I did a couple of days work experience on Brookside. On the first day in the morning we were shooting scenes in Jimmy’s house. Then in the afternoon I sat with the director in the control room/gallery which was in the house on the far right as you enter the close. The director would call the shots from there via headsets. Downstairs was costume and makeup. The house on the left of this was the canteen. The houses did have electricity but if my memory is correct an industrial electrical supply and technical cabling was routed to the houses for television production equipment and would have been removed to domestic use to meet local authority regulations when the set was sold. The walls upstairs were fake wardrobe doors so they could be opened to provide crew and equipment with more space. Technical equipment was stored in the garages. On the second day I worked on the set for the swimming/leisure centre, parade and garage which is the same place where they shot and still shoot Hollyoaks. Brookside was unique compared to other soaps where a multi camera studio method would be used - Brookside however was shot on mostly single camera like films and so some scenes would be repeated for each camera angle. There is an in-depth hour long behind the scenes video uploaded on RUclips which shows much of what I mentioned 👍
I’ve put a similar comment about the houses lol as this guy didn’t realize they was actually just a housing estate he thought they where built just for brookside and didn’t have electricity
@@nicolagriffiths3933Didn’t get a chance to go into the Grants - as a wild guess it may of been for the same reason they used fake wardrobes upstairs to get more camera angles and room for tech equipment
I took my mam there 3 years ago to see that famous close ,I'm 54 and from Manchester and loved brookside I watched it all the time iconic program about the struggles of living loved it .
I remember when Brookside first started Barry Grant ( Paul Usher ) was taking his sister to the doctors to get the Pill at the time is was my nana’s doctors my nana’s dog is the dog you could here in the background who was barking at all the crew while filming Also another episode was Damon grant and his mates were crossing a field to go home I was watching all from my nans flat memories also the houses were also used in early episodes of Hollyoaks great to see it all again
I enjoyed watching this video. I've always been a big Brookside fan. I always remember one of my favorite storylines back in 1989. I was 12 at the time. There was a joyriding storyline when Sammy Rogers was in the car with some lads. They got chased by the police and they crashed. A couple of the lads were killed including the driver. Well, I'd actually went joyriding about 2 weeks before that episode. I was in a car with older lads. We didn't crash but the episode made me NEVER want to get into a car with any scallys ever again! It actually put the shits up me. Even to this day, I'm careful who I get into a car with... And it's all thanks to that storyline... Amazing!!
Fantastic video. Thank you 👍🏻 I have always wanted to visit, way before it returned to our screens. I finally managed to go this Easter and was very surprised like you how small the close was in comparison to how it looks on TV. Thoroughly enjoying the re-runs. I know some folk feel that it would be annoying for the people that now reside there to have ‘tourists’ visiting but when you live in Brookside Close then it’s to be expected! I can’t see any harm caused in the content of your video so the residents can continue their day as usual, you’re not disturbing them or invading anyone’s space. I was grateful of the video. When I visited I’d got two teenagers with me who didn’t want to get out of the car. They didn’t understand what all the fuss was about! I didn’t get to walk around, a couple of photos and I was gone! Thank you for sharing.
So iconic and not like any other SOAP❗ Brookside pushed the Boundaries. Phil Redmond was a great writer, writing scripts ahead of time. 1982 -2003 twenty one years of a talented cast of Actors and superb scripts all that you want from a Soap❗ Although now I feel the Soaps have had there day. They have lost the reality of modern day reality Life. Thank you for your video and taking viewers of Brookside down memory Lane 👍
agreed phil redmond is a legend soaps have deffo had there day im currently sick of seeing eastenders and corry they are horrid soaps thanks for watching glad you enjoyed the vid
the house next door to number 10 was were roger and heather huntington lived in the first episodes and it never had a garage,which has been added on.ive have just watched the first 20 episodes on stv player,all the memories came flooding back.brill video
I remember back at the beginning of this century driving for a company called HSS. They used to hire things like glasses and chairs, things like that. I had a delivery of glasses to "Brooky" and had to drop them at the bungalow. Got to go inside and was surprised by how open plan the place was. Took my Mrs to see the close a few moths ago. Even though we only live 5 to 10 mins away, she never knew where it was, or just how close it was to ours.
Susanna Farnham parents David and Jean lived in the bungalow. When Jean left Rachel Jordache living there, Katie Rogers and Jacqueline Dixon were lodgers for a time.
I went there when it was like a bit of a building site, I've got the hand receiver from the public phone box that was in the series, I have a small flag from the Jordache patio, and I have a garden ornament, from Bobby and Sheila grant's house.
