How We Used To Live Season 5, Episode 13: 1947: Cold Comfort

1936 Head of the Family

The Hodgkins family lives in a new suburb of a Yorkshire manufacturing town. Arthur, a railwayman, is buying the semi-detached house on a mortgage, having moved from rented accommodation in a terrace during the building boom of the early 'thirties. His wife, Mabel, devotes herself to the home and their family of four children, Jimmy (14), Patricia (12), Avril (8), and Edward (2).

1937 Counting the Cost

1938 Holiday with Pay

1939: Hospital Case

1939: Goodnight Children Everywhere

1940: Home from Home

1942: Stars and Stripes

1943: Make Do and Mend

1943: Take a Man’s Place

1944: Peace on Earth

1945: Let us Face the Future

1946: Full Supporting Programme

1947: A New Look

1948: Full Steam Ahead

1948: On the National Health

1949: On the Move

1951: A Tonic for the Nation

1952: We Have Travelled a Hard Road

1953: Your Undoubted Queen