The Victorians

Programme Outline

01.24 - 05.41 The coming of the railways

Footage

• Railway engineering, track and stations

Commentary

• Building the railways
• Town and country stations

05.41 -13.34 Victorian entrepreneurs and their houses

Footage

• Halifax, showing textile mills and public buildings
• Examples of Victorian Gothic architecture
• St Pancras Station and the Houses of Parliament

Commentary

• The Crossley family and Halifax
• Industrialists and the cult of the past
• Living in the great Victorian houses

13.34 - 18.45 Reforms and reformers

Footage

• Reservoirs and pumping towers
• Hospitals
• Model dwellings

Commentary

• Developments in public health
• Victorian housing
• Lord Leverhulme and Port Sunlight

18.45 - 24.05 Holidays and leisure

Footage

• Tenby
• Blackpool
• Osborne House, Isle of Wight

Commentary

• The first bank holidays
• The growth of seaside resorts

24.05 - 29.05 Education

• Footage
• The Albert Memorial and the South Kensington museums
• Board schools, church and village schools
• Victorian university buildings and colleges

Commentary

• Prince Albert and the museum movement
• Developments in education