to
:05:20. > :05:25.All our families, new and old, are gathering in Albert Road to be met
:05:25. > :05:33.by the experts who will be guiding them through the era.
:05:33. > :05:37.Social historian Juliet Gardener. Gadget geek, Joe Crowley, and
:05:37. > :05:42.journalist, Susan that Reid. Welcome back to Albert Road
:05:42. > :05:46.everybody, and a very warm welcome to Albert Road's newest residents,
:05:46. > :05:52.the Rhodes family. The 1970s, a really fascinating decade, of
:05:52. > :05:57.course, it was a time of political unrest, of strikes, power cuts, the
:05:57. > :06:03.three-day week, and women's lib. All the traditional family roles
:06:03. > :06:08.were changing, the pipe-smoking, slipper-clad wife, and the children
:06:08. > :06:11.seen and not heard, they are long gone. Your challenge in this era is
:06:11. > :06:16.to adapt to these changing circumstances. When this week comes
:06:16. > :06:22.to a close, we will be asking you, which do you think was the best era
:06:22. > :06:27.for family life. But first, you all have to get through the 1970s.
:06:27. > :06:31.the next week, the families will be fast-forwarded through the ups and
:06:31. > :06:37.downs of an entire decade, as they live the lives of their very own
:06:37. > :06:44.parents. And, just as it did for their parents, the 70s will end in
:06:44. > :06:50.an historic election, in which they will all get the chance to vote.
:06:50. > :06:55.These are so nice. Look at the wallpaper. Oh my word. The Taylor
:06:55. > :07:00.family are returning to number 3 Albert Road, to follow in the
:07:00. > :07:05.footsteps of Michael's family, who in the 1970s, worked in
:07:05. > :07:11.construction. The string picture! The Taylors journey has seen them
:07:11. > :07:17.slide from the hey day of running a successful cotton mill in the
:07:17. > :07:20.Edwardian era, to all six living in a two-up, two-down in the 1960s.
:07:20. > :07:30.Now they are only one generation away from their present lives. They
:07:30. > :07:31.
:07:31. > :07:35.are unaware what the decade has in store. Your wall is furry.
:07:35. > :07:40.That really is hidious. As the Taylor adjust to the new deck cor,
:07:40. > :07:46.the Meadows are moving in next door to number two.
:07:46. > :07:51.We have gone Moroccan themed. hippy.
:07:51. > :07:58.So far, the Meadows journey through time has taken them from the lows
:07:58. > :08:02.of 1900s hard labour, to the highs of successful business. Now they
:08:02. > :08:07.will be living the life of their own middle-class parents. A
:08:07. > :08:16.nostalgia trip for mum and dad, and into the unknown for their
:08:16. > :08:21.daughters. What's this? That is a video player. That's quite cool.
:08:21. > :08:26.could have brought our wedding video. Granddad still has that.
:08:27. > :08:35.People still use them. Look at that painting. That looks exactly like
:08:35. > :08:42.me. Who is it, mummy? It has my hair right now with Genna's face.
:08:42. > :08:45.Yes. Who is it? David Bowie. He was my absolute hero, and I will know
:08:45. > :08:53.every single word to every single song. This is all very, very nice,
:08:53. > :08:55.I'm loving it. The 1970s saw an explosion in domestic appliances
:08:56. > :09:00.and labour-saving gadgets. Helping to free women from the endless
:09:00. > :09:08.round of cooking and cleaning they had endured in previous eras.
:09:08. > :09:14.that a chest freezer? Most liberating of all was the chest
:09:14. > :09:17.freezer. It its arrival of quickly followed by a revolution in pre-
:09:17. > :09:20.cooked, frozen, convience food. Which meant meals could be on the
:09:20. > :09:25.table in fraction of the time. Which was just as well. As by the
:09:25. > :09:31.beginning of the 1970s almost 50% of married women were working. It
:09:31. > :09:37.wasn't just the kitchen that became less labour-intensive. Upstairs a
:09:37. > :09:41.bedding revolution was taking place. Guys we have duvets. Oh yeah!
:09:42. > :09:48.That's a change. That is definitely an advance.
:09:48. > :09:53.In the 1960s, the largest house on the street, number one Albert Road,
:09:53. > :09:59.was carved up in the flats -- into flats to house the Hawkes family.
:09:59. > :10:03.As newly-arrived immigrants, all four shared a squalid bedsit.
:10:03. > :10:08.goodness, is this how bad it is. Family hug.
:10:08. > :10:12.Now, while son Jonathan works in London, Sandra and her daughters
:10:12. > :10:21.are mirroring her parents' generation, moving up in the world.
:10:21. > :10:26.Like her uncle, Hawthorn Morgan, who owned and ran a boarding house
:10:26. > :10:31.in London, Sandra is becoming a landlady. Look at that. This is
:10:31. > :10:35.great. This is what I remember my mum's front room to be like.
:10:35. > :10:39.Caribbean people like colour, look at the carpet, typical carpet, just
:10:39. > :10:43.like we used to have. I can't believe it is so clean, it feels
:10:43. > :10:49.like a completely different place. Look at this fish, every household
:10:49. > :10:54.had a glass fish, amazing. They have even got the dog. We had our's
:10:54. > :10:57.under the table. I remember the dog. This is testimony to what our
:10:57. > :11:01.granddad did, he came over and probably stayed in a scumy flat
:11:02. > :11:05.like we were in the 1960s, throughout the 1960 and into the
:11:05. > :11:14.70s he had to find ways through property to develop himself as a
:11:14. > :11:21.businessman. Downstairs, the Hawkess's --
:11:21. > :11:27.Hawkes's new tenants have arrived. Hello, who have we got here? Daniel.
:11:27. > :11:37.Excited. I'm Harrison, nice to meet you.
:11:37. > :11:37.
:11:37. > :11:44.Coming from a spacious four- bedroomed semi- -- semi in 2012,
:11:44. > :11:54.this is a bit of a shock. With the state not lend ago hand until 1976
:11:54. > :11:54.
