Hidden Histories: Britain’s Oldest Family Businesses
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- Episode
- Episode Three - Durtnell the Builder
- Broadcast Info
- 2014 (59 mins)
- Description
- The third episode in a series of three documentaries following the bosses of three of Britain’s oldest family businesses as they go on a journey into their remarkable past. Alex Durtnell’s family have been builders for over four hundred years. We follow Alex as he makes the journey back through the centuries and rediscovers the houses his family have built, right back to the reign of Elizabeth I.
- Genre
- History
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The Open University, "Hidden Histories: Britain’s Oldest Family Businesses". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/84992 (Accessed 18 Feb 2026)