Whenever I see these documentaries I think two things. 1)”Gee so aesthetically pleasing I wish I go just be around in that time” 2)”wow....I would have died....numerous times”

@aliciaholland3783

4 жыл бұрын

Ashley Rosa same lol same

@xin4955

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly how I feel!

@LanaVentus

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@getin3949

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in the 50's and I'm still alive!

@ashleysmith3106

3 жыл бұрын

Once upon a time Darwinian Theory held true; - survival of the fittest. Now thanks to modern society everyone survives - all the cretins who once would have set themselves on fire, blown themselves up, or otherwise killed themselves, are contributing to the gene pool ! I wonder what the future holds for Mankind now? (By the way, in the 50's and before, Ashley was a popular MALE name in non-American countries, and was even used in the US, as in "Gone with the Wind", so no, I'm not a 70 year old female !)

I was shocked to see the reason my dress caught fire and I was so badly burned due to my nylon slip that passed too near the stove's gas flame. I still bear the scars more than 57 years later!

@ingriddubbel8468

5 жыл бұрын

Always wear natural fibres.

@Miicrowahvei

5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting to read a comment by someone who has actually experienced one of the hidden killers!

@captainseyepatch3879

5 жыл бұрын

@@Miicrowahvei My greatgrandmother has (she's 103 and still alive) A pretty bad scar from her clothing catching fire once when she was about 20 or so also. She always tells people to where cotton or wool.

@653j521

5 жыл бұрын

@@ingriddubbel8468 Not always. For kayak training we have to wear synthetics because natural fibers get water-logged during the exercise in how to recover from the kayak turning over. :) Certainly anyone from the generation of wool swim suits knows they stretch way out. And my mother discovered her wool dress shrank into a mini skirt during a rain storm in the 1930s. I think we all know what happens to a wet cotton t shirt. :) But they do say that natural is best, along with as little in the way of hair care products as possible, on a plane because of the potential of a flash over during a fire when people are trying to stay low and safe.

@PanzerMafia

5 жыл бұрын

That was something my grandma always warned me about - therefore I was never allowed to wear anything that had nylon in it. Not even stockings. I still today have that fear... And I highly admire You honesty. Still, scars do not make us worse people, and they are just as part of us as the rest of the body.

The door DIY hurts my heart. Nowadays we spend hours and hours combing through salvages and thrift shops for original doors and windows and anything that was once made with a love and care that a lot of people have forgotten over time.

@jackbower8671

2 жыл бұрын

Shotty DIY is definitely up there for items ruined

@benscoles5085

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same as You, today we have specialized industry to reproduce the old, weathered, distressed, look. when we really had it all along, we did not see the real beauty of it.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

Жыл бұрын

I can assure you, don't get too excited over built-ins. They're extremely temperamental. Often not remotely sealed to the basement, either. Like if you had a fire, it could get right upstairs.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

Жыл бұрын

Some of it is very sturdy, a lot was badly made or full of half-a**ery. I live with it now. Lol

@invokalink162

6 ай бұрын

And indeed the infuriating trend of using mdf, chipboard and alike in the home. Mould traps, exponentially worsened by following generations of 'throw-away' furniture.

I've been binging these hidden killers lately and it's really interesting to me how electricity was not understood for so long. My dad is a master electrician and I've become his apprentice this year.

Hidden Killers in the Victorian home: They didn't understand electricity... Hidden Killers In Edwardian Home: They didn't understand electricity... Hidden Killers in Post War Home: They didn't understand electricity...

@Sharzademar

5 жыл бұрын

Hidden Killers in the Victorian home: They didn't understand stairs.

@stoutkrout1084

5 жыл бұрын

Hidden killers in the Tudor house: they didnt understand chimneys.

@marissaghost

5 жыл бұрын

Are we all just binge watching these videos around the same time? 😂

@Sharzademar

5 жыл бұрын

@@marissaghost maybe............

@cmtat1976

5 жыл бұрын

@@marissaghost Yes. I never even knew I was interested in the dangers of living in a Tudor home until this morning at 2 am.

Every time I watch this I wonder how our species even lived.

@missmcphee8859

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao true

@Mike-hz4jp

4 жыл бұрын

The poor survived because they didn't have the money to buy these death traps.

@doughnutandjellybeanjessop1668

4 жыл бұрын

Cooloss O. 🤣

@kittiescorner222

4 жыл бұрын

Right

@Galejro

4 жыл бұрын

Numbers.

Random person: Buys a house. Dr Suzannah Lipscomb: - So, you have chosen death... This show makes me a bit paranoid. XD

@stijnnoordman9110

3 жыл бұрын

so i'm not the only one looking at my doors and asking "when are you going to kill me?" XD

@KatNeilsenOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

It does make me wonder about my own house..

@paulsteele8614

2 жыл бұрын

It makes me wonder what's underneath those clothes 🤣

@judethaddeus9856

2 жыл бұрын

Huh

@annnee6818

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

On the ejecting power source...In the early 80's my aunt, who was a cake decorator, made me wash her dishes. I was about 8. I stuck my hands in the sink and got shocked. I didn't understand being shocked at that age and simply told her it hurt me. She thought I just didn't want to do it and yelled at me to wash the dishes. Next attempt was met with a stronger shock and repeat conversation with a more stern order to do it again. The third time the shock was strong enough I didn't care what she did to me, I told her I wouldn't put my hands in the water again. She finally came over and saw her mixer cord plugged into the outlet and running straight into the sink (I was too short to see this). Fortunately I was small enough that my forearms had to rest on the metal sink rim just to reach the sink and I had rubber soled shoes on. Still possibly could've severely injured or lost my hands 🤷🏼‍♀️... Even now I'm not sure exactly what could've happened.

@amdonut8091

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god!!

@pickybitch2707

2 жыл бұрын

😲😲😲

@TedApelt

2 жыл бұрын

This is why we now have ground fault intercept that will shut off the electricity in a circuit if it is going some place it shouldn't be going. The worst thing that could have happened to you? Electricity would flow from one arm to the other, and through your heart, killing you.

