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Meet the Ellis family.

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Lesley, John, Caitlin,

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Freya, and Harvey.

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This Bradford family of five are about to embark on

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a time travelling adventure...

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It's 1925.

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..to discover how changing food eaten in the north of England...

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That is Scouse.

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..can reveal what life was like...

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SHE COUGHS

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-I think perhaps I do need to work on my frying technique.

-SHE LAUGHS

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..for working-class families over the past century.

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-I think it's just potato pie.

-I think so.

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-Chicken feet!

-Urgh!

-Urgh!

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From regional classics...

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Pan haggerty for tea.

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We'll have two chip nans.

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..to dishes that expanded our horizons.

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I'm so happy. Honestly, this is, like, amazing.

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The Ellises' own home is their time machine,

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transporting them through a different era each week.

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It's 1985.

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They'll experience the ups... THEY SCREAM

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-..and downs...

-What the heck is tripe?

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..of work...

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This is so hot!

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..rest...

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GUNSHOT ..and play...

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THEY LAUGH

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..as they fast forward through 100 years

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of northern history...

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..and still get back in time for tea.

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ENGINE STARTS

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The Ellis family are about to enter their third decade of time travel.

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Their house has been transformed into a family home of the 1960s.

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The kitchen features new and colourful plastics,

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giving it a modern look.

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The living room is more comfortable,

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with telly and hi-fi as standard,

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and the garden has changed from a functional yard

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to a place of leisure.

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Social historian Polly Russell and I are heading to set the stage

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for the Ellises' journey into the 1960s.

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-Wow.

-Wow.

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That's very different, isn't it?

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There's a subtle pattern, if you look closely at the wallpaper,

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you can just... I mean, that's just what jumps out.

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There's a lot going on, isn't there?

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There is. The rooms before were sort of dwellings,

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-but this is like a home, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-It's comfortable.

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They've replaced an actual coal fire

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with one that looks a bit like one...

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-No dirt.

-..but in plastic.

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You can dust it. Let's have a look at the kitchen.

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Look. Ooh!

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-Oh, I like this.

-Yeah.

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We think about the 1960s as being a sort of time of

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big technological change, sort of sci-fi, you know, monorails.

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Actually, in Britain, particularly in the homes of working people,

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kitchens are still pretty basic. There's no fitted kitchen,

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there's no washing machine at this point, there's still no fridge.

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That's why it looks bigger, cos there's not much in it.

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-There's nothing in it, yeah.

-Food-wise, I'm excited.

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-Can we look in the pantry?

-Yeah.

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Always my favourite moment.

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CUPBOARD CREAKS Oh, haunted!

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Oh, look! Mothers Pride.

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I remember Mothers Pride, delicious white sliced bread.

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Look, there's more brands, straight away.

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Bird's Custard, Corn Flakes.

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I mean, this isn't that different from my pantry at home.

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I mean, look.

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Oh, the stuff of joy, salad cream.

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You're too posh for salad cream, aren't you?

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No, I am not too posh for salad cream. No.

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What you're going to see is there's going to be more and more packaged food. More...

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So convenience food starts to become part of the diet.

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But, having said that, there's still a big reliance on home-cooked food.

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Look, we've got, sort of, suet, flour, butter, eggs.

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Lesley's still going to be doing an enormous

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amount of cooking from scratch.

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In 1960 the north of England was thriving.

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Although the strength of traditional industries such as textiles

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and shipbuilding was fading, factory work ensured

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that the north remained a driving force of industry,

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at a time when an impressive 17% of the world's manufacturing

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exports were made in Britain.

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Busy production lines meant full employment and high wages,

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and working families began to embrace the consumer boom.

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Post-war reforms in housing, health care

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and education were paying off for working families.

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It's like being in Heaven up here

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because we've always been poor people.

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As memories of austerity slipped into the past,

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the north looked optimistically towards the future.

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Historical surveys show how much money families had

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and how they were spending it.

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This is where you sort of see the rise of the affluent worker,

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a worker who has actually got disposable income

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to spend on leisure activities, on consumer goods.

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The biggest spend is still on bread, milk, meat, potatoes.

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It's quite, sort of, traditional, standard, as we've been used to.

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And out of an income of around £14 or £15 they're going to be

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spending about £5 per week,

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so a third of their income, on food.

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But what you see when you look down into this survey in the 1960s...

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-Ah-ha.

-I spotted that, "Meals bought away from home."

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-Yes.

-So, eating out?

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-Starting of an eating out culture...

-SARAH WOLF WHISTLES

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..beginning of Chinese food, maybe an

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Italian cafe. Who knows?

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-Wow.

-Certainly, for working families, you know,

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this is the beginning of a period

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of optimism and hope.

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-I'm excited for them.

-Should be good.

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I'm leaving their guide to the 1960s on the kitchen table.

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You know, I think the Ellis family are really going to enjoy

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this decade.

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I feel like we've been through so much hard times

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and it's always been up and down,

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but I feel like the '60s are going to be an up time, and it will be an

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era of music, which obviously will always bring up the mood, I think.

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-The door's blue!

-They've got flowers!

-Oh, wow!

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-Yeah!

-Yes!

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-Oh, my God, look how bright the door is!

-That is really blue, isn't it?

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Here we go.

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-Oh, wow! Wow!

-Oh, my God!

-LAUGHTER

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Look at the TV!

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Oh, good grief! We've got a three-piece suite as well.

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-Look at the wallpaper.

-It's more like a lounge as we know it.

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-Yeah.

-It's more like...

-Yeah, it is.

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There's so much more stuff, isn't there?

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And, yeah, but it's promising.

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That's what it is, it's promising that the '60s is going to be better.

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-Ah! What?!

-LAUGHTER

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-This is...

-This is bright, isn't it?

-This is amazing!

-Oh, my God!

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-I love it!

-I love it, too.

-Oh, look! Pantry.

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-Weetabix, Coco Pops...

-Spaghetti!

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Weetabix, Coco Pops, Corn Flakes, Frosties.

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-Is there a fridge?

-Um...

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-Caitlin, look underneath there.

-No, still haven't got a fridge.

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-Hot chocolate!

-My trusty measuring spoon.

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Now the family have seen their 1960s home,

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it's time for them to find out what they'll be up to.

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"John, in this decade, you are going to be working as a miner.

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"The average weekly earnings of men in coal mining in 1961 was £16,

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"seven shillings and sixpence. You are making more than many white-collar workers.

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"You'll be out the house by 5am and back in time for tea.

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"Lesley, in the 1960s, 38% of married women are still out at work.

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"Your husband is a skilled miner.

