0:00:03 > 0:00:05Meet the Ellis family.
0:00:07 > 0:00:09Lesley, Jon,
0:00:09 > 0:00:11Caitlin,
0:00:11 > 0:00:13Freya
0:00:13 > 0:00:14and Harvey.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17This Bradford family of five are about to embark
0:00:17 > 0:00:20on a time-travelling adventure...
0:00:21 > 0:00:23It's 1925.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27..to discover how changing food eaten in the north of England...
0:00:27 > 0:00:29That is scouse.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31..can reveal what life was like...
0:00:31 > 0:00:33SHE COUGHS
0:00:33 > 0:00:36I think perhaps I do need to work on my frying technique.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40..for working-class families over the past century.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41I think it's just potato pie.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43I think so.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45- Chicken feet! - ALL: Uggghh!
0:00:45 > 0:00:47From regional classics....
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Pan haggerty for tea.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52We'll have two chip naans.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54..to dishes that expanded our horizons.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56I'm so happy.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Honestly, this is, like, amazing.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01The Ellises' own home is their time machine,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04transporting them through a different era each week.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07It's 1985.
0:01:07 > 0:01:08They'll experience the ups...
0:01:10 > 0:01:15- ..and downs... - What the heck is tripe?
0:01:15 > 0:01:18- ..of work... - This is so hard.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20..rest...
0:01:21 > 0:01:22..and play.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30As they fast-forward through 100 years of northern history.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36And still get back in time for tea.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54It's 1970, and the Ellis family home has been transformed
0:01:54 > 0:01:57for a new era.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59We've said "ta-ra" to the '60s
0:01:59 > 0:02:03and "'ow do" to the decade that taste forgot.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06# Express yourself... #
0:02:06 > 0:02:09There's been an eye-watering explosion of colour in the kitchen...
0:02:09 > 0:02:11# You don't ever need help... #
0:02:11 > 0:02:15..and the backyard has been transformed into a modern garden,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18complete with '70s favourite, pampas grass.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22# Express yourself... #
0:02:22 > 0:02:26I'm in Bradford with social historian Polly Russell
0:02:26 > 0:02:30to check out what the new decade has in store for the Ellises.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Look at the car. Look at that!
0:02:32 > 0:02:34This is going to be one of the biggest changes
0:02:34 > 0:02:36for the Ellis family in the 1970s.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38She's a beauty.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40- She is.- Look at her.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43In 1970, about 52% of families owned a car.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46And that is really... You know, the car is going to transform
0:02:46 > 0:02:49family life in some ways. It means you will be driving to the shops,
0:02:49 > 0:02:51you will be driving to work and, of course,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54you will be using the car for leisure.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Owning a car is just one way that life has got better
0:02:57 > 0:02:58for working people.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Improvements in housing and the welfare state,
0:03:01 > 0:03:03plus 20 years of economic growth,
0:03:03 > 0:03:05have provided a level of comfort
0:03:05 > 0:03:08previous generations could have only dreamed of.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Wow...!
0:03:12 > 0:03:16That wallpaper hasn't aged very well, has it, necessarily?
0:03:16 > 0:03:18It's a real assault on the senses, isn't it?
0:03:18 > 0:03:21But straightaway, Polly, it feels so familiar.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24And you think back to, like, the '30s and '40s, when you could hardly
0:03:24 > 0:03:26afford to put food on the table.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28And yet now there is all this stuff.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32It smacks of more money around to spend on sort of trinkets.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Oh, wow. Gosh.
0:03:36 > 0:03:37Is this now a fitted kitchen?
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Yeah. This is when fitted kitchens become the norm.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42They're much more sort of efficient.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45But it's not just that you've got your fitted sort of cupboards.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48It's also the equipment that they'll have been able to buy,
0:03:48 > 0:03:51- a lot of new things.- And where is the food in the kitchen, then?
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Here. We don't have a larder so much as we've got our fitted cupboards.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Look at that. Oh, look at all the brands.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59There's a real mixture here between brands which are northern,
0:03:59 > 0:04:02- so you've got...- Yorkshire Tea.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03Yorkshire Tea.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Jammie Dodgers, they're a northern brand, but...
0:04:05 > 0:04:07- Are they?- Yeah, they are.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09- Yeah!- But they're being distributed over the country.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12So, you'll see these brands will be familiar in many homes.
0:04:18 > 0:04:22By 1970, many working-class families had a solid disposable income.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28To give the Ellises a true flavour of the decade,
0:04:28 > 0:04:32their experience will be based on historical spending surveys
0:04:32 > 0:04:36that tracked everything families bought from light fittings to lard.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41What we discover here in this 1971 survey is that they start
0:04:41 > 0:04:47to spend more money on cakes and biscuits than they do on bread.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51And they start to spend more money on sweets and chocolate than they do on potatoes.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53And in this period,
0:04:53 > 0:04:57they're spending about a quarter of their household income on food.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00Is this because they're just buying up so many brands,
0:05:00 > 0:05:04and so much processed food now, or is food just quite expensive in the '70s?
0:05:04 > 0:05:08Yeah, what you see in this period is, because of inflation,
0:05:08 > 0:05:10food prices fluctuate enormously.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Mostly going up in price.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20Rising prices were a major problem for working families in this decade.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24# Evolution, revolution... #
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Trades unions campaigned for pay increases to keep up
0:05:27 > 0:05:29with the cost of living.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35There is an industrial war on now. Whether we like it or not,
0:05:35 > 0:05:40we've got to fight it with all the measures that we think will solve the problem.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44But the government saw higher pay as a cause of inflation
0:05:44 > 0:05:46and tried to cap wages.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49The result was more industrial action.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54All those in favour, please show.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Strikes during the '70s saw workers win much
0:05:57 > 0:05:58of what they'd asked for.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03But trouble lay ahead.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Nowadays, the whole Lister group of six mills, including Manningham,
0:06:06 > 0:06:08employs scarcely more than 4,000.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10At least this mill hasn't shut down.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13But job prospects generally are not good.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17Many traditional industries, such as textiles, shipbuilding
0:06:17 > 0:06:19and mining were in decline.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23The gap between what workers wanted and what employers could give them
0:06:23 > 0:06:25was widening.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Jon and Lesley, who were children at the time,
0:06:31 > 0:06:34remember the decade for different reasons.
0:06:34 > 0:06:39For the very first time, I'm going to be living through my own history.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42I'm like, "Oh, my God, I remember that, that were amazing."
0:06:42 > 0:06:44I was born in 1968,
0:06:44 > 0:06:47so it was really close to my heart this morning
0:06:47 > 0:06:49when Harvey put his outfit on.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51That's the type of stuff that I would have worn.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55Bless him, he's kind of like a mini me, really.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58I'm really hoping the '70s are a time where me, as a teenager,
0:06:58 > 0:07:00will find my identity.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Everybody else's lives moved on in the '60s and mine didn't.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06I'm hoping that I'm kind of going to catch up in the '70s.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08So, bring it on.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14There is a car!
0:07:14 > 0:07:17- Vauxhall Viva.- I can't believe we finally got a car.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Can't wait to pull that choke out and get going in there.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30Oh, my God.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Wallpaper.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35- Look at that panelling. - I remember it well.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Oh, we've got a carpet that goes to the corners.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40- Oh, we have.- Wall-to-wall carpet.
0:07:40 > 0:07:41- Oh, look.- I'll tell you what,
0:07:41 > 0:07:43there's going to be plenty of parties.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Look at all them glasses.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48It weren't the '70s without a cocktail umbrella, were it!
0:07:52 > 0:07:53Oh, my word.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Look at that.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57- What the heck.- It's all brown.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59This is vile.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01We don't have a pantry any more.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03We've got Tizer.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05You blend into the background there, Harvey.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07You're camouflaged, we can barely see you.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Jammie Dodgers!
0:08:09 > 0:08:10Yeah!
0:08:11 > 0:08:13To launch the Ellises into the new decade,
0:08:13 > 0:08:17I'm here to fill them in on what to expect.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Hello, lovely family.
0:08:19 > 0:08:20- Hello.- Hiya. How are you?