@jamesw4895

2 жыл бұрын

Did she apologise

@williamrosenbloom215

2 жыл бұрын

"No need to tell mummy about this"

Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home: fire Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home: fire Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home: fire Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home: fire

@cathelijnevanderstar2978

4 жыл бұрын

More Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home: more fire

@Tee_Leaf

4 жыл бұрын

Fires quite the killer

@Aranimda

4 жыл бұрын

See and behold: *A·S·B·E·S·T·O·S* Kiss your fires goodbye with this wonderful material.

@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath

4 жыл бұрын

My mixtape: fire

@Penguin24766

4 жыл бұрын

@@Aranimda kiss the fires and your lungs goodbye :P

As an American, I often forget how differently Britain experienced WWII, with actual cities reduced to rubble and real damage to their civilian infastructure, but I have a lot of respect for their fight, like Churchill said, they fought the Nazi's on the beaches and trenches and wherever they found them. Americans sent their sons off to war, but they didn't face the reality of a full blown war on the homefront. I tip my hat to the British, well done chaps 🇺🇸🇬🇧

@coco_mitten987

2 жыл бұрын

Civilians couldn't especially if they lived in a place where Nazi's invaded or risk being killed Or being put in the camps

@Hearth123

2 жыл бұрын

they could have surrendered like the French did, that's my point, not sure what yours is 🤷

@Hearth123

2 жыл бұрын

It appears either YT or the commenter deleted the comment I was responding to

@nsbioy

2 жыл бұрын

And then there is the Poles (highest % of population perished) and the soviets (highest absolute number).

@Hearth123

2 жыл бұрын

@@nsbioy yep, I'm American, but my ancestors came from Poland, proud of that heritage. They fought the German tanks on horseback with swords. As for the Soviets, Stalin didn't give a damn about his troops, he was willing to build a wall of Russian corpses just to keep the Germans out of Stalingrad.

My parents bought me a Chemistry set in the 70s, it was fantastic. I have just recently retired after spending nearly 40 years working with a much larger chemistry set.

@GTSN38

Жыл бұрын

So, you had your own meth lab ? Cool 😎

@senorpepper3405

Жыл бұрын

@@GTSN38 and your mother came over

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

Жыл бұрын

My favorite chemistry is water on a grease fire. I saw it on a CC camera and I couldn't help but laugh when it went off . They were watching it like 2 of the 3 Stooges. The guy got out of there like Sonic. Lol

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

Жыл бұрын

You know it's a great fire when the camera thinks it's midnight. Lol

My old dad invented the first cooker guard in the UK back in the 60s. It was designed to fit around any hob be it gas or electric to stop kids accidentally pulling on the handle on a hot pan tipping boiling water etc onto the child, which was very common. It was made by a company called hago and sold by Mothercare for years. I expect there are lots of copycat versions nowadays.

@mutoidliz2320

5 ай бұрын

I’ve got a 5yr old and I’ve never heard of a cooker guard,I’m gonna have a look now!

@JM-uo5vp

5 ай бұрын

BS

@svenja27esprie

4 ай бұрын

Me neither. Just looked it up. Thanks. 😊

In 100 years, I hope another episode comes named the "Hidden Killers of the year 2000 home"

@Randoplants

4 жыл бұрын

I bet it will still involve poorly wired electricity.

@Jeeves_0

4 жыл бұрын

Blind cords

@SonamyShadow13

3 жыл бұрын

Using crimpers and straighteners that were wired badly would definitely be on there lol

@sbegum246

3 жыл бұрын

5g lol

@mnf2139

3 жыл бұрын

@@sbegum246 how about anti vax?

I love the host. She has such a nice voice, it makes these docos. Thanks for all the likes. She is honestly brilliant and super smart plus she entices the viewer to be able to see what it was like in these periods. Love it and love the host ❤️❤️❤️

@Mike-hz4jp

4 жыл бұрын

I'm in love with her.

@bmc9504

4 жыл бұрын

She's awesome

@gratituderanch9406

4 жыл бұрын

She’s real. Appreciate her beauty and her lisp. I appreciate when they show how beautiful real people can be.

@edwardpinnix249

4 жыл бұрын

She's quite addictive!

@swarburton24

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mike-hz4jp Hottie History

The host is very personable. Can watch and listen for hours. The Scottish guy is also very charismatic - want to give him a hug.

I remember as a boy, in the 1980s, my Nan buying me some 1950s toy mazes at a car boot sale, the type where the "ball" was sealed into the plastic maze. I took them home, and after delightfully playing with the "magic silver liquid ball" for a few hours my horrified father promptly confiscated the mazes. I know now, that the "ball" was in fact a blub of liquid MERCURY. It goes to show the extent of having no health and safety, nor understanding of the extreme dangers of so much stuff that was taken for granted in the 1950s. Fantastic documentary.

@tracytaylor5115

Жыл бұрын

About 1970, my family doctor accidentally broke a thermometer while I was in his office. He let me (age 5) play with the liquid mercury on his desktop. Yikes!

I almost died from faulty wiring, in the shower!! Grabbed steel faucet and current held me! There was also a gas burner right there. A sign something was wrong with the wiring was electric shocks in the steel door frames when the stove was on. My dad blamed himself for almost killing me because he was a procrastinating electrician, and he knew it needed to be looked at. Crazy way to almost die.

@paulone805

3 жыл бұрын

Understand that

@samuelfellows6923

3 жыл бұрын

😨

@paulsteele8614

2 жыл бұрын

Just like a mechanic never fixes his own car because he works on everyone else's car everyday

@ragingrighteously9996

2 жыл бұрын

The cobbler’s son has no shoes

@CowSaysMooMoo

2 жыл бұрын

that can happen in ANY house with an idiot builder...needn't be from a particular time period

You missed one prominent danger in the living room TV set. The picture tube was covered with a separate piece of safety glass to prevent injury if the tube implodes, sending shredded glass everywhere, about 30 feet in every direction! There is about 1 ton force per square foot on a vacuum tube. (You can see this separate faceplate on the sets in your video.) This protective glass backside would get dirty (as well as the face of the tube due to the static dust attraction of the high voltage used). The housewife would remove this glass for cleaning, and not replace it ("better picture that way!") Kid sitting near set would get face shredded by the imploding tube. (My mother worked as nurse and saw numerous cases of this). In 1959, federal government made law that all picture tubes must have permanently-bonded safety glass faceplate. No longer could dirt get between faceplate and tube (but it was not uncommon for fungus to grow between in the glue, ruining the tube.)