:11:54. > :11:59.this is all single mothers like Lisa could afford.
:11:59. > :12:04.I'm speechless, to be honest. are you speechless? I thought we
:12:04. > :12:09.might have had a proper cooker, actually. Proper cooker, like
:12:09. > :12:13.that's it, isn't it. That comes on and it heats up the grill. This is
:12:13. > :12:18.where you would do most of the cooking and heating up water, all
:12:18. > :12:22.right. It may not be what the Rhodes family are used to, but
:12:22. > :12:26.landlady Sandra is having none of it. She has lived through worse.
:12:26. > :12:31.Just takes some time to get used to, I know. When we came it was far
:12:31. > :12:37.worse than this, Lisa, trust me. We didn't have wallpaper on the walls,
:12:37. > :12:44.we didn't have carpets, we had filth, actual filth on the walls.
:12:44. > :12:49.We had absolute nothing. It's not very nice, I don't really
:12:49. > :12:56.like t it is a bit tacky, and there is not much things to do. With no
:12:56. > :12:59.other options, Lisa knuckles down to her new life. This is just
:12:59. > :13:05.absolutely disgusting and manky, and I don't like anything like this.
:13:05. > :13:11.So I'm just going to give it a wipe, really, and try to make it a bit
:13:11. > :13:17.cleaner. Because it is minging, if I was at home I would chuck it and
:13:17. > :13:25.buy a new one. But every penny counts when you are a 70s single
:13:25. > :13:30.mum. The rest of the adults of Albert
:13:30. > :13:37.Road are basking in the warm glow of their childhoods, to amusement
:13:37. > :13:42.of their kids. They are the coolest like you could get when you were a
:13:42. > :13:50.kid. In the 70s, children of all classes were united by the new toys
:13:50. > :14:00.that were flooding the market, Action Men, yo-yos, chopper bikes,
:14:00. > :14:01.
:14:01. > :14:06.they were open to everybody. But back upstairs in single mum,
:14:06. > :14:10.Lisa's bet sit, the boys are un-- bedsit, the boys are unimpressed
:14:10. > :14:19.with what's on offer. There is only two games. If you saw my room now,
:14:19. > :14:23.it would have hundreds of toys. I think in the 1970s it was a bit
:14:23. > :14:29.disgusting. With the cramped living space, and
:14:29. > :14:32.cufrpy kids, Lisa is finding -- grumping kids, Lisa is finding
:14:32. > :14:40.cooking convience food rather inconvenient. It is difficult,
:14:40. > :14:43.there is no bloody room anywhere, to be honest. Everything's minging.
:14:43. > :14:51.If we could get the smash right, that will be fun, I haven't a clue
:14:51. > :14:59.what we are doing. Even the instant mash, which for a brief period in
:14:59. > :15:09.the 70s replaced potatoes in every households is difficult to make.
:15:09. > :15:15.
:15:15. > :15:25.I'm not having enough water. There we go, one, two. One single
:15:25. > :15:30.
:15:30. > :15:36.mum's 70s dinner. Do I have to eat all of it? (sings out of tune)
:15:36. > :15:45.door, while Phil relives the golden era of pop, unleashing his Elton
:15:45. > :15:50.John, Susie dives into the chest freezer. I'm not sure my mum fed me
:15:50. > :15:54.these most of the time, she definitely did on occasion. This
:15:54. > :15:58.era of cooking has definitely got easier, but potentially more
:15:58. > :16:06.revolting, I'm not sure what I will be feeding my family. It looks
:16:06. > :16:12.pretty gross to me. You are so bad.
:16:12. > :16:20.# Don't let the sun go down on me I really want to let the sun go
:16:20. > :16:27.down on you and your singing. You're so mad, stop it.
:16:27. > :16:32.Susie's serving up a 70s TV dinner in under 20 minutes. Crispy
:16:32. > :16:42.pancakes, sauteed potatoes and peas, all straight from frozen, but she
:16:42. > :16:50.
:16:50. > :16:58.has overcooked the pancakes. Welcome to It's A Knockout.
:16:58. > :17:04.They stink, it is disgusting. solid, rock. The rose-tinted specs
:17:04. > :17:09.of the 1970s hasn't lasted long, suddenly they are nostalgic for
:17:09. > :17:13.other eras. Have we sat with it on our laps before? This is the first
:17:14. > :17:19.time. That was the best thing about 1910, was we sat round the table
:17:19. > :17:22.and talked about it. This is much more anti-social than the last eras.
:17:22. > :17:28.You don't say anything, you are engrossed with the television.
:17:28. > :17:31.it is like 2012. This is our house. This isn't just, I'm not just
:17:32. > :17:36.talking about us, I'm talking about everyone.
:17:37. > :17:41.As night falls on Albert Road, single mum, Lisa, reflects on her
:17:41. > :17:45.first day on the street. Being in the 70s totally different than how
:17:45. > :17:49.I expected it, bit shocked about the accommodation. Absolutely
:17:49. > :17:59.knackered, it has been very hard work. I can certainly tell you I'm
:17:59. > :18:07.
:18:07. > :18:15.ready for my bed. Morecambe Bay, on a Monday morning.
:18:15. > :18:19.And time for the kids to go to school. For the past 60 years, 15-
:18:19. > :18:24.year-old Genevieve has been classed as an adult, and had to work for a
:18:24. > :18:30.living. From assisting her mum in her Edwardian laundry business, to
:18:30. > :18:33.domestic service in the 1920s, to working as a 1960s shop girl. But
:18:33. > :18:38.in 1792 the school leaving age was raised to 16, which means it is
:18:38. > :18:47.back to school for Genevieve, and back to being a child. Having to go
:18:47. > :18:54.to school, like a child again, it's quite strange. Saskia's going too,
:18:54. > :19:02.but as a reluctant Teaching Assistant. I don't really like
:19:02. > :19:06.young kids, so, it will be interesting. I heard they used to
:19:06. > :19:15.have punishment, so you could hit them with the cane and the slipper,
:19:15. > :19:18.so I'm taking one! In fact, for the first time, all the women of Albert
:19:18. > :19:28.Road will be working. Lisa is no exception, which means her lads
:19:28. > :19:29.