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Budge up, Harvey. Look at that, you're a walking, talking
0:08:23 > 0:08:26fire hazard in all that man-made material, Jon.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28- Certainly am.- OK, so, this is your manual.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30You know what this is all about by now.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32It's got all your recipes, it's got all your info,
0:08:32 > 0:08:34all your advice for this decade, OK.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38Work-wise, Jon, you are still in a manual trade, OK?
0:08:38 > 0:08:41You work for yourself and you're in the construction business.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43- All right.- Lesley,
0:08:43 > 0:08:46you've got a part-time job down at the local secondary school
0:08:46 > 0:08:49as a dinner lady.
0:08:49 > 0:08:50Looking forward to that.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52So you'll be bringing home a wage,
0:08:52 > 0:08:56and you'll also be expected to keep on top of most of the housework...
0:08:56 > 0:08:58..as per usual. However, this decade,
0:08:58 > 0:09:01you might get a tiny bit of help from Jon.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Sorry, Jon. Caitlin, you've got a full-time job.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06You work as a secretary.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07OK, so that's three wages, guys.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11So that's enough money coming in that you should have a bit of brass
0:09:11 > 0:09:14left over for some nice treats during the week.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Freya, you are continuing your studies.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20Harvey, still at school.
0:09:20 > 0:09:21OK? It's quite cute, though,
0:09:21 > 0:09:24because your mum is going to be there making your dinner for you.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27And you're going to have a lovely time. Enjoy the decade, OK?
0:09:27 > 0:09:29And I'll see you in a few years' time.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31- Thank you!- Enjoy.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38What better way to kick off the decade than by firing up the chip pan?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40# You can get it if you really want... #
0:09:40 > 0:09:43- Shall we see what's for tea, then?- Yes.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47Lesley and Caitlin are making spaghetti hoop puffs,
0:09:47 > 0:09:49an interesting recipe
0:09:49 > 0:09:53copied from popular women's magazine People's Friend.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Can I break this up more, because you're just doing my head in?
0:10:01 > 0:10:03No, you need it quite big, a nice big...
0:10:03 > 0:10:05I don't want it big, I want it small.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Right, OK. So, since you're such an expert, then,
0:10:10 > 0:10:12I'll leave you to do this bit.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16New convenience foods, like spaghetti hoops
0:10:16 > 0:10:18and ready-made puff pastry
0:10:18 > 0:10:20meant less time prepping basic ingredients
0:10:20 > 0:10:22and more time to experiment.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25- Kay-kay.- What, what?
0:10:25 > 0:10:28You need to make sure that you can close them.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30I can close it, look!
0:10:32 > 0:10:33Closed.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39I'm thinking, if I were going to make these, like, in the modern day,
0:10:39 > 0:10:43the last thing I would be putting in them is spaghetti hoops and ham.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45I think it's genius, personally.
0:10:45 > 0:10:50Why this hasn't continued into the 2000s, I have no idea.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53Because it's a heart attack on a plate.
0:10:53 > 0:10:54And? Worth it.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Right, so we've got to find which way to put this.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04By 1970, old family hand-me-downs were no longer
0:11:04 > 0:11:06the only option in home furnishing.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Sometimes, with these type of things, you kind of build it,
0:11:10 > 0:11:16and then you break it down because you realise that you're always one part short.
0:11:16 > 0:11:22Affordable and revolutionary flat-pack furniture had started to turn up in everyday homes.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27What I should do now to impress Lesley a little bit more
0:11:27 > 0:11:29is clear the corner and get it all set up.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33I think she's going to be impressed with this.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45With tea almost ready for dishing up, Freya and Harvey are on the pop.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46- Hello.- Hi.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49We've got nine bottles here.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Oh, good. Put them into there.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54Fizzy drinks had been sold door to door since the 1920s.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56And by the '70s,
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Sunderland firm Alpine
0:11:58 > 0:12:00had a fleet of wagons peddling pop to the people of the north.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02- You've got nine empties.- Yeah.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05- Which means you get a free bottle. - All right.- So what do you want?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07- Please can I have dandelion and burdock?- Yeah.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Home recycling was yet to become a thing.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12But enterprising kids could boost their pocket money,
0:12:12 > 0:12:15earning three pennies back for every bottle returned.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Cherryade, limeade, lemonade.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19We'll pay for the cream soda.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21- A cream soda.- Yeah.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23- Thank you.- OK, thank you very much.
0:12:23 > 0:12:24- See you.- See you.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27You know, I think this looks, like, really green,
0:12:27 > 0:12:29or is that just the bottle?
0:12:30 > 0:12:33Right, shall we have some music?
0:12:33 > 0:12:35- Why not?- Hit it, maestro.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39MUSIC: Ride A White Swan by T Rex
0:12:39 > 0:12:43- So what's this? - Spaghetti hoop and ham pasties.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53Lesley served her pasties with chips fried in lard and tinned veg,
0:12:53 > 0:12:55the '70s version of their five a day.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57I think I like '70s food.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59It seems to be, like, tinned stuff.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01And I quite like tinned stuff.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Carrying on there from the '60s, innit?
0:13:03 > 0:13:08The convenience food revolution is well and truly in swing.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11We had a whacking meal today.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Spaghetti hoop puffs.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17That's the first time I've really contributed in the kitchen.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19I think I'd make it again,
0:13:19 > 0:13:21but with baked beans, probably.
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Maybe. If I can be bothered.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39A new day in Bradford and a new year for the Ellis family.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41It's 1971.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44- See you later.- I'll see you.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48While Jon does the washing-up for the first time in this experiment,
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Lesley is off to join the growing number of married women in the
0:13:52 > 0:13:56workplace, which rose by nearly 10% across the decade.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00MUSIC: Changes by David Bowie
0:14:00 > 0:14:03In her new job, she's not just bringing home the bacon,
0:14:03 > 0:14:05she'll be cooking it as well.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07- Hello.- How are you?- I'm good.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09So nice to see you. Really good.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12So, today, you've got the important job of being a dinner lady.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16You're going to be feeding the nation's children in the 1970s.
0:14:16 > 0:14:17So, I've got a uniform for you.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21- Thank you.- Should we go and see the kitchen?- Yeah, let's do it.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24When it comes to school meals, one Bradford school led the way.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27In 1907,
0:14:27 > 0:14:31Green Lane Primary was the first in the country to serve a state-funded
0:14:31 > 0:14:36school dinner, a meal of Scotch broth, fruit tart, and bread.
0:14:36 > 0:14:41By the 1970s, institutional catering in places like schools, hospitals
0:14:41 > 0:14:43and prisons had become big business,
0:14:43 > 0:14:47offering new careers for young working-class women.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Beverly, what have you got here?
0:14:49 > 0:14:53These are photographs from when I first started in school meals.
0:14:53 > 0:14:59Beverly Smith worked in the school kitchens of Leeds between 1970 and '78.
0:14:59 > 0:15:00And how old were you then?
0:15:00 > 0:15:03- 16.- So, straight out of school.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05- Into school meals. - Into school meals?
0:15:05 > 0:15:06- Yeah.- How did the training go?
0:15:06 > 0:15:08What did you start off cooking?
0:15:08 > 0:15:12Potatoes. Six months on potatoes.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13Six months on potatoes?
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Six months on potatoes, all the duchesse, croquette...
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Different potatoes.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Then we did six months vegetables,
0:15:21 > 0:15:25that was the first year of my apprenticeship.
0:15:25 > 0:15:30So, then I went on to the second year, which was six months on gravy,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33custards, and sweet puddings.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36I can't see the difference, looking at the training that you did,
0:15:36 > 0:15:39between you and a chef.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41- In a restaurant.- Yeah.
0:15:41 > 0:15:42Yeah.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47School dinners were first brought in to combat malnutrition in the
0:15:47 > 0:15:49country's poorest children.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53Ingredients like liver were specifically chosen for their high nutritional content.
0:15:53 > 0:15:58By 1944, providing a hot school dinner had become compulsory,
0:15:58 > 0:16:02a drive by the state to improve the lives of working-class people.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Kids were well-fed, weren't they, in the '70s?
