Good morning, it is December and now I am on to the fun and frivolous documentaries. Mainly these are documentaries that are just for fun and do not necessarily fit into any sort of curriculum space. These would be more appropriate for a brain break for the students. The first documentary to kick off December is Turn Back Time: The High Street. This is a reality tv meets history TV series. The Run time for this episode is 57:36 and is narrated by Hugh Bonneville.
A group of shopkeepers and their families are going back in time. They will take over empty shops on the British High Street in Shepton Mallett and run them as they would have been run during certain time periods. The high street will be left to the charge of a chamber of commerce. The chamber of commerce will consist of Gregg Wallace, Juliet Gardner, and Tom Herbert. Sadly, there were points in the series where Juliet annoyed me. I am reminding myself that I am watching this series so you teacher does not have to. A group of citizens has agreed to shop only at these stores for the experiment. The first time period the series explores is the Victorian period. The four shopkeepers and their families are the Sergison’s, Devlin’s, and the Sharps. They are joined by Simon Grant-Jones, Gillian Cockwell, David Lashmar, and husband and wife Sunder and Pam Sandher. The Sergison family owns a delicatessen and will be the grocers. The Devlin family are bakers and will be bakers in the show. The Sharp family are butchers and will practice that profession as it would have been practiced. Going through these families I was reminded of how much I did not like this show. What the producers did to the Devlin family was a travesty. I was also annoyed at what they made Gillian do too. The Chamber of Commerce meets up with the families to talk about the experiment. Once they meet up with the families the families are off and exploring the shops. The families also talk about their expectations for the project. The families set to work to get their shops ready for the next day. The Devlin’s are particularly shocked by the manual rules for the bakery. I felt really offended by the Chamber of Commerce when it comes to the Devlins. Honestly, did they even provide a bread recipe for these bakers? Also based on the TV series Victorian Bakers, there were women who worked in the bakery and helped with the baking. Father and son pair the Sharp family are going to work in the butcher shop. Mr. Sharp talks about how the butcher industry has changed over the years. He wants to teach the skills that had been taught through the generations of his family. The Sharps were butchers since the Victorian Era. Mr. Sharp and his son work to cut up a pig to sell to the customers the next day. Even though the shop is closed, they are attracting some curiosity. The next day the shopkeepers are working on preparing their shops to open to the public. The Devlins are in for a shock, Mr. Devlin has done poorly with preparing the bread. He did not make enough loaves of bread and the bread he made was salty. The locals are just as nervous as the shopkeepers with this experience. The shops open and the visitors come in. Mr. Devlin’s bread is not selling well. Caroline is feeling discouraged with the whole experience so far. The locals are very surprised by their experience with the Victorian grocers. There won’t be many of the modern conveniences in Victorian Groceries. Everything has to be measured and measured by hand. The girls are working in the back trying to fulfill orders. The locals are complaining about the time it takes to fulfill their orders. The butcher shop may have the toughest road ahead in getting the shoppers into the building. Mr. Sharp demonstrates the butcher trade to the residents. Some people are appalled but others are intrigued. The concept behind the series was good, but I wonder how accurate some of the things were. The same things that annoyed me when I first watch this series continued to annoy me watching it again. Skip this episode.
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