:19:29. > :19:33.will be making their own way to school. Lisa has a job at a local
:19:33. > :19:40.cafe. While Adele is following in the footsteps of her mum, who was a
:19:40. > :19:45.district nurse in the 1970s, not far removed from her modern day job
:19:45. > :19:53.as an A&E nurse. Now I'm moving into the realm of having a career.
:19:53. > :19:57.This appeals. Adele's husband, Michael, is following in his
:19:57. > :20:03.father's foot steps, working on the building site as a joiner. The kids
:20:03. > :20:13.are on their way to school. Helped across the busy roads by suss
:20:13. > :20:17.
:20:17. > :20:21.circumstance the resident lollipop lady. -- Susie, the resident
:20:21. > :20:26.lollipop lady. The only person still at home is Susie's husband,
:20:26. > :20:34.Phil Meadows. He should be working as dratsman, just like his father,
:20:34. > :20:37.Ronald, but he's being forced to stay at home. On January 1st,
:20:37. > :20:40.1974Ted Heath's Conservative Government introduced a three-day
:20:40. > :20:45.working week. Two years of industrial action by the coal
:20:45. > :20:49.miners and rocky oil prices had created a nationwide energy crisis.
:20:49. > :20:52.To keep the country from grind to go halt, all businesses, except
:20:52. > :20:57.shops and those essential to the life of the country, would receive
:20:57. > :21:00.electricity for just three days a week. And men like Phil, only
:21:00. > :21:07.receiving three days pay, found themselves out of pocket and at a
:21:07. > :21:12.loose end. Historian, Juliet, is dropping by
:21:12. > :21:17.to check in on Phil. Hello Phil, how are you, doing some washing up?
:21:17. > :21:23.A little bit. Why is that? Well all the family disappeared off. So
:21:23. > :21:29.someone has to do it. So you are doing it. Been at it for a while.
:21:29. > :21:33.So here we are. Three-day week. Did you experience that at all, can you
:21:33. > :21:39.remember anything about your father? He went to work in a suit
:21:39. > :21:43.and white shirt and tie. I remember him hanging about a bit. I got the
:21:43. > :21:48.feeling he was on a three-day week, he was private sector, not public
:21:48. > :21:54.sector, I don't know if it affected that those people. I think he was
:21:54. > :21:58.on a three-day week. The idea of the three-day week was to conserve
:21:58. > :22:01.electricity so coal just didn't run out. Everybody was subjected to the
:22:01. > :22:05.three-day week. How do you think you are going to spend your time,
:22:05. > :22:10.what do you think you might do? would be quite difficult to fill
:22:10. > :22:16.your time, without spending money. That's the poifrpbt. I would do --
:22:16. > :22:24.The point. I would do a lot of running the household, do a bit of
:22:24. > :22:30.washing and cooking and hoovering. So the two days you have off will
:22:30. > :22:38.be busy than those at work. You're not an idle man? No. While Phil is
:22:38. > :22:46.at home, some of the women are well into the working day. Do you have a
:22:46. > :22:50.chocolate milkshake? I can find out. Do we have chocolate milkshake? Yes.
:22:50. > :22:54.Coming to work I'm lucky to have a job I can fit around the children
:22:54. > :22:58.at school. In the 1970 women's wages were low, many earning 35%
:22:58. > :23:03.less than men in the same job. Single mothers, who also had to
:23:03. > :23:07.struggle to find childcare, faced huge financial problems. A 1974
:23:07. > :23:11.report found they were worse off than any other group in the
:23:11. > :23:15.population. Five years ago Gary's father left home, Gary, now 12, is
:23:15. > :23:19.the man of the family n a house where there's no money, no food, no
:23:19. > :23:23.clothes to spare, only the dull necessities of life, day in, day
:23:23. > :23:27.out. They had meagre benefits, and no guarantee of support from absent
:23:27. > :23:31.fathers, without expensive court proceedings. Dorothy's children,
:23:31. > :23:35.brought up on social security in Britain today, are still doubly
:23:35. > :23:40.deprived, first of pride, scrounger is a term they are familiar with,
:23:40. > :23:47.they also lack a father's care. Like her 70s counterparts, Lisa's
:23:47. > :23:52.feeling the pinch. For the bedsit, for me and the two children, it is
:23:52. > :23:58.�8.50 a week. I do actually get �3 off the Government. By the time we
:23:58. > :24:02.have paid the rent and the bills. I think -- and the bills, I think we
:24:02. > :24:09.have about �1 a day to live on, that means your food and clothes
:24:09. > :24:14.and everything else the kids need. Adele, heading home after her shift
:24:14. > :24:19.at the local hospital, is confident in the knowledge that the Taylors
:24:19. > :24:23.have two incomes to support them, or so she thinks. With industrial
:24:23. > :24:27.action sweeping the country, there is a surprise in store. Michael
:24:27. > :24:32.Taylor's father, John, worked in the construction industry in the
:24:32. > :24:37.1970, and now, just as his father did in 1972 Michael has downed
:24:37. > :24:42.tools and gone on strike. The start of the decade saw nearly half the
:24:42. > :24:45.entire working population of Britain a member of a union. In
:24:45. > :24:53.1972 disputes over better pay and conditions brought the workers to
:24:53. > :24:57.the picket line. Get out, get out. Once again, there has been no work
:24:57. > :25:02.on the building sites today. The men who are staying out, claim they
:25:02. > :25:07.are no better off now, after last week's national settlement, than
:25:07. > :25:11.they were when the strike began 11 weeks ago. Hello, are you all right.