0:16:06 > 0:16:10Oh, yes. Quite often it was the only meal they got because, at that time,
0:16:10 > 0:16:15lots of mums had started working and so it was the only hot meal they got
0:16:15 > 0:16:18- through the day.- And if you don't mind me asking, Beverly,
0:16:18 > 0:16:23- was it well paid?- Compared to some jobs, it was quite well paid.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26I think my first wage was £7 13 2d.
0:16:26 > 0:16:27So, it was quite a good wage,
0:16:27 > 0:16:30considering some of the other wages that...
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Yeah. And it had career progression as well.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34Of course, yeah.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:16:37 > 0:16:40# Remember the days of the old school yard? #
0:16:40 > 0:16:43Hello.
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Right, come and get some grub.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47We've got liver and onions with bacon.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51And cheese flan.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53I think I would've been really happy
0:16:53 > 0:16:56to have been a school cook dinner lady.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00I feel it's a much more skilled and highly-valued role,
0:17:00 > 0:17:03which I can't believe I'm saying about a dinner lady.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05But genuinely, I do feel that.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07- Hey, guys.- Hi.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09- How's it been?- Disgusting.
0:17:09 > 0:17:10What about the liver?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12It was chewy.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15And the sauce around it was very sloppy.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18It was just like this... That was, like, slimy.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21He's dissing your food, Mum - what are you going to do?
0:17:21 > 0:17:25Already, and we're only in 1971,
0:17:25 > 0:17:28I feel like the '70s is...
0:17:28 > 0:17:30There's more promise.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32It holds more promise for women like me.
0:17:35 > 0:17:40More women at work meant families now had more spending power.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43But the money they were using was about to change.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47I'm sending Lesley's mum, Christine, round
0:17:47 > 0:17:49to bring the family up to speed.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52- I've brought you something. - Have you?!
0:17:52 > 0:17:55- Year of decimalisation, of course. - It's a game to play.
0:17:58 > 0:17:5931 and a half.
0:17:59 > 0:18:0432, 33, 35, 40, and ten is 50 and 50 is a pound.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08This was the year Britain's monetary system experienced
0:18:08 > 0:18:11its biggest change since Roman times.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15Think decimal. That way, you'll find shopping simple.
0:18:15 > 0:18:20The object of the game is for each player to complete their shopping list.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24The shopper's table may be used to assist in the conversion from pounds,
0:18:24 > 0:18:28shilling and pence to the new decimal currency.
0:18:28 > 0:18:29What a good idea, this game.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32I think we could have all done with one, because it was quite difficult.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34They didn't even have 20ps.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37Board games like this were meant to help people make the shift
0:18:37 > 0:18:39from crowns and shillings to new pence.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42How did you know that yours was four shillings and 2p?
0:18:42 > 0:18:44- Because...- Because you go on the...
0:18:44 > 0:18:46But some found it easier than others.
0:18:46 > 0:18:47Two pence...
0:18:49 > 0:18:50..is one pence.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Right?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Two shillings is 1p.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56- No.- Definitely confusing, this.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Mine is three shillings and 10p.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Which is 19 new pence.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05You're good at this.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08I know, she worked with old dosh, didn't she?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12It's 1971.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Lesley's mum came round to do the game with us.
0:19:15 > 0:19:20And it was hard to get the shillings and pence into pounds and do that
0:19:20 > 0:19:23cross-reference. So it was a bit chaotic, was that.
0:19:23 > 0:19:28My comment really was, how many actually finished that game?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41It's 1972.
0:19:41 > 0:19:42Hey, guys, the newspaper today.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44It looks quite serious.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47I think we're going to be due some power cuts.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53What happens next,
0:19:53 > 0:19:59as this country faces its worst industrial crisis since the General Strike of 1926?
0:19:59 > 0:20:051972 saw the highest number of strike days in Britain since the '20s,
0:20:05 > 0:20:09with steelworkers, builders and dockers all taking industrial action.
0:20:11 > 0:20:16Among them were the coal miners, who staged a nationwide walk-out.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18The strike is about money.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22The mine itself is unprofitable and the miners say their pay is low.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Soaring inflation meant their pay had not kept up with that of other
0:20:26 > 0:20:28skilled workers.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31The cost of living's gone up above 11%.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35And we're here, there's lads having to live down that hole for a decent
0:20:35 > 0:20:38living. Not for any luxuries.
0:20:38 > 0:20:39And as far as we're concerned,
0:20:39 > 0:20:43if they're not going to give us a decent living, well,
0:20:43 > 0:20:44they can put the lid on them all.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48With the mines closed,
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Britain's coal-fuelled power stations
0:20:50 > 0:20:52couldn't keep up with the demand for
0:20:52 > 0:20:56electricity, bringing the effects of the dispute into everyday lives,
0:20:56 > 0:20:57north and south alike.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02There's a chart here that says how it affects us.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Would you believe it, Bradford and Low Moor's on here.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07It's a disconnection rota.
0:21:07 > 0:21:12Imagine buying all these new electrical appliances.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14And you have a power cut so you can't use them.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16What's the point? Why didn't they just do them later?
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Well, when they invented them,
0:21:18 > 0:21:21they didn't anticipate that in 20 years' time the miners would be
0:21:21 > 0:21:24striking, did they?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26During regular blackouts,
0:21:26 > 0:21:30Brits got used to doing everyday activities in the dark.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33Sales of camping gear and candles rocketed.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36And if shops had sold out, you could always make your own.
0:21:38 > 0:21:39Oh, God.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Fat candles, a how-to guide.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46Melt the fat in the double boiler until it is liquid.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48What if the pan overflows?
0:21:48 > 0:21:49It's not going to overflow.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Drop the washer into the jar so the string or wick
0:21:54 > 0:21:56is in the centre of the jar.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59I feel like we've taken a step back, making candles.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01In the '60s, we were going out all the time.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03Now we're just stuck making candles.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05I know.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07I wonder how long it takes this to dry.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10You can't just rustle a batch up really quick.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12You literally have to wait for it all to dry as well.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17Lighting wasn't the only issue for families like the Ellises.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20When the power went off, so did electric ovens,
0:22:20 > 0:22:23making cooking a race against time.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26To help Lesley get tea ready before the power cut,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28I'm sending actor Claire Sweeney along
0:22:28 > 0:22:31with the speedy version of her family favourite recipe.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35- Hey, Lesley.- Hello!
0:22:35 > 0:22:38I'm Claire and I've come to make some scouse with you.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40- Scouse.- Scouse, do you know what scouse is?
0:22:40 > 0:22:43- I do indeed.- Oh, good, let's get cracking, then, come on.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45- Good to see you.- Nice to see you.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Listen, I'm loving the hair.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49- Do you like it?- It's really nice!
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Scouse is Liverpool's most famous stew,
0:22:51 > 0:22:54thought to be Latvian in origin and brought to the port city
0:22:54 > 0:22:57by sailors in the 19th century.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00It was a cheap but satisfying one-pot dish quickly adopted by
0:23:00 > 0:23:02working-class families.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04I'm not going to peel these because I think these...
0:23:04 > 0:23:06I know, shall we just do it raw?
0:23:06 > 0:23:09We'll slice them and, yeah.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12So, where does this recipe comes from, then?
0:23:12 > 0:23:16This was my dad. My mum was a shocking cook, and my dad could cook.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19I wasn't from an affluent childhood.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22I'm from terraced houses in Liverpool.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24My dad was a butcher, my mum was a barmaid.
0:23:24 > 0:23:30And it was just kind of making do for the week, really, for the family.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33A stew like this would normally take two hours,
0:23:33 > 0:23:35but with a power cut looming,
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Claire's secret weapon is a pressure cooker.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40In the days before the microwave,
0:23:40 > 0:23:42this noisy but nifty bit of kit
0:23:42 > 0:23:44could drastically reduce cooking times.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48Do you know, I don't think you're meant to fill it more than two-thirds full.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50We don't want an exploding pressure cooker, do we?
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Stew on your walls.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Mind you, you wouldn't know with this wallpaper, would you!
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- It would just blend in.- Maybe there was method in the madness.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03Claire's scouse will be ready in as little as 15 minutes.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Long before lights out.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Here we go.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11- Do you want to do it? - No, I'm scared of it.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14My dad drummed fear into me as a child with the pressure cooker.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19- You do it. Let's do it, let's do it. - I used to love doing this.
