Stan barstow's 'kitchen sink' novel tells a gritty story of love in an industrial lancashire town. Starring clive wood, joanne whalley and susan penhaligan. December 1957 miner's son vic brown meets ingrid rothwell, an attractive young typist in the engineering...

1962 acclaimed kitchen sink' drama a kind of loving was adapted from the stan barstow novel of the same name. Directed by john schlesinger darling, midnight cowboy, the film stars alan bates as vic brown, a young draughtsman, whose search for love leads...

Oldshaw, 1929 when you could enjoy a night out at the theatre royal, a pint in the interval, a hot pie on the way home – and still have change from a shilling. You could also have an argument with a brewer’s dray and end up as a client of jeremiah...