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"He's bringing in a good wage, so for the first

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"time in the experiment there is no need for you to go to work.

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"The house is your domain, and you are responsible for the

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"housework and feeding your family."

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-No pressure.

-Yahoo(!)

-No pressure.

-LAUGHTER

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The school-leaving age is still 15, so Caitlin and Freya will be working

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and enjoying their pay packet,

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whilst Harvey is still at grammar school.

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RELAXED '60S POP MUSIC PLAYS

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It seems as though we've got such a big change.

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I'm really relishing it and looking forward to the exciting '60s,

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really, and seeing where it does take us.

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Gender equality was not a much used phrase in 1960, so the men

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are doing some DIY...

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Getting some...some elbow grease into that now, aren't you?

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..and the girls are finding out what's for tea.

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"Welcome to 1960. Your first meal will be taken from a popular

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"women's magazine, My Weekly.

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"Chops are on the menu. Keep an eye on the clock, Lesley - you'll need

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"to finish your tea by seven o'clock, cos there's a brand-new

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"programme on the telly that the family won't want to miss." Yay!

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-Let's have a look.

-LAUGHTER

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"Casserole of mutton chops.

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"Six lean mutton chops, breadcrumbs as required, half a

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-"cupful of diced celery."

-That sounds good.

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-Mmm.

-It sounds like a waste of time.

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We're going to miss this TV programme.

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We've got two hours to cook, eat, wash up...

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We'll save the washing for after the programme. Yeah?

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-Celery...

-That is that.

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So let's get the chops out first.

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In 1960, the average family spent the equivalent of £3 a week

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on mutton. Over the decade, the mutton market would take a hit.

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As the demand for wool was outstripped by new synthetic

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fibres, it made less economic sense to raise sheep to old age.

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I'm going to try and make that.

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Mutton was replaced by lamb, never to return to the weekly shop.

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Ooh! I mean, up until now,

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tea-time has revolved around whether it's light enough to wash

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up by candlelight, you know, before we had to put the candles on.

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So I guess eating to fit around a TV programme is a really big change.

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Doing a good job with that, aren't you?

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I'll just go and wash my hands and then I'll come out.

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How are we doing, ladies?

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We need to get this in quickly, because we're running out of time

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and it needs to be done in about

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double the time it says on the recipe.

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Excusez-moi.

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All this for a TV programme.

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Could watch it on Catch Up if it were chuffing Love Island.

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Right, I'm going to go...

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It might only be mutton, but the family no longer have to eke

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out meat between five. For the first time,

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they can afford a cut per person.

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How do you cook this?

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-I'm going to break this plate.

-Oh, is it really tough? Is it

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because I didn't cook it as long as it should have been cooked for?

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-Probably.

-I'm not going to lie, this isn't the best.

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But, obviously, mutton needs slow-cooking,

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and we've not had time to slow cook it.

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It's like eating octopus.

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It's like whelks.

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-Have we time to...

-Two minutes.

-..make a cup of tea.

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'60S ROCK AND ROLL PLAYS

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Thanks, Mum. Love you.

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Go on, then.

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-Come on, Les, that programme's going to start.

-Yeah, I'm coming.

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-Ay up, look at this.

-Good.

-Oh, you are a good one.

-I know.

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HUMMING TO CORNATION STREET THEME

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Oh, the...

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-I guessed it!

-I love the fact that it's the same tune.

-Yeah.

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They haven't even updated it or anything, have they? It's brilliant.

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-So familiar, isn't it?

-I know, it is.

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It will be for you,

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cos your mum literally has watched this...

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-All her life.

-Yeah.

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Ken Barlow! He's still in it! Honestly, he's still in it.

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That is just so weird.

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SHE LAUGHS

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In 1960, Granada television took a risk on a brand-new soap

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which put a Northern community at its heart.

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Coronation Street was part of Granada's continuing vision

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to put the North on the map.

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Their founder believed, what Manchester sees today,

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London will see eventually.

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True to their conviction,

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Coronation Street quickly spread from the North West,

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playing to a national audience of 22 million viewers twice a week.

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It remains the longest-running soap in the world.

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What I needed to get used to was the voices at first,

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because they were talking really fast,

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and the accent's not...isn't the same at all.

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And I was like, "What? What are they saying?"

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It's unusual to be hearing Northern accents on TV. On the BBC...

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-RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION:

-..they would have all talked like that.

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And suddenly you've got some

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vibrant, working-class Northern characters on TV.

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For the good of the North, isn't it? It's put us on the map.

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Very, very first Coronation Street.

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It's amazing, really,

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because, you know, Corrie was actually entertaining.

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We were all...

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..watching it and interested in it, and I'm looking forward to

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watching the next episode, just to see what happens.

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MUSIC: Tower Of Strength by Frankie Vaughan

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# If I were a tower of strength

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# I'd walk away

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# I'd look in your eyes and here's what I'd say... #

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For the first time in the experiment,

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Lesley does not have to go to work.

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But her husband does,

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so it's up at the crack of dawn to get his breakfast on.

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-1961.

-Right.

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-What's for breakfast?

-We've got kippers.

-Oh.

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Lovely(!)

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In his modern role as a managing director of a medical supplies

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company, John is not used to getting his hands dirty.

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Going down that shaft, that mineshaft, is on the back of my

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mind, and I feel, like, a bit daunted about it.

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I suppose the best thing I can do is just make sure

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that you're well set up for t'day.

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-And hopefully I can put a decent shift in, eh?

-Yeah.

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Bring home that spondooly,

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to keep me in the manner to which I am now accustomed.

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LAUGHTER

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LANGUID BRASS BAND MUSIC PLAYS

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In 1961, Britain ran on coal.

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Every day, over 500,000 miners headed to the pits.

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The coal they grafted so hard to produce fuelled railways,

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factories and family homes.

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On his first shift, John will be working with former miner

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Andy Smith, who worked the pits of Yorkshire for over 30 years.

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-Morning, John.

-Good morning, Andy.

-Welcome to Caphouse Colliery.

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-A bit cold this morning.

-It is.

-A bit early as well.

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-No, not early, not early enough.

-It is for me.

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In 1961, 120 men were employed underground at Caphouse Colliery.

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-Checks, please.

-Thank you very much.

-Cheers.

-No contraband with you, have you?

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-No.

-Right, that's fine.

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The average age of a British miner was 41.

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The mine offered apprenticeships from the age of 15, and the prospect

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of a job for life.

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It jerks a bit, just beware, it jerks a bit at the start.

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-You're making me feel...

-That's it. Right, we're on our way now.

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140 metres, that's how far we are going.

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-Shallow for mining, but...

-140 metres, yeah?

