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00:00I'm being dragged kicking and screaming back to 1900, aren't I?
00:04It's not idyllic. It's not romantic, I tell you.
00:10Quite frankly, I feel like all the joy has gone out of my life.
00:17Meet the Bowler family.
00:19Royal Marine Paul, School Inspector Joyce,
00:2311-year-old twins Ruth and Hillary,
00:25Catherine, 16, and 9-year-old Joe.
00:29They've volunteered to go back in time
00:32to wash, dress, eat,
00:35and live every intimate detail of domestic life
00:38in the 1900 house.
00:52The Bowlers have been living in the 1900 house for one week.
00:56Paul has gone back to work.
00:57The children have settled into their new schools.
01:00But some of the basic aspects of daily life are more of a problem.
01:08I've felt I've been dirty,
01:11smelly, and greasy, and skanky.
01:16I want to go home.
01:18It's six days since anyone in the family had a decent wash,
01:25because the kitchen range, which should provide hot water,
01:28has barely produced a drop.
01:30The ranger's coal furnace is designed to heat water in a back boiler.
01:39Pipes carry the water to the bathroom upstairs.
01:43In 1900, most ordinary homes had just got internal plumbing,
01:47and water heating rangers like this were an amazing innovation.
01:50But, like much new technology, they didn't work too well.
01:55The range has been bugging me for days and days and days.
02:02It's not been producing what I wanted it to produce.
02:05I can see this fantastic glowing heat
02:07producing gallons and gallons of heat
02:09and gallons and gallons of nothing else.
02:11It's great for warming this room, it's great for cooking on,
02:16but it's not good at heating water, not in any quantity.
02:20I mean, you can get some.
02:21I don't mind having a strip wash in nook or mortar.
02:23No, that's been fine, that's been fine, but we have a bathroom.
02:27That bathroom obviously would have been used.
02:28There's a bath there.
02:29I'm not asking for the deluxe version,
02:32and I'm not asking for, you know, hot water on tap.
02:34No.
02:34Perhaps once a week, if we could heat up enough water,
02:36we could all have a jolly good bath once a week.
02:38And that's it.
02:38And a strip wash if we felt...
02:39But that's what would have happened.
02:40But I feel like I'm climbing up Everest,
02:43and I've got to base camp, and I've got the wrong boots,
02:47I've forgotten my coats...
02:48No oxygen?
02:49Yeah, you've taken all the oxygen, we've had a big row.
02:54Desperate now.
02:55Desperate!
02:57This house is killing me!
03:02Convinced that real Victorians
03:04wouldn't have put up with so little hot water,
03:07the bowlers call in the man who installed the range in the first place.
03:10Heating engineer Mike Bishop.
03:13What's happening is that, although we're getting a fantastic fire in here,
03:17especially now, I think we're letting more air come in,
03:20we're just not getting any hot water at all.
03:22This range was one of the first small ranges to come into a property like this,
03:27you know, the state of the art of the day.
03:28The forerunners of this were virtually open fires.
03:32Looking at the range, we'd assume that you would have got poor performance out of it at the time,
03:37so we're sort of trying to enhance it a little bit better than it actually was.
03:41It's just an old thing, you know, it's a Ford Anglia, not a Rolls Royce.
03:51I think Paul nearly gave himself a nervous breakdown over the weekend,
03:55trying different combinations of fuel and different, you know,
03:58I'll do this and I'll do that and, oh, God.
04:02Mike's theory is that the range was choked with ash.
04:05Once he's cleaned it out, Joyce wastes no time in testing the water.
04:12The results are a little disappointing.
04:14I just had my first bath and a miserable little affair it was too.
04:21About four inches of hot water.
04:25I was just so desperate to wash myself properly.
04:30I've come to the conclusion that Victorian cleanliness
04:33is nothing like the standards of cleanliness we have today.
04:39A Victorian hair wash certainly required much more than reaching for a bottle of two-in-one.
04:44With the invention of shampoo nearly 50 years away,
04:48the only option for Joyce is to make her own.
