Brookside

[Kev]

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nI know, too quick to get rid of Brookie considering the crap that's on TV these days?!!

Anyways, a few facts for ya:

The first episode of Brookside

was broadcast at 8:00pm on Channel 4's first night, 2 November 1982.The only other show from that day still broadcast is the popular quiz show Countdown.



The first words ever spoken on Brookside were by extra John Whitehall, who portrayed the Close's milkman on and off for over 10 years.



Executive producer Phil Redmond's first taste of showbiz success came when he sold a comedy sketch to Harry Secombe.

Jimmy Corkhill was only

intended to appear for just six episodes back in 1986, but proved such a hit that actor Dean Sullivan was eventually given a permanent contract.



The facial piercings sported by Louise Hope (Lisa Faulkner) were fake and had to be applied by the make-up artists.

Brookside has twice taken

some of its characters into separate but related mini-series, first with Damon and Debbie in 1987, then with Tracy Corkhill running away to London in South

in 1988.

The name Brookside came about because the cul-de-sac in which the series was based had a brook running next to it.

Brookie was

the first ever British soap to have each week's episodes repeated in a weekend omnibus edition.

When Bobby and Sheila Grant went to Rome in 1987,

scenes were filmed in St Peter's Square, some even showing the Pope on his balcony.

Claire Sweeney's (Lindsey Corkhill) first job was in her

dad's butcher's shop.

The Full Monty star Paul Barber appeared in 1994 as ex-convict Greg Salter.

Ex-Brookside stars Annie Miles (Sue

Sullivan) and David Easter (Pat Hancock) have appeared as divorced husband and wife Maria Starr and Pete Callan in Family Affairs.

Jessie Shadwick

wasn't actress Marji Campi's first role in Brookside. Back in 1989 she played Betty Hunt, who was proposed to by Harry Cross.

Mark Moraghan's

(Greg Shadwick) first job was in his cousin's polythene bag factory. Two years later he won his first acting-related job, working with handicapped children

at a theatre company.

Only six of the 10 houses on the Close were featured in the show. The others are used as a canteen, a make-up and wardrobe

department and a production room.

Louis Emerick had to undertake an extensive weight-training programme in 1996 when his character Mick Johnson was

involved in a steroid abuse storyline.

Peter Phelan's ex-girlfriend was played by actor Sam Kane's real-life wife, former model Linda Lusardi.



Brookie was a family affair for actor Paul Byatt (Mike Dixon). His brother Liam and sisters Sharon and Michelle have all had roles in the show.



Michael Starke (Sinbad) didn't start acting until he was 26, and previously worked as a chef and a roadsweeper.

Philip Olivier (Tim O'Leary)

was a keen amateur DJ and often spun the discs at parties.

In 1990, the actors playing the Rogers family went to the House of Commons to help

launch the British Dyslexia Society's Awareness Week on the back of the story of Geoff Roger's learning difficulties.

Brookie fan Samuel Hope has

modelled his London home on the Corkhills', even down to the lilac wallpaper in the lounge.

When the residents of an estate in Bradford were

consulted about how they wanted their estate to look after redevelopment, they opted for a copy of Brookside Close.

The most-watched episode so far

went out on 31 January 1995. Some 8.96 million watched as Eddie Banks made the gruesome discovery of Trevor Jordache's body.

Over 200 viewers

complained to Channel 4 when one episode ended with Barry Grant apparently on the verge of chopping off a dog's head.

In 1991, Kevin Carson asked

if his character Geoff Rogers could be killed off. As Sue and Danny had already died that year, the producers decided he should leave on a happy note, and

had the footballer join Torquay United.

Vince Earl (Ron Dixon) competed on New Faces in 1975 with his band. He was beaten by Roger DeCourcey and

Nookie Bear.

Jimmy Corkhill's Staffordshire Bull terrier, Cracker, was actually called Kelly and was owned by actress Tina Malone, who played Mo

McGee.

Jason Hope (Rod Corkhill) went on to work for his parents' hairdresser's and was last heard cutting hair in a salon in Bermuda.



Max Farnham wasn't actor Steven Pinder's first stab at soap stardom. Back in the early 1980's he played hapless fitness instructor and corner shop owner

Roy Lambert in Crossroads.

Ricky Tomlinson, who played trade unionist Bobby Grant, was one of the 'Shrewsbury Three', who were jailed in the 1970's for

their part in the building workers' strike.

Sue Jenkins (Jackie Corkhill) is one of a small band of actors to take major roles in two different

soaps. Back in the mid-1980's she played barmaid Gloria Todd in Coronation Street.

Irene Marot, who played DD Dixon originally auditioned for the

role of Billy Corkhill's wife Doreen.

Brookside Parade was opened in the 1000th episode on 9 October 1991 - the same day Sue and Danny Sullivan

were murdered.

Alex Fletcher (Jacqui Dixon) trained under acting coach Nikki Lindsay - sister of Rachael, who played Sammy Rogers.



Tiffany Chapman (Rachel Jordache) was named after Tiffany Welles, one of the lesser known Charlies Angels.

Philip Olivier originally auditioned

for the role of Lee Banks before being cast as Tim O'Leary.

Clive Moore, who played priest Derek O'Farrell, trained as a dentist before turning

to acting.

Although the Parade was supposed to be a short walk from the Close, the two locations were actually five miles apart.

Mark

Moraghan (Greg Shadwick) was one of the Scousers in Harry Enfield's TV shows.

Before joining Brookie in 1986, Dean Sullivan (Jimmy Corkhill) was a

supply teacher between acting jobs.

Brookside was filmed six weeks before transmission. It takes six 10-hour days to make three episodes.



Brookside employed three gardeners to ensure that the plants and flowers seen in episodes are correct for the time of year they are broadcast.

All

the Close's houses had actual hot and cold running water, and fully-functioning central heating, fridges, cookers and washing machines.

The deaths

of Matthew and Emily Farnham came about because producers wanted a surrogacy storyline.

No. 5 Brookside Close was the only house with four bedrooms

and has had more occupants than any other on the Close.

The role of Fee Phelan, eventually taken by Jackie Downey, was meant to be played by Cheryl

Murray, Corrie's Suzie Birchall.

Phil Redmond bought the original nine houses in Brookside Close for £25,000 each.

Kerrie Taylor,

Hollyoaks' Lucy Benson, played the last girlfriend of Beth Jordache.

Georgia Reece, alias Eleanor Kitson, dyed her naturally fair hair brown on

joining the show. This was so she could later return to blonde, unwittingly shocking Ollie Simpson with her resemblance to his blonde daughter, Georgia.



Letitia Dean and Malandra Burrows had minor roles in Brookside before finding greater soap fame in Eastenders and Emmerdale respectively.



Andrew Fillis, who played Lindsey Corkhill's abusive husband Gary Stanlow, originally auditioned for the role of Carl Banks.

Paul Usher (Barry

Grant) was a Bluecoat at Pontins.

The late Gladys Ambrose, who played Julia Brogan, previously appeared in a comedy acrobatic act alongside her

husband Johannes.

Three different versions of the murder of Sue and Danny Sullivan were filmed in 1991, with Barry Grant, Terry Sullivan and Graeme

Curtis each seen pushing them off scaffolding.

Carol Connor who played Carmel O'Leary, is the sister of singer Sonia and sang backing vocals when

she competed in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993.

Phil Redmond's determination to keep Brookside realistic caused uproar when early episodes

had characters swearing. He eventually caved in to public opinion and toned down the language.

Mal Young, began his career as a props boy on

Brookside before becoming producer in 1991.

Sue Johnston and Ricky Tomlinson, (Sheila and Bobby Grant) raised money for miners' families during

the 1985 strike, and were honoured by the National Union of Mineworkers.

Brookie was due to run the first full-blown AIDS story in British soap

until Ian Bleasdale, who played an HIV-positive shop steward left the show.

Katie Rogers and Sinbad have each occupied six different homes on the

Close or on the Parade.

Sue Jenkins' (Jackie Corkhill) husband is actor David Fleeshman, who played Emmerdale's crooked councillor Charlie

Aindow. David also made a fleeting appearance in Brookie, and was served by Jackie in Ron Dixon's shop.

Comedienne Faith Brown appeared briefly in

1996 as Anne Bradley, mother of Jules, who wed incestuous Nat Simpson.

A number of famous faces have made cameo appearances in the show, including

Russell Grant, Paula Yates, Sarah Greene, Loyd Grossman, Michael Parkinson, Lorraine Kelly and Lily Savage.

The Broadcasting Standards Council

forced Channel 4 to broadcast an apology in 1996 for showing brother and sister Nat and Georgia Simpson in bed together.

Eight characters have been

played by more than one actor since the show began. They are: Lucy and Gordon Collins, Geoff and Katie Rogers, Leo and Gemma Johnson, Tony Dixon and Kylie

Stanlow.

The swimming pool in the Millennium Club is the same one that is used in the college leisure centre in Hollyoaks. It was split diagonally

through the middle with the Brookie Decor on one half and Hollyoaks' on the other.

Residents of the Close are often seen watching a soap called

Meadowcroft Park. This, incidentally, was the original working title for Brookside.

John Burgess (David Crosbie) was once a member of the Royal

Shakespeare Company, and played Helen Mirren's father on stage.

Steven Pinner, who played Jonathan Gordon-Davies, now acts under his real name,

Steven Finch, in order to avoid confusion with ex-Brookside actor Steven Pinder (Max Farnham).

Alan Rothwell, who played Heather Haversham's

heroin-addicted husband Nicholas Black, was one of the original stars of Coronation Street, playing Ken Barlow's brother David.

Actress Noreen

Kershaw, who portrayed Jimmy Corkhill's girlfriend Kathy Roach on the late-1980's, worked as a director on Coronation Street.

It was no

coincidence that Debbie McGrath named her newborn son Simon - it was after Simon O'Brien, who played his late father Damon Grant.

Actor Matthew

Crompton, who was/is PC Sam Harker in The Bill, played bully-boy Darren Murphy in 1992 and terrorised Jacqui Dixon, setting fire to Manor Park School,

trapping her inside.

There was another first in Brookside in February 1999 when Susannah breastfed her baby in Bar Brookie. The scene used a

real-life mother and baby for the shots and was the first time a soap had broken the taboo.

Lee Hartney, who played creepy cult leader Simon Howe,

appeared in Coronation Street as Gary Mallet's brother in March 1999 when the twins were christened.

The British Meningitis Trust commended the

programme in 1990 for the thoroughness of its research in the storyline where Danny Sullivan contracted the illness.

There have been two crossover

plots between Brookside and fellow Mersey Television show Hollyoaks: Jacqui and Katie saw actors from the latter in Chester 1998, while Jessie Shadwick and

Alec O'Brien popped into the Hollyoaks pub The Dog In The Pond for a swift half in May 1999.

