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Here!

Where's the thing now going, Stanley?

Nowhere.

I'll end up somewhere they don't fancy if that goes

down there and I clear off before I top the bobbin.

Lorry Bagley's back from South Africa.

He's up in the old drift mine this side of Galwick.

We're going to halten this until they take a look inside and see our condition on it.

They don't take union about that opening being left as it is.

Come on, let's take a look at that shed.

Then I can get back for me breakfast.

I might be working for Noddy.

In your mother-mucky hole, as the Dr Nelson Pratters used to work here.

Well, it's licensed to be called wood.

Lovely regulations to be followed.

Aye, I'm bent.

Why do you want to leave goody to go there?

I've got me reasons.

Here, get that down and stop complaining.

If you can improve the service, I'll put you under contract.

I'm not cooking for you every Saturday morning.

You can get Sarah Corby to do it.

Oh, where did you pick up that little tit-bit?

School bus.

Talk about no else, I'm from Galwick End.

Bloody school kids.

Hey, you'd better not let me hear you swear in front of me.

You're sweet on her then, Sarah Corby.

Don't talk, Jaff.

Oh, go on, brighten me Saturday morning up.

I'm bored.

Confide in me.

Now, look here, madam.

You're sweet on her, aren't you?

I can tell.

You're blushing.

You're going to shut it.

Lord, you have got it bad, haven't you?

All right, keep your hair on.

I'm going.

There's one thing they're sure to ask me on the school bus, though.

When's the wedding?

It says here that they're striking in British zone of Germany.

Because we've not given them rations, we promised.

Well, we're not getting any here, are we?

Has your mum been in, Grant?

She went off to goody while you were still asleep.

Hey, do you want some breakfast?

No, thanks, I've had it.

I made sands as well.

Didn't get much thanks for it, though.

They take it all for granted, men, don't they?

They just sit there and say, where's me breakfast?

Where's me dinner?

Have you got that tea ready yet?

Now, then.

Didn't mean you, Grandad.

Anyway, you were brought up to it, weren't you?

I was brought up to what?

Being waited on hand and foot by me Gran.

They were the bad old days, weren't they?

She'll look on to look at that new bedroom suite.

What new bedroom suite?

She's having a new bedroom suite, me man.

No, she's not.

She's just looking at it.

Paying fares to goody just to look at a bedroom suite?

It's not two minutes since he got her that three-piece suite for front room.

Found her seeming pure gold down pit, has he?

There's a bit about pit here.

You were 300,000 tons below your target for 1947, miners were.

It says so.

What have you to say for yourself, Grandad?

Old'uns like me are getting past it.

And they are not bloody plain enough to get the humans, that's all I've got to say.

Can we watch our language, please?

We are, aren't we?

Have you cleaned out that cupboard like I asked you to?

No, not yet.

Well, what are you wasting your time here for?

Go on, off with you.

It's like blooming hell, aren't we?

Bye, Gran.

Bye-bye, love.

Well, master.

Shall we get it out of the road now or shall we

let it fester and make everybody's lives a misery?

You choose to live above what you can afford, you'll know what misery is.

How do you know how much we can afford?

I know what wage our George brings home.

Aye, I'll bet you do.

And I know what it takes to keep a family, you know.

And how much can be saved by good housekeeping, do you know that and all?

It's the payoff credit you'll get it on, is that what you mean?

Well, what's wrong with credit?

You pay your way in this world or you suffer for it.

Well, pay now or pay later, we shall not get it for now, either way.

Look, master, I'm over 40 and I don't believe in reincarnation.

I've not that many years to spare and I want somewhat more than bread from life.

The bloody utility bedroom suite, is that your salvation?

Well, I'm glad you think it's not that much to ask for.

It'll not stop there, though, will it?

It'll be some other bloody thing next.

I'd not put it past you to be wanting a bloody car before you've done.

And why shouldn't I?