The house to rent was the canteen, no family ever lived in it. Same as the semi detached ones next to it. They were costume, editing and production. Other people who lived in the Murrays were Roger and Heather, Nick Black, Jonathan and Laura, Terry and Sue, The Harrisons, Bank's, Simpsons.
I’ve just recently re started to watch Brookside on STV Player. I’ve just finished off watching the original episodes from 1982. Brookside is one of the very first shows broadcast on the launch day of Channel 4 in November 1982. The original cast consisting of the Collins family, the Grant family, Roger and Heather Huntington, Gavin and Petra, I’m now on 1983 episodes now.
Thank you for this of course-nice to see how it is now then too. But I don't think I would want to live there though-not with all the goings on that there were in the series of old of course so then too! But it is interesting as others have said too, that the set is much smaller really than it seemed on screen too. An optical illusion I wonder really? Anyway of course, as we know, this is where it was set when on Channel 4 of old from 1982 to 2003 then at the time too. Well done!
Hi this is memory s for me I love brookie as my besties was extra s in it wish I'd visited the close in them days and I was a kid when brookie first was on tv long time ago as I'm in my 50 s now my fave was the grant s and dixon s
you could complete your visit with a look at the back of hollyoaks in childwall you can still see the old brooky parade lime studios it is mate round the back you can see loads
The house before the grants ...so number4...was never used just like 1 2 and 3..and i always wondered why it was only these 5 to 10 that we had actors stories etc about them . Youve explained that to me now canteen dressing rooms etc for the others .brilliant. im watching brookie on stv all over again. Class. ❤😊
cheers gaz its a great place to visit if you are or was a fan of the show ha ha the shadwicks yeh i remember mad some people dont like talking about their past on this show cheers for watching gaz
Bloody brilliant video. Loved brookside as a young boy. Thanks so much for that. I visited eastenders set years ago and was surprised how small the outside was. Best wishes Jonathan.
thanks johnathan glad you liked it loved brooky sadly missed id like to see eastenders even though im not a fan of the show still be nice to see thanks for watching much appreciated
cheers glad you liked it i watched this show all the time the only soap i actually liked and was well gutted when it finished lol thanks for watching much appreciated
@G2E Media I worked there a few times when it was still being used for filming and I can confirm there was electricity supplied to the house's or at least there was power to the canteens which where in some of the house's. It was at the end of the day just a posh housing estate when built that was part of Mersey Television properties who also had Childwall College grounds and properties after it closed as a College. Both sites were taken over by Lime Studios as far as I know until Brookie was totally shut down for filming 🎥 and sold off. Bloody Sad seeing our Scouse talent going to waste. Used to love Brookie ❤️.
Absolutely fantastic loved watching this mate great drone footage as well👍, the house that's up for rent the yellow bricked 1 was the canteen mate remember watching the backstage tour years ago and wasn't used in the program,the terraced houses next door 63 to 67 were like you said the production and costume department and the house on the corner was used as the reception and admin house again not used in the program 😊
Great tour of the set. Think the flats were owned by Mersey TV and used as midweek accommodation for cast who had to travel a distance to Liverpool. Been here myself several times. Thanks.
Absolute TOP QUALITY,thanks for posting. I was obsessed with BROOKSIDE as soon as I went to live with my brother (could never watch it at family home as my father said "all soap actors are sh?? ). Was one of those lamp-posts the one that Jimmy Corkhill tapped his power off, LOL .
thanks for watching bobby glad you liked it same here i loved brooky its great im able to still visit this close ha ha yeh i reckon it was deffo one of those lamp posts ha ha thanks again mate
I actually been to brookside before sue got killed by barry. My sister did some bins so I went with her.Saw the top room with the costumes. We also went to another place in childwall the waterfront beat. It was small like you said.
brilliant i briefly seen inside the canteen place when it lay derelict and costumes but never took amy pics i should have really i was more focused taking pics on the parts we know
I always thought it was such an interesting concept to film _everything_ on location like that and not have any proper studios. The only other show I'm aware of that did such a thing was the very early episodes of Rab C Nesbitt. And STV is just ITV Scotland, much of the basics are the same.
Moved to Liverpool a few year back and realised this isn’t far from me. As a massive Brookie fan, this was great to be able to visit. So tiny in real life though. Didn’t really intrude but defo got a pic next to the sign
I drove in there once apron a time not sure of the year and my excuse was that i was lost. i was also driving a Rolles Royce which i owned at the time. as i approached the gate a guy ran out and opened the gate so i just rolled in. i circled the place and left with the guy letting me back out again.
