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00:00someone new has come into the house
00:08dad how long do i have to sit here for she's very small
00:15and she's a little girl she's called alice
00:20you can smile and she's a ghost
00:30meet the bowler family royal marine paul school inspector joyce 11-year-old twins ruth and hillary
00:48katherine 16 and nine-year-old joe they volunteered to go back in time to wash
00:56dress eat and live every intimate detail of domestic life in the 1900 house
01:08the bowlers are halfway through their three-month stay living in turn-of-the-century conditions has
01:15been tough especially as they're surrounded by modern-day temptation the rules they've agreed
01:20to live by are clear if they deviate from 1900 life they have to confess i have to be absolutely
01:28honest with you um i haven't washed my hair for six days and i know i said i was never ever
01:36going to wash it again but it's actually starting to get through to me despite promising to wash
01:42their hair in 1900 products joyce and the girls have decided they cannot cope without modern shampoo
01:48i don't like it so what would you like in your sandwiches
01:53having been on hunger strike joe is now supplementing his diet with 20th century peanut butter and chocolate
02:03spread i just had this massive temptation just and katherine has confessed to using a phone box to call her
02:10best friend she told me what happened in eastenders and and you know what she was doing today and and
02:16just things like that and that's what i really miss
02:20but now they're looking forward to a new start with a helping hand
02:25like most middle-class households of 1900 they've taken on a servant
02:29ah good morning good morning elizabeth come in thank you elizabeth lillington is the bowler's maid of
02:37all work thank you oh gosh i've got you would you like to take your cake please please i'm 29 i'm 30
02:44this year most of my life i've been doing cleaning so as my mother's and my mum's mother as well so i'm
02:51like the third generation of a cleaner in my family oh great i curled my fringe off oh come through to
02:59the kitchen i wanted this job because i've always been really interested in history especially women's
03:08history and when i found out they had reconstructed this house i couldn't wait to get here because i
03:14feel like i'm living and breathing and wearing the same things that my great-grandmother probably would
03:20your horn yeah oh right sunlight soap excellent there's no better household soap have you got
03:27a corset on yes you have yeah you got it tightly laced it's not very tightly nice i suppose you ought
03:33to talk about terms and hours of work yeah things like that um girls could you go and find something
03:39to amuse yourselves with all right so if you're working full-time as a maid of all work if we look
03:47at the rate of wages it would range from the highest would be 12 guineas a year down to this
03:55is a year seven guineas so it's not very much is it well i'm not sure what a guinea is actually
04:01pounds and a shilling so very roughly it works out something like five shillings a week
04:06uh-huh so it's about 10 pence 10 pence a week a day a day yeah and that's in modern money that's
04:13four p god so you gotta work all day yeah for four pence yeah translated into today's money elizabeth's
04:25hourly rate is less than 30p part of me is thinking oh good oh good i don't have to do all the horrible um
04:34and part of me is saying um that's awful you know you've got somebody else a woman at that
04:52cleaning up after you
04:53i want to be a benevolent employer i suppose i'll be giving you cups of tea um free access
05:05to the outside toilet i mean what else can i give her there aren't really a lot of perks to this job
05:10um as much fluff as you can take home
05:16elizabeth is fantastic she is she is great she would have put so much effort into it and she's
05:22a really nice person as well what did you get for country in denmark you all got denmark i'm
05:29cheating i taught the children here a game to play which all my family used to play and there was nine
05:36of us me and my twin brother are the youngest of nine we didn't we didn't have much toys or anything
05:40like that and we used to keep ourselves occupied by playing charades and telling ghost stories right
05:47elizabeth's ghost stories have inspired hillary and ruth
05:52this is alice and she's our little ghost and she didn't like us moving in because she used to live
06:15here and um she once when she was playing with her little doll she was playing with it on the stairs
06:21because it moves its head she was sort of moving her head with it and um she fell down the stairs
06:26and that's how she died it's a bit sad so that's how she's sort of the ghost in the house
06:33they're working on a play to entertain a special visitor
06:36the leading lady is alice the 1900 house ghost yeah okay actors great we got mom that's for hillary drew
06:47alice would have seen more tragedies because there wouldn't have been any safety then and she would
