someone's probably said this already, but this would be the equivalent now of making a "How We Used to Live - 1980". Although kids now seem to know more about the 80's than I knew about the 50's when I was 10.
thans so so so much for posting this an escape from the shit on tv today now days if they put a programe about the past nowdays they spend a lot of money but make all knowing and gloss over the realties with lazy knee jerk middle class politlicall corectness
Perhaps on some future How We Used To Live" it might show primary school children from the 1970s watching this programme lol. I used to love this as a kid. As well as Playschool and My World.
I was an extra in an episode of this show in the 70's, as my school was over the road from YTV studios. I can't remember much about it mind, just that we were sat round a big table, supposedly having a party.
The character Avril first appeared in the second world war series as one of the Hodgkin children. She appeared in this series as an adult - she was married to Laurence Butterworth the choirmaster who appears in part 2 of this video.
@skallagrigg09 I remember Avril as I watched the series at primary school when it was in the second world war. I remember her going to a bombed out house and finding her neighbours cat.
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The rise in unemployment will be caused by the unemployable Labour MPs who have finally had to disembark the gravy train. At least Labour have taught us that it's OK to lie, steal, deceive and bully. Bring on the Tories - ANYTHING is better than this bunch of washed out airheads. If they were a TV show they'd be Tiswas - a big joke and unable to keep control.
hey enoch,it was your beloved right wing thatcher and the ITV that stopped schools programmes in favour of commercial shit we see now on morning tv.Fat lying bitches like fern briton.Get your facts right you rascist prick
Her policies pretty much *created* the underclass and led to mass unemployment. Even if Thatcher attempted to act against the "lazy scroungers", she utterly failed in such an aim. I suspect unemployment - and thus people watching daytime TV - will soar again after mere months of Cameron.
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This pretty much backs up everything the BNP have ever said. Its no wonder they don't teach British history in schools anymore, social Marxism and political brain washing has taken its place.
If by that you mean mass consumerism and Americanisation, you are of course right.
But seeing how you slag off the Scots, who have resisted such things rather more than the English, I'm not sure your thoughts are particularly coherent. Your anti-Scottishness is probably (as so often) born out of secret envy for the fact that they have a clear culture of their own and England doesn't.
HAHAHA! Bubble cars! The whole front of the car opened up like a cockpit! There was no reverse gear, so if you parked too near the garage wall, you were buggered!
I never realised that there were different series of this programme for different eras. The only one we watched at school was the 1902-1924 series. It sounds weird hearing the funked-up version of the theme here.
my mum was in an episode of how we used to live it was elaine hayes and it was season 1 episode 16 growing up at home i would be soooo grateful if some one could upload that episode as i lost my mu a month ago and wold really like to see it
haha, thats extrememly cool - the title music just sends me right back, always remember this program, very good was to teach a lot of history. Again, very cool :D
Haven't seen the episode since 1987, but I remember the Indian kids being chased by bullies through a subway to the railway station (which was closed in the Beeching Axe, although that may have been a different episode), but being rescued by a son from one of the main families. At least I think that's what happened.
Just imagine 'How we used to live' being made for an equivalent time period in 2008, to show today's primary schoolchildren the world that their parents grew up in. Perhaps it could cover the 84-85 miners' strike, the fall of Mrs Thatcher and the end of the Cold War.
It would be fascinating, but I just can't imagine ITV ever doing it.
Indeed, such a series could pick up where the 1954-70 series left off and go from the three-day week and 1974 elections through the Winter of Discontent, miners' strike, the influence of yuppiedom conveyed through pop culture (which itself would follow on from the subjects discussed here) and climax with the 1992 election ... particularly relevant to small Yorkshire towns, of course. Wouldn't happen, but it should.
Remarkably HWUTL ran until 2002, but only going further back than before.
It could also deal with racial tensions, perhaps doing an episode based on the Ray Honeyford controversy re. education in Bradford or the Dewsbury riots of 1989 (when the BNP first came to prominence).
Oh, fabulous. I used to sing the 'catch a Winston Churchill' jingle after seeing it in this! I loved the series when we watched in in the mid-80s, although was thoroughly traumatised by the nuclear war one (presumably the Cuban Missile Crisis) and as for the death of Avril and Lawrence on the poor kid's birthday - majorly cruel to be showing it to seven year olds! Thank you very much.
I must congratulate you for uploading this. I have never seen this series before (only the earlier ones up to early 1950s). This is a fascinating slice of British life in the late 1950s. I really hope you can upload more -- it's a shame the clip ended where it did, the discussion on imperialism was very interesting.
Do you have any ITV Schools on Channel Four Junction's
Between 1987-1993 please? Craigie2k And also do you have any Story world episodes and ITV Schools programmes between 1990-1993 also please? from Gavin Martin.
Remember watching this during the time I used to bunk off school
Nuron666 1 month ago
History. Government Pipeline.
