Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 924508)

Lovely, init!

Just a shame there ain't any steam trains running through to give it some atmosphere. Still, I'd much rather meet a nice little blondie there for a cuppa and a cream bun than in that hell hole, Wetherspoons Accy.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 924500)

Am I the only great romantic left on Accy Web?

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 924500)

I do believe that one of the most tear jerking love stories put on celluloid of all time - and one of the top three British films, as voted by the critics - was set in Lancashire.

'Brief Encounter', starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, made mostly in Carnforth.

How come you lot missed that?

Am I the only great romantic left on Accy Web?

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 924523)

The question is:- why would a nice little blondie want to meet you for a cuppa and a cream bun?

Send your answer on the back of a fourpenny stamp...on second thoughts, no, don't bother.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 924466)

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning I think was centred around Rochdale always remember those immortal words of Alan Bates when he was working at his machine counting the machined pieces, nine hundred and ninety seven, nine hundred and ninety eight, nine hundred and ninety bloody nine, all I'm out for is a good time all the rest is propaganda

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 924590)

Great film.

True classic.

But I'm afraid it wasn't meant to be set in Lancashire.

True, Carnforth station was used as Millford railway station. Mainly because it was relatively quiet, and we were still at war.

The town scenes were filmed in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.

Lots of cut-glass, home counties accents. But from station buffet, to cinema foyer, you'll not hear a Lancashire one.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 924633)

The question was 'Best movie/film set in Lancashire'

No one gives sod all about Beaconsfield; they care about the train and the clock scenes, filmed in Lancashire.

Now go back to bed and think yourself lucky you're not going to get a petrol bomb through your window tonight.

Originally Posted by wadey (Post 924598)

It was Nottingham, the main location being the Raleigh bike factory

"
And it was there, to the turnery department, that Reisz' cameras went. Finney actually spent two days on a Raleigh lathe, so he would look convincing.
The film company used some of the turnery employees as extras, paying them Equity rates for the scenes in which they appeared. They were paid on a "cash in hand" basis, £2 a day.
At one point Finney rides a Raleigh bike. He was filmed on Salisbury Street, Radford, for a scene in which he is supposedly going home after work.
A similiar scene, with Finney on the same sports bike, was also filmed in Beaconsfield Terrace, one of Nottingham's then-still-cobbled streets. Sillitoe himself had lived there, at No 5, and his mother still did when the film was made.
A number of Nottingham pubs were used, notably the notorious Eight Bells in St Peter's Gate. The pub had a striking ground-floor tiled frontage.
To ensure the film's smooth-running – and that everything was in place when necessary – maker Woodfall Films set up production headquarters in the Co-op offices in Toll Street at least a month before the cameras started rolling. It became the hub of productivity.
It was from there the company issued its appeal for extras – general extras as opposed to the Raleigh workers – for the filming scenes in Old Market Square and elsewhere in the city centre.
More than 900 people answered. In the event, about 150 were picked."


This is Nottingham | Nottingham screening for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 924758)

A Kind of Loving was set in Blackburn, Preston and Manchester...it was a gritty northern film.
Mullards Factory on Phillips Road was one of the locations, and the Rotunda in Blackburn Infirmary was used for one of the scenes(ward 11 and 12).....I think the park scenes were set in Heaton Park at Manchester.

The film was very much my era....and I liked Alan Bates.