Beyond the Boundaries - #10 - The "Open All Hours" Shop, Doncaster
Beyond the Boundaries The "Open All Hours" Shop, Balby (Doncaster)
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@user-oo5tc3ur2p7 ай бұрын
I live in New Zealand, about as far away as you can get from Doncaster . A few years ago we did a family trip over several weeks to Europe, the shop at 35 Lister Ave , Doncaster was on our list of things to find as we all loved the series so much . I even brought back a couple of pieces of brick and mortar that was loose on the pavement ,that had obviously fallen from somewhere near the front window . we all still watch the episodes , never get tired of the humour .
@thefloorkiller7 ай бұрын
So glad to grow up in this brilliant time of family television
@mrsmiggins64357 ай бұрын
I didnt reslise this series was made in Doncaster! Thank you for reminding me of this wonderful series.
@ElzevereBlock7 ай бұрын
This classic comedy and Last of the Summer Wine are two I watch more NOW than I did back then. Priceless and never to be surpassed by anything made today.
@martynromaine85187 ай бұрын
An absolute classic show from my childhood. Love Open All Hours to this day
@rodgerslape7 ай бұрын
I lived in Balby about 75 years ago when I was a child. My father was a policeman and we lived in a Police House, with cells and an Exercise Yard, overlooking the River Don. The dog used to sleep in a cell during the night and in the Exercise Yard during the day...Happy Days.
@mrsmiggins64357 ай бұрын
Ronnie Barker was such a great actor and writer. Thanks for reminding me of such a treasure of a series
@BigButtocks967
7 ай бұрын
It was written by Roy Clarke.
@bigturboxr3i7 ай бұрын
I bought the box set and watch them all over and over. Golden days.
@ROCKINGMAN7 ай бұрын
Although it was a BBC favourite, there was something sad and old fashioned due to the ambience of this sit-com. The northern feel and look of the old corner shop had a feeling of cold grey days as if it were from times way past but somehow still had some modern elements to it.
@count697 ай бұрын
There was a guy in Hull called Jack Kaye who ran a little corner shop and was from the same mould as Arkwright. You would go to the shop for a jar of coffee and come home with mop heads and an arm full of stuff you couldn't even remember buying. I swear the guy was a hypnotist!
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Hahaha where in Hull was it?
@count69
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot It used to be on Ella Street on the corner with Salisbury Street. The shop was demolished and they put a little close of new builds there, but they named a path/cut through that led to the shop as Jack Kaye Walk.
@eddherring49727 ай бұрын
Stephanie Cole was absolutely superb in this and as Roy Cropper’s mother in Corrie ♥️
@patricklee60667 ай бұрын
By god I love that show! All the characters were fantastic.Thanks for this programme,love it.
@mraidymaddful7 ай бұрын
I grew up with this kind of humour and it's so good to revisit it here on You Tube. Modern humour just isn't the same, mind you, nothing is, is it...........
@terencebarrett28977 ай бұрын
Absolutely wonderful brilliant,, you look and see the old old days of living,the houses,shops,people, the lady carrying her shopping bag ,ahh wonderful.
@Mr22Johnthegreat7 ай бұрын
An American who enjoys the old and new episodes! Thanks for the info!
@geoffhobbs52877 ай бұрын
My previous job, I used to have to deliver round there on occasions , this was when still open all hours was being made , I was never working aorund there when they were filming though.
@David_Baxendale26 күн бұрын
I always have mixed feelings about this show. It was both the highlight of my school days sunday evenings, but I really didn't like school and it was the last thing I wanted before going to bed. It's ending signalled the end of the weekend. Today however I can enjoy it fully. Great series and my kids like it as well.
@chriscantplay...29337 ай бұрын
The amateurs at my local theatre in Lincolnshire did Open All Hours a fortnight ago combining various scenes from different episodes. Pretty much sold out every night which is far more support than most shows receive.