0:24:22 > 0:24:27- That's amazing! - The smell is divine, isn't it?
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Here we go.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36- Look.- It's brilliant.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39So, when I was a kid, I remember sneaking into the kitchen,
0:24:39 > 0:24:43and I'd get in and start stealing the meat.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46My dad said, "You're not blinding the scouse, are you?"
0:24:46 > 0:24:50So blind scouse is stew without meat.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53And I've just found myself instinctively then,
0:24:53 > 0:24:55pinching your family's tea.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58- I'm blinding your scouse. - You're blinding my scouse.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01I'm going to have a mouthful before I go, is that all right?
0:25:01 > 0:25:02That's fine.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Vegetarian scouse for tea, guys!
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Karma! I'm burning the tongue off myself.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24That is scouse, which is the Liverpudlian stew.
0:25:27 > 0:25:28Eyup.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Guys, can you see? Do we need to light some candles?
0:25:32 > 0:25:36- Yeah.- Have you heard the fridge has gone off?
0:25:36 > 0:25:40There's something about candles, it's kind of soothing.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42It's like looking at fish in a fish tank.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Well done, girls.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50After tea, we played cards by using
0:25:50 > 0:25:54the candles that Caitlin and Freya had made.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57I remember the power cuts when I was a little girl.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00And I remember them being cosy.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02So I really enjoyed that.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04It was kind of nostalgic for me.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14As the decade went on, so did the threat of strikes.
0:26:14 > 0:26:18The unions, government, and employers continued to clash.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21- It's 1973. - Right, lift your feet up.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27But 1973 provided football fans with a welcome distraction.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29- COMMENTATOR:- To Giles's chest.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31This is the FA Cup final, this.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33From Hunter now to Lorimer.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35- Oh, look at this. - 14, 15, 16...
0:26:35 > 0:26:37I can't believe I didn't make the school team.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39In an all-northern final,
0:26:39 > 0:26:43rank outsiders Sunderland took on defending champions Leeds.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50And it's there!
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Yeah!
0:26:53 > 0:26:54Sunderland have scored!
0:26:57 > 0:26:58Game over.
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Your mum won't be happy.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Sunderland's triumph caused one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07It was the first time since the 1930s
0:27:07 > 0:27:10that a second division team had won.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12And they came home to a heroes' welcome.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15As well as the trophy,
0:27:15 > 0:27:18the players were presented with a more unusual prize.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21A set of Pyrex cooking dishes.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Manufactured in Sunderland,
0:27:23 > 0:27:26this popular cookware could be found in homes across the country.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Good old Pyrex dishes.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Tonight, in honour of Sunderland's win,
0:27:30 > 0:27:34Leslie is cooking a dish from the Pyrex recipe book.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Cottage beefburgers.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42So, we've got a large can of baked beans.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Five beefburgers, a teaspoon of mixed herbs,
0:27:46 > 0:27:50two tablespoons of breadcrumbs, and three ounces of cheddar cheese.
0:27:52 > 0:27:56It's basically like cottage pie, just with beefburgers stuck in it!
0:27:59 > 0:28:01OK, it's not too challenging, I'm sure I can do it,
0:28:01 > 0:28:03but it's just a bit weird.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08The growing popularity of branded convenience foods over the decade
0:28:08 > 0:28:12saw regional favourites slowly losing out to the latest food fads.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16It's like we're on the edge of change.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19So, convenience foods have been introduced,
0:28:19 > 0:28:22but I still think that people in the '70s
0:28:22 > 0:28:25were a little bit suspicious of them.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28So they had to make them into a recipe.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31I think it's a case of convenience foods were too good to be true.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Maybe that's what they thought.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36And in hindsight, I think they were probably right.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52- What is it?- Ta-dah!
0:28:52 > 0:28:56- What is that?- What is that? Is it a burger?
0:28:56 > 0:29:00Yeah, this is cottage burgers.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03- Wow!- I'm not sure I'm going to like this.
0:29:03 > 0:29:04Is she actually kidding me?
0:29:04 > 0:29:06- Has it got chives in? - It's got celery in it?
0:29:06 > 0:29:08It is weird.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11What is that meant to be?
0:29:15 > 0:29:17This is the weirdest thing you've ever cooked.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19I totally agree there, Freya.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21Time to move on to '74, I think.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26We had an unusual tea.
0:29:26 > 0:29:29I didn't have high hopes for it, to be fair.
0:29:29 > 0:29:30But I have to say,
0:29:31 > 0:29:33I really enjoyed it.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35It was a lot nicer than I thought.
0:29:37 > 0:29:40MUSIC: Money by Pink Floyd
0:29:40 > 0:29:42# Money!
0:29:42 > 0:29:44# Get away... #
0:29:44 > 0:29:461974.
0:29:47 > 0:29:511974 began with an economic crisis.
0:29:54 > 0:29:58As Prime Minister, I want to speak to you simply and plainly
0:29:58 > 0:30:01about the grave emergency now facing our country.
0:30:03 > 0:30:05Since the Second World War, cheap and plentiful oil
0:30:05 > 0:30:08from the Middle East had enabled Britain to prosper,
0:30:08 > 0:30:13but a conflict between Arab states and Israel caused fuel prices
0:30:13 > 0:30:15in the UK to quadruple.
0:30:15 > 0:30:17- TV NEWS:- The effect on traffic gave a preview
0:30:17 > 0:30:19of what official rationing might bring.
0:30:19 > 0:30:23Dramatic drops were reported in Lancashire where, on the M6,
0:30:23 > 0:30:26only 50 to 100 vehicles an hour were counted,
0:30:26 > 0:30:28instead of the usual 1,500 an hour.
0:30:28 > 0:30:32On top of this, the miners' continuing industrial action
0:30:32 > 0:30:35meant British fuel reserves were perilously low.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37The country's power supply is in danger.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39Industry needs power.
0:30:39 > 0:30:41So do hospitals.
0:30:41 > 0:30:42So do essential services.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48To conserve energy, many businesses
0:30:48 > 0:30:51were limited to working a three-day week.
0:30:54 > 0:30:58Today, Caitlin's the only one not stuck at home.
0:30:58 > 0:31:02I actually can't believe everyone else is at home
0:31:02 > 0:31:04and I'm figuring out how to do this.
0:31:04 > 0:31:08And, like, people aren't going to have fingers left after doing this.
0:31:09 > 0:31:13There must be an easier way to go down the page without doing this.
0:31:13 > 0:31:17The expansion of the public sector since the '60s saw increasing
0:31:17 > 0:31:20opportunities in clerical and office-based roles
0:31:20 > 0:31:22for working-class women.
0:31:22 > 0:31:23What's "repeat spacer"?
0:31:24 > 0:31:25Oh!
0:31:25 > 0:31:26Right, OK. Not that!
0:31:29 > 0:31:33These workplaces typically used less electricity than traditional male
0:31:33 > 0:31:36places of work, so were less affected by the power restrictions.
0:31:39 > 0:31:41I even missed out a word!
0:31:42 > 0:31:45Oh, no! They're not going to notice...
0:31:47 > 0:31:51The fuel shortage wasn't the only way industrial action was having
0:31:51 > 0:31:54an impact on family life in 1974.
0:31:54 > 0:31:56This is going to be a big loaf.
0:31:56 > 0:31:58Hang on, we need to rethink this.
0:31:58 > 0:32:02Because I would never make a loaf that big.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08With inflation now at 17%,
0:32:08 > 0:32:11it wasn't just the miners demanding higher wages.
0:32:11 > 0:32:15Among the strikers were 33,000 of the nation's bakers.
0:32:16 > 0:32:19They wanted a 60% pay rise.
0:32:19 > 0:32:2060%!
0:32:20 > 0:32:26I mean, I know baking's important, but a 60% pay rise?!
0:32:26 > 0:32:28Bread supplies fell by three quarters
0:32:28 > 0:32:30and loaves were effectively rationed.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33Families who'd got used to more and more of their food
0:32:33 > 0:32:37being ready-made were now having to make their own.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40I wouldn't have bingo wings if I was doing this every day, would I?
0:32:42 > 0:32:43Right, go on, your turn.
0:32:45 > 0:32:46It's so sticky.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48Why do you like this?
