Brookside reruns

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Has anyone else been watching today? I've watched 4 episodes so far. Dated, but loving it

I think she’s meant to be from the area isn’t she ?

Not sure tbh she doesn't have a local accent and neither does her rarely mentioned sister
But she apparently married Bobbie. At 18 and she's never mentioned she wasn't from Liverpool.

Isn't Sheila meant to be from Lancashire? Her sister visits and she goes to stay at hers at various points over the years. It sounds like a soft, 'generic' Lancashire accent. I'm sure it's mentioned at some point, in the same way that the Lake District link is mentioned with Annabelle / Mona. But yes, there's never been a back story - I don't think - about how she ended up in Liverpool and marrying Bobby at 18.

I guess the rest of it is just posh middle class accents mixed in with stronger 'working class' local dialect like you'd get anywhere (or certainly that's my experience coming from the North East of England)

Just googled and Sue Johnston is from Warrington which explains why to me she doesn’t have much of an accent as it’s my local area.

I can’t really distinguish northern accents between eachother . What accent does Sheila have ?

She doesn't have much of an accent ,i,m the same i,m from Bury originally, you can tell im northern but I dont have a broad accent like others.

Liverpool was historically Lancashire, before Merseyside wasn’t it ? So you have Merseyside, parts of Lancashire and parts of Cheshire with a similar sounding accent.

For example Widnes and Runcorn , both Cheshire but sound Scouse- well to me anyway!

Yet Roger’s parents had Lancashire accents and Roger didn’t really have one at all..

Yes the boundaries changed in the early 70 s I think ,I suppose it depends whereabouts in Lancashire someone comes from ,my grandparents lived in Bacup and had a very broad Lancashire accent
If they were ill they might call ,for the Thambulance🤣
The nearer to another county boarder the accent might be less distinguishable
A friend of mine grew up just over the Welsh boarder from Chester ,and her accent had a hint of the Liverpool accent.

It seemed to be a lot easier to get a GP appointment back in the day!

I was surprised at Sue just casually asking the neighbours if they could babysit Daniel,when the childminder let her down.

I think that was pretty realistic - I was babysitting when I was 14 and was left with 2 little boys overnight regularly!

Yes i used to babysit at 14 too although not a baby as young as Daniel ,it was more the disorganisation, she was just going back ri work and had been let down so she asks random neighbours!
Although at least she asked Chrissy and Caroline who had experience of looking after very young children and not Harry Cross!

I’ve watched the Brookside departs from the beginning, and now in Jan 1984. Police managed to watch a year worth of Brookside in just over a month!

I actually quite like the slow pace of it and how realistic it was at the time . No massive storylines as yet, just good acting.

I like how the characters are all brand new and it’s all established from the very beginning.

Yes the slow pace and realism - great writing and acting doesn’t need ridiculous storylines

Yes definitely I look forward to Wednesday, s and Brookside ,I care far more about the relationship, s between characters than any big ridiculous story line .

Must be strange for the people who live in Brookside close now! Like being in a real life soap !
Imagine actually watching old Brookside from those houses now, being in the same house but watching it on tv 40 years later..

What’s with the women in the 80s wearing heels in the home? ! Not comfortable shoes or even slippers? Karen Grant for example wearing heels casually? Was this a thing?

I don’t think women really wore trainers back then did they , I mean for day to day wear.

80s girl here yes trainers strictly for ‘aerobics’ I wore DM boots as a student guess they would be my comfies . Wore ‘court shoes’ as a medic ( imagine trying to run or dash in those ! We used to kick them off if there was an emergency)
I recall going on a day trip - think city tour lots of walking in high heels . So yes it was a thing . Generally dressed up more - I love the fashions on the reruns .

Yes definitely paticularly the one where Trevor Jordache was buried under the patio!

Yes it was stilletoes were very fashionable
My mum always wore high heel open toe sandals in all weather's, I too mainly wore DM,s as a student but that was in the 99,s.

So were sandals, summer shoes not really thing in the early/mid 80s then ?

Was this an era with more of a community spirit, such as neighbours just dropping in for a cup of tea ? Did this ever happen then or is it because it’s tv?

In the 90s as a teenager I lived in a close for a few years and I don’t remember people ever doing that then. Maybe a hello to the neighbours and a civil relationship but I don’t remember it being much more than that. Certainly no New Year’s Eve party’s or anything with the neighbours.

I was a child in the 80,s i wore sandals in the summer and shoes in the winter it might just hsve bern my mum that wore the Open toe high heel sandals tbh

I lived on a similar close to brookside in the late70,s and early 80,s and yes neighbours did drop in and all the kids played out
That said my mum was extremely sociable and made friends very easily
So I dont know if it happened everywhere ?

Knocking for friends (adults for a cuppa, children to play) was a thing back in the day. Now most people wouldn’t dream of turning up at the door without having text first, but it was really normal in the 60s- 90s IME!