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How We Used to Live: Tony Robinson's Local History Search
 
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Programme 1: Farming
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Programme 2: Industry
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Programme 1: Farming

Programme Outline

 

Tony Robinson and his team visit Cookstown in Northern Ireland, where they trace the history of farming from its beginnings in Neolithic times through to the Irish potato famine. They visit Wellbrook Beetling Mill to find out how linen was processed.