| Watching the old Lovejoy series 18:15 - Oct 30 with 1296 views | Keno |
Proud to be a Binner!! |  |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 19:14 - Oct 30 with 1106 views | Ewan_Oozami |
Wow! Haven't heard that term for a while, is this another of your SEO boosting posts Keno? ;-) |  |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 19:23 - Oct 30 with 1095 views | NthQldITFC |
Love a bit of Lovejoy. I can just about remember it when it was first shown, but I've watched it many times since. I find it very nostalgic with a Suffolk countryside with far less traffic and far fewer w*nkers speeding about in four wheel drives hogging the lanes. Poor old Tinker would have been splattered all over the road had he been operating now. Also, barely a mobile phone in sight and the necessity to leave messages in pubs and railway signal boxes. Fantastic.
They had so many top notch actors - all the top British thesps and Linda Wossaname from Dallas - I think it must have been a highly sought after gig. My favourite episode is where Loveejoy's down-on-his-luck aristo mate turns up and needs to turn 38p into £3000 or something in a day. The speeded up film carrying antiques to buy and sell from shop to shop in Clare or wherever it was is ace! |  |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 19:49 - Oct 30 with 1033 views | Miaow |
I'm not sure I've ever watched a full episode (possibly wasn't on TV when I was younger) but I always have a flick through when it is on to see if I can spot any local filming locations.
Felsham Hall was actually Belchamp Hall at Belchamp Walter, which was also featured (with the adjacent church) at the beginning of one of the Downton Abbey films.
The last episode I caught a bit of had them speeding through the ford in Kersey. There are lots of pretty villages in East Anglia. |  |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 19:54 - Oct 30 with 1017 views | BlueBadger |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 19:23 - Oct 30 by NthQldITFC |
Love a bit of Lovejoy. I can just about remember it when it was first shown, but I've watched it many times since. I find it very nostalgic with a Suffolk countryside with far less traffic and far fewer w*nkers speeding about in four wheel drives hogging the lanes. Poor old Tinker would have been splattered all over the road had he been operating now. Also, barely a mobile phone in sight and the necessity to leave messages in pubs and railway signal boxes. Fantastic.
They had so many top notch actors - all the top British thesps and Linda Wossaname from Dallas - I think it must have been a highly sought after gig. My favourite episode is where Loveejoy's down-on-his-luck aristo mate turns up and needs to turn 38p into £3000 or something in a day. The speeded up film carrying antiques to buy and sell from shop to shop in Clare or wherever it was is ace! |
Long Melford. I was a passer-by in that episode. Mostly by accident. |  |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 20:21 - Oct 30 with 978 views | stonojnr |
They filmed at Pin Mill, at the Butt & Oyster in one episode. Not sure they ever filmed it Ipswich itself though
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 20:27 - Oct 30 with 965 views | NthQldITFC |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 20:21 - Oct 30 by stonojnr |
They filmed at Pin Mill, at the Butt & Oyster in one episode. Not sure they ever filmed it Ipswich itself though
It was mostly West Suffolk iirc |
That was the one with Alf Garnet wasn't it? And Charlie lost his Purdeys. | |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 20:34 - Oct 30 with 961 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 20:21 - Oct 30 by stonojnr |
They filmed at Pin Mill, at the Butt & Oyster in one episode. Not sure they ever filmed it Ipswich itself though
It was mostly West Suffolk iirc |
Is the Butt and Oyster still going? That was a lovely spot back in the day. The Ramsholt Arms was another favourite on a summer evening. The Ship Inn at Levington was another good one, as it’d serve the beer straight out of tapped barrels. TWTD.
The only trouble with a lot of the best pubs around Suffolk is you had to drive to them. |  |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 20:40 - Oct 30 with 928 views | Keno |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 19:49 - Oct 30 by Miaow |
I'm not sure I've ever watched a full episode (possibly wasn't on TV when I was younger) but I always have a flick through when it is on to see if I can spot any local filming locations.
Felsham Hall was actually Belchamp Hall at Belchamp Walter, which was also featured (with the adjacent church) at the beginning of one of the Downton Abbey films.