Oh, I don't know why I spend my time here wasting talking to you.

I've completely forgot what I've come in for now, thanks to you.

You'd better go and think on it, then, hadn't you?

Let me know when he's gone, will you?

It's open.

Come in.

Cassie, come in.

I'm looking for your grandad's.

I don't know which house on the street it is.

Next door, but one.

Oh, well, thanks.

I'm sorry I bothered you.

How you been, Cass?

All right, I suppose.

How are you?

Fine to middling.

You've packed up that job at Brown Cow, eh?

Who told you that?

Well, you've not been there when I've been in, and I'm in every day.

Yes, well, er, Dad's not been well.

Oh?

Edie said nothing.

I asked her not to unless she was asked.

How is he, then?

He's dying.

Nay.

He wants to see your grandad.

Cass, I... I'm, er, I'm glad I took all on you.

I, er, made too much of it that last time.

Ranting on at you for not turning up to take him out.

I was late.

I turned up late.

Yes, well, er, he should have waited.

I get impatient with him.

Impatient with the way he lets himself be used.

I took it out on you.

It weren't me not turning up that set him back.

Oh, no, no, he's been coming to it for a long time now.

What's he want to see me grandad for?

Don't know.

I've got to tell Arthur Corby as well.

Well, I can do that for you.

It's all right, I can manage.

It's not so far.

I was going round there anyway.

Yes, I forgot you go there, don't you?

Does he want to see him today, Arthur?

If he can manage it.

Right, I'll tell him then.

Anything else I can do, Cass?

Give him his years back.

Give him a life.

Would he see me, your dad?

If you want.

When shall I come?

Well, you'd better leave it for today with these others coming.

He talks too much as it is.

Shut up, I say.

Then he'll be there, following me with his eyes.

Wondering what I'll do when he's gone.

It never bothered my dad.

Is he still alive?

Happen.

Happen not.

Don't you care?

To know, even?

Not much, I think.

You will one day.

Will I?

When will that be?

When you get kids of your own.

He's coming.

Alan.

Aye.

Aye, I know, I know.

For both of you.

Let him go to Sam's.

You ask a lot.

You know that, don't you?

And who do I ask it for?

Yourself?

I'll get you a bottle.

It's freezing.

Seen your Uncle George?

He's gone home.

Taking Shed with him?

No.

I'll pull in your leg.

Come here.

Come here, I said.

I can't take you to the match today.

I've been at pit.

I'm for bed.

I know.

I'm sorry.

I enjoy taking you to the match.

Not bothered.

At a loose end, are you?

No.

What do you do?

Find somebody to play with?

Stanley happen?

No.

You like Stanley, don't you?

He's all right.

Do you want to go to Sam's?

He said I'd not to.

He said that cos I wanted you at home a bit.

I am your dad, Les, aren't I?

Yes.

Do you want to go to Sam's, then?

If you want me to.

Don't you want to?

I can do.

I don't know.

One time you'd have been out that door like a rocket, wouldn't you?

Aye.

You're a funny lad.

You know that.

Aye.

Here.

Shove that in your pocket.

Thanks, Dad.

Off with you, then.

Dad?

Can we go to the match next week?

Aye.

Aye, we'll go to the match next week.

What's keeping Sarah?

It was her mother on the phone.

Did she mind the wedding, do you think?

Mind it?

That awful old schoolroom.

All her staring relatives looking for the bulge.

Do you feel awful?

No.

I felt like a scarlet woman.

Mum was the worst.

She'll never forgive you, you know.

I think I can stand it.

Yeah.

You're different.

Different?

Since we've been married.

In what way different?

Almost as if you quite liked it.

Jez.

Is it her mother on the ding-a-ling?

Yes, yes, it's her mother.

Oh, to God, she says I'm out.

How's my lad today?

You make Granny blush.

Blush?

I'm out of his experience.

I could tell you tales about him and make you hair curl.

