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Coal House: Series 1 (network)

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Three families face the hardships of life in 1927.

In this first programme three families give up their 21st century creature comforts and time-travel back to face the hardships of life in the Welsh Valleys, 1927.

This is the end of week two in the Coal House and the Cartwrights, Griffiths, and Phillips are experiencing the joys and the harsh realites of life in a mining community of 1927. A year after the Great Strike, money has become tight, food is short, and the families pull together to survive. Halloween brings some scary fun for the children but the men risk all in one of the most dangerous coalfields on earth.

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Three families are transported back to the south Wales coalfield of the 1920s

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