The last episode I caught a bit of had them speeding through the ford in Kersey. There are lots of pretty villages in East Anglia. |
Lady Jane still my all time favourite “inspirational” character | |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 20:41 - Oct 30 with 924 views | Keno |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 19:14 - Oct 30 by Ewan_Oozami |
Wow! Haven't heard that term for a while, is this another of your SEO boosting posts Keno? ;-) |
If I knew what an SEO boost was I’d tell you | |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 20:51 - Oct 30 with 892 views | BornDeleuze |
I remember them filming in Lavenham when I was a kid. In one episode they go down the Alley off the Market Square and emerged in Bury St Edmund’s. Also in one episode they were eating takeaway fish and chips, which never happened as a fish and chip shop was never allowed in Lavenham. |  | | |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 23:46 - Oct 30 with 745 views | Guthrum |
I was at sixth form in BSE at the time it was broadcast. Tho never actually saw any of the filming, it was fun seeing where you'd been that afternoon on the TV in the evening. |  |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 00:01 - Oct 31 with 732 views | Miaow |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 20:51 - Oct 30 by BornDeleuze |
I remember them filming in Lavenham when I was a kid. In one episode they go down the Alley off the Market Square and emerged in Bury St Edmund’s. Also in one episode they were eating takeaway fish and chips, which never happened as a fish and chip shop was never allowed in Lavenham. |
The chip shop may have been Oysters in Braintree. | |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 00:51 - Oct 31 with 701 views | Ryorry |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 19:23 - Oct 30 by NthQldITFC |
Love a bit of Lovejoy. I can just about remember it when it was first shown, but I've watched it many times since. I find it very nostalgic with a Suffolk countryside with far less traffic and far fewer w*nkers speeding about in four wheel drives hogging the lanes. Poor old Tinker would have been splattered all over the road had he been operating now. Also, barely a mobile phone in sight and the necessity to leave messages in pubs and railway signal boxes. Fantastic.
They had so many top notch actors - all the top British thesps and Linda Wossaname from Dallas - I think it must have been a highly sought after gig. My favourite episode is where Loveejoy's down-on-his-luck aristo mate turns up and needs to turn 38p into £3000 or something in a day. The speeded up film carrying antiques to buy and sell from shop to shop in Clare or wherever it was is ace! |
Very enjoyable for the locations, the interesting education on some antiques, and the wonderful characters esp Tinker (Dudley Sutton), Eric (Chris Jury) & Lady J (Phyllis Logan); but I found Lovejoy's 'pieces to camera' 'breaking the 4th wall' irritating & a bit of a turnoff. |  |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 06:28 - Oct 31 with 601 views | Benters |
Lovejoy is a classic! |  |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 06:50 - Oct 31 with 575 views | Churchman |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 19:49 - Oct 30 by Miaow |
I'm not sure I've ever watched a full episode (possibly wasn't on TV when I was younger) but I always have a flick through when it is on to see if I can spot any local filming locations.
Felsham Hall was actually Belchamp Hall at Belchamp Walter, which was also featured (with the adjacent church) at the beginning of one of the Downton Abbey films.
The last episode I caught a bit of had them speeding through the ford in Kersey. There are lots of pretty villages in East Anglia. |
There actually is a Felsham Hall close to Felsham in the Bury St Edmunds area. I should know - my ancestor owned it. Sadly though, it isn’t nearly as grand as Lady Jane Felsham’s in the tv series. It was a large farmhouse and is still standing. I think a lot of the more substantial farmhouses back in the day were called ‘halls’ - a word of German origin with different meanings over time, but essentially covered space.
Back to the point, the tv series was great, though drifted at the end when key characters like Lady Jane, Eric and Tinker left. The first three or four series in particular are still well worth a watch, despite looking a little dated (cars etc). They are very well acted, good casts, strong plot lines and fun.
The ‘binner’ insult is rather typical of that lot. It’s not an insult at all. The episode is called Bin Diving and basically the main man on a refuse wagon is called Brian Nunn, played by Warren Clarke, and he wears an ITFC baseball cap. He and his crew basically see it as their right to first dibs on anything valuable left in the rubbish and ward off bin divers.
Brian clearly makes a good living from it with a house full of valuables and time to indulge in cooking for when his wife gets home. He and his mates join with Lovejoy to catch a couple of snotty thieves and recover some valuable shotguns for a poor old lady who has had them stolen and needs the money.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0637181/
As a postscript, I would never deride those that collect the rubbish every week anyway. They do a tough, hazardous and crucial job. I hope the Council pays them well. [Post edited 31 Oct 7:10]
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 07:26 - Oct 31 with 524 views | NthQldITFC |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 06:50 - Oct 31 by Churchman |
There actually is a Felsham Hall close to Felsham in the Bury St Edmunds area. I should know - my ancestor owned it. Sadly though, it isn’t nearly as grand as Lady Jane Felsham’s in the tv series. It was a large farmhouse and is still standing. I think a lot of the more substantial farmhouses back in the day were called ‘halls’ - a word of German origin with different meanings over time, but essentially covered space.
Back to the point, the tv series was great, though drifted at the end when key characters like Lady Jane, Eric and Tinker left. The first three or four series in particular are still well worth a watch, despite looking a little dated (cars etc). They are very well acted, good casts, strong plot lines and fun.