BillyJimOMFG 1 month ago
Takes me back to 1989-90 when i used to watch this @ school for history lesson.
Woolymatt 5 months ago
The How We Used To Live theme was written by Robert Hartley.
granadagreg 7 months ago
oh i used to love this programme and really look forward to it. it sparked off a lifelong interest in.... how we used to live....!
playgirlc 7 months ago
Was the Postman Alan Bradley from Coronation Street?
bugsbunny2022 8 months ago
I remember this from school. would have been about 88/89? Brilliant.
Hagfilms 11 months ago
@fluffybunny41 it was schools educational series made back in the 80's..no longer shown on British TV
TigerIPanzer 1 year ago
someone's probably said this already, but this would be the equivalent now of making a "How We Used to Live - 1980". Although kids now seem to know more about the 80's than I knew about the 50's when I was 10.
tropicalscot 1 year ago
is that dixies mrs off the black stuff
PESKEEE 1 year ago
I used to watch the episodes based on Victorian times whan I was at school...something very haunting and nostalgic about this theme
smiffyuk69 1 year ago
@smiffyuk69 SO DID I HOW OLD ARE U IM 31 32 IN 6 DAYS
DAJAZDJ1 1 year ago
Wow I remembered the theme tune right away, when I was in school tihis focused on the war years and the 50s after. Thanks for this.
danielsauntiejo 1 year ago
thans so so so much for posting this an escape from the shit on tv today now days if they put a programe about the past nowdays they spend a lot of money but make all knowing and gloss over the realties with lazy knee jerk middle class politlicall corectness
Runrome 1 year ago
Ey up! It's Knutty!
DaveNightingale 1 year ago
I remember being forced to watch this every Friday morning at 9.30 when I was in the fourth year juniors(year 6).
daro2096 1 year ago
I used to love the Victorian ones of these.
nogomet66 2 years ago
Lefty through and through thankgod and proud after reading what has been said on here and even more so now,i have a heart!!
Rainbowrdr 2 years ago
Perhaps on some future How We Used To Live" it might show primary school children from the 1970s watching this programme lol. I used to love this as a kid. As well as Playschool and My World.
mogwali1 2 years ago
happy days
vetchlurker 2 years ago
I was an extra in an episode of this show in the 70's, as my school was over the road from YTV studios. I can't remember much about it mind, just that we were sat round a big table, supposedly having a party.
Gulftastic 2 years ago
OMG...I'd forgotton about this....
fudge987654321 2 years ago
There was a girl called Avril in this one too?
treguard1982 2 years ago
The character Avril first appeared in the second world war series as one of the Hodgkin children. She appeared in this series as an adult - she was married to Laurence Butterworth the choirmaster who appears in part 2 of this video.
skallagrigg09 2 years ago
@skallagrigg09 I remember Avril as I watched the series at primary school when it was in the second world war. I remember her going to a bombed out house and finding her neighbours cat.
SarahKW71 1 year ago
"Bring on the Tories - ANYTHING is better than this bunch of washed out airheads"
Ah, you mean the same party who, just 12 years ago, everyone got rid of with an overwhelming majority because they were so full of "sleaze".......?
Jeez.....the British are so fucking thick. You DESERVE the fucking Tories....
StanPomeray 2 years ago
I somehow doubt my grandma had a washing machine in '57 for one thing...
thelyniezian 2 years ago
what a moanin old bawbag of a dad lol
Idol2Idol 2 years ago
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The rise in unemployment will be caused by the unemployable Labour MPs who have finally had to disembark the gravy train. At least Labour have taught us that it's OK to lie, steal, deceive and bully. Bring on the Tories - ANYTHING is better than this bunch of washed out airheads. If they were a TV show they'd be Tiswas - a big joke and unable to keep control.
couleddie 2 years ago
hey enoch,it was your beloved right wing thatcher and the ITV that stopped schools programmes in favour of commercial shit we see now on morning tv.Fat lying bitches like fern briton.Get your facts right you rascist prick
eatmypies 3 years ago 12
She was also the one who kicked the arses of the lazy scroungers who sit on their fat tatooed backsides watching morning TV
couleddie 2 years ago
Really?
Her policies pretty much *created* the underclass and led to mass unemployment. Even if Thatcher attempted to act against the "lazy scroungers", she utterly failed in such an aim. I suspect unemployment - and thus people watching daytime TV - will soar again after mere months of Cameron.
RobinCarmody 2 years ago 3
@couleddie too true!
SarahKW71 1 year ago
I used to think this show was so cool. Highlight of primary school.
cwigmore 3 years ago 6
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This pretty much backs up everything the BNP have ever said. Its no wonder they don't teach British history in schools anymore, social Marxism and political brain washing has taken its place.
enochpowellnickgriff 3 years ago
This is where the rot started.
Gayunderweather 3 years ago
If by that you mean mass consumerism and Americanisation, you are of course right.