:25:11. > :25:15.What are you doing home? We are on strike until further notice. That
:25:15. > :25:19.is a bit brave. I don't know what is going to happen. How long are
:25:19. > :25:24.you striking for? I don't know. you get paid if you are on strike.
:25:24. > :25:29.No, don't get any pay. So I don't know what will happen. That is
:25:29. > :25:34.worse, if you don't get paid. don't know how it will last. I will
:25:34. > :25:38.take extra shifts if you are not working. I will become a man of
:25:38. > :25:43.leisure. No, the man of the house, there is a big difference. Lisa is
:25:43. > :25:50.home too she's struggling with the ancient boiler. There is no hot
:25:50. > :25:55.water at all. She would normally call out a plumber, instead Lisa
:25:55. > :25:59.pays a visit to her landlady. to bother you, I can't seem to get
:25:59. > :26:09.the hot water to work, can you come and have a look for you. OK, I will
:26:09. > :26:13.
:26:13. > :26:19.have a quick look. Have you tried running it. We have a problem as
:26:19. > :26:22.well. That's blocked. What else is going wrong? It is hard isn't t I
:26:22. > :26:32.find it hard, I didn't have a husband from when they were small,
:26:32. > :26:33.
:26:33. > :26:43.he left me early on. I had to learn to do it all by myself. Oh, what is
:26:43. > :26:44.
:26:44. > :26:48.that? What is that? Already. Already? Teabags. Screw that back
:26:48. > :26:54.on. Yes mum, well done. Well done ladies, girl power! Whilst the
:26:54. > :26:57.women get on with it, down the road at number 3, Michael Taylor is on
:26:57. > :27:07.strike. His mum and dad are visiting, to talk about the
:27:07. > :27:11.realities of their life in the 70s. Hello, come in. It's lovely. Dad,
:27:11. > :27:16.John, joined the construction workers' strike in 1972, to demand
:27:17. > :27:23.a minimum wage of �30 a week. how long, dad, did you actually
:27:23. > :27:27.stay off over the strike period? About four weeks. Continuous.
:27:27. > :27:33.nothing for four weeks. Your union says you are striking, does
:27:33. > :27:37.everybody have to strike? No. you don't you wouldn't be popular.
:27:37. > :27:40.We weren't militant people, we wanted a fair day's work for a fair
:27:40. > :27:43.day's pay. If you look at the conditions of the building trade,
:27:43. > :27:47.there was more people killed in the building trade than down the mines.
:27:47. > :27:51.There were lots of accidents, the health and safety was non-existant.
:27:51. > :27:57.We just got a young family, a big mortgage, so it was a frightening
:27:57. > :28:03.time. You don't know where the bread will come from. What happened
:28:03. > :28:08.if you went and you got, if at some point it had gone on, you would
:28:08. > :28:11.have got to the point where you couldn't have gone on? I just
:28:11. > :28:14.managed on the family allowance, on a Tuesday I would go down to the
:28:14. > :28:18.Post Office and get the family allowance, that would pay for some
:28:18. > :28:22.of the food for all week. Then I used to borrow a fiver off my mum
:28:22. > :28:26.on a Monday, and pay it back on a Friday. I was skint and broke. We
:28:26. > :28:29.didn't go out because we had young children, if you had babysitter it
:28:29. > :28:32.would cost you money to go out. You played out in the street, you were
:28:32. > :28:37.always playing out on the street. That is what I remember, bombing
:28:37. > :28:43.through the house, getting a jam butty, and out through the door,
:28:43. > :28:51.not closing anything behind you, mum, jam butty and off down the re
:28:51. > :28:54.c. They don't like kids having jam butties now! Look what happened!
:28:54. > :28:58.The children of Albert Road, are oblivious to the troubles of their
:28:58. > :29:04.parents. With no computer games or social networking to entertain them,
:29:04. > :29:09.they are playing out on the street. Unsupervised. Today, only 40% of
:29:09. > :29:14.kids play outside, compared to 72% of the kids who grew up in the
:29:14. > :29:20.1970s. It gets less rules as the eras go on. This year is the best,
:29:20. > :29:25.you have most of the time outside, you are not stuffed up inside and
:29:25. > :29:32.all that. A sailor went to sea sea sea. Mum doesn't normally let us
:29:32. > :29:42.out to run off on our own. She normally has a safety area, near
:29:42. > :29:42.
:29:42. > :29:52.her. I do feel like I have more freedom. Because we can do what we
:29:52. > :29:53.
:29:53. > :29:58.want, because we're outside. As the sunsets over Morecambe, in number 2
:29:59. > :30:06.Albert Road, Susie is making the most of her husband's free time.
:30:06. > :30:14.She wants Phil to connect with his spiritual side. Look what she's
:30:14. > :30:19.doing now. I know, you used to be able to do it all. Ow, ow, ow!
:30:19. > :30:23.What's she doing now. Eastern mysticism, popularised by groups
:30:23. > :30:28.like the Beatles, was all the rage for Britains in search of their
:30:28. > :30:38.inner hippy. It is really bad on the back, does that hurt? I can't
:30:38. > :30:40.
:30:40. > :30:50.do it. I continuity do it! I have never known that can't cross their
:30:50. > :30:53.
:30:53. > :30:57.legs on the floor! I can't. A new day, and while the men of the
:30:57. > :31:06.street are suffering the effects of the industrial unrest, the women
:31:06. > :31:12.are preoccupied by a very different phenomenon. The demands are for 24-
:31:12. > :31:15.hour nurseries, for equal pay now, equal job and education
:31:15. > :31:18.opportunities, and free contraception and abortion on
:31:18. > :31:22.demand, and on the National Health Service. It wasn't just the workers
:31:22. > :31:27.who took to the streets to fight for their rights, women did too.
:31:27. > :31:35.The women's liberation movement had arrived. And house work was under
:31:35. > :31:45.fire. # We're universal house wives # And we are really to blame
:31:45. > :31:47.