@tonymaries16527 ай бұрын
A few years ago I nearly rented a house in Lister Avenue, almost opposite Arkwright's shop. I was ready to move in when some scrote broke in and ripped out the plumbing to sell for scrap, probably to feed his drug habit. Last time I went to Donnie that house was for sale and it looks from your video that it still is. Beautique was also for sale a few years ago. Being the set for Open All Hours did nothing to boost the asking price. I expect you can still buy a two-up two-down terraced house in Donnie starting from about 50 grand. The former mining villages in the area were even cheaper!
@dereklupton52597 ай бұрын
Can you imagine leaving all those goods out on display on the pavement these days? Probably last half an hour.
@brucedanton36697 ай бұрын
Thank you for this of course. We went there and found it in June 1988; after the original series had ended but of course before the later one started so too. Very interesting so too-well done!
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@rachelwalker70917 ай бұрын
Great nostalgia! My Mother had her first teaching job in Balby in the late 1940’s
@dangruner59267 ай бұрын
I’m a kid, but love this program! :)
@wisteela7 ай бұрын
Fantastic. Subscribed. I must visit here. It looks lovely.
@JohnCashin7 ай бұрын
Thanks. I often wondered where the filming location was. This was a really entertaining and funny show back in the day. I used to watch it nearly every week. I reckon its main reason for success was due to the late great Ronnie Barker. I mean, he just had that magic touch and made everything he was in turn to goldust. Best wishes 👍
@tommytar2227 ай бұрын
My house was a corner shop. if you look carefully, the bay window has been reset onto the first floor. This was to allow for the shop front. Took me a few years to notice the difference.
@johnhopkinson73547 ай бұрын
Brings back brilliant memories of the days when we had real communities who worked and helped one another together. These places are now run down and often spoiled by out of control young people, often gangs up to no good. Drugs, drink, loud music, electric bikes, noise, pranks and vandalism, targeted attacks and ghetto behaviour.....(renters with no pride).... much less of the old friendly neighbours, good hard working families looking out for one another with a corner shop and pub to meet up regularly. This is Britain today in so many of these traditional areas, once places we happily grew up in harmony together
@ahassen12367 ай бұрын
The corner shops were the cornerstone of society back in the days. No one had a car, the men worked at the local mills and the housewives rarely ever ventured out of their immediate areas.
@tonymaries1652
7 ай бұрын
There were no mills in Doncaster. The plum job for a working man was at Doncaster Plant but there was also Peglers, which I think is still there, and a lot of other factories a couple of blocks from the street where this was filmed. If you didn't want to build and maintain steam engines there was the Case tractor factory on the Wheatley Hall Road.
@matildamartin28117 ай бұрын
When I was fifteen, during the war I worked in a corner shop in Edinburgh. We knew personally every customer and their families. I never remember seeing a strange face in the shop. The customers lived within a two street area. We never displayed goods outside but the window was dressed every morning with fresh seasonal fruit and veg.
@annother33507 ай бұрын
The Beautique eh? So Glamorous!
@solidairs7 ай бұрын
The shop featured in the pilot was in Drayton Avenue in Ealing.
@ColinPfc7 ай бұрын
Also appears in the sitcom GET SOME IN when Smith goes ti his grandads house, he walks right past it.
@lesleybenson87947 ай бұрын
My home town. Had work friends who lived in Balby.
@traceyg95547 ай бұрын
Nicky is going to win her bet! lol great viewing figures. Well done 👏
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Yes she's won it now. I concede defeat :D
@lezbriddon7 ай бұрын
we live in york but have family local to doncaster, everytime we get a new car etc we get a photo of it outside the old shop, obviously over the road is the fictitious home of nurse Gladys Emanual, but what many dont know is that 2 different house where used as the original house owners opted out of further filming during the run of the show.