04:53Pears soap, made from a recipe of cow's fat and perfume,
04:56went on sale nearly 200 years ago.
04:59Without detergent, it dissolves much less grease.
05:02It also reacts with water to leave a scummy deposit.
05:05It feels like shampoo.
05:07Oh, don't!
05:09God.
05:10I just want to show you the results of my disgusting soap shampoo episode
05:17where I thought I'd been ever so clever and made some wonderful shampoo.
05:22My hair is just revolting.
05:24I mean, I can stand most things and I know it's really early days,
05:28but I really, really need something to wash my hair with.
05:32And the most amazing things happen in our chicken, Patricia laying an egg.
05:35And this is the egg.
05:36The most amazing things happen.
05:49Our chicken, Patricia, lay an egg and this is the egg.
05:52It's a beautiful brown and it's nice and speckly
05:55and it's lovely and warm and it's beautiful.
06:00In most households, this would be heading for the frying pan
06:03but Joyce has received an alternative suggestion
06:06from Victorian expert Daru Rook.
06:11Dear Joyce, when you wash your hair
06:14you might try something I found listed
06:16in an 1860s household encyclopaedia.
06:22It recommended whisking two egg yolks and the juice of a lemon
06:26then massaging it into the hair thoroughly.
06:30I suppose it would be like a protein wash and should be quite good.
06:33Are you ready?
06:36Mm.
06:46Oh, it smells.
06:48All right, now we're supposed to leave it on for about two minutes.
06:51Have you got it all on?
06:53Let me show you what's clean.
06:54I think the egg and stuff just kind of sticks to the soot
06:58and the soap and the grease and the dirt.
07:03Oh, God.
07:04That must be a minute.
07:06It's quite cold, isn't it?
07:08Yeah, which is good because obviously if you're good at any hotter
07:09you might have big lumps of, um...
07:11Scrambled egg.
07:12Suffering for the price of fashion.
07:14It's not even vanity, it's just to feel nice.
07:15It's basic cleanliness, isn't it?
07:17I just smell very sort of omelette-y, I think.
07:24It's sort of like a leggy.
07:27No egg shampoos for Paul.
07:30He's been using grated soap to wash his hair.
07:32It just feels dry.
07:33It smells dry, doesn't it?
07:35Yeah.
07:36I have to rinse it about two or three times.
07:38But you don't care, though, do you?
07:39No.
07:40You just don't care.
07:42I'm not a fashion victim.
07:50You feel this?
07:52That is dry and brittle and sticky.
07:56Is it falling out?
07:57Is it breaking off?
07:59Yeah.
08:01Look at that.
08:02It's in my hand.
08:07It's damaged beyond repair now.
08:12I know, I know.
08:15Eventually I will look like the wild woman from Borneo
08:17and it'll be like...
08:18Why don't we just go through the larder
08:27and use everything?
08:28Right, porridge oats, apricot halves, golden syrup.
08:31Now there you are.
08:32There's lots of people that wash their in golden syrup
08:34and they have lovely hair.
08:35My old granny used to wash her hair
08:37in olive oil.
08:38I'm still with people telling me
08:40what their old grannies used to wash their hair is.
08:42What are you shooting?
08:46Chickens?
08:47Don't tell your mum that.
08:48Don't get cross.
08:49I normally thrive on having a good sense of humour
08:52and...
08:53I don't know, just seeing the good things in life
08:57and enjoying myself.
08:59And I'm trying to,
09:00but it's becoming harder and harder
09:02and it's like grinding me down almost.
09:06With the range still not producing hot water
09:13and the prospect of three months of egg shampoos ahead,
09:18the temptations of 1999 are proving irresistible.
09:22The bowlers have an account with the local co-op,
09:40just as they would have had a hundred years ago.
09:43Although it's fine for them to browse the shelves,
09:45they have agreed to buy only products
09:47that would have been available in 1900.
09:49But just one week into the experiment,
09:53temptation has got the better of them.
09:56Now, it's confession time.
