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Brookside

Brookside \Brook"side`\, n. The bank of a brook.

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brookside

a. On the side of a brook. n. The side of a brook.

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Brookside, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 219
Housing Units (2000): 88
Land area (2000): 0.431535 sq. miles (1.117670 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.431535 sq. miles (1.117670 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09115
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 38.413513 N, 105.190734 W
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Brookside, DE -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Delaware
Population (2000): 14806
Housing Units (2000): 5645
Land area (2000): 3.908971 sq. miles (10.124187 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.908971 sq. miles (10.124187 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09850
Located within: Delaware (DE), FIPS 10
Location: 39.669211 N, 75.717961 W
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Brookside, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 1393
Housing Units (2000): 613
Land area (2000): 5.983996 sq. miles (15.498477 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.010685 sq. miles (0.027675 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.994681 sq. miles (15.526152 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09736
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.631867 N, 86.913068 W
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Brookside, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 644
Housing Units (2000): 304
Land area (2000): 0.173368 sq. miles (0.449020 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.173368 sq. miles (0.449020 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09316
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.071422 N, 80.760632 W
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Wikipedia
Brookside

Brookside is a British soap opera set in Liverpool, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982, and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003. Originally intended to be called Meadowcroft, the series was produced by Mersey Television and it was conceived by Phil Redmond who also devised Grange Hill (1978–2008) and Hollyoaks (1995–present).

Brookside became very successful and was often Channel 4's highest rated programme for a number of years in the mid-80s and 2003, with audiences regularly in excess of eight million viewers. It is notable for its tackling of realistic and socially challenging storylines. From the mid-1990s it began raising more controversial subjects under the guidance of new producers such as Mal Young and Paul Marquess. It is especially well known for broadcasting the first pre- watershed lesbian kiss on British television in 1994, as well as a powerful domestic abuse storyline resulting in murder. In 1996, the series caused an uproar when it featured a storyline of a consensual incestuous sexual relationship between two sibling characters.

Brookside was also the first British soap to feature an openly gay character when Gordon Collins came out in 1985, and it was also the first to depict serious drug addiction with a number of different characters. Although the series had a long and successful run, by 2000 its viewing figures were in terminal decline and low ratings eventually led to its cancellation in 2003. The final episode was broadcast on 4 November 2003 and was watched by around two million viewers.

The first episode of Brookside was repeated as part of Channel 4 at 25 on 1 October 2007. The episode aired on More4 in a season of celebratory Channel 4 programmes to mark the channel's first quarter century. Several classic episodes have also been available to view on 4oD, an online service, since 2009.

After years of campaigning by fans, a special DVD was released in November 2012, just over 30 years after the series originally began, titled Brookside Most Memorable Moments. It features clips and episodes from every year of the programme's 21-year history.

Brookside (disambiguation)

Brookside is a British soap opera that aired from 1982 to 2003.

Brookside may also refer to:

Brookside (Upper Nyack, New York)

Brookside, also known as Lochburn, is a historic home located at Upper Nyack, Rockland County, New York. It was built about 1865, as a 2 1/2-story Italian Villa style frame residence. It was enlarged and modified about 1890 and Colonial Revival style design elements were added. The house features a three-story tower, sweeping verandah, and porte cochere. Also on the property is a large carriage house (c. 1890).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Usage examples of "brookside".

Not long afterwards, they repeated the experiment, this time by persuading their mother and father to watch the episodes of the television serial Brookside which dealt with a sexually abusive father who was buried under the patio.

On arrival at Brookside on D-dav, the meter readers would begin bouse-to-house and business-to-business checks of electric and gas meters, searching for signs of tampering.

He had seen more than enough of Brookside, he decided, and enough of power thievery to grasp truly, for the first time, the size and hydra-beaded nature of the beast.

No matter what the tree is, the poplar of France, or the brookside willow or oak coppice of England, or the chestnuts or mulberries of Italy, all are interesting when being pruned, or when pruned just lately.

Presently, quite to my astonishment, I saw a man standing near the brookside not a dozen paces away from me.

Afterwards I perceived Miss Thorn down by the brookside, washing dishes.

David Zielinsky walked out of the Theatrical and onto Short Vincent, left onto East Sixth, right onto Euclid Avenue, heading to Terminal Tower, where he intended to take the streetcar home, heave rubber-banded newspapers onto stoops all over Old Brooklyn, eat the dinner Aunt Betty would serve, and after that meet up with his buddies and see if that redheaded lifeguard was still over at Brookside, if she even existed, and be home by dark.

David never found out for sure about the lifeguard at Brookside Pool, though he would always have a thing about redheaded women.

Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane.

We found a sheep trail along the brookside and began making our way back towards the cairn.

If they were not invited to take their lunch with the wealthier families, they found shady brookside places to eat their bread, cheese, and whatever else Chenaol might have packed for them.

Maulevrier was with them everywhere, by brookside and fell, on the lake, in the gardens, in the billiard-room, playing propriety with admirable patience.

Around the square, right into Coronation Street, third left into Brookside, past Peyton Place, into Tin Pan Alley.

Coronation Street, East Enders, Brookside, Neighbours or any Aussie or any other sort of soap.

And May-Day as well, in its full English Glory, Mason's Baptismal day, its own Breath being drawn again and again across the Brooksides, Copses, and Fields, heated, fragrant.