@noninoni9962

3 жыл бұрын

Please use paragraph breaks and indentation.

@shiveringsand

3 жыл бұрын

The 650 volt DC High Tension feed to the cathode ray tube and watering the house plant placed atop the wooden cased television... BLUE FLASH and BANG.!!! (Sizzle and hope the piece of fuse wire in it's porcelain holder was correctly rated and has opened the circuit..?

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

3 жыл бұрын

Huh. All I knew was they have to sit unplugged for days if you want to work on one. You'll get zapped to high heaven, otherwise.

@judethaddeus9856

2 жыл бұрын

They didn’t miss anything… they just cannot mention every single thing that was dangerous

@johnc2438

2 жыл бұрын

Yep... and I remember my father spending hours behind our Dumont TV (in Los Angeles) troubleshooting bad tubes. Our TV was out half the time, it seemed, while the local TV stations spent the other half of the time admonishing us to -- "Stay tuned. We're experiencing temporary technical difficulties." My father should have run over the local station and offered his tube tester device (was a large, wooden box monstrosity with plug holes for various tubes and dials and displays to help guess what might actually be wrong).

Some of my earliest memories in the early 1950s were PSAs on the radio about nightgowns catching fire. Screaming children and crackling flames.

I never saw a house done out in the style of the 50s that looked as nice as the one in this programme. My grandad's house, like many of that time, had ceilings and walls covered in yellow/brown cigarette stains.

"My school friend was one of them" OOF right in the feels...

@happyfacefries

4 жыл бұрын

For real!

@sidestreetreaper4203

3 жыл бұрын

that gave me chills

Slightly off topic but, I remember in the 70's an Edinburgh University professor came to give us a talk in the Higher chemistry class. On one hand he had stumps for fingers. When he'd gone the teacher told us he'd dropped a bottle of sodium in the lab which smashed on the worktop. To save his students, he scooped the sodium away with his hand.

@camillajefferson386

4 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@ericbogar9665

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't sodium salt?

@orangutancoochie6213

3 жыл бұрын

Eric Bogar no, it’s an element that in its natural form, a metal. When it comes in contact with water, it quickly creates hydrogen at such a rate that it causes quite a volatile explosion. You’re thinking of a compound of sodium, sodium chloride. Hope this helps!

@ericbogar9665

3 жыл бұрын

@@orangutancoochie6213 Okay, I thought salt was sodium. Didn't know it was a compound of sodium. I probably should have took chemistry in school. lol

@Tropical-

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericbogar9665 it’s Sodium chloride that’s salt

I can't think of a more prolific creator of fine documentaries than the British. I've been binging on this series presented by Dr. Lipscomb and personally feel they are among the best. That's saying a lot when put into the context of a culture that certainly has to be the best in the world in the business of intelligent, informative and enjoyable documentary creation.

@moniqueduval6441

8 ай бұрын

Agreed!

Limo I find the panel door part was hysterical, because the dude called the panel door ugly. Now those non panel doors are hideous and considered very cheap looking and every household has panel doors

What's with all of the black ovals around any of the newspaper clippings ?

@IneptOrange

4 жыл бұрын

Some idiot forgot to switch the "Invert Mask" button in After Effects.

@Vlad2319

4 жыл бұрын

In the original episode the ovals were the quotes.

@violetdivinespiritualreadi1824

4 жыл бұрын

Those are annoying

@extrude22

4 жыл бұрын

Probably removed the quotes for copyright reasons?

@extrude22

4 жыл бұрын

There is another comment saying that they might have been removed so they could be re added in other languages. That seems to make more sense to me.

They’ve only just started to manufacture fancy dress costumes to modern safety standards. They were classed as a toy not a garment, and as such weren’t legally obligated to make them fireproof. Halloween+fancy dress costume+candles

Even today we still have hidden killers in our homes because people lacked common sense. I have to actually talk a friend of mine down as he was going to mix chlorine bleach and pine cleaners. Boggles my imagination that he didn't know he wasn't supposed to do that and it even said on the warning labels of BOTH products.

@tygobermind3640

3 жыл бұрын

Non-stick surface pans also become toxic when they become scratched. Also the toxic fumes when the pan is to hot can kill birds.

@smithsmith2844

Жыл бұрын

Two things your friend so also never mix, bleach and ammonia that produces a gas very like what the Germans used in WW I.

@invokalink162

6 ай бұрын

Bleach mixed with washing up liquid creates a poisonous gas too. Had to clue a fellow mudlarker up on that only recently.

I could listen to Suzannah Lipscombe and Dr Suzy Lishman all day 😊❤

Some of these issues of foam padding in furniture, and fake fiber clothing burning fast, and with toxic fumes is still just as true today here in the US. . Not to mention all the new things made of plastic these days too.

@happyfacefries

4 жыл бұрын

It is but they also use fire retardant now

@pcno2832

4 жыл бұрын

@@happyfacefries They have, but the EU and the state of California have been banning various fire retardants. Only time will tell if the "safe" substitutes are actually safe.

@Sisterlisk

4 жыл бұрын

@@happyfacefries there is flame retardant on almost everything now. They went way overboard, for money.

@kratzikatz1

3 жыл бұрын

Made of Plastik garbage! I hate these clothes! I only take wool, leather, cotton. Also natural clothing dont create static electicity! And is more comfortable to wear, and not so loud.

@taraelizabethdensley9475

3 жыл бұрын

Makes me wonder about the clothes i like to wear

How about a documentary on the hidden killers of the modern home? Go ahead, I’m waiting. 💀

@darciee.7337

5 жыл бұрын

@Chelle 😬😬 You said it. 👌

@loganlodge4375

4 жыл бұрын

Hidden mould in carpets, plug in heaters

@scmiller20

4 жыл бұрын

@M M exactly! And there's much more than just all that too!