But seeing how you slag off the Scots, who have resisted such things rather more than the English, I'm not sure your thoughts are particularly coherent. Your anti-Scottishness is probably (as so often) born out of secret envy for the fact that they have a clear culture of their own and England doesn't.
RobinCarmody 2 years ago
I loved this series's as they were so brilliant it helped me alot with my history.
spmcghee 3 years ago 3
Thanks for this! I can remember loving this prog and finding it really interesting when I was 10.
mrslmathers 3 years ago 3
And what better voice to do the movietone style film than that of the legendary Redvers Kyle!
halsalli 3 years ago
Who in 1957 was of course announcing for Associated-Rediffusion, though not regularly heard in Yorkshire.
One minor anachronism here - the ad for the Daily Mirror using the masthead that was only adopted in the 1970s to look more like The Sun.
RobinCarmody 3 years ago
Think the mother in this also played Dixie's wife,Freda, in Boys From The Blackstuff, if I remember rightly!
mistofoles 3 years ago
HAHAHA! Bubble cars! The whole front of the car opened up like a cockpit! There was no reverse gear, so if you parked too near the garage wall, you were buggered!
mistofoles 3 years ago
We watched the 1930s-1950s version when I was at school. "Mrs bates" from Emmerdale Farm was in it.
stig114 3 years ago
I never realised that there were different series of this programme for different eras. The only one we watched at school was the 1902-1924 series. It sounds weird hearing the funked-up version of the theme here.
Ashworth6 3 years ago
my mum was in an episode of how we used to live it was elaine hayes and it was season 1 episode 16 growing up at home i would be soooo grateful if some one could upload that episode as i lost my mu a month ago and wold really like to see it
stushman08 3 years ago
I was actually in an episode of HWUTL!
playing an indian boy prince Hanif who came over in the 50s to run a mill. He was then subject to racist bullying by his class mates!
great programme!
696zappa 4 years ago
haha, thats extrememly cool - the title music just sends me right back, always remember this program, very good was to teach a lot of history. Again, very cool :D
mikotondria 4 years ago
Haven't seen the episode since 1987, but I remember the Indian kids being chased by bullies through a subway to the railway station (which was closed in the Beeching Axe, although that may have been a different episode), but being rescued by a son from one of the main families. At least I think that's what happened.
prontford 4 years ago
yeah i remember that and the girl didnt want to sit nxt to him and she got detention or sth
carberyroe 3 years ago
Just imagine 'How we used to live' being made for an equivalent time period in 2008, to show today's primary schoolchildren the world that their parents grew up in. Perhaps it could cover the 84-85 miners' strike, the fall of Mrs Thatcher and the end of the Cold War.
It would be fascinating, but I just can't imagine ITV ever doing it.
prontford 4 years ago
Indeed, such a series could pick up where the 1954-70 series left off and go from the three-day week and 1974 elections through the Winter of Discontent, miners' strike, the influence of yuppiedom conveyed through pop culture (which itself would follow on from the subjects discussed here) and climax with the 1992 election ... particularly relevant to small Yorkshire towns, of course. Wouldn't happen, but it should.
Remarkably HWUTL ran until 2002, but only going further back than before.
RobinCarmody 3 years ago
It could also deal with racial tensions, perhaps doing an episode based on the Ray Honeyford controversy re. education in Bradford or the Dewsbury riots of 1989 (when the BNP first came to prominence).
But, as I said, it will never happen. Sadly.
RobinCarmody 3 years ago
@prontford what a great idea! My little girl cannot believe there was a time that we only had 4 tv channels and no computers!lol
SarahKW71 1 year ago
Notice how sensible Beverley's shoes are - not many girls wear such shoes nowadays.
RobertTheDodger654 4 years ago
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RobertTheDodger654 4 years ago
Oh, fabulous. I used to sing the 'catch a Winston Churchill' jingle after seeing it in this! I loved the series when we watched in in the mid-80s, although was thoroughly traumatised by the nuclear war one (presumably the Cuban Missile Crisis) and as for the death of Avril and Lawrence on the poor kid's birthday - majorly cruel to be showing it to seven year olds! Thank you very much.
Bookwormsarah 4 years ago
are there any junctions with slides that you have it would be good to see the slides as well as the clock!!!!
dublinbrazilianblue 4 years ago
I must congratulate you for uploading this. I have never seen this series before (only the earlier ones up to early 1950s). This is a fascinating slice of British life in the late 1950s. I really hope you can upload more -- it's a shame the clip ended where it did, the discussion on imperialism was very interesting.
troublemaker1973 4 years ago 2
HI!
I'm uploading the second part of this episode tonight. You can now enjoy a full episode.
Thanks for watching my channel and stay tuned.
Regards
Craigie2k
craigie2k 4 years ago
Do you have any ITV Schools on Channel Four Junction's
Between 1987-1993 please? Craigie2k And also do you have any Story world episodes and ITV Schools programmes between 1990-1993 also please? from Gavin Martin.
Freerate 4 years ago