Episode 10 – Hampstead
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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.
Jonathan and Nick are called in to investigate the hidden past of a pebble-dashed, semi-detached house built at the turn of the century, which forms part of the 1907 development in
Owners Mireille and Eddie want to know who were the first people to move into their house. Mireille reveals that her grandparents bought the house in 1972, and when Jonathan later discovers a piece of newspaper which is blocking up the chimney that too is dated1972!
Nick manages to track down a list of the first 100 occupiers of the suburb at the London Metropolitan Archives, and the team are able to use this to identify a series of letters carved into the base of a house - they initials of all 100 first occupiers of the suburb.
