ITV Schools - How We Used To Live 1954-1970

[pammypage]

i remember watching this at school,we used to feel like we was skiving lol

[iloveyouhunny]

Yay White Silver Sands by Don Lang and his Frantic Five -found it !!

[JohnnyTheWolfLupino]

God I was forced to watch this at Junior school, had to take notes then write an essay but I spent most of the time looking out of the window daydreaming ;-)

[iloveyouhunny]

i would love to know what song is playing @9.15 the one Susan is dancing to tho ? any ideas > xx

[iloveyouhunny]

have the whole 53-70s series on video -took me ages to get it ,at one point i was quoted £220 !! finally found it on ebay xx

[charleem]

@iloveyouhunny hey, do you have a contact? I'd love a copy of this!

[arthurvasey]

We grew up with telly in our house - back when this show was set, there was only two channels and everything was in black-and-white. We didn't even get BBC 2 till the late 60s and colour finally came into our house when I was 10! AND THE ADULTS RULED! Their choice at ALL TIMES!  Even kids' TV was decided by the adults! We didn't know how to work the telly, either! My nanna had a mangle, similar to the one being used in this clip, too!

[muskra66]

I am looking for the espiode in which there's a car accident with a van with rocking wreckers on it, the car ends up on fire...

[mistofoles]

That ginger woman played Dixie's wife, Freda in "BOYS FROM THE BLACKSTUFF"!

[hmahraj]

I used to watch this when I was off sick from school. What a great series. Thanks.

[cardains]

I remember a kid in it called Avril.

[Honeylinkus]

Yes, me too!

It was so weird hearing this music for the first time in about 28-ish years!

[rupert81]

Brings back happy memories of my school days:)

[RobinCarmody]

Indeed. Though you still have more power than Britain had by 1957 (and will for some time, though a higher percentage of it will be in non-military fields). It would appear that the previous episode of this series dealt with the Suez Crisis - which was the moment it became obvious that Britain was no longer a world power - and I would really like to see that. And, indeed, the whole of this series.

[RobinCarmody]

Interesting to revisit this post now.

Although there was also an atmosphere of optimism in Britain in 1957, as austerity faded and affluence came in, there was still an underlying sense of nerves because it was the end of our empire, and the desire to create a post-imperial identity in many ways took root in Beatlemania, something which obviously spread to the US.

I think Obama's victory owed something to the fact that he seemed to acknowledge that US pre-eminence may also be in decline.

[buckleyboyben]

I still have my 1986 topic book on this series!!

[mrslmathers]

Watching this programme was the only thing I enjoyed about school. I remember my mum finding it hilarious that we were learning about the 50s and 60s - i.e. her youth - in history lessons!

Do you have any of the later episodes? I vividly remember the adult Roger turning into a hippie!

[DiskoKing]

Fantastic to see Bobby Knutt in this.

Watching it now, I've found it far more entertaining than I did as a kid!!

[RobinCarmody]

The dominant undercurrent in British life at this point was indeed how to cope with the replacement of our *formalised* empire by your *undeclared* one. I think we managed pretty well, though I still think we lost something along the way.

[Freerate]

To Craigie 2k

Do you have a full episode of Living and Growing please? plus do you have some ITV Schools on Channel four Junction's between

1987-1993 please?