@thewatchmen49207 ай бұрын
Wouldn't mind having a few 💿 💿💿💿 of this. Better than some program on the 📺. Nothing but 💨💨💨💨🏥🚓🚑🚒
@Mackeson37 ай бұрын
4:28 It was Ronnie Barker (Not the writer Roy Clarke) who had the idea to give Arkwright that stammer. They were reading through the script for the very first time and Barker just sort of slipped it in for effect and they said "Leave that in!" Many moons ago my dad used to deliver milk to that street. (Amongst many others of course)
@allyearrounddeckspergolas96477 ай бұрын
Awsome show
@nickprica31277 ай бұрын
my grandad had a corner shop from the late 40s right through to the mid 70s he sod what people needed he would open at around 6 oclock in the morning to catch the workers some of them didnt have the money to pay for what they needed my grandad would let them have what they needed and would write there names in a little book come payday they would pay him what they owed but come the week after they owed him again good times long gone now trusting times
@markk97317 ай бұрын
In the early 2000's the council were talking about flattening the whole area and redeveloping it. Nothing came of it, but hopefully the shop will be saved or rebuilt somewhere else when and if it does happen.
@robinwbarrett7 ай бұрын
Andy, that was fabulous
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
I thank you, my friend :)
@rchippy23197 ай бұрын
Just found your channel..they were great times...new subscriber for your channel.👍
@celitastrouse72327 ай бұрын
Love it, first time seeing this one.
@LeClaw7 ай бұрын
I remember the first time I went past the shop I was doing a delivery to the aforementioned Balby Carr Bank industrial estate, missed the turn off for the place I was delivering to and decided to do a "u-turn" in the nearest estate and ended up going on Lister Ave. unwittingly. 🤣
@ramblingrob46937 ай бұрын
The First shop you showed seemed to fit the building in the show
@Budbrothers4207 ай бұрын
This show is one of the main reasons created mine so it’s crazy to see this place in the flesh
@VirtualAirshow7 ай бұрын
Takes me back memories
@allyearrounddeckspergolas96477 ай бұрын
P.s..british make best comedies ever.i was born a cockney now a bloody aussie lol
@thomasbowers62347 ай бұрын
Just came across your channel as it was in my recommendations so new subscriber here.... brilliant
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Welcome aboard!
@pennylane97307 ай бұрын
Hi Andy. Open all hours what memorys.😂 Great video. Thanks
@mrsmiggins64357 ай бұрын
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 Andy
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Thanks! 😃
@sallywalton53757 ай бұрын
Dident realise it was in Doncaster!!!!
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Yep. Lister Avenue!
@MrSmalley3007 ай бұрын
As a kid I went and watched it been filmed.I got Ronnie Barker`s autograph, my bic pen leaked on him so he got another pen and signed. One night we came across David Jason practicing a dance and I got his autograph too.
@petejones8797 ай бұрын
I've always quite fancied Barbera Flynn
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
75 now, she is. Madness how fast time flies
@scottandrewbrass1931
7 ай бұрын
Aye.
@mikereed24977 ай бұрын
Brilliant, loved that one, Andy. Will have to find that next time we are near Balby. Happy memories of a great series.
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Originally this video was a bit longer. I had to cut a piece out about the 2013 reboot where Granville was the shopkeeper, carrying on after his late uncle. KZread didn't like the piece of footage I used though!
@mikereed2497
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot Can't understand why, summed up a much loved series nicely.
@Jack_Warner7 ай бұрын
Nice to see it's still standing and not been turned into a mosque.
@rolybellamy9567 ай бұрын
other locations in donny are the balmoral hotel on thorne rd , now a private house , a second hand shop on highfield rd wheatly and a cafe on holmes market nr beckett rd wheatly !
@peterdavies2317
7 ай бұрын
I used to live opposite the second hand shop, it was a dump of a place, I knew the owner well, his name was Barney, but what most people didn't know was that he had tenants living in the cellar, we called them the "cellar dwellers," 2 families were living down there, oh and another piece of useless information, Barney had a striplight hanging in the window which he never turned off, in over 20 years of him having the shop, he never had to change the bulb once, Barney was dodgy but he was great with the locals, I spent many hours talking to him on a weekend.