Former Neighbours and Home and Away star Richard

Norton appeared in 1995 as a fictional Aussie soap star called Shane Cochran, who died after taking heroin sold to him by Gary Stanlow.

When Laura

Gordon-Davies was electrocuted in 1987, she was in a coma for three months - the producers' revenge on actress Jane Cunliffe, who caused them problems by

quitting the show.

Bryan Murray, who was well-known for his comedy roles such as Shifty in the sitcom Bread, was deliberately cast as evil Trevor

Jordache to fool people into thinking he was a nice character.

Harry Cross was originally meant to die from a heart attack after three months, but

the character was so popular that he stayed for five years.

Graham Seed, stalwart of The Archers as Nigel Pargetter, makes regular appearances in

Brookside as headmaster Mr Thornton.

Eileen O'Brien, who played Mick's terminally ill mother-in-law Gladys Charlton, was previously punk Mary

Smith's mother in Eastenders.

Before taking on the role of Tracy Corkhill, actress Justine Kerrigan appeared briefly in early episodes as a

girlfriend of Damon Grant.

Judith Barker, who played plague victim Audrey Manners, previously appeared in Coronation Street as Ken Barlow's second wife

Janet Reid.

When Paul Usher (Barry Grant) left the show suddenly in 1993, scripts had to be hastily rewritten. Most of his dialogue was given to

Mick, while a disembodied hand was seen packing a suitcase.

Award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern, famous for Cracker, Hillsborough and The Lakes,

wrote some of Brooksides early episodes.

Gabrielle Glaister so hated the culottes she had to wear as Patricia Farnham that she took them home and

hid them.

Tricia Penrose, who plays barmaid Gina Ward in Heartbeat, appeared in 1988 as Emma Reid, a WPC with whom Rod Corkhill had a steamy

affair.

Suzanne Packer, who played Mick Johnson's errant wife Josie, is the sister of Olympic hurdler Colin Jackson.

Brookside had a

policy of casting child actors from ordinary schools in Liverpool rather than stage schools.

Ricky Tomlinson (Bobby Grant) was once in a country

and western band alongside future co-star Tony Scoggo, who played Bobby's best friend Matty Nolan.

Former Hollyoaks star Will Mellor appeared

briefly in 1992 as Paul Howard, the boy who made Jacqui Dixon's friend Leanne pregnant.

The entire Collins family had to be written out in 1990

when Doreen Sloane, who played matriarch Annabelle, tragically died of cancer.

Mark Moraghan took two other roles in Brookside prior to being cast

as Greg Shadwick: Karl Trevor, who dug up Billy Corkhill's garden with a JCB, and Colin Lambert, husband of hairdresser Angela.

Comedian Duggie

Brown, brother of former Corrie star Lynne Perrie (Ivy Brennan), appeared in Brookside in 1994 as Emma Piper's father Ray.

Sinbad's real name is

Thomas Henry Edward Sweeney. His nickname came from when he first had his window round, when legend has it that he treated the windows as if they were

portholes on a ship, cleaning the centre but leaving the corners dirty.

After a short stint as Lindsey Corkhill in 1991, Claire Sweeney went off to

sing on cruise ships for a couple of years before being offered a full-time

contract.

source (http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/neils/brookside/)....

Time to bring back our Brookie

:Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

[victorialush]

Yeh, I reckon we bring it back too...











Hollyoaks is crap.

[SteH]

When it finished Phil Redmond talked of one off specials being

made, it'll be nice if they do make one sometime. I used to love it, but felt it seriously lost its way in the last couple of years.

[Kev]

but felt it seriously lost its way in the last

couple of years.

Most people, including myself felt the same. A casualty of the the time, Brookside found itself in an impossible position before

any other soap (except Crossroads/ Eldorado lol). Maybe things would have been different if it was still on tv now-a-days with society more media

focussed.

If not Brookie, TV need a new Liverpool based soap set in Liverpool unlike Hollyoaks that is almost exclusively filmed in

Liverpoolbut set in Chester :rolleyes:.

Now would be a great time for 2008?!! Come on Phil Redmond!!

[leelad05]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38325000/jpg/_38325995_brookie_sign300.jpg

Hello i am just making my first ever post on here, and i really hope i get a good responce, I have been intouch with the Liverpool Echo recently (mike hornby) and its about my DVD petition to bring Brookside back, Now i am from huyton and a online Brookside mate of mine from Essex came up with this idea about 2 weeks ago, and we thought it was a really good idea at that, So we made our Description for our petition first which i think is Really good and tells alot of why were doing this petition. And then it was officialy up and running at 10pm last Wednesday.

Now we currently have 173 Signatures in just over 1 week which is Amazing, I also have put up little small posters of my Campaign in the Page Moss area (post office, Newsagents) and in the (old swan newsagents) And i thank them for allowing that! And will be posting more around Liverpool soon.

The reason is When Brookside finished in 2003 we were promissed dvd releases WE NEVER GOT! And yes one dvd was released but was still promissed more and on the dvd that did come out there were Trailers of up coming dvd's one involving Barry Grant going after Damions killers,
Now i know the dvd's didnt come out because of poor sales with the first dvd, But i think because of the Grant storyline was so big back in the days of when Damion got killed i think it would of sold quite good. Or even Limited Edition (why not)..
But nope still nothink.

Brookside fan base is still massive on the net but has been shatterd because of who ever owned Brookside would take action so fan sites had to close, But its all coming back, even if it is slowly, And so we contacted the Daily mirror which the Editor put on his blog page at http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/editor/ and then we contacted Echo, And they have seemed to be very intrested about our campaign, And it is going into the Echo maybe tomorrow. And we really hope our signatures shoot up. It would really help us, And the Echo are also trying to contact Phil Redmond about this but he is away for easter so cant wait for that.

I also got my picture taked a few days ago by a photographer from the Liverpool Echo, And even my mate Dan from Essex drove all the way to Liverpool just to be here with me to get into the paper, And it just shows you how commited we really are. We miss Brookside it was the BEST soap on uk, Especially when you look at them all now, It done every storyline first in the BEST possible way.

And after 21 years it just still didnt get that chance. Look at Crossroads that has been revamped about 2 or 3 times? why couldnt Brookside get its chance? Why can Crossroads get dvd releases? Why cant Brookside?...
Yeah exactly i hope your understanding me now,

So i hope we get in contact with Phil, and Keep an eye out in the Echo for our Article,

If you wish to support me and Dan with our Campaign please put your Signature to our petition at www.brookside.tk (http://www.brookside.tk) Also please spread the word, This also helps Liverpool city itself as its the BEST thing Liverpool have ever had TV wise.

Thanks for reading.
Lee Brady & Danny Burton

sorry i have posted it a few times, it was saying it couldnt do somethink with cookies :S...

[Kev]

I agree Brookie should be brought back, by 2008!!!!!!!!

[robbo176]

Hi Lee
Just signed :PDT11

Mandy

[Max]

I agree Brookie should be brought back, by 2008!!!!!!!!

I only ever watched It for the violence.:PDT10

[Kev]

Lee - don't post any more Brookie threads elsewhere on the forum mate or it will be considered Spam.

[Max]

Where was It where they filmed Brookside?

[leelad05]

thanks for helping all.

i did apologise kev, i did have a problem trying to post.

[Kev]

thanks for helping all.

i did apologise kev, i did have a problem trying to post.

I know, no probs, glad to have u aboard. :hug:

[Jericho]

Good idea.

I wouldn't agree that Brookie was the best thing to come out of Liverpool - maybe soapwise? It certainly went off towards the end and seemed obsessed with Jimmy Corkhill. Did the actor who played him ever work again? Didn't Redmond say that there would be the occasional DVD anyway?

Out of sight out of mind.

I liked Liverpool1 and was warming to Nice Guy Eddie when they pulled it.

[leelad05]

i was thinking that was liverpool1 a liverpool news channel?... im sure it was.

Yeah he did say that the occasional dvd would come out but we have been waiting for over 3 years now and its time we made our first step.

Thanks Kev, i look forwards to knowing you and as many people as possible.

[Kev]

I liked Liverpool1 and was warming to Nice Guy Eddie when they pulled it.

Me too plus Lillies, that was pulled too :PDT_Xtremez_12:.

Jimmy Corkhill is doing Adverts on the Radio. I did loads of extra work on Brookside, I'll see if I can find the vids....

[leelad05]

Thats great Kev, it would be kool if you could also help us with this??
You said u done loads of extra work on Brookside.

How would you be able to help us lol?

[Kev]

Thats great Kev, it would be kool if you could also help us with this??
You said u done loads of extra work on Brookside.

How would you be able to help us lol?

Eek, nothing mate apart from exposure here, I can proabably do a webpage for you, for example: www.yoliverpool.com/brookside

[leelad05]

Oh My God that would be really kind of you Kev.

I'd love that!

Do you run the main youliverpool site?

I do think it would be kool to advertise my link :D
Thanks again kev

[Jericho]

i was thinking that was liverpool1 a liverpool news channel?... im sure it was.

Yeah he did say that the occasional dvd would come out but we have been waiting for over 3 years now and its time we made our first step.

Thanks Kev, i look forwards to knowing you and as many people as possible.

Liverpool One was a cop series with, I think, Barry Grant in it. Again, it appeared to be getting better when it was pulled!

[leelad05]

yeah it sound like the same as hollyoaks in the city, it was getting brilliant and loads of viewers but then it was already axed, with jerome and tin head in it.

Im sure liverpool did have its own news channel i remember im sure it was somethink like liverpoolone

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2172

[Kev]

Oh My God that would be really kind of you Kev.

I'd love that!

Do you run the main youliverpool site?

I do think it would be kool to advertise my link :D
Thanks again kev

I do yes, I'm gonna be on and off line a bit tonite as my net connection is painfully slow. I'll catch up with you later or 'on the morrow'.

[leelad05]

kool thats no problem mate, if possible could you make this thread a sticky? dunno if it might help abit more
Cheers kev.
Lee

[theninesisters]

I have to say, Brookside went downhill after the likes of Harry Cross and Billy Corkhill left - does anyone remember Billy Corkhill driving like a mad man round everyone's front gardens in his car as people were using his grass as a shortcut when the road was dug up? :PDT11

[leelad05]

haha yeah i have seen that a few times on the dvd i have got. You can have my wife for a fiver if you want lmao...

I know john though cool guy.

Here is a picture of what i just done for fun lol

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/leelad05/Bringitback.jpg

[leelad05]

hey Kev how is the site going dude?

I cant wait to see it!

:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[Kev]

hey Kev how is the site going dude?

I cant wait to see it!

:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Havn't started anything yet, tell u what I'll do, what u suggested, I'll put this on a sticky in the mersey media section.....

[leelad05]

hey thanks Kev, thats really kind of you.

lol i did get abit scared then i thought the thread was deleted haha...

Thanks
Looking forwards to it.

[Kev]

hey thanks Kev, thats really kind of you.

lol i did get abit scared then i thought the thread was deleted haha...