@DanceySteveYNWA

4 жыл бұрын

My smartphone just blew up in my pocket

@jenniferharvey5340

4 жыл бұрын

Those hoverboards that randomly catch fire when you charge them...

I came to Perth Australia in 1967 from Nottingham in the UK i will never forget the smell of clean air and clear night sky after 12 years of living with coal burning......... I've never been back

@brh.1892

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, don't blame you!

@James28R

4 ай бұрын

the irony is hilarious. maybe look at aus emissions legislation vs europe. and the amount of coal burned. hahah

I could listen to Susanna’s voice day and night .

my chemistry set, went up in blue smoke the first day, almost choked everyone in the house to death, with my sulphur bomb

@tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098

4 жыл бұрын

Nice! No potassium-in-the-toilet-bowl, huh? ☻

@DanielGraybeal1961

4 жыл бұрын

i loved my chemistry set

@gracie7714

3 жыл бұрын

I was about to get one in my 3rd grade year in 2013, but said no because I had a 1 year old brother who could’ve drank the chemicals 😱😰🧪

@louise-yo7kz

3 жыл бұрын

😱

@grimtt

2 жыл бұрын

I’m sure that just about every practicing chemist blew something up, or in some way experienced the destructive power of chemistry as a young person…

I remember I had nightgowns made of nylon and polyester (and this was in the early 2000s in America) and we had a wood fireplace in our condo. My dad would always warn me not to get too close to the fire because he said my dress would melt onto me.

@annnee6818

2 жыл бұрын

I always detested the feeling of polyester clothing thank god. We could all be dead😑

@ABC1701A

2 жыл бұрын

There are still plenty of KZread sewing videos where they happily use polyester and or nylon fabrics for their clothing simply because it ''drapes well''. Unbelievable.

@MikaelaKMajorHistory

2 жыл бұрын

@@ABC1701A and that’s perfectly fine for some clothes like formal dresses or skirts, but definitely shouldn’t be for night clothes. They also cause excessive sweating in a lot of kids and that can cause rashes

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

Жыл бұрын

@@MikaelaKMajorHistory Straight up poly, yeah. Not the poly spandex blends. They dry fast. Just don't be a dummy, that's all.

Ok but why do they put a black shadow over all the newspaper texts so people can not read along but instead stare at a non readable text?

My great grandad died in the late 40s trying to fix a hairdryer. He turned the switch off but thought that meant there was no power to it. My gran found him dead downstairs at age 5. She still says she tells him off now shes in her 80s

@clare2401

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't understand any of your comment

@Kolibri71

3 жыл бұрын

@@clare2401 thanks I though I was the only one English is not my first language but this guy's sentence is missing something lol

@markrichards636

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kolibri71 I think he is saying his great grandad tried to fix hair drier, turned off hair drier thinking this would turn off the live electrical power but didn't and therefore he electrocuted himself. Last sentence I think means that his gran never got over it after finding her father dead.

@brianr1686

2 жыл бұрын

🤔😂

@senorpepper3405

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like ol' grandma talks to grand dad's ghost.

The American set had uranium dust? Omg

@karhukivi

4 жыл бұрын

It was probably fluorescent powder. "Rocket fuel" was icing sugar, one had to take the marketing hype with a grain of salt (NaCl).

@freewilliam93

4 жыл бұрын

Look up the boy scout who made a nuclear power plant in his backyard for a merit badge.

@confusedwolf7157

4 жыл бұрын

Sooo how many chemistry sets needed for critical mass (just sayin')...

@mikeyunovapix7181

4 жыл бұрын

well it was U-238 mostly. The most dangerous thing about this isotope wasn't the radioactivity but the uranium metal itself was also toxic and pyrophoric. but the dust itself was likely just the uranium ore. You can still actually buy uranium ore off websites like amazon today. It doesn't really require a permit to possess due to it's low radioactivity but other radioactive materials such as higher grade ores, radium, chunks of other radioactive metals, highly radiative artifacts like radium clocks, all likely require a permit and are highly recommended to be kept in a shielded container such as having it surrounded with bricks of lead and kept a good distance away from you while stored.

@Zelnyair

4 жыл бұрын

@@confusedwolf7157 Only about one in a million uranium atoms is U-235, the isotope you need for nuclear weapons. You'll only get about 1g of it out of a metric ton of uranium, so quite a lot.

The truth about the Macmillan "you've never had it so good" speech is that it was a warning about the volatility of the economy created by post-war circumstance that would go on and haunt Britain for decades after. That statement is symbolic of the post-war boom, but also of it's thin facade.

@LeastTango

2 жыл бұрын

WTF are you on about????

@feralbluee

2 жыл бұрын

What!!!!!!!!???????? 🙄😵‍💫

@nickpn23

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean like a warning? Don't have unrealistic expectations? I would see the sense in that. I wish society were more adult.

Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb keeps me coming back

When I was a kid, I would see my mom do the most irresponsible things with electric appliances and that would make me so angry at her. Often she would respond to me 'they wouldn't sell this thing if it was dangerous' which I though was so willfully ignorant. She even managed to damage the electric wire on my soldering iron when she used it for pyrography.

@ferociousgumby

2 жыл бұрын

I won't ask what pyrography is!

@francoisleveille409

2 жыл бұрын

@@ferociousgumby It's nothing very fancy. It's using something resembling an ordinary soldering iron to write or draw on a wooden surface with heat.

@housecat1359

2 жыл бұрын

@@ferociousgumby it's basically artistic wood burning

@annnee6818

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you are all OK😑

@francoisleveille409

2 жыл бұрын

@@annnee6818 Well, I got an electrical engineering degree.

My husband is a fantastic handyman. The one thing he’ll always get a professional to help him with is electrical work.

@dazednconfusedrn

2 жыл бұрын

That’s and gas, scary stuff!

