Modern People Volunteer to Live Edwardian

[Clemence]

I copy from www.imdb.com

by travelingmary 7 hours ago (Sat Nov 3 2012 18:38:06)   

There was a project filmed where modern people were chosen to live in an Edwardian manor house to see what it would be like to be the manor born and what it would be like to be the servants. It is interesting to see their reactions over their time there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9DlV54l62g


Randommovies2002 posted in another thread a documentary on servants.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE0ploBYCkc

[rosieposie]

Yes I have seen that particular show when it was kind of part of a series of different eras. 

There was one series based on people living in the Celtic period.  Yes they had to live in hut, wear celtic clothing etc.
 
A series of single people living in a Regency house titled "Regency House party" set during the times of Jane Austin.

Then there was the family who lived during the period of WWII.  It was fascinating to watch as they had to cope with rations,  the two young boys went to school and traded their rationed lunch for modern crips and lollies.  Also they had to get up during air raid sirens.  Which reminds me of when the family had to dig their own raid shelter.

The Edwardian series which you mentioned is called "Edwardian House" it was fantastic to watch.  The guy that was the butler had  a hard time especially with the younger members of the servants who would muck up.   They wouldn't listen to him and he was getting fraustrated. 

They only mentioned Nicholas once.   A guy came be and he was selling to the lord of the house bottles of wine that was the "favourite" of the Czar.

[Alixz]

I have been watching the second series of Upstairs - Downstairs and in one of the shows the older servants found that the younger servants didn't see their jobs in the same way. The complete dedication to the job and the aristocratic family was beginning to erode. First loyalty was no longer to the job and the family but more to the employees themselves and their wants and likes.

The difference was that being "in service" meant something entirely different to the older servants and the younger set had been brought up in a much more relaxed time. The decade of the 1920s and the realization of what total war could do to a generation made the younger servants less inclined to want to follow rules that they thought were musty and unfair. They also began to want some work related "perks" that older generation servants didn't think were necessary.

I would imagine that the Edwardian House occupants found much the same thing. Living in a time period and being of the that time period with all of the learning and acceptance of the era must be much different than just taking a bunch of people and having them  (with their modern life experiences) try to recreate a way of life that they know nothing about.

Using gas lamps and oil lamps and having no electricity and no TV and computers would be a jarring experience for those chosen to try to live in those kinds of circumstances when they have no concept of that kind of life.

[historyfan]

I wish I could remember the name of the show I've seen a couple of times. It's not "Edwardian House"...it's a street - a whole street - in the UK that turns itself into a whole other era. Shops, workers, clientele, everything. Once they were Edwardian, another time they were during WWII. It's fantastic. The Edwardian one I watched, they were trying to bake bread in the stoves that they had, and complaining the whole time. lol The WWII one, they were wondering how they were going to run the cafe on rations.

[rosieposie]

I wish I could remember the name of the show I've seen a couple of times. It's not "Edwardian House"...it's a street - a whole street - in the UK that turns itself into a whole other era. Shops, workers, clientele, everything. Once they were Edwardian, another time they were during WWII. It's fantastic. The Edwardian one I watched, they were trying to bake bread in the stoves that they had, and complaining the whole time. lol The WWII one, they were wondering how they were going to run the cafe on rations.

The original post was about the show titled:  "The Edwardian House" and I have seen the other show you have mentioned.  It's called "Turn back time"  where a few different groups of families started trades from the mid 1800s all the way to the 1970s.