Director Ken Loach attended a screening of the film at the Red Shed on Wakefield on Thursday 23rd March 2023. This event was to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the Lofthouse Colliery Disaster.
Early in the film, Sid says about the dysfunctional television, "This is going back to Wiggy's soon, that." Wiggy's was the name of the main supplier of televisions in the area at the time. Most working people leased televisions in 1977.