It is 56 years today since the premier of Kes directed by Ken Loach took place, based on the book A Kestrel For A Knave by Barry Hines. This article is dedicated to both the book & film. #booksky #filmsky #MovieSky 🎬 📽️ #BarryHines #AKestrelForAKnave #KenLoach #TonyGarnett #SocialRealism

One of my all time favourite tracks ... This brings back happy memories of May 1987, attending the CCI Mod Rally in Scarborough. It fills me with an abundance of nostalgia. Wonderful ❤️

#OtD 12 Nov 1977 the first Reclaim The Night march took place in the UK in several cities. Inspired by marches in Germany, they were particularly significant when because of the Yorkshire Ripper police advised women not to go out at night stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8432...

VE Day https://www.wikiart.org/en/l-s-lowry/ve-day-1945

Morning all. Photographer John Bulmer, untitled 1976.

Liverpool, 1970s, photo by Don McCullin.

The new version of John Bulmer’s book The North looks fantastic but will only happen if it hits its target on Kickstarter. This is a book which needs to be published, please support it if you can www.kickstarter.com/projects/fru...

#OtD 13 Nov 1974 plutonium worker and union activist Karen Silkwood was mysteriously killed in a car crash while on her way to meet a @nytimes reporter with evidence on health and safety violations at her plant. The evidence was never found stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8519...

"It's no exaggeration to say that the "sequence" group changed the whole way of feeling and thinking about film in England..." 🎬 Remembering #TonyRichardson, British director, who passed away #OTD 14 November 1991. #Film #Filmmaking

Children playing among abandoned cars, Manchester, 1965, photo by Shirley Baker (Mary Evans Picture Library).

Now playing (12:55 AM PST): "The Entertainer" (1960) By Tony Richardson Runtime: 104 min.

62 years ago: The Servant (UK) Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister as... 1963-11-14 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42987

There Is A Happy Land by Keith Waterhouse. Publisher Penguin Books Ltd (1964). I first read in 1983 & am going to re-read again. It was the catalyst that sparked my interest of the British New Wave movement. I will forever have soft for this book, although it is now slightly battered ❤️ #booksky

Just finished my first Margaret Drabble. I'd say it's a classic. Story of young unmarried woman who gets pregnant. Written in mid 60s when i think story is set. And she continues her career and her life isn't a complete disaster as most such stories are. Wont spoil it. But some interesting events.

Ken Loach filming "Kes" - BOTD

Nell Dunn on 'Up the Junction' and 'Poor Cow'. How Nell Dunn broke the taboo and whose novels (& films) were a voice for womens' views & openness regarding their entitlement to vocally express their views about their sexuality & their aspirations. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Up the Junction (The Wednesday Play, BBC) 1965, Ken Loach "I was born in Battersea. I've lived all my life in Battersea. So I don't want to go get buried in Wandsworth, do I?" #filmsky #moviesky

Pleased to pick up a replacement copy of this after stupidly clearing out my parents copy #upthejunction #workingclassfiction

1/3 Love Mike Leigh. Had not seen the 1971 "Bleak Moments" before. While the examination of communication (or lack of it) is key, it would be nothing without the humane yet unflinching treatment of these struggling individuals. #filmsky #moviesky #mikeleigh #movies

ReWatch: Kes (1969) directed by Ken Koach, starring David Bradley, Brian Glover, Colin Welland and Lynne Perrie. Barnsley, England, young Billy befriends a Kestrel and begins to bind with the bird as he finds a new purpose in his life. Loach has an eye for the ordinary lives of the people 🎬

Kes. (Ken Loach, 1969)

Now playing (02:00 PM PST): "Hard Labour" (1973) By Mike Leigh Runtime: 71 min.

Washing lines in the street, Leeds, 1959, photo by Roger Mayne.

Leeds, 1954, photo by Marc Riboud.

Halifax in black and white

Tuesday

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary US author & satirist (1842 - 1914)

14/20 #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 Day 8/20

Cuts I Like Billy Liar (1963) Directed by John Schlesinger Edited by Roger Cherrill

A film that takes place where you’re from. (Nearest I can think of, anyway..)

Just rewatched the Ken Loach film Cathy Come Home - first time seeing it since I was a a teen Incredible to think we watched this as a whole school back in the 1970's (it was made in 1966) - it affected me deeply then & still left me devastated all these years later www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGL4...

Ken Loach's 2nd cinema release the 🇬🇧British kitchen sink drama "KES" (1969) was his film adaptation of the Barry Hines 1968 semi-autobiographical novel "A Kestral for a Knave" starring David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover 🎬 United Artists #filmsky #moviesky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book a day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10 - a rite of passage for anyone growing in Yorkshire. A Kestral For A Knave - Barry Hines #bookysky #bookchallenge #yorkshire!

"I suppose on a clear day you can see the class struggle from here" Hannah : (Katrin Cartlidge) Career Girls - Mike Leigh. (1997) #FilmQuotes

This morning's film

Thoroughly enjoyed this from BBC Sounds : The writer Alan Sillitoe. The late Alan Sillitoe discusses the back drop to the settings of his novel Saturday Night & Sunday Morning, published in 1958 & it's long awaited sequel Birthday, published in 2001. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Actress June Ritchie, who plays the character of Ingrid Rothwell in the film 'A Kind of Loving', on a barge at Manchester Docks in 1962.

Today’s book purchase (Skipton, £1.25). Big fan of the specific West Riding detail in the bio.

One of my small collection of 1960s film tie-in paperbacks. Carol White and Terence Stamp as seen in Poor Cow. Book by Nell Dunn originally published 1967, this edition 1968. Film directed by Ken Loach, music by Donovan.

Poor Cow written by #NellDunn, later adapted into the film and directed by #KenLoach, was a film my parents went to see at #Barnsley Odeon. It was on their first date, way back in December 1967. So this film & novel is personally sentimental to me❤️

Hankinson Street (Hanky Park) Looking South, Salford 1962 by Steven Scholes. Hanky Park is where the classic novel Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood, about working-class poverty in the 1930s. #salford #Manchester #Literature #LiteraturePosts #art

First watch: Bleak Moments (1971). As I've been reading a book of interviews with Mike Leigh I took the opportunity to watch his debut on Mubi. A study of frustration, repression & awkwardness, it is by turns cringing, repellent & funny, bravely drawing out scenes until they become nearly unbearable

Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1990)

From the film "Bronco Bullfrog"

Baby Ian McKellen, as a BBC announcer in 1969, pronounces "brusque" as "broosk," so there's some sort of lesson. (He's from Ipswich, if that makes a difference.)

Excellent novel & excellent film adaptation "A Touch of Love".

#OtD 7 Nov 1917 the October revolution, one of the most momentous events in world history, began in Russia when revolutionaries overthrew the provisional govt and stormed the Winter Palace stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1073...

Hulme, Manchester, 1965, by Shirley Baker, 1932-2014 (Café Royal Books).

Morning all. Moss Side Estate, Manchester1986. Photographer Stuart Franklin.