@housecat1359

2 жыл бұрын

I've done some electric work last time wiring up a house you gotta think safety first

@senorpepper3405

Жыл бұрын

I know next to nothing about electrical. I changed out my 220 outlet to my dryer. I just shut off power to my basement and had a good flashlight. Worked out, I'm still here.

0:33 Wearing a suit and tie while laying bricks. You can't make this stuff up.

@vettekid3326

5 жыл бұрын

In the the US in the 1930's & 40's my father said everyone that worked in factories wore a suit & tie. You either wore coveralls over or you wore a "work suit" that you change when you got home. I asked him about that after looking thru some old magazines from the company he worked for showing the men at their machines.

@seanmccann8368

5 жыл бұрын

Bricklayers were/are 'Tradesmen'; they have a 'Trade' they have served an apprenticeship to learn, it was common to see 'tradesmen' of all descriptions wear jacket, collar and tie in work situations as late as the late 1960's in Ireland. The 'suit' marked them out from 'common' labourers and showed their relative place in the 'order of things'. It all sounds strange now but it was the way of the time, I'm sure much of our current 'normal daily life' will seem ridiculous in 80 years time.

@PaulRudd1941

5 жыл бұрын

I guess that's the British class system at work?

@TorontoGal74

5 жыл бұрын

@@vettekid3326 wow. That's an interesting insight. Thanks!

@luciferangelica

5 жыл бұрын

@@PaulRudd1941 even in the us, apparently, even bums and criminals used to wear suits. ever see a pic of one of those great depression bread lines?

Regarding electric blankets, she said people don't bother to read the instructions . . . but if you're in pain enough to need an electric blanket, you tend to pass out when the pain lifts (at least I do; I have chronic pain - I learned that ice works better for my current pain though). My mom had one of those, but I never used them because I was always worried about fire. I stuck with those microwave bean bags, a hot water bottle (which my mom also had), or simply putting the cat wherever you felt pain (I really did that when I had cramps, lol). We do DIY right now, and have a lot of DIY shows. A lot of DIY mishaps are just basic physics. What I think of as common sense, but if you don't even know basic physics, that could be really dangerous (if you don't know basic physics, best to stay away from DIY). My friend completely remodeled his house, adding a couple of bathrooms as well, and redoing another. He was a mechanic of large machines for many years, and whatever he didn't know, he researched. He's extremely knowledgeable.

I had a Chemistry set in the early 70's, a Christmas gift. It was huge with about 30 different chemical compounds. I used it twice then it was relegated to the bottom of the closet. No smokes or booms could be made. It had very good instructions with an alcohol burner.

@GTSN38

Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid in the 70s my family was poor, so no chemistry set for me. I would go around the house and garage to find chemicals to mix. It was a very dangerous idea

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

Жыл бұрын

@@GTSN38 You're lucky they didn't have bleach and ammonia out there. Lol. I think you get cyanide gas, like Zyklon B from the war.

@GTSN38

Жыл бұрын

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I've done that, smoke comes out of it if I'm remembering right

Gosh, 4,300 for a house. Wow.

@clumsycolours1677

5 жыл бұрын

Beca A. M. Marques I know right? Could pay that off easily

@chyiannewaters8910

5 жыл бұрын

That’s equivalent to about 45,355.54 today

@clumsycolours1677

5 жыл бұрын

@@chyiannewaters8910 i could still pay that off quick 😂😂

@captainseyepatch3879

5 жыл бұрын

@@clumsycolours1677 True enough. But at the same time. Really depends on where your buying a house now. I can actually find houses for 40k now. I don't think that 4300 was in London or anything.

@kuceracm

5 жыл бұрын

@@captainseyepatch3879 in all fairness, $43,000 for a house today would likely get you a house that is in such bad shape that it's ready for the bulldozer and in a bad neighborhood. Or it might get you a base model mobile home. Then again I'm in America and the economy is currently deceptively bad here. A moderately livable fixer upper home is going to cost you at least $100,000 and the median home cost is around $300,000.

I imagine that a documentary about the hidden killers of today they will talk about Grenfell Tower

@camillajefferson386

4 жыл бұрын

Very underrated comment! It's so easy to think people were more foolish or neglectful of dangers back then, but where there's money to be made there's shortcuts to be made as well... Very much a modern tragedy, and so avoidable.

@goodnightmyprince6734

3 жыл бұрын

Grenfell was csused by greed and cutting back on necessities.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

3 жыл бұрын

High-rises in general? Just a bad idea. No like. I don't like anywhere too high to jump from and probably live. Fires, earthquakes, planes (Empire State got his twice within a few years). Nope.

My workshop is full of power tools from this era, and yeah, they're pretty dangerous. But they're also bulletproof - literally, in a few cases - and incredibly easy to maintain. Most of them only have one or two moving parts, and everything replaceable on them is still standard-sized. I wouldn't trade my 70-year-old Craftsmans and Homecrafts for brand-new Festools. And if they end up killing me, well, I knew the risks.

@mfbfreak

4 жыл бұрын

You can easily make them 99% safe by adding a safety earth/ground to the metal parts. In case of a leaky motor winding, your GFCI or breaker will pop, or even if it doesn't the case will be kept at earth potential and thus be safe to touch. Of course you have to use them with a grounded outlet, but most houses have those by now.

@petcatznz

3 жыл бұрын

Fair point. However, most modern power tool are double insulated making an earth connection unnecessary. If you're using older (earthed) power tools I recommend always powering them via an RCD (residual current device), especially if using them outdoors.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

Жыл бұрын

@@mfbfreak Have you seen those fractal wood art things? Brilliantly dismantle a microwave (the thing that says, don't fool with this part! I think it's called a magnetron) and plug it in. If you get zapped, you'll die and no circuit will pop. Set some people's house on fire, too. They were toast, sadly.

@unconventionalideas5683

Жыл бұрын

Some of the problems came from negligence owing to lack of familiarity, like the man who got a shock while using the drill in water. But the safety of meat sensing technology has helped tremendously in terms of safety, I think. So as long as that is the case, I think it might be worth upgrading the saws in particular.

