Ridley road

[stuarthat]

This has started well with Original footage stitched to the scenes , can remember walking round London when the marches ect little later in the 70s different protests.

[cuprabob]

Really enjoyed last night's episode and hope the next 3 are as good.

[nicanary]

I also enjoyed it. Bit of a contentious subject - it's amazing that our country could forget so much in only 15 years,

The technical side of things was impressive. I think they even managed to superimpose the modern actor into period street footage. Shame about the FX4 taxi - it would have been in use by then, but an FX3 would have been more suitable.

[silverfoxcc]

Living in Mildmay Park in the early 50s yep that long ago one of the last tram routes in North London the 33, rang past our house. Nan lived in Mildmay St ( just around the corner from Balls Pond Road, and it was a short walk along thatt to Ridley Road Market there were also shopping trips to KIngsland 'Waste' where iirc there were triple kerbs ( are they still there?)It was a very busy place, and i took my lad back there a few years ago on a 'nostalgia visit'
On walking around it now the consist of the stall has changed out of all recognition and he remarked that with a bit of careful spending you could buy a complete cow there from head to tail!
Sorry for the rambe, but looking forward to it on record

[Blue62]

stuarthat said:

This has started well with Original footage stitched to the scenes , can remember walking round London when the marches ect little later in the 70s different protests.

The juxtaposition of original footage is an interesting technique, for me it lends authenticity and I like the acting, especially Marsan and Kinnear but after two episodes I’m finding the stereotypical portrayal of ‘cockernies’ a bit grating. It’s encouraged me to seek out the book and it’s disturbing to think neo fascism was rearing its head so soon after WW2.

[Elderly]

Blue62 said:

The juxtaposition of original footage is an interesting technique, …….

I agree and I suppose that bearing in mind how brief the shots were that they were ‘signalled’
by their change in aspect ratio, but I found each change jarred.

[GetCarter]

cuprabob said:

Really enjoyed last night's episode and hope the next 3 are as good.

All 4 eps are on iPlayer. Binged it yesterday.

It was okay. About 100 times better than that utter crap Vigil.

Edited by GetCarter on Tuesday 5th October 12:15

[23.7]

I liked the girl, sully and the actress that used to be aunty Val.

Otherwise forgettable.

[PurpleTurtle]

Just watched it tonight.

Reading up on the leader of the National Socialist Movement, Colin Jordan, played by Rory Kinnear, it seems he was a Cambridge educated ex-teacher who went Nazi and did a couple of short stints in prison. He was left a house in Notting Hill by a benefactor who shared similar views but then lived until he was 85.

When I was growing up in the 70s/80s this was seen as a fringe movement. Would he really have made enough out of it to live on?

Or did he flog the Notting Hill property for silly money and live off the proceeds? Died Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire in 2009.

Wiki is a bit scant on his life after the 1970s. One wonders what people like this do for income in later life.

[RicksAlfas]

Enjoying this, but it's a bit off putting that Colin Jordan sounds like William Hague!

[nicanary]

It really is almost incredible that only 15 years since the end of WW2, the country that sacrificed so much in terms of economy and empire should have been a breeding groiund for the extreme right and, don't forget, the extreme left. That's democracy for you.