:31:47. > :31:52.# If we accept this bondage any more
:31:52. > :31:58.At the Meadows house, Susie is sampling a 70s classic, as a guide
:31:58. > :32:08.to avoid house work without guilt. Number one, don't wear nail varnish.
:32:08. > :32:12.If life gets unbearable, don't wash up at all. I think in the 70s I can
:32:12. > :32:18.imagine women wanting to assert themselves a bit more. Books like
:32:18. > :32:22.this gave women the idea that they could actually do it. That was sort
:32:22. > :32:26.of permission that women could take the lead and decide for themselves.
:32:26. > :32:36.I don't think they had ever thought that they had that opportunity
:32:36. > :32:37.
:32:37. > :32:40.before. A woman's work is never done. For me, this is the first
:32:41. > :32:47.time in any of the eras where I have actually got to do stuff like
:32:47. > :32:51.this. That would have been as it was in true life during those
:32:52. > :32:55.periods, I think. I don't think the guy did very much. It was women's
:32:55. > :32:59.work to put the hoover on and to dust, and to clean and do the
:32:59. > :33:03.washing up and the washing. That was definitely women's work. I
:33:03. > :33:08.think this was maybe the start of the change, where it became more of
:33:08. > :33:12.a shared job to look after the household in general. The 1970 saw
:33:12. > :33:16.a transformation in men's domestic lives, as 70% of professional men
:33:16. > :33:23.began helping with cooking, cleaning and childcare. I made more
:33:23. > :33:27.mess than I started with. I'm not going to verbatim do all the things
:33:27. > :33:36.that I'm asked to by Shirley Conran, I will pick things that I want to
:33:36. > :33:42.take out of these books. I'm quite happy to sit here and reed, while
:33:42. > :33:47.Phil brings me a cup of tea -- read, while Phil brings me a cup of tea.
:33:47. > :33:55.In the Taylor home, temporary house husband, Michael, is now in charge
:33:55. > :34:02.of the domestic chores. With a hungry family to feed, he's called
:34:02. > :34:12.on gadget geek Joe, for help, who has come armed with his Cold War
:34:12. > :34:17.cooking book. This is the action cook book. He wrote lots of spy
:34:17. > :34:22.novels, it is macho stuff. Men in the kitchen, making it more
:34:22. > :34:26.acceptable. Lots of things to look at, lots of macho language,
:34:26. > :34:30.stabbing bits of meat, and synchronising watches for timing.
:34:30. > :34:40.It is all very spy and thriller stuff. It is my sort of cook book,
:34:40. > :34:46.
:34:46. > :34:51.it seems straight forward with the pictures. What do you reckon Megan?
:34:51. > :34:56.(she whistles). Thank you! Action cook book in hand, it is chicken
:34:56. > :35:06.Kiev tonight on Michael's menu. This is man's job, bash the hell
:35:06. > :35:16.
:35:16. > :35:23.out of the chicken. Whack it in. They can be cooling. Hello. Hello.
:35:23. > :35:28.Hi mum. I'm pleased there is no fire engines. Do you want to go
:35:28. > :35:38.through the lounge and I will pass you a cup of tea. You have got the
:35:38. > :35:45.apron on. Dead sexy, me. What does mum cook? Tinned stuff. What does
:35:45. > :35:48.dad cook? Proper stuff! This looks incredible. That is very nice,
:35:48. > :35:55.actually, Michael. I do appreciate the effort, you have done a very
:35:55. > :36:02.good job. I'm glad you like it. don't like it t I love it. Up the
:36:02. > :36:08.road, Susie Meadows has also been busy. She's hosting a 1970s soir
:36:08. > :36:12.ray for the street, with no men allowed. What can I get you?
:36:12. > :36:15.pints of bitter, please, and some nuts, if possible. Susie is not
:36:15. > :36:19.just being sociable, though. If you would like to all come to the other
:36:19. > :36:29.end of the room, we have a tupperware layout, feel free to
:36:29. > :36:32.pick them up, touch them, be one with your tupperware. Tupperware
:36:32. > :36:37.parties took off in this era, offering a totally new way for
:36:37. > :36:42.women to make money. While it took a brilliant male chemist, Earl
:36:42. > :36:46.Tupper, to invent tupperware in the 1940s, it was single mother,
:36:46. > :36:49.Brownie Wise, who turned it into a worldwide phenomenon. For millions
:36:49. > :36:54.of women who started to sell it to friends and nairbs, it offered the
:36:54. > :36:59.first chance -- neighbours, it offered the first chance to set up
:36:59. > :37:04.business. All the water goes out, and you tip it straight in. Oiled
:37:04. > :37:09.by the 70s classic, Blue Nun, and Liebfraumilch, the women of Albert
:37:09. > :37:13.Road are getting down to the important business of shopping. The
:37:13. > :37:18.hard sell was concealed by social niceties of quizs and games, women
:37:18. > :37:24.loved it. I say a word, and you answer what usually goes with it.
:37:24. > :37:29.For instance, if I say salt, you say, pepper. They used to play
:37:29. > :37:34.games at tupperware parties, if you were going to advertise your
:37:34. > :37:38.husband, what would you put as the selling points. "man available,
:37:38. > :37:43.well fed, Squidgy around the edges, makes him huggable and saves on
:37:43. > :37:48.heating bills, excellent with children and interior decorator and
:37:48. > :37:55.handyman, snazzy dresser, and excellent sense of humour, needs
:37:55. > :37:58.some work". I'll see you in the divorce court! Down at the working
:37:58. > :38:02.mens' club, Phil and Michael have settled in for the evening. So they
:38:02. > :38:06.are doing a tupperware party, Phil. We have a full on, there is about
:38:06. > :38:10.nearly 15 women round my house, can you imagine the noise. Loads of
:38:10. > :38:13.wine. I think there is more to it, myself. I don't know what's going
:38:13. > :38:20.on. I can't see why they are getting so excited about a bit of
:38:20. > :38:27.plastic, I don't get it. I'm very suspicious. I must admit I'm
:38:27. > :38:30.feeling a bit emasculated, I'm house keeping, I'm home keeping. I
:38:30. > :38:35.don't mind doing it for a little while, I think it might get a bit
:38:35. > :38:41.dull after a while. I don't mind it, I cooked dinner, it was quite nice.