My grandfather survived WW1 being a medic on the frontlines, yet in 1953 was killed in his kitchen by a gas leak, I was 1yrs old.

Had the exact same kit. Managed to break or destroy everything in it. Best yesrs of my life!

@confusedwolf7157

4 жыл бұрын

There speaks a truly adventurous person! Knew friends who experimented with sodium chlorate and oxidants....

@paulone805

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

Poor Ian and his chemistry set😟💥

@dorisbilley8991

4 жыл бұрын

Smitten Kitten I want to say why would any parent buy their kids a chemistry set like that? Then again unsuspecting parents probably assumed it was safe. Bad on manufactures For no warnings etc. I did have a wood burning set when I was a kid, it’s not like that was a real good idea for A kid. The iron or whatever the metal thing was that burned the wood pictures got really hot.

Holy moly, kids, a $4,300 home? I will happily accept the risks of fire, poisoning and whatever the heck else that I’m already basically facing in my 1-bedroom slum apartment where rent is more than double that per year. I promise not to get a chemistry set. Where do I sign up? Truly, we are living in the best of all possible worlds.

This era was my parent's time. They got married, found a home, worked. I had to chuckle when at 31 minutes 58 seconds in, we hear that rationing was ended and people could go out and buy as much as they wanted. I remember my late mother telling me how desperate she and my father were. He worked full time, she worked nights as a cinema usherette and on the weekends, they went to the big shops in Bristol centre because in the food halls, they gave away free samples. They walked from store to store to store and ate free samples, because despite them both working, they were desperately poor. Dad left the army after his national service (where he met my mother) and after only 3 years, joined again as a career soldier because life in civvie street was just too difficult.

I wonder if the historians here knew about the build it yourself home kits that could be ordered directly from the Sears and Roebeck catalogs. Complete with everything from the lumber to the nails and screws to the plumbing fixtures. My great grandparents built one of those themselves in 1930.

@vaderjones357

4 жыл бұрын

I lived in one for 16years....I loved my little house.....I collect skeleton keys and I finally had doors to use them on! All the interior doors were skeleton key locks. Dark real wood planks..tongue/groove for interior walls....cat 5 hurricanes? GTFOH.....sucker didn't budge....lol

@vaderjones357

4 жыл бұрын

Craftsman Homes they're called

@book3100

3 жыл бұрын

Can still get them.

@paulsteele8614

2 жыл бұрын

Only on America

@grimtt

2 жыл бұрын

@@vaderjones357 that’s so cool 😎

I love Dr. Lipscomb"s documentaries!

@Todo-1996

5 жыл бұрын

me too! I wish there was more of them.

@laceylewis8302

5 жыл бұрын

@@Todo-1996 i agree

@dannyboyy8465

4 жыл бұрын

I love Dr Lipscomb! 😍

@LeastTango

2 жыл бұрын

@@dannyboyy8465 i wonder why!

@causetheplumstasteyum7848

2 жыл бұрын

@@LeastTango She is pretty tasty

DIY culture is what got my family through some tough times by helping just keeping the house up, and it got me into theatre and technical design! Now, I design not only audio systems for concerts, but creative solutions for live theatre and performance audio. I relate it ALL to shows like "This Old House", "New Yankee Workshop" and Hot Rod TV inspiring me!

A century from now, ppl would look at hidden killers we have. Maybe the couch hehehehe.. Smartphones, tv, wifi. I stopped exercising for 3 years because of screen addiction.

@jjba3571

3 жыл бұрын

The light from the smartphones can slowly make you blind

I was almost electrocuted by one of the 1950s electric power drills. They're very dangerous. The lack of polarized plugs and no safety ground the case of the tool would become live very easily.

@jessh5310

5 жыл бұрын

Wolf brand drills were notorious for giving electric shocks.

@birdlawyer6191

5 жыл бұрын

What do you guys mean by "almost"?

@kuceracm

5 жыл бұрын

@@birdlawyer6191 meaning he recieved the shock of his life but didn't die, I assume.

@mfbfreak

4 жыл бұрын

I found some old Van Der Heem (dutch electric devices brand from 1920s-1960s) adverts, proudly proclaiming how they made their metal-cased power tools safer than those of the competition, by using safety earth or double isolation.

@johanbruijnooge6818

2 жыл бұрын

@@kuceracm The same happened to me, when I saw my mother-in-law for the first time.

1950's kids doing chemistry experiments. 2018 kids eating Tide pods 🤦🏻‍♀️

@gnome5652

3 жыл бұрын

You know the kids did that to try to kill themself. We should be attempting to help them rather than make fun of there problems

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

3 жыл бұрын

@@gnome5652 I kinda think of it as "too stupid to breed." If you have an issue, you need to grow up and say something. Not wait for people to guess...jmo

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

3 жыл бұрын

Have you seen the predecessor to the Easy-bake oven? There's a video online of a guy actually cooking an omlette on one. He had a thermometer, well over 200F. As I recall. Oven was useless, though. Lol Of course, when we were kids, you got thrown into the lake to learn to swim or if you got burned on the oven your mom would say, "THAT'S why I told you NO 17x. Won't do that again, I bet..." And we didn't lol.

@LittleKitty22

3 жыл бұрын

@@gnome5652 Why should we make excuses for stupidity though?

@wabznasm9660

3 жыл бұрын

@@LittleKitty22 have you never done a stupid thing?

I sent this to my dad, and he's over there sitting in the kitchen talking about how he remembers all this, meanwhile im in the room over sobbing because I have a sewing needle stuck in my finger from trying and failing to make clothes for the clay figure I was making. I will always respect the boomers for being able to survive this because damn I can't survive now.

It's a freaking miracle we are all alive

@causetheplumstasteyum7848

2 жыл бұрын

Well considering we were once living in caves unable to talk and life was all about survival , writing this now online for all to see and hear i think we have done quite well.

I literally did the glycerin and potassium permanganate thing for my friends as a kid all the time. Its quite different from packing explosives into a pipe thereby making a pipe bomb, which is how that one kid died if you read the fine print.

