A plea to knowledgeable Salford folk on here...

My daughter is doing a thesis on the role of place in novels and plays (e.g. Edinburgh in Ian Rankin's novels, Oxford in the Morse books etc) and would like suggestions for items involving Salford

Two for starters:

Love on the Dole
A Taste of Honey

Thanks for your help

What about Hobson's choice is that Salford or Manchester?

Hobsons choice for me, see if u can get a copy of the old film ,

some great shots of old salford in that, i remember watching that as a kid many moons ago.

Yeah a good film,i think some of it was filmed in Peel Park,oh by the way,is the shape of the challenge cup still visible in that said park? Was`nt John Mills the star in that film to?

Yes SIR JOHN MILLS was in hobsons choice.

Hobsons Choice shot on location in Salford, Oldfield road and Ordsall another list here that will need checking en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fi ... Manchester also i appeared in a short film shot in langworthy and based in salford "Talking with Angels" she can also check out the CRIS website (Creative Industries in Salford) of which i am a founder member and board member www.unleashingcreativity.org/cri ... .php?iid=2 current production is a play written by local people based on the docks "Dock's Law" on at the Lowry on 28th April

Hobsons Choice shot on location in Salford, Oldfield road and Ordsall another list here that will need checking en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fi ... Manchester also i appeared in a short film shot in langworthy and based in salford "Talking with Angels" she can also check out the CRIS website (Creative Industries in Salford) of which i am a founder member and board member www.unleashingcreativity.org/cri ... .php?iid=2 current production is a play written by local people based on the docks "Dock's Law" on at the Lowry on 28th April

And the great Charles Laughton,if my memory serves me right,also starred in Hobsons Choice.

Hobson's Choice is Classic. Brilliant film.

Jeez,i agree with yer for once.

and how many people have tried to catch the moon in a puddle when drunk

East is East.

Tried it once when playing football on Islington,Blakey shot at us out of his bedroom window the bleeder and hit Noggin who had been picked to play for GB school boys that same day.

Surely East Is East would have to be up there being a modern classic and based in Salford, think it was a book/play before it hit the big screen.

Should also have mentioned a taste of honey.

A year or so ago, my folks went to see a play called [url=http://www.thepublicreviews.com/beautiful-house-%E2%80%93-library-theatre-manchester/Beautiful House[/url. That was set in Salford.

Written by Ayub Khan Din and based on his family and upbringing in Ordsall (I used to date his niece so I should know!

). And it was indeed a stage production prior to cinema release, I remember watching it at the (at the time) newly built theatre in Pendleton College. The actors/actresses that appeared in the film also starred in the stage version, which AFAIK, is fairly uncommon.

Ayub Khan din also recently wrote play based in Salford called "All the Way Home"
It was on at the Lowry last year.
Absolutely brilliant.

just reading cast no stone by Kevin Machell.
War time story based in. Salford

he was in the same Drama group as me at pendleton, not a lot of people know that

Bet he drops your name at the big parties

he might do in the future



but then again he might not go to the same sort of parties

Thanks for all the help, much appreciated - keep 'em coming if anyone can think of any more - Ta!!

What about the current smash that is the Tragi Comedy SCR and the mongers of doom

Walter Greenwood also wrote "Saturday Night at the Crown", which I'm almost certain is about a Hanky Park pub - and a good read. I think it might have first been a play with Thora Hird.

It might also be worth seeing what else Greenwood wrote.

Howard Spring wrote about Manchester in [uShabby Tiger[/u, but I always pictured Cross Lane, for some reason - perhaps it's set in Salford in parts. And in the recesses of my mind I recall someone arguing that Coketown in Dickens's [uHard Times[/u is based on Salford, not Manchester. But this was in my undergraduate days, so long ago that Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.

Getting back to Hobson's Choice, Salford Fire Brigade provided the water for the rain scene in the film, and my Uncle Ted was one of the blokes aiming a hosepipe. Good, eh?