Phil Redmond owned those flats too. When Brian Regan who played Terry went bankrupt (pre-prison days) Phil Redmond let him live in one. Think I read that the cast who weren't local could stay in them when they were filming too
ahh cool cheers for the info i remember regan used to live a few doors down from an old mate of mine ...that pub he was involved in has never reopened since that event
@@g2emedia1977 No probs, I fell down a hole last year with Brookside stuff. Actually quite interesting. I even read Phil Redmond's autobiography 🤣 hahaha. Love the videos, keep up the good work.
In the early 90s I forgot I met Paul usher in Falaraki Rhodes his brother owned a bar and had watersprts on Falarakis beach . My brother and his wife must be 20 years ago met John McArdle in a Hotel in Sydney Australia John was filming something either an Aussie drama or in a film our kid said John came across as a decent bloke and each time they bumpy into him he stopped and spoke.
Around 98 I went to the Algarve with my mates we met a camera/boom operator on the set off Brookside he also worked on Hollyoaks. I kept in touch with him for a few years I'm from Wakefield.he invited a few off us over and took us on a Saturday afternoon when set was closed. The very first house which was mentioned it was make up.was the Cunningham's house from Hollyoaks, he told the House which was the canteen was also make up etc. I went in Max Farnham's house Mick's bungalow , Corkhills , I remember every house had a hole in the brickwork for the camera cables, Max Farnham's bedroom the fitted wardrobes were a decider to another room to make easier for filming. Neil the camera took me to the ginnel on the estate at the other end which was about 5 miles away was the Petrol station Grants restaurant etc, Grants restaurant was above the college in Hollyoaks and Petrol station on the same site, the Pub the Frog in the pond was also in the college which if I remember rightly Phil Redmond bought an old School in Liverpool which was made into a studio but was also the college, enjoyed it , I do remember the security on the gate and Neil having permission , all the cars were in the drive Mick's XR3I Max's gold Rover 800 etc.
It was the jacksons then the corkills then next door was heathers havasham next was the Collins then next was Sandra Kate An pat then the Rodgers then Harry cross then the grant and the rogers they were all the first original cast in the close xx An yes loving the reruns of Brooke x
I remember our friends who lived in Liverpool drove us past it. Like the Coranation Street set, it was very small. At one time, I was a huge Corrie fan, and like brookside, I was left disappointed by the size. Channel four should bring it back in the form on a doc soap using the Residents of Brookside.
The bungalow is also one of the famous ones too it had a fire and the houses wasn’t built for brookside it was built as an actual housing estate and Phil Redmond decided to buy them when they was being built before any had sold as he had the vision for this soap and it wasn’t originally gonna be called brookside they had real electricity and running water and you could have just moved in them there and then but then when the soap finished the reason they had to renovate them when they sold them was because they had to remove all the tv and filming equipment and replace walls where they had removed them to make secret cupboards where they would hide cameras and sound equipment they had camera plugs built in the walls for recording and some wardrobe where false so camera crew could hide whilst filming
Brookside finished in 2003. I visited Liverpool and visited Brookside close in 2015 the woman from over the road where the Row of blue bins are. Came out and told me the history.🏴.
Its funny when the close was refurbed and people moved in i went and took pictures i remeber a woman came out one of the houses and told me to stop taking photos of the houses lol now they have no choice as people flock there everyday to photo the place
What was the most *most* surprising about seeing *Brookside Close* now is that you no longer can see Sheila Grant's famous arched net curtains hung on the bedroom windows at house number 5! Which seems so odd. It's all louvered, roman or venetian blinds!
I used to watch this religiously when it was on back in the day. I suppose it was axed in November 2003, because there’s only so much bodies you can bury under the patio before it comes a cliche, know what I mean?
I went here in about 1990 if I remember correctly! My ex had family near to here! I think it was West Derby. It was really close to Liverpools training ground. Am I in the right area? I’m sure they were all pretty close! I’m from South Wales!
Hiya you got a new Sub. I'm thinking of going here on tuesday on my day off work do you know what bus goes near there from lime st station ? Thanks keep up the great content.
hiya carl thank you much appreciated i think its the 12 or 13 you need but not entirelly sure that will be from queen square opposite lime street glad you like the content and thanks for watching
@@wendychipchase9624 No the street was built and then Phil Redmond was looking for somewhere to film this new soap he had and when he saw this new housing estate being built he decided to buy the street. The street would still be built if Brookside had not happened.
