A House Through Time Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode 1

Airdate: 2018-Jan-04

Episode summary:

In the first episode of this series, David follows the stories of the first inhabitants of the house, those who lived there in the 1840s and 1850s.In a remarkable piece of historical detective work David discovers how the house came to be built as a merchant's residence by a canny property developer at a time when Liverpool was one of the great trading ports of the British Empire.He then uncovers the story of the very first tenant, a customs clerk with a taste for fine furniture and the high life, and explores what happened to his lavish lifestyle when the money dried up.

About A House Through Time series:

This series tells a story of Britain spanning a period of seismic social change from the 1840s to the present day, through the prism of a single-te...Show more >