Farms: Hannah Hauxwell - Too Long A Winter
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The true story of Hannah Hauxwell the spinster living alone at Low Birk Hatt Farm in an isolated area of the North Riding of Yorkshire (now County Durham) when she came to public attention in the 1973 ITV documentary Too Long a Winter made by Yorkshire Television and produced by Barry Cockcroft which chronicled the almost unendurable conditions of farmers in the High Pennines in winter.
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❤ hannah!
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Hannah finally moved down to a bungalow in a nearby village. Given her age, I don't think that was bad going at all, really!
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watched this as a child on BBC.
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A Woman with excellent values!
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What a woman.. ordinary, but extraordinary..
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My mother got this on VHS for my stepfather for Christmas years ago.
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the old woman from the hall died that yr in a car crash
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And people keep banging on about the poverty that families on welfare in this country have to endure, it makes you laugh when you watch how this lady lived, dealt a shit hand she just got on with it and worked hard.
All you people out there with your smart phones and flat screen TVs, electric lighting and central heating, THIS IS POVERTY!! -
I remember watching this with my Mum, many many years ago on the BBC ... thanks for the lovely memories, Hannah's voice is so beautiful isn't it ..
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Many many thanks for posting this. At the time it was first shown, along with many other people, I got the idea that Hannah lived miles away from anyone else. This wasn't true - Low Birk Hatt Farm had [and still has] other farms/properties fairly near to it - within walking distance certainly - but it was completely true that she lived there on her own and could go for many many days with no other human contact. Barry Cockcroft [who I later got to know in St Ives where he lived] was a genius but Yorkshire Television were, how shall I say it, 'economic with the truth', when it came to maintaining the 'isolation' myth. The arial filming [from a full sized and very noisy helicopter] was absolutely sensational from both the expert camera work of Mostafa Hammuri and the pilot John Leeson.
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She makes me feel this big → .
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I'm very grateful to you for posting this - I have seen it several times before, but it is becoming more difficult to find. It is so moving. The hardships Miss Hauxwell and the Bainbridges lived through are difficult to imagine in today's world; I wonder if there are any left like them.
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I'd never seen this programme all the way through before, only excerpts in other programmes about Hannah Hauxwell. Thanks so much for uploading it.
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thanks Billy much appreciated .