0:32:48 > 0:32:52Don't be frightened, you can slap it about as much as you like.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54I know what I'd like to slap!
0:33:00 > 0:33:01DISTANT DOG BARKS
0:33:06 > 0:33:10Freya and I have been busy baking beautiful home-made bread.
0:33:10 > 0:33:11That is not your bread!
0:33:11 > 0:33:13Oh, yes, it is.
0:33:13 > 0:33:15That is well good.
0:33:15 > 0:33:18I bet you're well proud.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20So I'm going to apply for a 60% pay rise!
0:33:20 > 0:33:23LAUGHTER
0:33:23 > 0:33:25Do you know what, I thought you were going to demand an 80% rise,
0:33:25 > 0:33:27seeing as yours was better than the baker's.
0:33:28 > 0:33:29Ours.
0:33:30 > 0:33:31We did it together.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35MUSIC: The Hustle by Van McCoy
0:33:35 > 0:33:37Our bread.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44# Do it!
0:33:49 > 0:33:52It's 1975.
0:33:57 > 0:33:58Guys, come here.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02- Wow!- What the heck is that?
0:34:02 > 0:34:04No, guys, that's not it.
0:34:04 > 0:34:06It's a TV thing, isn't it?
0:34:06 > 0:34:08To bring the family bang up to date,
0:34:08 > 0:34:11I've arranged for them to get their hands on the latest must-have.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13Woo!
0:34:13 > 0:34:15"Dear Ellis family,
0:34:15 > 0:34:18"today you have taken delivery of a colour television."
0:34:18 > 0:34:21- It's colour!- Look at the size of it.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24It's actually beautiful.
0:34:24 > 0:34:28It's really... For the first time, I would say that that's beautiful.
0:34:28 > 0:34:29And it's massive.
0:34:32 > 0:34:36In 1975, the average colour telly would have cost Jon
0:34:36 > 0:34:38around two months' wages.
0:34:38 > 0:34:42The Ellises are joining the lucky 43% of skilled working-class households
0:34:42 > 0:34:46who have one. Even if it is rented from Rumbelows.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48That's a massive deal, isn't it?
0:34:48 > 0:34:51A colour TV. Look at that big speaker as well.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54It seems so weird that you're renting a TV.
0:34:54 > 0:34:56You'd never do that in the modern day.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59But £8 a month is affordable.
0:34:59 > 0:35:01Do we know how it works?
0:35:03 > 0:35:05Freya, you've got it working!
0:35:07 > 0:35:10- The colours are really bright, aren't they?- Yeah, it's fantastic.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16Choice was limited to just three channels, but at 4pm on Saturday,
0:35:16 > 0:35:21up to 16 million people tuned into ITV's World Of Sport,
0:35:21 > 0:35:25to watch grown men grappling in leotards.
0:35:25 > 0:35:28Yeah, I know what it is. Wrestling, aren't they!
0:35:28 > 0:35:31I wonder if Big Daddy's going to be on?
0:35:31 > 0:35:35The best-loved wrestler of them all was an ex-coalminer from Yorkshire
0:35:35 > 0:35:36called Shirley.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39- TV:- And on my right, ladies and gentlemen, at 25...
0:35:39 > 0:35:41- It is!- It's Big Daddy!
0:35:43 > 0:35:47- TV:- Big Daddy, of course, alias Shirley Crabtree, of Halifax.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50Look at the outfits!
0:35:50 > 0:35:52I can't believe what he's wearing!
0:35:52 > 0:35:57Wrestling was hugely popular with working-class audiences.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59Including the most unlikely fan base.
0:35:59 > 0:36:04- Hello!- Hello, Grandma!- I've come to see this new television.
0:36:07 > 0:36:08- TV:- There we go.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10Six five-minute rounds.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12- Saveloy.- Thank you.
0:36:12 > 0:36:16- And chips.- So, Big Daddy, he used to eat these.
0:36:16 > 0:36:17That's why we're having them.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20It was his staple diet, I think.
0:36:20 > 0:36:22I'm sorry, but what the heck is this?
0:36:27 > 0:36:29Don't like it.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32TV: What an enormous man this Shirley Crabtree is.
0:36:32 > 0:36:34Come on, Shirley!
0:36:36 > 0:36:37That's funny.
0:36:39 > 0:36:43My mother, your Grandma Hiley, absolutely loved wrestling.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45And she used sit in front of the television,
0:36:45 > 0:36:48and she would be shouting and...
0:36:48 > 0:36:49"Come on!"
0:36:49 > 0:36:51"Work a bit harder", or whatever.
0:36:51 > 0:36:53Bless her.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56While Grandma and the kids enjoy a home-grown hit,
0:36:56 > 0:37:01Lesley and Jon are looking further afield for tea-time inspiration.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03I've got some red wine and some soda water.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07Because I've been looking in a magazine
0:37:07 > 0:37:08and I saw a recipe for sangria.
0:37:08 > 0:37:11Sangria? You only have that when you go to Spain, don't you?
0:37:11 > 0:37:14So I thought, we'll bring Spain to Bradford.
0:37:14 > 0:37:20- Oh, right, good. - And I have bought us a paella.
0:37:21 > 0:37:23Paella!
0:37:24 > 0:37:27- Out of a packet?- This is exotic.
0:37:27 > 0:37:30I think I'll make double of the sangria, I think.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34This is the moment...
0:37:34 > 0:37:38Cheap package holidays were starting to expand people's horizons.
0:37:38 > 0:37:41..in which perfect paella is made.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43But if you couldn't stretch to a foreign holiday,
0:37:43 > 0:37:46Sheffield firm Bachelors was here to help.
0:37:46 > 0:37:49Vesta paella captures that mood.
0:37:49 > 0:37:56For you, for him, and that moment made special by Vesta.
0:37:56 > 0:38:02In 1975, we spent £10 million on their dehydrated Vesta meals.
0:38:02 > 0:38:03I reckon...
0:38:04 > 0:38:11..if we were truly in 1975 now, we would think we were the bee's knees.
0:38:12 > 0:38:13It's coming.
0:38:14 > 0:38:15Yay!
0:38:17 > 0:38:19Let me smell it. We haven't had wine for...
0:38:22 > 0:38:23Yeah.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27That wasn't easy! Hey, get off!
0:38:27 > 0:38:29You're necking it!
0:38:29 > 0:38:32- Oh, God! I can't wait to drink that. - You used to do that and all!
0:38:32 > 0:38:33I know I did.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37It wasn't just tea-time inspiration being imported from Europe.
0:38:37 > 0:38:39Once seen as an upper-class tipple,
0:38:39 > 0:38:43wine was increasingly being enjoyed by the masses.
0:38:43 > 0:38:47It's overflowing, so I'm going to have to drink some, love. Test it.
0:38:47 > 0:38:52As Britain joined the Common Market, duty on alcohol imports was slashed.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55We hit the bottle and wine consumption trebled.
0:38:55 > 0:38:56MUSIC: Fernando by Abba
0:38:58 > 0:39:01# In the firelight, Fernando... #
0:39:03 > 0:39:06I wonder how many people had this as a paella.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10Then they actually went to Spain and had a proper paella
0:39:10 > 0:39:13and got kind of put off with all this seafood in the dish,
0:39:13 > 0:39:15that they'd never seen before.
0:39:15 > 0:39:19They went to Spain expecting they were going to get a dish like this.
0:39:19 > 0:39:22# There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright...
0:39:22 > 0:39:24Where do you find prawns so small?
0:39:24 > 0:39:25Look at this one here.
0:39:25 > 0:39:29# They were shining there for you and me...
0:39:29 > 0:39:31That's made double...
0:39:31 > 0:39:35That's made double its size because it's got a grain of rice on it!
0:39:37 > 0:39:41I don't know what this obsession with dehydrated food was in the '70s.
0:39:41 > 0:39:45I think people maybe thought they were all going to space.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47I just don't know. Don't know.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51But it's not my idea of a good meal, let's put it that way.
0:39:56 > 0:39:591976.
0:39:59 > 0:40:00Cram in the back, kids.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03It's the endless summer of 1976 and the Ellises
0:40:03 > 0:40:05are heading off on a jolly.