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They go to about 1,000 metres now. It's a fair distance.

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-Morning, men.

-Boss.

-Morning.

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Come on, John. We've about a five-minute walk to get to where

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we're going to be working today. Make sure you shut the door, mate.

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-Shine your light up the floor.

-Yeah, you lead the way.

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Like John, every '60s miner would have relied on a helmet-mounted

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light, battery pack and kneepads.

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You'll find out what your kneepads are for now.

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It's pretty...pretty scary, knowing where you are...

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-Black gold, John. That's the coal.

-Black gold, eh?

-Black gold, yeah.

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So what we've got to do, this is where we work the coal, John.

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-Right.

-Right? And what it does, it forms in layers with bedding planes.

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If I pick now, nice and steady...

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You see? So that's what you've got to do.

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So this is how miners started,

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and you're paid by how much you produce.

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So we'll swap over now.

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Get into a rhythm and get comfortable.

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-Cor, Andy, how do you do this all day long?

-With training.

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That's it, you're getting there.

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-God, it splinters off all over the place, doesn't it?

-Yeah.

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Yeah, I don't know about you, Andy, but it's pretty tough going,

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-is this.

-It's really tough going, but it does get easier.

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Once you've done about ten years, it starts feeling easier.

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Getting up on a morning feels easier.

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Getting down in a comfortable position feels easier.

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Everything feels easier, it's more natural.

0:18:570:18:59

I can't just imagine...you, you going through that, really.

0:18:590:19:02

MUSIC: Halfway To Paradise by Billy Fury

0:19:050:19:08

# I want to be your lover... #

0:19:120:19:16

Whilst John is getting stuck into an eight-hour shift,

0:19:170:19:20

Lesley has her own work cut out.

0:19:200:19:22

# I'm only halfway to paradise...#

0:19:260:19:31

In the '60s,

0:19:330:19:34

women were still doing an average of six hours of housework each day.

0:19:340:19:39

Before I just had carbolic soap to wash clothes with,

0:19:390:19:43

to wash pots with, to wash the floor with, everything.

0:19:430:19:47

And suddenly I've got choices.

0:19:470:19:50

Surf White.

0:19:500:19:52

As companies completed to sell more and more cleaning products,

0:19:540:19:57

they enlisted the help of the Northern housewife...

0:19:570:20:00

I can't stand those snobby women who think a powder that gives more

0:20:000:20:03

in a packet can't be worth trying.

0:20:030:20:05

I've tried them all, and I'm telling you, Surf's better value.

0:20:050:20:09

..an expert that women could trust.

0:20:090:20:12

The 1960s feel more aspirational.

0:20:140:20:18

There's a great sense that life is now better.

0:20:180:20:22

By the '60s, housewives like Lesley were raising their families far

0:20:240:20:29

from the inner-city slums that their grandparents might have grown up in.

0:20:290:20:34

Post-war governments had promised to put an end to poor

0:20:340:20:37

housing in cramped terraces and tenements.

0:20:370:20:40

A revolutionary slum clearance programme saw 87,000 homes

0:20:410:20:45

demolished in Liverpool and Manchester alone.

0:20:450:20:49

They were replaced with brand-new council homes in high-rise

0:20:490:20:53

blocks and out-of-town estates.

0:20:530:20:55

Many urban communities were disbanded.

0:20:560:20:59

By the end of the decade,

0:20:590:21:00

2.5 million people were making new lives in houses far from home.

0:21:000:21:06

With men out at work, it was often housewives that struggled to

0:21:060:21:10

adjust to a less communal way of life.

0:21:100:21:12

For Pat, life in her modern house is very different from her

0:21:120:21:16

childhood in Liverpool.

0:21:160:21:17

There was always lots of people, there was lots of activity.

0:21:170:21:20

There was lots of neighbours that used to shout at you, too.

0:21:200:21:24

Yes, there was lots of shouting. We've got a detached house.

0:21:240:21:28

-This magic word, "detached".

-SHE CHUCKLES

0:21:280:21:31

I can spend the entire day doing things,

0:21:310:21:34

but I feel that I overdo things.

0:21:340:21:37

I polish far too much and things like this.

0:21:370:21:40

Today, everyone is out at work.

0:21:410:21:44

I'm here on my own.

0:21:440:21:46

I am not relying on my neighbours as much.

0:21:460:21:49

I'm not relying on... I don't have colleagues any more,

0:21:490:21:54

and I imagine that it could be quite lonely.

0:21:540:21:58

-Are we going up to the canteen now?

-No, not quite. We're here.

0:22:040:22:07

-Snap time.

-Snap - Yorkshire slang for food - is what the miners

0:22:070:22:11

called their dinner.

0:22:110:22:14

Why is it a tin?

0:22:140:22:16

It's a tin with a lid on so that mice can't eat your snap

0:22:160:22:18

while we're underground, waiting to have it.

0:22:180:22:21

-Where's your snap tin?

-I haven't brought one today.

0:22:210:22:23

-We're sharing, didn't I tell you?

-No. We are sharing, are we?

-Yeah.

0:22:230:22:27

This is interesting. Doorstep sandwich, that's exactly what we want.

0:22:270:22:29

-Oh, God, dripping.

-Bit of dripping.

0:22:290:22:31

-Well, I better break it in half, then.

-Aye, break it in half, aye..

0:22:310:22:35

-Seeing as you're gaffer, you can have the big bit.

-You're a star.

0:22:350:22:38

-Oh, it's good.

-It's all right.

-Yeah.

0:22:420:22:45

-So, is this what you normally had for lunch?

-Oh, yeah.

0:22:450:22:47

-Dripping?

-Dripping.

0:22:470:22:49

You couldn't bring cheese and meat down, it didn't taste right.

0:22:490:22:53

Because it all got mouldy with the atmosphere and everything, but

0:22:530:22:56

this, this tastes better underground than it does on the surface.

0:22:560:22:58

So this would improve by being underground.

0:22:580:23:01

When we got snap time, eating sandwiches,

0:23:020:23:05

we'd discuss the work problems or the world, you know what I mean?

0:23:050:23:08

I hope the wife is cooking a good meal tonight.

0:23:080:23:11

-She's already cooked a meal to get your dripping.

-CHUCKLING

0:23:110:23:14

-That was Sunday's joint, that.

-Yeah, probably.

0:23:140:23:16

In the early '60s,

0:23:210:23:23

the mining industry was poised for dramatic change.

0:23:230:23:26

The introduction of machines meant that extracting coal would

0:23:260:23:29

become easier but require fewer men.

0:23:290:23:32

Coal was also being challenged by newer cleaner energies,

0:23:320:23:36

with natural gas, oil and nuclear on the rise.