:38:41. > :38:45.What did you cook? Chicken a la Kiev. Out of a fact? No, straight
:38:45. > :38:49.up. What will scare a man out of a house more, than a load of plastic,
:38:49. > :38:53.talking about cooking, they are gone, and nobody said we want you
:38:53. > :38:57.to leave, they volunteered to leave. I think they kind of use it as a
:38:57. > :39:01.little bit of a get together for a chat of all sorts of things,
:39:01. > :39:05.women's rights, burning bras. and Michael are in pursuit of their
:39:05. > :39:11.lost masculinity, with the help of another popular phenomenon of the
:39:11. > :39:15.1970s. Images of women that would have
:39:15. > :39:22.been considered obscene a few decades earlier, became a part of
:39:22. > :39:28.every day life in the 70s. The Sun Newspaper introduced page 3 girls
:39:28. > :39:36.to the nation. And the Miss World beauty contest brought semi-clad
:39:36. > :39:40.women into the living room. Miss Belgium. Throughout the 60s and 70s,
:39:40. > :39:50.Miss World was the BBC's most popular programme of the year.
:39:50. > :39:50.
:39:50. > :40:00.Often pulling in around 30 million viewers. She's quite nice. Easy
:40:00. > :40:03.
:40:03. > :40:06.there Phil! They are so young. while many injoyed it, the women's
:40:06. > :40:10.movement took -- enjoyed it, the women's movement took it on as as
:40:11. > :40:15.you for protest. Proceedings have been temporarily suspended, the
:40:15. > :40:18.interruption, unwelcome though it is to the organisers, isn't all to
:40:18. > :40:25.the unexpected. Now Miss World continues to this day, it stopped
:40:25. > :40:29.being screened to millions in the 1980s. Susie Meadows's tupperware
:40:29. > :40:39.party is in full swing, but it is about to be sabotaged by the
:40:39. > :40:40.
:40:41. > :40:50.playing of the 70s. A couple of tips for dancing.
:40:51. > :40:51.
:40:51. > :40:57.Oh, power cut. A power cut. With power cuts up and down the country
:40:57. > :41:01.becoming almost a daily occurrance, in some parts of the country.
:41:01. > :41:04.rather where industrial disputes continued to rage, oil supplies
:41:04. > :41:09.dwindled and energy prices soared. The Government was forced to ration
:41:09. > :41:14.power. The power cuts, some of which lasted up to nine hours at a
:41:14. > :41:17.time, came to define the decade. But having lived through far worse
:41:17. > :41:22.in the Blitz 30 years earlier, British families soon learned to
:41:22. > :41:26.just get on with it. It is really weird not having power, it is kind
:41:26. > :41:31.of like there is nothing we can do about it. It kind of puts you in a
:41:31. > :41:36.state of helplessness. Clearly, you know how to light a candle. You
:41:36. > :41:41.have to be very, very careful, maybe I'm being patronising. It is
:41:41. > :41:49.not a toy or game. One of the risks is the candle toppling over, make
:41:49. > :41:59.sure it is quite secure. We need to move this. So, that's not what to
:41:59. > :42:01.
:42:01. > :42:04.do! You moan at us. This is how you handle a candle! So when we are
:42:04. > :42:09.going to bed, we will take one into the bed.
:42:09. > :42:14.It is a new day on Albert Road, and having gone to bed without
:42:14. > :42:24.electricity, the families have woken up to another unwelcome
:42:24. > :42:27.
:42:27. > :42:31.discovery. No water. No bloody water. The water is not working.
:42:31. > :42:35.First the power cut, now the water isn't working. I have just been to
:42:35. > :42:40.the loo and I can't even flush the loo because there is no water, I
:42:40. > :42:46.couldn't wash my hands. Disgusting. I'm not touching you. Do not touch
:42:46. > :42:52.my body. I wouldn't neither, to be honest. No, they have turned the
:42:52. > :42:56.water off already. We have tonnes of washing up from yesterday.
:42:56. > :43:00.maybe we should have done it yesterday, darling. Maybe we should
:43:00. > :43:05.have done, straight after the party. You can't leave me washing up from
:43:05. > :43:09.a women's meeting to do, that is taking the mick, big time. I don't
:43:09. > :43:13.think it is about that, Phil. I think it is sharing and caring.
:43:13. > :43:19.is not sharing and caring, if you want to have the tupperware
:43:19. > :43:23.Liberation Front round here, you can do your own washing up. This
:43:23. > :43:29.country is now in one of the worst periods of drought since records
:43:29. > :43:36.began 200 years ago. During the long hot summer of 1974,
:43:36. > :43:41.the country was hit by a -- 1976, the country was hit by a water
:43:41. > :43:45.shortage, when reservoirs ran dry, and it became another thing that
:43:45. > :43:53.families had to do about. The authorities did something far more
:43:53. > :43:58.drastic. It is the water thing. Water rationing. To ensure they
:43:58. > :44:02.protect the limited reserves of water, there will be no direct
:44:03. > :44:06.supplies to homes and businesses in the affected areas. It is over
:44:06. > :44:11.there. What is it? It is a standpipe. So you have to go up,
:44:11. > :44:21.fill your kettle, and then boil it, and then that's the water you use.
:44:21. > :44:21.
:44:21. > :44:27.Right, come on then. Can I go out to get it? We will all go.
:44:27. > :44:32.This is the way water will be rationed, the pressure will be
:44:32. > :44:35.reduce, so the water will reach the standpipe, but not the houses. The
:44:35. > :44:39.authorities will then control the time it is available, and, if
:44:39. > :44:47.necessary, cut it off all together. All the families are having to
:44:47. > :44:54.adjust to this new hardship. enjoying this at all. Oh dear. It
:44:54. > :45:00.is like being back in the 1900s, with better clothes. This water
:45:00. > :45:04.looking minging, it has all sorts of things floating in it. If the
:45:04. > :45:09.families are going to get through this, house rules need to change.
