It's No Joke Living In Barnsley - Brian Glover : Plus Bonus Footage

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  • @davidhull2060
    @davidhull2060 Рік тому +70

    Actor, teacher, wrestler.... a very talented man. Looking back at Britain in the seventies is like looking at a completely different country...

  • @uktruecrime
    @uktruecrime Рік тому +104

    who would have thought that our culture could fall so far from that time. seems like heaven now.

    • @Bonechip007
      @Bonechip007 День тому

      Long written down. The post Christian world is in reality the Anti-Christian world.

  • @quilp6666
    @quilp6666 Рік тому +47

    About 20 years ago I was in Greenwich Village in New York and spotted a bar called The Slaughtered Lamb. I took it to be a homage to the film American Werewlf in London and went in to have a look. The first thing I saw as I walked in was a life sizes poster of Brian Glover in full blood curdling story attitude - it made my day.

  • @pohl54
    @pohl54 Рік тому +85

    If only the world was still like this.

    • @hmq9052
      @hmq9052 Рік тому +5

      It looks grim as f

    • @barrystevens2699
      @barrystevens2699 Рік тому

      ​@@hmq9052Looks that way to a modernist lefty yes. I'd say this modern cold, perverted immoral society where all the weaklings get offended by everything is grim.

    • @JesusHChrist-q9d
      @JesusHChrist-q9d 8 місяців тому

      @@hmq9052 It was.

  • @trevorfurness5695
    @trevorfurness5695 2 роки тому +73

    Such a great bloke, he deserved his blue plaque.

  • @johnboro64
    @johnboro64 10 місяців тому +13

    My grandad lived in Barnsley and was a coal miner. His surname was Williams. He told me Charlie Williams was my uncle, his brother. I didn’t know Charlie was black until it was pointed out to me. The innocence of youth

  • @longshanks4269
    @longshanks4269 Рік тому +36

    What a fantastic programme. I wish our country was still like this, full of proper yorkshire culture and great northern characters. Unfortunately that's all disappearing in the whole of the country before our very eyes.

    • @danquixote6072
      @danquixote6072 Рік тому +4

      We always look back with nostalgia but I suggest you watch Kes or more recently, The Long Shadow about The Yorkshire Ripper. It was a miserable time, full of strife, corruption, and poverty.

    • @w270rab
      @w270rab Рік тому +6

      @@danquixote6072 Well at least you could get a job down the pit, afford to eat, drink & heat your home.

  • @quickclipsbyjmj
    @quickclipsbyjmj 2 роки тому +40

    Excellent little homage to Brian. It amazes me that this film probably hasn't seen an audience since it was first aired.

    • @excelents
      @excelents  2 роки тому +14

      I saw it years ago and never saw it again until I managed to get hold of this good quality copy. It is a brilliant snippet of history of the town and people.

    • @Alex-ob9vp
      @Alex-ob9vp Рік тому +2

      @@excelents The quality is great but someone has put it in a stretched widescreen. It should be 4:3

    • @excelents
      @excelents  Рік тому +3

      @@Alex-ob9vp Yes we noticed that when we received it.

  • @Eleventhearlofmars
    @Eleventhearlofmars Рік тому +10

    That market in Barnsley very much reminded me of the old St John’s market in Liverpool. I was 9 years old when this film was made and I used to like Brian glover , great character sadly no longer with us.

  • @BentleyDrummle1
    @BentleyDrummle1 Рік тому +19

    That was an interesting video. Brian Glover and Charlie Williams were very likeable characters.
    Scargill (16:40) : "Quite honestly, I wouldn't leave this area for all the tea in china." It wasn't long before he was ensconced in The Barbican, London.

    • @Theoriginalbigbrillo
      @Theoriginalbigbrillo 8 днів тому +4

      All Socialists follow the money eventually!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @bingbong7316
    @bingbong7316 Рік тому +13

    Quality! I was 18 when that was made, working in a drawing office on t' railway, £26 a week take home was about right.
    Different world, another country. Brian Glover, top bloke.