0:23:360:23:40

Industries across the North were being forced to modernise or

0:23:430:23:46

face extinction.

0:23:460:23:48

By 1969, almost 400 pits had closed

0:23:500:23:55

and the number of miners working in Britain had halved.

0:23:550:23:59

The last job is to release the cage from the chains.

0:23:590:24:02

From this moment on, no man can go down the shaft

0:24:020:24:06

and no coals can be bought up from the coalface.

0:24:060:24:08

MUSIC: A Hundred Pounds Of Clay by Craig Douglas

0:24:190:24:22

# He took 100 pounds of clay... #

0:24:250:24:28

"It's 1961, and you're having panhaggerty for tea."

0:24:290:24:35

-"Panhaggerty, have you ever heard of that?

-No.

0:24:350:24:38

Me neither.

0:24:380:24:41

Panhaggerty is made by layering meat with potatoes

0:24:410:24:44

and veg, with cheese on top.

0:24:440:24:46

It is covered in beef stock and baked in the oven.

0:24:460:24:49

Originating in mining communities of the North East,

0:24:490:24:52

this dish was traditionally eaten on Monday,

0:24:520:24:55

using Sunday leftovers or cheaper meats like corned beef.

0:24:550:24:58

The high fat and carbohydrate content would have been perfect to

0:25:000:25:04

fill the rumbling bellies of the men returning from a shift down the pit.

0:25:040:25:08

I think Dad must be hungry when he's coming home tonight,

0:25:080:25:11

though, because it wouldn't be right good to eat,

0:25:110:25:14

-where they're working, would it?

-No, it wouldn't, would it? Euch!

0:25:140:25:18

# And a brand-new world began

0:25:180:25:20

# He created old Adam

0:25:200:25:24

# Then he made a woman for the man

0:25:240:25:29

# Oh-oh-oh

0:25:290:25:32

# Yes, he did. #

0:25:320:25:34

-Hey, guys.

-Hi, Dad.

-Hiya.

0:25:340:25:37

-Did you have a good day at work?

-Oh, you could say that, yeah.

0:25:370:25:41

Good experience.

0:25:410:25:44

-It looks really yummy, doesn't it?

-Yeah.

0:25:440:25:48

It's good to be home, that's for sure.

0:25:480:25:51

And to have a hot meal like this, it's delicious.

0:25:510:25:55

-Could you not imagine going there every day?

-I couldn't, Harvey.

0:25:550:25:58

The guys that work there, hats off to them, because I wouldn't

0:25:580:26:02

like to think that anybody in my family had to go through it,

0:26:020:26:05

because the dangers and everything that's actually involved in it.

0:26:050:26:09

-I'm proud of you, mate. Well done.

-Cheers, pal.

0:26:090:26:12

Yeah, well done, Johnny.

0:26:120:26:14

That coal powers the whole country,

0:26:170:26:22

so the pressure you must have had must have been overwhelming.

0:26:220:26:26

It could really be a stress, but my dad handles it absolutely amazingly.

0:26:260:26:32

MUSIC: Some Other Guy by The Big Three

0:26:400:26:42

# Some other guy now

0:26:420:26:45

# Has taken her love away from me... #

0:26:450:26:48

-It's 1962!

-Woohoo!

0:26:480:26:53

It's a very 1960s Saturday,

0:26:530:26:56

and John and Harvey are off to the footy.

0:26:560:26:59

-I think we're going to win today.

-Yeah, hopefully.

0:26:590:27:01

Top of the league, mate.

0:27:010:27:03

Come on, let's go win. Come on.

0:27:030:27:05

MUSIC: Bobby's Girl by Susan Maughan

0:27:060:27:09

# I wanna be Bobby's girl... #

0:27:090:27:11

In the early '60s,

0:27:120:27:13

football matches were attended by over 1 million people each week,

0:27:130:27:17

with Liverpool, Everton

0:27:170:27:19

and Manchester United dominating the First Division.

0:27:190:27:23

The top players lived on the same streets as the spectators.

0:27:230:27:27

I was born in a little mining town, and we always sort of played

0:27:270:27:32

football when we were kiddies, knocking about on the street.

0:27:320:27:35

Their skills on the pitch made them local heroes.

0:27:350:27:39

Never thought I would ever be professional.

0:27:390:27:41

I used to always think...

0:27:410:27:44

..professionals were all posh people.

0:27:440:27:47

I'm hoping that the girls will be excited to

0:27:470:27:50

get their hands on a phone at last.

0:27:500:27:53

Although this might not be quite what they had in mind.

0:27:530:27:56

-Have you ever used a phone box?

-No.

0:27:580:28:01

They don't really work any more, it's just where drunk people go into.

0:28:010:28:05

In 1962, less than 7% of the population owned a phone.

0:28:050:28:09

The average family spent the equivalent of £2.50 a week

0:28:090:28:13

on communication, and as the phone box was still relatively expensive,

0:28:130:28:16

many continued to rely on the post, with telegrams for emergencies.

0:28:160:28:22

Oh, there's a note.

0:28:220:28:25

Hey, this looks so cool! "Wondering what to have for tea?

0:28:250:28:29

"Dial ASK 8071 for tips. Sarah."

0:28:290:28:34

-Do you put that pointer to...

-Yeah.

0:28:340:28:38

So you go, if it's ASK, you would do A,

0:28:380:28:41

and then you pull it round to there and then let go.

0:28:410:28:45

-Put it...

-Yeah, put it in.

0:28:450:28:49

-No, it's broken.

-LAUGHTER

0:28:490:28:51

-Maybe B. Maybe that one. Oh, Oh!

-Oh, yeah!

-What's going on?

0:28:510:28:54

Stick it in, stick it in! Right, OK, go, go, go!

0:28:540:28:58

It's ringing. Must have done something right.

0:29:000:29:03

-Do you think... I've got a note pad in my bag.

-Wait, shut up!

-OK.

0:29:030:29:06

-Is there anything I need to write down?

-Yeah, it's reading out a menu.

0:29:090:29:12

Go on. Quick, quick, quick!

0:29:120:29:15

It's already listed everything!

0:29:150:29:16

-Well, what did it list?

-I can't remember!

-LAUGHTER

0:29:160:29:20

Her next request, a recipe for dinner.

0:29:210:29:23

We predict that the Food Information Centre's telephone service

0:29:230:29:26

will out-beat Mrs Beeton and put the cookery book out of business.

0:29:260:29:30

The telephone recipe service provided a new recorded

0:29:300:29:33

recipe each day, and it was a hit.