@@g2emedia1977 he has a breakdown in it and smashes the house up or something i can't remember exactly what the story was it might be on RUclips i think he was in it around 1986 ish
Went to Liverpool for my 35th bday weekend which on the Saturday of my bday weekend it ended on my bday on the 4/11/2003 so since it ended when I was 15 had planned 20 years for doing the Brookside Close estate to see it in person and I did! I was so made up ❤❤in a Brookside nut 😂
Have they removed the close from instant streetview ? I know is was there last year i had a look all the way around . I just checked again now as i have started to watch it on stv player and it seems to stop at where the security gates used to be when it was still in production ? Unless i am putting in the wrong post code ? L12 0BA / Update . So yes it is the right post code / instant streetview only lets you get as far as the old securty post . LOL
![Brookside Close Tour [Feb 9th 2009]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/TSWsorzFCJk/mqdefault.jpg)
I did a couple of days work experience on Brookside. On the first day in the morning we were shooting scenes in Jimmy’s house. Then in the afternoon I sat with the director in the control room/gallery which was in the house on the far right as you enter the close. The director would call the shots from there via headsets. Downstairs was costume and makeup. The house on the left of this was the canteen. The houses did have electricity but if my memory is correct an industrial electrical supply and technical cabling was routed to the houses for television production equipment and would have been removed to domestic use to meet local authority regulations when the set was sold. The walls upstairs were fake wardrobe doors so they could be opened to provide crew and equipment with more space. Technical equipment was stored in the garages. On the second day I worked on the set for the swimming/leisure centre, parade and garage which is the same place where they shot and still shoot Hollyoaks. Brookside was unique compared to other soaps where a multi camera studio method would be used - Brookside however was shot on mostly single camera like films and so some scenes would be repeated for each camera angle. There is an in-depth hour long behind the scenes video uploaded on RUclips which shows much of what I mentioned 👍
I’ve put a similar comment about the houses lol as this guy didn’t realize they was actually just a housing estate he thought they where built just for brookside and didn’t have electricity
Would love to see that, any way you can link to that video please 🙏 😊
@@krisgair5863 ruclips.net/video/D732P1WCTa0/видео.htmlsi=RcTZCQ_-zM-PJHlF
Can you tell me were the door that was behind the front door in the grants house led to as they had a door on the back to the garage x
@@nicolagriffiths3933Didn’t get a chance to go into the Grants - as a wild guess it may of been for the same reason they used fake wardrobes upstairs to get more camera angles and room for tech equipment
I took my mam there 3 years ago to see that famous close ,I'm 54 and from Manchester and loved brookside I watched it all the time iconic program about the struggles of living loved it .
Loved good old Brookside. Were can I get all the old programs. I thowt thay would of put um on dices bye now. Or dad's.
I remember when Brookside first started Barry Grant ( Paul Usher ) was taking his sister to the doctors to get the Pill at the time is was my nana’s doctors my nana’s dog is the dog you could here in the background who was barking at all the crew while filming
Also another episode was Damon grant and his mates were crossing a field to go home I was watching all from my nans flat memories also the houses were also used in early episodes of Hollyoaks great to see it all again
The brookside set was used in the british horror film salvage in about 2008 before being sold
I enjoyed watching this video. I've always been a big Brookside fan. I always remember one of my favorite storylines back in 1989. I was 12 at the time. There was a joyriding storyline when Sammy Rogers was in the car with some lads. They got chased by the police and they crashed. A couple of the lads were killed including the driver. Well, I'd actually went joyriding about 2 weeks before that episode. I was in a car with older lads. We didn't crash but the episode made me NEVER want to get into a car with any scallys ever again! It actually put the shits up me. Even to this day, I'm careful who I get into a car with... And it's all thanks to that storyline... Amazing!!
Fascinating! I wish I was back in that time of watching. Was a good show
such an amazimg show and still is to this day
thanks for watching chris
Loved brookside ! Started watching it again on STV player 😊
me to🙂
Fantastic video. Thank you 👍🏻
I have always wanted to visit, way before it returned to our screens. I finally managed to go this Easter and was very surprised like you how small the close was in comparison to how it looks on TV. Thoroughly enjoying the re-runs.
I know some folk feel that it would be annoying for the people that now reside there to have ‘tourists’ visiting but when you live in Brookside Close then it’s to be expected! I can’t see any harm caused in the content of your video so the residents can continue their day as usual, you’re not disturbing them or invading anyone’s space. I was grateful of the video. When I visited I’d got two teenagers with me who didn’t want to get out of the car. They didn’t understand what all the fuss was about! I didn’t get to walk around, a couple of photos and I was gone! Thank you for sharing.
So iconic and not like any other SOAP❗
Brookside pushed the Boundaries. Phil Redmond was a great writer, writing scripts ahead of time.