  • @johncaldwell-wq1hp
    @johncaldwell-wq1hp Рік тому +13

    I AM SO GLAD THAT MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE,-CANT SEE WHATS HAPPENED TO THEIR COUNTRY-I LOVE NORHERN FOLK,-THEY ARE THE BEST !--I LIVED UP NORTH,-1977,-ABOUT WHEN THIS FILM WAS MADE !--IN OLDHAM,-THEY KILLED THAT TOWN TOO !

  • @craigpimlott204
    @craigpimlott204 Рік тому +15

    A class act was Brian Glover ,a great actor .and the bouts with him and Les Kellet are some of the best and funniest bits of wrestling I have ever seen as a nipper in the 70’s .Saturday afternoons on world of sport ,me and me old grandad would watch together and cry with laughter when they were on . Sadly both are now gone..but both are not forgotten ❤

  • @apodis4900
    @apodis4900 Рік тому +8

    My Dad was out with his mates one afternoon. They went in the Junction pub. After a while in came Brian with some mates. They must have won a match, or Barnsley FC did because he was in a jubilant mood. He bought everyone in the Junction a pint. Top bloke, he’s missed for sure.

  • @petersmithson4644
    @petersmithson4644 Рік тому +9

    Scargills forward scrape,amazing.

  • @GaynorLinder
    @GaynorLinder Рік тому +6

    What a bloke,what a place. Love living in barnsley. ❤

  • @chunakichat
    @chunakichat Рік тому +5

    I remember seeing Brian at a wresting match at Leeds Town hall in seventies once and his favourite line when knocked his opponent down was "ow about that then!" It felt great to be a Yorkshire man when heard I him talk. Still does.

  • @mummyd1990
    @mummyd1990 Рік тому +15

    Absolutely brilliant,Brian was a lovely man may he Rest In Peace,thank you for this.

  • @growlerthe2nd712
    @growlerthe2nd712 Рік тому +14

    I always liked him in KES and a guest character on Minder The beer hunter 🍺🤣

    • @leesaunders1930
      @leesaunders1930 5 місяців тому +1

      And also in the episode of bottom, the one about the gas man. Brilliant one that.

  • @nialloneill5097
    @nialloneill5097 2 роки тому +14

    Yes, I remember the old market as a young lad, being dragged around when 4 or 5, in wet, miserable northern weather. It could get cold back then as well, winters ranging from Oct/Nov to March/April, full-blooded winters. Everything was communal and busy and integrated. Now folk don't mix the same. Poor town centres. All off to their nearest Morrison's, and stay in for a movie and a bottle. Back then pubs and clubs were full 6 days a week in my town, and still busy on the 7th night, the quietest, which was Wednesday. Aye, they liked a pint or two in Barnsley.

  • @augustseptember3503
    @augustseptember3503 Рік тому +18

    Great comic actor, one of the best! RIP Brian.

  • @andrewelliott4436
    @andrewelliott4436 2 роки тому +15

    Fabulous. When Yorkshire Television was a creative force. I'm guessing that this was made around 1973/4.

    • @excelents
      @excelents  2 роки тому +4

      It is an interesting programme and it was produced in 1976.

    • @frankreynolds4547
      @frankreynolds4547 Рік тому +1

      Was trying to work it out by the the car's, and when the young lad said what he was earning, not to mention the fashion. Reminder of the Wheeltapers and the Good Old Days entertainment I'd see in my teens.

  • @Ian-gw2vx
    @Ian-gw2vx Рік тому +3

    That was wonderful. I miss Brian Glover. I saw him once come into a pub in Covent Garden in Jan 1987 and neck a short, leaving almost as quickly as he came in. I wish I had had the courage to speak to him but I was a young 20 year old photo student on a field trip to London for the day. Dennis Quilley also came in so it must have been "La Cage aux Folles" as Brian was also cast in it. Must have been the afternoon interval.