0:29:330:29:37

Between 1963 and '64,

0:29:370:29:40

250,000 callers rang for a recipe from the North West alone.

0:29:400:29:44

"Plum-stuffed pork. Ingredients. 4oz of butter...

0:29:460:29:50

"something onions chopped...

0:29:500:29:52

-"5oz of dried something...

-LAUGHTER

0:29:520:29:55

"..one tablespoon of thyme.

0:29:550:29:58

-"Spread the stuffing over the pork."

-What stuffing?!

0:29:580:30:00

-You haven't mentioned stuffing.

-Put in an oven dish and bake for 40 minutes.

0:30:000:30:04

I can't even read my own writing.

0:30:040:30:06

-Remove pork in the oven and rest for 40 minutes. 10 minutes.

-What?

0:30:060:30:10

I don't know.

0:30:100:30:12

I have no chuffing idea.

0:30:120:30:15

I'm hoping we would ring up and get a Chinese takeaway.

0:30:150:30:17

I'm a bit...urgh!

0:30:220:30:25

-It said melt butter in a pan, didn't it?

-Yeah.

-Then what?

0:30:250:30:30

Add stuff.

0:30:300:30:31

I think it is always important to be looking for inspiration

0:30:340:30:37

for new ideas.

0:30:370:30:39

And everything sort of in the last eras have been a bit same old,

0:30:390:30:44

same old and just recipes that your mum cooked

0:30:440:30:50

and that everyone else cooked and all your neighbours cooked...

0:30:500:30:54

-A recipe you just stuck by.

-Yeah.

0:30:540:30:57

This is like a breakaway from tradition

0:30:570:30:59

and a breakaway from all those routines.

0:30:590:31:02

After World War II, British investment in pork farming

0:31:020:31:05

saw the pig population triple.

0:31:050:31:08

By 1962, we were eating 350g of pork products each per week.

0:31:080:31:14

That is about six sausages.

0:31:140:31:16

So, it is called plum stuffed pork.

0:31:160:31:18

That is pork, that is plum stuffing.

0:31:180:31:21

And it kind of looks good.

0:31:210:31:23

-So, did it say 40 minutes and then 10 minutes to rest?

-Yeah.

0:31:320:31:37

-Hi, guys.

-Hello. Did you have a good time?

-Yeah, it was good.

0:31:410:31:47

This honestly looks amazing.

0:31:490:31:50

I cannot believe it has turned out like this.

0:31:500:31:53

It is like some next level gourmet stuff,

0:31:530:31:56

you need to open your own restaurant, woman.

0:31:560:31:58

I know we were really critical of that service

0:31:580:32:01

but I would never make something like this normally.

0:32:010:32:05

-Harvey, stop putting your...

-Why not?

-Mum is trying to cut it.

0:32:050:32:09

It turned out so good. It was really, really nice.

0:32:140:32:18

And the potatoes, roast potatoes were so good.

0:32:180:32:22

# Sweets for my sweet

0:32:280:32:30

# Sugar for my honey

0:32:300:32:32

# Your first sweet kiss thrilled me so

0:32:320:32:36

# Sweets for my sweet... #

0:32:360:32:38

-It is 1963.

-Yay!

0:32:380:32:42

Working-class teenagers with full-time jobs were the driving

0:32:420:32:46

force behind a new teen market worth over £800 million a year.

0:32:460:32:51

This new generation could afford to

0:32:550:32:57

look for a life beyond the factory floor and the coffee bars

0:32:570:33:01

and clubs of the North became a hive of creativity.

0:33:010:33:05

# Now ain't that just like me

0:33:050:33:07

# Well, you know cracking up over you

0:33:070:33:09

# You know that I love you... #

0:33:090:33:11

An explosion of northern pop stars proved to northern teens that

0:33:110:33:15

a different kind of life was out there for the taking.

0:33:150:33:18

Caitlin and Freya are meeting Bobby Elliott,

0:33:190:33:22

the drummer from Manchester band The Hollies, whose many hits

0:33:220:33:25

include Bus Stop, Carrie Anne, and He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.

0:33:250:33:29

Here we are in a coffee bar that would probably be very

0:33:350:33:38

similar in 1963 with the frothy coffee

0:33:380:33:42

and people were getting better paid

0:33:420:33:44

and they wanted more things to do, so the coffee bar was one step up

0:33:440:33:50

and then music where we are now.

0:33:500:33:52

There would be bands around every corner.

0:33:520:33:55

For Bobby, music was an escape from his apprenticeship at the local mine.

0:33:550:33:59

We were making more money playing in our little band

0:33:590:34:01

around Manchester and around the North than we were

0:34:010:34:03

as apprentices, and one of the first gigs I did was at the Royal Albert Hall

0:34:030:34:08

and the Beatles were second top to Del Shannon at the end.

0:34:080:34:12

We all stood in line and took a bow and I thought, wow, it is

0:34:120:34:15

a bit different to being 3,000 feet underground at the pit.

0:34:150:34:19

In 1963, Northern bands were changing the face of British

0:34:190:34:23

music and they were about to go global.

0:34:230:34:26

-ARCHIVE:

-3,000 screaming teenagers arrived at New York's Kennedy airport to greet,

0:34:310:34:35

you guessed it, the Beatles.

0:34:350:34:37

America went mad for the lads from Liverpool.

0:34:370:34:40

They would become the biggest selling band in Billboard history.

0:34:400:34:43

A title they still hold to this day.

0:34:430:34:46

It must be so weird for Americans as well

0:34:460:34:48

because their typical view of an English accent is quite posh

0:34:480:34:53

and it is not really what it is

0:34:530:34:56

and to have northerners go up is like wow, what is that?

0:34:560:35:00

They said, "Wow, what sort of English is that?" you know,

0:35:000:35:03

broad American, this is how the English are speaking?

0:35:030:35:07

Of course it is. "Where are you from?"

0:35:070:35:10

"Manchester." "Do you know the Beatles?"

0:35:100:35:13

It was a new world. It felt like a new world.

0:35:140:35:18

I feel like there is, the whole development of music was such

0:35:210:35:24

an exciting time to be alive because you could be sat next to

0:35:240:35:28

these people, you could become one of these pop stars that he is

0:35:280:35:31

talking about and you don't get that any more.

0:35:310:35:35

It seems so far away whereas then it just seemed so close.

0:35:350:35:38

After 13 years of Conservative government,

0:35:480:35:51

a new leader came to power. Labour's Harold Wilson.

0:35:510:35:55

His election rival had been born in Mayfair and educated at Eton.

0:35:580:36:02

Harold Wilson was born in a terraced house in Huddersfield

0:36:040:36:07

and educated at grammar school.

