Alan Stilitoe

Local Nottingham author Alan Sillitoe used many county locations in his fiction. Radcliffe is name checked in several of his novels and short stories, most famously in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning where Arthur Seaton’s brother Fred is reading a newspaper (presumably the Evening Post).

“‘Any news?’ Arthur asked.

‘Not much. A kid was drowned in Wollaton Cut. A man got three months hard for shoplifting. There was a road-smash at Radcliffe. A collier got killed at the pit, and there’s going to be a Three Power meeting.

‘Is that all?’”