0:40:05 > 0:40:08- You go in the middle.- You go in the middle, Harvey.- That's well harsh.
0:40:08 > 0:40:11With ordinary people enjoying more disposable income,
0:40:11 > 0:40:13leisure opportunities also opened up.
0:40:15 > 0:40:16Off on us holidays.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18MUSIC: Sunny by Boney M
0:40:20 > 0:40:23Owning a set of wheels expanded horizons.
0:40:23 > 0:40:27Although working-class families were still five times more likely
0:40:27 > 0:40:32to buy a second-hand car than a brand-new one.
0:40:32 > 0:40:36# Viva Las Vegas... #
0:40:36 > 0:40:39Are we going to Las Vegas? That would be a long ride, wouldn't it?
0:40:39 > 0:40:43Male drivers still outnumbered women by more than two to one.
0:40:43 > 0:40:48As late as 1975, only 29% of women had a driving licence.
0:40:50 > 0:40:52So, for now, Jon's in charge of the Viva.
0:40:54 > 0:40:58So, the speed dial goes up to 100mph, but I can't imagine doing 100.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01- Can you imagine?- I wouldn't like to think I'd go 100mph in this.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05- This is hard work.- Is it?
0:41:05 > 0:41:07Chuffing heck! No power steering!
0:41:09 > 0:41:11Keep pedalling, guys.
0:41:11 > 0:41:13- Do you feel all right?- Yeah.
0:41:13 > 0:41:15- Don't feel rickety?- No, I love it.
0:41:15 > 0:41:17It's amazing.
0:41:19 > 0:41:22The Ellises are hitting the glorious Leeds and Liverpool canal
0:41:22 > 0:41:25to enjoy a new kind of pastime.
0:41:25 > 0:41:26Watch it, Harvey.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29Remember what happened last time you went outside of a boat.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32- This is sick.- This is mint. Wow!
0:41:32 > 0:41:34It's quite big, isn't it?
0:41:34 > 0:41:36MUSIC: Rock The Boat by The Hues Corporation
0:41:38 > 0:41:41If you'd like to see rural England from the inside
0:41:41 > 0:41:44and if you like mucking about with boats, and who doesn't,
0:41:44 > 0:41:46how about this for a holiday?
0:41:49 > 0:41:52Once a vital artery of trade and industry,
0:41:52 > 0:41:56the Leeds and Liverpool canal linked Yorkshire's textile mills
0:41:56 > 0:41:58to the port of Liverpool and beyond.
0:41:58 > 0:42:00But when railways hit the scene,
0:42:00 > 0:42:03the old-fashioned barges couldn't compete
0:42:03 > 0:42:05and like many waterways across the north,
0:42:05 > 0:42:09it lay unused until finding new life as a leisure destination.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14By the late '70s, canals were thriving again,
0:42:14 > 0:42:20with 200,000 people taking to barging like ducks to water.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23There's an element of judgment involved in this, isn't there?
0:42:23 > 0:42:26You've got no means of seeing exactly where
0:42:26 > 0:42:27the front of the boat is.
0:42:27 > 0:42:30It helps when you've got a kid stood on the front of it.
0:42:30 > 0:42:32Yeah, that helps. Yeah, yeah. Waving all over the place.
0:42:32 > 0:42:33Yeah. Hiya!
0:42:33 > 0:42:35HORN BLARES
0:42:35 > 0:42:36Oh, my God!
0:42:36 > 0:42:38Everybody knows we're coming now,
0:42:38 > 0:42:39pressing that horn.
0:42:39 > 0:42:41I nearly jumped in there!
0:42:41 > 0:42:42HORN TOOTS
0:42:45 > 0:42:49So this is like exactly the kind of mill we would have been working in,
0:42:49 > 0:42:51we did work in in 1919.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53Yeah, textile mills, yeah.
0:42:53 > 0:42:56If our 1919 selves were looking out of the mill window now
0:42:56 > 0:43:03and watched us, on our boat, what do you think we'd have thought?
0:43:03 > 0:43:05I think you'd have thought it was bizarre, really.
0:43:05 > 0:43:09I think they'd think that we were rather lah-di-da.
0:43:09 > 0:43:15- Yeah.- I feel like we've come such a long way since, like, 1918.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17We had nothing.
0:43:17 > 0:43:21We were cobbling together everything that we had just to feed ourselves.
0:43:21 > 0:43:25And here we are, having a leisurely day out on the canal.
0:43:25 > 0:43:27I just... There's no comparison.
0:43:33 > 0:43:35It's 1977.
0:43:36 > 0:43:40This was the year we went crazy over the Queen's Silver Jubilee.
0:43:40 > 0:43:43Oh, these are proper mugs, these, Mum. You'll like it.
0:43:43 > 0:43:45MUSIC: Silver Lady by David Soul
0:43:45 > 0:43:49But the country had changed since the start of Elizabeth's reign.
0:43:50 > 0:43:53Back in the early '50s, Britain faced a labour shortage.
0:43:54 > 0:43:57The government responded by inviting workers
0:43:57 > 0:44:00from former British colonies to fill the gap.
0:44:00 > 0:44:04# Here I am, a million miles from home... #
0:44:04 > 0:44:07- DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE:- Bradford, the dark Satanic mills
0:44:07 > 0:44:11need cheap labour, and this the Pakistanis provide.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17Many of those who came from the Indian subcontinent
0:44:17 > 0:44:21headed for the textile mills of Lancashire and Yorkshire,
0:44:21 > 0:44:23transforming the face of northern communities
0:44:23 > 0:44:28and introducing new foods that would change British taste buds forever.
0:44:29 > 0:44:32I'm sending Jo n and Leslie to Bradford's oldest curry house,
0:44:32 > 0:44:35which has been around since the '60s.
0:44:36 > 0:44:38- Hello.- Hello, Leslie.
0:44:38 > 0:44:39Hello. Hello, lovely.
0:44:39 > 0:44:41Nice to meet you.
0:44:41 > 0:44:45Actor Shobna Gulati is on hand to help them navigate
0:44:45 > 0:44:46this new dining experience.
0:44:46 > 0:44:48- Seen that menu board?- Look at that!
0:44:48 > 0:44:50That's how it definitely would have been.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52That's how it used to be, yeah.
0:44:52 > 0:44:54- I remember them.- I have this strong feeling that, at one point,
0:44:54 > 0:44:56poppadom were free.
0:44:56 > 0:44:58- 18p for a poppadom! - That's daylight robbery!- Isn't it?
0:45:01 > 0:45:06The Karachi started life as a cafe for local Pakistani workers.
0:45:06 > 0:45:09Chicken karai madras, please.
0:45:09 > 0:45:14It's interesting, this table, because it looks exactly like my mum's...
0:45:14 > 0:45:15..my mum's kitchen table.
0:45:15 > 0:45:17It's how we'd eat at home.
0:45:17 > 0:45:20That's why I'm very familiar with this kind of food.
0:45:21 > 0:45:24I believe that the Karachi restaurant
0:45:24 > 0:45:26was the place to come in the '70s.
0:45:26 > 0:45:29If you imagine these lads and their ancestors
0:45:29 > 0:45:31came from the Indian subcontinent,
0:45:31 > 0:45:35they must have wanted that taste of home and it was a place
0:45:35 > 0:45:37for them to meet other people and socialise
0:45:37 > 0:45:41outside of the factory or the foundry that was just nearby here.
0:45:41 > 0:45:43I'm getting a little heated here.
0:45:43 > 0:45:46How do you feel about this spice?
0:45:46 > 0:45:49You've been without spice since 1918.
0:45:49 > 0:45:51- Are you feeling the heat?- Yeah.
0:45:53 > 0:45:55- I am.- And the tank top, as well, is not...
0:45:56 > 0:45:59Polyester and curry are not a good combination.
0:46:02 > 0:46:03During the '70s,
0:46:03 > 0:46:05instability in the Indian subcontinent
0:46:05 > 0:46:10saw the Asian population of Bradford increased by around 3,000 a year.
0:46:10 > 0:46:13And while curry might have been starting to appeal
0:46:13 > 0:46:14to the wider community,
0:46:14 > 0:46:18not everyone was ready to embrace a multicultural society.
0:46:28 > 0:46:30The mood was turning.