09:59We put the shampoo in the basket
10:03and I looked and I waited and I thought,
10:05in a minute he's going to say,
10:07yes, you can have all these things,
10:08but I'm afraid, you know, this isn't allowed.
10:10But he didn't.
10:11You know, he just kind of rung it through.
10:12And I turned to Catherine and it was like,
10:16yes, we've done it, you know, we're through.
10:18We've got, you know,
10:19we've got the extra 500 cigarettes through customs or...
10:22Not only did I buy the shampoo,
10:25but, you know, it was some buy one,
10:28get one free.
10:29It's wash and go, it's wash and go,
10:33it's wash and go, it's wash and go.
10:35We hold the elixir of life.
10:40I've washed my hair with shampoo.
10:44Isn't it wonderful?
10:45Isn't it silly?
10:46It's not silly.
10:47Now Joyce must deal with the guilt
10:49of breaking rules she agreed to live by.
10:52Your hair's not an issue, yeah?
10:54What the issue is, is the 1900 experience, yeah?
10:58Well, my hair's chosen not to have a 1900 experience
11:01and I'm sorry, but my feelings are valid.
11:03And if they don't suit other people,
11:05then hard cheese.
11:07It's Joyce's choice to do what she has to do
11:11to continue with our experience.
11:14And if that's what she has to do
11:15to maintain the level of hardship
11:19that we're actually going through
11:20and the level of amount of work we have to do,
11:23then so be it.
11:24We're not here to torture ourselves.
11:27No.
11:27We're not here to torture ourselves.
11:29It's not supposed to be an endurance thing,
11:30but we're supposed to be staying true
11:32to the experience and not compromising.
11:36We've actually come to a conclusion
11:37that I'm going to pour these down the drain
11:40and I am going to start again.
11:46There you go.
11:48Yes, I do.
11:51It's Sunday night.
11:52Tomorrow, Joyce will do her first Victorian wash day.
11:56Until the latter part of the 19th century,
11:59most middle-class women sent their washing out,
12:02but many began to fear diseases like cholera and TB
12:05were spreading in the local laundries.
12:08So families began to do their washing at home.
12:10Oh, God.
12:11I think we'll soak some of these.
12:15These are the worst.
12:16All right.
12:20Can you wash mine, lady?
12:22Every stage of the wash has to be done by hand,
12:25starting with a pre-wash overnight.
12:27It's not bad, actually, is it?
12:29Oh, look at the colour of my water already.
12:33More than 40 years before the advent of washing detergents,
12:37clothes were soaked in soda crystals dissolved in boiling water.
12:41The solution broke down greasy stains,
12:43but was very tough on fabrics.
12:45I know they're pretty bad for your hand.
12:46Yeah.
12:47And then I can wash those in the morning?
12:50Yeah.
12:54It's been five days now,
12:57six days since I've been shaving my face.
13:01I look like I've been having a fight with a cat,
13:03but I am getting better at it,
13:04and I'm getting slightly quicker.
13:07But I made a few mistakes at the beginning,
13:08which I'm paying for now,
13:09because every time I have a shave,
13:11I'm reintroducing the cut to my face,
13:14and it's not healing properly.
13:17I think this is my cutie's heel
13:18when it comes to trying to stay true to the 1900 experience.
13:26Meanwhile, wash day proper begins for Joyce and the twins.
13:31First, water is brought to the boil in the copper,
13:34a large metal tub built into the scullery over a coal fire.
13:53Today the twins have taken a day off school,
13:55which I disapprove of, really,
13:57but I'm sure it must have been done loads in the past.
13:59In fact, I know it was done in my parents' day, even,
14:04to help with the washing, literally,
14:06because it's such a big job,
14:07that for one person it would have been far too much.
14:10If I can afford a maid of all work,
14:12then my daughters can go to school on a Monday.
14:16But I'm sure schools must have been empty of girls, really,
14:19on Mondays, mustn't they?
14:20With wash day underway, Paul escapes to work.
14:27As men did in 1900,
14:29he's dropping in on the barber for a shave
14:31and a refresher course in how to wield that four-inch blade of steel.
