FAO Salmon Dave

[57vintage]

The original Bleasedale play Blackstuff was on telly in New Year’s Day 1980 if my memory’s correct. The series was shown during 1982.

Just saw Gladys Ambrose credited as Vera, Sheila’s bingo pal. Later Julia Brogan, the Close’s top gossip, and queen of the malapropism.

[57vintage]

The short-lived fanzine. 17 issues, I think, from around 1997-2001.

[InversneckieDob]

Fairly confident I devoured the lot.

[InversneckieDob]

Was that the series that featured that great massive giant colossal hoor of a building that towers ower Stoney?

And I don’t mean Sneckie.

I divn't think there's any building towers over the St Tropez of the North East?

[InversneckieDob]

I divn't think there's any building towers over the St Tropez of the North East?

Mebbe the auld Bay Hotel?
Subsequently Clasfarquhar Nursing Home?

[57vintage]

Mebbe the auld Bay Hotel?
Subsequently Clasfarquhar Nursing Home?

That’s the fella.

[TheDeeDon]

The original Bleasedale play Blackstuff was on telly in New Year’s Day 1980 if my memory’s correct. The series was shown during 1982.

Just saw Gladys Ambrose credited as Vera, Sheila’s bingo pal. Later Julia Brogan, the Close’s top gossip, and queen of the malapropism.

When I got my first DVD player I paid £30 for the DVD of BFTBS right away. Not long after someone borrowed it and then advised it didn't have the original play on it, which I knew nothing about.
Of course when I watched it the full series made more sense.
I recently read there was another play to go with it, but detail is a bit sketchy.

[TheDeeDon]

Just saw Gladys Ambrose credited as Vera, Sheila’s bingo pal. Later Julia Brogan, the Close’s top gossip, and queen of the malapropism.

Saw the episode in question last night and couldn't quite place her Bingo pal, but knew her from something.

[NaeMairNeeps]

Mebbe the auld Bay Hotel?
Subsequently Clasfarquhar Nursing Home?

That'll be The St Leonards Hotel .... scene of many a mighty acoustic folk session intae the wee sma hours efter the folk festival concerts finished and the harbour bars were closed.

[57vintage]

That'll be The St Leonards Hotel .... scene of many a mighty acoustic folk session intae the wee sma hours efter the folk festival concerts finished and the harbour bars were closed.

Nope. Nae the St Leonards. I knew it well when Ian McKenzie was the owner, and I delivered there. I also kent it when the folk club met there on Friday evenings, before, to quote Woody Guthrie, it caught a-fire. Coincidental to the subject of the thread, we once went in there unplugged after a full band gig at the Lark Club in the aul school cantien across the road. It was a singers’ night, and we (including Salmon Dave as a band member) had the hale place singing the chorus of his song aboot Trevor Jordache putrefying under the paving slabs at 10 Brookside Close. The daft aul radge used to introduce it as “a song about the tricky subjects of incest, patricide, and landscape gardening”. It made a change from their ballads about deid lifeboatmen, and the bonny lassie’s plaidy being blown awa.

The hotel is the building described by Sneckie that towers over the middle of the town that featured in the oil-related drama.