Fascinating. If we'd realised how precious interviews with those born in the 19th century were, TV companies would have interviewed ten times more in the seventies.

In 2003 I looked after a lady born in 1895.  She had breathed the air of 3 centuries.

Mavis Nicholson, the interviewer died in 2022, she was 91 years old.

Incredible to be watching this over half a century later. She was born 133 years ago 🤯 What an valuable record. RIP.

God bless her.  Nobody alive now from Victorian times.  May she RIP.  ❤

Such a dear old soul. Our ancestors of her generation were the salt of the Earth. The sacrifices they made built modern civilisation.

In 1985 when i was about 10, I knew a pair of 100 year old female twins that lived on my street. They dressed like they were from the 1920's and would often sit on the front lawn waiting for me to hand them the newspaper, i would get a sweet in return.  And when you walked past their house, you could hear the TV blaring from the windows, because they were hard of hearing. Nobody ever complained, because we knew it was a luxury having 2 women that were born in the 1880's living among us,  and we knew they were keeping each other alive for as long as they could.

My grandmother was born in 1886 and lived till 1975.  Twelve children. No idea of her Victorian life as a child

Violet Turner. Born 19/02/1889 Aldershot, died 28/12/1973 Stanmore.

It is a shame that these type of interviews were not longer - these people had so much history behind them that should have been recorded for posterity

That's so sad that no one in her family wanted that little case. She thought it would end up in the trash. I treasure every single thing that has been passed on to me. I see myself as only a caretaker of my family's history. I passed on the stories from every item to my boys, and someday, the items will be passed on to them to go with the stories and history. They care about the family heirlooms just as much as I have. I'm very thankful for that.

None of us knew Queen Victoria.  This lady actually did.  Marvellous conversation, so true full that it reeled you in. I wonder if she wrote poetry or was a song writer as well as nanny or governess.  Totally spellbound. That was not a easy interview.  You really had to be in her atmosphere of thought. Well done interview of respect to the person.❤

"we were brought up to be honourable to our parents"

"It's rather gruesome but it's very pleasant"😅

I'm now 70, I had 3 great aunts and a grandad, all born during the 1880's, the last one dying around 1973.  My biggest regret is not sitting down and really chatting to them. We obviously did chat, but not in depth.

Watching these pulls my heart strings. I love England.

She is a delight to listen too.  She has a soft voice, and loved her stories.  God bless her.💛

She was very content with her life. It sounds like she lost opportunity but she was still happy here.

As a Austrian, it´s hard for me to understand the older people in the films about Victorian Life. English Undertitles would be awesome.

Wonderful my mum is 90 and its2024 god i had to call mum as this lady made me think of her. God bless this lady