Wartime Farm Episode 3 of 8

The team tackles the conditions faced by the British farmers in late 1940, when Britain’s cities were heavily bombed by the Nazis. The Blitz resulted in one of the biggest mass movements of people in British history as three million city dwellers fled to the countryside. To make outbuildings habitable as refugee shelters, Alex and Peter resort to the age-old craft of making tiles by hand - which means camping out for two days and nights in freezing cold to tend the tile-making kiln. They are visited by a 94
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