Downton Abbey

djen I had thought they may show more cars than they did, and a larger space, it seemed very small, but it was nice for you to be able to recognise it all.I like the sound of the sweetshop, yum!

We always used to have to go in the sweetshop whenever we went. Now the grandkids have realised that they are all pretty similar, and they do not always eat them, so fortunately I do not always have to buy them a bag each. However, it's always interesting to see how they are made.
There is also a bakery opposite the masonic hall, where there is one of the first ever industrial dough mixers. I mush prefer buying the bread and the gingerbread.

My son's band has actually played in the masonic hall.

If you noticed when they came out of the alleyway there was a Rowntrees sign on the wall.
The actual garage is a lot bigger than that, with a mechanic's area at the back, but that would not do to show Lady Mary. The shop that was at the right of the showroom was the Co-op. It was taken there from Annfield Plain.
When you think about it, roses, how many cars were there around at the time? Not many, if any, for ordinary people.

We were there on Christmas Eve, putting tinsel on my husband's seat.
They are going to build a coaching inn there over the next five years, with twenty-five bedrooms. That should be interesting, as there is only Beamish Hall to stay at at the moment, which is quite expensive.

No, they would have cost a fortune, even second hand.in our street, even in the 1950's only one family owned a car ( black, a Humber, with triangular stickers of all the exotic places they had travelled to, Margate, Skegness and Ilfracombe!) lol.

Me too rosequartz

merlotgran you are what I like to call very funny and even more . well at least she could play with Harry Potter

My dad told me that when he was a child in the 40's there was only one family in the street with a car. They shared the same name as a few other families and were known as the Car Bells . Different times.

On the terrace street I was brought up on in the 40's we had the only car! A little Morris. Posh we wuz.

I only caught up with Downton last night as we had an electricity 'outage' Christmas night right in the middle of it! I thought it was very neatly sewn up and put to bed. The costumes were wonderful - although how the ladies put up with the cold in those flimsy frocks I don't know. I feel sure they would have worn more woolies. And I do wish just one of them would have put on a bit of weight.... Or aged a little.

Ana solved the mystery Indinana

Ha, yes, I've now read through the thread properly and see my mistake . I think I was skimming threads, posting hastily, not refreshing. Oh well, it was Christmas and I've had a 6 month old and a dog running me ragged

NFK, it was filmed in July.

I watched it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it- the end of another era.

I couldn't take the credit for Ana's good memory, Indinana, I can only just keep up with the main characters!

That's why the trees have all their leaves in midwinter (filmed in July)

Well, I didn't have to cast my mind very far back, rose, as we'd seen her and Tom having a quick chat together earlier on. But it was another of those very brief scenes (probably put in to remind us who she was! ).

Must visit Highclere next Summer, it's not far and I keep meaning to go, I shall miss Downton and all it's doings.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed the homage to "Miranda", merlot.

Ana I was watching it (with another granny) interrupted periodically by 'amused comments' for want of a better term, from the younger element, so must have missed that bit!
I would have been happy to watch it later as I recorded it, but other granny doesn't have that facility.

If you go rosesarered it is worth paying the extra to see the Tutankhamun
exhibition.
And the penstemmons are lovely too

I do love the 'amused comments' from teenage DGCs.

'Your Mary is not my Mary' caused much merriment.

July or no, those big houses are cold all year round. Just varying degrees of chill! They hardly ever slipped a cardie around the shoulders.

'Ooh no, they'll have to change the Axminster' when the waters went .... etc etc

Pity there was no update on Mrs. Patmore's B&B.

Trip Advisor would have spotted there was nobody changing the sheets running it.

I think her niece runs it, it's going to be a bit awkward if she marries the farmer and becomes Daisy's step-MIL; perhaps she and farmer will go off to the B&B and leave Daisy and Andy to take over the farm.
Then what about the niece, perhaps she could move to Downton as she is so good at cooking and changing beds.

We will have to start charging a fee for all these good ideas for the film script.

and I don't know why Carson and Mrs Hughes Carson were given a grace and favour home on the estate as I thought they had bought their own cottage

I wondered about that as well, rosequartz. I thought they bought the cottage as friends (with an eye to the future) so why would they need a grace and favour home now they are married?

Maybe the grace and favour thing was a SW slip up but just maybe, yet another sign of Lord G's kindness. The Carson/Hughes could rent out the cottage they bought as an investment and start the trend for buy to let.

Bloomin' heck I wouldn't want that old fart, Carson as my landlord. Iam64 Imagine?

He would want to do a full inspection every day.