Bye bye Victorian Farm

[Pumpkin Becki]

PS... and I'll really miss Peter Ginn (yum)...er, I mean the programme.

[Irie Jan]

I'm gona miss this program, it was good! I wonder what will be on TV in it's place??

[snuffer]

Has been a brilliant series made all the better for not having some no naught half wit celebrity as the narrator. Very brave decision in these celebrity obsessed times.

I now have the obligatory book that accompanies the series (also very good) and have ordered the DVD along with their other series 'Tales from the green valley', a similar project but set in the sixteen hundreds.

[janeyo]

OH said I would like it, so I turned it on half way through one week... to be confronted with eyeballs in jelly.
So I turned it back off. Thought I had accidentally tuned into to 'I'm a Celebrity get me Out Of Here' instead lol

[Paulottie]

Yup- it was a lovely series...very down to earth....clearly extremely hard work for the Victorians...but exceptionally interesting!

As a teenager I would help at the open air museum traditionally harvesting and steam threshing etc the long straw wheat for thatching straw... I have many happy memories of weaving home on my pushbike at dusk full of cider and aching from real labour

i watched a couple of episodes it was realy interesting and not much different from what happens now only the machinery has changed into engines..thanks for the book link

I disagree entirely...modern methods are not the same at all...whilst huge aircon, satellite guided combines and tractors are quicker and comfier, they caused the demise of hedgerows and much of our native wildlife in favour of huge monoculture fields. They completely miss the sense of community for what is now a very isolating and dull profession.

[SlugLobber]

PS... and I'll really miss Peter Ginn (yum)...er, I mean the programme.

I'm right there, with ya, Becki! Tasty bit of crumpet - I mean, what a handsome chap!

[andrewo]

They did another series prior to this, I think it was medievil/tudor and followed the farming back then. That was a good programme too.

[Hilary B]

As a teenager I would help at the open air museum traditionally harvesting and steam threshing etc the long straw wheat for thatching straw... I have many happy memories of weaving home on my pushbike at dusk full of cider and aching from real labour



I disagree entirely...modern methods are not the same at all...whilst huge aircon, satellite guided combines and tractors are quicker and comfier, they caused the demise of hedgerows and much of our native wildlife in favour of huge monoculture fields. They completely miss the sense of community for what is now a very isolating and dull profession.

Although you never hear about them, there ARE still small farms, run not-so-differently. Go visit a small sheep farm in a relatively remote area, Orkney for instance, and there will be echoes of the series. Arable farming has pretty much gone agri-business, but livestock much less so, at least in some areas. Sheep still have lambs much the same way, shearing differs only in the use of electric machines to drive the shears.....

[selfraising]

I really loved this programme too. Was wondering what was going to happen to the cottage after they put so much effort into installing an oven and cleaning it up. It would be a shame if it stayed empty again for several years.

[Paulottie]

While I am sure there are remote communities and a few smaller farms around that haven't been put out of business by the supermarkets. I referred more to arable farming and that sort of harvest home spirit portrayed in the show last night.. I've experienced both methods and they are poles apart.....perhaps I am just being a nostalgic Luddite yearning for some lost pastoral idyll....Mind you didn't much fancy that cloudy beer strained through rag in a gersunda.

[daleclarke]

I really loved this programme too. Was wondering what was going to happen to the cottage after they put so much effort into installing an oven and cleaning it up. It would be a shame if it stayed empty again for several years.

Don't quote me on this but I am sure it said at the beginning that as the main house is open to public the farm would be an added attraction, that was how they got all the farm equipment as it has some sort of museum.

[kiwirach]

i really wanted to see this but was away when it started, so will head off to amazon as mentioned earlier in the thread...thanks for that!.
also will look at the downloadable book as mentioned earlier as well....i love the old books!.

[ailsasyl]

We missed fist couple i think but really enjoyed the ones we did see, would be a great series to show in schools when studying victorian history, reminded me of a programme we had at school about a family during the war, it followed a family and used to cut back to black and white footage, HB said they watched it in P7! lol!

[HayleyB]

I missed the first couple as well but was hooked completely, absolutely brilliant and yep I'll miss the cheeky chappie (Peter) too. Ruth was great she seemed to really know her stuff and it was refreshing that they were all unknowns too.

[ixi1456]

Don't quote me on this but I am sure it said at the beginning that as the main house is open to public the farm would be an added attraction, that was how they got all the farm equipment as it has some sort of museum.

You can actually visit the Victorian Farm The Acton Scott Historic Working Farm is open to the public April 15 - November 9, 2009.
Acton Scott Historic Working Farm, Church Stretton, Shropshire, Shropshire Attractions