The ‘binner’ insult is rather typical of that lot. It’s not an insult at all. The episode is called Bin Diving and basically the main man on a refuse wagon is called Brian Nunn, played by Warren Clarke, and he wears an ITFC baseball cap. He and his crew basically see it as their right to first dibs on anything valuable left in the rubbish and ward off bin divers.
Brian clearly makes a good living from it with a house full of valuables and time to indulge in cooking for when his wife gets home. He and his mates join with Lovejoy to catch a couple of snotty thieves and recover some valuable shotguns for a poor old lady who has had them stolen and needs the money.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0637181/
As a postscript, I would never deride those that collect the rubbish every week anyway. They do a tough, hazardous and crucial job. I hope the Council pays them well. [Post edited 31 Oct 7:10]
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Point of order: Tinker never left. He may have evaporated a little, but he never left. | |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 07:39 - Oct 31 with 504 views | Churchman |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 07:26 - Oct 31 by NthQldITFC |
Point of order: Tinker never left. He may have evaporated a little, but he never left. |
Ahh, fair enough I stand corrected. Me and my rubbish memory | | | |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 09:28 - Oct 31 with 406 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 07:39 - Oct 31 by Churchman |
Ahh, fair enough I stand corrected. Me and my rubbish memory |
I was prompted to watch the first one last night, by this thread.
Was great fun. They dont make good telly anymore do they? | | | |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 09:40 - Oct 31 with 374 views | hype313 |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 20:34 - Oct 30 by Swansea_Blue |
Is the Butt and Oyster still going? That was a lovely spot back in the day. The Ramsholt Arms was another favourite on a summer evening. The Ship Inn at Levington was another good one, as it’d serve the beer straight out of tapped barrels. TWTD.
The only trouble with a lot of the best pubs around Suffolk is you had to drive to them. |
All of those are still going strong, but as you say, bit of a drive, especially Ramsholt Arms, but worth it on a summer afternoon. |  |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 10:52 - Oct 31 with 310 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
I wonder what odds you would have got in the mid Eighties that Laura from dreadful "Will they, won't they?" sitcom "A Fine Romance" and the roguish antiques dealer from a new BBC caper would become the lead returning ensemble actors in two of the biggest Hollywood Action Movie franchises of all time? | | | |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 11:31 - Oct 31 with 275 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 09:28 - Oct 31 by redrickstuhaart |
I was prompted to watch the first one last night, by this thread.
Was great fun. They dont make good telly anymore do they? |
Ghosts
Detectorists
This Country
Taskmaster
Mr Bates v The Post Office
Slow Horses
Succession
Better Call Saul
No, it's either pap, or, like the above, great.
Even Ian McShane's gig from ten or so years ago, in Deadwood, along with others from that era like Breaking Bad and Chernobyl, or The Salisbury Poisonings and Hillsborough, or Sean Bean's under-rated Priest drama "Broken", can be added in to show that every decade has great telly! | | | |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 12:04 - Oct 31 with 241 views | TheMoralMajority |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 11:31 - Oct 31 by ArnoldMoorhen |
Ghosts
Detectorists
This Country
Taskmaster
Mr Bates v The Post Office
Slow Horses
Succession
Better Call Saul
No, it's either pap, or, like the above, great.
Even Ian McShane's gig from ten or so years ago, in Deadwood, along with others from that era like Breaking Bad and Chernobyl, or The Salisbury Poisonings and Hillsborough, or Sean Bean's under-rated Priest drama "Broken", can be added in to show that every decade has great telly! |
Just to depress you... Deadwood was 21 years ago! |  |
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| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 12:07 - Oct 31 with 232 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 12:04 - Oct 31 by TheMoralMajority |
Just to depress you... Deadwood was 21 years ago! |
Big Netflix 'boxed sets' aren't really telly in my book. | | | |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 12:09 - Oct 31 with 230 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 12:04 - Oct 31 by TheMoralMajority |
Just to depress you... Deadwood was 21 years ago! |
I just cheered myself up by recalling the lovely Jeffrey Holland and co, and you go and do that to me!
(But there was a one-off Deadwood special in 2019!) | | | |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 13:12 - Oct 31 with 181 views | stonojnr |
| Watching the old Lovejoy series on 20:27 - Oct 30 by NthQldITFC |
That was the one with Alf Garnet wasn't it? And Charlie lost his Purdeys. |
It was and seems I was wrong they filmed down at the port, Stoke Quay and at a cafe on Wherstead road
I'll have to rewatch it to see if you can spot those areas.
The Butt & Oyster filming was literally front page news for the Star which is why I remember it more. | | | |
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