  • @sharonellis8776
    @sharonellis8776 Рік тому +5

    Have a couple of movies which have Brian on them. He was genuine and down to earth. Bless him. xx

    • @excelents
      @excelents  Рік тому

      Have you seend him in The First Great Train Robbery from 1978.

    • @TallysVids
      @TallysVids Рік тому

      Brian also appeared in an episode of The Sweeney called Thin Ice.

  • @picanto12
    @picanto12 9 днів тому +1

    Sweet memories, having a couple of pint's of barnsley bitter after a shift working underground at Harworth colliery. Barnsley coliiery was my first underground experience as an NCB trainee.

  • @richardbritain7435
    @richardbritain7435 Рік тому +7

    This is utterly magical!! I've never seen anything like it for a long time. Brilliant.

  • @Joanna7428
    @Joanna7428 Рік тому +14

    Awe it brought a tear to my eyes - from Barnsley ❤️

  • @kevinconnolly5710
    @kevinconnolly5710 Рік тому +2

    I enjoyed that. I knew a couple of people from Barnsley when I was a student and I have to say, I've never met nicer, more down-to-earth people than them. Is this common to people from Barnsley?
    Also, seeing Lara Rostron there in the ITV studio, reminded me of the time I saw her at the Durham Miners Gala. She just emerged from nowhere and looked right into my eyes...and I thought, wow... she's as beautiful in real life as she is before the camera.

  • @BillyLongshot
    @BillyLongshot Рік тому +4

    omg the warden from Alien 3. loved his acting

  • @knebworth1986
    @knebworth1986 Рік тому +6

    Nice to see Arthur Scargill in a pleasant mood. Something I’d never seen before now

    • @leer798
      @leer798 Рік тому +2

      Never nice to see that toss Pot

    • @albaproductions9602
      @albaproductions9602 6 днів тому

      @@leer798pretended to have the miners welfare at heart, nothing but a charlatan and thief.

  • @bazzatheblue
    @bazzatheblue Рік тому +15

    What a great little find this was,such an interesting timepiece of whats gone and changed so much,i was in Barnsley Tuesday and it's still a fine town with friendly folk.

  • @mrflea7288
    @mrflea7288 Рік тому +7

    LET THE FLAVOUR FLOOD THROUGH!

  • @tropicalpalmtree
    @tropicalpalmtree Рік тому +15

    The presenter is a proper salt of the earth bloke. Couldn't have been presented by anyone better.

  • @LeClaw
    @LeClaw Рік тому +12

    Mark Jones, another one of "Busby's babes" is buried in nearby Wombwell (his birthplace) Cemetery too. Surprised he never got a mention as well but if he's focusing on Barnsley Town Centre I guess it would be a bit out of the way.

  • @AlexWilliams-qf3rp
    @AlexWilliams-qf3rp Рік тому +7

    I have to say, I'm glad I came across this. It puts things in perspective meaning I always watch the britcom called summer wine. And there's an episode where a guy was talking about hearing a supernatural voice, with a Barnsley accent. This makes sense now 😂😂😂😂😊😊

    • @dkbrook9178
      @dkbrook9178 11 місяців тому

      Where are you from?

  • @leebarnard7843
    @leebarnard7843 Рік тому +6

    An articulate and erudite man, a one off. Great Bloke.

  • @Hambag2009
    @Hambag2009 Рік тому +9

    "Casper! Get down off that goal post."

  • @stephenasbridge878
    @stephenasbridge878 11 днів тому +1

    He read a book once…..green, it was! What a lovely man.

  • @richardpalliser7495
    @richardpalliser7495 Рік тому +25

    Charlie Williams ………now he was a funny chap. God bless Brian

  • @Psalm11950
    @Psalm11950 3 місяці тому +2

    Brian Glover was a unique character. Brings back memories this

  • @jacko717
    @jacko717 7 днів тому +1

    Great character. I remember him in an episode of "Porridge."