:45:10. > :45:14.If you have a wee, then we won't worry about it, we will leave it
:45:14. > :45:18.until the end of the day. Or if you need a number two, go somewhere
:45:18. > :45:23.else. Go next door. When we do have water and we have a bath, we keep
:45:23. > :45:30.the bath water to put down the toilet. We don't get the water out
:45:30. > :45:40.of the toilet? No we put it down the toilet. I thought you meant get
:45:40. > :45:44.
:45:44. > :45:52.the water out the toilet to drink. I was like, not recycling like that.
:45:52. > :45:55.After the long hot summer, comes a cold bleak winter. As the 70s
:45:55. > :45:59.ground on, 1978 brought the "Winter of Discontent", with yet more
:45:59. > :46:04.strikes and shortages, and every family began to feel the pressure.
:46:04. > :46:10.I wonder about food, are they going to, because everybody's going to be
:46:10. > :46:14.worrying that it will affect food, surely do we not need to stockpile
:46:14. > :46:19.the cupboards. Yes, but as I'm on strike and not working, how much
:46:19. > :46:25.money have we got to go and buy food? True. It is worrying times
:46:25. > :46:29.the fact we don't know when I will be going back to work, our income
:46:29. > :46:34.has halved, if not more, so we are just going to have to cut our cloth
:46:34. > :46:38.accordingly. In an attempt to check rampent inflation, and keep down
:46:38. > :46:42.rising unemployment, the Government introduced a pay freeze for public
:46:42. > :46:48.sector staff. Many stopped work all together, making it the biggest
:46:48. > :46:57.labour stoppage since the general strike of 1926. Transport workers,
:46:57. > :47:00.hospital staff, grave diggers and binmen, all joined the picket line.
:47:00. > :47:05.On Albert Road, the bin bags are piling up, and the effects are
:47:05. > :47:09.being felt by our families. come we have so much rubbish
:47:09. > :47:16.outside? Everybody has put the rubbish out for bin day, and nobody
:47:16. > :47:20.will collect it today by the looks of it. There is loads of it, isn't
:47:20. > :47:30.there? Adele calls a residents meeting. Look at that, you don't
:47:30. > :47:32.
:47:32. > :47:38.want that outside your house, it is disgusting. What a mess. Rotting
:47:38. > :47:43.rubbish. We need to obviously sort out the rubbish, we will end up
:47:43. > :47:48.with rats if we don't get cleared. It seems daft we all take it. I
:47:48. > :47:51.don't know, Michael's on strike at this minute with the builders'
:47:51. > :47:55.union, I'm not sure if everybody else is striking, I don't know if
:47:55. > :48:03.you are working Phil, you are still working you are not on strike?
:48:03. > :48:08.you working today Phil?...yeah! you know what, I don't care how you
:48:08. > :48:12.do it guys. Just get it done. not just the women of Albert Road
:48:12. > :48:16.who have had enough. This was a turning point for the people of
:48:16. > :48:20.Britain. The country had ground to a halt, and the Government appeared
:48:20. > :48:26.to have lost control. With the nation desperate for change, it was
:48:26. > :48:29.a woman who seized the opportunity. In March 1979, the Conservative
:48:29. > :48:36.opposition leader, Margaret Thatcher, called for a vote of no
:48:36. > :48:40.confidence. Wave up there at the cameras.
:48:40. > :48:47.The Labour Government lost by just one vote, and a general election
:48:47. > :48:53.was called. Sandra's son, Jonathan, has arrived back, just in time, for
:48:53. > :48:59.the historic vote. Who will the families chose? Going to vote,
:48:59. > :49:06.Jonathan? I think I might. Are you undecided? I am. With all that's
:49:06. > :49:11.going on, and you are going to vote the same party back in? Yeah, but?
:49:11. > :49:14.They are all the same. Maybe it's time to give women a go, if this
:49:14. > :49:17.will be our first female Prime Minister, maybe a woman Prime
:49:17. > :49:20.Minister might have her head screwed on and we might get
:49:20. > :49:25.something done. Margaret Thatcher was the first woman in Britain to
:49:25. > :49:28.lead a political party, she was also a wife and mother of two.
:49:28. > :49:32.is the interest of a blonde at Number Ten, that every television
:49:32. > :49:36.station with a film crew is in London. We have always been very
:49:36. > :49:43.lucky, and the number of people have been so loyal. You are all
:49:43. > :49:48.dressed up looking lovely. Michael Taylor, son of a loyal trade
:49:48. > :49:51.unionist, is struggling to decide where his political loyalties lie.
:49:51. > :49:57.I am considering voting for Margaret Thatcher. My dad, who is a
:49:57. > :50:03.very union man, is a bit of a clash. I'm tired of being pushed from
:50:03. > :50:08.pillar to post with the strike, I'm tired of not knowing what's going
:50:08. > :50:11.to happen, I'm tired of having to take the rubbish to the tip. I'm
:50:11. > :50:18.tired of the electricity shortages. I think this Government is just not
:50:18. > :50:25.running the country very well. I think it's time for change. In the
:50:25. > :50:29.capital polling has been heavy, with weather to entice out the not
:50:29. > :50:33.fervent voter. Some don't need encouraging, one official found an
:50:33. > :50:36.eager queue of his polling station before he unlocked the doors, it
:50:36. > :50:42.was the first time for 30 years that has happened. This election is
:50:42. > :50:47.a first for the 18-year-old Saskia. I want Margaret Thatcher to be our
:50:47. > :50:52.Prime Minister, because it's a woman and it will allow, and will
:50:52. > :51:02.help more women get into the parliament and all sorts. But I
:51:02. > :51:08.
