lewis burford from wales
i would like to see the family returning to our screens please do it!
Milly Cardiff
I loved the Coal House series if there's another one please please please please can me and my family be on it?
Rebecca from Ebbw Vale
I loved Coal House and when I saw what they had to go through. I would love to go and do what they did.
Rhys, Anglesey
Absolutely FANTASTIC!I was totally hooked! Please, please can we have a DVD of the series. I would definitely buy it!
john mills Port Talbot
Very good programme. Was very interesting!Enjoyed every second of it.
Leigh Griffiths, Aberystwyth
A fantastic programme. Well done BBC. My grandfather Thomas Thomas must have lived in a house like this in Aberdare and was a coalminer at in this period, later moving to England for find work. My three children loved it too. Please Please make a dvd of it. My mum missed it and it would be a lovely keepsake for her
Deborah, Caerphilly
Great programme, shame it finished. Reminds me of my grandmother house when she was growing up. Hope they bring out a DVD.
Marcia Stephens France
Well done Indus films.Congratulations to all the families. One of the best pieces of social history in years. The way they all got dirtier as the weeks went by made one realise how difficult it was to keep clean. No, we can never remake 1927 but at least we got an idea of the difficulties.It was hard work for the men and unending drudgery for the women.My childhood home had one of those ranges but at least we had running water and electricity.Recognised the minister ,I used to work in the same office.Hello Gwillym.Why was such a brilliant programme not shown nationwide???.Might make us re think our priorities.
Gareth - Blaenavon
Please don't let this be the last series in Blaenavon. There's great potential for more programmes of this type in Blaenavon.
Jo Jackman from Cardiff
I do hope the series will be shown outside Wales as it is an exceptional piece of television. A DVD of the series would be great.
Sam, Forgeside Blaenavon
What a piece of history! Please dont show it country-wide as we want to keep it for ourselves. Congratulations to all the team who made this program possible. Please come back next year!
martyn blaenavon
well done great show, well done all the cast familly loved it
Ruth Blaenavon
What a fantastic programme shame it has finished. All the families done really well. Would love to see it again on tv well worth watching.
Bridget, Barry
What a programme! History, anthropology, humour - the children were wonderful, hardly any complaining. The BBC should get an award for this. Well done to the families - you should all be really proud of yourselves. I wouldn't have eaten the pig's head either!
Sheila from Parcllyn
To everyone concerned with this programme ~ Thankyou so much for a wonderful series ~. I think we are all enjoying everything we used to take for granted. Diolch en fawr.
Jan Holyhead
Please.please can we have a DVD of the series, fantastic.....so sad its over, will it be shown in the UK as well?
Blaenavon Born and Bred.
Thank you BBC Wales. Thank you to the three families taking part in the CoalHouse. Blaenavon will miss you.
Bob Lewis Pontnewynydd ,Pontypool
Well here I am waiting for time to fly along so I can watch the final episode of a real life drama, or so it seems,that lots of people have relived in their own memories. Well done to all the families and the production team please bring it out on DVD so we relive the 2007 memories of 1927 on a cold evening in front of a real coal fire.
susan brynmawr
what a good show please can we have another next year.
patricia from barry
please can anyone tell me the song which the children sang for Deborah on her 40th birthday. I think it was lovely, and very portrayed the welsh way of life. I would love to hear this song again
Kevin S. - Cardiff
A GREAT show. Hope it is not a one off
Jessica and friends Swansea
Don't let this program end! I and my friends would love to do this. Rhodri and Gwennan are so cute and funny. We love Coal House. Please let there be more of it. Big Pit was an awesome school visit and we visited it four days before Coal house started so we really understand the programme.
sharon and rhys swansea
We are really enjoying the show .Wish it wasnt ending tomorrow. Debra and Cedrin are sooo funny .
Jezz, Newport
This is a great program. I'm lucky I used the good ol' fashioned Sky + to record it, we have watched it over and over again and can't wait for the next episode. Had a drive past today for a nose aswell.....