Thanks
Looking forwards to it.

Happy days, and good luck the campaign :hug:

[leelad05]

Thanks again, i really hope this works!

Just awaiting for it to be put in the media, Hopefully will get a big boost.

Its close to 200 now and thats with just the help from other sites. and not people that read the papers lol. which is good.

When do you think your Brookside site will be up kev?

[Gnomie]

I saw the add in Old Swan:PDT11

good on yer:)

[leelad05]

lol kool when did you see it?...
You from old swan?

Im trying my little bit lol, i will hopefully be putting more copies up around the swan soon, bus stops phone boxes etc.........

[Kev]

Have u seen the utube vids of the close being explored?

[leelad05]

if the videos are by numanoid2006 then thats me lol :P.. i have seen others yeah!

[Kev]

if the videos are by numanoid2006 then thats me lol :P.. i have seen others yeah!

Quite a few vids (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=numanoid2006+&search=Search) u have there.

[theninesisters]

I think you have to thank Channel 4 for the demise of Brookside, when they started giving it graveyard slots at daft times - but then you had the start of Hollyoaks too and I think that with some of the characters from Brookside going in to Hollyoaks, this 'is' the new Brookside so to speak.

Are you trying to get the soap to start up again? If so, that would be an impossible task in itself, that just wouldn't happen unless someone wanted to actually do it (and was in a financial position) - but also, if they released a DVD now, would lots of people buy it for it to be financially viable?

Most people would only buy a certain DVD for a certain reason - i..e something large happening, and with the storyline going off on a tangent everywhere, it would be impossible for 'newcomers' to work out who was who and what was what.

Phil Redmond sold MTV a good while ago, and going back even further, I can remember when the shops at Brookside (At MTV) were being built and just about before that, the former collage building when it was empty.

Couple of years ago I was taken on the tour around the set at MTV (now Lime Productions) as it was the footprint of Childwall Hall (see my http://www.childwall.moonfruit.com/childwallhall and there were a few bits and pieces of Brookside left over dotted around the place - I need to get my fishing rod out, collect em and E-bay em! :PDT11

[leelad05]

Thanks for your reply jona,
The petition is to only release dvd's of old episodes example: The Best Of DvD, featuring all the best storylines and or documentries of whats happend since the end of brookside. or even a small episode of what there all doing now, (i know some of them are buzy) but thats just an example.
I do really think it will work, Were getting intouch with Phil when he comes back from his holiday and lets see what he thinks, almost 200 signatures without it yet going in the media is said to be really good, as petition of what were doing aint the first thing to come up off a search is it? there hard to find unless advertised.

I see what your saying about brookside being the new hollyoaks yeah lol. well hollyoaks in the city i think, but with changed names lol.

so is chilwall hall right were Lime pictures is based? we went there the other day but needed a pass from Gemma Haydon to get through.

So what kind of Brookside related items were scatterd around the hall?

[Gnomie]

lol kool when did you see it?...
You from old swan?

Im trying my little bit lol, i will hopefully be putting more copies up around the swan soon, bus stops phone boxes etc.........

Alta News by the bus stop. yes im in Old Swan

If you get brookside back can you pinch sinbad back from corry:PDT_Piratz_26:

[leelad05]

lol me to i live in old swan!

What road you live in?
im in belfast road right next to the alta news.....

[theninesisters]

so is chilwall hall right were Lime pictures is based? we went there the other day but needed a pass from Gemma Haydon to get through.

So what kind of Brookside related items were scatterd around the hall

Yeah, this picture is the entrance to MTV/Lime Productions and was once the side entrance to Childwall Hall.

I can remember lots of stuff from Jaqui Dixon's bar , the gold railings she had!

2051

[leelad05]

jaquie dixons bar was scatterd around the place?

when i rang up lime they said phil took everythink to do with brookside with him when he sold mtv!

[theninesisters]

jaquie dixons bar was scatterd around the place?

when i rang up lime they said phil took everythink to do with brookside with him when he sold mtv!


Not the entire bar obviously, just a few things you could recognise as being part of the set.

[leelad05]

kool, when did you go there? you think it might all be cleared?...

I'd love to take somethink if ya allowed too!

so when you go down that road, all i saw was a small house by the barrier, it must be a big place just past that?...

[theninesisters]

kool, when did you go there? you think it might all be cleared?...

I'd love to take somethink if ya allowed too!

so when you go down that road, all i saw was a small house by the barrier, it must be a big place just past that?...

Went about a couple of years ago after I was contacted by one of the team there that took an interest in my local website.

Yeah it's massive, there are so many parts that you can't see from anywhere other than 'on set'. You can get a nose 'further down' in the Woods and you can see a bit of the set if you travel up Childwall Fields (3 hills) but apart from that, Google Earth is the only way.

[leelad05]

yeah just checkig it out on GE now looks very big, i hope we can get a pas, how did you get in? got access.

[theninesisters]

I honestly doubt you'd just get a pass being jo-public. When I went, I was on business for pictures of the original stables of Childwall Hall in the area and I had to sign a massive contract to state that I wasn't able to take any pictures other than required. The chaps that took me round were interested in the website so he gave me the full tour of all the sets and around the offices and the like.

Personally, I would write to Lime Productions to see if they do tours of the set but with it possible to find something out during filming months in advance, I don't think they'd do any sort of tours 'all access'.

[Gnomie]

I have seen a few of the brookside actors around the town. would it be worth contacting some of them to ask if they would support your DVD?

[leelad05]

how would i be able to contact them though?....

Thanks for the info jona, is this your site? http://www.childwall.moonfruit.com/childwallhall or just a site you know? cuz i mite actually email this guy!

I could always ring up lime couldnt i?...

or would mail be best?

[theninesisters]

how would i be able to contact them though?....

Thanks for the info jona, is this your site? http://www.childwall.moonfruit.com/childwallhall or just a site you know? cuz i mite actually email this guy!

I could always ring up lime couldnt i?...

or would mail be best?

That's my own site that I've done so if you e-mail the website owner, it'll go straight to me hehe.

E-mail would be the best, ringing up you'll just be another chap wanting to blag it around Hollyoaks, set out a good letter with your reasons for writing, highlight your case and ask if they would consider you being allowed on a small tour around the location of what was once Brookside.

Good Luck! :PDT11

[leelad05]

haha i already emaild you then, god hard work took me ages to type that out lmao!

could you make me a brookside site please? haha

Me and my mate dan were thinking of trying to make our own Brookside website but we dunno how to do it :S.... any help or advice would be great!

[theninesisters]

haha i already emaild you then, god hard work took me ages to type that out lmao!

could you make me a brookside site please? haha

Me and my mate dan were thinking of trying to make our own Brookside website but we dunno how to do it :S.... any help or advice would be great!

I could certainly make you a Brookside site at my usual rates - but they're not cheap :PDT11

You can drop me another e-mail and I'll give you my rates and the like and give you some info if you can't afford em :PDT11

[leelad05]

kool what would it be like? media? pix?....

and hopw much, i dunno how it goes? weekly or monthly lol?...

[leelad05]

Check out my mates Banner for the motorway by him,
Just shows you were so Comitted! All we need now is a site.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/leelad05/08042007002.jpg

Thankls to Danny Burton. good job mate! you should sign up to here its very friendly.

[Kev]

i was thinking that was liverpool1 a liverpool news channel?... im sure it was.


Here's the proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Ws48qLE8w

[Kev]

Here are clips of me and Mrs Kev in the background on Brookside.


Being an Extra or a Backgroud Artiste always appealed to me ever since I beecame a student and had plenty of time on my hands between juggling my studies and a part time job in Tescos. The perceived excitement of it all, caught my interest and I began my quest to become an Extra. Being in-experienced I was eager to find a route in and was quickly ripped off......... read more (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showpost.php?p=8162&postcount=3)

Clip 1: Here's what you are looking for, me on the right at the end of the clip.

Click here to view the clip. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cupvJWHVaw0)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/452038086_966157e1fb.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/452038086/)

Clip 2: Here's what you are looking for, Collette walking past and myself. Don't blink!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/452038102_3fc3a36d03.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/452038102/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/205/452051783_12187c330a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/452051783/)

Click here to view the clip. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJRbW1WIA3A)

Clip 3: Here's what you are looking for, my ugly mug pulling faces at the singing, then Collette chatting away in the background!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/452038140_ea280d7a50.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/452038140/)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/242/452051865_4a79c0ff37.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/452051865/)

Click here to view the clip. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBiN0c1Gv5g)

[danfiesta87]

hey people,

Im Dan im new here.... im the other half of the petition, so to speak.

I did that banner what do you all think? lol... its above the ringroad as we speak so hopefully people will see it and go sign it the minute they get home/to work. lol.

Just wanted to take a sec and say hello everyone, im a massive Brookside fan but also i like Liverpool as a place in its own right... drove up there for the first time a few days ago and i had an excellent day meeting a new mate and getting to visit Brookside Close and drive up to Lime Pictures in Childwall.
And getting our pic taken for the local echo, haha.
I was born in Essex - living in Northampton at the minute but still an essex boy through and through... haha.

Look forward to posting here and getting to know people on the boards...

Loved those clips n stuff Kev - you were an extra on Brookside how cool is that, im pretty jealous... dont wanna get to personal but like is the pay for an extra any good... or just small time money... do people actually make a good living for being a full-time extra, or is it just a hobby/little side job...?
Just curious... but its great you uploaded those and thanks for the pics did all your family try and hunt you down in those episodes when they aired? lol

Dan

[Jericho]

Hello Dan and welcome to the forum.

Such enthusiasm for Brookie - let's hope it generates good results. Maybe Kev is positioning himself for more than a walk-on part if it comes back again?:Smiliz_Kingz_PDT_13

[Jericho]

Here's the proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Ws48qLE8w


This is the Liverpool 1, I was going on about (looks as though it was on ITV rather than BBC. I'm probably wrong about the actor who played Barry Grant being in it, too. Anyway, I remember liking it (I think). Doesn't look as though it's going to make it to DVD.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LIVERPOOL-1-Series-One-Episodes-3-4-video_W0QQitemZ110110779535QQcategoryZ1508QQssPage NameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[danfiesta87]

thanks Jericho... its good to be here....

Yep i think Brookside was / still is Excellent!

Miss it big time and would love to turn back the clock and somehow do something to stop it going off-air... dont suppose it will ever make a comeback but they do say never say never... so who knows, stranger things have happened.
But if we were to be sucsessful in getting it onto dvd that would be something, that would be pretty cool and at least we would be able to watch all the best stuff all over again, and some of it for the first time like the stuff that was on in the early 80's before i were born.