@Binlorriesofdoncaster7 ай бұрын
I live in Doncaster ie donny and it’s brill and I am a bin man
@robertsmelt66387 ай бұрын
50 years ago, shops like that were very common. The shopkeepers were pretty ruthless and affluent compared to their customers..
@thehouseholder54687 ай бұрын
Awesome 😂
@learevenga7 ай бұрын
I am here for Nicola!! I enjoyed the video very much, your moderating skills are amazing! I thought I watched a bbc documentary! 😮
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Thanks! Massive complement!
@LordEriolTolkien7 ай бұрын
Ah. My home.
@ruffian7137 ай бұрын
I subscribed when I came across your Gunness video (I live up the road from there in Scunthorpe) and have watched regularly since but never expected such a treat as this trip down memory lane!
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
You're welcome :D And of course, Scunthorpe ain't far from the shop!
@stevenpiggott33547 ай бұрын
😊great video
@michaelward20827 ай бұрын
I visited this location once, all I found was a closed down ladies hairdressers shop
@DruGunnersVR7 ай бұрын
I never knew it was filmed in Doncaster
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
You sure do now :D
@DruGunnersVR
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot That is true, haha.
@amxen17 ай бұрын
my brother lives round the corner from this shop
@silverlaptop20222 күн бұрын
So the shop in the pilot, where was that? Is it a set? Tacoma Washington state West coast here 🍎
@TheVillageIdiot
2 күн бұрын
Yeah it was a set
@ianfrench15777 ай бұрын
I wonder if the shop was ever used for internal shots. It would be interesting to get inside and try and line up angles if so.
@ramblingrob4693
7 ай бұрын
Doubt It
@pauljeffries
7 ай бұрын
The internal shots were done in a studio, the shop/building was only used externally.
@JelMain7 ай бұрын
I swear that was the set of Four Candles.
@viviendockerty58227 ай бұрын
That till is well known all over Australia!
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
How so?
@viviendockerty5822
7 ай бұрын
Because the series is so well known. I am still watching it on You Tube and multiple times!
@craiglatham7 ай бұрын
GG Grenville bring your cloth.
@davethackery37737 ай бұрын
Pretty sure it was always an hair dressers even when it was being filmed.
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
It was - I say that near the end. They closed for a summer break every time the BBC wanted the shop
@davethackery3773
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot I did watch to the end 😀 but I thought you had said that it's no longer a shop as it was now a beauty salon as if you thought it used to be a real shop in the 70s / 80s when it was filmed.
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
That's what I thought when I was filming yeah, until I found that out later
@markpusko24807 ай бұрын
I was expecting to see more of the store & surrounding area, possibly how it looks inside these days. Not a montage of old video clips
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
This is where my hands are tied. I can't just wander into the shop with my camera
@mwhitaker70108 күн бұрын
Was hoping you would show what was in the shop now and show a bit more of the area.
@TheVillageIdiot
8 күн бұрын
The area is all like Lister Street. Terraced housing everywhere. You wouldn't be seeing anything different. As for the shop, I cannot film inside it. Its private property.
@mwhitaker7010
7 күн бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot Private p-p-p-p. I say P-p-p-private p-p-p-property. I won't be having you talking about your p-p-privates lad.
@calex93987 ай бұрын
👍👍💥💥💥💥💥
@alicebutler20077 ай бұрын
Has this jumped by 2000 views today? Can't think how that happened😂
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Cant think how...mystery. 🤣😅
@nathan2605757 ай бұрын
My local shopkeeper in the early 80s had a 'nonce pending way' about him too.
@craiglatham
7 ай бұрын
Hope you're not insinuating that the both of them are Jimmy's mates?
@home-space7 ай бұрын
Did the recent remake use the same location?
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
I assume it did yes
@chrisst89227 ай бұрын
Awkwright wouldn't have got a Transit. He'd have made Grandville manage with a Vivaro at best.
