Meet the Scunthorpe woman who lives like it's 1939 - but would like to find love

A woman from Scunthorpe has stepped back in time to 1939, after refitting her house using technology from eighty years ago.

Joanna Francis is in her 40s, but says she feels more at home in the past.

At her home in the village of Burton-upon-Stather, Joanna has refitted the kitchen and removed the bathroom - replacing the modern-day jacuzzi with an outdoor privy.

She bathes twice a week in a tin bath in front of the range, and goes outside to use the toilet - but insists life "is not as hard as it sounds".

Joanna lives by the rules of wartime Britain - having installed blackout curtains throughout the house.

She insists on turning the light off before opening the door and has even built an Anderson shelter in the back garden, going back in time to World War Two when they were used to shelter people from bomb blasts.

Joanna hopes to spend some nights there once the bed has been fitted, and says at the moment there is just one thing missing from her 1930s life.

With a mobile phone as the only nod to modern technology, the former computer engineer gets around on a 1937 Raleigh bike, and spends her spare time making rugs, playing board games, singing and dancing - with George Formby one of her favourites.

Joanna's unusual way-of-living has received mixed reactions from visitors - including one man who couldn't believe it was actually her home.

But on the whole, she says, neighbours have been supportive:

For nearly 10 years Joanne has built up her wartime world - a world in which she plans to stay for the rest of her life.