Dan

[floyd]

Sorry if anyone has already done this but my mate lived just at the back of where they used to film some of Brookie in Deysbrook. Found the pic on Google Earth

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y277/i-like-pies/GoogleEarth_Image.jpg

[leelad05]

Sorry if anyone has already done this but my mate lived just at the back of where they used to film some of Brookie in Deysbrook. Found the pic on Google Earth

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y277/i-like-pies/GoogleEarth_Image.jpg

he doesnt have a white dog does he? american bulldog?
lol

[floyd]

Nah but he's got a pretty vicious goldfish :unibrow:

[Gnomie]

http://h1.ripway.com/andalucia/LiverpoolLife115.jpg

From the Liverpool life museum. The Corkills i believe.

not posting many pics anymore, but this one is worthwhile. :PDT11

[leelad05]

haha that looks kool,
were about is the liverpool life musium?...

[robbo176]

Hiya Lee
the Museum of Liverpool Life was at the Pier Head but it closed last June:PDT_Xtremez_12:

Mandy

[leelad05]

****, i still know the maratime musium was there didnt know about that one! and the main musium by lime street!

**** shame, what else was in that one if u know?...

[Kev]

Here the Mann Island development thread (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=992&highlight=museum+liverpool+life). The Museum of LL is now closed, it housed a section from Liverpool's old Lop amongst other symbols of Liverpool past.

[leelad05]

Do you know when it will be re-opening or were it has been moved too?.


Thanks for the link Kev im just going out now to get echo brb........

[SteH]

Do you know when it will be re-opening or were it has been moved too?.


Thanks for the link Kev im just going out now to get echo brb........

Its being incorporated into the new museum of Liverpool thats being built at the Pier Head, due to open 2010.

[leelad05]

kool, so what do you think will be in that new musium? ww2 things? liverpool history?.. art?... animals lol

sounds kool.

[Gnomie]

A few pics here Lee

http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b389/andalucia_/Liverpool-Life-1/

And here

http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b389/andalucia_/Liverpool-Life-2/

:)

[leelad05]

Thanks for the links the pix are great :D

[Max]

http://h1.ripway.com/andalucia/LiverpoolLife115.jpg

From the Liverpool life museum. The Corkills i believe.

not posting many pics anymore, but this one is worthwhile. :PDT11

Did they actually take that away from the Set?

[leelad05]

nope the house wasnt a set lol the houses were all real..
that was just some kind of pretend one for the musium!

[theninesisters]

http://h1.ripway.com/andalucia/LiverpoolLife115.jpg

From the Liverpool life museum. The Corkills i believe.

not posting many pics anymore, but this one is worthwhile. :PDT11

I'm not knocking your picture Gnomie but that's nothing like the Corkhill's property. The garage was set back from the house and it was brown for a start hehe.

[leelad05]

then it went yellow lol.......

[robbo176]

Hi Gnomie
It was Ron Dicko's house in the Museum, they used to play a video of Ron Dicko & Sinbad talking
Mandy:)

[danfiesta87]

hey thats a cool pic from the museum i think it does look like the house quite a bit.

shame that has closed but will be good when it re-opens, i wouldnt mind visiting!

cant wait for 2moro we should be in the echo!!!

:)

[Ged]

Dan Fiesta 87 (top shelf)

Dan Echo 07 (bottom shelf)

[leelad05]

lol, what you mean Ged??..

Yip i cant wait for the Echo myself dan!

[Gnomie]

I'm not knocking your picture Gnomie but that's nothing like the Corkhill's property. The garage was set back from the house and it was brown for a start hehe.

Jona you could never offend me mate, i like you too much :PDT11

Gorra share one of these one day :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

I said corkhills because when you went in it had a living room with a tv camera and a tv, you sat on a stool and a video played and you was in it. Jimmy and Sinbad talked on the video as if they where talking to you and you could see it all ( yourself included) on the Tv. very clever how they did it.

I just assumed it was the Corkhills house. :rolleyes:

What house had the body under the patio?

and is George Jackson free yet?

Tony.:)

[Kev]

A CAMPAIGN has been launched to have Liverpool soap Brookside released on DVD. :handclap::handclap::handclap:

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/article/11857415.jpeg

Fans of the Liverpool drama, axed in November 2003, are calling on show creator Phil Redmond to fulfil his promise to keep the programme alive on DVD.

An internet site launched by Brookie fan Lee Brady and pal Dan Burton has already gained over 200 signatures supporting the call.

Mr Brady, 20, from Huyton, said: “When Brookside finished there were trailers for new episodes on the Unfinished Business DVD.

“But since then we have left waiting without a word about what will happen.

“We want to show Phil Redmond that there are still large numbers of Brookside fans out there and massive demand to see more of the show.”

Mr Brady, a support worker, started watching the soap when he was 10.

He added: “The fans who foll-owed the show for its entire run are itching at the chance to see this fantastic show all over again.

“When we get enough signatures we are going to hand the petition to Phil Redmond to show him that people will never forget the Close.”

Brookside Close helped launch the car-eers of Sue Johnston, Ricky Tomlinson, Jennifer Ellison and X-Factor runner-up Ray Quinn as well as many others.

The final episode was broadcast in November 2003, followed by the Unfinished Business release.

Satellite channel Living has an option to broadcast repeats from 1993 onwards and is considering the programme as part of its next season’s schedule.

A spokesman for Phil Redmond, who retains ownership of the rights to Brookside, said he would look into the matter.

To sign the petition visit www.brookside.tk

mikehornby@liverpoolecho.co.uk

[Ged]

Well in lads.

[theninesisters]

Sorted lads! Lee, I'll be posting that website contract out for you on Monday :PDT11

[danfiesta87]

this is wicked im well chuffed, im glad we got in the paper!

and on friday the 13th of all days... spooky.... lol..... it was meant to be!

everybody go and buy todays liverpool echo make sure you do lol, if not the story posted above is online from the liverpool website.

Well happy i really think this will help us get more signatures hopefully loads of people will now sign as well, who didnt know about it!

:)

Dan

[leelad05]

Yp im soooo happy were in it today, THanks for posting the link and article on here KEV!

We have now got over 320 signatures and still going up fast.

[leelad05]

Enjoy our Scan of the Article from the Liverpool Echo. Were also due to have another article soon.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/leelad05/leeinecholaa.jpg

[danfiesta87]

Wicked... great to put the scan up Lee so everybody can see!

What do you all think.. us in the echo haha?

Big thank you to the Echo they were cool they still seem interested its helped us out big time the signatures are coming thick and fast now... were currently at 451!!!

Be at 500 in no time....!

Dan

[Ross08]

Back in 2003, I said to myself "I'll never forget the last lines of Brookie". Now I've done just that.

Somebody out there must have a copy on video.

I'd be made up if somebody could remind me of Barry Grant's last words on the final episode. It's really doin' me 'ead in...

I've signed the petition and really hope that we get Brookie out on DVD.

I'd love to hear that theme tune again. It was great when Pricey played it on City the other night.

[danfiesta87]

hmmm maybe LeeLad will reply and tell you Barry's last words and also the final words of Brookside... hes seen the last episode quite a few more times than me, lol... we both have copies ive got it on video i taped it to keep, hes got it on dvd....

Um i think the final final words were from Jimmy Corkhill, he was in the limo with tinhead...? or just a car...?.... and he gets out of the car and says i wont be a sec, theres one more thing i forgot to do.... i think those were his last words? something to that effect... you then see him run back in the close leave all the taps running n flood the close... lol... and he paints all over the boarded up houses Game Over, then he writes on the road sign "D" - to read Brookside CloseD, very sad indeed!

I watched it the other night its a great omnibus episode and i find it more and more sad each time i see it, to think its the end, but great stuff though, great Brookie indeed... where they all get together and kill Michealson...

Anywayz - i wanna know whats this about Pete Price playing the Brookside theme? Ive been listening in a few times did he really? Did he just play it randomly or did he mention the show something specific to it... why did he play it? Pleaseee tell us more its just were hoping to get our petition on there if Pete would give a shout out about it, maybe he did and we missed it? Dont suppose he mentioned our petition did he?

Cheers,

Dan

[leelad05]

Yeah we did email him a few times on his shows but our petition aint been mentioned unless we missed it!

Barry grant last word were What do you want? an autograph? photograph?
Michealson: your looking at me again
Barry: So
Michealson:What are you playing at whats ya game?
Barry:....
Michealson I said what are you looking at?
Barry: History
Love it haha!

Yip you got it write about jimmy dan!.... but nikki said were is he goin lol..... i thi k thats the last word!

[danfiesta87]

and the last last last words in terms of what is on screen are the words "end of an era....."

jimmy winks, the credits roll... and we get to hear the awesome theme tune one last time.... :(

to be continued...?

Maybe... just maybe.

:D

[leelad05]

haha yeah, but couldnt put that on it as channel 4 wouldnt continue it the *******s*... excuse me!

lol

Anyways, keep the signatures going everyone!

I mite watch it again in bed now
leatersssss

[Ross08]

Pete Price was simply doing a programme the other night about things we all remember from the past. A few programmes were mentioned and he played the Brookie theme tune. Apart from him saying that Brookie will be long-remembered not much else was said on the matter.

Many thanks for the responses, and yes.... It's come back to me now. Clear as today. Cheers.

[leelad05]

Thanks for telling us! I keep wondering why he wont read out our emails about our petition!

Thanks very much ross and your very welcome :D

[lindylou]

I saw your pic in the Echo lads :handclap:

I'm not a soap fan but I signed your petition anyway - simply 'cos it's a L'pool soap and it should come back for all the fans who want it. :)

[danfiesta87]

cheers lindylou for doing that we apreciate it... your dead right it should be there for the fans that want it, lol!

And Ross cheers for answering my questions about what was said... great... shame he didnt mention our e-mails i dont understand why he dont but its cool Brookie got a mention and it keeps it alive on peoples minds!

Come on Pete Price you need to help us out lol, i heard he was a Brookside fan so i thought our chances would be good!

[leelad05]

OMG everyone Dean sullivan has signed, brilliant, its actually him aswell we can see his email. his site is: employ2008.com

[Kev]

That's a lot of signatures - I say bring back brookie FULL STOP!

[danfiesta87]

cheers Kev we think its doing great to, great that other people think the same... we think its loads.... way more than any other Brookie related petition we are definetley the biggest and best so far... haha... even if we do say so ourselves!

i also say Bring Brookside back full stop.... but if that dont happen then at least dvd's would be a great thing for the fans to buy that want them!

Soooo cool about Dean Sullivan the one the only Jimmy Corkhill signing our petition - awesome just awesome!

[leelad05]

yeah Dan i loved your email you sent to him just read it, Brilliant hope he replies! you should of told him about mike hornby though lol! he could of sorted another photographer thing out hahaha

[scouserdave]

Has anyone else recently received a PM from leelad05 asking to sign the petition?

Just noticed Harry Cross and Peter Hooton have signed up:rolleyes:

[Ged]

Is Dean Sullivan on re-run royalties then or what?

