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Grew up my whole life in Carlton, never moved house in my life. The street I live on used to have a really close community feeling, I couldn’t have asked for a better place to grow up. But now 5 or more houses on the road have been brought up by an electric company and turned into refugees housing with the houses being left empty for months on end leaving the gardens having 3-5 years of overgrowth, then when the refugees move in to these shabby unkept houses(making them look like lazy, scruffy people when they did nothing to make the houses look bad) the refugees kids are sleeping in rooms with mold on the walls making them eventually have to move out, and it just feels like we’re living in between some already profitable, wealthy businesses corner cutting, penny pitching, fake charity that’s really just a profitable business while is ruining and running down the area I’ve spent my whole life. RIP Britain.
The joy of getting a new RALEIGH ..Priceless
My first ten-speed was a Raleigh in the ‘70s. Rode it for 15 years then sold it to a neighbor. Loved that bike and love this film history with the makers!
Sillitoe left school at the age of 14, having failed the entrance examination to grammar school. He worked at the Raleigh factory for the next four years, spending his free time reading prodigiously and being a "serial lover of local girls". He joined the Air Training Corps in 1942, then the Royal Air Force, albeit too late to serve in the Second World War. He served as a wireless operator in Malaya during the Emergency. After returning to Britain he was planning to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force when it was discovered that he had tuberculosis. He spent 16 months in an RAF hospital. Pensioned off at the age of 21 on 45 shillings (£2.25) a week, he lived in France and Spain for seven years in an attempt to recover. In 1955, while living in Mallorca with the American poet Ruth Fainlight, whom he married in 1959, and in contact with the poet Robert Graves, Sillitoe started work on *Saturday Night and Sunday Morning* , which was published in 1958. Influenced in part by the stripped-down prose of Ernest Hemingway, the book conveys the attitudes and situation of a young factory worker faced with the inevitable end of his youthful philandering. As with John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and John Braine's Room at the Top, the novel's real subject was the disillusionment of post-war Britain and the lack of opportunities for the working class. It was adapted as a film by Karel Reisz in 1960, with Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton; the screenplay was written by Sillitoe...
Thank you for this, I have recently moved to Nottingham and I am looking to get into documentary film making so I found this really inspiring.
not good load of waffle
load of rubbish storyteller
I Left Berridge Road Senior School Nottingham in 1959 and started at Raleigh .. I was allowed half day off school to do the interview on my way going down Wilkinson Street New Basford I hit a car while fastening up my pedal clips so I arrived with blood bleeding leg ... They was filming Saturday Night and Sunday Morning .. then i left and got a Job at Stanton and Stavely iron works ... then in 1968 I emigrated by myself to Australia ... still here on the beach in Sunny Queensland.with two Aussie grown-ups living near London ... its a funny ol'd world... thanks for reading ... !
I just picked up a 1973 Raleigh Sports in Sky Blue from my neighbor. He bought it new. It is bone stock and rides just fine on the original tires. These people built an excellent bike that is going to be put back into daily use again.
My name is Allie Sillitoe. Whenever I google my last name his always pops up! I’m from the US and I’ve only found a handful of others that live in the states with the same last name. maybe we’re related!
Hey, i’m Alans great niece. We have a family tree with all ancestors on and if you could give names of your ancestors with the last name sillitoe i could help you. The last name was originally spelt “Sillito”.
Hi Honey, we met long time ago (2010ish) at the Barbican, I just felt really drawn to your energy. So happy to see what you're doing :D Bless you You are gorgeous.
I still ride my 1958 Raleigh sport almost every day. I first worked at the Oxford Cycle Center in 1962 putting new bikes together after school. Still my favorite bicycle! Thank you Lee Cooper! Terry W.
Christmas 1956 just after my 10th Birthday I had Triumph Palm Beach Tourer with Sturmy Archer 3 speed gears. As a child it was about the best Christmas present I had. At weekends together with my brother who had a Rudge (same name) rode them for miles.
thanks for being the only fun in the 60's
my first mountain bike was a trade abike from this company and with nottingham badge
I’m 51 now but I grew up with Raleigh’s on my housing estate in East London. Raleigh’s was an icon when it was British. But I can’t help reminiscing if Raleigh was a German manufacturer would it of been sold off to a foreign firm or saved so it could retain its manufacturing base in its birthplace, Nottingham, England where it belongs with reinvestment so it could thrive independently. 🇬🇧
pic of Albert Finney !
best of britain - what happened since?
it sounds better back then
Super😊
Looking after their workers as a big family having days out etc. 'Great' Britain.
Love the scene in the film where Arthur and Doreen are coming out of the cinema. That was the Savoy on Derby Road...my school was opposite and we often went there on masse .Mr Silver who owned it ( his daughters were at Cottesmore School) would often send a message to our headmistress that we could could see a film matinee for a shilling a head.This was announced in morning assembly ,money would be begged from parents and we'd parade over the road...don't think many schools enjoyed anything like that.We were not allowed to take food to the cinema ...but we did ( have you ever tried to suck your way through a packet of crisps!!!)
My brother had a Raleigh chopper.
