Too Long a Winter

Name: Too Long a Winter
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1973-01-30
Duration: 45 min
Rating: 8.3
Cast: Peter Moth, Brian Bainbridge, Mary Bainbridge

TV Movie
1973
45m

IMDb RATING

8.3/10

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Hannah Hauxwell in Too Long a Winter (1973)

Documentary

Award-winning documentary that follows the solitary existence of Hannah Hauxwell, a farmer who lives all alone in a remote farmhouse without electricity or running water, in the isolated dal... Read allAward-winning documentary that follows the solitary existence of Hannah Hauxwell, a farmer who lives all alone in a remote farmhouse without electricity or running water, in the isolated dale of Baldersdale in County Durham. The documentary also follows the return of Brian and Ma... Read allAward-winning documentary that follows the solitary existence of Hannah Hauxwell, a farmer who lives all alone in a remote farmhouse without electricity or running water, in the isolated dale of Baldersdale in County Durham. The documentary also follows the return of Brian and Mary Bainbridge to an even more remote farm further up Teesdale after they left several year... Read all

Director
- Barry Cockcroft
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IMDb RATING

8.3/10

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Director
- Barry Cockcroft
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After this programme was broadcast, ITV companies, and especially Yorkshire Television who made the programme, were inundated with gifts and money for "the old lady in the Yorkshire Dales" (Hannah Hauxwell) which eventually enabled her to invest in a few more cows and to have an electricity supply installed at her farmhouse. For the record, Hannah was only 46 when the programme was filmed, but appeared much older because of her harsh living conditions.

Quotes
Hannah Hauxwell: I think I have a system of keeping expenditure down to the very bare necessities. In some respects I wouldn't even say that I can even afford *some* necessities. But I keep it down to the bare essentials - I put the brake on and keep it on. It's the only way.
Reporter: What about food?
Hannah Hauxwell: [hesitantly] Well, food, it's... I sort of... It's like the other things - I just sort of try to economise.
Reporter: What did you have for your lunch today?
Hannah Hauxwell: [laughing nervously] Butter and bread.
Reporter: What really keeps you here? What's the tie?
Hannah Hauxwell: I'm attached to the place because my family have lived here since my great-grandfather's time - no-one else has lived in this house since it was built, but our family. And the lovely countryside through the iron gate down the new road. I've often thought... It's my favourite walk, and I've stopped and looked, and I've thought that it's one thing - if I haven't money in my pocket, it's one thing nobody can rob me of. It's mine. It's mine for the taking.