I attended Liverpool University for a year from 1979 to late ’80 so almost contemporaneous with this film. I was deeply unhappy there and dropped out. Probably my own poor choices and limitations rather than the university to blame, but not completely. The attitudes of a few lecturers and sadly some of the students were questionable, and would rightly be considered unacceptable now. My perspective is perhaps a bit different in that I’m a (now exiled) scouser and at the time was living on one of the outlying council estates where I grew up and commuting in, rather different to what’s shown here which unfortunately I didn’t really connect with. Whilst I don’t think the film is completely inaccurate, it understandably presents a quite idealised view. It’s interesting we don’t hear a single Liverpool accent during the entire film, and for context, it was made the same year as the Toxteth riots… It’s a fascinating watch however, hauntingly familiar even after the passage of over 40 years, and in spite of it all, I’d go back in a heartbeat if I could take the wisdom of age with me. ‘Youth’s a stuff will not endure.’
I wonder if the Scouse as a foreign language still exists as a course at Liverpool Uni ? Pity if it ceased because there are a lot of native speakers in Liverpool. I learned Scouse at an early age - it comes in very handy when travelling abroad as foreigners only understand English and can be mocked mercilessly without any blowback.
My wonderful dad at age 22 😍
Brilliant time shot of the old city ! Loved watching this ❤
I attended Liverpool University for a year from 1979 to late ’80 so almost contemporaneous with this film. I was deeply unhappy there and dropped out. Probably my own poor choices and limitations rather than the university to blame, but not completely. The attitudes of a few lecturers and sadly some of the students were questionable, and would rightly be considered unacceptable now.
My perspective is perhaps a bit different in that I’m a (now exiled) scouser and at the time was living on one of the outlying council estates where I grew up and commuting in, rather different to what’s shown here which unfortunately I didn’t really connect with. Whilst I don’t think the film is completely inaccurate, it understandably presents a quite idealised view.
It’s interesting we don’t hear a single Liverpool accent during the entire film, and for context, it was made the same year as the Toxteth riots…
It’s a fascinating watch however, hauntingly familiar even after the passage of over 40 years, and in spite of it all, I’d go back in a heartbeat if I could take the wisdom of age with me.
‘Youth’s a stuff will not endure.’
This brings back some memories.
Doesn't it Jeanette. I was there in 1981 living on Carnatic site
I wonder if the Scouse as a foreign language still exists as a course at Liverpool Uni ? Pity if it ceased because there are a lot of native speakers in Liverpool. I learned Scouse at an early age - it comes in very handy when travelling abroad as foreigners only understand English and can be mocked mercilessly without any blowback.
This is boss. The road signs!! A yellow Triumph Dolomite!!
😂 just a few years before I arrived 😂