1982 -2003 twenty one years of a talented cast of Actors and superb scripts all that you want from a Soap❗
Although now I feel the Soaps have had there day. They have lost the reality of modern day reality Life.
Thank you for your video and taking viewers of Brookside down memory Lane 👍
agreed phil redmond is a legend
soaps have deffo had there day im currently sick of seeing eastenders and corry they are horrid soaps
thanks for watching glad you enjoyed the vid
@@g2emedia1977I'd rather watch our local soap Brookside not Eastenders or coronation Street.
the house next door to number 10 was were roger and heather huntington lived in the first episodes and it never had a garage,which has been added on.ive have just watched the first 20 episodes on stv player,all the memories came flooding back.brill video
Heather Haversham had the garage built at the same time as the Collins family had theirs. The extension above the garage is new though
I remember back at the beginning of this century driving for a company called HSS. They used to hire things like glasses and chairs, things like that. I had a delivery of glasses to "Brooky" and had to drop them at the bungalow. Got to go inside and was surprised by how open plan the place was. Took my Mrs to see the close a few moths ago. Even though we only live 5 to 10 mins away, she never knew where it was, or just how close it was to ours.
Wow I watched brookside in the 80s I loved Barry Grant, missed a big chunk of it when we left the uk in 1988
i miss it gutted when it finished
Susanna Farnham parents David and Jean lived in the bungalow. When Jean left Rachel Jordache living there, Katie Rogers and Jacqueline Dixon were lodgers for a time.
Absolutely brilliant thanks for this video graham from hull
thanks graham glad you liked the video
cheers for watching matey
Your welcome is brookside back on tv think i will drive down to see brookside close loved bs
@@grahamgodfrey2617 its getting rerun on stv player from the start
its deffo worth a look i always pop in when passing
Fucking loved brookside
the best soap ever
I went there when it was like a bit of a building site, I've got the hand receiver from the public phone box that was in the series, I have a small flag from the Jordache patio, and I have a garden ornament, from Bobby and Sheila grant's house.
Great video, never had a brookie tour before. Thankyou ☺
pleasure thanks for watching lisa glad you liked it
Great memories, thanks mate. Sure Beth and Margaret kiss was in Farnham's house, where latter worked as a nanny.
thanks for watching steve glad you enjoyed the video
S.T.V. is Scotland's I.T.V. ... That Brookside signature tune you played at the end gave me goose pinples of nostagia!.
I loved Brookside. Absolutely brilliant vid. Thanks from Craig.
The house to rent was the canteen, no family ever lived in it. Same as the semi detached ones next to it. They were costume, editing and production. Other people who lived in the Murrays were Roger and Heather, Nick Black, Jonathan and Laura, Terry and Sue, The Harrisons, Bank's, Simpsons.
Which was the house the drug fella got hanged from ?
@@littlemy1773number 8, the Collins/ Dixons house
Wow interesting I always thought it was in studios somewhere not in a real housing estate. Would quite cool living there, blimey memory’s 😆
I believe the scene with the patio was not filmed in brookside close but in the Grange estate off yewtree lane, my girlfriend lived there,
I’ve just recently re started to watch Brookside on STV Player.
I’ve just finished off watching the original episodes from 1982.
Brookside is one of the very first shows broadcast on the launch day of Channel 4 in November 1982.
The original cast consisting of the Collins family, the Grant family, Roger and Heather Huntington, Gavin and Petra,
I’m now on 1983 episodes now.
Great video 🙂 thanks for sharing 🙂 I loved watching Brookie. I was heartbroken when it finished 😔
cheers thanks for watching
same here thise final scenes with the close boarded up was so sad wasnt it
@@g2emedia1977 yes 😔 I will never forget when Jimmy and Eddie found Trevor under the patio ha ha 😂 sorry for laughing.
@deirdrewemyss-pr9lu same here ha ha still makes me laugh to this day
When I need a laugh, I watch it on RUclips 🤣
ha ha
Thank you for this of course-nice to see how it is now then too. But I don't think I would want to live there though-not with all the goings on that there were in the series of old of course so then too! But it is interesting as others have said too, that the set is much smaller really than it seemed on screen too. An optical illusion I wonder really? Anyway of course, as we know, this is where it was set when on Channel 4 of old from 1982 to 2003 then at the time too. Well done!