Loved the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.......a good friend and I are always talking about it and quoting parts of the dialogue ie Did you see the muck in that kitchen? Strewth I've been bleeding shot.She told me that ,in the scene where old Ma Bull gets shot in the bum by Arthur ,she was shot from a window in a house that was lived in by a good friend of her mum.I went to a local school...Cottesmore on Derby Road and several of the local girls(I wasn't local but bussed in from St Anns) told me that they were in a few street scenes .We're all immensely proud of it.....though they didn't always get the accent right.In the early scene where the staff are going home we always shout "Hey up it's Red Robbo"(The union rep)Tara Me Duck
We had neighbours who worked at Raleigh....I remember that they had a pleasant aroma about them....I think it was the mineral oil they used in the manufacture of the bikes.
my pulse has just quickened extraordinary
hip hip hooray hip hip hooray BRAVO
Suddenly, overnight I recently became a Raleigh 'collector', buying 8 for next to nothing. Not the type of bike you'd imagine, not a sporty lightweight type. but the Raleigh 'Twenty'. Most 'enthusiasts' deride these smaller wheeled bikes; ironically this range was the company's most popular product during the 1970's, when they were turning out 170,000 a year! It seems to me highly probable, a lot of working men bought them for their wives as a present, for her shopping trips. Very few had cars back then and a cycle was a very practical thing to have. Initially it was called the 'Twenty', but the marketing department (I think, run by a woman), picked up on this and re-named it the 'Shopper'. I also recon the wives weren't all that keen and after a few trips abandoned them. That was the last 'throw nothing away' generation, so the 'Shoppers' were put away to collect dust. Today, a new generation is inheriting their parents possessions; have no appreciation for them and send it all to landfill or ebay. Here I am, nearly 70 and finding these marvelous products becoming available for a few quid, or if you're lucky, FREE!. It's a testament to the quality, when 40/50 years later you can easily find one in almost new condition; at the most it may need perished tyres replacing, a dusting down or bearings re-packed with grease. Ready for another 40 years.
Alan Silitoe was a wonderful writer from Nottingham, England, home of the Raleigh bicycle company, another chronicler of working-class life like D.H. Lawrence. I read a lot of Silitoe in my twenties. I was impressed by his knowledge of maps, Ordnance Survey and all that. The Loneliness of the Long-distance runner is a classic.
Great informative video
I have a Raleigh I bought in 1975. Still my main bike. I have replaced a lot of parts over the years as it has seen a lot of use. It’s a shame that they stopped making them in Nottingham, to me that was the essence of it. I have had three of them over the years. My first bike was a Hercules though, got that used. I wouldn’t buy another Raleigh because it doesn’t have the Nottingham badge or Made in England script.
Thank you thank you thank you enjoyed that so so much
Did any of you know a lady called Glenn . She’s a character
Beautiful piece - perfectly captures the sentiment of the project! Great stuff!
Halcyon days, the same story could be told by millions of people not just at Raleigh but all over the UK. Thank goodness that films like this exist not only in that they illustrate our heritage and history but that our economy could flourish today if we controlled corporate greed, globalism and the lies of media and politics. I am proud to be of the generation represented in this production. Words like job security, good wages for a fair days work and a cohesive society are an alternative to the rip off Britain of today, the Britain we have less and less say in as our long fought for democracy is eroded.
You are bang on! Corporate greed, they didn't want to pay people in this country a decent wage. Cheap labour abroad has since been exploited. They bulldozed our manufacturing away.
My grandfather had bought a raleigh bicycle in 1950s to go to his office which was 5 km away from home,after that my farther has used it to go to school and after that he has used it to go to office ,thereafter i used it to go to school and still i ride it at my leasure time,most of the parts are still the original ones,respect the manufacture quality ,through out the past 70 years its' service is 👌
Great , u still have the bicycle how cool
i like
sorry my friend those are verbs!
"Ah were right about that saddle tho..." kzread.info/dash/bejne/eXaorrZ8gqetmLA.html
I actually made a puppet like that even that i didn't see this video but a little different than that
I hope Sillitoe's work is still on the school curriculum. I for one, enjoyed it, although I left school in '81. Time marches on, I should imagine it is looked on as old fashioned now, and that's a shame.
Having just stumbled over Sillitoe; this film helps me to understand his views and how he formed then. Thank you
Let me guess, it was bought out by a conglomerate and moved over seas , then all went to shit?
Great video, & great to hear David speak.....Hope you're keeping well brother ?
Just to let you know I’m making another paper puppet again cause my girlfriend absolutely loves mine and now she’s wants one of her own oh btw the new paper puppet video I made is listed under my channel but I’m turning my paper puppet into a KZread series called “the misadventures of paper puppet kenan Mitchell in episode 1 the big drink let me know what u think thanks
I followed along in the livestream of the paper puppet and I made it along with u and I love making paper puppets they seem fun I have a whole KZread channel on puppets and I’m gonna feature and demonstrate youre paper puppet on my channel KZread youre great I subscribed to youre channel love youre work look out for my paper puppet I made tonight to be on my KZread channel soon
Will check that out James!
Nothing beat my childhood more than me as a 10 year old boy on my chopper in the 70s :)
This is a very old idea, academia now hijacks it and complicates a beautifully simple process
We traded this for "cheap" (in every sense of the word) bikes from countries that pay the lowest wages, have poor human rights records and destroy the environment. Listen to the former employees laud the company they worked for, you can't find employees with sort of pride or companies that deserve those accolades.
Good for profit tho
For me The Ragman's Daughter counts among the best short stories I've ever read. Found a rare poetry and the love story of that couple of young thieves was so touchingly written that could share their dreams and not so wild expectations. Once finished you couldn't avoid wishing them the better. Loved the whole volume, as happened to me with the famous one of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, whose Tony Richardson movie I went to watch, after. Honestly, think there's beauty and a deep understanding of the human being in this Short (or not so short) Story. Then I went on with Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, the lifes of those common workers, and liked it too. Find Sillitoe a very good story teller, maybe underrated. His Start in Life and The General's Daughter are quite good books too. And he had a remarkable good knowledge of cockney, something that can be easily seen in some or many of his books. A very good and realistic author with a good ear for English language. I warmly recommend Sillitoe to every reader searching for quality in Literature. 🤗🆗❤️👍💎🙏