0:36:070:36:10

His election showed young northerners

0:36:100:36:12

a career in politics was an achievable dream.

0:36:120:36:16

He promised to use science

0:36:160:36:17

and technology to revitalise traditional industries.

0:36:170:36:21

The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution

0:36:210:36:25

will be no place for restrictive practices or for outdated

0:36:250:36:29

methods on either side of industry.

0:36:290:36:31

The white heat of technology was also appearing in family homes.

0:36:330:36:37

-Is this a washer?

-Is that a fridge?

0:36:370:36:40

This would have been a massive massive thing.

0:36:400:36:43

After years and years and years of scrubbing with your hands.

0:36:430:36:48

-It must have come in such a relief.

-I know. It must be amazing.

0:36:480:36:52

In the North, wages continued to increase,

0:36:550:36:58

the prosperity of the '60s seemed here to stay.

0:36:580:37:02

Nigel Haworth, a Michelin starred chef from Lancashire,

0:37:050:37:09

is popping in to share the good times.

0:37:090:37:12

Hi, how are you guys?

0:37:120:37:14

-Make yourself at home, Nigel.

-So, we have T-bone steaks.

-Wow.

0:37:140:37:18

-We have potatoes to make chips.

-Yes!

-Heaven.

0:37:200:37:25

So I have some little treats for you guys.

0:37:250:37:27

We have some jelly babies, Smarties, Spangles.

0:37:270:37:32

So, which do you want, do you want them all?

0:37:340:37:37

Them guys can have the jelly babies because I don't like them

0:37:370:37:41

but I'll have these. Thank you, Nigel.

0:37:410:37:46

-It has been a pleasure meeting you.

-You will have to fight over them.

0:37:460:37:50

-Go on, then, clear off. Don't forget to share, guys.

-Share!

0:37:500:37:55

-Good luck cooking with him!

-Are you not a good cook?

-Me, no.

0:37:550:37:59

Mum's the cook.

0:37:590:38:00

Harvey! Harvey, give... Harvey, give me them, now.

0:38:020:38:08

Why are you being like that?

0:38:080:38:10

Vimto was created in 1908 in Manchester.

0:38:100:38:14

Starting life as a herbal tonic to give added vim, by the '60s

0:38:140:38:17

the medicinal value had been dropped and it was simply top of the pops.

0:38:170:38:23

It is like unwrapping a Christmas present.

0:38:230:38:25

It must have been in 1964 because genuinely we have not had any steak.

0:38:250:38:30

-Look at the size of them. So, did you eat steak in the '60s?

-I did.

0:38:310:38:36

And I was really lucky

0:38:360:38:37

because I used to be really close to my grandad

0:38:370:38:39

and when he was, he used to have fillet and he used to call it undercut.

0:38:390:38:45

And he used to invite me over, this was in the '60s,

0:38:450:38:49

late '60s, and he would cook undercut with some chips

0:38:490:38:54

exactly as we are going to do, he would grill it and give me some.

0:38:540:38:59

-Oh, it was so good. That was a real big treat for me as a kid.

-I bet.

0:38:590:39:03

Fillet steak.

0:39:030:39:05

Slide them in there.

0:39:050:39:08

Straight in.

0:39:160:39:17

-There you go.

-Wow. That is quite satisfying, watching that.

0:39:210:39:25

-It is, isn't it?

-Yeah.

0:39:250:39:27

And chips are still the most yummy thing ever, aren't they?

0:39:270:39:30

When I used to hear that rattle I used to be in the other

0:39:300:39:33

room at my mum's house and I used to think it was tea-time then when I heard that rattle.

0:39:330:39:39

I would come running in. Chips are ready.

0:39:390:39:42

-Hi.

-Hey.

0:39:420:39:44

I can't wait for the chips.

0:39:470:39:49

-There you go.

-Thank you.

-Look at that.

0:39:500:39:53

From now on, former luxuries like washing machines

0:39:550:39:58

and steak are here to stay.

0:39:580:40:01

-So, who wants a few more chips then?

-Me!

0:40:010:40:05

I won't turn it down.

0:40:050:40:07

If we were looking at our 1960s life

0:40:070:40:12

from our 1930s place,

0:40:120:40:14

we would look distinctly well off,

0:40:140:40:19

and all the changes that the

0:40:190:40:21

government have brought in over the last probably 15 years have

0:40:210:40:26

started to have a dramatic impact on the working classes.

0:40:260:40:30

-1965 and we are going on holiday.

-Yay!

0:40:410:40:45

I have sent the Ellis family on holiday to

0:40:490:40:52

Filey on the north-east coast.

0:40:520:40:54

In the 1960s over 60% of holiday-makers at this

0:40:560:41:00

caravan site were miners enjoying a well earned break.

0:41:000:41:05

-The weather is so good, I am surprised.

-It is gorgeous.

0:41:060:41:10

In modern life, the Ellises are keen caravanners

0:41:120:41:14

-but what will they make of their 1960s accommodation?

-Oh!

0:41:140:41:18

-Is it just me seeing this?

-It looks great. It's green.

-No way.

0:41:220:41:30

-Brilliant. Look at it.

-It has an entrance way.

-This is so cool.

0:41:310:41:37

-Oh, it is cute. I like it.

-I actually love it. It is so nice.

0:41:370:41:43

It has a dining room.

0:41:430:41:46

This is so cute.

0:41:460:41:49

The static caravan industry blossomed in Hull where

0:41:490:41:52

companies had been shipping temporary accommodation to

0:41:520:41:55

war-torn Europe since 1945.

0:41:550:41:59

As Europe rebuilt itself, the same manufacturers turned to the

0:41:590:42:03

growing holiday market, pitching their prefab homes as static vans.

0:42:030:42:08

At a time when only 4% of the population could afford to

0:42:080:42:12

holiday abroad, caravan sites were an affordable

0:42:120:42:15

½alternative for families wanting to get away.

0:42:150:42:18

-So, what is in t'coolbox, Johnny?

-Bacon.

-Black pudding, I think.

0:42:210:42:27

Do you think these sausages? Yeah.

0:42:270:42:30

Full English breakfast this morning.

0:42:300:42:33

Don't forget to put this on after.

0:42:370:42:41

Freya, we've got a dilemma here.

0:42:410:42:45

We have got to cook sausage, egg, bacon,

0:42:450:42:49

black pudding and we have one pan. I don't know how I'm going to do it.

0:42:490:42:54

I'm not used to working with one burner.

0:42:540:42:55

Do you want to start opening the beans?

0:42:550:42:58

I think what I will do first is cook the sausage.