Well, come on.

Mr Cole will be wanting his dinner.

Bye, Arthur.

Bye, Maurice.

Look what the wind blew in.

We're off now, but we'll see you later, eh?

Aye, right.

Oh, I'll get you those patterns before you go.

They look well on it, don't they?

Aye.

Mother aged ten years when they told her.

She'll have grandchildren before I will.

I told Cassie Dent that call.

Cassie?

Toffee's poorly.

Ah, well, that comes as no surprise.

It's the wrong kind of weather for giving the shirt off your back.

He's dying, she says.

He asked if you'd go.

Did he ever get on to you about that bit of

waste ground that belonged to your granddad?

Just the once.

Ah, he said he'd not again.

Respected your motives, he said.

What are they?

What did he ever do for you, that father of yours, that you should jib about having

him declared dead in a court to do a service?

He was a sod.

Well, I haven't called that in me time.

Sometimes you think I am.

You're not quite sure, are you?

Is that with him?

You think he is, but you're not sure?

I care neither one way nor tother.

It's his land, not mine.

You make a lot of it for somebody who doesn't care.

They need that land, you know.

Which people I'm acting for.

To make it worth their while, to buy yours.

Oh, you've found that out, have you?

Parker sold some next to me dad's to a firm to the side of Leeds.

You'd better not be much use to him without me dad's, would you?

You know a lot, don't you?

I know what you stand to gain.

I know your motive.

Do you?

You mean you think you do?

I'll have something in the oven for you when you're ready.

I want to watch out for this chap.

He thinks two and two make four.

Don't worry, you're right, he's wrong.

You can prove it, can't you?

I could.

But he'd blame you for his lunch being spoilt.

Tonight, then.

I bore you stiff, you know I do.

To the way around, that's what you really mean, isn't it?

No.

Prove it, then.

Come out with me tonight.

Terms and conditions?

There's here to for?

No.

Ah, well, now, I'm not at all sure about that.

Did Dave Ellis get terms and conditions?

We don't talk about that, do we?

Don't you want to get him out of your system?

A plumber, are you?

You'll have to if you're going to have any sort of life.

What, you mind being used to get somebody out of my system, then?

Yes and no.

Come on!

Not yelling, are you?

No.

Dad works the output, don't he?

Aye, but I don't like it.

Yell, I like you, I say!

I'll tell Mr Colby you're here if you like.

He might just be stopping for company.

That's who's up there, is it?

Been here since dinner time.

Shall I tell him?

Nay, I'll wait, though I've no where much else to go.

Seen much of my grandson lately?

Sam?

I saw him this morning when I came looking for you.

I had the daft idea you was walking out at one time.

Did you?

Is that what he told you?

Nay, he goes his own road.

He tells me not about his life.

I'm not part of his life, Mr Barraclough.

I didn't think you would be.

Dad likes him.

Not had him to live with, has he?

Hard work, is it?

Aye, it's hard work, all right.

He'll take note, serious note.

Well, can you blame him?

He had a lot to put up with when we were at school, I can remember that much.

Having his leg pulled, you mean?

Nay, if he couldn't abide having his leg pulled.

About his dad going off with another woman?

They plagued him about that.

Did he never tell you?

No.

No, he never did.

Are you going down to Pitwinder Lane?

No.

Your dad says I'm not neither, but he's wrong.

Do you want to go down to Pit?

My mates sent classes.

At yours?

Some of them.

Don't you want to go to your mates?

Let's go now.

Oh, come on!

Come on, Liz!

Dash for it!

Right!

Come on, Liz!

I don't!

Come on!

I don't!

You've got to!

You can't stop there!

I'll go one, two, three, right!

One, two, three, right!

Well, you've just got up.

Aye, I have one night's this week.

George were here a bit early on.

Yeah, I know.

He says that shed's worth having.

He's getting Coggy's wagon next week.

Did we say pound?

