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Turn Back Time - The High Street

Leanne Klein

Cate Hall

Turn Back Time: The High Street: Episode 2: Edwardian

Edwardian

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Episode 2: Edwardian

The High Street

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The shopkeepers move on to the Edwardian era, where they are joined by a dressmaker.

A group of modern shopkeepers live and trade through six key eras of history. They move on to the elegant Edwardian era, where they are joined by a dressmaker.

A group of modern shopkeepers and their families are on the journey of a lifetime - they're taking over empty shops in a neglected market square in Shepton Mallet to see if they can turn back time for the British High Street. They'll live and trade through six key eras of history, and in this episode they move into to the elegance of the Edwardian era. 

The butcher, the baker, the grocer and the ironmonger are joined by a dressmaker, and together they must provide a modern town with the exceptional service and luxuriant shop displays worthy of the Edwardians. 

The baker's family find themselves running an Edwardian tea shop, while the butchers must sell game in all its gory glory to modern customers. The grocer has trained staff, but the challenge of creating an early 20th century wedding breakfast piles on the pressure. 

All the shopkeepers struggle with maintaining standards, and it becomes clear that underneath its glossy veneer the Edwardian high street was a tough place for women and children. The arrival of call-up papers reminds the traders and the town of the terrible impact that World War One had on Britain's communities.

Turn Back Time: The High Street

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A group of shop-keeping families are taken back in time to the birth of the high street.

A group of shop-keeping families are transported back to the birth of the high street in the 1870s, and propelled through a century of change, right up to the modern era and the 1970s.

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