Open All Hours Filming Locations (Doncaster) - Then and Now (Series 1)
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4 жыл бұрынFilming locations for Series 1 of the classic British sitcom 'Open All Hours'. Open All Hours ranked eighth in the 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom poll, and Series 1 aired in 1976, over 40 years ago now. This video shows the filming locations used in Series 1 around the Doncaster area. I've attempted to locate them as best I can, however where I cannot I have left the scenes in anyway in the hope that someone might recognise them or perhaps remember where filming took place!
Locations include Lister Avenue (the shop and Nurse Glady's house), various streets around Balby, Doncaster, several scenes around Elmfield Park as well as streets in the Town Centre.
I will be working on Series 2 shortly.
Hope you enjoy!
@MistaKay 3 жыл бұрын
I live on Balby Road and it's amazing how deep you've gone into this. Thanks!
@um20uk 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I recently moved from Woodfield Plantation further out to Wadworth, which actually helped me scout the locations! If you're on Balby Road I'd be surprised if you hadn't seen me at some point then with my camera!!
@jaymcmaster 3 жыл бұрын
The dedication to this project is clear. Great stuff. Thanks.
@davefilms345 3 жыл бұрын
It's amazing isn't it. Everyday nothing changes but when you look back everything has changed
@chrisparkes2179 3 жыл бұрын
Well put. Summed up what was going through my mind.
@davehchannel4098 3 жыл бұрын
Great but too fast, can't see the locations and read the descriptions quick enough, slow it down and change the music
@steveh31 2 жыл бұрын
Totally agree with this, rewinding and pausing needs to be slower. Thanks for doing these though. I actually thought the shots with the legs were in the park off Balby Road didn't realise it was Elmfield Park.
@ryanferguson9511 3 жыл бұрын
What a really cool upload 👍. Was always a fan of open all hours and it’s really interesting to see the old locations and how they’ve changed . Keep up the good work. Can’t wait to see your next video upload .
@msvdronetube Ай бұрын
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed.
@braaimanook 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for that, always interesting to see how places change over time
@rayreid6123 2 жыл бұрын
This is magical providing information regarding a programme that means so much to many. Living in New Zealand and remember watching Arkright with Mum and Dad and brings back great memories. Still open all hours is marvellous and its great the memories live on. Thank You marvellous effort and in years to come as things change more this will be invaluable for historians.
@modsnsods7329 3 жыл бұрын
Nice one Mark. Great work.. Really enjoyed.. So much pointless street signage now.. It hurts my brain.... Well done. And the music worked well in a strange way
@npr1300A8 Жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed this. It's quite sad when you look at the areas where the late great Ronnie Barker, Lynda Baron and all other marvellous actors and actresses stood and now they're no longer with us. Great comedy. Happier days.
@Adamyjayjay 4 жыл бұрын
Excellent. Can tell a lot of care went into this!
@um20uk 3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@angelkotilainen 3 жыл бұрын
Wow this is really cool! Not much has changed over such a long time, which is awesome! I love seeing the camera trickery such as Arkwright looking over a different wall! Such fun. I live one road away from the main house in Gavin and Stacey, and often see tourists with cameras, or pass a location that makes me smile remembering scenes. Just 10 miles away they filmed some doctor who's and I drive through a long tunnel, the same one in the Easter special where they came out of the tunnel in a different dimension! Always makes me smile. Thanks for the effort it took to get these locations, I bet even David wouldn't recall the majority now :)
@A-Jay. 2 жыл бұрын
Arkwright's shop was my Aunty Freida's, back then. My cousin's grew up there. Terrific stuff, cheers👍
@backindeday3211 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliantly done (: nice memories
@johnevesham 4 жыл бұрын
nice love the series with a passion
@um20uk 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@leeneale8776 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome work sir, thanks a bundle!! :)
@um20uk 3 жыл бұрын
Most welcome!
@deboraharmstrong7081 10 ай бұрын
Thank you this is really interesting!
