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The Sillitoe Trail's third stop is Nottingham bike manufacturer Raleigh, which plays a pivotal role in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning as the workplace for the novel's antihero Arthur Seaton. You can see exactly how they did it in this short film How A Bicycle is Made which is part of the British Council Film Collection

duration: 17 mins

The third featured location on the Sillitoe Trail is Raleigh, the bicycle factory where Arthur Seaton "slugged his guts out over a lathe." Read the stories of workers and managers who worked at the factory in a bygone Britain

The third featured location on the Sillitoe Trail is Raleigh, the bicycle factory where Saturday Night and Sunday Morning anti-hero Arthur Seaton "slugged his guts out over a lathe." Journalist Mark Patterson remembers the final day of production at the once iconic plant

The third featured location on the Sillitoe Trail is Raleigh, the bicycle factory where Arthur Seaton "slugged his guts out over a lathe." Read an essay comparing Sillitoe’s novel with Rivethead, a 1991 novel about working at General Motors in Flint, Michigan

Nottingham-born jazz trombonist, John Aram, wrote the 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' suite over a four year period as a loose adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's novel, following the twists and turns of the plot. Listen to the overture

duration: 9 mins

Introducing a virtual tour of writer Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham