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Derby Telegraph
|January 05, 2026
MARION MCMULLEN discovers how working class lives between the wars inspired the hit drama When The Boat Comes In 50 years ago
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The cast filming in Wallsend in 1975
IKELY Lads star James Bolam played working class hero and cheeky latter-day rogue Jack Ford in the BBC's groundbreaking drama When The Boat Comes In.
The saga was set in the fictional Gallowshield on Tyneside between the two world wars and followed the life of the ex-sergeant as the world around him changed and he went from being demobbed to shipyard trade unionism.
This story is from the January 05, 2026 edition of Derby Telegraph.
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