Phil visits the house in Sussex where the Bloomsbury set lived or stayed, and debated, wrote or painted. When men were away at war and women were not allowed to sign up, women worked in factories in around the year 1916, and homes were built for them to stay in at such places as Gretna. During the Great War, WW1, many stately houses were turned into convalescent homes for injured service men. Frognal House in Sidcup, Kent became one of the most vital military hospitals for injured soldiers, from 1917 this 8 reception room and 13 bedroom house became a life changing house for 18,000 men in the space of 12 years. Some say it was the birthplace of plastic surgery in Britain as they specialized in face and jaw surgery in WW1. We see what a Nissen-Petren house is in Yeovil, Somerset. Then a post-war semi as there are 3 million of them still standing in the UK. Phil explains that as the middle classes were moving to the suburbs, the rich were moving to the coast, and so we see a 6000 sq ft Art Deco home, called The Sandcastle in Eastbourne.
