Too Long a Winter

[@kevinadamson5768]

This frugality at it finest something today's generation wouldn't comprehend, if you go back a century a lot of country folk lived like this . This lady is so humble but strong at the same time, sometimes circumstances carve your life out for you and you just have to make the best of it and Hannah has done it in spade fulls.

[@stephenholmes1036]

We did into the 1980s and farm ourselves now and its hard.

[@deeppurple883]

I've seen this before and it blew me away. The people were gold. I couldn't believe Hanna was 46 Y I was shocked. I could see into her soul and it made me so sad still does these years later. I'm still lost for word's, I have a connection from afar. I'm Irish and I know hard time's like these people did. I'm a city person but the soul had no borders. ✌️ ☘️

[@paddys900]

I'm reminded when watching this video of the struggle my late mother, who was widowed very young in the early sixties did her best to bring up five children under the age of six while running a hundred acre farm in a time when everything was labour intensive and money was very scarce. I admired my mother for her hard-working ethnic as I do this wonderful, simple living woman who puts her farm first before the trappings of a more material life.

[@lizcosgrove8199]

really enjoyed this documentary. Thank you for putting it up. It reminds me of how hard my people worked at farming. Although we are in Ireland it was just the same. I have just seen the films about Hannah what a lovely lady may she RIP. By God the last generation were tough people..they put us to shame. It's because of them we are so comfortable. We owe them such gratitude.

[@annamurphy9407]

Thats a good way of looking at it, we do owe them, I hadnt realised it

[@TheBigrab10]

Amazingly said ...

[@diana8575]

Well said Liz.

[@apodis4900]

Well said. All you seem to hear about the older generation is criticism of their dated beliefs. Those beliefs will die with them, but the legacy of a comfortable existence won't. The sad thing is that the respect they undoubtedly showed to their elders doesn't seem to be granted to them, at least by a lot of people.

[@helenwoods4605]

What a beautfull lady

[@davidswanson8493]

Thank you for posting.What a great documentary!

[@HorseMalone]

There's still a few folk like the Bainbridges left in Teesdale and Weardale but By the Christ they're thin on the ground. But when they made Hannah they broke the mould.

[@PeterOHalloran-hf2ho]

Growing up in Ireland it reminds me of the harsh times our people had with very little both here and of course in many parts of England as seen in the video

[@dougtheviking6503]

The Tennant farmer. You do all the work they get a check

[@jonc74]

not a tenant..she owned the farm and the land

[@stephenholmes1036]

​@@jonc74 they meant the Bainbridge family

[@alanwayte432]

Cheque

[@tedradearr1530]

hanna is 46 and full white already, wow what a live they had

[@David-h4z2s]

True Yorkshire Northern Gritt🌄🏞️🌠✊

[@jegs02]

thanks so much for posting this

[@stephenholmes1036]

The truth listen to the Bainbridge family, shepherding is a hard life i can Tell you! Hannah was used and that was wrong. Our life is hard forget the romantic music it a grinding tough life.

[@Victor-z7t6q]

What do you meen she was used please

[@The-Punch-and-Jewdy-Show]

@@Victor-z7t6q I think he meant that she was “ exploited “ . . But the people who were behind the documentary actually helped her.. She ended up travelling the world and it was the people who made the documentary who paid for all of her ventures… So maybe Hannah was the one who was doing the “ using “ . . ??

[@geraldswain3259]

That bloke in the church with his back to the camera,somebody ought to tell him his thatch has slipped !!!.

[@vgstb]

Can someone please upload the documentary anew? The current upload has become too grainy and visually unpleasant to enjoy which does wrong to the subject.

[@johnbell5240]

Strings an born

[@helenhughes9420]

Would love to know what became of Hanna's farm house.....

[@jonc74]

it is still there...owned by a family who bought it recently

[@helenhughes9420]

@@jonc74 oh thank you 👍

[@moonlightttt156]

Think is a reserve now

[@robertjpayne]

Durham Wildlife Trust own the property and has managed Hannah's Meadow as a lasting legacy of her traditional farming methods and a tribute to her quiet resilience.

[@PeterOHalloran-hf2ho]

HARDY PEOPLE FOR SURE

[@maxpower1337]

It's should be written the winter was to long.

[@Simon-fr4ts]

Too

[@rabc1558]

Does anyone know what the music is at the start of this please

[@deathwarmedup73]

vaughan williams fantasia on a theme by thomas tallis

[@liasummers1824]

rainwater or snow collection didnt come to mind?

[@martino.malley9276]

Wonder what happened To Brian Bainbridge and his wife.

[@geraldswain3259]

Martin O.Malley They both choked on a cutlet of lamb !.

[@levimacdonald5188]

Brian died aged 80 in 2006 ! But unsure if he's wife is still living! Hannah hauxwell died last January 2018 aged 91..😔❤💓

[@charliepinkney1228]

@@levimacdonald5188 his wife Mary Bainbridge my nana has sadly pass away this year at the age of 92 still living up the dale where she is laid to rest

[@ellejay2439]

@@charliepinkney1228 I’m sorry to hear. Hope she rests in peace

[@richardmatthews3304]

​@@charliepinkney1228your grandparents were tough people. Your grandad reminds me a bit of my dad, same hat and waterproofs just dad smoked a pipe,