The Wilkinsons from Milford Haven
We love Rhodri!! Such a cheeky little chap. This programme causes a row at bedtime between our daughter and us so she has to watch the re-runs. Please please please do an omnibus on a Sunday afternoon!!!
janet , cynon valley
i am enjoying every minite of it the cottages are absolutly wonderful just like st fagans the three families are great thank you for opening our eyes to this era well done all
Dai Caerphilly
Really educational programme, my grandson of(11yrs)and i watch it together and we will be sorry when the series ends. He says he's glad he haven't got to live like that! He's mad about his computer console. Jogs a few memories from my past.
Jessica
The best program has been the best program ever on television i will be soooo sad when it ends i wish it never ends!!!!
sian age 12
I love the show!!Its a great laugh and I love to watch it!!
Jayne Cardiff
A brilliant programme,my 16yr old son and I are loving every minute, shame it's only a thirty minute slot, not long enough! All the family's are doing so well, but the Griffiths Family have been great fun,Debra and Cerdin are just wonderful! We just don't realise how lucky we are today, the programme really make you think! Well done to all the Family's!!!
Gertrude from Cardiff
Excellent programme. I thouroughly enjoyed every moment. Mr and Mrs Griffiths are so fully. I hope here will be dvd of their time spent in the Coalhouse Well done to all especially the children.
Julie Williams cardiff
Well this is the best programme on tv,Rhodri is my favourite sweet little boy,his mum and dad are a loving couple this programme should be on for an hour every night,thats all me and my sister Carol have done nothing but laugh,love it Please make more of the same but let it be in the thirties and fiftes next.B.B.C are getting better to watch. X
gail strange Cwmcarn
love the show , this needs to be a regular thing.
martin anthony davies swansea
i have enjoyed the series very much.it shows how hard the miners had to work to look after their familys. just like my grandad mr benjamine lewis from ystradgynlias. who was a miner from the age of 14 and the hardship of the times.
Kate Jones frm Deeside
What a fab programme, my husband and I cant wait watch it every time its on.Its very educational as to the history of the mines and family life back in the 20's. Well done... lets have another series soon.
Jessica Burridge Newport
I love the show, I have to watch every episode.I wish that i had entered the show now it looks so fun and interesting!
matthew edwards
this is brilant we get learn about 1927 and see how luckily we are to not of been still like that
Kelly James, Bedlinog
We all love this programme, we wish it was on every night. We love the griffiths they make us all laugh. I would love to go on a programme like this.
sue Blaenafon
Graet show can we have another next year the children have been so good and the family have show how it can be when people work together,
Rhian Astley, Merthyr Tydfil
I agree that the show can never be exactly like 1927 as the families know they are not going to starve and they will go back to their normal lives, but this is an entertaining way of informing people about the past. The pupils in my class love the programme and it is a brilliant way of 'showing' them life in the 1920s - Educational and entertaining. More please!
Amelia Davies Aberystwyth
Riveting programme - every family has made its unique contribution to the success of this series but Debra Griffiths has to be the star - she's made me laugh more tnan anyone - she's a natural - it's a shame this isn't beamed across the UK !! It knocks spots off the superficial banalities that so many tv progs offer at the moment. I can't wait to see how they all adapt to 'normal' life - I hope we see a bit of how they deal with reality again.Great idea but don't spoil it with another series - they can never recreate the magic of the first one. Da iawn Rachel Morgan - producer.
angela from port talbot
what a fun programme to watch, it should be on longer than half hour, and i think the griffiths family are so funny,and little rhodri keeps that family going to,i hope they all enjoyed the experience in doing it an d good luck to them all
Baydn, Skewen
Your programme is the best, I wish it was on for 2 hours every day, poor Mrs Griffiths, her family have been poorly but she is still happy, now that the mine is closed are you still enjoying yourself.
Sally, Swansea
This has been an excellent programme, and has given some insight into the living conditions that our grandparents experienced. I disagree with the comments from some viewers - we definatley don't need another Big Brother type reality show and I don't think it the coalhouse should be re- run annually as some viewers have suggested. A similar format in a different context possibly, but I don't think subsequent versions of the 1927 coalhouse could ever be as good as this one.
