Season 3, episode 6. Back in Middlesbrough, Fred’s fears about his accommodation problems are realised,  in Sheffield, Janie is suddenly flavour of the month again with Polly Roe, and we also have a look at the Phoenix Park Murders that took place in Dublin, Ireland. We also get to hear Fred sharing his love for the sea front at Saltburn. Instagram: <a href='https://www.instagram.com/mylovelettertimemachine/'>@mylovelettertimemachine</a> Twitter: <a href='https://twitter.com/1ngi'>@1ngi</a> Email: mylovelettertimemachine@gmail.com Writer and Producer:  Ingrid Birchell Hughes<a rel="payment" href="https://ko-fi.com/mylovelettertimemachine">Support the show</a>

Season 3, episode 6. Back in Middlesbrough, Fred’s fears about his accommodation problems are realised, in Sheffield, Janie is suddenly flavour of the month again with Polly Roe, and we also have a look at the Phoenix Park Murders that took place in Dublin, Ireland. We also get to hear Fred sharing his love for the sea front at Saltburn. Instagram: @mylovelettertimemachine Twitter: @1ngi Email: mylovelettertimemachine@gmail.com Writer and Producer: Ingrid Birchell Hughes Support the show

Season 3, episode 6. Back in Middlesbrough, Fred’s fears about his accommodation problems are realised,&nbsp; in Sheffield, Janie is suddenly flavour of the month again with Polly Roe, and we also have a look at the Phoenix Park Murders that took place in Dublin, Ireland. We also get to hear Fred sharing his love for the sea front at Saltburn. Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mylovelettertimemachine/" rel="noopener noreferrer">@mylovelettertimemachine</a> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/1ngi" rel="noopener noreferrer">@1ngi</a> Email: mylovelettertimemachine@gmail.com Writer and Producer:&nbsp; Ingrid Birchell Hughes<a href="https://ko-fi.com/mylovelettertimemachine" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

"if you had been there, it would've been an Eden"

Shortlisted for the International Women's Podcast Awards 2024, 2023 + 2022, and the Independent Podcast Awards 2023.&nbsp; "Ingrid Birchell Hughes presents a charming take on family history via the love letters of her great-great-grandparents Fred and Jane, who exchanged 200 of them between their meeting and their marriage in Victorian Yorkshire. It’s a terrific insight into the lives of two witty working-class people and the times they lived in." — The Times.&nbsp; This is a true story, a love story, a family drama, all contained within Victorian social history. Ingrid has both sides (extremely rare) of a correspondence spanning 1878 to 1882 that her great great grandparents sent one another. They were ordinary folk, trying to make their way in the world, first in the city of Sheffield and later in the town of Middlesbrough. There is a whole 'cast' of characters too from Fred's industrial innovator of a boss who advanced the steel making process - and took Fred with him, to Jane's sister Emma, who had her life splashed across the newspapers through no fault of her own. Against the background of the dramas going around them, Fred and Jane overcame family objection to their match and through their own will and determination, made a new life together.

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Shortlisted for the International Women's Podcast Awards 2024, 2023 + 2022, and the Independent Podcast Awards 2023.  "Ingrid Birchell Hughes presents a charming take on family history via the love letters of her great-great-grandparents Fred and Jane, who exchanged 200 of them between their meeting and their marriage in Victorian Yorkshire. It’s a terrific insight into the lives of two witty working-class people and the times they lived in." — The Times.  This is a true story, a love story, a family drama, all contained within Victorian social history. Ingrid has both sides (extremely rare) of a correspondence spanning 1878 to 1882 that her great great grandparents sent one another. They were ordinary folk, trying to make their way in the world, first in the city of Sheffield and later in the town of Middlesbrough. There is a whole 'cast' of characters too from Fred's industrial innovator of a boss who advanced the steel making process - and took Fred with him, to Jane's sister Emma, who had her life splashed across the newspapers through no fault of her own. Against the background of the dramas going around them, Fred and Jane overcame family objection to their match and through their own will and determination, made a new life together.

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