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The Doige and Mills families learn a Victorian bread recipe and how to make clay bricks.
The Doige and Mills families make damson butter and get a horse and cart driving lesson.
The dads take on an important farm job - haymaking, using old-fashioned scythes.
The Doige family go head-to-head with the Mills family in a muckspreading challenge.
The families try sheep farming: cleaning, herding and selecting sheep and spinning wool.
The children get to grips with a hand-operated Victorian corn kibbler.
The Mums find out just how hard Victorian housewives worked when they make butter.
The Dads take on a dangerous and very hot job in the blacksmith's forge.
The Dads learn that making a gate Victorian style isn't as simple as they thought.
It's the day of the big weekly challenge for the two families.
The Mums face their worst nightmare - ironing in the 19th century.
The Dads take on the arduous task of repairing a dry stone wall.
The children make a fidget pie out of potato, gammon, apple and onion.
The children from the Bagley and Booth families get a lesson in Victorian pest control.
The families compete to take home the prize for best Victorian ploughing family.
The Degale family from Enfield and a family from the Cotswolds begin a week of challenges.
The men go rabbiting in the Shropshire hills and the mums are in the laundry.
The children concoct herbal remedies out of strawberries, pepper, onions and honey.
The dads sharpen their axes and saws as they prepare wood to light the range.
On the final day the families compete to see who can put on the best cattle show.
