"Director: Liz Treadway"

• The Way We Were - North East Series 2 | DVD | (25/02/2005) from £27.51   |  Saving you £-10.52 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The films have been restored and retrieved from cine clubs archives and private collections throughout the North East and North Yorkshire. Producer Liz Treadway and presenter Andy Kluz have trawled through hundreds of hours of forgotten footage to put together eight programmes charting the changing landscape and lifestyles of the region. The Way We Were takes a sentimental journey through life in the North East of England over the past three generations. With the help of collectors cine enthusiasts and historians the series builds up a fascinating and evocative social history from the 1920s to the 1980s. The first series of The Way We Were - broadcast last year - was a major ratings success attracting audiences of up to 400 000 viewers in the North East and North Yorkshire.

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  Nostalgic documentary examining life in the North of England during the 1950s and 1960s using archive film and interviews. Finding out about fun and games at the annual Miners' Gala and recalling how different school days were during those decades. Episode 1: Lessons of Life. Growing up in the back lanes of our northern towns and cities and tales of the communities and schooldays which prepared us for our working lives. Episode 2: What Next. A look at life as an apprentice in a northern firm when every young Man about Town wore a suit from Jackson's the Tailors and the hairstyle of the day was a DA or a Tony Curtis. Young girls wore miniskirts and followed the London fashion scene. Episode 3: Getting There. Steam trains train-spotting and the trolley bus when learning to drive before motorways meant traffic jams in every town and village and getting anywhere took an age. Episode 4: Out with the Old The 50s and 60s saw the demolition of our old houses and the communities who lived in them. In came new housing estates new towns and new fangled household gadgets. Episode 5: That's Entertainment Archive clips from 1959 when the brand new ITV channel hit our screens. Life in our working men's clubs and long forgotten footage of the Sunderland Echo from the 1970's documentary It's your Evening Episode 6: Away From It All Colourful old film of tourism hotspots like Scarborough which were popular in the 50s and 60s for the annual Work Fortnight. Recently discovered 50s footage of the Northumberland National Park and a trip along the Pennine Way. Episode 7: Out in All Weathers. Out in the snow with the Rag and Bone men and the hardships of life on the remote Teesdale farm made famous in Yorkshire Televisions Too Long a Winter Episode 8: All in the Family Fascinating film and interviews with the descendants of some of our great industrial families. Includes fire hose manufacturer George Angus & Co electric motor manufacturers Brook motors and chocolate makers Rowntree of York. Episode 9: At Your Service . Conversations and old archive film featuring the caring professions. A nurse tells stories of the dreaded Matron crime tales from a 60s policeman and how one man had dedicated his life to the work of the homeless. Episode 10: Hands On. Reminiscences from people who worked in some of the North's great industries including the drive of the open cast mining crane Big Geordie port workers fishermen and an expert on the Yorkshire steel industry.