@Lighting_Desk7 ай бұрын
Are they still making it? I know it came back for a reboot but not sure if its still going.
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Not now no
@retrogamer337 ай бұрын
Granville....F-F-Fetch a cloth!
@nonamespecified12627 ай бұрын
What's the guessing that it will be converted In to 2 flats. I bet ya..
@continentalquilt7801
7 ай бұрын
That's what I thought would have happened by now. Great that it is still a hairdressers like it was in the 1980s.
@philipj34866 ай бұрын
It was always a Hairdressers
@davidkelly39957 ай бұрын
Looks same as it did in 70s old terraces pit houses
@GLENLYNAS7 ай бұрын
Would loved to have given Mrs Featherstone one right up the garry
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
I genuinely don't know how to respond to that hahahaha!!!
@GLENLYNAS
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot 🤣 ...I was being sarcastic
@paulus1212127 ай бұрын
is tht it 26 eps
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Yep. I know, I swear it was more!
@PaulF0ley7 ай бұрын
That’s messed up
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
What is?
@memyself74137 ай бұрын
Ah, those were the "good ol' days." A time when people knew what humour and laughing was all about. If that programme was on now, I'd bet a pound to a pinch of sugar that somebody with a speech impediment would want the show banned and go for damages, (Because they are 'offended') assisted by a 'Human Rights Lawyer' who is only interested in the 'wedge that he/she would make from it. To quote a word from a Beatles song, "Yesterday....................!"
@niceuneasy7 ай бұрын
Lol memory lane
@colinkey70947 ай бұрын
What is the point of this? All the episodes are available on KZread.
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
What's the point of this comment? You clearly haven't understood what I do
@standenberg
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiotdoes Colin come from your village? Can’t have 2 village idiots 😂🤣
@stupididiot61167 ай бұрын
Open all hours was a classic British comedy show ! ……..but the same cannot be said of the new series which is just rubbish !
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I live in New Zealand, about as far away as you can get from Doncaster . A few years ago we did a family trip over several weeks to Europe, the shop at 35 Lister Ave , Doncaster was on our list of things to find as we all loved the series so much . I even brought back a couple of pieces of brick and mortar that was loose on the pavement ,that had obviously fallen from somewhere near the front window . we all still watch the episodes , never get tired of the humour .
So glad to grow up in this brilliant time of family television
I didnt reslise this series was made in Doncaster! Thank you for reminding me of this wonderful series.
This classic comedy and Last of the Summer Wine are two I watch more NOW than I did back then. Priceless and never to be surpassed by anything made today.
An absolute classic show from my childhood. Love Open All Hours to this day
I lived in Balby about 75 years ago when I was a child. My father was a policeman and we lived in a Police House, with cells and an Exercise Yard, overlooking the River Don. The dog used to sleep in a cell during the night and in the Exercise Yard during the day...Happy Days.
Ronnie Barker was such a great actor and writer. Thanks for reminding me of such a treasure of a series
@BigButtocks967
7 ай бұрын
It was written by Roy Clarke.
I bought the box set and watch them all over and over. Golden days.
Although it was a BBC favourite, there was something sad and old fashioned due to the ambience of this sit-com. The northern feel and look of the old corner shop had a feeling of cold grey days as if it were from times way past but somehow still had some modern elements to it.
There was a guy in Hull called Jack Kaye who ran a little corner shop and was from the same mould as Arkwright. You would go to the shop for a jar of coffee and come home with mop heads and an arm full of stuff you couldn't even remember buying. I swear the guy was a hypnotist!
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Hahaha where in Hull was it?
@count69
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot It used to be on Ella Street on the corner with Salisbury Street. The shop was demolished and they put a little close of new builds there, but they named a path/cut through that led to the shop as Jack Kaye Walk.
Stephanie Cole was absolutely superb in this and as Roy Cropper’s mother in Corrie ♥️
By god I love that show! All the characters were fantastic.Thanks for this programme,love it.