[Max]

I just told him basically that Brookside Is crap and Is only good when It has violence and he never asked me again.:PDT_Aliboronz_24: :PDT10

[leelad05]

lol i am just trying to get it to 500 tonight so i can go to bed then, i set myself a target! max i did reply to you im sure of it lol....

Well thats your opinion but my opinion is Brookside was better than the rest! Channel 4 was the worst station out of all 5!

[danfiesta87]

i guess everybody is entitled to thier opinion but Brookside was a massive hit and still has lots of fans.. dont think it is crap compared to what else is on tv thesedays its wayyy better.

Dean Sullivan worked on the show for a lotta years, maybe it has a place in his heart - so to speak - and hes signed it for that rather than the thought of dvd royalties.... i wouldnt of thought the cast had much in the way of royalties due.... back when Brookie was coming to an end dvd's were stil very much a new thing i dont think the cast woulda thought ahead to 2007/2008 dvd' releases where they get money from them... but i could be wrong?

Dan

[scouserdave]

Is Dean Sullivan on re-run royalties then or what?
It's well known amongst the media guys in Liverpool that Dean Sullivan will turn up for the opening of a door.

[Max]

lol i am just trying to get it to 500 tonight so i can go to bed then, i set myself a target! max i did reply to you im sure of it lol....

Well thats your opinion but my opinion is Brookside was better than the rest! Channel 4 was the worst station out of all 5!

Channel the worse yet It created Brookside?

[leelad05]

yeah it is the worst channel there is never anythink i watch on there now! im talking out of all 5 normal channels, not when brookside was on it! i liked to watch channel 4 when brookside was on it but apart from that its the worst channel, brookside would of been better off on ITV or somethink, probs would of still been on now!

Wasnt the soap supposed to be called somethink esle until they changed it to Brookside Close?...

[Steven]

I met Tin head in Minorca, when I was on hol with my kids. He was about 15 then and was a really nice kid. He signed some paper napkins for my kids. I asked him what the next episode of Brooky was goin' to be about but he wouldn't crack on.
I've forgotten his name ! Is it Jamie Oliver ?

[leelad05]

lol nope phillip olivier :D

thanks for sharing that, i'd love to meet any brookside cast and i think we have a greatchance too with what were doing!

[Steven]

lol nope phillip olivier :D

thanks for sharing that, i'd love to meet any brookside cast and i think we have a greatchance too with what were doing!

Of course Phillip Oliver. He was on the next table to us and after our brecky we walked down to the marina. We lived in Childwall at the time and when we got back, he sent my two little girls a lot of stuff from Brooky. I think some of the filming was done in our road (Rudston) and in Childwall comp.
Hey mate, that seems a long time ago.

[leelad05]

hahaha i bet it was! hoped you had a good time though, What sort of Brookie things he send you? i'd love to have somethink relating to Brookside apaprt from dvd or videos lol!

[danfiesta87]

thats a cool story about you meeting him abroad... and yet you lived in Childwall you think you would stand more chance of bumping into him around there but no out abroad lol quite funny really.

Thats nice of him to send ya stuff he seems like a cool lad.

Im the same as Lee i would love to meet anybody who was in Brookside, and get the opportunity to ask them loads of stuff!

I think the show was going to be called Meadowcroft? then it got changed to Brookie... thats what IMDB.com has its "working title" down as, if its the truth?

Dan

[leelad05]

ahhhh yeah thanks Dan i remember now! just couldnt think of it or could be botherd searching done enough on the net for 1 day lol.........

Hope work is sound lad?...

Hope to hear if you got a reply from Dean!........... if not i will email lol.

[leelad05]

amazing news everyone:
i just Called Mike the reporter and he is getting a colegue to ring Dean Sullivan *aka jimmy corkhill* to Quote the petition and should be in the papers by the weekend GREAT :D

god im hypo again lol

[danfiesta87]

wahoooo thats ace news.....

would be cool to see a little update in the paper with a quote from Dean Sullivan....

im hypo too lad its wicked i think were too hypo but oh well we only live once!

Dan

[leelad05]

i think this is probs the best thing i have ever done haha! just shows ya to get known by famuse people is just by a petititon haha is rite!

Im hypo all the time i get gud info lol.......

[lindylou]

Soap stars I've met; Bill Roach (Ken Barlow) - I met him at the opening of a new shop I worked in;

Denis Walsh (she was in Coronation st - can't think of her character name), she was sitting next to me at a charity meeting and I chatted with her.

Suzzane Collins from Brookside ( I spoke to her in TJ hughes! ha,ha. )

remember Damon & Debbie from the early days of Brookside ?
'Debbie' was sitting in front of us in the theatre. :)

.. can't think of any more for the moment. :)

[leelad05]

Seems as though loads of people have met ex-brookie cast and yet i or dan have never mat anyone, i have only ever seen sinbad when i was well younger, and mic dicko last year.

[iain]

Soap stars I've met; Bill Roach (Ken Barlow) - I met him at the opening of a new shop I worked in;


Saw him last Saturday at the National, standing outside the entrance and he walks past with his missus. Saw Sue Barker once we were in too but it doesn't really count cos she was meant to be there! Saw one other "famous" face but can't have been famous enough cos I couldn't think of his name :unibrow:

[robbo176]

I used to go to the Playhouse & Everyman youth theatres in the early 80s
almost everbody who went there at that time went on to appear on TV it was only me who never went on to do anything else :PDT_Xtremez_12:

this is from Jimmy McGoverns first play at the Playhouse( I'm second left)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/cityechos2.jpg

[leelad05]

wow what a picture :D...
Thanks

Anyways good news again,
Mike at Liverpool Echo is ready to do another Article, I think Dean Sullivan or Phil Redmond has been talking to them so it would be great to see what they said.

Should be this week. will keep you posted!

Also me and Dan met today and visited the close was Brilliant! And the went to Croxteth hall and liverpool melwood training ground i got my pic taken with Jamie Caragher :D

[leelad05]

well im glad to say we are now over 650 signatures! im so happy it is going up quite qucikly!

[lindylou]

That's good :handclap: :)

[danfiesta87]

I cant wait for our next article/mention in the Liverpool Echo....

Yep we went again to Brookie Close and it was fantastic!

And i had a wicked time there in Liverpool Lee you make a good tour guide haha and you make me laugh but theres loads to do and see i had a great time and will deffo come back you know i will.... another visit to the close haha....

But wanna go to that art gallery to see the famous painting the guy was on about @ Croxteth.... and do the Anfield tour/musuem....

But thanks for a wicked 2 days i really did have a gud time going to all the places.

I think Liverpool is a cool place, beats Essex anyday! haha.

Dan

[Kev]

BROOKSIDE legend Dean Sullivan has backed a campaign for the Liverpool drama to be released on DVD. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/news/echonews/tm_headline=it%2D%2D8217%2Ds-time-to-bring-back-brookie-on-dvd%26method=full%26objectid=18951803%26siteid=500 61-name_page.html)

[floyd]

I have come across a few ex-Brookie stars over the years. Saw Dean Sullivan a few years back crossing the road by the Metropolitan Cathedral when I was on my way to work, sat next to Louis Emerik (Mick Johno) while I was eating my dinner in the Everyman when he was doing some theater there and saw Michael Starke (Sinbad) doing his shopping in Woolton Sainsburys. Years ago I saw Sue Johnson and Ricky Tomlinson on different occasions but this was well before the Royle Family days.
Nice to see Sinbad's got himself a job in Manchester now :)

[danfiesta87]

Kev's on the ball thanks for posting that!

We made it into the Echo again haha.... Dean Sullivan must still have a soft spot for Brookie and im sure if it came back tommorow he would be the first one back at the close ready to film..... those were the days!

But its nice of him to comment for the paper and its good of Mike Hornby again to help publicise our petition!

Were at 678 now its doing well me and Lee still very hypo about it lol.

Dan

[leelad05]

haha yeah i am hypo about it! Couldnt belive it! when i got hom i got the echo at our shop, and i got in put pc on, and i was like huh wow thats gone up alot! then i checked and searched Brookside on the echo site and i was like wow so i rushed to the paper and seen a great big article again :D
696 signatures now!

[gorgeous]

Damon aka Simon O'Brian who's now at radio Merseyside is my cousins , cousin , Had a few drinks years back with Dean Sullivan in the Cassa even got a kiss goodnight !! ,Met Barry Grant in the Masonic in Lark la , Ricky Tomlinsons always in B&Q, dead down to earth , Karen Grant met her in Tesco on Aigy Rd , Sinbad with his kids down the Albert Dock ,I knew a fella who was a camera man at Brookside . (Ray) he got us loads of signed photo's
funny looking back , remember Terry's perm .lol

The nicest person i've ever met was Linda Lusardi , Meeting Robbie Fowler at a charity night on Friday ,

[Kev]

Ricky Tomlinsons always in B&Q, dead down to earth , lol

My dad can confirm that and every time I've been over to B&Q, I've seen him!

[leelad05]

lol which B&Q??? edge lane?

[Kev]

Speke Retail

[leelad05]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi3VEThgOAQ

Our new tour of the close.

[gorgeous]

Ricky's always in B&Q Speke, ,

[danfiesta87]

hmmm lol what does Ricky do live in B n Q? lol.... the amount of you saying you know he goes there a lot lol.... i would love to meet him he seems like a great guy.... is he just like he is in character? He strikes me as being exactly like Bobby Grant or Jim Royale.... lol......

Love it when he says my arse, haha.... Ricky Rules!

What does he do in B n Q..... is he a fanatic DIY guy or into gardening perhaps? lol...

[theninesisters]

Just been slapping the punchbag in the garage while listening to City FM. Has anyone else heard the advert (for what I cannot remember LOL) where Sinbad and Jimmy Corkhill are discussing something? Honestly I'm not making it up, I was just amazed at the voices I didn't pay any attention to what they were on about :rolleyes:

PS Lee - have a picture from the Hollyoaks set - the 'wall' that you see is paper mache!! And this was taken from the 3 hills so anyone can view it!

2565

[danfiesta87]

hey cool pic.... jona! thx for posting that....

where abouts is 3 hills? where you took it from? we went to the forest/park next door to lime and we could see over some walls we saw the hollyoaks college set...? is that what you mean? 3 hills is that the park.forest next door?

oh and as for the ad on the radio... we heard it, me and lee! deffo.... i was in my car and heard it, then i heard it again as i was leaving liverpool to come back home... i didnt realise the other voice was sinbad?!?!?!?!? i recognised deans voice though and said lee lee lee all hypo lol couldnt believe it was him but definetley was.... think it was to do with property/houses.... it was an advert for moving house... maybe rightmove.co.uk or something like that? But deffo if its the same ad you heard i heard it and was so happy to hear a familiar voice lol our jimmy corkhill on the radio!....

Dan

[wallasey]

Just out of interest, why is the barrier still there on Brookside? Took a trip there specially for nothing pretty much! Would have thought that it would have been removed by now! The footpath was open but wasn't going to risk it seeing as the security hut is still there too!

