MEET the Hymers who volunteered to live and breathe life on The Home Front in 1940s wartime Britain.
EXPLORE the house in a full 360-degree virtual tour and find out about life at home in Britain during World War II.
READ transcripts of online chats with the Hymers family and with Juliet Gardner, author of The 1940s House book and member of the TV wartime cabinet.
TALK about the The 1940s House and share your wartime experiences in the 1940s Forum.
BUY the Channel 4 video and books, The 1940s House and The 1940s House Activity Book for children from the Channel 4 Shop — click here.
VISIT the house, re-created full-size, at London's Imperial War Museum until June 2001. For more info, click here to visit the IWM website.
The 1940s House television series was created for Channel 4 by Wall To Wall.
as seen on Channel 4, January 2001
The Channel 4 television series was created as a living experiment. A modern family, the Hymers, lived in a real house under wartime conditions. Their experience of rationing, blackouts, air-raids and day-to-day life was filmed and shown in the TV episodes summarised here.
The Hymers are chosen from more than 300 families and the house is found in West Wickham.
The family move in, meet the rabbits and build their own Anderson shelter in the garden.
The blackout and shortages begin to bite, the women go to work, the boys get hungry and cigarettes run out.
Michael comes home, supplies arrive from the US, the Doodlebugs hit and then... VICTORY is celebrated.
The Hymers reflect on their experience, their media profile and their new healthier, fitter selves.