  • @bigbadwolf200335
    @bigbadwolf200335 2 роки тому +7

    Great bloke, great place, great days, from a Lancashire lad.

  • @hc3932
    @hc3932 Рік тому +11

    Wonderful actor, I even remember him wrestling too.

  • @aidy6000
    @aidy6000 Рік тому +19

    A window to another time, another country.

  • @mike89128
    @mike89128 7 місяців тому +3

    Several generations of my family are buried in Monk Bretton Cemetery. My grandparent's grave is only a few feet away from Tommy Tayler. My mom and my stepfather are buried at the far end to the left of the main roadway. Left Monk Bretton in 1949 for Chicago but have been back.

  • @Theoriginalbigbrillo
    @Theoriginalbigbrillo 8 днів тому +4

    Loved Brian in Alien 3 👍👍👍

  • @Deano_77
    @Deano_77 4 дні тому +1

    Brian pulls of the rare feat of having a strong Yorkshire accent and not sounding a bit thick.
    And me being a Yorkshire man with a thick accent and who's definitely not thick i can say that.

  • @208records
    @208records Рік тому +5

    Fabulous! a snapshot of working class life in the UK in the 1970's as I remember it. Presented by & featuring great folk too.

  • @JonathamMckinnon-el2bo
    @JonathamMckinnon-el2bo Рік тому +6

    Buzzing off Scargills Industrial grade Combover!

    • @excelents
      @excelents  Рік тому

      Its a magnificent piece of 1970's engineering.

  • @rorycubaking9572
    @rorycubaking9572 10 днів тому +1

    Brian was my mum's history teacher at loncar school.
    She was Also good friends with Charlie and his wife as they spend time in her tearoom.

  • @BillyBanter100
    @BillyBanter100 14 днів тому +1

    Civilization, I'm old enough to remember it. Great video.

    • @Scott-up3bq
      @Scott-up3bq 11 днів тому

      What a total utter dump.i live in coggee beach ⛱️ Fremantle western Australia 🦘.and count myself very lucky.so glad I emigrated from that area as a child.

    • @Scott-up3bq
      @Scott-up3bq 11 днів тому

      Utter dump.

  • @firsteerr
    @firsteerr 13 днів тому +3

    absolute legend from kes to world of sport to porridge to last of the summer wine

  • @IB1ron
    @IB1ron 9 днів тому +1

    Gone but never forgotten

  • @michael1714
    @michael1714 Рік тому +2

    Well I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching and listening to that! Great super, fantastic!

  • @benhoward4294
    @benhoward4294 5 днів тому +1

    Lunwood looked the same then as it did the last time I was there, working at the water treatment works in 1992! Went into Farm Rd working mens club a few times before heading into town. I think Barnsley is great.

  • @suesmith4366
    @suesmith4366 Рік тому +2

    Really enjoyed this thanks 😎

  • @stingray4real
    @stingray4real Рік тому +7

    Charlie Williams played for Doncaster Rovers.

    • @gooderspitman8052
      @gooderspitman8052 Рік тому +1

      Charlie was from Royston,the late news reader Leonard Parkin was a friend of Charlie’s, Charlie worked at Upton Colliery and Leonard Parkins father was the manager.

  • @mark-shane
    @mark-shane 2 роки тому +26

    Ah what a great time.. the 1970s. we moaned but it was honest and England as we loved

    • @excelents
      @excelents  2 роки тому

      Agreed and when that was made in 1976 I would have been 6.

    • @nialloneill5097
      @nialloneill5097 2 роки тому +2

      @@excelents Hot summer. I was meant to be doing A Levels, but usually finished up walking darn Cortonwood Pit Lane, where just rand corner at end, wet Perech Pond. An old slurry pond |I think, but there were fish in it, and if they could swim in it, why curnt we...even skinny dipped one late simmer's eve. HReal hot summer that one, phew! I need an ice cream, or two.