[theninesisters]

Aye, if you multimap Childwall Lane - it's the road that runs from the Church/Childwall Abbey downhill. Wait until you get about 1/2 way down and there's an opening to the right - that's the 3 hills. Walk up the stone path to the top and those buildings on the right hand side are all Lime Productions!

You're right - rightmove or summat. It was deffo sinbad!

[Alyson Scouser]

I loved brookside in 200 to 2003 till was boss xxxx

[gorgeous]

Guess where Ricky Tomlinson was again this morning ??
Yep B&Q Speke . & everytime i go he's in there . lol
I said to the assistant is he a DIY fanatic ? & she said he's doing his garden but he also helps with Diy on his daughters home .

[Alyson Scouser]

has anyone got any vids of the 2000's episodes? xx

[danfiesta87]

lol ricky was in there again?

did you go upto him you shudda asked him to sign our petition, haha!

would love to bump into him in b n q that wud be cool.

thanks jona i will try n go to that bit of lime next time im up in livypool!
lime pictures does look pretty huge!
and hopefully i will hear sinbad and jimmy on the radio again, haha.

the petition is at 834 signatures at the moment, so its going well still... but were gonna try and top 1,000 anyday! that will be cool for us.

weve tried to get Sarah White aka Bev to sign it... so who knows, she has a letter so if/when she reads it she might decide to add her name to it that would be great as well!

Dan

[leelad05]

well Sarah might not have the internet :( but she could of rang up the reporter i did put the information on there but he aint heard from her! Guys more good news, the Liverpool Echo want to do a 3rd article.

Hey Dan do you remember we were gonna walk up the back way to lime? but we didnt as nicky needed toilet? i think thats were he means!.....cant wait till you come down again lol. needs to be soon
Ohwell im back online now, but will be calming down and looking after my gf abit more!.... but should still be on alot ;)...

[danfiesta87]

lol.... yes i remember i wanted to look round that place more... i reckon lime is huge there must be loads more fence you can peer over and see more hollyoaks sets ect... wudda loved to walked around the whole forest and seen as many sets as possible lol...!
Showed my friend that Hollyoaks College building we saw, and she recognised it, she couldnt believe we was there right opposite it, lol.

Yes i gotta come up soon or if not then you gotta post me the 2nd article i wanna see it badly, lol... glad your gf back home m8 and yes good to have you back online ive missed ya "net presence" lol...

Dan

[leelad05]

lol shut up u gimp :P

Yeah i really wanted to go down that other way, cant wait really, incase they block it off haha! :(.... quick dan......

we will just have to :034: our way into lime then lol.

[theninesisters]

lol shut up u gimp :P

Yeah i really wanted to go down that other way, cant wait really, incase they block it off haha! :(.... quick dan......

we will just have to :034: our way into lime then lol.

You can nose at a good part of Lime from the Woods - if you know where to go. Get in the woods and follow the path around that Lime takes to the main entrance, you'll come to a massive stone wall - just go past that and you'll see the front of the Hollyoaks College sign and some of the Grange Hill set - that's all you can see trust me. You won't be able to see any other part of the set, I've done this from both sides of the fence by the invite to Lime and then having a mooch around in the woods. You won't see owt else I'm afraid.

But never go down in to Lime down the main road expecting a warm welcome, they have CCTV all over the place (one of my mates works on security there and they suspect everyone as trying to get shots for the papers) so you won't get anywhere.

Write to the MD of Lime and explain your situation and see if they will give you a guided tour - but you need to present your case well. I had to sign a massive contract when I went there and they were the ones to ask me because of my website. Good luck!

[leelad05]

Hey, yeah that sounds like the place me and dan went into! you see that MASSIVE tree knocked down??...
not far from the big wall/gate which you cant see over? from what i thought i could see looked like the old Garage used in brookie!

I did get pictures of around what i could see i should have them saved to cd will check em out soon and post.
So the other way you can only get to see that old bus stop road?...

I still would like to try there again was good.

lol cant you get him to let us in haha! we wont have any camera's with us :D....

Thats a good idea if we wrote a letter to them. I might be doing abit of writing later on today!.... i dont think we would be granted anythink as were just random brookie fans! but still worth a try....

[theninesisters]

Hey, yeah that sounds like the place me and dan went into! you see that MASSIVE tree knocked down??...
not far from the big wall/gate which you cant see over? from what i thought i could see looked like the old Garage used in brookie!

I did get pictures of around what i could see i should have them saved to cd will check em out soon and post.
So the other way you can only get to see that old bus stop road?...

I still would like to try there again was good.

lol cant you get him to let us in haha! we wont have any camera's with us :D....

Thats a good idea if we wrote a letter to them. I might be doing abit of writing later on today!.... i dont think we would be granted anythink as were just random brookie fans! but still worth a try....

Aye, plan your letter out well - Lime probably get hundreds of people wanting to nose at the Hollyoaks set so you have to make your letter stand out. :PDT11

[Kev]

Just sign up with a casting agency and get paid while you are there :PDT11

[leelad05]

lol how do i do that kev?

[Kev]

have a look in the yellow pages. There are loads

[Max]

Just sign up with a casting agency and get paid while you are there :PDT11

Don't you need an equity card though to make sure your paid If It's a paying role?

[AntiPathos]

Don't you need an equity card though to make sure your paid If It's a paying role?

Not for non-speaking parts, AFAIK.

[Alyson Scouser]

so does anyone have it on you tube or videos? thanks xx

[leelad05]

hmmm i will have to go check that out :D.... wonder how the pay works then haha!~

[leelad05]

were so close now to our first thousand :D i am also talking with ex-actress Billie who played the bully of anthony she is so lovely, she is done with acting now and is doing Djing.

[danfiesta87]

Hey were at 1074 now...

Its great to be over 1,000 signatures.... just want it to keep going up and up... which it is!

Got a reply from Claire Sweeney she just said that its very sweet what were doing, and lovely that we are so devoted to Brookside!!!

:-)

Dan
Get Brookside on DVD www.brookside.tk

[theninesisters]

Hey were at 1074 now...

Its great to be over 1,000 signatures.... just want it to keep going up and up... which it is!

Got a reply from Claire Sweeney she just said that its very sweet what were doing, and lovely that we are so devoted to Brookside!!!

:-)

Dan
Get Brookside on DVD www.brookside.tk


Is that the Claire Sweeney that's suddenly lost her Liverpool accent due to doing adverts on TV? :PDT_Xtremez_12:

[lindylou]

Glad to hear it's going well lads. :PDT11

[danfiesta87]

Hey everybody...

Wicked news...

Me and Lee are going to Dean Sullivan aka the living legend Jimmy Corkhill, his 50th birthday party next week.... i think it is, the 7th!

Cant wait... gonna be so ace... and hopefully it will help the petition too because everyone will see us in our t-shirts advertising it, haha.... gonna get sooo many photos and autographs, will be wicked nite!

Cant wait Leelad!

Dan

[leelad05]

Great news just came through again.

BBC Radio Merseyside have sent me a email asking us to ring them next week to arrange a interview with Simon O'Brian who played Damon Grant as he is the Breakfast presenter. And they want us to go to the studio. So Everyone we got 2 great things coming up :D we have Dean Sullivans party were going to were loads of ex-brookie will be there and press that probs would be intrested in us!

and now the BBC Radio Merseyside want us lol :D

were doing great progress..

[Kev]

RE: Bring Brookie Back

So who's camping out on the close then?

[leelad05]

lol no one.... its just someone i know on msn i knew he was chatting load of **** because he is jelouse of what me and dan are doing, then when it got to like 2 days ago he says oh im putting it on hold yeah what ever. just ignore that kev lol.

some people just chat crap.

[Kev]

The news on Radio City said it was happening and even had people being interview, thought it might be u though. So its a blag then?

[leelad05]

wow did you hear it on there? na its not me Lee its someone else on my msn called Lee but he does seem abit weird and my and dan were thinking yeah he is upto somethink him u know trying to steal our idea so to speak saying he is doing this that and the other, but when it comes close to things he says an excuse meaning he aint doing it, meaning he sounds like he is chatting bull.

anyway got the party on thursday and gonna ring bbc tomorrow to arrange a interview!

[danfiesta87]

hmmmm it got on radio city news of the so called boycot at the close... lmao... wierd... and unreal!

yes the guy seems a bit wierd i dunno wot hes upto or what his motives are... so he was on the radio talking about it? what did he say exactly... or the presenters say i wonder?

i cant wait for the party it should be good... and that interview with bbc merseyside would be ace if we can get them to do it still!

Dan

[Cadfael]

While waiting for me new TV to arrive, I had to slum it on the downstairs one with a video recorder (remember those). I had a nose through some tapes and I found two brookie episodes! They were of Patricia Farnham finding out she's got cancer and Ron Dicko's keyboard being stolen by some bloke on crutches.

There was even a brief cameo by Barry Grant but he didn't tell anyone to 'do one'.

[robbo176]

I bought Brookside Friday 13th last week from Cash Convertors for £1:PDT11
I haven't got around to watching it yet

[Ged]

Lee and Dan, it looks like you've been busy on msn cos my 3 daughters have seen your petition and enthusiasm and are all for a come back. I taped the Everton 84 cup final win and as the pitch celebrations end after the cup presentation the screen goes all snowy and then what comes up - the remainder of a Brookside episode taped previously. It features Harry Cross, Edna and Ralph a lot and it's when the 'original' Alan Partridge goes mad and smashes the fence down. Good luck lads.

[chippie]

I,ve noticed that a lot of the charity shops have brought their prices down by half lately. Videos are averaging about 50p now. I,ve seen loads of Brookside Friday 13th and the lost weekend on the shelves in general.:PDT_Piratz_26:

[PhilipG]

Is that the Claire Sweeney that's suddenly lost her Liverpool accent due to doing adverts on TV? :PDT_Xtremez_12:

You're either dam*ed if you do, or dam*ed if you don't. :)
Cilla Black keeps her accent (against all odds) and Claire is doing her job, being an actress, which involves speaking in different accents.

[Jericho]

If it did ever come back it would need to reflect life in Liverpool towards the end of the first decade of the 21st Century and not hark back to Liverpool of yesteryear. Storylines centred around Jimmy Corkhill would ensure that it didn't last long. I guess there are only so many times you can bring back Barry Grant. I could watch Ron Dixon being flayed alive, slowly... but then what?

[leelad05]

yeah ged we have put alot of hard work into it! it takes time and yes we did think it would be over at least 3000 by now! but then again we have only been in the Liverpool Echo not on front page. and 1 or 2 shout outs on the radio, and just some forums on the internet, and we want to know some new good soap forums we dont already know about yet to post on about our campaign! We will be promoting our campaign at the party and then hopefully getting a interview with bbc radio Merseyside soon.

then what happends after that we aint thought of yet but there will be somethink.

