Open All Hours Filming Locations (Doncaster) - Then and Now (Series 1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2020
- Filming 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!
I live on Balby Road and it's amazing how deep you've gone into this. Thanks!
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!!
It's amazing isn't it. Everyday nothing changes but when you look back everything has changed
Well put. Summed up what was going through my mind.
The dedication to this project is clear. Great stuff. Thanks.
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed.
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.
Great but too fast, can't see the locations and read the descriptions quick enough, slow it down and change the music
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.
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.
Arkwright's shop was my Aunty Freida's, back then. My cousin's grew up there. Terrific stuff, cheers👍
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
Another place that looks better in the 70s!
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.
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
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 .
Thank you for that, always interesting to see how places change over time
Amazing series absolutely amazing extremely unique
That Last Picture, Can't Believe How High Those Tree's Have Grown.
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.
this before and after tour guide view of open all hours memorable scenery made me cry
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.
Thank you this is really interesting!
The Pilot episode was transmitted on 25th March 1973.
Excellent. Can tell a lot of care went into this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
nice love the series with a passion
Thanks for watching!
Brilliantly done (: nice memories
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 :)
Awesome work sir, thanks a bundle!! :)
Most welcome!
Great work !
Thanks for the visit
Really enjoyed this video well done
Glad you enjoyed it
Brilliant Thanks for this 👍😊
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
Hey mate thanks for this it was great
Good work!
Very well researched.
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!
Good work..enjoyed it.thnk u.
Glad you liked it
What a brilliant video it's great to see places then & now how things have changed 😁😁👍
Glad you enjoyed it
@@um20uk yes it was great to see 😁😁🤘
Love it. Can't wait for series 2 Location's. Cheers. I'll share it to my Open All Hours Fans! FACEBOOK Group.
Awesome, thank you! I have S2 in the edit, just need to take a few more photos of the locations as they are now!
@@um20uk thank you.
The pilot was shot on locations in London.
Great job
RIP Linda Baron aka Nurse Gladys sadly passed away today aged 82.
Fantastic
I have been there during filming
Superb
Awesome
I drive past the shop everything I go visit my grandparents
Great vid Mark. Could do with going a bit slower or prhaps I'm just getting old :-)
Definitely go slower, whilst looking at photos, captions dissappear.
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 😄
Too fast, could not follow with comments and descriptions.........
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 😄
I live in Balby so I will of probably walked past one of these locations at some point
open all hours isnt the only tv programmes thats used parts of doncaster & surrounding villages for filming locations
Mostly CRIMEWATCH lol .....
Hi Mark , what is the music from ? What is that tune called ?
Hi, it's The Emperor's Army by Jeremy Blake and can be found in the YT Audio Library
High Street looks like it has seen better days in the 70’s but interesting nonetheless
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
What is the music on this video
Hi, it's The Emperor's Army by Jeremy Blake.
We lived in Mona road around the corner. God what a depressing hole it was.
Well done m8,, but needs more apt music!!
I liked the music, even though it's not the sort of thing you'd think of.
I spent hours trying to find something suitable in the YT library, but I have eclectic tastes myself! Tried to keep it upbeat!
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.
If I may, words need to be on the screen longer
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 😄
@@um20uk thank you for a civilised repky
Good but the musac???
clips slightly to fast, but interesting.....
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.
Captioning needs slowing a little. Have to keep starting and stopping the video to read.
I think the location at 4.05 is behind the ABC cinema
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!
@@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.
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.
moving too fast
The music I'd pathetic
Great ideal get rid od the crap music
We went and looked at the shop, it’s a real poor area
Awful back ground music
Open all hours and drum and bass.
Ruined
Maybe choose music that has something to do with the series or the people that like it rather than this trash drum and bass
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