I grew up with this kind of humour and it's so good to revisit it here on You Tube. Modern humour just isn't the same, mind you, nothing is, is it...........
Absolutely wonderful brilliant,, you look and see the old old days of living,the houses,shops,people, the lady carrying her shopping bag ,ahh wonderful.
An American who enjoys the old and new episodes! Thanks for the info!
My previous job, I used to have to deliver round there on occasions , this was when still open all hours was being made , I was never working aorund there when they were filming though.
I always have mixed feelings about this show. It was both the highlight of my school days sunday evenings, but I really didn't like school and it was the last thing I wanted before going to bed. It's ending signalled the end of the weekend. Today however I can enjoy it fully. Great series and my kids like it as well.
The amateurs at my local theatre in Lincolnshire did Open All Hours a fortnight ago combining various scenes from different episodes. Pretty much sold out every night which is far more support than most shows receive.
A few years ago I nearly rented a house in Lister Avenue, almost opposite Arkwright's shop. I was ready to move in when some scrote broke in and ripped out the plumbing to sell for scrap, probably to feed his drug habit. Last time I went to Donnie that house was for sale and it looks from your video that it still is. Beautique was also for sale a few years ago. Being the set for Open All Hours did nothing to boost the asking price. I expect you can still buy a two-up two-down terraced house in Donnie starting from about 50 grand. The former mining villages in the area were even cheaper!
Can you imagine leaving all those goods out on display on the pavement these days? Probably last half an hour.
Thank you for this of course. We went there and found it in June 1988; after the original series had ended but of course before the later one started so too. Very interesting so too-well done!
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great nostalgia! My Mother had her first teaching job in Balby in the late 1940’s
I’m a kid, but love this program! :)
Fantastic. Subscribed. I must visit here. It looks lovely.
Thanks. I often wondered where the filming location was. This was a really entertaining and funny show back in the day. I used to watch it nearly every week. I reckon its main reason for success was due to the late great Ronnie Barker. I mean, he just had that magic touch and made everything he was in turn to goldust. Best wishes 👍
My house was a corner shop. if you look carefully, the bay window has been reset onto the first floor. This was to allow for the shop front. Took me a few years to notice the difference.
Brings back brilliant memories of the days when we had real communities who worked and helped one another together. These places are now run down and often spoiled by out of control young people, often gangs up to no good. Drugs, drink, loud music, electric bikes, noise, pranks and vandalism, targeted attacks and ghetto behaviour.....(renters with no pride).... much less of the old friendly neighbours, good hard working families looking out for one another with a corner shop and pub to meet up regularly. This is Britain today in so many of these traditional areas, once places we happily grew up in harmony together
The corner shops were the cornerstone of society back in the days. No one had a car, the men worked at the local mills and the housewives rarely ever ventured out of their immediate areas.
@tonymaries1652
7 ай бұрын
There were no mills in Doncaster. The plum job for a working man was at Doncaster Plant but there was also Peglers, which I think is still there, and a lot of other factories a couple of blocks from the street where this was filmed. If you didn't want to build and maintain steam engines there was the Case tractor factory on the Wheatley Hall Road.
When I was fifteen, during the war I worked in a corner shop in Edinburgh. We knew personally every customer and their families. I never remember seeing a strange face in the shop. The customers lived within a two street area. We never displayed goods outside but the window was dressed every morning with fresh seasonal fruit and veg.
The Beautique eh? So Glamorous!
The shop featured in the pilot was in Drayton Avenue in Ealing.
Also appears in the sitcom GET SOME IN when Smith goes ti his grandads house, he walks right past it.
My home town. Had work friends who lived in Balby.
Nicky is going to win her bet! lol great viewing figures. Well done 👏
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Yes she's won it now. I concede defeat :D
we live in york but have family local to doncaster, everytime we get a new car etc we get a photo of it outside the old shop, obviously over the road is the fictitious home of nurse Gladys Emanual, but what many dont know is that 2 different house where used as the original house owners opted out of further filming during the run of the show.
