How We Used To Live

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How we Used to Live
Genre	Children's History
Starring	Sue Jenkins, Jane Hazlegrove, Peter Howitt, many others
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Production
Running time	c.20 mins
Broadcast
Original channel	Yorkshire Television
Picture format	Colour
Original run	1968 – 2002
Links
IMDb profile

How We Used to Live Episodes Series 1: Late Victorian Original air date: from 1978 to 1982
1874: New Arrivals 1874: Too Old for Nanny Counting the Cost (Original Air Date: 1 September 1981) Your Undoubted Queen (original Air Date: 24 March 1982)

How We Used to Live Episodes Series 2: 1902-1926 Original air date: 1984
1902: Home from the War 1903: Chapel on Sunday 1905: Bank Holiday 1906: Vote for Change 1909: The People's Budget 1910: Out of Work 1911: In the Country 1912: The Childrens Charter 1913: The Right to Vote 1914: Over by Christmas 1916: Called Up 1917: The Right to Serve 1918: The Need to Share 1919: Epidemic 1920: Hill Climb 1921: Roof Fall 1922: The Electric Light 1924: The Cat's Whisker 1925: The Roaring Twenties 1926: The General Strike

How We Used to Live Episodes Series 3: Second World War
To be completed

How We Used to Live Episodes Series 4: 1950s-1960s Original air date 1987
1954: Land of Plenty To be completed

How We Used to Live Episodes Later series
From Iron Ways to Victorian Days: Geordie Lads & Cornish Men. To be completed Original Air Date: 1995

How We Used to Live was an award winning British educational historical television drama. It was began in the late 1970s, with the majority of the programmes being made and originally broadcast in the 1980s, and was made by Yorkshire Television at their studios in Leeds. The series traced the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from Victorian times until the 1960s. The series was set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Bradley.

1 Series
2 Cast and characters
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Series

There have been several series of How We Used to Live.

Series 1 centred around the late Victorian era. It was first broadcast in 1968.

Series 2 was first broadcast in 1973, according the the [IMDB].

Series 3 covered the periods 1908-1918 (Autumn term 1975) and 1925-1945 (Spring Term 1976).

Series 4 followed the fortunes of a middle class Victorian doctor and his family, contrasting with the lives of a Mill Worker's family. The series covered the years 1874-1887. This series was first broadcast in 1978/1979.

Series 5 covered the period from 1936 until after the Second World War 1953. It centred around the lower middle-class Hodgkins family. First broadcast in 1981/82.

Series 6 was filmed and broadcast in 1984. It covered the years 1902 up until 1926. It centred around the lives of the working class Selby family, and the wealthy Holroyd family.

Series 7 covered the period 1954-1970. It was first broadcast in 1987 and centred around the Brady family. Michael Brady, the father of the family, was a character originally introduced in series 3 when he was born to Maggie Selby and Patrick Brady. The series also featured characters introduced in Series second series.

After this point How we used to live changed its direction. There were now drama's and documentaries and series were less than the usual 20 episodes.

Series 8 was in two halves. The first 10 episodes were called Victorians: Early and Late. These were first broadcast in 1990. In Spring 1991 five programmes, under the title Expansion Trade and Industry, followed the experience of a merchant family.

Other series include: 'A Tudor Interlude' First shown in 1993. In Civil War. First shown in 1993. Britons at War (1997) Spanish Armada (1998) All Change (1999) In Tudor Times (2002) A Giant in Ancient Eqypt

[edit] Cast and characters

Character name is in bold; actor(s) names are in brackets. Many characters were played by multiple actors as the character grew up from year to year.[1]

[edit] Series 1

Patricia Hodgkins (Julie Shipley 2 episodes)

[edit] Series 3

Selby family

Victor Selby (Jack Carr 6 episodes). Alcoholic father of the family. Often absent from home. Died in 1918 just after the armistice was declared.
Sarah Selby (Brenda Elder 8 episodes). Working class mother of five children. Died of an illness in 1913.

Maggie Brady (nee Selby) (Kathy Jamieson 12 episodes, Jane Hazlegrove 5 episodes). Eldest child of Victor and Sarah. Married soldier Patrick Brady
Patrick Brady. Married Maggie Selby after returning from the Boer War to find the Selby family living in his old house after his family had done a moonlight flit. Killed in action in the Great War.

Michael Brady (Craig McKay 4 episodes, Stephen Bollard 3 episodes). Young son of Maggie and Patrick. Character reappears as the father in Series 4.

Tom Selby (Peter Howitt - 12 episodes, Cy Chadwick 3 episodes). Second child of Victor and Sarah. Gets elected as a Labour Member of Parliament in the 1920s. Eventually marries Charlotte Holroyd.
Freddie Selby (Ian Mercer 3 episodes). Third child of Victor and Sarah. Killed in action, along with Maurice Holroyd, in the Great War
Albert Selby (John Laing 6 episodes, Alistair Walker 5 episodes). Fourth child. Lied about his age to sign up to fight in World War I. Marries Bertha Beale after the war. Character reppears as elderly uncle of Michael Brady in Series 4.
Bertha Beale (Maria Mescki 5 episodes, Katie Hall 2 episodes). Grocers daughter. Married Albert Selby after the war. Character reppears as the elderly aunt of Michael Brady in Series 4.
Alice Selby (Tara Moran 6 episodes, Lorraine Sass 5 episodes). Youngest child of Victor and Sarah. Went to London in 1920s and inexplicably reappears in 1925 as a socialite and flapper having got in with a posh crowd despite her working class roots.

Holroyd family

George Holroyd (David Scase 5 episodes). Head of the rich Holroyd family and owner of the factory where many of the Selby family work. Died in 1908 of an illness.
Emily Holroyd (Elizabeth Kelly 4 episodes). Wife of George Holroyd. Died when the Scarborough hotel she had evacuated to was bombed in the First World War

Maurice Holroyd (Paul Gabriel 7 episodes, Mark Thrippleton 3 episodes). Eldest child of George and Emily. Friend to Tom Selby. Killed in action along with Freddie Selby in the First World War
Charlotte Holroyd (Sue Jenkins 12 episodes, Wendy Jane Walker 6 episodes). Eldest daughter of George and Emily. Was a suffragette and eventually married Tom Selby.
Alexander Holroyd (David Michaels, 8 episodes). Youngest child of George and Emily. Was imprisoned for being a conscientious objector in the First World War

Other characters

John Pilling (James Walker, 6 episodes)
Mr Beale (Alan Starkey 4 episodes). Bertha's father
Mrs Beale (Ruth Holden 5 episodes). Bertha's mother
Ned Wilkins (Dickie Arnold 4 episodes)
Hospital Sister (Eileen O'Brien, 1 episode)

[edit] Series 2

The Hodgkins Family Arthur Hodgkins Mabel Hodgkins Patricia Jimmy Avril

[edit] Series 4

Dorothy Clegg (Jane Hazlegrove)
Bertha Selby (Ruth Holden). A reappearing character, having originally appeared in series 3.
Albert Selby A reappearing character, having originally appeared in series 3.
Michael Brady. Head of the Brady family. Reappearing character, having originally appeared in series 3.
Joan Brady (Eileen O'Brien). Wife of Michael
Avril Butterworth (Rachel Laurence 2 episodes). Reappearing character having originally appeared in series 2). Married to Laurence. Killed in a car crash.