[Jericho]

You're either dam*ed if you do, or dam*ed if you don't. :)
Cilla Black keeps her accent (against all odds) and Claire is doing her job, being an actress, which involves speaking in different accents.

I like Claire's accent. Cilla Black often puts her accent on with a trowel. I recently heard her being interviewed on a radio station about why she isn't doing so much televison these days and she didn't sound anything like as 'scouse' as she did on Blind Date and Surprise Surprise. In TV land people seem to like Liverpudlians to speak with strong scouse accents. It's part of our, erm, charm.

[Ged]

Well i've got the best of Cilla Black cd - laugh if you like but I love Anyone who had a heart, Liverpool Lullaby and Step Inside Love (Lennon & McCartney)

Go on, go on - laugh....

[PhilipG]

Well i've got the best of Cilla Black cd - laugh if you like but I love Anyone who had a heart, Liverpool Lullaby and Step Inside Love (Lennon & McCartney)

Go on, go on - laugh....

I agree with you, Ged.
She had a great singing voice (really one of the best), and I always think her subsequent career was a bit of a let down, but she seemed to prefer being known as a "lovable Scouse personality"

[Jericho]

Well i've got the best of Cilla Black cd - laugh if you like but I love Anyone who had a heart, Liverpool Lullaby and Step Inside Love (Lennon & McCartney)

Go on, go on - laugh....

I don't mind her voice. I recently watched a DVD of Ferry Across the Mersey with Gerry and the Pacemakers (?) Cilla was in it and sang a solo. She sounded good.

A 1960s Candie Payne?

Maybe not - Cilla's persona was never 'knowing', although the reality is that she is the most successful Brtiish female performer, ever - so she is clearly a lot more savvy than people might sometimes suspect.

She can ever say fair hair when she wants to, although people love it when she says fur hur and flashes that look that says What are you looking at me like that for?

[Ged]

She came up to Vauxhall a few years back to open one of the newly refurbished bridges over the canal at the Eldonians of all things ha ha, It was because of the Scottie Road connection obviously, another local, Linda McDermott from Radio Merseyside was there too. I think she's alright actually.

[leelad05]

We have just got in from our very first experiance of going to a famous party and it was wicked! We met loads of celebs and we took quite alot of pictures! First of all, I will post my pictures first and then when Dan gets back home the weekend he will post his. I also have a few video clips, including messages on the big tv screen for Dean and George Michael singing!


Here are some pictures of us with Brookie cast.....

(also We talked to phil Redmond for a good 15 mins, and he loves what we are doing, said to not rush and take our time which we are doing anyways and he will be in contact.) We got our t-shirts signed by all of them except Tin head and Ste Murrey. who didnt stay long.

Here we go........

Sammy
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/leelad05/DSCF2446.jpg

Sinbad
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/leelad05/DSCF2445.jpg

Catrina
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/leelad05/DSCF2430.jpg

Nicki Shadwick
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/leelad05/DSCF2427.jpg

Tin 'ed
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/leelad05/DSCF2426.jpg

Ste Murrey
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/leelad05/DSCF2428.jpg

JIMMY CORKHILL
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/leelad05/DSCF2424.jpg

Jimmy & Phil Redmond (blairy and dark)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/leelad05/DSCF2423.jpg
Dan had a better photo of this on his camera!

Will upload video's soon as i will be without the internet for about maybe 3 weeks as i am moving house!. You know what sky are like they take ages.

Enjoy. :wiggle:

[chippie]

Well done lads. Great to see ya mingling with the stars. Yer could be on telly yet. Good luck with yer moving.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[Ged]

Yous had better demand a walk on part. Maybe into Nicki's bathroom as she's taking a shower......

[Cadfael]

Well done lads!

Nikki Shadwick looks a bit ill though and has lost loads of weight. I last met her when I was at a party about 10 years ago!

3322

[Ged]

Has she worked since, maybe she worried about the mortgage?

[lindylou]

Made up for you lads ! :handclap: I'm glad you got to meet the Brookie stars. :) :)

Smashing pictures.

[leelad05]

thanks so much! We even had a little tour around Hollyoaks and Grange hill today at Lime Pictures just for us lol not insuide the buildings but walking around outside of them. and we did even get to get right under the petrol station lol got pix........show soon.

[Kev]

Thanks for sharing these excellent pictures, saw Tin Head in the gym this week. :handclap: <<Handclap for the pics, not for seeing Tin Head in the gym lol.

[Lady]

What great pictures :handclap:

And dosent Simbad take a good picture-he looks a real "happy chappy" to me,

Glad you enjoyed yourselves, you deserved to :PDT_Piratz_26:

Jacky

[Gnomie]

I have just been shopping in Old Swan Tesco. the guy who played Mike Dicko was behind me at the till.

[leelad05]

kool, i was talking to some girl in work the other day saying the same thing that he does go there alot. did u say anythink to him about the campaign lol?.....

[Gnomie]

kool, i was talking to some girl in work the other day saying the same thing that he does go there alot. did u say anythink to him about the campaign lol?.....

sorry mate. but i will if i see him again. yes ive seen him there before.

he used to drink in the Casablanca in hope street when we drank there years ago. omg im showing me age now.:eek:

[danfiesta87]

he was there the other day and again today? no way.... i need to start hanging out at tesco old swan... oh no wait lee.. we already do.... haha.... you had a little race didnt ya! :D

"thank you for shopping at tesco old swan" that chubby kid cracked me up... lol...

anywayz.... back to topic!

the party was WICKED.... loved EVERY BIT OF IT.... was so cool..... i hope to upload my pics later hopefully! some diff ones and the ones of us at the close and at the petrol station in our t shirts ect....

Dan :D

[danfiesta87]

Here they are people....

enjoy! :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/dannyjames/2007_0609dean_brookside0041.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/dannyjames/2007_0609dean_brookside0040.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/dannyjames/2007_0609dean_brookside0018.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/dannyjames/2007_0609dean_brookside0017.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/dannyjames/2007_0609dean_brookside0016.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/dannyjames/2007_0609dean_brookside0010.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/dannyjames/2007_0609dean_brookside0014.jpg



Hope you like them! It was such a wicked night... so glad and happy to of been invited and that Dean or at least Dean's pa, must like what were upto and it was nice to be invited.

Roll on the next party please... lol.... by sounds of it Dean might be telling porkies about his age so maybe he will have another 50th next year again? hehe..... :)

Dan

[icklescousewitch]

at last someones trying to get it back :PDT11
ive actually come on this site after trying to find away to contact paul or michelle byatt but had to post a reply when i seen the petition, on teh day the last ever brookside was showin i was in teh womens hospital givin birth to my daughter, throu labour pains i was watching the fantastic episode, and all that excitment of the episode didnt help as she wasnt born til 6 am next morning haha just thought id shar e that with you and i would love brookside back as its such a fantastic part of liverpool truely missed.
and if anyone knows of a way to get in touch wth paul or michelle can they please let me know, want to contact tem regarding there old school st cecilias :)

[leelad05]

lol kool hunni, well at least you got a great moment to share, nothink better than watching brookside just before your child is born lol...

keep signing everyone!

[SteH]

Hey everybody...

Wicked news...

Me and Lee are going to Dean Sullivan aka the living legend Jimmy Corkhill, his 50th birthday party next week.... i think it is, the 7th!

Cant wait... gonna be so ace... and hopefully it will help the petition too because everyone will see us in our t-shirts advertising it, haha.... gonna get sooo many photos and autographs, will be wicked nite!

Cant wait Leelad!

Dan


Funny how Dean had a 50th birthday party, but IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838029/) and several other TV websites lists his date of birth as 1955. :rolleyes:

[leelad05]

lol yeah alot of people were saying he is really 52 and i think it was for his 50th so to speak, he must not have had a party or anythink on his 50th so that was for then and he 52nd all in one lol.

EVERYONE I'M BACK....................

(finaly sky have switched me on)

[Ross08]

I've got some friends visiting Merseyside this week. Is it possible to visit Brookside Close?

Is it still as it was, is the site secure. If anyone knows, I'd be pleased to hear.

Just thought it would be nice if my friends could see the place while hey're here. Where abouts in West Derby is it?

[MarkA]

You want to visit Brookside Close :eek: I'm sure Albion Market is still around too :rolleyes:

It's off Deysbrook Lane at the Cantril Farm end http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=341640&y=393902&z=1&sv=341640,393902&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

There's a YouTube vid here of someone doing a tour last year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omVDp8abang

[SteH]

I was watching one of them Neighbours tributes last night on BBC3. You can go and visit the set in Melbourne and sometimes even get given a tour by the actors, this one was done by Dr Karl (who incidentally is a big fan of Liverpool - the football club and city)

[leelad05]

hey how is everyone? i just been on holiday in alcudia was great. :D ..... we gotta talk more brookie, or brookie dvd campaign here, does anyone have any other idea's i could try out for the campaign?

[Ross08]

Photographs taken today on a visit to Brookside Close.

http://www.rosscampbell.fotopic.net/brookside

[shytalk]

The link didn't work for me Ross.

Works great now.:handclap:

[Ross08]

BROOKSIDE CLOSE

[kebabman]

Great possing on this picture Ross:D

http://images3.fotopic.net/?iid=ypqvyr&outx=600&noresize=1&original=1&nostamp=1

[leelad05]

over 1770 now! not far from 2,000

come on Dan were r u?????

[shytalk]

I've got a bit of news for you lads. The first 14 episodes of Brookside are going on UKnova.

http://beta.uknova.com/wsgi/torrent/find?title=brookside&uploadtype=0&created0=&created1=&sort=bumped

That's the first, you have to join and have broadband to be able to download it and you need a bit torrent program, I use Azureus it is a free download.
The quality isn't brilliant as they were recorded on VHS but I just watched the first episode and it was ok to watch.

[snappel]

BitLord is a good torrent downloader.

TV is sh1t though.

[Max]

How dare you say Tv Is ****.:PDT10

[chippie]

I,m afraid, on that one I must agree there Max, to me the telly is rubbish, in fact I,ve made my decision to not renew my licence at the end of the year as I,ve watched very very little of the small screen this year at all. January, telly, you are out.:handclap:

[snappel]

In a country and city as interesting as ours, how could anyone want to watch TV? Good films and comedy on DVD I like watching, but I just don't seem to have the time anymore.

[leelad05]

thanks for the site mate, i just tried to join but said the site has its limit. and to try later!

do you like out website layout?

http://www.geocities.com/danny_james_uk/

[shytalk]

leelad05,
Keep trying, they often expel people and create vacancies. If you do get on, remember to upload at least as much as you download, This is a great site, I have used it for over 2 years to keep up with a couple of Brit shows.
If you think Brit TV is bad people, that is because you don't have to suffer American TV!
I left the Uk before Brookside started, so I had never seen it before.

[leelad05]

Just to let you all know i am apart of Soapworld.co.uk and have my own blog on there about the Brookside DVD Campaign i am running with Dan.

