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How We Used To Live

7.5·6 seasons·90 episodes

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.

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1936 Head of the Family
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Sep 23, 1981

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).

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1937 Counting the CostTBA
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1938 Holiday with PayTBA
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1939: Hospital CaseTBA
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1939: Goodnight Children EverywhereTBA
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1940: Home from HomeTBA
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1942: Stars and StripesTBA
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1943: Make Do and MendTBA
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1943: Take a Man’s PlaceTBA
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1944: Peace on EarthTBA
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1945: Let us Face the FutureTBA
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1946: Full Supporting ProgrammeTBA
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1947: Cold ComfortTBA
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1947: A New LookTBA
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1948: Full Steam AheadTBA
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1948: On the National HealthTBA
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1949: On the MoveTBA
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1951: A Tonic for the NationTBA
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1952: We Have Travelled a Hard RoadTBA
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1953: Your Undoubted QueenTBA

Cast

1 credited
Lena Headey
Grace Palmer

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