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I don't remember ever getting off with June Richie.

This is the scene I mentioned in the earlier post. I find it haunting. I t reminds me of the song, "I met my love by the gasworks croft, Dreamed a dream by the old canal. Kissed my boy by the factory wall, Dirty old town, Dirty old town".

Great picture and artistry but today totally politically incorrect.
Alan Bates on the wall ‘A Kind Of Loving’ Oh well perhaps we have all been there but much frowned upon these days. Tut, Tut, Tut.

Sooo. Romantic..
But the spells broken when your dad shouts to come in…it’s work in the morning! Or the bus comes..

Colin, the picture is obviously meant to portray 1962 when "A Kind of Loving" came out at the cinema and was being advertised on posters, so why is it "politically incorrect"? We had common sense back the rather than political correctness. . And believe me, some of the lads and girls today wouldn't limit their loving to a kiss in an alleyway and wouldn't care who walked past either.

Or a policeman says " What are you two up to? Don' t you think it's time you were going home young man?

Love that picture. Memories. Kissing my boyfriend goodnight when one of our neighbours walked past and he shouted goodnight to me. The following day my dad told me off “showing me off in front of the neighbours”,! Me and my boyfriend were stood under the street light. Memories. It didn’t stop us standing under that street light ‘snogging “.

Lovely memories.

What a great painting!!!

Just checked out some of this artist's paintings. Superb !

I think this in Nottingham

Nottingham? It could be anywhere. An illicit love affair, maybe? There is a an air of desperation about it - it looks passionate but probably doomed by obligations and ties. The woman is wearing a raincoat and she has her back to the wall - unusual in the circumstances. He looks the one who is prolonging the agony. She is responding, but this could be the last embrace...How sad. The irony is in the background: the semaphore signal is 'off' indicating clear ahead. Nothing is clear about this embrace. This is the last train home. The brief encounter's last encounter. 'When we say goodbye, don't look back...Don't look back'. :(

John I would presume it's SALFORD?

I think they are just saying ''Goodnight'' … They wont be seeing one another for a day or two.
A day or two is a long time when you're in love or '' Whatever in love means'' when you are young. ;o)

I think she's wearing a raincoat because June Ritchie wore one as "Ingrid" in "A Kind of Loving", and the advert for the film is on the opposite wall. I have a copy of that film and Ingrid and Vic, (June Ritchie and Alan Bates), kiss on some steps just like that in the film, under an old-fashioned lamp. I think the couple are the "real-life" Ingrid and Vic.

You are probably right Irene. I remember seeing the film when it first came out. It was quite daring at the time. Perhaps a warning in a way as to what can happen if you end up pregnant and marrying the wrong man ( or woman) But they overcame their adversities in the end I believe. Plus they moved out of the Mother in Law’s home . Thora Hird played a wicked part in that film. The worst kind of a Mother-in-Law

I have all Thora's books, Veronica.....I loved her in everything she did. In one of her books she says the scene where Vic, ( Alan Bates), comes home drunk and she calls him a "filthy drunken pig" took ages to film because she and Alan couldn't stop laughing, and the director was extremely annoyed!

I loved Thora Hird in
’’ Last of the Summer Wine”. After she went out of it I lost interest Irene. She was brilliant especially when she was driving! My daughter used to say I drove like her!!! It tickled me when she put newspapers down when her husband came into the kitchen.