I can't remember.

Oh, I think it was 25 bob, wasn't it?

25 bob?

I can't remember.

Alan!

Can you remember how much we spent?

You said we'd give Ethel for that old dressing table of hers.

It's not all that old.

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean that.

No, I didn't.

Alan, I can't remember.

Can you?

Nay, nay, I can't.

Well, let's say pound then, shall we?

Aye.

Sorry it's all changed.

Did he tell you we're getting a new bedroom suite, George?

I didn't see him myself.

Walnut.

Well, imitation.

Utility, of course.

It's nice, though.

What's he going to work at Bagley's Driftmine for?

George?

Aye.

He'll not catch me going there for a bit of extra brass.

I suppose that's why he is going.

He's told me not about it.

When's he supposed to be starting?

It's not been opened up yet.

He's a promise from Norrie, he says.

I told him I work for Norrie the most, but not in your place.

Well, what's wrong with it then?

It's not a fit place to work in, that's all.

Well, can't it be made so?

I doubt it.

Not so they'd get me down there any road.

I'll miss that bus if I don't go now.

Oh, would you tell Ness to make sure he's back before dark?

Well, soon after anyway.

Is he there then?

You did say he could go to Sands, didn't you?

I said he could if he wanted, aye.

Oh, I'll tell him then.

Take care of yourself.

Aye.

A quid for that dresser?

I know.

He offered her some when they left here, she'd not take it.

I know I did.

Why now?

Don't ask me.

She went a bit red in the face when she asked for it.

She must have wanted it badly.

Isn't George working regular?

Course he is.

It's that bloody bedroom suite.

She's overreached herself, I bet you're out.

They had a new three-piece before Christmas.

There you are then.

Still, they must have a bit put by.

Not for spending at that rate.

Oh, well, it's none of our business.

I'll get your dinner.

When are you going to ask for some of it?

When I'm sure I'll not be disappointed.

You're not one for taking chances, are you?

I took a chance when I married you.

Chance of what?

Oh, never mind.

I do mind, though.

Chance of what?

Oh, a chance you might be stuck in the past for the rest of your life.

A chance I might never be anything more to you than a housekeeper.

What then?

Is that how it's been?

Well, I can't say, can I?

It's for you to say, not me.

Don't you care what I feel?

You know I do.

You could have asked, had you felt the need to.

Well, I've not as time's gone on.

I've not felt the need to.

Because you've known?

In a way.

I think about it, you know.

Now and then.

Yes.

Yes, I know you do.

Not to belittle you?

No.

They'll leave a mark on you.

Them you've known.

All of them.

One way or another.

I wanted to die with her when she went from me, having Les.

I know you did.

You can't, though, can you?

Not when you're given a life for a life.

She seems a long way off now.

I used to shut my mind to her.

So as I'd not have to bear it.

Then I'd open the door.

Just a crack.

Feared she'd not be there.

Do you mind I should talk like this?

I've wanted you to.

I could say it to nobody else.

To nobody?

Nobody but thee.

Granny's putting a gallon in out of the boot.

We've run out of coupons.

Just passing.

No.

I'm glad you came anyway.

I'll not be coming round tonight.

I'm going out with Sam.

Good.

Well, it's a quick change of heart.

I thought you disapproved.

We came to tell you David's home on leave.

Oh.

He came round to Granny's about half an hour ago.

He wants to see me?

Yes, I think so.

It's not on, is it?

I hope it isn't.

Oh, it's not.

I promise you.

Don't promise me.

Promise yourself.

You're the one who'll suffer.

True.

And regret it and rue the day and so on and so forth.

All right, all right, I'm coming.

For heaven's sake.

Oh, come in.

What do you want?

You'll wake the dead banging like that.

Where's Cassie?

She's given Tuffy her bedpan.

We'll have to wait for a bit.

Been seeing a bit of the lass, hasn't he?

Oh, I hope so.