14:36Forgotten the hand movement we did
14:38to turn the blade to do that side of the face, yeah.
14:41And obviously, because we've talked about having a moustache,
14:44we didn't cover how to do the top lip.
14:46So I've actually been making it up,
14:48which I believe,
14:49to try and give myself a reasonably close shave.
14:52Yeah.
14:54When the copper is bubbling,
14:58in go Luxe soap flakes,
14:59which had just gone on sale in 1900.
15:01Oh, it smells nice, doesn't it?
15:06Hmm.
15:07Forget that wash.
15:09Forget that wash.
15:10Right.
15:13Before.
15:15Right.
15:17Oh, dear, look at that.
15:18I don't know.
15:19There's games.
15:21Let's get it in.
15:22And for stains too stubborn,
15:24even for soda crystals and soap flakes to shift,
15:27the only solution is elbow grease.
15:29Keep going.
15:30I think this is definitely an all-day job.
15:35Probably from five or six in the morning
15:38until it got dark.
15:41I have been shaving,
15:42but I've been having to shave about two or three times.
15:44So it actually really made the blade really sharp.
15:48And then they got a real good close shave
15:50like you're going to get today.
15:54Next comes the dolly stick,
15:58the 1900 equivalent of a revolving washing drum,
16:02which, with lots of sweat, agitates the clothes.
16:05That's useless.
16:08And you're going to put it up and down and do that.
16:10You'd have to stand on there to do that.
16:11Yeah.
16:12I don't think that's safe.
16:13And then the rinse,
16:17followed by a very manual first spin.
16:20In 1900, it took around 12 hours
16:23to do what a washing machine achieves
16:25in a 40-minute cycle.
16:26I am getting a raw deal.
16:32As the female,
16:34I have much more to put up with.
16:37Right, I'm just going to put some coral skin food on for you.
16:41He started saying he didn't know how to shave
16:44and wasn't it sad
16:45and, oh, dear, he cut his face
16:46and he was given all sorts of things,
16:48beautifully perfumed lotions and potions
16:51to put on his face
16:52and enable him to have a smooth shave.
16:55Just keep going.
16:56Go.
16:57As long as it's got it.
16:58I'm going to ask for a surprise
17:01for my birthday,
17:04which is on the 8th of April.
17:06I'm coming for a haircut and a shave,
17:08how about that?
17:09Angie, we're feeling very pleased with ourselves
17:10and we've hardly washed a thing.
17:12I don't mean to have a go at Paul, really,
17:14but it's the male thing, isn't it?
17:16I'm the one that's coming off worse.
17:18You made a good start.
17:19No, it's been baptism of fire for me.
17:22Soap, eggs,
17:24and then I was made to feel bad
17:26because I went and bought some shampoo and used it.
17:28It sounds like I'm jealous
17:29and I am jealous.
17:31I am jealous that he walks out of the door
17:33and goes to work.
17:35OK, sir, is there anything for the weekend for you, sir?
17:39And I suppose I'm jealous
17:40because he's a man
17:43and whether it's 1900 or 1999,
17:47he gets the better deal.
17:50But I get the frillier drawers.
18:03My hands are pretty awful,
18:05especially after wash day
18:07and have been washing in the soda crystals.
18:09They're very dry and very sore all the time.
18:12Just eight days into the experiment,
18:15Joyce's skin has been stripped of all its natural oils
18:18by soda crystals and hot water.
18:20Most 1900 remedies would have been made from whale blubber,
18:24which is illegal today.
18:26But Darrow Rook has sent an alternative recipe
18:28using white wax and glycerin.
18:31Collections fair...
18:32finer than Cleopatra of old.
18:34So, we need to pop the white wax into the pan
18:37with the almond oil.
18:40Melt oil and wax together gently
18:43in a small dish in a pan.
18:46One tablespoon of glycerin.
18:52It smells, doesn't it?
18:54It's quite pungent.
18:55Right, there you go.
18:57Right, stir that all together.
18:59Ooh, oh my goodness, what's happened?
19:01Keep going.