0:42:580:43:02

So, we have come on holiday so that I can experience a bit of a

0:43:030:43:08

break from the routine and here I am again doing the exact same thing!

0:43:080:43:15

OK, boys. Breakfast is ready.

0:43:160:43:18

The fry up as we know it owes much to the tourism boom of

0:43:190:43:23

the 1960s. To entice holiday-makers, enterprising B&B owners marketed

0:43:230:43:28

bacon, eggs and all the trimmings as the full English breakfast.

0:43:280:43:33

And the name stuck.

0:43:330:43:34

-Wow.

-This is cosy, isn't it?

0:43:360:43:40

This definitely feels like a caravan holiday now I have a fry up in front of me.

0:43:410:43:46

Can you remember when we had one slice of bacon, so for breakfast

0:43:460:43:52

you got the bacon and we used the bacon to flavour the bread?

0:43:520:43:56

You had to wipe it on the bread, didn't you?

0:43:560:44:00

And now look at all this.

0:44:000:44:03

Oh, we have a whistle on.

0:44:030:44:05

We have coffee. Yay, at last.

0:44:050:44:09

# Woke up this morning feeling fine

0:44:220:44:26

# There's something special on my mind... #

0:44:260:44:30

-There you go.

-That's clever.

-That is well cool.

-It really is.

0:44:300:44:35

No pressure, no pressure!

0:44:410:44:44

You think a lot of the people that came on these holidays to this

0:44:470:44:51

campsite in the '60s were miners,

0:44:510:44:55

and they spent their lives underground, and to come here

0:44:550:45:00

where they have peace and quiet, I think it must have been amazing.

0:45:000:45:05

It is 1966.

0:45:200:45:22

Caitlin and Freya are in for a real treat,

0:45:230:45:26

they are off to the Chinese.

0:45:260:45:28

Northern teenagers continued to enjoy financial and social

0:45:340:45:38

freedoms that their parents generation could only have imagined.

0:45:380:45:43

-I love food.

-Especially Chinese.

0:45:460:45:49

What are you thinking?

0:45:490:45:51

I'm thinking we need to get different stuff

0:45:510:45:53

so we can both have a taste of each other's.

0:45:530:45:55

That's exactly what I was thinking.

0:45:550:45:57

The early 1960s had seen a wave of immigration from Hong Kong

0:45:590:46:02

to Britain.

0:46:020:46:04

Pre-World War II, Chinese immigrants had often set up laundries,

0:46:060:46:10

but as more people bought washing machines, a new

0:46:100:46:13

kind of business was required.

0:46:130:46:15

Chinese entrepreneurs realised that Northerners didn't have many

0:46:150:46:18

places to go after pub chucking out time.

0:46:180:46:22

In response, they offered late night table service at affordable

0:46:220:46:25

prices and a menu adapted to British palates.

0:46:250:46:29

Do you not think it's weird they've got omelettes

0:46:290:46:31

-and bread-and-butter and stuff?

-It is pretty weird.

0:46:310:46:35

To customers raised on mutton and mash,

0:46:370:46:39

-Chinese cuisine was an exotic luxury.

-Chow mein.

-Thank you.

0:46:390:46:45

-Special fried rice.

-This looks so good.

-It does, doesn't it?

0:46:450:46:50

-Caitlin, tuck in.

-This is amazing. I actually can't wait to eat this.

0:46:500:46:55

-I'm so happy. You don't understand.

-That's really nice.

0:46:550:47:00

That is good.

0:47:030:47:06

While the girls enjoy some new flavours...

0:47:060:47:10

..Leslie is putting a '60s twist on a British classic.

0:47:100:47:14

# They told me love was not what I dreamed it would be

0:47:140:47:18

# And one day if I fell in love then I would see. #

0:47:200:47:25

Beautiful.

0:47:270:47:28

I wonder if the girls are enjoying their Chinese.

0:47:320:47:35

-Chow mein is looking very appetising right now.

-Come on, Leslie.

0:47:400:47:45

All right, I will be through in a minute. What are you watching?

0:47:450:47:51

The Good Old Days. Look at this.

0:47:510:47:55

-That's good, isn't it?

-Enjoy.

0:47:560:47:58

I'm feeling a bit fed up in the 1960s because Harvey is out

0:48:040:48:09

with his friends, the girls are out having a Chinese, you have

0:48:090:48:13

been out watching football today and I have just basically hung around

0:48:130:48:17

the house baking, cleaning, cooking, washing up over and over again.

0:48:170:48:23

And I'm fed up.

0:48:240:48:25

I think the swinging '60s have completely passed me by

0:48:250:48:28

because there is no swinging going on around here.

0:48:280:48:31

Over the coming years, northern parents would look on as their

0:48:330:48:37

children continued to pursue a very different life to their own.

0:48:370:48:40

1966 was to be the peak of employment in British manufacturing.

0:48:430:48:48

From this year onwards, jobs in heavy industries started to decline.

0:48:520:48:57

And younger generations were tempted by a life beyond the North.

0:48:570:49:02

There must be a good future somewhere even if you have

0:49:020:49:04

got to go way down south.

0:49:040:49:07

I'm going to miss him terribly.

0:49:110:49:14

# I am just mad about Saffron

0:49:360:49:38

# Saffron is mad about me... #

0:49:410:49:44

Having had enough of the kitchen,

0:49:440:49:47

Lesley is popping out leaving the kids to make their own tea.

0:49:470:49:50

# They call me mellow yellow... #

0:49:530:49:57

This looks nice. Angel delight.

0:49:570:49:59

-Steak and kidney pie, I'm all for that.

-As if we get a whole one of them each.

0:50:000:50:05

I am buzzing.

0:50:050:50:08

By the 1960s, inventions like pie in a tin offered quick

0:50:080:50:10

alternatives to home cooking.

0:50:100:50:13

Is this genuine, is this, like, real?

0:50:180:50:21

It might need cooking, it might be because it's raw.

0:50:230:50:25

Angel Delight was launched in 1967 marketed to time poor parents,

0:50:300:50:36

it meant a tasty dessert in an instant.

0:50:360:50:39

-Oh, that one is burnt.

-Told you.

0:50:390:50:43

Towards the end of the 1960s,

0:50:430:50:44

convenience food accounted for 15% of the weekly shopping bill.

0:50:440:50:49

-This looks really nice.

-It does, doesn't it?

0:50:490:50:52

It tastes nice.

0:50:550:50:58

-It is not as good as the pies grandma makes us.

-No.

0:50:580:51:02

-The kids are so cute.

-What a lad. Look at his glasses.

0:51:030:51:08

The Milky Bar advert were really good, I loved it.