She can do with a bit of fun in her life.

That's all she'll get from him.

It's all he ever thinks of.

I wish I were his bloody age and capability.

I don't know different, I tell you that.

Why, does the kin hope for her, then?

Oh, she can look after herself in that respect, can't Sarah?

I brought her up to it.

I brought him up not so bad from feel of him.

Well, how do you make that out?

Haven't I just told thee?

What about them that can't fend?

Like Cassie up there.

I suppose you'd leave them to his tender mercies.

She's a choice.

Some bloody choice.

The sooner I've him, the more I want my lasses picked up for herself.

I tell you that, for all he's a cheeky young bugger.

I bet somebody's here to burn him.

Pass here, Tob.

He's upstairs at Tuffy's.

Right, then.

I'll leave you with your grandad.

See you later.

You might.

Been invited, have you?

Happen.

He gives an out away, does he?

Seen Tuffy yet?

No, I've not.

What are you doing here?

Need a reason, do I?

Don't snap at me.

I asked a civil question, didn't I?

You meant what right over here.

That's what you meant.

I meant what I said.

No more, no less.

You read a double meaning into what I say, don't you?

Whose fault is that, then?

Any other complaints you got here against me, you

might as well trot them all out while you're at it.

There's no value in it, Grandad.

Shut up, Grandad.

Save your breath, Grandad.

You've turned a deaf ear to me all your life, haven't you?

Hey, that's one of my complaints, not yours.

You can go up now, Mr. Barraclough.

Aye, aye, I'll go up.

You'll be gone when I come down, I reckon.

Aye, I've a call to make.

Aye, aye, a call to make.

Life's grand for some folks, isn't it, love?

Folks that are going somewhere.

Folks with calls to make.

Folks with calls to make.

What's he mean?

He means them that life's favoured more than others.

May he means.

Hey, your fire's low.

You out to call?

No, we're a bit low, that's all.

We've got some coming next week.

How's some home calls, do you?

I've more than I need.

I'm too idle to light a fire most days.

I'll bring them round.

We've got some coming.

Don't argue with me, Cass.

What's the point?

It costs me now.

Hey.

What's Taffy want to see me Grandad for?

He wants him to persuade you to sell that land to Corby.

I thought it might be that.

Why don't you?

Do you think I should?

He means work, he says.

Or he'd have let it be.

You have a right to feel the way you do, he says.

Better your Grandad should ask you than him.

What do you think, Cass?

It means work.

Aye, but what kind of work?

Well, does it matter?

Work for men.

It'd have to be, wouldn't it?

Aye, but is it?

What does Taffy say?

I don't know.

I think he just took it for granted.

And doesn't Arthur Corby know?

I asked him.

He said he's to keep it quiet for commercial reasons.

He knows no more than we do.

So me Grandad's going to ask me to sell, eh?

He'll not like that.

He'll not ask you, then?

Oh, he'll ask, all right.

He might have a difference or two with Taffy, but when it comes to work,

they're solid as rock.

Work.

It's a magic word round here.

Work.

It's not mine to sell, Cass.

Do you think I'd hold back work?

It'd be like holding back life.

Life.

Work.

We've been staffing them too long round here.

You've found it, if anybody has.

Me?

Life?

Nay, I've not found it, Cass.

Morning, Tom.

Morning.

Morning.

Alan.

Where is he?

About 500 yards in, behind a fall.

We've heard him.

Is it eight?

I think so, aye.

Tommy Wagstaff's down there with a few others.

We're looking for props, but they've mostly been prints for burning.

You stop here.

I'm going into him.

There's a couple of lumps just inside on a box.

Take one.

Alan, let me come with you!

Nay, missus, you can't go in there.

It's not safe.

Right, lads, get this lot in.

We're not waiting for toothers.

Sherry.

Went the day well, father?

Is it in the dark?

I was looking at the garden and the light deserted me.