:51:08. > :51:15.want what the labour are saying. I voted for Labour. I voted
:51:15. > :51:22.Conservative. Conservative. I voted for The Iron Lady herself. I voted
:51:22. > :51:27.Thatcher I voted for a lady, and women will do better than others.
:51:27. > :51:32.She seemed someone who would not could you to you to the unions.
:51:32. > :51:40.wanted all three, I'm not allowed. The 1969 general election saw a
:51:40. > :51:48.massive turnout, with more than 75% of the electorate voting. On Albert
:51:48. > :51:55.Road, it is the dawn of a new era for our families. Heard the news?
:51:55. > :51:58.I'm pleased she's in. Her Majesty the Queen has asked me to form a
:51:58. > :52:07.new administration, and I have accepted. For the first time, a
:52:07. > :52:11.wife and mother is in charge at Number Ten. All the fight for
:52:11. > :52:19.equality and to have a women as Prime Minister, that is a fantastic,
:52:19. > :52:26.it ends a decade for women, doesn't it. We need that Iron Lady
:52:26. > :52:32.tendencies to bring us out of what is a complete slump and depression.
:52:32. > :52:39.Listen to all the people booing. I'm quite pleased. But not everyone
:52:39. > :52:44.is convinced that a woman's touch will be good for the nation.
:52:44. > :52:51.you vote for her? No, it is not good news for the single mum is
:52:51. > :52:59.that. Margaret Thatcher is very much about making the rich richer
:52:59. > :53:09.and the poor poorer. With her in power I will go out and find myself
:53:09. > :53:12.
:53:12. > :53:16.a rich fella, that's it. As the 1970s roll into the 1980s,
:53:17. > :53:20.and Thatcherism takes hold, the journey is almost over for the
:53:20. > :53:24.families of Albert Road. But before they return to the 21st century,
:53:24. > :53:27.there is time for a final celebration for the street's
:53:27. > :53:32.residents. The Golden Calf family, who left after the Second World War
:53:32. > :53:37.have returned to join the festivities, marking the next great
:53:37. > :53:44.historical event for Britain, the royal wedding of 1981. So what did
:53:44. > :53:49.they make of the final era? from a woman's perspective it has
:53:49. > :53:55.got ease yes, we have been more liberated this era, I don't feel as
:53:55. > :53:59.though I have a struggle any more. It felt really weird being my dad,
:53:59. > :54:03.I never realised stuff by b my father, that he actually was a big
:54:03. > :54:07.part -- about my father, and he was actually a big part of the union
:54:07. > :54:15.and how difficult it was for him within that time. I think, yeah,
:54:15. > :54:21.the 70s was made you realise what is important, what is not. I have
:54:21. > :54:31.enjoyed the most being a kid again, because for the last, all of the
:54:31. > :54:42.
:54:43. > :54:49.eras, I have been an adult, now It is time to say goodbye for the
:54:49. > :54:56.families in Albert Road. Juliet and Susan that are on hand to find out
:54:56. > :54:59.which era was best for family life. Thank you for taking part in this
:54:59. > :55:04.extraordinary project, you and your families have gone an accelerated
:55:04. > :55:07.journey through the best part of 100 years of British life. You have
:55:07. > :55:13.endured everything that history has had to throw at you. But what did
:55:13. > :55:17.our families make of their journey through time? The Taylors stepped
:55:18. > :55:21.back into the comfort of the upper middle-class life, once enjoyed by
:55:21. > :55:25.Michael's great, great, great grandfather. Just about to go back
:55:26. > :55:32.to the 21st century, for the family, do you think it is the past, or the
:55:32. > :55:35.present, that is going to be the best time? For us all the 1900s
:55:35. > :55:40.were very hard, we were separated completely, I was a single bloke by
:55:40. > :55:43.all means, Adele was just in the drawing room with Megan, and Megan
:55:43. > :55:50.really struggled to be a young adult, when really her heart is
:55:50. > :55:55.wanting to be a child. Every year that has gone on, people understood
:55:55. > :56:00.children more, we were given more of a voice and allowed to do more
:56:00. > :56:04.things, kids' music and programmes, children were recognised more.
:56:04. > :56:09.Newcomers Sandra Hawkes and her children arrived in Albert Road in
:56:09. > :56:16.the 1960s to face prejudice and squalor. But an unwelcome reception
:56:16. > :56:21.and squalid conditions did nothing to break their strong family ties.
:56:21. > :56:25.History has raised ourself esteem, and made us who we are, -- self-
:56:25. > :56:28.esteem, and made us who we are, families are about being there when
:56:28. > :56:33.times are really hard and being there and supporting each other.
:56:33. > :56:38.Family hug, I'm proud. What did single mum Lisa make of living in
:56:38. > :56:43.the past? Personally, I haven't missed the mobile phone, I haven't
:56:43. > :56:47.missed the television, I haven't missed any of those home comforts.
:56:47. > :56:52.Neither have I. I think the kids have enjoyed the freedom of being
:56:52. > :56:56.able to go-to-get-up-and-go outside. The Meadows family returned to
:56:56. > :57:01.Phil's ancestor's working-class roots. For Phil, this meant going
:57:01. > :57:07.cap-in-hand for labouring work, while Susie and the girls were
:57:07. > :57:12.forced to skivvy for their well-to- do neighbours. Which is better for
:57:12. > :57:16.family, the past or present life. The earlyly 1900s was the hardest
:57:16. > :57:21.as a family, but saying that, it still managed to bring us closer,
:57:21. > :57:26.and work better as a team, as a unite. As a family. So we all
:57:26. > :57:31.became really close to each other. Family life for me, I would choose
:57:31. > :57:37.2012 and the life that we have over what I have lived through. Because,
:57:37. > :57:44.as a working-class family in the first three eras, it was damn hard.
:57:44. > :57:51.In 2012, we have got every opportunity, and more fool us if we
:57:51. > :57:56.don't capitalise on those, and make sure we have a happy life. I'm sad
:57:56. > :58:04.to say it is time to say goodbye to each other and to Albert Road, and