powerrabbit Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Has anyone watched this series of programmes on BBC2 over the last few weeks? It was the last one tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 its been on before, found it intresting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leakeyvale Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Yes I have been watching it - reminded me of Christmas when I was a child when I was always assisting in making decorations both paper and edible. (No I am not a Victorian!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 there's a good book out to follow the series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
05rich Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 its a good programme the farm which it is filmed on is half hour down the road from me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted December 25, 2009 Author Share Posted December 25, 2009 The first series that they did, 'The Victorian Farm' screened last year was the programmes that was accompanied by a book and was later also released on DVD. I think there is a DVD planned for release on this last Christmas short series as well. The book is very good and although advertised at the retail price of £20 I got a copy from W.H. Smith when it came out for £12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masseyjack590 Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 i watched the first series and some of this one did they get that forge working in the end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted December 25, 2009 Author Share Posted December 25, 2009 Yes, it worked perfectly. I think they must have had a bit more help with it than shown in the programme as the bellows had been cleaned up and looked like new. The farrier tested it out after they lit it with a couple hundredweight of coke and shod Clumper the Shire with his new shoes. Then Alex, tutored by the blacksmith made an iron doorknocker for the old man Acton for a Christmas present. Apparently, you should never call a farrier a blacksmith or vice-versa, they are recognised as seperate professions with different skills! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 I got the DVD for Christmas. Looking forward to watching it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 just got the book in the afternoon present session, what i've looked at so far well worth it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted December 25, 2009 Author Share Posted December 25, 2009 I would love to be able to aquire a copy of the 'farming bible' they refered to from time to time, 'Stephensons Book Of Farming' but original copies make several hundred quid and the reprints are not cheap either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archbarch Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 ive missed this Christmas series sadly, i would love a copy of the Farming bible aswell. It would be good to see a working Victorian farm set up as a visitor attraction, would be better than these farm parks with lamas and alpaccas running round !!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted December 26, 2009 Author Share Posted December 26, 2009 It will come to pass, probably not in my time and probably not in the next generation, that farming and food production will have to resort back to the Victorian methods as climate change and modern resources become strained and economic pressures and an ever increasing need to feed an ever increasing population bites. Back then the pressure of life was substantially less and the feeding of the nation was more important than World economic importance and machinery and farming in general, although more labour intensive, fulfilled the ideal that 'a well fed man did a good day's work' and without this ideal then the English nation would not have built itself to the strength it did up to that time and a little beyond. What I'm saying is I suppose is that when prices are so high that people can't afford the basics and fuel starts to run out then to move forward we will all have to go backwards. It is said that 'history has a habit of repeating itself', it's just a pitty that no-one has seemed to have learnt from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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