19:02Every self-respecting middle-class Victorian woman
19:06would have made her own cosmetics.
19:08Although cold cream was available in the shops in 1900,
19:11it was expensive.
19:17Mmm.
19:19It doesn't taste and smell.
19:21I mustn't eat it, Hilary.
19:22It'll be very bad for you.
19:24It doesn't smell quite so bad.
19:26Perhaps when it cools.
19:28Maybe.
19:31Mm-mm.
19:32It's really cream, isn't it, Mum?
19:34Modern moisturisers feel lighter
19:36and are absorbed more quickly,
19:38but the wax mixture does a similar,
19:40if cruder, job.
19:41Just try and rub it in.
19:43It smells like something...
19:45something you might rub into an old horse.
19:47It's like a bar of lard on your face.
19:50Oh, no!
19:52Wash day is over,
19:53but the laundry is still not finished.
19:56For the 1900 woman,
19:57washing and ironing took up three full days every week,
20:01and that was just for the undergarments and linen.
20:04Outer clothes, like dresses and trousers,
20:06were only ever brushed down.
20:08I think people must have smelled different in Victorian times.
20:13I think they probably had a higher level of tolerance.
20:17And they expected certain body odours
20:19that we shy away from.
20:23They obviously didn't douse themselves in deodorant.
20:25Actually, I don't smell.
20:27It's the clothes that smell.
20:28If I meet people from outside,
20:32they smell like they're covered in
20:34extremely strong perfumes.
20:38And I think it's just probably the soap powders
20:40and the fabric conditioners
20:41and things that are coming off their clothes.
20:46The bowlers may have resolved
20:47to live without deodorant and shampoo,
20:49but they are not giving up on the range.
20:52Mike Bishop has returned with reinforcements.
20:55I think this has really brought home to us
20:58the fact that this is the heart of the home,
21:00but it's just so important that we get this right.
21:03Everything else just seems to, you know, come...
21:05You can imagine anything else.
21:06So if you can't have a cookie and then hit a hot water.
21:09Yeah.
21:10Mike takes radical action.
21:13In ranges like these,
21:15back boilers often got so hot they exploded.
21:18To avoid this,
21:19Mike had installed the boiler further back from the firebox.
21:23Now he's pulled it forward.
21:25Hoping that more heat will get to the boiler.
21:30I don't care how dirty it's got
21:31or how much muck I've got to clean up today.
21:35I just think if it gives us the end result,
21:38that's all I care about.
21:40Made the repair, lit the fire.
21:42We should start to see the pipes getting warm again
21:44and hopefully they'll go from warm to hot to extremely hot.
21:48I just wanted to come upstairs and sing glory hallelujah
21:50because we've got hot water
21:53in the pipes
21:55and it's only half eleven.
21:59So it's bloody marvellous.
22:03It's a bit decadent really, having a midday bath.
22:05You've got to catch it
22:12before the, you know, once the hot goes,
22:15it goes cold straight away.
22:16So now you've got to catch it and get in very quickly.
22:18Oh, it's quite hot actually.
22:27Although Victorians said cleanliness was next to godliness,
22:31I don't think they bathed that often
22:32and they weren't in favour of hot baths,
22:36not the way we are.
22:36But they must have enjoyed it just the way I am
22:39because, I mean, just to be able to get out of those clothes
22:42and to get into this water is just fantastic.
22:45Having said that, you must see the water.
22:50It's absolutely filthy, absolutely filthy.
23:06Once a week is a treat when the house is empty.
23:11I should be giving myself a proper bath.
23:12I've managed to wash my back with the loofer
23:15and, you know, I feel clean all over.
23:17Having said that, the bath is full of scum.
23:32Next week in the 1900 house,
23:34Catherine decides to take piano lessons.
23:38I've learnt to play the piano.
23:42And I've also learnt to do some embroidery.
23:46You know, that's not me!
23:48And Joyce lets us take a peep at her underwear.
23:52Of all the clothes that I've got to wear under my corset,
23:57this is the one I like the best
23:58because it's the one that's easiest to go to the loo-in.
24:04I know.
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