Not long ago we received about twenty dvd’s from the Daily Mail - all dramatisations of this wonderful storytellers work.
I wouldn’t normally mention this, but trucks/lorries …call 'em what you will seldom get much of a mention anywhere do they?
We watched the first one t’other neet… ‘The Round Tower’…
set in 1958, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne it’s a great story of class-divide and the hero of it all strives to set up a haulage busineses.
Sumptuous shots of ‘fifties’ Newcastle and an enthralling, fast paced story it’s well worth a look for nostaligia buffs.
Goes on a bit at two and a half hours - ish but I’d not be mentioning it if it wasn’t a bit special.
Besides ‘Hell Drivers’ and ‘The Long Haul’ where else did fifties lorry drivers get a mention?..answers on a postcard…
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