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Inside the house you can begin to
imagine what it must've been like when it was the family home
of the Snewings. You wonder - what were the sounds
that echoed around these corridors and these rooms? Did they have a piano,
like many people did? Did the children sit in this room
and have piano lessons? Did they go out and buy
one of the new gramophones? The main sound
for many, many years in this house must have been the sounds
of children, SIX children. FAINT ECHO OF CHILDREN
PLAYING AND LAUGHING The two youngest, Lillian and Mabel,
were actually born in the house
imagine what it must've been like when it was the family home
of the Snewings. You wonder - what were the sounds
that echoed around these corridors and these rooms? Did they have a piano,
like many people did? Did the children sit in this room
and have piano lessons? Did they go out and buy
one of the new gramophones? The main sound
for many, many years in this house must have been the sounds
of children, SIX children. FAINT ECHO OF CHILDREN
PLAYING AND LAUGHING The two youngest, Lillian and Mabel,
were actually born in the house
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Inside the house you can begin to
imagine what it must've been like
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when it was the family home
of the Snewings.
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You wonder - what were the sounds
that echoed around
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these corridors and these rooms?
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Did they have a piano,
like many people did?
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Did the children sit in this room
and have piano lessons?
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Did they go out and buy
one of the new gramophones?
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The main sound
for many, many years in this house
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must have been the sounds
of children, SIX children.
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FAINT ECHO OF CHILDREN
PLAYING AND LAUGHING
00:00:32.072 --> 00:00:36.008
The two youngest, Lillian and Mabel,
were actually born in the house.
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Movie Summary
Historian David Olusoga charts 180 years of British history as lived by the successive inhabitants of a single home in a British city - from its construction to the present day.