Funny, isn't it?

I've known the view from that window all my life.

It never really occurred to me before what it might

have been like if the stacks hadn't been there.

I'll have a drink or two.

All that work.

All those shovelfuls of effort.

Well, there's a few generations tall over there, for sure.

Grandad.

Not me at all.

One of the first here, he was.

I wonder what he'd think of me.

Idle Sarah.

When they keep asking my generation to work harder to

make a better world for the next one, what do I do?

It's people like me David should aim his revolution at, not people like you.

Look, I'm aged.

If you don't like what you are, then it's me that's to blame.

That's what he says.

That's something we can bloody well agree on then.

I like what you are as it happens.

And I like what you are as it happens.

That's another bone of contention.

You'll have to choose between us then, won't you?

If he feels as he does about politics, what's he doing in the army still?

Sorting himself out, he says.

And the government still pays him?

Doing a bit of fraternising, is he?

Fraternising?

Yeah, with the Russians.

Where are his mates, are they?

Good heavens, no.

It's all gone wrong in Russia, he says.

I could have bloody told him that.

Is there anybody who has his approval?

He's on leave.

Made my bloody day, that has.

How long's she been gone?

Well, she were gone when I came home from school.

I said not be here, would I?

Why'd she not leave key under the mat?

We could have been freezing waiting out there.

That's right, lads.

Stokely welcome for it.

Hey, you can't move a knight like that.

What did I tell you?

Why don't you pay more attention, Grandad?

Like this, look.

I reckon up to this, I'd sooner have drafts any day.

Only because you can win.

Anybody can play drafts.

Your dad can't.

I've beaten him more times than I've had hot dinners.

Sometimes it pays to lose.

I beat Ethel four times running last night and he ruled.

She'd be playing her own game, then.

Playing to lose, to sweeten thee towards that bedroom suite she's getting.

Why, shouldn't you have a bedroom suite when we can afford it?

George, can you watch what you're doing, love?

We're having it on tick anyway.

We're not, you know.

We are, you know.

Now, Pat.

Have I said something I shouldn't have?

No, no, love.

Your dad doesn't mind credit.

He got you a cot and a pram on credit years back.

He got leathered for it, mind.

We know nothing about it.

It's nothing to do with us.

George, love, you're winding on, not winding off.

We don't need credit.

We've enough in post office.

Nearly.

What does she want a sick credit for?

She's like a lot more.

She can't wait.

It's milk and onion credit from now on.

And when we've eaten it, well, we can always shoot ourselves, can't we?

It's always been a guinea, it's all her life.

You're old-fashioned, Dad.

Now, what have I always told you about honouring your father and your mother?

Yes, Gran, I know.

In the land which the Lord giveth thee.

On credit.

Jack!

Never thought I'd see today when Tick become respectable.

Parable of talents is about Tick.

They had talents on Tick.

Him that had one came back with one.

So the Lord took it and gave it to him that had made the most profit.

Are you sure you've got that right?

Read it yourself.

The Lord said from him that hath not shall be taken away even which he hath.

I've said that often enough myself.

I know.

You live your life according to the Bible, don't you, Grandad?

Why didn't you tell me?

Why didn't you leave key under the mat?

There's been an accident.

Young Les, that old driftmine at Skeleton.

Alan and Eileen come by while I was waiting for the bus.

Where's Sam?

Has he got any petrol for that car of his?

No, he's out.

I went round.

He did it for a dare, they said.

Doctor.

In you come, then.

Where you taking her?

To the know.

Got expensive taste, you know.

Gants at the bus and fish and chips at the back of the Gospel Hall are not suited.

I don't go back at Gospel Hall.

Well, don't burn me head off.

Just giving you some advice for your own good, that's all.

I seem to be on your side for some bloody reason or other.

Hope I'm not ruined.

It won't be my fault if you do.

Smitten, are you?

I might be.

