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Their new home had a separate
kitchen, a proper bathroom and a spacious
living room. It must have seemed unimaginably
luxurious after life
in Falkner Street. It's difficult for us to entirely
remember, even though it's only 50, 60 years ago, but back then, millions of people
regarded houses like this as relics. Of an age that they wanted to escape
from, not commemorate. A year after they moved in, Beryl
gave birth to her son, Bill, the child she had always wanted
kitchen, a proper bathroom and a spacious
living room. It must have seemed unimaginably
luxurious after life
in Falkner Street. It's difficult for us to entirely
remember, even though it's only 50, 60 years ago, but back then, millions of people
regarded houses like this as relics. Of an age that they wanted to escape
from, not commemorate. A year after they moved in, Beryl
gave birth to her son, Bill, the child she had always wanted
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Their new home had a separate
kitchen,
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a proper bathroom and a spacious
living room.
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It must have seemed unimaginably
luxurious after life
in Falkner Street.
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It's difficult for us to entirely
remember, even though
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it's only 50, 60 years ago,
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but back then, millions of people
regarded houses like this as relics.
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Of an age that they wanted to escape
from, not commemorate.
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A year after they moved in, Beryl
gave birth to her son, Bill,
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the child she had always wanted.
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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.
