1964: Living in CAVES is all the RAGE | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

"Cave dwelling has become the chique way to spend your summer holidays, your weekends and your money."
In 1964, Julian Pettifer reported from Trôo in France, where families live in caves in the hillside. He looked at how caves were becoming all the rage with the Parisians, who were buying them up as holiday homes.
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Tuesday 7 January, 1964.
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[@Take_Me_Back_To_The_1980s]

The good ol' days when you could still go out and buy yourself a cave for a few hundred pounds

[@moominmay]

Stands to reason I guess the earliest types of second homes were caves lol. Have to admit they look pretty cool. The ultimate quirky home! 🙂

[@chelseajordan5752]

So cool!! I love these uploads - so unique and interesting!

[@scaredyfish]

One of the best channels on KZbin!

[@thexfile.]

No roofing and minimum heating sounds like a win-win.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Apart from the damp coming from living in the ground.

[@saulsolomon4396]

Julian Pettifer was a great presenter.

[@saulsolomon4396]

@@westerncherokeewireless642 I meant was as in when he made shows. Glad he's still chugging along!

[@williamscott2703]

More,please Don't,leave,these,gems,gathering,dust Get,them,out,before,its,too,late

[@milquetoasted]

I,think,they're,going,as,fast,as,they,can

[@EntirelyPointlessContent]

Hey, guys, what's, going, on

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Why are you typing like that? Take your finger off the comma button.

[@tjm3900]

It were only a hole in the ground, covered by a couple foot o torn canvas. But it were a house to us!

[@atomictraveller]

my parents always told us they lived in a cave in paris, with a photo on the wall as proof. now it's clear.

[@andywatts8654]

I heard your mum was a Troglodyte 👌

[@jasonayres]

They really dug those caves back in 1964. (How cool is that?! Especially in Summer)

[@1969Kismet]

They didn't. These houses are hundreds of years old.

[@scaredyfish]

The caves got gentrified!

[@Polite_Indifference]

With house prices as they are in the UK now, these homes seem like attractive options.

[@Polite_Indifference]

With house prices as they are in the UK now, these homes seem like attractive options.

[@hawsrulebegin7768]

Interesting to see the posh city folk have always wasted money on weekend get a ways and out priced the locals.

[@Undermarysmantleforever]

Lady of the cave 😂😂😂 I think they are lovely without the Dior decor but what about the plumbing???

[@krognak]

I think the presenter just discovered the word "troglodyte" and can't stop using it

[@stephenbarone4053]

Today, he would be canceled.

[@scotmorley8526]

Mansfield UK had cave dwellers not to long ago

[@DaraM73]

Annoying snobbery

[@electrosoundaust]

The opal town of Cooper Pedy has a number of underground houses. These are very comfortable all year round. People cut and cover to build ëco" houses. Here in Australia a Troglodyte is a form of abuse used by politians! Pity these houses, and many others in Europe and the Middle East, have become fashionable. Is nothing sacred to the developers?

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

There’s no such thing as eco.

[@andywatts8654]

Economical

[@AndrewB221]

I would love to and think about it all the time or being a drifter because? I hate everything and everyone

[@Sheepish89]

"The troglodytes" haha, the French live in caves!

[@beausexon7546]

This encourages dangerous behavior. Shame on the beeb.

[@volo870]

What kind of dangerous behaviour does this encourage? Recently I've seen a modern documentary of this place: these people still enjoy their lifestyle, just with more tourists

[@andrew.nicholson]

😬 absolutely wild take

[@hawsrulebegin7768]

What a strange opinion you have.

[@stephenbarone4053]

@@volo870I was curious to know if people were still living this way.

[@FlyliteParamotor]

No dark faces, win win