06:53have seen people getting burned and things like that although alice is fictional deaths like hers were
07:00all too real records show that at the end of the last century one in four children died before the age
07:07of six in 1900 it's unlikely that all the bowler children would have survived their early childhood
07:14whoa that doll needs to be tiny
07:20elizabeth has been studying victorian cleaning manuals
07:23in one of the books i was reading they used to use tea leaves on the carpets and that was in order
07:30to stop the dust oh that's great that is there's another good tip about salt if you get dry salt and
07:36put it on a colorful carpet and leave it for a few minutes and then brush it off it brings all the shine
07:42of the color out of the carpet so the carpet looks like brand new literally just walk through the door
07:50to discover the house is absolutely beautiful it is it is beautiful she's she's dusted she's cleaned
08:02are you sure she didn't have a vacuum cleaner in her bag or something
08:08in 1900 new job opportunities like office work meant that servants were able to earn money elsewhere
08:15so in order to keep your maid you had to be kind
08:20magazines advised giving them knee pads for floor work to prevent the crippling onset of housemaid's knee
08:28come and see what i've got joyce has gone one step further
08:31the carpet sweeper was invented by an american asthmatic called mr bissell in a bid to contain
08:52the dust which inflamed his lungs it was first marketed in england in 1887 is that my present
09:01my new toy at the moment because it saves me practically an hour when i'm cleaning the carpets
09:12so i know that feminism helped women gain their liberty but if you ask me i think it was more
09:19the carpet sweeper and domestic appliances that gave women their liberty because it saves so much time
09:25working
09:31thank you mum no thank you he will be back you'll see me bye girls bye bye elizabeth
09:41see you yeah take care bye and you bye bye
09:45i hope she does come back
09:46i hope she does come back elizabeth is needed the bowlers are about to come
09:53under scrutiny as 1900 hosts
10:07the
10:18elizabeth skills are now on trial as darryl rook the historian who created the 1900 house
10:24is about to return for a progress report.
10:36To make a good impression,
10:38the family are preparing to treat their guests to a faggot party.
10:42Faggot parties were a 1900 American import.
10:47Supper was taken early, the parlour cleared,
10:50and everyone had to come up with a turn, or faggot,
10:53to fuel the party's spirit.
10:55I was nervous about Daru coming back to see us,
10:58because as a curator of the project,
11:01and somebody who's put together a lot...
11:05Well, most of the house, really,
11:06and invested a lot of himself in it,
11:10I wanted him to feel that we really had a good go at it,
11:13made a positive effort.
11:16We're going to have the doors closed, eat our meal.
11:20Clear.
11:23Move the table back, everybody sit...
11:26Everybody sits over there.
11:26...sit around, yeah.
11:30Open the curtains.
11:31Open the doors, and I can do that.
11:34Yeah.
11:34Yeah.
11:38Daru Rook has returned to assess the family's progress.
11:41It's been six weeks now,
11:44and I want to see how all the things we did have stood up to wear and tear.
11:50I hope they haven't been infested with mice,
11:52and I hope they haven't come down with any nasty stomach ailment.
11:55I'm really nervous about this, so let's get it over with.
11:57Hello.
11:58Hello.
12:03Good afternoon.
12:03Hello.
12:04Come in.
12:05Is Mrs. Boer at home?
12:06Yes.
12:07I suppose the most astonishing thing about all this
12:10is really seeing how the house has changed.
12:12No, no, no, no.
12:13I was supposed to be really quiet.
12:14You're going to show us along.
12:15You're doing very well.
12:16So lovely to see you again.
12:18How it's turned from being a kind of museum set,
12:21in some ways, into being a real home,
12:23and I feel very peculiar being here in the middle of it.
12:27I'm going to show you some tea.
12:301900 etiquette required that a housewife
12:33would never serve tea in the kitchen,
12:35nor would she kiss anyone other than her family.
12:38The bowler's first social gaffs of the day,
12:41but by no means their last.
12:43So you're actually...
12:44Both of you are all right in coping with all of this?
12:46Um...
12:49That's perhaps a bit too much of a loaded question.
12:51Yeah, no, it's a very loaded question.
12:52It is a bit, gosh, it's too sad.
12:54I am.
12:54I'm actually enjoying myself here.
12:56It's just kind of to me,
12:57I've got this love-hate relationship with being here.
13:01I either love it intensely,
13:03to the point where I think I could never leave,
13:05or I hate it so much,
13:07I'm practically putting my hat on and leaving,
13:11and it's very strange.
13:12What sort of things make you hate it?
13:14I mean, is it the...
13:15Because that really interests me,
13:17what you've found difficult about it.
13:19It's a sense of wasted talent.
