‘Morning in the Streets’ a 35-minute poetic depiction in film giving an “impression of life and opinion in the back streets of a Northern City in the morning”was directed by Denis Mitchell & Roy Harris in 1958 by the BBC’s Northern Film Unit (although not broadcast until 25 of March 1959). The city in question is never identified: scenes were shot in Manchester, Salford, Stockport and Liverpool, then combined as if capturing a single half-day in a single location. Because the film is impressionistic rather than journalistic, this artistically licensed deceit is easy to accept.
*Dermot O’Logical (2018YTcomm) ‘This film set in Manchester NOT Liverpool as mentioned by the BBC. There is a phone number on a sign saying ARD and then the number. This is for Ardwick a suburb about 5 minutes from the centre of Manchester and the dialects were Northern Mancs and not Liverpool. There is a similar twang, but Irish and Liverpudlians were all over Manchester in this area in the 1950’s. The Rosenbergs sign was also prominent in my memory on a wall near Ancoats.’
David Lewis (2020 YTcomm)
03:38 Doll’s Hospital phone ARD 1833 … Ardwick Green, Manchester.
22:01 if this bit is Ardwick …