We're not growing up pal, we're growing sideways

[fingertrouble]

Really enjoying This is England '86 which is the TV 4 part follow up to one of my favourite films. Shane Meadows can do no wrong...

And Banjo (the character with the tats and beard and mohawk) aint bad to look at either...WOOF!

Also a personal side to this, unlike the film it's filmed in the Gleadless Valley, Sheffield...I lived in Meersbrook a few years later than this is set, and my older family live a few km north o there...so yes getting total flashback on when we used to visit them, including around this time.

And yes, they've not done any grotty 'makeup' on the area, it IS a shithole, was in the 80's, 90's, and by the looks of it, now n'well.

For instance - 2 seconds or so in from the above trailer is the (in)famous Park Hill flats, my grandmother on my mother's side used to live there with my mother's brother David.