Our Friends in the North 1964 pub location?
January 26th, 2017
Please identify this pub in Newcastle
UPDATE: The pub’s been found. “Found the pub! It’s the Crown hotel in Cricklewood North London. Prompted by this discussion to buy the DVD and it says the Crown hotel on the window. It’s quite a building.” from https://twitter.com/notware/status/1233906238326484993
Can you identify this pub in the Newcastle area, used in the 1964 episode of Our Friends in the North? It’s a lovely building. Google says the Wolsington at Smiths Docks in North Shields but it isn’t that one.
https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/showthread.php?t=83994
I wrote to the author of Newcastle’s Old Pubs and he said that he couldn’t place it in Newcastle or even in the North East.
See also this thread.
https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/archive/index.php/t-83994.html
Our Friends in the North [1974] – a personal view
January 26th, 2017
Claud Seabrook – Arthur Fieldson – Ron Conrad
Four friends in Newcastle have the strands of their lives interwoven with the political and economic events over three decades. Superficially it’s a nine hour film about housing, but it’s much more than that.
The Labour Party, corruption in public life and housing, the rise and fall of T. Dan Smith (Mr Newcastle), John Poulson and Reginald Maudling, sleaze in Soho, corruption in the Met, the Tories rise to power, the violence and politics of the Miners’ strike in 1984 to name but a few of the political events covered.