I will be updating the blog throughout the campaign so keep an eye out, this website is new and is Brilliant, i would recomend it to the soapchat users for updates on all soaps.

I think maybe you could also email him via the soapworld.co.uk contact page

Thanks
Lee
www.brookside.tk

[leelad05]

You can listen to me talking about our DVD Campaign on www.thesoapshow.com

also George Christopher who played 'little' Jimmy Corkhill featured on this weeks show.

Hope you enjoy it!

[Gnomie]

Lee why dont you think up a Brookside poem for the 800 campaign..

submit it here if your interested mate

http://www.poem800.com/

:PDT_Piratz_26::PDT_Aliboronz_24::PDT11

[leelad05]

yeah good idea mate! thanks for that.... will try haha!

[leelad05]

anyone see brookside on more4 tonight at 9:30??

if u missed it its on at 10:30 on more4+1

[chippie]

Hey Leelad, bumped into an old friend of yours yesterday not five minutes from my door.Dean Sullivan came for the food and drink weekend here in Nantwich. I,m afraid I was too busy with my bike and three horses to say hello.

[Diane]

I watched the very first episode last night ! aaah the memories came flooding back ! Sheila, Bob, Damon, Annabel, Paul, Gordon, Lucy, Heather ! ha ha ! how many times did Heather marry ? god knows !

Good soap though !

bring it back !

[Ged]

Yes saw it. The Jacksons were in it early on too and Petra and Gavin - then the free George Jackson campaign.

[leelad05]

Yes Phil Redmond will be on Radiocity tonight with Pete Price, talking about different things. But i'd like anyone to see if they would ring him up about the DVD Campaign and just basicly ask whats the latest he knows??

Or bombard pete prices email with questions about the Brookside DVD?

Who is behind me?

www.radiocity.co.uk at 10pm......

dont forget

www.brookside.tk

[Diane]

Yes saw it. The Jacksons were in it early on too and Petra and Gavin - then the free George Jackson campaign.

aw god i remember Petra and Gavin ! didnt he die in his sleep or something ? and Petra's sister played a huge part in it ! ha ha ! all the memories come flooding back !

My fave part was when DO came back ! (Doreen Corkhill) and played merry hell !

[Kev]

A CITY hotel has called in lawyers to get payment for Dean Sullivan’s lavish celebrity birthday bash. Read (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2007/10/06/3-000-bill-for-dean-s-party-is-still-not-paid-100252-19904862/)

Payup Lee :unibrow::PDT10

[Libertarian]

i saw dean on Friday in Pink:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[Kev]

i saw dean on Friday in Pink:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

He's usually in Denim isn't he? :PDT10

[leelad05]

haha yeah kev seen that, was laughing myself, haha... in debt, thats tony murreys fault!

[Cadfael]

The Devonshire hotel in Edge Lane is still owed £3,173 for the party on June 7 held in honour of the actor.

The bill for the event, with 824 guests

Lavish? That's about £3.50 a head :PDT10

[leelad05]

i payed £10 to go :S......

[Kev]

Its only a matter of time until the whole series is brought back:

STARS of Merseyside soap Brookside met at city centre bar Mosquito to mark 25 years since the first episode aired on November 2 1982. Read (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2007/10/19/brookside-cast-up-close-and-personal-100252-19979078/)

[Kev]

EX-BROOKSIDE star Dean Sullivan had criminal charges against him dropped after a court appearance yesterday. Read (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2007/10/20/brookside-s-dean-is-free-100252-19980656/)

[Shapers]

Wasn't Phil Oliver who played Tinhead also in Court recently over one of his properties?

[SteH]

Wasn't Phil Oliver who played Tinhead also in Court recently over one of his properties?


Yes, fined £20,000 for renting a property to too many people without the right type of licence

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2007/08/14/20-000-fine-for-tv-hunk-phil-100252-19627261/

[leelad05]

Hello Brookside fans, lol, Sorry to say but there ain’t been much Brookside news for a while, you know i had a baby and my life is now limited lol, talk about bad timing for the campaign eh? And, also, my other mate who is running it Dan is away in Australia for 6 months. So for the next few months i think it will go slower than usual, but WE will never give up even if it takes years lol... I'd love nothing more than to sit on my sofa with a lovely cup of tea watching BROOKSIDE episodes which I won a Campaign on. Not just for myself but for all Brookie fans. What a feeling that would be. Then I could start a campaign on something else, could be my type of *NEW* Hobby lol I dunno.


But I ain’t heard from my mate Dave for a while who is doing our website, he does have very busy times but I will be hopefully meeting up with him next week. And will talk about it. The petition has been going quick and then slowing down again, But just keep signing the Campaign. I Did call Jo Riley at the Liverpool Echo and he said he was doing the article last week, Most probs typing it all out and finding out things for himself, so it may not be in until sometime this week or maybe next week. But i will send you a short update soon as its up. Unless you wish to search 'Brookside' on the Liverpool Echo website.

Thanks all for reading, keep sending in your comments and questions.

Keep signing the petition on www.brookside.tk

Also you can view all of my Brookside video clips of our tours around the close over the past year and a half on http://youtube.com/user/numanoid2006 There are other video's on there as well that you may like, Gary Numan, Franz Ferdinand, LFC videos etc. And also Brookside Campaigning Interviews.

[leelad05]

Hello Brookside fans, lol, Sorry to say but there ain’t been much Brookside news for a while, you know i had a baby and my life is now limited lol, talk about bad timing for the campaign eh? And, also, my other mate who is running it Dan is away in Australia for 6 months. So for the next few months i think it will go slower than usual, but WE will never give up even if it takes years lol... I'd love nothing more than to sit on my sofa with a lovely cup of tea watching BROOKSIDE episodes which I won a Campaign on. Not just for myself but for all Brookie fans. What a feeling that would be. Then I could start a campaign on something else, could be my type of *NEW* Hobby lol I dunno.


But I ain’t heard from my mate Dave for a while who is doing our website, he does have very busy times but I will be hopefully meeting up with him next week. And will talk about it. The petition has been going quick and then slowing down again, But just keep signing the Campaign. I Did call Jo Riley at the Liverpool Echo and he said he was doing the article last week, Most probs typing it all out and finding out things for himself, so it may not be in until sometime this week or maybe next week. But i will send you a short update soon as its up. Unless you wish to search 'Brookside' on the Liverpool Echo website.

Thanks all for reading, keep sending in your comments and questions.

Keep signing the petition on www.brookside.tk

Also you can view all of my Brookside video clips of our tours around the close over the past year and a half on http://youtube.com/user/numanoid2006 There are other video's on there as well that you may like, Gary Numan, Franz Ferdinand, LFC videos etc. And also Brookside Campaigning Interviews.

[lindylou]

Hello Lee, thanks for keeping us informed and many congrats to you - yes, your time will sure be limited now !! :unibrow: lol !

All the best anyway.

Hope you get what you are aiming for.

[leelad05]

Sleepless nights nooooooooo im begging so so much can i run??? :(... pleaseeeeeeee lol



I need some help maybe Kev can help me here mate, I seen somewere that there is going to be a Brookside night on a radio station tonight to celebrate its 25th ann of the show, but i cant find were i seen it can you try and see if you can find somethink on it or find out what styation?

I'm sure it was bbc radio but i cant think which one! :(........

[drone_pilot]

Some of the most famous houses on TV are going on sale, 25 years after
their debut in a Merseyside soap opera.

Fans of Brookside are being offered the chance to buy a piece of television
history, after the owner announced the drama's set was for sale.

The close of homes in West Derby is where the controversial lesbian kiss
took place and where Trevor Jordache was buried under the patio.

BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7074483.stm)

[drone_pilot]

At last, now the place can be bulldozed and we can put that second rate soap to rest.

[Cadfael]

Could you imagine a worst place to live with people constantly coming around to take pictures of your house?

[snappel]

At last, now the place can be bulldozed and we can put that second rate soap to rest.
Totally agree, and about time too.

I'd hate to live there, or anywhere near it.

[lindylou]

Could you imagine a worst place to live with people constantly coming around to take pictures of your house?

A bit like the Wallace house ( 29 Wolverton st ) :)

[Ged]

Any Ex Beatles Ex House.

[John(Zappa)]

At last, now the place can be bulldozed and we can put that second rate soap to rest.

I totally agree.
I liked Brookside but it went down hill fast.The acting got worse along with the story lines.
I wouldn't choose the Jordache house as you'd have to relay the patio!:disgust:

[drone_pilot]

As Long as when you move in you don't let Sinbad fit the cooker.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[leelad05]

this is the video i just uploaded from what granada broadcasted

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yFwpl22lPr8


here are the videos of the full ron dixon tour.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o47Hfv84h7o

part 2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v2va6rsBPIw

[leelad05]

come on ALL BROOKIE FANS, bombard Granada with emails about the campaign, I have just sent in my email about the campaign, and was quoting what ron dixon said about 'Brookside should still live on' and sent a big email possible to read out on granada tonight, after they broadcasted Brookside on friday.

Their email is Granada.Reports@itv.com

This is my email isent them

'Hello Granada,

My name is Lee Brady, I have been running a campaign on Brookside since April this year for DVD releases as promissed by Phil Redmond in 2003. After seing your coverage at the close with Ron Dixon on Friday, and seing the full version on the Granada website, I would like to address to you our campaign. I started the campaign with a friend from Essex Dan Burton in April and now we currently have over 2,600 signatures and are going to be launching a website soon, Dedicated to our Campaign. You know Brookside changed the face of TV back in the 80's and there is nothing better to relive those moments again on DVD. Since Brookside finished in 2003 it has seemed to been all but forgotten by the media, But thanks to Granada for showing video clips and taking us down memory lane of such a great soap, and at least you showed more intrest that Channel 4 itself. We think Channel 4 has forgotten that Brookside had its share in making Channel 4 a successful tv channel and now its been left aside.

We really hope to see what Ron Dixon said on your video about somethink new to come out like a DVD of were the likes of Jimmy Corkhill went after leaving the close on the last episode or where is Ron and Bev, hows Josh doing etc. Or even old episodes, or best storylines on DVD. Well he also said to plug it as its a good idea. And i think it would be great to plug our campaign. our Brookside DVD Campaign.

We have done really well ourselfs with only a small peice of publicity.

Viewers can sign our campaign on www.brookside.tk get all family, friends and online MSN buddies to sign it aswell. Like Ron Dixon said 'Brookside should still live on'.

Thanks Lee Brady & Danny Burton.
www.brookside.tk'

I put my contact details as i am running the campaign which i wont post on here.

COME ON........

[leelad05]

Chris Moyles wants to buy a Brookside Close house.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/21016/I-ll-buy-Brookie-s-house-of-horror/

It was also on BBc radio you can find a link on the www.brooksidesoapbox.co.uk forums to listen

[leelad05]

sorry error with link


http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/21016/I-ll-buy-Brookie-s-house-of-horror/