@paulgregroy1986 2 жыл бұрын
I'm the sort of guy that hates change in life! But i find this so interesting. Thank you so much for such a lovely video
@robclark4507 3 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed this video well done
@um20uk 3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@crazybrit-nasafan 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome. I lived a few minutes walk from 'Arkwright's shop' Still living in the Doncaster area. I know all the locations you have shown.
@Jay-ru3mu Жыл бұрын
That Last Picture, Can't Believe How High Those Tree's Have Grown.
@tutumakairau9540 2 жыл бұрын
this before and after tour guide view of open all hours memorable scenery made me cry
@daveconyard8946 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant Thanks for this 👍😊
@coachnut1 4 жыл бұрын
Great work !
@um20uk 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the visit
@andywright3450 3 жыл бұрын
Hey mate thanks for this it was great
@lindakirk5668 3 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant video it's great to see places then & now how things have changed 😁😁👍
@um20uk 3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@lindakirk5668 3 жыл бұрын
@@um20uk yes it was great to see 😁😁🤘
@michaeldevaney5728 5 ай бұрын
Amazing series absolutely amazing extremely unique
@jasoneldridge4738 3 жыл бұрын
Another place that looks better in the 70s!
@chrisparkes2179 3 жыл бұрын
Despite all the crap that was going on in the 70s and 80s most of us who were young then would go back without hesitation. I suppose that's been the way with all generations though.
@gaynor1721 3 жыл бұрын
Very well researched.
@barryallen7894 4 жыл бұрын
Good work..enjoyed it.thnk u.
@um20uk 4 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it
@josephshaw5225 3 жыл бұрын
Good work!
@lynngoddard488 4 жыл бұрын
Love it. Can't wait for series 2 Location's. Cheers. I'll share it to my Open All Hours Fans! FACEBOOK Group.
@um20uk 4 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thank you! I have S2 in the edit, just need to take a few more photos of the locations as they are now!
@lynngoddard488 4 жыл бұрын
@@um20uk thank you.
@pareshpatel4794 2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Really interesting to see the before and after shots. I'm a location buff myself so I'm always fascinated by things like this. Any plans on doing season 3/4 or are they pretty much the same? I'm currently watching the show and just started season 2!
@jackiemason75 3 жыл бұрын
Great job
@EddieG1888 3 жыл бұрын
My dad's cousin lives five minutes away in Old Hexthorpe. Wish videos like this had been around the last time I was down there, I'd have gone along for a nosey! :D
@bolshevikproductions 2 жыл бұрын
The Pilot episode was transmitted on 25th March 1973.
@wisteela 3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic
@jaysea32 3 жыл бұрын
Street signage everywhere. Not to mention hundreds of cars filling the entire streets and of course,road works or road closed etc etc. The older pictures of the place look so much better,even if a bit duller looking.
@jonjon9047 3 жыл бұрын
Superb
@jackywhipet 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@theyorkshireladyoyo 3 жыл бұрын
I have been there during filming
@fp424932 3 жыл бұрын
Great vid Mark. Could do with going a bit slower or prhaps I'm just getting old :-)
@cliffuk.704 3 жыл бұрын
Definitely go slower, whilst looking at photos, captions dissappear.
@um20uk 3 жыл бұрын
The next will have more time between photos! I get bored easily in the edit but also forget this is new info to everyone else 😄
@bolshevikproductions 2 жыл бұрын
The pilot was shot on locations in London.
@ianmaycey3294 2 жыл бұрын
RIP Linda Baron aka Nurse Gladys sadly passed away today aged 82.
@sharaparkerheath5253 2 жыл бұрын
I drive past the shop everything I go visit my grandparents
@curtisducati 3 жыл бұрын
Hi Mark , what is the music from ? What is that tune called ?
@um20uk 3 жыл бұрын
Hi, it's The Emperor's Army by Jeremy Blake and can be found in the YT Audio Library
@georgenarso3148 3 жыл бұрын
Too fast, could not follow with comments and descriptions.........
