down memory lane with a boswell

Nick Conway, who played Billy in every episode of Bread, is currently rehearsing for Twopence to Cross the Mersey.
Rehearsals are over in Birkenhead, but Nick and Twopence's writer Rob Fennah hopped in Rob's Jag during the lunch break to go back to Nick/Billy's old stomping ground.
You'll be able to read more about that in the Echo imminently I hope, but although the street has changed - new lamp-posts and pavements since Bread was filmed there and new buildings obscuring the famous view of the Mersey - 'Billy' still looks just the same.
He had fond memories of many of the residents in the street including an old couple called Charlie and Edie, who have sadly since died.
There was the odd bit of curtain twitching as Nick posed for some pictures leaning on Rob's car, which looked a lot more swanky than anything Billy Boswell ever moved a parking cone for.
"I had a scene screaming against those railings once," he said.
Happy days.
And he revealed he still had contact numbers for cast members like Jean Boht and Gilly Coman who played the original Aveline - until his mobile phone was nicked at Christmas that is.
I wonder if Jean has been getting any odd phonecalls with pranksters shouting 'she is a TAAARRRT'?
Nick is due to play Frank, the sidekick of docker Mick (Drew Schofield) in Twopence which opens at the Empire on April 9.
Depression era angst and hope, and not a chicken on the table - pottery or not.