Carole from Neath
Wonderful show, how refreshing after the rubbish we are expected to watch with "celebs", it has made me laugh & brought a tear at times @ the hardships of those times, how lucky we are today, more please & every night for an hour
Nigel Baldwin butcher in blaenavon
Its nice to see you useing local actors but it would have been better if you did tasks like on big brother then you may appeal to a younger audiance.Great show so far hope we get recognised for it by Torfaen.
Denise Swansea
Fantastic programme. Wish this was broadcast every night and during the early evening so that the children can view it.
mrs welch from blaenavon
Great show lets have another one next year. Perhaps a Blaenavon family next time.
Lynne quakers yard
A brilliant programme my mothers family lived very near here in the old police station. They would have had a similar life in 1927.
Karen Cox from Cardiff
I'm originally from Huddersfield, and some of my family were miners in the Yorkshire coalfields. My Mum (born 1926) often talks of what it was like and though Coalhouse is in South Wales I feel like it's really familiar, like part of me belongs there. Brilliant programme!
claire cooper pontnewynydd pontypool
My family and I are really enjoying this programme,you know times were hard and this shows you just how hard things were.We especially enjoy laughing with Debra and Cerdin they are great nothing gets them down.
sue lowdon burryport
Best programme on tv. I can't wait for each episode. Pity it was not on every night. Parts of it are so funny and other parts are quite touching.
Linda Cooke,West Midlands
I agree with Rachel Savage. I was disappointed to discover that we are only to get edited highlights. My husband's family on both sides were involved in mining, and various other aspects of the programme ring bells for me. We used to live in an old mining area in Shropshire, but before that had similar accommodation in the 50's.No piggies though.
Rachel Savage. Haverfordwest
excellent programme, only request is that its shown to the entire uk as i , and many others, feel it would go down a storm. also, please please make the show longer as 30mins just isnt enough.
Andrew Davies , Abersychan
Excellent series,I met with Cerdin and Debra this morning, lovely people and fascinating programme.My kids are hooked.
Kathryn Morgan, Pontnewynydd
What a brilliant show! As others have already said it's nothing like the other'reality' programmes. Luckily for the families this isn't being filmed in a few months time as locals all know what a winter in Blaenavon can bring!! I know a 90yr old gentleman who was a miner in his younger days he is also a keen viewer.
Paul Allchurch ammanford
great production a true insight, very well researched. GreaT BBC Wales
Grahams North Corneli
Fab - should be on for an hour a time. Love little rhodri and the other children. They make it fun and mrs griffiths she's funny. My auntie still cooks on her range, she is in her 80s. There's no heating in her house and a toilet up the garden until a few years ago!!
NS from Blaenavon
Great series and all the more interesting for me as it's in my home town. Now will Torfaen CBC realise how important Blaenavon can be and give us back our Leisure Centre !! (Don't forget that the swimming pool was built by the miners !)
Jayne Sennibridge
Why did you cut so much out of the Coal House programme made available for the rest of the UK? I watched it and thought that it was spoilt by the ommissions.
Mary Cartwright from Caernarfon
What a great series. I would love to try something like this myself. I really admire how folk coped in these small communities all over the country often with large families. My nan was one of 13!!!
mark watkins pontypool
what a great series, the families have really taken it to there hearts with the theme and surroundings, love the griff family, debs makes it worth watching anf her hubbys a real scream, in all its great viewing and really puts blaenavon on the world map..and its only up the road from me. and agree that this should be shown in english regions. to all the families in the show, please take a bow because your all the real stars
Peter Pedersen, Birmingham
please do not deprive the English from watching this fantastic series.
becky newport
really good show loven it i hope that it is put on to dvd's after it has finished
Helen Harris from Pontypridd
Absolutely amazing. I love this show. The families are fantastic especially the Griffiths'. i hope this show continues with different families every year. AS i am only 25 i did not know anything about what life was like back then. it has really opened my eyes.
Mandy Aberdare
Thank God we live in this age. The show really puts it over how the times have changed. The community spirit must have been very stong back then. I only have one problem with this show, IT'S TOO SHORT.
seren jenkins age 8,bridgend
I enjoyed watching the coal house.Rhodri made me laugh when he was with the pigs.I am glad i don`t live there it looks very hard.