Hi this is memory s for me I love brookie as my besties was extra s in it wish I'd visited the close in them days and I was a kid when brookie first was on tv long time ago as I'm in my 50 s now my fave was the grant s and dixon s
Nice very very nice i loved watching brookside my favourite ron and bev
thank you so much glad you liked the video i often see ron (vince earl? in the city centre of liverpool
thanks for watching
Thanks will pop one weekend
you could complete your visit with a look at the back of hollyoaks in childwall you can still see the old brooky parade
lime studios it is mate round the back you can see loads
Thanks for posting lad 👍
pleasure cheers
The house before the grants ...so number4...was never used just like 1 2 and 3..and i always wondered why it was only these 5 to 10 that we had actors stories etc about them . Youve explained that to me now canteen dressing rooms etc for the others .brilliant. im watching brookie on stv all over again. Class. ❤😊
Nice! never been there myself. i'm mates with Vincent Price now he played Jason Shadwick but doesn't like talking about it
cheers gaz its a great place to visit if you are or was a fan of the show
ha ha the shadwicks yeh i remember mad some people dont like talking about their past on this show
cheers for watching gaz
@@g2emedia1977 Vinny is a great fella! Drinks in The Grapes on Mathew st
happy days does he not say why he never talks about his brooky days
@@g2emedia1977 Just a bit embarrassed about it i think?! he has talked about it a bit
Bloody brilliant video. Loved brookside as a young boy. Thanks so much for that. I visited eastenders set years ago and was surprised how small the outside was. Best wishes Jonathan.
thanks johnathan glad you liked it loved brooky sadly missed
id like to see eastenders even though im not a fan of the show still be nice to see
thanks for watching much appreciated
spot on this george great video as always i had no idea it was getting shown again cheers mate i shall be watching
cheers glad you liked it i watched this show all the time the only soap i actually liked and was well gutted when it finished lol
thanks for watching much appreciated
@G2E Media I worked there a few times when it was still being used for filming and I can confirm there was electricity supplied to the house's or at least there was power to the canteens which where in some of the house's. It was at the end of the day just a posh housing estate when built that was part of Mersey Television properties who also had Childwall College grounds and properties after it closed as a College. Both sites were taken over by Lime Studios as far as I know until Brookie was totally shut down for filming 🎥 and sold off. Bloody Sad seeing our Scouse talent going to waste. Used to love Brookie ❤️.
Absolutely fantastic loved watching this mate great drone footage as well👍, the house that's up for rent the yellow bricked 1 was the canteen mate remember watching the backstage tour years ago and wasn't used in the program,the terraced houses next door 63 to 67 were like you said the production and costume department and the house on the corner was used as the reception and admin house again not used in the program 😊
I went to visit about 5 years ago and I couldn’t get over how small it was. It looked so much bigger on the telly
first time i went i also could not believe how tiny it was lol
Great video, would love to visit it myself at some point
6:13, that was the canteen
Great tour of the set. Think the flats were owned by Mersey TV and used as midweek accommodation for cast who had to travel a distance to Liverpool. Been here myself several times. Thanks.
Absolute TOP QUALITY,thanks for posting. I was obsessed with BROOKSIDE as soon as I went to live with my brother (could never watch it at family home as my father said "all soap actors are sh?? ). Was one of those lamp-posts the one that Jimmy Corkhill tapped his power off, LOL .
thanks for watching bobby glad you liked it
same here i loved brooky its great im able to still visit this close
ha ha yeh i reckon it was deffo one of those lamp posts ha ha
thanks again mate
Loved Brookie, Excellent video. 👌
thanks andy glad you liked it same here mate loved that program
thanks for watching mate
I actually been to brookside before sue got killed by barry. My sister did some bins so I went with her.Saw the top room with the costumes. We also went to another place in childwall the waterfront beat. It was small like you said.
brilliant i briefly seen inside the canteen place when it lay derelict and costumes but never took amy pics i should have really i was more focused taking pics on the parts we know
Great video I seen it last year on the way back to Scotland thought the same as you it looked tiny
thanks for watching glad you liked it
it is tiny isnt it lol
I used to live in Liverpool and used to walk to school with Simon obrian who played damon grant
nice one ive met him when he had that bike shop in the centre nice fella
@@g2emedia1977 thsts right wow he did yeah
Allways looked a lovely area respect sadly miss the show still watch on youtube.
What an awesome video, thank you
thank you jade glad you liked it cheers
UK's 'Neighbours" without the glamour.
brooky was full of glamour
Brookside is older than neighbours
Ill look forward to seeing another video of yours very soon godbless guys
godbless and thanks for watching
I always thought it was such an interesting concept to film _everything_ on location like that and not have any proper studios. The only other show I'm aware of that did such a thing was the very early episodes of Rab C Nesbitt.
And STV is just ITV Scotland, much of the basics are the same.
