Room at the Top [1959] Part 1/12

An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman

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[womeruk]

@emilebradford Thanks for that Emile, funnily enough my grandad used to go to the City Track all the time

[emilebradford]

@donkiddick08 You're right about 'Look Back In Anger'. It was terrible. A Shakespearean barrow-boy just doesn't work.

[emilebradford]

@womeruk Yes, I think it was called City Dog Track. When I was a child I lived about half a mile away from it but I don't remember it, my father used to go occasionally and bet and he used to give me the betting slips when he came home. If you put '1 Kirkgate Bradford' in to Google maps and go onto street views. Kirkgate is the street scene showing Lampton in the Cafe and Alice walking past to her flat.

[womeruk]

@windstorm1000 I certainly could !!!.

FYI try on here "T|-|IS SP0RTI/\/G |_IFE 1 1963", most of that was shot in Wakefield & Halifax. (the main ground is Belle Vue, Wakefield Trinity's Rugby League Ground, the other being when Grandad is called a little poodle is Thrum Hall (Halifax), which now has a ASDA supermarket on it !

Also Try "Billy Liar 1963" on here, nearly all that is shot in Bradford, with odd shots of Manchester Town Hall for some reason

Happy Viewing, John

[womeruk]

@mockerlancs Thanks for that, was that dog track called City Dog Track ?

[windstorm1000]

@womeruk Thank you for you informative response! I bet you could teach us all a thing or two of the woolen mill industry! I believe D.H. Lawrence wrote about one of the Midlands areas, if not the wool industry in his novels.

[womeruk]

@windstorm1000 Yes, quite right, Delius was indeed from Bradford, from the days when it was THE wool capital of The British Empire.

As of 2012, there isn't one single mill left open, The last one "Dawsons" who made Pringle sweaters, shut two years ago, as did "Drummonds" and the one I used to work at, "Whitehead's"

[emilebradford]

@windstorm1000 Thanks for your comments. All the places I mention are on Google Street Views. Quite an enjoyable trip.

[windstorm1000]

@womeruk I believe Bradford is where Frederick Delius, the composer is from. Wool weaving area?

[windstorm1000]

@mockerlancs I'm very glad that we have some Brits watching this good film offering comments on accents. Most Americans have a very rudimentary knowledge of all the different English accents. I know Cockney, Mayfair, and Yorkshire and that's about it. Thank you--added to my enjoyment of the film. Harvey beyond handsome and a good actor as well.