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Black Lace

Black Lace - Gang Bang - YouTube

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This is the song the girls are listening to when they babysit
"More Than Physical" Performed by Bananarama

Bananarama More Than Physical - YouTube

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I think some of "Girls Night" was filmed in Rawtenstall

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Gracie Fields has been mentioned earlier, but let's not forget the biggest male British film star before the war was also a Lancastrian, George Formby.

George Formby - Grandad's Flannelette Nightshirt - YouTube

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We even got a shot of Fat Mav too:D

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There was a serial screened on BBC2 a few years ago about the shaddy goings on in Blackpool, Roy Barraclough (alec gilroy) and Kris Marshal (BT Adverts) were in it and quite a few more, it was hilarios, always opened with a gorrilla falling of Blackpool Tower

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Whistle down the Wind gets my vote - watched it as our first year treat for Christmas at Paddock House (note religious connection!) A girl in our year had been in a film set round Pendle about the Lancashire witches but I can't remember what it was called -think it was made in the mid 70's though...
I know it doesn't really count but i also love the Dinnerladies with Victoria Wood -
brilliant!

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I wonder if Steeljack has some chums working at News International, here in Wapping? He started this thread 8th/August; Today's Times - Arts supplement - has a piece about the most romantic films of all time. 2nd and 3rd in the list are 'Whistle down the Wind' and 'Brief Encounter'......there's something funny going on here.

What about that film 'Yanks'...that's set in Lancashire....has Steeljack, being a Yank, got 'owt to do with that?

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one of my late Mothers favourite films :confused: not sure if it was because of Richard Gere or her memories of nights out at Burtonwood during the war ( a bus used to run on Saturday nights from the Boulevard in Blackburn and a group of 'girls' from Ossy used to use it).
the confusing thing about the movie/film 'Yanks' was that the Richard Gere character was U S Army who I thought were based in South of England prior to D Day , thought only the US Air Force were based in the north of England , happen I'm wrong . :confused:

thread wander ... seem to remember there is a memorial somewhere between Preston and St Annes (Warton ?) where a US Plane crashed on a school and killed a lot of children

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correction/addition to previous post before someone jumps on me, I know the US Air Force wasn't created until 1947 when it was split off from the US Army so technically the movie/film is correct , but the two branchs, US Army and US Army Air Force operated semi independant of each other ;)

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Yeah..it was the Freckleton air crash. A Liberator bomber had taken off from Warton, hit bad weather and came down slap into the side of a primary school....I think there was about 60 killed in total.

A bit of a thread wonder this, but this week the people of Croydon were due to commemerate the 50th anniversery of the deaths of about 30 schoolkids who had flown into a mountainside in Norway while on a schoo ltrip. No celebration, however, because half the town went up in flames tuesday night.

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Wasn't the follow up to Debbie Does Dallas set in Lancashire?

Debbie Does Dingle.