How We Used To Live

How We Used To Live

1968
★★★☆☆ 6.0/10
📺 7 Seasons
🎬 91 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
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.

Seasons

Season 1
1968 • 1 Episode
Season 5
1981 • 20 Episodes
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).
Season 7
1990 • 10 Episodes
Season 8
1991 • 15 Episodes
Season 9
1993 • 5 Episodes

Network

ITV1

Keywords

history