@favesongslist

2 жыл бұрын

Same here, Yet glycerine and potassium permanganate can easily be used with other material as timed incendiary bombs.

i got one of those chemistry sets it caused all sorts of chaos indoors so we were banished to the large chicken shed with the hens apart from nearly burning it down i think we had purple yolk eggs for a month

@f.m.m6706

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, weren’t you jolly lucky to survive the chance of those awful tragic mishaps with that set

@dickon728

2 жыл бұрын

What caused the colouring?

Very soothing voice for documentaries. Like Attenborough.

I really enjoy these shows however, the only thing that bugs me is when they black out the newspaper articles.

@RowanVerditeNova

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad someone noticed that, what's the point in blacking them out!?

@CrystalRicotta

3 жыл бұрын

Possibly copyright ?

@ferociousgumby

2 жыл бұрын

@@CrystalRicotta To avoid being sued.

@rickst3007

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering if anyone would mention this. It looks like they were going for vignette lighting but instead of making it lighter they made it darker.

I had chemistry and electronic sets in the 70-80's. If I'd had internet also it would have been scary.

@tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098

4 жыл бұрын

"Now, where am I gonna get uranium at 2 in the morning?...C'mon, craigslist..." -- Sheldon Cooper, Big Bang Theory

@lvanderdoes8199

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@jjba3571

3 жыл бұрын

Omg thats so scary.... allow kids to play with flamable sustance !!!

I just guess what they will say about our current house in the future

@Munkenba

3 жыл бұрын

I hope to god that our wifi signals are safe. There's no reason to believe they're not I don't think, I just don't want this documentary to call us out for just blasting signals all over the damn place like it's absolutely fine.

@Cortesevasive

3 жыл бұрын

@@Munkenba Vaccines and 5g

@Chironex_Fleckeri

3 жыл бұрын

PFOAs, microplastics like BPA, fire retardants, antibacterials, Li-ion batteries, etc.

@Cortesevasive

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chironex_Fleckeri +hormone contraseptics

@Chironex_Fleckeri

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cortesevasive That's true.

I`m learning soooo much since discovering Suzanna Lipscomb.

@perrygriffin2371

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha same, considering myself a historian now

"Plastic clothing burst into our closets"... yeah, it also burst into flame quite often. Thank you, I am happy with cotton, linen and wool. "At the time wages rose faster than home prices, causing a boom in home ownership"... Well, we fixed that good. Wages are similar to my dad's wage 25 years ago. Houses are not.

Adrian Monk: "See? It's a jungle out there AND in here!"

I love the creepy music as she moves through rooms.

@ultimatebishoujo29

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

I do love the upbeat sign-off _"but who knows what we've missed?"_

Why do I suffer glaucoma when the newspaper articles are read to us?

Not only is Suzannah Lipscomb MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon), F.R.Hist.S., FHEA a bombshell but firstly, of course, an extremely smart woman. p.s. I love these historical views of an earlier time of our lives. (Y) Thankyou...........

@dannyboyy8465

4 жыл бұрын

Sexy and intelligent! Beautiful combination in a woman!

@sonicwolves

3 жыл бұрын

She's wonderful. I love her documentaries.

@paulone805

3 жыл бұрын

Probably drinks too

@suzannebowers8634

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure what most of these abbreviations mean (I’m not as intelligent 😉), but I really have been enjoying the documentaries. I stumbled upon them while looking for something else, I cannot remember what now. Just a personal disclaimer: Some of these images are not for the faint of heart nor are they (probably) advisable to watch right before turning in for the night if you are one who is likely to easily have nightmares. 😱 So far, I haven’t had any problems. It’s a really great show, and it makes you wonder a bit about your own home and the dangers that lurk within.

@nmarks

3 жыл бұрын

@@suzannebowers8634 MA = Master of Arts MSt (Oxon) = Master of Studies (Oxford) DPhil = Doctorate of Philosophy F.R.Hist. S = Fellow of the Royal Historical Society FHEA = Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

I do remember at school, during the 60s, quite a few girls with burns from nylon nightie fires.

@4nn13h7

4 жыл бұрын

tonycavanagh1929 if I could get one in the 80s, I’m sure they existed in the 60s. It was deceptive because they didn’t necessarily flame, just smolder.

@feralbluee

2 жыл бұрын

your friends sure were unlucky!!! never heard of anything like that happening to anyone i knew.

@tonycavanagh1929

2 жыл бұрын

@@feralbluee where did you grow up in the 60s an early 70s. I lived in the east end, plenty of small pokey flats.

@feralbluee

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonycavanagh1929 in the early ‘60’s i was in H.S. in NYC in an all girls’ school on E. 68th and 3rd ave. then went to City College. maybe there were a lot more fireplaces where you lived. interesting - didn’t think of that!

Interesting the comment she made about our couches etc that have flame retardant, but not pajamas. The problem with flame retardant clothing is that it NEEDS to be dry cleaned, as opposed to just thrown in the wash. Otherwise it loses the flame retardant properties. A good example of flame retardant clothing is the coveralls they wear in power stations. They are required to be properly dry cleaned. Apart from that... I LOVE this series, awesome learning about the past :D

@jmccoomber1659

Жыл бұрын

Great point! And a shoddy dry cleaner could use chemicals that can make clothing even more prone to catching fire...it's possible to be damned of you do and damned if you don't.

@aerokas4817

Жыл бұрын

@@jmccoomber1659 Exactly! Using fabric softener is also something that makes your clothing even more likely to catch fire!

I died inside when they burned those beautiful 50s arm chairs hahahaha

@pyewackett5

3 жыл бұрын

So did I 😲

@rhiannonm6022

3 жыл бұрын

They probably aren't originals

That 1950s home looks more modern than my own home in 2020

Just recently discovered Timeline and every one I have seen has been interesting. I spent a weekend binging and still can't get enough. 💜

We grew up broke but now that I've watched this. I'm very grateful for that.

I would love if she makes more of these I would love one on 1990’s toys I remember the skip it could break your ankle

Wow. Modern chemistry sets literally contain nothing but stuff you can find in your kitchen like salt, vinegar, baking soda, etc. and therefore, they’re actually really boring!!!

