Good morning, we are continuing to explore 24 Hours in the Past. This time the time travelers are exploring life working in a Victorian Factory. The team will be making pots and plates for the potter’s factory. There will be a look at the struggle for fair wages by the workers. It was a struggle to write seven hundred words for this episode because it was such a disappointment. The run time for this episode is 57:46.
The time travelers are now working in a pottery factory and they will get their first taste of factory work. Fi catches up with the Time Travelers and tells them where they will work. Everyone is nervous about working in the pottery factory. Ann brags about her lack of skills. Thousands of people would have come in from the countryside to work in the factory. Ruth Goodman and Tim Blanford are waiting for them. Tim works in heavy industry and will prove to be a strict boss. It really would have been interesting to get more of his thoughts on the Time Traveler’s working in the pottery factory. The supervisor’s views would have been interesting as well. The 19th Century was the industrial age and Britain was at the heart of the industrial age. They are assigned their jobs. Ann cannot work in the morning and will have to come back in the afternoon. Working in the pottery factory was hard work and required long hours during the Victorian Age. By Victorian standards, Ann would have been considered old. They set to work in the pottery factory. Everyone will have to learn fast to work in the pottery factory. Colin is struggling with how technical it is. Miquita is a one-legged dancer and will power the lathe. Zoe will be turning the potter’s wheel. The Time Travelers will have two hours to master their jobs. The work is very hard and sometimes travelers are struggling to work. Children were employed in the factories and some of the jobs would have been done by children. Ann reads the diary of one of the child workers and finds work making oat cakes to sell. Time Travelers work all morning. They take a break for lunch. They try Ann’s oat cakes. Ruth meets up with the Time Travelers to do a catch-up before lunch. Alistar did an excellent job producing his pottery. Tyger struggled with working the clay. Zoe was good at her job. Colin had a technically difficult job, but he will fail at his job because of Miquita. The clay preparation was substandard. They go off to eat lunch. Miquita feels bad for letting Colin down. Ann was the only one able to make some ready cash. You can catch a glimpse of Ruth’s daughter in the lunch section. The afternoon shift begins. The Time Travelers will have to make up for the mistakes that were made this morning. They will be preparing and loading the kilns. Some of them will be working on decorating the shop. The workers have two hours to complete their various jobs. Will the time travelers manage to get paid? Or will the team crumble down? What role do workers’ rights place in this episode? Ann Widdecombe is getting on my nerves with her stands. She said she wanted to experience the life of her grandmother, but her grandmother would have sucked it up and got on with it. The diaries proved to be worthless to the Time Travelers. They should have given them a guide as to the expectations of each of the jobs. That would have served the series a whole lot better. Additionally, maybe they could have performed different types of jobs it would have been better around. I am rapidly concluding that I would NOT showing in a history classroom, not even for a history fun day. Ann’s attitude really put me off for this show. The only people I liked were Allistar, Zoe, and Colin, because they seemed genuinely interested in what they were doing. Maybe this show could have been saved with a better cast and better instructions for expectations. I felt bad for Ruth having to deal with Ann. I still demand a Ruth Goodman and Tony Robinson co-hosted program.
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