I'd thought about this a few times before but never dreamed anyone would still have it! Takes me back about 30 years to school, getting the TV wheeled in, video on....happy days!
What memories! The calm rush to get the telly ready and the kids quiet on time. Only later, in secondary school, did we witness the joy of the teacher messing up the video and having to ask for help from the children.
@@kimgrattage2395 You didn't watch this one in the 70's, this series was first shown in 1981-82. It's one of the best ones too, so the 80's couldn't have been that dire.
How We Used to Live was a long-running British educational history television series, produced for most of its run by Yorkshire Television. The series, encompassing drama and documentary, remained in sporadic production from 1968 to 2002, airing on ITV and Channel 4. Wikipedia
Omg I used to LOVE this programme in school! Sitting cross legged on ‘The Carpet’ while the teacher wheeled in the telly with the small front and ENORMOUS back lol And back in those days nothing was ever chained down to the stand or the wall, it didn’t need to be!
This is absolute gold dust; I remember sitting in class pretending to shoot the clock dots away whilst waiting for the programme to start. Thank you for the memories.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams................................
I remember watching this when I was at school. Only looked on RU-vid on the off-chance but very surprised to find it on here. Makes me feel very old lol.
Gosh I remember this program. I had to watch it at school every week. We had to do some writing about it after watching it. I use to look forward to seeing it.
Hahaha I wasn't the only one then! I suddenly remembered the name of it 15 minutes ago and searched for it. It's the first time I've watched it since I was in primary school.
I was born in 1951 and remember stories about the 30s from my mom. My grandad was out of work and went out every day to look for work. He had no shoes and went out with rags on his feet. He would leave the food what there was of it for his family and hope the Salvation Army could feed him. This was reality for working class in the 30s.
I had fond memories of this from my school days so was glad to find it. Unlike so much television from that era, I think this has stood the test of time very well and still comes across excellently. Quality educational programming.
MrLovejoy86 You Sir, are a Legend! I have been trying to get hold of this for years and had all but given up, and then I noticed your uploads on youtube! I'm 50 now, and will watch this with fond memories of school. On behalf of myself and probably most people on here...thank you
I remember seeing this series at senior school and it was set from the first seventeen years of my mother's life, from birth to grammar school sixth former. (My father would have been less than four years older, born during the Bodyline Ashes Series down under. At the time of the Abdication he was four and my mother just five months old!)
I think people were a lot mour fitter in those days every thing was manual home cooking no takeaways no just eat everything was organic life was great in 1970 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️No mobile phones every one was friendly 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Anyone at primary school in the 1980s will remember this - I forgot about the tick down at the beginning. I tell my kids that there wasn't any kids TV in our day and they don't believe me - days of Netflix, Disney+ and RU-vid - they think we've always had this...lol
We were supposed to watch this at School. However, we would watch the first couple of minutes of minutes in boredom, the teacher would sense this, and turn it over to the BBC to watch The Boy From Space with wholehearted approval from us kids!
Loved this when I was young (I used to only get to see it when I was off sick from school in Ireland as it wasn't shown as part of our curriculum) Looking back on it now, the family seemed to be living better than most at the time....
How We Used to Live was a long-running British educational history television series, produced for most of its run by Yorkshire Television. The series, encompassing drama and documentary, remained in sporadic production from 1968 to 2002, airing on ITV and Channel 4.
.. As A Nipper I'd Watch These Episodes at The Middle School 30+ Pupils watching a Little Television with big Pullout Panels to block the Sun... Maybe 20 saw The Whole Thing... 4:32
Reminds me of Monty pythons scetch show .good show tho used to like watching these kind of educational programmes still do wish BBC would repeat them!!!
if anyone can help me with the chronology of this series, I would appreciate it. I'm an American trying to figure out where the series starts and where it ends. thank you for posting! This looks fantastic.
@@dunebasher1971 It probably doesn't help that the series is spread through two centuries and covers different eras, I could see how it may confuse many of us Americans!
@@dunebasher1971 - That's kind of obvious, but it doesn't help much in picking out which episode follows which just by the titles. Sometimes it helps to know what's going to be next in line so the storyline doesn't get all confused. Just to clarify, this just appeared in my show recommendation list *today*. I'd never heard of it before, but being an unofficial historical researcher regarding WWII in the UK and the US, it seems to fit right in to my interests. I watch LOTS of videos on RU-vid about the War, both historical fiction and nonfiction, and enjoy both equally. For instance, the actual black and white video clips that were shown in the episode just before this one, dealing with rationing and Dig For Victory in the UK, come from a couple of WWII short movies showing how rationing works, and growing ones own vegetables, that I'm already quite familiar with because I have watched them several times and saved them here on RU-vid. It is just a personal "thing" about preferring to watch episodic television programs in order from start to finish. It's kind of difficult to keep everything and everyone sorted out with characters and plot lines when I'm not familiar with them, and when they come on out of chronological order. Cheers!🙋🏼♀️
I did a little looking around, and happened to find where someone had gathered all the episodes together that occured in the WWII era - from 1936 to 1953 - and put them all together in chronological order, and added identifying information to the titles to show they are in that order, so no need to try and figure out when each episode occured. If you start with the first episode, they will play in that order from beginning to end. Made it MUCH easier to keep up with when each story line happened. As for finding each era, there are other "batches" that has been gathered together like that.
02:27 Nothing changes over the years. Women always wanting a job done completed and of extremely good quality and finish in about 5 minutes after thinking of it.
Oh my goodness, I used to get so bored having to watch this at school. As soon as the teacher wheeled the big TV out, we all groaned. Dont think I learned much, I had the attention span of a goldfish in primary school.
My maths ability nosedived in my primary school when I was put UP into the A stream cos the maths A stream teacher was a total thug. I was actually scared of him and would pretend to be ill when I had to do a maths class with him.
My God why is everybody so up tight these days ! He was only having a Laugh I thought it was Funny.My Nan was Welsh couldn't understand a bloody word she said as well.
