Terraced streets

[Steve Crook]

name='MB']Yes and cloth claps and people dying of rickets. Even though it is meant to be 1983.

It's that Thatcher again, closing down all the pits



Steve

[MB]

It would have gone that way eventually, no doubt, but the unrealistic portrayal of working class life in 1983 was...extraordinary..I thought. And the way it played so heavily on every possible stereoptype without a shred of irony whilst the Hovis tune played over the top...



My mother and her sister went to see it seperately (and both have always taken immense pride in having the best working class credentials - 'we had no carpet when I was growing up etc) and..well..they were just so annoyed....I was just aghast.. It was just so insulting.



As if being a ballet dancer isn't the stupidest, most unfair, heavily constrained, likely to cripple you before 30 profession known to man.

[Steve Crook]

name='MB']As if being a ballet dancer isn't the stupidest, most unfair, heavily constrained, likely to cripple you before 30 profession known to man.

Well, coal mining probably runs it a close second



Steve

[MB]

Yes but at least it had a purpose other than to make someone look a prawn. I actually felt sorry for little Billy in his tights at the end - what had they done to him? And on the dole by 30.



God I went to the Rhondda Heritage park in the summer..go everybody if you get a chance. What an interesting place and it will break your heart.



Rhondda Heritage Park - Welcome