Moved to Liverpool a few year back and realised this isn’t far from me. As a massive Brookie fan, this was great to be able to visit. So tiny in real life though. Didn’t really intrude but defo got a pic next to the sign
Music at the end took me back to my teens thanks buddy great content
thanks antony i liked both theme tunes start and finish both really haunting
thanks for watching mate much appreciated
@@g2emedia1977 thanks for reply and more than welcome love your content im from wirral so i find are history intresting
I drove in there once apron a time not sure of the year and my excuse was that i was lost. i was also driving a Rolles Royce which i owned at the time. as i approached the gate a guy ran out and opened the gate so i just rolled in. i circled the place and left with the guy letting me back out again.
ha ha brilliant
Phil Redmond owned those flats too. When Brian Regan who played Terry went bankrupt (pre-prison days) Phil Redmond let him live in one. Think I read that the cast who weren't local could stay in them when they were filming too
ahh cool cheers for the info
i remember regan used to live a few doors down from an old mate of mine ...that pub he was involved in has never reopened since that event
@@g2emedia1977 No probs, I fell down a hole last year with Brookside stuff. Actually quite interesting. I even read Phil Redmond's autobiography 🤣 hahaha. Love the videos, keep up the good work.
Thankyou guys for that video
pleasure glad you liked it thanks for watching
pleasure thanks for watching
Dean Sullivan (Jimmy) offered to buy the whole set and keep the show running but the muppets at Ch4 were having none of it.
was there two days back the old panel fencing has now been replaced
In the early 90s I forgot I met Paul usher in Falaraki Rhodes his brother owned a bar and had watersprts on Falarakis beach . My brother and his wife must be 20 years ago met John McArdle in a Hotel in Sydney Australia John was filming something either an Aussie drama or in a film our kid said John came across as a decent bloke and each time they bumpy into him he stopped and spoke.
I miss watching brookside close and the theme song too very much
the theme tune was unique beats all the other soaps themes
Were was the garage from brookside filmed and bar brookie?
i have done a vid on this look for the childwall woods video in my videos
Terry lived in the house before the Corkhills and Amanda Redding’s on was the yuppie that lived in the Murray’s house.
I'm pretty sure a family did move into the canteen house but they never actually went in to it or filmed them in it
The bungalow didn't have a window on the left back in the day
really thats mad
Around 98 I went to the Algarve with my mates we met a camera/boom operator on the set off Brookside he also worked on Hollyoaks. I kept in touch with him for a few years I'm from Wakefield.he invited a few off us over and took us on a Saturday afternoon when set was closed. The very first house which was mentioned it was make up.was the Cunningham's house from Hollyoaks, he told the House which was the canteen was also make up etc. I went in Max Farnham's house Mick's bungalow , Corkhills , I remember every house had a hole in the brickwork for the camera cables, Max Farnham's bedroom the fitted wardrobes were a decider to another room to make easier for filming. Neil the camera took me to the ginnel on the estate at the other end which was about 5 miles away was the Petrol station Grants restaurant etc, Grants restaurant was above the college in Hollyoaks and Petrol station on the same site, the Pub the Frog in the pond was also in the college which if I remember rightly Phil Redmond bought an old School in Liverpool which was made into a studio but was also the college, enjoyed it , I do remember the security on the gate and Neil having permission , all the cars were in the drive Mick's XR3I Max's gold Rover 800 etc.
It was the jacksons then the corkills then next door was heathers havasham next was the Collins then next was Sandra Kate An pat then the Rodgers then Harry cross then the grant and the rogers they were all the first original cast in the close xx An yes loving the reruns of Brooke x
Harry and Enda lived next to the Collins with Alan Partridge living in the bungalow
@@adamgray6862 that's right Harry an Edna first then Harry rented to the nurses then the Rodgers then the Farnham's then the Dixon's x
Brilliant
thanks glad you liked it
Can’t find the video for the petrol station/shops
I remember our friends who lived in Liverpool drove us past it. Like the Coranation Street set, it was very small. At one time, I was a huge Corrie fan, and like brookside, I was left disappointed by the size. Channel four should bring it back in the form on a doc soap using the Residents of Brookside.
The bungalow is also one of the famous ones too it had a fire and the houses wasn’t built for brookside it was built as an actual housing estate and Phil Redmond decided to buy them when they was being built before any had sold as he had the vision for this soap and it wasn’t originally gonna be called brookside they had real electricity and running water and you could have just moved in them there and then but then when the soap finished the reason they had to renovate them when they sold them was because they had to remove all the tv and filming equipment and replace walls where they had removed them to make secret cupboards where they would hide cameras and sound equipment they had camera plugs built in the walls for recording and some wardrobe where false so camera crew could hide whilst filming
Brookside finished in 2003. I visited Liverpool and visited Brookside close in 2015 the woman from over the road where the Row of blue bins are. Came out and told me the history.🏴.
