Three Welsh families have been hand-picked to live in 1927 for four weeks this autumn.
The families will travel back in time to live life as it was in a mining community in 1927 as part of BBC Wales’ ambitious Coal House television series, which will be broadcast on BBC One Wales and BBC Two.
The Griffiths Family are lucky enough to be amongst the chosen three.
* Cerdin Griffiths, 46, is a lorry driver, originally from Ffostrasol near Pendysul
* Debra Griffiths, 39, is a housewife and will celebrate her 40th birthday in the Coal House
* Steffan Griffiths, 13, is a pupil at Cardigan Secondary School
* Angharad Griffiths, 12, is a pupil at Cardigan Secondary School
* Gethin Griffiths, 8, is a pupil at Cardigan Junior School
The Griffiths gang are the only family of the three to speak Welsh, and it is the language they use together at home.
Debra has mining heritage on her mother’s side of the family – her grandfather was a miner. The family’s main reason for wanting to go back to 1927 is to try life in a simpler time, without computers, mobile phones, after-school activities and all the trappings of modern day life.
As in many families, the Griffiths children spend quite a lot of time on the computer and on Playstation, so they find they do not communicate as much as they would like, and they want to use this opportunity to spend quality time together as a family (a common theme among the Coal House families).
Debra will celebrate her 40th birthday in the Coal House, which in 1927 was considered a relatively mature age (the average life expectancy then was shorter both for women and men, partly due to the lifestyle of hard manual labour).
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