0:51:120:51:14

Over and out from 1967.

0:51:140:51:17

It is 1968.

0:51:290:51:30

-We have a fridge, I told you!

-Yay!

0:51:330:51:34

-This is your birth year present, Dad.

-Happy birthday, Johnny.

0:51:390:51:43

We have got a fridge. We can have ice.

0:51:430:51:47

It took until 1968 for 50% of British families to own a fridge.

0:51:470:51:53

Now Polly is popping round with another surprise for Lesley.

0:51:530:51:57

-Yeah, it looks familiar.

-Used to put ice pops in the top.

0:52:010:52:07

-Hello.

-Hi!

0:52:070:52:09

-I see you have your new fridge.

-Yes, at last.

0:52:090:52:13

Yeah, I bet you are more pleased to see that and see me.

0:52:130:52:17

-Much more excited about the fridge.

-Definitely.

0:52:170:52:20

Right, Lesley, get your lippy and your handbag,

0:52:200:52:22

because we are going out tonight.

0:52:220:52:24

Polly is taking Lesley to the local working men's club, which

0:52:280:52:32

increasingly relied on live entertainment to tempt

0:52:320:52:35

people from comfortable living rooms and TV sets.

0:52:350:52:38

# My, my, my, Delilah... #

0:52:400:52:42

Oh, my word!

0:52:440:52:47

She might be surprised to see her friends...

0:52:510:52:53

So nice to see you.

0:52:550:52:57

But she will be even more surprised when she sees the entertainment.

0:52:570:53:01

Welcome to Mr Bradford, 1968. Number one.

0:53:040:53:10

Nigel, 50, from Dewsbury.

0:53:100:53:13

Number two...

0:53:130:53:19

Gavin, 49...

0:53:210:53:23

Number three...

0:53:240:53:26

John Ellis...

0:53:260:53:28

Since the launch of Miss World in the 1950s,

0:53:430:53:46

female beauty pageants were all the rage.

0:53:460:53:48

Across the North there was a queen for every region,

0:53:490:53:52

holiday camp and colliery.

0:53:520:53:55

In 1965, the first Mr Olympia contest popularised male muscle competitions.

0:53:550:54:02

For 1960s blokes working manual jobs,

0:54:020:54:04

you didn't need to hit the gym to put on a good show.

0:54:040:54:07

OK, so it is my great honour

0:54:070:54:10

to award this to Mr Bradford 1968

0:54:100:54:16

and there can be no other winner than Jonathan Ellis.

0:54:160:54:20

That must have been a fix, that!

0:54:220:54:25

Well done all of you.

0:54:250:54:28

Look what you could have had!

0:54:280:54:30

-1969.

-Woo!

0:54:420:54:45

It is 1969 and the Ellises have invited me,

0:54:530:54:57

Polly and some friends around for a Eurovision party.

0:54:570:55:00

Between 1955 and 1969, incomes had risen by almost 70%.

0:55:030:55:08

-Cheers, everybody.

-Cheers!

0:55:080:55:11

With each year bringing new technology, sounds and flavours.

0:55:110:55:16

How has the 1960s, the swinging '60s, been for you two?

0:55:160:55:19

-The funniest thing I've done was going for Chinese.

-Really?

0:55:190:55:24

-I loved it.

-Why?

0:55:240:55:26

Because it was all new flavours and we just got to be ourselves and sit

0:55:260:55:31

at a table and I felt like, I don't know, I felt liberated in a sense.

0:55:310:55:36

I don't know how Chinese food can make you feel that way but it did.

0:55:360:55:40

It is great to be a teenager in the 1960s,

0:55:400:55:43

but what was it like to be a teenager from the North?

0:55:430:55:46

They can see different career paths because they're watching

0:55:460:55:49

TV that is set in the North and watching bands playing all over

0:55:490:55:54

the world from the North so people are watching that and might think,

0:55:540:55:58

I want to become musician, I want to become an actress or actor instead

0:55:580:56:03

of following their parents' footsteps and working in mines and things.

0:56:030:56:07

This is a splendid Eurovision party.

0:56:070:56:09

The show is starting so I just need to know how has it gone for you?

0:56:090:56:13

Have the '60s been swinging enough?

0:56:130:56:15

I thought that the '60s would be freer

0:56:150:56:17

but because I was no longer working it felt to me like everyone

0:56:170:56:21

else was getting on with their lives and carrying on doing

0:56:210:56:24

all of those things and I was just stuck doing the same old, same old.

0:56:240:56:28

Come on, Lulu!

0:56:310:56:33

# Come closer, come closer and listen... #

0:56:330:56:35

Glaswegian singer Lulu was born and raised in a two-room tenement flat.

0:56:350:56:41

She was only 15 when she signed to Decca records in 1964.

0:56:410:56:46

By the end of the decade, the Scottish starlet was

0:56:460:56:48

representing Britain on the world stage.

0:56:480:56:52

Like many of her generation,

0:56:520:56:53

her future had been transformed by the opportunities of the 1960s.

0:56:530:56:58

Come on, Lulu.

0:57:010:57:04

And the winner is... Lulu! Yay!

0:57:050:57:10

-Well done, Lulu.

-Cheers to the '60s.

0:57:140:57:18

Here's to the '70s.

0:57:180:57:20

Coming up, bring it on.

0:57:200:57:23

The family have been having a right rollicking time,

0:57:270:57:30

especially the girls.

0:57:300:57:32

This has been the decade of pop glory and good times for the North.

0:57:320:57:36

Working families have never felt so confident.

0:57:360:57:39

The question is, how long will it last?

0:57:390:57:42

We all think of the '60s as a time of freedom and liberation from

0:57:490:57:55

all the old-fashioned values and genuinely that did not happen for me.

0:57:550:58:02

We got to feel like adults and we have got to, like, pave our own

0:58:030:58:08

way and in the modern day 16 and 18-year-olds don't

0:58:080:58:12

feel like that. In modern day I still feel like a child, I'm still

0:58:120:58:17

treated as though I am a child, whereas in the '60s I don't feel that.

0:58:170:58:20

It is just different, the dynamic is different.

0:58:200:58:23

-Next time...

-Cream soda.

0:58:370:58:40

The Ellises indulge in the golden era of the '70s.

0:58:400:58:44

I don't like it.

0:58:440:58:45

Hey, guys, there is going to be power cuts.

0:58:480:58:50

This is the weirdest thing you've ever cooked.

0:58:500:58:53

# I watch the ripples change their size

0:59:110:59:15

# But never leave the stream

0:59:150:59:17

# Of warm impermanence and

0:59:170:59:20

# So the days float through my eyes... #

0:59:200:59:23

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