Its funny when the close was refurbed and people moved in i went and took pictures i remeber a woman came out one of the houses and told me to stop taking photos of the houses lol now they have no choice as people flock there everyday to photo the place
Yh the walk though to the shops😊
Great Video my friend !! Let's hope it comes back for a 10 part series!! 🎉
cheers thanks for watching imagine it did come back i wonder what it would be like
The only soap I actually liked
same here
Nice one
thanks for watching anthony
What was the most *most* surprising about seeing *Brookside Close* now is that you no longer can see Sheila Grant's famous arched net curtains hung on the bedroom windows at house number 5! Which seems so odd. It's all louvered, roman or venetian blinds!
ha ha that is true
I used to watch this religiously when it was on back in the day. I suppose it was axed in November 2003, because there’s only so much bodies you can bury under the patio before it comes a cliche, know what I mean?
I remember my dad talking me here when I was around 10
The first ones in number 10 were Gavin and Petra Taylor.
Cool cheers
I went here in about 1990 if I remember correctly! My ex had family near to here! I think it was West Derby. It was really close to Liverpools training ground. Am I in the right area? I’m sure they were all pretty close! I’m from South Wales!
Hiya you got a new Sub. I'm thinking of going here on tuesday on my day off work do you know what bus goes near there from lime st station ? Thanks keep up the great content.
hiya carl thank you much appreciated
i think its the 12 or 13 you need but not entirelly sure that will be from queen square opposite lime street
glad you like the content and thanks for watching
@@g2emedia1977 Cheers catch up soon take care
You said The Close was only built for the show but no it was already built and then Phil Redmond bought it to use for the show.
awesome 👍
no ya wrong it was built for the soap brookside
@@wendychipchase9624 No the street was built and then Phil Redmond was looking for somewhere to film this new soap he had and when he saw this new housing estate being built he decided to buy the street. The street would still be built if Brookside had not happened.
I used to love Brookside as a kid 😂❤
It was criminal getting rid of this show. Luckily all the episodes are online.
5 episode's every Wednesday, i have STV built into my smart tv 😄, im pretty sure you could cast or mirror your phone screen to a smart tv.
Did you know there was a Character on Brookie called Alan Partridge? Ha ha serious
really ha ha never knew that
@@g2emedia1977 he has a breakdown in it and smashes the house up or something i can't remember exactly what the story was it might be on RUclips i think he was in it around 1986 ish
@@g2emedia1977 Yes just found the clip look up Brookside Alan Partridge drunk 1984
The close was constructed in 1981 ready for production in 1992.
Idiot
Gillian Kearney was very attractive as was Justine Kerrigan.
For some reason google maps wont take you all the way to the close!
yes wierd i noticed that aswell
Went to Liverpool for my 35th bday weekend which on the Saturday of my bday weekend it ended on my bday on the 4/11/2003 so since it ended when I was 15 had planned 20 years for doing the Brookside Close estate to see it in person and I did! I was so made up ❤❤in a Brookside nut 😂
Miss me Brookside,
Interesting
thanks for watching darren
I remember when Lily Savage was talking about them finding Trevor Jordache after 2yrs & there being a big healthy hand 🖐🏻
Yes remember the Brookside tv show
brilliant wasnt it
Yes is on every Wednesday stv
Was the only soap I ever watched
same here
If you see the episode when sheila grant goes clubbing its zak dingle out of emmerdale great upload subscribed
ha ha really i had no idea ill check it out
thanks for watching and thanks for the sub much appreciated
@@g2emedia1977 yeah its near the end of the episode
@@roastedicons1234 cool cheers ill check it out
Have they removed the close from instant streetview ? I know is was there last year i had a look all the way around . I just checked again now as i have started to watch it on stv player and it seems to stop at where the security gates used to be when it was still in production ? Unless i am putting in the wrong post code ? L12 0BA / Update . So yes it is the right post code / instant streetview only lets you get as far as the old securty post . LOL
yes i checked and its gone from street view dont know why though?
Good old badboy Barry,
I worked on the security when it was up and running
a mate of mine did aswell for 6 years
@@g2emedia1977 I used to do alot of driving before they started using taxis
You do realise that Gillian Kearney (Debbie) went to SJA. I think you mentioned you went there too
never knew that she must have been a few years ahead of me in the school
cheers for the info
Where did Sinbad live?
good question did we ever see his house?
You gotta speculate to accumulate Teh. Barry Grant.