Well, you're more to recommend you than your

little bugger, I tell you that for naught.

To you, happen.

Faint heart never won fair lady, you know.

You see Taffy this afternoon?

No, I'm going tomorrow.

My grandad was there.

Get your dad to or something.

I told him I thought you'd part with her.

Oh, Chris!

Now, keep your head down.

I said it to rest his mind.

Now, you do as you please.

I'll not bring it up again.

Right, I'm off to fetch your mother.

May not be back much before midnight.

Have a nice trip.

Smell like a tap room.

If she asks you for doubles, put more lime in it.

She'll know no different.

Well, are you going or coming?

Had a few.

Yes, I've had a few.

You?

A cup of tea and a bun.

I can put that right, anyway.

Have you always had that?

You know, stuff in the house like.

Drink.

Asking for trouble, isn't it?

I don't think we ever ran dry from when the war was on.

Yeah, we reckoned that.

That you get round it some way or another.

You know, rationing and so on.

We?

You mean us is against you?

Us and them.

Or them and us.

I suppose.

Dies hard, doesn't it?

David still talks like that.

About Dad.

Dad worked on the face at Cuddy.

David wouldn't know one end of a shovel from the other.

He's one of his own kind, though, isn't he?

Or David.

Or Dad.

Both happen.

I can talk to your Dad.

But not to David?

I've never had the chance.

I've talked to one or two like him.

You know, scholarship lads like.

And?

Hard work.

So, education's a bigger barrier than money, is it?

Happens sometimes.

That's what you said.

I said what came into me mind.

I'm not... I know, you're not Professor Jode.

Cheers.

You read, though.

You've studied.

Yeah.

Well?

Well, what?

Why did you?

You need some more lime in that gin.

Give it up.

I've given up studying, aye.

And reading?

I read now and again.

Happen I just want to stop as I am.

Is that education that changes people?

Not in the way you mean.

It's what they do with it.

You can swear to that, can you?

For what it's worth.

I'm not Professor Jode.

We were going, weren't we?

If you want to.

Your dad says you've got expensive tests.

Maybe we'd better stay here, then.

Suits me.

Suits your wicked purpose, does it?

You don't have to play act with me.

Want to comfort me, do you?

Be as you are.

As you feel.

As I feel?

Yes.

Yes.

As I feel.

You can see the stacks at Skeleton from here, you know.

My grandad worked there, before my dad.

All that work.

All that awful work.

Things I'll never know.

Blood, sweat and tears, Churchill said.

He didn't know either, did he?

All that kind of blood, sweat and tears.

And you want to stop as you are.

As you are.

I've nothing like that.

I don't want to stop as I am.

I've no purpose in life.

You and David want a better world.

You've that in common.

Look at mine.

And look at me in it.

Miserable.

And I think what other people haven't got.

And what the trappings of my life are.

I feel ashamed.

You're right to stay as you are.

Happens somebody might want me different.

My grandad doesn't know.

You can't change what you are.

Well, take me as I am then.

Here, take this off me, will you?

Keep it on and don't be so daft.

I shall not put it on if you give it me.

Wish they'd come and tell us something.

Put her down.

George, you're not to.

You said that Monday when I got to get me wage.

I'm going through when you got that enough.

Nay, lad.

Wait, wait on some more.

It's the last of it.

Yes, there's more, aren't we?

Get it in.

I'm going through to him.

Nay, lad.

He'll be fit to bloody death.

It could be now or tomorrow.

It's my son.

Now, let me be.

Les.

It's me.

It's not wide enough.

Don't try and force it, Alan.

It's me.

Les.

Alan!

Come to me.

We're going back to Polly's from here.

Where's Coggins' taxi?

Oh, he's turning round up the road.

He came and fetched me from the station.

Where's Eileen?

Back there somewhere.

Eileen?

There's not enough hot water there, love.

There's some in the kitchen.

It's on the oven.

That's for your sandwich.