    • @nialloneill5097
      @nialloneill5097 2 роки тому +7

      People mixed, as they liked to work and play hard, and there were plenty of pubs and clubs with cheap ale and fags and music. It was all so communal, until the pits went. Never the same, sadly.

  • @paulbird9155
    @paulbird9155 3 дні тому +1

    Brian Glover, quite brilliant.

  • @tutts999
    @tutts999 Рік тому +1

    Great watch, I've never been there, but its looks a proper northern mill town.

    • @stevenobrien3763
      @stevenobrien3763 Рік тому +1

      Mining town mate not mills that’s more West Yorkshire places like Halifax, Bradford and Huddersfield.

  • @bedpansniper
    @bedpansniper 9 місяців тому +6

    Barnsley has been my adopted home for 13 years and i wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

  • @johndodwell7264
    @johndodwell7264 Рік тому +1

    Great stuff 😊

  • @richardhughes2988
    @richardhughes2988 12 днів тому +1

    Think this is 1976 I did a bit of boxing in the gym he visited, great place Barnsley then and now

  • @andrewcutts3197
    @andrewcutts3197 Рік тому +1

    A great film.

  • @johnwilkinson3597
    @johnwilkinson3597 2 місяці тому +1

    And Charlie Williams played football at the pit in upton when he was 14 upton is about a mile n half from south elmsall where Glover was a teacher.

  • @martinmargerrison2300
    @martinmargerrison2300 11 днів тому +1

    Arthur Scargill looks like he had his hair done with an electric floor polisher 😅

  • @tommyhassan3545
    @tommyhassan3545 Рік тому +1

    Brilliant actor some legends in this documentary

  • @andicampbell8621
    @andicampbell8621 Рік тому +5

    CASPER......get down 🤣🤣

  • @bobwallacejnr6852
    @bobwallacejnr6852 Рік тому +8

    Real people. England will soon be going dark at 4.30 pm. tragic.

  • @kimsherlock8969
    @kimsherlock8969 Рік тому +2

    Wonderful
    X 🎉❤😊

  • @danvitesse
    @danvitesse Рік тому +5

    It was alive then a living breathing place fueled by industry full of characters and hard working families.

  • @ackerjawaka1966
    @ackerjawaka1966 День тому +1

    That is just what Vardis and Byf Byford said 🍻🍺😜

  • @anthonyleighton4754
    @anthonyleighton4754 Рік тому +2

    It's like going back in time....to a different century....CASPER ..

  • @johnwilkinson3597
    @johnwilkinson3597 2 місяці тому +1

    Brian Glover was my mums teacher at school in south elmsall

  • @Sir-Bobby-Brown
    @Sir-Bobby-Brown Рік тому +4

    I READ A BOOK ONCE, IT WAS GREEN!

  • @CarlStJohn-x9w
    @CarlStJohn-x9w Рік тому +1

    Well done to all!.

  • @johnathandaviddunster38
    @johnathandaviddunster38 2 роки тому +20

    GREAT ACTOR , LOOKING AT ARTHUR SCARGILL YOU CAN SEE WHERE TRUMP GOT HIS HAIRSTYLE FROM!!!

    • @nialloneill5097
      @nialloneill5097 2 роки тому +3

      Barnsley was always ahead in things...even new hairstyles, and Rigger bags, out of your £26 quid a week for doing the haulage work darn pit. All my mates at 16/17 had a pair, almost touching their nipple ends, so perhaps there was some subconscious Freudian behaviour there, along with the tattoo displays on their arms, chests and back.

    • @mod7930
      @mod7930 5 місяців тому

      ​​​​@@nialloneill5097Rigger bags from Ken Ellis menswear. High waistband, side pockets with flaps, turnups.