Wouldn't mind having a few 💿 💿💿💿 of this. Better than some program on the 📺. Nothing but 💨💨💨💨🏥🚓🚑🚒
4:28 It was Ronnie Barker (Not the writer Roy Clarke) who had the idea to give Arkwright that stammer. They were reading through the script for the very first time and Barker just sort of slipped it in for effect and they said "Leave that in!" Many moons ago my dad used to deliver milk to that street. (Amongst many others of course)
Awsome show
my grandad had a corner shop from the late 40s right through to the mid 70s he sod what people needed he would open at around 6 oclock in the morning to catch the workers some of them didnt have the money to pay for what they needed my grandad would let them have what they needed and would write there names in a little book come payday they would pay him what they owed but come the week after they owed him again good times long gone now trusting times
In the early 2000's the council were talking about flattening the whole area and redeveloping it. Nothing came of it, but hopefully the shop will be saved or rebuilt somewhere else when and if it does happen.
Andy, that was fabulous
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
I thank you, my friend :)
Just found your channel..they were great times...new subscriber for your channel.👍
Love it, first time seeing this one.
I remember the first time I went past the shop I was doing a delivery to the aforementioned Balby Carr Bank industrial estate, missed the turn off for the place I was delivering to and decided to do a "u-turn" in the nearest estate and ended up going on Lister Ave. unwittingly. 🤣
The First shop you showed seemed to fit the building in the show
This show is one of the main reasons created mine so it’s crazy to see this place in the flesh
Takes me back memories
P.s..british make best comedies ever.i was born a cockney now a bloody aussie lol
Just came across your channel as it was in my recommendations so new subscriber here.... brilliant
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Welcome aboard!
Hi Andy. Open all hours what memorys.😂 Great video. Thanks
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 Andy
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Thanks! 😃
Dident realise it was in Doncaster!!!!
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Yep. Lister Avenue!
As a kid I went and watched it been filmed.I got Ronnie Barker`s autograph, my bic pen leaked on him so he got another pen and signed. One night we came across David Jason practicing a dance and I got his autograph too.
I've always quite fancied Barbera Flynn
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
75 now, she is. Madness how fast time flies
@scottandrewbrass1931
7 ай бұрын
Aye.
Brilliant, loved that one, Andy. Will have to find that next time we are near Balby. Happy memories of a great series.
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Originally this video was a bit longer. I had to cut a piece out about the 2013 reboot where Granville was the shopkeeper, carrying on after his late uncle. KZread didn't like the piece of footage I used though!
@mikereed2497
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot Can't understand why, summed up a much loved series nicely.
Nice to see it's still standing and not been turned into a mosque.
other locations in donny are the balmoral hotel on thorne rd , now a private house , a second hand shop on highfield rd wheatly and a cafe on holmes market nr beckett rd wheatly !
@peterdavies2317
7 ай бұрын
I used to live opposite the second hand shop, it was a dump of a place, I knew the owner well, his name was Barney, but what most people didn't know was that he had tenants living in the cellar, we called them the "cellar dwellers," 2 families were living down there, oh and another piece of useless information, Barney had a striplight hanging in the window which he never turned off, in over 20 years of him having the shop, he never had to change the bulb once, Barney was dodgy but he was great with the locals, I spent many hours talking to him on a weekend.
I live in Doncaster ie donny and it’s brill and I am a bin man
50 years ago, shops like that were very common. The shopkeepers were pretty ruthless and affluent compared to their customers..
Awesome 😂
I am here for Nicola!! I enjoyed the video very much, your moderating skills are amazing! I thought I watched a bbc documentary! 😮
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Thanks! Massive complement!
Ah. My home.
I subscribed when I came across your Gunness video (I live up the road from there in Scunthorpe) and have watched regularly since but never expected such a treat as this trip down memory lane!
