281 How We Used To Live

First  watched  : 24  February  1977

I  can't  say  with  absolutely  certainty  that  I  did  see  this  for  the  first  time  in  John's  house. I  think  it's  quite  possible  that  I  may  have  seen  the  odd  episode  at  school  before  that.

How  We  Used  To  Live  was  made  by  Yorkshire  Television  and  broadcast  in  the  For  Schools  and  Colleges  strand.  As  the  title  suggests  it   focused  on  social  history  and  spliced  together  drama  set  in  the  fictional  Yorkshire  town  of  Bradley  and  archive  footage  with  a  voice over. As  a  schools  programme  a  resource  pack  for  teachers  was  produced  for  each  series. Altogether  15  series  were  made  between  1968  and  2002  with  the  intervals  between  them  getting  much  shorter  towards  the  end . Inevitably  Tony  Robinson  got  involved  with  the  programme  towards  the  end  of  its  run.

We  could  only  have  been  watching  Series  1  or  2  in  1977. I  suspect  it  was  the  latter  which  covered  the  first  half  of  the  twentieth  century  including  both  World  Wars.

Because  the  series  has  not  been  released  on  DVD,  the  VHS  releases  in  the  mid-nineties  have  become  quite  collectable.