How We Used to Live is a British educational historical television drama written by Freda Kelsall and sometimes narrated by Redvers Kyle and John Crosse, both employed as continuity announcers at Yorkshire Television at the time of production. Production began in 1968 at the YTV studios in Leeds. The series traced the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from the Victorian era until the 1960s, in and around the fictional town of Bradley, using self-contained short dramas interspersed with archive footage.
How We Used To Live (Season 5)
1936 Head of the Family (Episode 1)
Air date: 1981-09-23
Overview: The Hodgkins family lives in a new suburb of a Yorkshire manufacturing town. Arthur, a railwayman, is buying the semi-detached house on a mortgage, having moved from rented accommodation in a terrace during the building boom of the early 'thirties. His wife, Mabel, devotes herself to the home and their family of four children, Jimmy (14), Patricia (12), Avril (8), and Edward (2).
1937 Counting the Cost (Episode 2)
1938 Holiday with Pay (Episode 3)
1939: Hospital Case (Episode 4)
1939: Goodnight Children Everywhere (Episode 5)
1940: Home from Home (Episode 6)
1942: Stars and Stripes (Episode 7)
1943: Make Do and Mend (Episode 8)
1943: Take a Man’s Place (Episode 9)
1944: Peace on Earth (Episode 10)
1945: Let us Face the Future (Episode 11)
1946: Full Supporting Programme (Episode 12)
1947: Cold Comfort (Episode 13)
1947: A New Look (Episode 14)
1948: Full Steam Ahead (Episode 15)
1948: On the National Health (Episode 16)
1949: On the Move (Episode 17)
1951: A Tonic for the Nation (Episode 18)
1952: We Have Travelled a Hard Road (Episode 19)
1953: Your Undoubted Queen (Episode 20)