Coal house at War Reviews
Description:Coal House at War is an ambitious BBC Wales series that will transport three families back in time to the South Wales ... more
Coal house at War ... coalfield of 1944.
Newest Review: ... from Cardiff and the Tranter Davies family from Merthyr Tydfil took up residence in stack square and lived the lives of the 1940s mining community. I missed series one - this review will refer to series two. This most excellent programme is a history lesson of the most interesting kind, far removed from the stuffy textbooks of school and some of the cobbled documentaries we see on the ... more
... History channels.
We get to see how these people coped with the everyday domesticity and the hardness of manual labour. Coping really is the keyword here. Most tasks had to be done manually and something simple that we take for granted, like having a s...moreCustomer Coal house at War Reviews (1)
by - written on 25/11/09 (Very useful, 117 readings)
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Imagine a being transported back in time to a community where men went down the coalmines by day and the women worked in a 'munnitions factory. Some of the women stayed at home during the day to look after younger pre-school children. at night when the men came home from the mines, they might be required to do a stint of Home Guard duty. The time was the 1940s, deep in the throes of World War 2. The place was the mining community of Blaenavon, and in particular a small community of houses known as 'Stack Square' A group of families from Wales were able to be transported back in time to re-live the 1940s life of a Welsh mining community in wartime. This was ... Read the complete review
