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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #15 on: 10 November 2014, 06:49:01 pm »
It was. It made it very hard to look for amongst all the other things called Gold or that have Gold in the title.
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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #16 on: 11 November 2014, 12:31:44 am »
Having watched the recent re-runs of that series it shows a dark side to sex work.

However, one of the things featured in Episode 1 was the pub full of mainly prossies all just having a drink.

Do pubs like these exist?


Band Of Gold is filmed and set in my neck of the woods  - Bradford. Well im not in Bradford but near enough. Used to love watching that back in the day. Funny looking back because when I used to watch it , I didnt know that Id one day end up in the same business.  :)


Everyone used to call it "going downt lane" or "going on't lane" ( heavy yorkshire accent)
There were  pubs like that back in the day . I used to go to a dodgy ( but good ) underground rave  down there back in the day and the pub next door was full of WG . Bradford was well known for sex trade back in the  Pre - Internet days.  In the 80s/90s it was probably only 40% of  bradford street girls who had a serious habit. .... Nowadays Id say that the street scene is 95% serious hard drug addicts and the 5% who are clean are the new EE girls. . HUGE drug problem in Bradford , much worse than other citys.  You see some of them hopping about on crutches or on one leg because of DVT from injecting. Pretty fucking grim and what saddens me is what sort of men actually pay to go with these girls who are in such a bad state  of health.

Many guys I know started out their punting on Bradfords streets , back in the day you could go into certain pubs  or street where the girls would congregate , and you could get a " nice clean girl who is just doing it to top up her child benefit money" . The same guys steer well clear now , and stick to the "indoors" scene.

I doubt theres any red light district pubs full of WG these days , as most pubs in that area  have been converted into religious houses or shops.  Only the bravest and most hardcore of WG and punter braves those Bradford streets these  days and theres only a fraction of the number of girls you used to see out there.  Its actually a pretty dangerous area for outsiders , 4 serious incidents have been reported locally  this week  ( people pelted with rocks by the locals  , beaten up etc) .

Yep , Bradford red light 2014 is very different to the good old Band Of Gold  80s/90s days sadly as Id love to go in a pub like that :)
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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #17 on: 11 November 2014, 01:13:24 pm »
That sounds awful - won't be on my list of tour stops  :o

Back to Series 2 of Band of Gold  :-X

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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #18 on: 11 November 2014, 04:30:29 pm »
Glasgow's the same these days, hardly a red light area to speak of anymore.. Sad in a way. :(
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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #19 on: 12 November 2014, 05:41:25 pm »
As anyone got any links to watch this online please
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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #20 on: 12 November 2014, 11:52:07 pm »
If you go to YouTube and type in Band of Gold TV series, it comes straight up.
I'm on Series 3  ;D

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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #21 on: 16 November 2014, 09:08:19 pm »
band of gold waa brilliant

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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #22 on: 16 November 2014, 09:12:39 pm »
I finished series 3 yesterday. It wasn't as good as the previous 2 series. I don't think many of us would get in the same sort of situations as they did!
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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #23 on: 17 November 2014, 09:29:45 pm »
band of gold waa brilliant
yes I couldn't stop watching it

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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #24 on: 17 November 2014, 09:45:41 pm »
Sad I've finished watching it again. The abuse they suffered was terrible, especially at the hands of pimps!

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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #25 on: 18 November 2014, 01:02:18 pm »
I remember watching the first series of band of gold i must of been only about 11-12 years old no way did i ever think i was going to grow up and go into the same business  :o
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Re: Band of Gold
« Reply #26 on: 18 November 2014, 10:51:22 pm »
When I was a lot younger I lived down south, and worked around Soho in the peep shows.
I made some lovely friends there, we all used to meet up and go drinking in the bars around there.
That was the nineties though, I don't think any of those places are left.

Whats a peep show?

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Does anyone remember the ITV series 'Band of Gold'?!
« Reply #27 on: 24 May 2017, 06:37:23 pm »
Omg I absolutely used to love this program when it was first on! I was 13 or 14 and all my mates used to love it too, it was actually written after Kay Mellor, the writer, met girls who worked on 'the lane' in Bradford (Lomb Lane) and the main girl, portrayed by Cathy Tyson, wanted Kay to show the viewers that sex workers were only human like the rest of the world and I think she pulled it off!!

There was definitely some moments in it that were totally realistic (although I didn't know that at the time!) and who could forget the guy with the Chicken factory who wanked whilst wearing rubber gloves while Cathy Tyson (can't remember the name of the girl she played) walked up+down with stockings on! There was also gritty moments when the girls were starting to be murdered & then when chicken guy died and left everything to Tyson!!

Memories memories xx

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Re: Does anyone remember the ITV series 'Band of Gold'?!
« Reply #28 on: 24 May 2017, 07:31:26 pm »
Yes I remember it, my strongest memory is of Cathy Tyson character in the shower/bath scrubbing herself with bleach and being bleach obsessed in general...if I've remembered it right, it was gritty and realistic when it came out, one of the girls Samantha Morton a very good actress is now playing the lead role in Harlots on TV at the moment.

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Re: Does anyone remember the ITV series 'Band of Gold'?!
« Reply #29 on: 24 May 2017, 07:49:07 pm »
Yes I remember it, my strongest memory is of Cathy Tyson character in the shower/bath scrubbing herself with bleach and being bleach obsessed in general...if I've remembered it right, it was gritty and realistic when it came out, one of the girls Samantha Morton a very good actress is now playing the lead role in Harlots on TV at the moment.

Yes you are correct, her character lost it for a while and ended up staying in a mental hospital for a little while and this was after she poured boiling hot water over Mr Durkin's (finally remembered his name) bits and yet he still left her his factory & house! I want a client that puts me in his will!! LoL, Samantha Morton is a brilliant actress and I think Band of Gold was where she got her 'big break', I hate how great programs like this only last for a few seasons x