I'm from Glasgow originally and now live in Florida but I went to college in Manchester and worked in Blackburn in the 60's. I still get a wave of nostalgia and yearning when I hear the Lancashire accent. So many people were so good to me as a clueless teenager away from home. Great memories.
Lancashire is very different from the rest of England, culturally another country. There doesn’t seem to be a class system and people are accepted at face value. There was certainly a hierarchy particularly in a working environment but it was more to do with merit than connections.
@@paulwild3676 no doubt in the past, but a different place now. Certainly a lot of poverty and culture clashes these days. This series depicts a lovely time when there was work in the towns of Lancashire and indeed the North of England.
I'd just had my son back in 82 when this was on the telly. I thoroughly enjoyed it and looked forward to each episode. The BBC captured the era so well with great attention to detail
Well, you either didn't grow up in the 1970s/80s, or didn't watch much tv back then. If you grew up in rrecent years, you sadly missed a lot of great tv drama from back in the day, before political correctness and wokeness!
I bought the book when i was in the army, stationed in Germany in 1966, I was 19 years old and I sat in a cafe in the camp one Sunday and read the book all the way through in one day. I have never forgotten the impact the book had on me because all the characters could have been in my own family. I have been a fan of Stan Barstow ever since.
Great series, remember watching it with my dad all those years ago after mum passed away. Almost as good as the film with Alan Bates and Thora Hird. Brings back a lot of memories.
I remember watching this when it first was aired and I never noticed this at the time but I am a kid of around this time, Well this is supposedly the late 50's and I was born In 58. Working class families didn't have TV that early and TV shut down really early I the evening, anyway so there wouldn't be people sitting Around the TV after the pubs closed (which was At around 9pm in the late 60's) this was really well done and I am still enjoying it as much as the original film. She was really pretty..she married Val Kilmer but didn't do as much as I would have thought after this.
Massive fan if the original film, love June Ritchie in it. As for the series this us the first time I've seen it since it was first aired, brings back memories of me and my mum settling down on the settee to watch it.
I read Stan Barstow's original trilogy back in the 80s, and really enjoyed them. Out of all the kitchen sink novels of the 60s, this was always my favourite. I liked the film version of A Kind Of Loving, and the two leads were great, and this series was excellent, Clive Wood and Joanne Whalley really fleshed out the roles of Vic and Ingrid. And the supporting cast really excelled.
@@nevisscot7697What kind of working class have you ever been in contact with? As the sixth child of a Northern steel worker, there was always money for alcohol. A day never went by without a few pints in the local. Always food on the table and the kids taken care of, but always a pint on his way home from work. And always respectable, as are every one of his 6 kids and 17 grandkids. Not a Tory, a criminal, an idler or long term unemployed amongst us. Don't write the working class off just yet. And we didn't all vote bloody Brexit either.
@@clareshaughnessy2745 not at these levels .im working class 1959 .my mother certainly didnt my father did .no drugs back then ..now if your not legless then what the hell .it all has a cost ....
@@nevisscot7697 I was 1963. One of eight, and my dad, a docker, died when I was four. My mum never drank so we didn’t have the life of, say, my cousins. Their mum (my dad’s sister) was an alcoholic, their dad was a lorry driver but had a perennially bad back and when he couldn’t work, his day was organised around the pub opening times. In by eleven, home for a sleep, then back to the pub for the evening. So many people we knew had a similar timetable. I went to convent school and was amazed to find that, far from the paragons of propriety I imagined, many catholic priests were incredibly heavy drinkers! In my experience, drinking culture has always been a huge part of British life, even if I’ve never been a big drinker
We read A Kind of Loving in school and fell in love with it, then came the film and fell in love with that also (as well the beautiful June Richie) I’m posting this while watching the first couple of minutes hoping I fall in love with this also.
I remember studying engineering drawing in school! I was useless at it, thank God; otherwise I might have ended up in one of those dead end offices! Depressing - the life of the British working man!
I remember my mate's dad watching this way back for hot peeks of 'Ingrid' His wife was also called the same but not a marriage made good. Poor guy is dead now.
I read the Vic Brown trilogy in my mid teens and was hooked. I've still got the three books. For me, this eighties series captured the mood of the books far better than the Alan Bates film version.
Please could you upload all the Granada TV Series A Kind of Loving..Episodes, hate it when you can only see so many and never how it ends.....thanks for uploading this wonderful series....BCF.
Loved reading this book at school in the very early 1970s ❤.... I feel they ruined it with the actors they picked for the main rolls of Victor and Ingrid.......Victor was described as very dark hair and a very handsome face....Ingrid was a blonde haired, very beautiful young woman with a beautiful figure completely different to the actors they picked.... they don't show his excitement at watching her on the bus , before they ever spoke to each other...how he describes the back of her neck and her blonde hair done in a French pleat.
I just found A Kind of Loving and I so want to see all of the episodes. Will you put all of the rest on RU-vid. I just love the characters so far!!! More Please!
Simpler times. Hardly any cars in the streets. A proper Welfare state. Free Further and Higher education. And no ridiculous modern wedding costing more than a house at this time. Society is now "I'm alright Jack".
I loved this back in 1982, and the original film. I love a kitchen sink drama but all those cat calls as Ingrid walks through the office sure brings back memories of how things were in the ‘olden’ days. So glad that kind of behaviour is no longer seen as acceptable. Really looking forward to watching this again after forty years!
