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From my childhood I have a patchy memory of a TV programme whose name I cannot recall and my internet searches have failed me.

I think it was made by Yorkshire TV and filmed in said county, all about an energy efficient house which the programme documented being built from the semi-derelict shell.of an older house.

I remember it having a conservatory in the ninety degree angle facing south with some sort of air to brick-mass heat store under the floor.

Anyone recollect this programme?

Hi Peter It was called 'It's not easy Going green, the guy was Dick Strawbridge he even has a website www.dickstrawbridge.com

Take it easy, hope that helps

CoMpO

Compo wrote:Hi Peter It was called 'It's not easy Going green, the guy was Dick Strawbridge he even has a website http://www.dickstrawbridge.com

Take it easy, hope that helps

CoMpO

Hi CoMpO

'It's not easy Going green' was only made in 2006 and in Cornwall, so it can't be what Peter is trying to remember - and if he was a child then, that must make him the youngest member of the forum

Having said that, I have no memory of it, though I probably lived in Yorkshire throughout Peter's childhood and saw plenty of YTV.

Any more clues, Peter?

Meanwhile, I still search for the location of a harbour that we once visited on a family holiday back in the mid 1970s....
I suspect it could have been in Wales.? I think the story was that it was built for a specific purpose but never ever used due to silting up....
I seem to recall stone block built harbour walls and rope fixings.....

But where was it...??


Clive.

Hi Clive

I have set some research going among people who know their geography and their harbours. Here's hoping

Alan

Peter, your profile doesn't include your age so which decade are we looking at? I have a dim recollection of "The ??? house" but Google has failed me so far.

Peter, could the TV programme you are trying to recall be "A House for the Future" which was shown in 1976 on ITV hosted by Brian Trueman. This was a refurbishment of a house in Macclesfield. We still have the book of the programme and we are still trying to 'keep the faith' on energy conservation.

Diane.

In case you are interested I found this link to an article in the Telegraph from 2003

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/331 ... uture.html

Not quite fifty.

Ooops, i was thinking pre war.

alan refail wrote:Hi Clive

I have set some research going among people who know their geography and their harbours. Here's hoping

Alan

Thank you Alan.

and sorry Peter for my thread warping efforts...

Clive.

oldherbaceous wrote:Ooops, i was thinking pre war.

Still recalling your teenage exploits in the Home Guard, then OH?

Go on tell us that story again about those three Land Army girls misunderstanding the Curate, then embarrassing the Rector.

The programme seems to be identified, right era.

Was the harbour Milford Haven? one of the deepest harbours in Europe or something?

CoMpO

OH. Was that the Boar War !

Dear Shallot Man, i'm sure i don't know what your'e getting at.

http://www.explore-gower.co.uk/Content/ ... id=62.html

Was it the River Tawe at North Harbour in Swansea, the above link might give some clues Peter

CoMpO