Oh, thanks very much.

All right.

Have you had out yet?

No, I'll be right.

Well, you'd better be.

He'll get no toast till tonight.

Do you want your tea topping up, Dad?

No, he's eating his first tea.

May I have a look after then?

I'm asking you.

There's a Mr Naylor to see you, Sam.

I'll put him in your house.

Naylor?

No.

Oh, granny, you mean.

A lighter fire.

Come on, finish your tea.

I'll come back to it.

What about you?

Eh?

Are you all right?

Aye.

And thee?

I'm all right.

You're going down no drift mine to work.

You're not so different from the other kind, you know.

Well, you're not, you understand.

More money happen.

Oh, well, I don't care.

I've told them to wait about that suite.

Wait?

Oh, we can either have credit or we can wait.

It's you that shall say.

It's you that earns it down there.

You shall say.

Credit or no.

I'll, um... I'll think on it then, eh?

Aye.

Aye.

I'll think on it.

I'll weigh it up.

Granny?

I'm sorry about your brother, son.

Aye.

Do you want to see me?

Yes.

Have you, um...

been round to Sarah's lately?

I've been round.

There's been nobody in.

I thought you might have.

I've been round three or four times.

Have they been called away?

Well, Arthur rang me this morning.

He was too late, he said.

Too late for what?

Well, I thought maybe Sarah might have told you.

She left on Sunday morning.

Left?

Left for where?

She went off with David, son.

Arthur went after her, but he was too late.

I doubt if it would have made any difference anyway.

What was he too late for, Granny?

They're married.

So, she's got what she wanted, eh?

Good luck to her.

Where are you off to?

I'm taking these round to Sam's.

Eileen's brother brought them.

She wanted to sign the two of them.

It's Les's gramophone.

Eileen told me to bring it.

I'll put it on here, shall I?

Records are in this parcel.

Hey, you've not got a fire.

You're a man, weren't you?

One of them days that takes a bit of getting through, eh?

Do you like to hear some music, Grandad?

Nay, lad.

I mean it.

Bach.

Do you like Bach?

Somebody else asked me that once.

I listened, I said.

It's just a noise to me.

I said, let's listen to the noise, shall we, Grandad?

Aye, go.

Aye, go.

Turn your back on me like you always have done.

When have I?

When?

All your bloody life, Grandad.

You're mistaken if you think that.

It was never intended, not like that.

Took the road round, I'd have thought.

You turning your back on me?

Seems we've been at cross purposes then, eh?

Any road, it's too late now.

I'm off.

Off?

Off where?

Anywhere.

Anywhere out of this bloody, mucky, stinking hall.

Aye, it hurts you, that, doesn't it?

You don't like to think you've lived in a mucky, stinking hall all your life.

I know the place I've lived in.

Do you?

But why did you not do something about it then?

We did what we could.

You'll know no to what's been suffered here.

To stop alive, even.

Where's your rickets?

How many of my generation went through the lives, bandle-legged?

They shoved poverty onto us and we lived through it, and now we're on the way.

I'll see nose of it, but you will.

You'll see better days than what I've ever seen.

Aye, I bloody will, Grandad.

But not here.

You think you can get out of it just like that?

Become a gentleman?

You'd not be a gentleman not if you lived forever.

I'm paying you a compliment, you hear me?

I'm giving you bloody credit.

Credit?

You've been against credit all your life.

I'm the last on God's earth you'd give credit to.

It's a word that's been muckied.

It meant something at once.

More than pound notes.

I'll give you credit for something else, I know.

You'll never leave this place, choose where you go.

It's grained in you, do you hear me?

In your blood, in your head.

In your bloody attitude to life.

And when you grow up, it'll still be there.

You'll know whose side you're on then.

You've no choice.

There's dead men and women in your head, my lad, that'll never lay still.

Part of you, till the day you die.

That's your credit.

See what you can draw from that.

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