Andrea,Cardiff
Excellent TV enjoyed by all the family (espescially my 6yr old grand-daughter-her other grandma can remember living in a 2up 2down with 5 siblings)The Big Pit in Blaenavon is a fantastic place to visit where you also get the feel for the hardships, but also camaraderie of mining
Seaspray Pontypool
Great viewing and find it very interesting how they lived then,the Griffiths's are very good and down to earth.Rhodri is a very happy and contented little boy.Hope it will continue.
Jayne Milford Haven
BRILLIANT, so funny loved the birthday party,enjoying every minute
Mandi, Cardiff
Really enjoying the show. It's better than reality TV with celebrities and wannabes. Moving, funny and educational - something most reality TV isn't! Good luck with the concert to All.
Coal House Web Team
What was Debra doing this morning? We spotted her dancing on the webcam!
Ann Marie from Cheltenham
We saw the start of Coal House whilst on holiday in Wales last week ... but it is not on our BBC 1 now we are home. Please can you show it on the whole of the UK?!
Glenda Hearne Blaengarw
what a good program it brings back many old memories that my granny used to talk about ,,but i do think it was a good day when all the pits closed. my husband worked down there for 24 years , and every day he went to work i thought he wasnt comming home .
susanna lloyd port talbot
very entertaining documentary, should definately be on longer though. The griffiths family are hilarious, they could have a show of their own!!
John from Pontypridd
can't believe we can actually see the families in the cottages - amazing
Kim Davies, Abertillery
Went up to Blaenavon today (sunday) and saw the kids coming home from school, lovely to see and went up to them to take a picture, they are lovely kids and seemed very excited of the attention. and what a great series, maybe they should do another series and move along 10yrs to see the difference from 1927 to 1937
tracy from blaenavon
It's funny to see my local butcher and grocer making trips into Stack Square, to sell their wares. Great show.
Ian Smith Merthyr Tydfil
I'd just likfe to give Tim, Richard and David Blandford a mention on their new found stardom. Well done boys for all your hard work. Cracking show!!
maria styles vale of glamorgan
I'm from Blaenavon, now living in the vale of glamorgan. It was nice to see Mike George the Greengrocer and Wayne Morris the butcher and good luck to all the families. My father, grand father and great granfather were killed underground.
j.dite Cardiff
Wonderful entertainment. I realise how lucky we are today.Those poor men and the hardships of coal mining.
Hywel Clatworthy St.Illtyd Aberbeeg
If you search for "blaentillery no2" on google earth you can see where the men are working. It's about 1 mile as the crow flies from where they are living but further by road !
Kevin,Caerphilly
Went to see the site today where it was made today in blaenavon and was lucky enough to speak to the cast of the show,really nice people open and friendly.
Gill Grenfell,Cwmdu
Fantastic programme. I agree 30 mins isn't long enough. I think all families should do this experience for a week to make us all appreciate what we have and what families are all about not just the material things.Well done to all the families taking part.I'll keep watching.
Ireen Downing, Pontypool
This is all on my doorstop, well done Blaenafon, I am proud to be associated with you! An excellent programme, which reinforces how hard things were in 'those' days. Longer slot needed though!
Mike and Maxine williams
We.re Katie's Grandparents; watching every night in Birmingham and on web cam ; brilliant TV but 30 minutes is not long enough.
Holly, Tredegar
I saw my old music teacher too! Mr Whitcombe... the best music teacher and year tutor ever! The children are lucky to have him there.
Emma Wooding Talywain
My mum and Dad commented on it being much harder in 1927 than Coal House is. I don't know from my experience. The series so far is good. All The families are great though! I went past them in my friends car and we beeped the horn and they waved.
Leanne, Cardiff
I spotted my old Music teacher conducting the choir! Hi Mr Whitcombe!!
Sue Henson,Wrexham
The range is what I like to see. They are amazing pieces of 'furniture'. If I were to have one of those I would use it all the time. We had one when I was small and my mum would warm my dad's slippers in the oven until the soles melted.
Stan Dennis Llandrindod Wells
Dont get me wrong I admire the three families but you can never make it like 1927. As you say HSE prevents you from doing this. Tell them theres plenty of rabbits out there.