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
You're welcome :D And of course, Scunthorpe ain't far from the shop!
😊great video
I visited this location once, all I found was a closed down ladies hairdressers shop
I never knew it was filmed in Doncaster
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
You sure do now :D
@DruGunnersVR
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot That is true, haha.
my brother lives round the corner from this shop
So the shop in the pilot, where was that? Is it a set? Tacoma Washington state West coast here 🍎
@TheVillageIdiot
2 күн бұрын
Yeah it was a set
I wonder if the shop was ever used for internal shots. It would be interesting to get inside and try and line up angles if so.
@ramblingrob4693
7 ай бұрын
Doubt It
@pauljeffries
7 ай бұрын
The internal shots were done in a studio, the shop/building was only used externally.
I swear that was the set of Four Candles.
That till is well known all over Australia!
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
How so?
@viviendockerty5822
7 ай бұрын
Because the series is so well known. I am still watching it on You Tube and multiple times!
GG Grenville bring your cloth.
Pretty sure it was always an hair dressers even when it was being filmed.
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
It was - I say that near the end. They closed for a summer break every time the BBC wanted the shop
@davethackery3773
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot I did watch to the end 😀 but I thought you had said that it's no longer a shop as it was now a beauty salon as if you thought it used to be a real shop in the 70s / 80s when it was filmed.
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
That's what I thought when I was filming yeah, until I found that out later
I was expecting to see more of the store & surrounding area, possibly how it looks inside these days. Not a montage of old video clips
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
This is where my hands are tied. I can't just wander into the shop with my camera
Was hoping you would show what was in the shop now and show a bit more of the area.
@TheVillageIdiot
8 күн бұрын
The area is all like Lister Street. Terraced housing everywhere. You wouldn't be seeing anything different. As for the shop, I cannot film inside it. Its private property.
@mwhitaker7010
7 күн бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot Private p-p-p-p. I say P-p-p-private p-p-p-property. I won't be having you talking about your p-p-privates lad.
👍👍💥💥💥💥💥
Has this jumped by 2000 views today? Can't think how that happened😂
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Cant think how...mystery. 🤣😅
My local shopkeeper in the early 80s had a 'nonce pending way' about him too.
@craiglatham
7 ай бұрын
Hope you're not insinuating that the both of them are Jimmy's mates?
Did the recent remake use the same location?
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
I assume it did yes
Awkwright wouldn't have got a Transit. He'd have made Grandville manage with a Vivaro at best.
Are they still making it? I know it came back for a reboot but not sure if its still going.
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Not now no
Granville....F-F-Fetch a cloth!
What's the guessing that it will be converted In to 2 flats. I bet ya..
@continentalquilt7801
7 ай бұрын
That's what I thought would have happened by now. Great that it is still a hairdressers like it was in the 1980s.
It was always a Hairdressers
Looks same as it did in 70s old terraces pit houses
Would loved to have given Mrs Featherstone one right up the garry
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
I genuinely don't know how to respond to that hahahaha!!!
@GLENLYNAS
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiot 🤣 ...I was being sarcastic
is tht it 26 eps
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
Yep. I know, I swear it was more!
That’s messed up
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
What is?
Ah, those were the "good ol' days." A time when people knew what humour and laughing was all about. If that programme was on now, I'd bet a pound to a pinch of sugar that somebody with a speech impediment would want the show banned and go for damages, (Because they are 'offended') assisted by a 'Human Rights Lawyer' who is only interested in the 'wedge that he/she would make from it. To quote a word from a Beatles song, "Yesterday....................!"
Lol memory lane
What is the point of this? All the episodes are available on KZread.
@TheVillageIdiot
7 ай бұрын
What's the point of this comment? You clearly haven't understood what I do
@standenberg
7 ай бұрын
@@TheVillageIdiotdoes Colin come from your village? Can’t have 2 village idiots 😂🤣
Open all hours was a classic British comedy show ! ……..but the same cannot be said of the new series which is just rubbish !