0:46:30 > 0:46:33The fortunes of the textile mills on which Bradford had been built
0:46:33 > 0:46:34were in decline.
0:46:34 > 0:46:39Rising unemployment helped fuel rising racial tensions in the town.
0:46:39 > 0:46:43I mean, the situation we've got now is that you can't find jobs,
0:46:43 > 0:46:45accommodation in your own town.
0:46:45 > 0:46:46We've got enough in Bradford.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48Let's keep them out.
0:46:50 > 0:46:53In April 1976,
0:46:53 > 0:46:56hostilities came to a head as whites-only political group
0:46:56 > 0:46:59the National Front marched through Manningham,
0:46:59 > 0:47:01in Bradford, a largely Asian area.
0:47:05 > 0:47:07Around 3,000 marched against them
0:47:07 > 0:47:11in a show of solidarity for their local communities,
0:47:11 > 0:47:14giving hope for a more harmonious future to come.
0:47:17 > 0:47:19Bradford's become a really sort of inclusive, very,
0:47:19 > 0:47:21very culturally vibrant place,
0:47:21 > 0:47:24as we got people from all over the world here
0:47:24 > 0:47:27and people who have been here now for generations.
0:47:27 > 0:47:30I think food has definitely been a way
0:47:30 > 0:47:32of assimilating cultures together.
0:47:32 > 0:47:36In fact, when we were kids, my dad used to say,
0:47:36 > 0:47:38"You can eat anything in the school dinner."
0:47:38 > 0:47:41Even though there were specific religious things
0:47:41 > 0:47:45that we weren't supposed to, but he just said, "Outside of the home,
0:47:46 > 0:47:50"you be in the environment you are, and when you're home,
0:47:50 > 0:47:51"then you're something else."
0:47:53 > 0:47:56The introduction of foreign foods
0:47:56 > 0:47:58has just had such a positive impact,
0:47:58 > 0:48:00especially on this city.
0:48:00 > 0:48:03It can only be a good thing, cos, let's be honest,
0:48:03 > 0:48:08that food we were eating a few years back was very beige and bland,
0:48:08 > 0:48:09- wasn't it?- Yeah, definitely.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11MUSIC: Night Fever by The Bee Gees
0:48:16 > 0:48:17It's 1978.
0:48:19 > 0:48:23In 1978, while disco fever swept the nation,
0:48:23 > 0:48:25working-class teenagers like Caitlin and Freya
0:48:25 > 0:48:28were finding their own way to express themselves.
0:48:33 > 0:48:34Girls, come on.
0:48:34 > 0:48:38Nice to see you. You've been here before, in the 1950s and, haven't you,
0:48:38 > 0:48:39- for the Lindy Hop?- Yeah.
0:48:39 > 0:48:45You're back to dance today, but now it's the 1970s and in the '70s,
0:48:45 > 0:48:48cool young thangs - sorry about that, that was uncool, wasn't it? -
0:48:48 > 0:48:51like yourselves used to go to all-dayers,
0:48:51 > 0:48:55throwing insane shapes to music from across the pond.
0:48:55 > 0:48:57- Are you ready?- Yeah.
0:48:57 > 0:48:59Yeah. Come on. Let's go and dance.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03MUSIC: There's A Ghost In My House by R Dean Taylor
0:49:03 > 0:49:06In the towns and cities across the north of England,
0:49:06 > 0:49:09young people rejected mainstream musical offerings
0:49:09 > 0:49:13in favour of obscure soul music from America.
0:49:13 > 0:49:16Easy, don't rush, don't push!
0:49:16 > 0:49:18Thousands flocked to weekly all-nighters,
0:49:18 > 0:49:20at venues like the Blackpool Mecca,
0:49:20 > 0:49:24Manchester's Twisted Wheel and the legendary Wigan Casino.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30Unique to the north at the time,
0:49:30 > 0:49:33the movement became known as Northern Soul.
0:49:42 > 0:49:43Come on, girls.
0:49:43 > 0:49:46Now, this is the lovely Sharon, our teacher for the day.
0:49:46 > 0:49:49Here to share their expertise are long-standing fans
0:49:49 > 0:49:51and veteran of the original scene,
0:49:51 > 0:49:54including dance tutor Sharon Sullivan.
0:49:54 > 0:49:56You were about their ages when you would sneak out
0:49:56 > 0:49:58and go to Northern Soul all-dayers?
0:49:58 > 0:50:00I think I was a little bit younger than you two.
0:50:00 > 0:50:03They had all-nighters, which I wasn't allowed to go to,
0:50:03 > 0:50:07obviously, and what I used to wear, the big Mary Quant huge shoes,
0:50:07 > 0:50:10so I was very tall then, so got in no problem at all.
0:50:10 > 0:50:13Tell us about Northern Soul dancing, then.
0:50:13 > 0:50:14- What goes on?- OK.
0:50:14 > 0:50:17So, as you can see from some of the dancers that are behind you,
0:50:17 > 0:50:19it is a freestyle dance.
0:50:19 > 0:50:22Set of rules in there which make it Northern Soul.
0:50:22 > 0:50:26There is a lot of foot swivels, high kicks and spins,
0:50:26 > 0:50:30tiny little movements with your feet and backdrops.
0:50:30 > 0:50:32I'm loving the tiny little movements.
0:50:32 > 0:50:33Backdrops, girls? High kicks?
0:50:33 > 0:50:35Freya? Do you want me to join in, girls?
0:50:35 > 0:50:37- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:50:40 > 0:50:43Mastering the moves was a serious business.
0:50:43 > 0:50:45The dance floor was considered hallowed ground
0:50:45 > 0:50:48on which to pull off the most audacious moves
0:50:48 > 0:50:51you could manage without putting your back out.
0:50:53 > 0:50:57MUSIC: There Was A Time by Gene Chandler
0:50:59 > 0:51:04Step underneath, step to the side, and do a heel kick forward.
0:51:04 > 0:51:07OK? Use the same...
0:51:07 > 0:51:08You all right there?
0:51:08 > 0:51:09Can't get past the first hurdle.
0:51:09 > 0:51:12If you do fall, can you turn it into a dance move?
0:51:12 > 0:51:15You can turn it into a backdrop. Yes.
0:51:20 > 0:51:24Northern Soul was a movement created by young people who found their own
0:51:24 > 0:51:26working-class lives reflected
0:51:26 > 0:51:28in the black soul music of industrial America.
0:51:28 > 0:51:32Well, I think there's something wrong with the world, really.
0:51:32 > 0:51:36To get enjoyment out of life during their teens and twenties,
0:51:36 > 0:51:40people do have to build, more or less, an alternative society.
0:51:42 > 0:51:45Why was Northern Soul so popular in the north?
0:51:45 > 0:51:47I think, from a northern point of view,
0:51:47 > 0:51:51I think it was working-class people. You know,
0:51:51 > 0:51:53we worked so hard and we didn't have that prosperity
0:51:53 > 0:51:55that they had in the south.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58You could get into the Northern Soul nights
0:51:58 > 0:52:00for not a lot of money, really,
0:52:00 > 0:52:04and it was just a release from the mundane working week, really.
0:52:04 > 0:52:07MUSIC: Sliced Tomatoes by The Just Brothers
0:52:07 > 0:52:11I think, with us living through so many eras, we've definitely found,
0:52:11 > 0:52:14like, down south, there were more money and prosperity
0:52:14 > 0:52:16and then you've got the working-class up north.
0:52:16 > 0:52:19Dance seems to be a recurring thing, cos, obviously,
0:52:19 > 0:52:21we did dance in the '50s.
0:52:21 > 0:52:24I bet it was so much fun to just go out.
0:52:24 > 0:52:25Let's bring it back again!
0:52:25 > 0:52:26Absolutely.
0:52:36 > 0:52:38Come on, girls. Oh, my gosh.
0:52:38 > 0:52:40It smells amazing. Right.
0:52:40 > 0:52:44You must be famished after your 11 hours of Northern Soul dancing.
0:52:44 > 0:52:48- Yeah.- Are you ready for a nice delicacy from Wigan?
0:52:48 > 0:52:51It's a Wigan kebabs, so it's a pie.
