Best movie/film set in Lancashire

[Gremlin]

There are still plenty of steam specials running on the West Coast line.
Just no pretty blondes who want yer cream bun.

[Tealeaf]

There are steam trains running all over the country - there's one that runs a regular summer service just a few miles south of Accy. That is one I don't have to book in advance on, unlike the occaisional specials which run through Settle/Carlisle/Carnforth.

Try again, Gremlin.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

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.

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.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Am I the only great romantic left on Accy Web?

You romantic????? Don't make me laugh!

[Alan Varrechia]

You can just imagine it. Hi Tealeaf nice little blond here, love to meet you, how about a drink in wetherspoons...................Tealeaf you still there!!!!

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

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?

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.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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.

Teabag's like Hitler.

Both have dogs they called Blondi/e.

She's happier sat on the floor, chewing his old bone, than eating a cream bun.

[wadey]

Originally Posted by jaysay

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

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

[garinda]

Lancashire Luck (1937) - IMDb

Never seen it, but would love to.

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by garinda

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.

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.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

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.

Yes, 'set' in Lancashire. This film isn't.

Bried Encounter was set in Millford, a fictional town in the home counties.

It was not 'set' in Lancashire.

The scenes filmed at the railway station, were filmed on location at Carnforth.

Take two!

Lose the daft looking extra off the studio floor.

[steeljack]

not sure if "a Kind of Loving " is set in Lancashire or not , but was filmed there , the original book was set Yorkshire, but the film was based in the Manchester area .
even the wili link is confusing , saying its set in Yorkshire but the lead charachter is a draughtsman in Manchester
see link ..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kind_of_Loving_(film)

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by wadey

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

I stand corrected wadey, great info though

[Margaret Pilkington]

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.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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.

Was Rita Tushingham in that film Margaret or am I thinking of another film