@Witheredgoogie

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't know that I bet the safety instructions are now larger than the chemistry set LOL.

@psirvent8

3 жыл бұрын

@@Witheredgoogie Not even necessary as the chemicals included aren't even close to be dangerous. In fact you can even eat them and still be fine to be honest !

@Author.Noelle.Alexandria

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t mix bleach and ammonia. A couple common household things. Very bad if you do. Household stuff isn’t all boring.

@jackbower8671

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Ammonia and Chlorine combined are pretty boring

Interesting documentary. I thought that little 1950s house was cute.

My grandmother was still using some of these devices into the 90s. Many gave of an ionising electrical smell. I remember she had a single piece toaster with no guard from the elements with a tray you could pull out to empty the crumbs exposing contacts. Just lethal but she knew the dangers. I didn't though and this is a big problem.

In America gas water heaters mounted in the bathroom are completely unheard of. Central heating was the norm before the war..

I've watched all of these Tudor homes Victorian homes Edwardian homes And now Post war Im beguining to think we should have stayed in caves or huts made of animal skins.

@Gamma_Radiation

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like there's a reason they're not around anymore though....

I loved this. I saw so many things that we had growing up. It’s sad that people died from not know how to prevent accidents.

This has got to be the finest documentary hostess I’ve ever seen

American history nerd here. This woman is my queen!

@zyxw2000

4 ай бұрын

She's in the UK.

@dundeecake

Ай бұрын

@@zyxw2000 doxxing is never cool /jk

55:24 My parents have that exact model of handheld electric mixer. It was bought in the late 60s. It's older than I am. It still works like a champ. I have owned, in my own various kitchens, no fewer than six different handheld electric mixers over the last 30-odd years, and they always fail in fairly short order. .

They talked about furniture and clothing made of polystyrene that's easily combustible and highly flammable, but they torched an entire apartment building clad in the same stuff (killing 75+) just a few years ago.

@kratzikatz1

3 жыл бұрын

I learned the risk of styrofoam (espc.fire) at the age of 7! (1973) i was allowed to play with fire observed by my father.

I remember plug sockets set just above our bathtub in our new house built in 1955 and I remember oh so well my mother drying her hair with her prized hairdryer plugged in whilst we was in the bath . What a different world

@paulone805

3 жыл бұрын

Saying..

@feralbluee

2 жыл бұрын

it must have been different here in the U.S. i never saw an electric plug near a bathtub!! that’s really scary!

The lady host is wonderful! The voice... Oh... I could listen to this voice 24/7😊 Absolutely in love with her voice ❤️💙💚

What I find most shocking is that they knew asbestos was harmful to health since the 20's, but in America they still used it through the 70's. Every time I move into an old apartment I have to sign a paper stating that it is possible the asbestos could be in my apartment. Isn't that lovely. Although, to be fare I'm sure the stuff they put in homes today is also probably toxic to our health, just not as bad.

@georgetubb9124

4 жыл бұрын

It was actually suspected unsafe at least as far back as the 1890s when health officers visited factories they produced asbestos products in

@Witheredgoogie

4 жыл бұрын

You can look on the bright side of asbestos..it was the best fire containment and non-flammable materials there ever was, you would not get fire spread in dense housing blocks like apartments that had asbestos liners. It resisted rot and nothing could live on it like mold or bugs.

@DuoLoverRed

4 жыл бұрын

They tried to start using Asbestos again in 2018 luckily they closed that legal loophole in 2019. But it's good to know corporations will knowingly go out of their way to kill you if they can make a profit first. www.fastcompany.com/90208948/under-trumps-epa-asbestos-might-be-making-a-comeback

I had a friend in the 70’s who destroyed the family bathroom with a chemistry set, I believe she had one of the last ever..

@missmcphee8859

5 жыл бұрын

Damn, sounds like a bit explosion. Imagine explaining why the sink is in 100 pieces once your parents gog back home! Did she survive?

@tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098

4 жыл бұрын

Aha -- so THERE'S the potassium-in-the-toilet-bowl I have been waiting for...?!

All of these give me ideas for a new Sims playthrough...

@Kolibri71

3 жыл бұрын

If only the sims 4 were realistic and playable Well, they did manage the burning toilets like in the Victorian era lol

@didostempest2966

3 жыл бұрын

Memories of Sims 2 glitches (crib and grill overlap) and grilled babies still haunt my dreams 😂😫 tf

@didostempest2966

3 жыл бұрын

P. O. Kolibri Right, I remade a sims 2 version of my dad way back in middle school and he got pregnant by an alien. I miss it terribly.

@KawaiiKaabii1993

3 жыл бұрын

don't forget the infamous Murphy beds in Sims 4 they're a REAL killer lol

@gracie7714

3 жыл бұрын

@@KawaiiKaabii1993 and a LOW cooking skill👩🏾‍🍳🥪

RIP Steve Marriott. He passed away when his house caught on fire from polyurethane furniture. He was the legendary lead singer of Humble Pie. My father was his security on the road..

This really is a terrific channel.

@elizabethbush5293

5 жыл бұрын

I know right? Ive been watching these more than tv.

@Petey0707

5 жыл бұрын

It is great but there's a fair amount of historical inaccuracies in exchange for sensationalist rhetoric or misinformation. Basically like the History Channel before it became all about driving trucks and pawning items. Its quality tends to fluctuate.

@davidwaugh3824

4 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethbush5293 Its really a BBC television programme.

@elizabethbush5293

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidwaugh3824 i know

Dude is so classy that he builds a home dressed in a suit.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

3 жыл бұрын

That's nothing, watch Buddy Ruch drum in a turtleneck AND a suit. Eesh.

Things like this is what makes me understand why some people get into having collections. I was born in 1978, long after 1957...But seeing that Chemistry set and just feeling that it is a part of history....I would pay a fair amount simply to have a decent set and be able to look at it....Sealed would be cool but so would used....Just thinking of some kid in 1957...and the energy of that year and time. Im weird, I know....

Professor Lipscomb you are a stunner.