0:52:51 > 0:52:53Only one way to improve a pie, though.
0:52:53 > 0:52:54How can you improve a pie?
0:52:54 > 0:52:56You put it in a barm cake!
0:52:56 > 0:52:58I have never seen anything like this before.
0:52:58 > 0:53:00- Have you got any money? - I don't think I do.
0:53:00 > 0:53:03We'll have to do a runner, then. Come on. Thanks!
0:53:05 > 0:53:08Going from conforming with everything to, then,
0:53:08 > 0:53:12just getting out on this Northern Soul scene,
0:53:12 > 0:53:14it must be so good.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17Like, you've never had that independence before.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20Yeah, I think it must be so good to just sneak out of the house
0:53:20 > 0:53:23and dance to music and with your friends and stuff.
0:53:23 > 0:53:24It must be really good.
0:53:26 > 0:53:29It's 1979.
0:53:29 > 0:53:31So we're nearly at the end of the '70s.
0:53:31 > 0:53:33Whoopee! Nearly made it to the end.
0:53:34 > 0:53:37While the decade had delivered the smallest gap in wealth
0:53:37 > 0:53:39between rich and poor families ever,
0:53:39 > 0:53:44the focus of the headlines in 1979 was still on strikes.
0:53:44 > 0:53:46- TV FOOTAGE:- Many of London's 32 boroughs
0:53:46 > 0:53:49are now organising a do-it-yourself refuse disposal operation.
0:53:49 > 0:53:52In the north-east, some garages have been rationing petrol,
0:53:52 > 0:53:56but others have run out after serving more long queues of motorists.
0:53:56 > 0:53:59Successive governments had tried and failed to control the industrial
0:53:59 > 0:54:01chaos and economic instability.
0:54:01 > 0:54:06A look at the Prime Minister, as he leaves to tender his resignation.
0:54:06 > 0:54:09Now a new Prime Minister came into power,
0:54:09 > 0:54:11promising to put an end to it all.
0:54:11 > 0:54:16Her Majesty the Queen has asked me to form a new administration
0:54:16 > 0:54:18and I have accepted.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20I know full well the responsibilities that await me
0:54:20 > 0:54:24when I enter the door of Number 10.
0:54:24 > 0:54:28I completely understand why so many people voted for Margaret Thatcher.
0:54:28 > 0:54:31We've experienced all the strikes, we've experienced the blackouts.
0:54:31 > 0:54:33We've experienced inflation.
0:54:33 > 0:54:37And if you have someone that's promising to
0:54:37 > 0:54:40make things right and stop all that,
0:54:40 > 0:54:42you are going to want to vote for them.
0:54:42 > 0:54:45They promise the earth, don't they, until they get in?
0:54:45 > 0:54:49Once they get in, they kind of change their tack, so, yeah,
0:54:49 > 0:54:52it's a bit of an unknown, really, isn't it, what could happen?
0:54:52 > 0:54:55Well, at least now we've got a female Prime Minister.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58I know. It shows that times are changing, really, doesn't it?
0:55:02 > 0:55:04To help them see out the decade,
0:55:04 > 0:55:07the Ellises have invited round some good friends.
0:55:07 > 0:55:08- Hello.- Hi!- Hi!
0:55:10 > 0:55:14- Oh, Party Seven. Do you remember them?- Watney's Party Seven.
0:55:14 > 0:55:16Never ones to miss out on a knees-up,
0:55:16 > 0:55:18Polly and I are also popping along.
0:55:18 > 0:55:22Are we going to party like it's 1979? Woo!
0:55:22 > 0:55:23Oh, it's beautiful in here.
0:55:25 > 0:55:27Well, time flies.
0:55:27 > 0:55:281970s gone.
0:55:28 > 0:55:31How have they been for you? How have you enjoyed the 1970s?
0:55:31 > 0:55:34As you know, last era, I was just at the end of my tether.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37I spent my whole time in the kitchen, or in the house.
0:55:37 > 0:55:38This time,
0:55:38 > 0:55:42I feel I've been liberated and I've had so much more time
0:55:42 > 0:55:46and that time has been spent doing fun things.
0:55:46 > 0:55:49- Brilliant.- So it's as if leisure activities have kind of taken over
0:55:49 > 0:55:52from all that heavy graft that I were doing in previous eras,
0:55:52 > 0:55:54so it's been good.
0:55:54 > 0:55:57Food... I mean, can we talk about the food a little bit?
0:55:57 > 0:55:58We can.
0:55:58 > 0:56:02How did you feel about the processed food and the ready meals?
0:56:02 > 0:56:05Well, as you know, processed food is not really my bag
0:56:05 > 0:56:10and we got the full-on '70s processed food experience
0:56:10 > 0:56:11this decade.
0:56:11 > 0:56:14Look into my eyes. A little bit of you,
0:56:14 > 0:56:16did you kind of enjoy eating all that beige food?
0:56:16 > 0:56:18Yeah. Loved it.
0:56:25 > 0:56:26The '70s.
0:56:26 > 0:56:30If I could sum it up in one word, I'd stay "comfortable".
0:56:30 > 0:56:32I feel as though I'm comfortable through this era,
0:56:32 > 0:56:35whereas previous eras, I've always been wondering what's coming next.
0:56:37 > 0:56:42Despite all this upheaval going on around us and in the country
0:56:42 > 0:56:43and politically and economically,
0:56:43 > 0:56:48we've still managed to, almost to flourish in the '70s
0:56:48 > 0:56:50and that's amazing,
0:56:50 > 0:56:54considering that when we've had that kind of political turmoil
0:56:54 > 0:56:58in the past, we have really, really felt the impact of it badly.
0:57:00 > 0:57:03Have you felt like you've had more time together as a family,
0:57:03 > 0:57:05like out on the barge, and chilling out at home?
0:57:05 > 0:57:09- How's that been?- Unfortunately, we have had more time together.
0:57:09 > 0:57:10Oh, come now! You've loved it.
0:57:10 > 0:57:12I agree, I agree.
0:57:12 > 0:57:14Too much time with these two can get me wound up!
0:57:14 > 0:57:17What? Get you wound up?
0:57:17 > 0:57:19Yes, Freya, me wound up!
0:57:19 > 0:57:20Now, I'll bang your heads together, kids.
0:57:20 > 0:57:24So are you looking forward to saying goodbye to the '70s
0:57:24 > 0:57:27or are you going to say goodbye with some sadness?
0:57:27 > 0:57:31I think I'll be saying, this is the first time I'm going to say this,
0:57:31 > 0:57:34but I think I'm going to be saying goodbye with an element of sadness.
0:57:34 > 0:57:37Like, the Northern Soul I loved, I've loved the food,
0:57:37 > 0:57:40I've hardly spent time in the kitchen,
0:57:40 > 0:57:43I've got a job as a typist, which, to be honest, I loved.
0:57:43 > 0:57:47I'm just hoping, like, the '80s are going to be a bigger improvement.
0:57:47 > 0:57:49I'm hoping clothes are going to improve,
0:57:49 > 0:57:52but I already know that's not going to happen!
0:57:52 > 0:57:54I was going to say, the '80s are on the way.
0:57:54 > 0:57:56Are you excited about that?
0:57:56 > 0:57:59I'm hoping that there's going to be less brown stuff,
0:57:59 > 0:58:01because I can't look at this wallpaper any more!
0:58:01 > 0:58:04MUSIC: Get It On by T Rex
0:58:06 > 0:58:10I will be sad to say goodbye to the '70s, if I'm honest.
0:58:10 > 0:58:13It's just been so much fun.
0:58:14 > 0:58:18If the '80s is even half as much fun as the '70s, then bring it on.
0:58:22 > 0:58:23Next time...
0:58:23 > 0:58:26The Ellises get their first taste of Thatcher's Britain...
0:58:26 > 0:58:29Come and get your spuds. Best in the north! Come on!
0:58:29 > 0:58:31Pot Noodle!
0:58:31 > 0:58:33Wafers! Wagon Wheels!
0:58:33 > 0:58:35It's 1981.
0:58:35 > 0:58:37Woohoo!
0:58:37 > 0:58:39..and they see out the millennium in style.
0:58:42 > 0:58:44MUSIC: Step On by Happy Mondays