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Episode 5 – Charlton
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In each programme our duo are called in to solve the hidden history of a house, no matter how big or small, old or new.
Dr Nick Barratt is our archive specialist. Dr Jonathan Foyle is our architectural historian and archaeologist.
Homeowners Rob and Michelle have lived at 74 Little Heath, a very unusual looking Victorian house, for eight years. Rob has an old plan of the plot, with documents suggesting that the building used to be a shop.
Jonathan can’t find any original features inside apart from an old tiled floor under the carpet, but he finds more clues outside house suggesting it could have been used as a dairy.
Nick takes Michelle to the look through local trade directories and finds a dairy listed in 1898, two years after the date plaque on Rob and Michelle’s house. And a further archive search through the electoral registers hits the jackpot and shows that 74 Little Heath was indeed a dairy.
When talking to neighbours Jonathan makes an exciting discovery. A neighbour remembers the dairy and, to Jonathan’s amazement, the neighbour owns a ginger beer bottle originally produced by the dairy at 74 Little Heath!