  • @markbeverley5044
    @markbeverley5044 Рік тому +3

    Proud to be from Barnsley,Gods Country.

  • @chee60
    @chee60 Рік тому +1

    My grandad albert smith used to be an amateur boxer in Barnsley

  • @exgunnerdaz
    @exgunnerdaz 5 місяців тому +1

    Beautiful 😍

  • @owenmccall632
    @owenmccall632 Рік тому +2

    Couldnt take my eyes off scargills combover

  • @TheLoneRangrrandPronto
    @TheLoneRangrrandPronto Рік тому +1

    Is he related to Roger or was David DeepPurple’s keyboard player😂😂😂

  • @robertreape
    @robertreape Рік тому +5

    I have finally saw a Yorkshire man put a ferret down his trousers.

  • @Lyndalewinder
    @Lyndalewinder Місяць тому +1

    I was brought up in Barnsley but now live in Wigan......Doh!!!!!

  • @stormbringerseven8288
    @stormbringerseven8288 5 днів тому +1

    Parkie was from Barnsley?

  • @biriyaniferrari165
    @biriyaniferrari165 Місяць тому +2

    wonderful, people actually enjoying life. Seems an eternity ago, this country and world is finished....

  • @johncunnane1582
    @johncunnane1582 Рік тому

    I'm sure he did voiceover on some 80's adverts, anyone remember which adverts?

    • @excelents
      @excelents  Рік тому

      Answer is here ua-cam.com/video/kVlIj_Rqs1s/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared

    • @Rosco-P.Coldchain
      @Rosco-P.Coldchain Рік тому

      He did the tea adverts

  • @haydenbretton2990
    @haydenbretton2990 4 місяці тому +1

    Brian's cousin Arthur Glover played for Barnsley Football club.

  • @MaryjannedoeNO
    @MaryjannedoeNO 4 місяці тому +1

    3:35 the way the woman looks back at him when he shoves past her 😂

  • @cameronaustin4997
    @cameronaustin4997 Рік тому +2

    A😉rfur best combover in Barnsley

  • @tommyhassan3545
    @tommyhassan3545 Рік тому +9

    Arthur scargill great fella

  • @jb3222
    @jb3222 6 місяців тому +1

    Amazing how many professional Yorkshiremen come from Barnsley: Brian Glover, Dickie Bird, Michael Parkinson, Charlie Williams, Ian MacMillan, Ashley Jackson, Arthur Scargill to name but a few. Imagine if all the bigger places in the county e.g. Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, York, Hull, Middlesbrough, Huddersfield, Halifax, Rotherham churned 'em out at the same rate!

  • @ApartmentThe
    @ApartmentThe 7 місяців тому +1

    it's better than I remember it...think the Ferret part is still the worst...think this is the first time I have seen it since it was first broadcast

  • @butterwortha1
    @butterwortha1 Місяць тому +1

    He was brilliant in Kes

  • @rightmarker1
    @rightmarker1 11 днів тому +1

    At 2mins 23 secs: Joe Edwards the pot man - became famous and quite rich. I was at school with his son who, like his dad was larger than life.

  • @janeburke147
    @janeburke147 3 місяці тому +1

    I was brought up with a field behind our council house but now they have built houses on top of houses & totally ruined it.We had our fifteen minutes of fame when they filmed Kes up our street lol

  • @micklazydogroberts9699
    @micklazydogroberts9699 14 днів тому +1

    My old neighbor in the early 70’s

  • @mark-3466
    @mark-3466 Рік тому +1

    shame the young will never get to feel like it was like, to be happy and live among your people.

  • @chunkymonkey55555
    @chunkymonkey55555 Рік тому +2

    Classic.

  • @mci6830
    @mci6830 Рік тому +1

    Wonder what it looks like now.

    • @Jimmiburn
      @Jimmiburn Рік тому

      Film it now you could put both films together and you wouldn't tell the difference 🤣