The 1900 Island

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Four families try to adapt to life on a tidal island at the turn of the 20th century.

Four families, with a longing to escape the demands of the modern world, head back over a hundred years to the turn of the 20th century.

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The 1900 Island: Series 1: Episode 4

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As one family leave early, the others realise their days on the 1900 island are numbered.

The outside world comes calling and as one family leaves the island early, the others start to realise their days on the 1900 island are numbered. It’s a fond if tearful farewell.


It’s the final week for the four families on The 1900 Island, living in a time of hand-to-mouth existence and hard physical graft, at sea and at home. With a last minute haul of fish, everyone is counting down the days. But as the outside world comes calling, modern mechanisation hits their rural idyll, prices plummet and there is a rude awakening for the men and women on the island. They resort to cockling and gathering shellfish to makes ends meet and one family contemplates leaving the community for opportunities elsewhere.

The 1900 Island: Series 1

Set on the wild west coast of Anglesey, in a time of hand-to-mouth existence - four families face the harsh realities of one of the toughest ways to make a living in 1900 Britain.

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