Good morning, we are working through Turn Back Time: The High Street, and this time the shopkeepers are running shops in the 1930s. Sugar became popular in Britain during this time period. Cheap sugar flooded into Britain during this time. The one good thing about this program is that the period clothes are awesome. The run time for this episode is 57:06.
The demand for handmade goods is going down and the 1930s was an era of mass production. So there will be many familiar products on the shelves in the stores. The Chamber of Commerce is expecting them to make more money this week and the shopkeepers will be catering to children too. Many modern candy bars were invented between World War I and World War II. This time the blacksmith is running a toyshop. He is a person who takes pride in his craft and is rather disappointed that he is running a toyshop. The bakers are running a cake shop again. Caroline joked that the Chamber of Commerce was nervous about Caroline fleeing from the square when the family discovered that they were running a cake shop. The bakers are thrilled to at least have electricity to help bake things. The Chamber of Commerce talks about how the Devlins’ had a challenge with technology, completely ignoring the fact that they are bread experts and not cake experts. Maybe they should have had someone come in and help the Devlins’ out or picked another family of families. The Sharp family retreats to their butcher shop and they have refrigeration. Father and son set to work preparing meats for sale. Now, there are some additional rules for the families to abide by. They will need to remain in the store from nine to five o’clock. The blacksmith will find it a challenge because he likes working outdoors and being out doing things and not being stuck in one place. Gillian will also face her own challenges in the dress shop. The products she will sell have been mass-produced but will continue to make dresses too on her electric sewing machine. The Devlins are challenged when the electric oven will not heat up properly. The Devlins will have a late night preparing the food. The shopkeepers prepare for the first day and once they are done they are able to take the night off. Everyone wakes up the next morning and the shops open up. Mr. Sharp wants to provide the authentic 1930s butcher shop experience. He talks with the locals about the differences between buying prepackage meets versus buying them from a butcher. Mr. Sharp has been giving the locals an education and the locals are thrilled with going to a local butcher. The butchers experiment with packaging the meat in plastic, but the locals are unimpressed. The Sergison family is facing their own challenges in the grocery. The Sergison kids are eating the profits so to speak. One parent comments that he wishes the sweets were behind the counter. The grocer is invaded by a group of school kids buying candy from the grocer. It seems like this section of the show involved a school field trip because after the trip to the store they went to the butcher where Mr. Sharp was trying to explain his trade. After that trip, they went to the toy store and the blacksmith struggles to try to sell his toys. He wants to give the toys away. The locals are less than thrilled with the bakers. Seriously, did the producers even try to teach the Devlins how to operate their ovens before they came onto the show? I am sure that Ruth Goodman would have enthusiastically caught them up with how to run the ovens and how determine temperatures. She would probably teach Caroline how to make cakes too. Ruth Goodman is a magician. It took three episodes for someone to step in and teach Caroline how to make cakes. Sheesh, the show would have been served by someone stepping in before and teaching her how to make cakes. Will Caroline be able to turn things around? I am mixed about this series, there are good points to it and there are annoying points to this series. The most annoying point was how the Chamber of Commerce worked with Devlin. Yeah, the period clothing is fantastic and it does show how shopping and the trades changed, but I question how much work was put into recruiting the families and walking them through what was expected of them as part of the series.
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