13:21It's a sense of skill and brain power and other things like...
13:26I mean, often there's...
13:27I mean, I could iron till I was blue in the face.
13:29I could iron, iron, iron all day.
13:32I could...
13:32I could help Elizabeth.
13:34I could clean.
13:35She's nodding in the scale.
13:37I could...
13:37I could find things to do in that way.
13:40I mean, I can keep myself active and busy all day.
13:43I think there were many women in 1900 who felt just what you've described.
13:46I mean, either you entered fully into the glory
13:50of keeping every piece of brass work and woodwork in the house
13:52gleaming and shining,
13:54or you tried to do something about him.
13:55By 1900, there were plenty of women around who were
13:58trying to get professions, learn to type, become secretaries.
14:02Suddenly, for the first time in 1900,
14:04you were getting the new woman,
14:06which is really probably what you would have ended up doing,
14:08or certainly your daughters would have ended up doing.
14:12An honoured guest provides a welcome excuse for a family photo.
14:16I wonder if your dad's noticed that Alice is sitting there.
14:19We all come up in the frozen grass.
14:22Yeah.
14:22She's sitting there.
14:24She looks comfortable to me.
14:27Who's Alice?
14:28She's a ghost.
14:30Oh, sorry, yeah, a ghost in the play last night.
14:32Oh, do keep up.
14:33I'm sorry.
14:36Respectable men of 1900
14:38could indulge their passion
14:39for the new hobby of photography
14:41at local camera clubs.
14:44They could pick up a handcrafted classic like this one,
14:46built to a design already 30 years old.
14:51That's it.
14:55Celluloid film was available as early as 1890,
14:58but amateurs continued to use photographic glass plates
15:01as they were easier to process at home.
15:04What's he doing?
15:06He's putting the plate in.
15:07This is one of his worst hobbies ever.
15:09Couldn't he have done this before?
15:11Can we pose, please?
15:12Posey.
15:15No, properly, Joseph, please.
15:16Shall we put your legs down?
15:18Still for five seconds, go.
15:19Thank you, everybody.
15:32It is for me.
15:34Will it work?
15:34Will it work?
15:35It doesn't work, it doesn't work.
15:36In 1900, developing fluids often contained a dangerous chemical, cyanide.
15:42Many keen photographers were gradually poisoned or went slowly mad.
15:49Something's happening.
15:50There you are.
15:52Look at that.
15:53To prevent fading, prints were fixed in a toning solution containing particles of real gold.
16:09The result, the brown-tinted images we now call sepia.
16:13The evening begins with the first faggot.
16:25Welcome to Hill and Ruth's production of the 1900 house, The Ghost.
16:33It always hurts when I play with that doll, because when I was fine, I was on the stairs,
16:38and I was pretending to be the doll.
16:40But I fell, and that is how I became a ghost.
16:43Like many Victorian plays, their production has a moral message.
16:47From beyond the grave, Alice is urging Paul and Joyce to slow down the pace of their life.
16:52I thought the little production with the theatre was absolutely splendid.
16:56Ruth and Hillary had written that play all by themselves,
16:59and having the time and without the distractions of modern TV and other appliances,
17:04they'd been able to colour and draw and plan and do this really rather complicated thing,
17:08complete with musical accompaniment, which was quite unexpected.
17:13It takes one step and a day to get the way...
17:23Bravo!
17:25Bravo, mate!
17:29Bravo!
17:33In the scullery, Elizabeth takes one step forward and two steps back.
17:40Zambuk ointment is the only product in the medicine cupboard for burns.
18:08It's made from paraffin wax and a natural antiseptic, eucalyptus oil.
18:14Oh, that looks old!
18:14Oh, it hurts!
18:15It really does.
18:17It's a very nice vintage, see if you like it, girls.
18:20Dinner is served.
18:21The starter, a dish of Mrs Beaton's potted beans.
18:24Is it just us?
18:25Um, mate.
18:27So what do you do to the beans, or should I be asking Elizabeth, really?
18:30Mmm!
18:31By 1900, the middle classes had stopped imitating their social superiors by serving lavish evening
18:40meals.
18:41Instead, they served early evening high tea, consisting of easily prepared foods like spaghetti,
18:47a newly recommended dish in the recipe books of the day.
18:50A woman at the time in your position would not have been socially that different to the
18:55person who was your maid, so in order to mark that distinction, you may well have been
19:00pretty nasty to the maid, in order to stress that difference and in order to make her get
19:05it right.
