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January 08, 2026

MARION MCMULLEN discovers how working class lives between the wars inspired the hit drama When The Boat Comes In fifty years ago

LIKELY 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.

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