@um20uk 3 жыл бұрын
The next will have more time between photos! I get bored easily in the edit but also forget this is new info to everyone else 😄
@themajesticbulldog3832 2 жыл бұрын
I live in Balby so I will of probably walked past one of these locations at some point
@AndreiTupolev 2 жыл бұрын
A lot more cars today (but sadly no Vauxhall Vivas with L plates), but the actual shop has seen a sad decline hasn't it. There surely ought to be a blue plaque put on it
@jasinere35 3 жыл бұрын
open all hours isnt the only tv programmes thats used parts of doncaster & surrounding villages for filming locations
@curtisducati 3 жыл бұрын
Mostly CRIMEWATCH lol .....
@rusrad74 3 жыл бұрын
Well done m8,, but needs more apt music!!
@wisteela 3 жыл бұрын
I liked the music, even though it's not the sort of thing you'd think of.
@um20uk 3 жыл бұрын
I spent hours trying to find something suitable in the YT library, but I have eclectic tastes myself! Tried to keep it upbeat!
@simonrooney8793 4 жыл бұрын
What is the music on this video
@um20uk 4 жыл бұрын
Hi, it's The Emperor's Army by Jeremy Blake.
@brucenichols9153 3 жыл бұрын
Good but the musac???
@pj4433 2 жыл бұрын
We lived in Mona road around the corner. God what a depressing hole it was.
@misfit2022 2 жыл бұрын
High Street looks like it has seen better days in the 70’s but interesting nonetheless
@bonkeydollocks1879 3 жыл бұрын
If I may, words need to be on the screen longer
@um20uk 3 жыл бұрын
The next will have more time between photos! I get bored easily in the edit but also forget this is new info to everyone else 😄
@bonkeydollocks1879 3 жыл бұрын
@@um20uk thank you for a civilised repky
@theangrygamer895 2 жыл бұрын
Doesnt evetyhing look so much nicer,quieter and less hectic back then. No cars everywhere and i bet everyone spoke to each other. Now look at everything. I was born to late.
@robertpallett3799 2 жыл бұрын
clips slightly to fast, but interesting.....
@DeltaJazzUK 3 жыл бұрын
I think the location at 4.05 is behind the ABC cinema
@um20uk 3 жыл бұрын
Aha! Given that it's now demolished that would explain why I couldn't find it on any of my hours walking round the town in lockdown!! Thanks!
@DeltaJazzUK 3 жыл бұрын
@@um20uk I didn't know it had been demolished. You used to be able to get down the sides and round the back where there were fire escapes. In the early 70s kids would pay to get one of a gang in, who would then go and open the fire escape and let all the others in free. There's a scene in a later episode that was filmed in the same place where the Black Widow attacks Granville with an umbrella after they bump into each other.
@martinshields7481 3 жыл бұрын
The alley is at the rear of Cussins House at the bottom of Wood Street in the town centre. It used to be the Inland Revenue office hence the wording on the bins for Inland Revenue use only.
@martinmessiah7130 3 жыл бұрын
This has been on my mind for some years, when you watch the series it looks so dated ,almost sudo Victorian. When it was filmed in the late seventies . All the windows and doors were original,and nobody painted there houses that often as diy was not fashionable and the 70 year old paint with lead in it protected them the colour went dull. Then came the 80s double glazing revolution, and windows were sold with small openings,usually based on a salesman saying that they were more secure. There was no thought about design or symmetry. Now it all grey paint.
@2Sorts Жыл бұрын
Captioning needs slowing a little. Have to keep starting and stopping the video to read.
@Sanddancer1 3 жыл бұрын
moving too fast
@elainekayes8087 2 жыл бұрын
The music I'd pathetic
@malcolmmarshall4371 3 жыл бұрын
Great ideal get rid od the crap music
@missyb9438 2 жыл бұрын
We went and looked at the shop, it’s a real poor area
@jjsmallpiece9234 2 жыл бұрын
Awful back ground music
@keepgoing1973 Жыл бұрын
Open all hours and drum and bass. Ruined
@royfr8136 2 жыл бұрын
Maybe choose music that has something to do with the series or the people that like it rather than this trash drum and bass
@barneyb1857 Жыл бұрын
Can u imshine living on the street? Lol or better still actually living in nurse Gladys house? I'd love to live there, you would feel so close to the characters, then popping in the shop across the road to have a haircut lol
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