19:06Never eat all that!
19:08Elizabeth, could you come back and get us another jug of lime, please, when you've
19:19finished?
19:20Yeah, and then get your cone hat.
19:21I don't know!
19:22I don't know!
19:23That's so funny!
19:25I'm having to stop myself from going into the kitchen.
19:29I'm going to have to stop myself from cuffing around the back of the ear.
19:31I bet she's cursing us!
19:32I bet she is.
19:34I'm not coming here again!
19:35Personally, I think that Paul is a pain in the neck, because, I mean, basically, if
19:44I was alive 100 years ago, my life would be as comfortable as he wants to make it, and
19:49this is the 90s, and he's not making my life very comfortable at all.
19:52Where is she?
19:53She doesn't take the cheese away, for goodness sake.
19:55She'll just come back in again to get the tomato sauce.
19:57It's a horrible...
19:58She's a maid of all work, paid to do jobs.
20:00She's not a slave, either.
20:02She's not, no!
20:03So, why are you treating me like that?
20:05He's just being worried.
20:06I think he's just being...
20:07I'm just being...
20:08I'm doing a bit of role-playing.
20:10I think that Mr Bowler, Paul Bowler, slipped into the role of Master of the House quite easily.
20:17He kept giving me a bad attitude throughout the whole night, which his son, Joe, picked up
20:23on.
20:24He kept calling me maid all night, which thoroughly upset me, because he knew my name.
20:28So, um, I think the snob, you know, both the men at the house came out right, you know, quite
20:34suddenly.
20:35All right.
20:36Yeah, it was...
20:37It was...
20:38If you clear the table and then bring in the other stuff, that would be fantastic.
20:42Right.
20:43Because the rhubarb and everything will be enough to go on with anyway.
20:46Yeah.
20:47You can't use them.
20:48I know.
20:49I like to find...
20:50Have we got any more small plates?
20:51Yeah, I'm just going to get them now.
20:53I'm a bit out of breath because I'm absolutely exhausted.
20:56It's nearly nine o'clock and I've been here since nine this morning.
20:59Um, I've still got the washing up to do.
21:02My back's killing me.
21:03The corset's too tight, my feet hurt, my hands are sore.
21:07All I want to do is go home and go to my bed.
21:10Good evening.
21:11Good evening.
21:12Ladies and gentlemen, here I stand before you, a woman of the year 1900.
21:18They're having a party downstairs and doing some shows.
21:21I don't know what's going on because I haven't been invited because I'm just the maid.
21:24Please close your eyes.
21:29And cast your minds into the future.
21:32Far into the future.
21:34One hundred years away to the year 2000.
21:40Keep those eyes closed, I can see you squinting, Darry Rook.
21:44Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you the woman of the year 2000.
21:50As we enter the new millennium, excuse me.
21:55If a Victorian gentleman had had that vision of Catherine, his eyeglass would have popped out and he'd have been out in the garden having an apoplectic fit or desperately searching for a sheet to throw over her and protect her modesty, really.
22:10I know I was tempted to do that.
22:13By the year 2000, women will have got the vote.
22:16Hooray!
22:17Hooray!
22:18Hooray!
22:19Hooray!
22:20Hooray!
22:21Hooray!
22:22Flog and flog.
22:23We will have got into parliament.
22:24No!
22:25Never!
22:26Never!
22:27We will have come out again for a nice cup of tea.
22:30Yes!
22:31We will have invented a way of washing dishes without getting your hands all dry and sore.
22:38Yay!
22:39I was told to stay in the kitchen by Mr Bowler, so I was treated generally like a real skivvy, because I worked in the kitchen with my hands, I worked on my hands with a sore and red.
23:00Hooray!
23:01We will have bought more clothes!
23:02Yay!
23:03We will have bought more clothes!
23:04Yay!
23:05I could hear all the entertainment going on in the front room and all the clapping and applauding and the laughing and that, and I was stuck in the kitchen working, and for a while I was feeling quite dejected.
23:22I give you Miss Year 2000!
23:25Yay!
23:26Yay!
23:27Yay!
23:28Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
23:31Women's liberation and the women's movement, you know, I've never really been into them before, but after this, you know, they've got my total respect, you know, I totally believe in anything they're doing now and support them to the fullest, believe me.
23:45Next week on the 1900 House...
23:48I've just started my period.
23:51Yes, I'm making my own sanitary towels, and I will be soaking them in the bucket.
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