Lark Rise to Candleford

albertina

We need programmes like this to get us through the winter. I use my Granddaughter's old portable dvd player and enjoy lots of the older dvds.

Yes, we do, albertina, instead of some of the strange stuff which passes for drama now.

I've just thought of another great series for a winter evening's viewing 'Anne of Green Gables' the Megan Fellows and Colleen Dewhurst version. What a treat this one is

Juliet27

^I turn to Dectectorists for a shot of calm and country^

Ah yes Sandelf and humour!

The road waas being repaired nd was closed so I had to go the long route and later found that the shorter road didn't exist at that time. It was much later.

I’ve just stumbled across this thread - it’s a delight of nostalgia! ❤️ I recently read Akenfeld, after Ronald Blyth’s deathearlier this year. My goodness, people lived hard lives, I don’t think anyone would want to go back to that.

Another recent read is the Go-Between by LP Hartley which also conjures up halcyon Edwardian days of summer. Until the end.

My DD’s and I often watched The Darling Buds of May when we were living abroad, before the days of streamed TV. They loved it and so did I, as the area it’s set in was an old haunt of ours.

Brendan Coyle? Oh, yes please!

Yes I too remember Larkrise to Candleford fondly Sassanach and I agree it is so refreshing compared to some of today's dramas.

I will look out for that I'm loving when the boat comes in at the moment I listened to uncle Silas a couple of months ago on BBC sounds and enjoyed it

I read the Clayhanger books and think there was a tv series made. And The Country Girls.

Loved it

Anyone remember Anna of the 5 Towns? It was based around the Potteries, and I think a young Peter Davison was in it. I loved it but the accents were a little extreme, as I recall. I always intended to read the books but never got around to it.

Oh. That’s the one with Rufus Sewell. It was wonderful. I’ve yet to read Middlemarch. I think I’ve attempted it a few times. I had a video of a tv adaptation of The Mill on the Floss from the days when I video’d everything but never got round to watching them. When I did get round to watching it I found it unbearably sad. I remember one book I read that said how ladies hated it when they had to go into mourning because they wouldn’t be able to wear that years fashionable hat. I sometimes get mixed up with which books I’ve read and which ones I’ve watched on tv.

I had to read this at the age of 15, for O level, and I was bored, bored, bored. Minute descriptions of village life are all very well but you do need some kind of plot as well! Absolutely nothing happened.
I saw a bit of the TV series but can't remember a thing about it. Presumably someone had to add a storyline of some sort!

UKTVPLAY is showing Middlemarch at moment. it is quite old, not even in widescreen, with Robert Hardy and a young Douglas Hodge. I have only watched the first 3 episodes so far but it is quite faithful to the book up to now.

Just watched the first episode of Cranford. Very entertaining. Got the dvds and Return to Cranford plus 3 series of Larkrise for £10 in a charity shop.
I too am using a portable dvd player albertina. Very handy.

We need programmes like this to get us through the winter. I use my Granddaughter's old portable dvd player and enjoy lots of the older dvds.

Lark Rise was a set book for CSE in 1969,along with a Pattern of Islands. Loved both.

Two books that I was introduced to some years ago by the author are:- 'From Shires to Spires' ,and 'Carriers Cart to Oxford.' Both are by a lady, now sadly deceased called Mildred Masheder . My mother was at school with Mildred in Oxford from 1929-1934, where they were good friends and clever girls. I actually get a mention in one of the books, only in passing though! Both books extremely interesting with a rare insight of life between the two world wars.

Yes, remember it from years ago. I loved both the book and the series, and watched it again a few years ago. I will definitely watch it again.

My mother gave me 'A Country Child' when I was eight, and it is still one of my favourite books. I also love Alison Uttley's other books, including 'A Traveller in Time' . 'Lark Rise' was read to us at the last period on Fridays, and I 've loved it ever since.

Oh yes, off-beat and quirky!

I turn to Dectectorists for a shot of calm and country

Ah yes Sandelf and humour!

Trurider1

The books were her memories of her very real life. I used to live not that many miles form her very real home and visited it a few times. You quickly realise that it was written around the scale o a young child's mind. The actual plac e is not that big and everything that is in the book can be found. I drove from Larkrise which isn't its real mane to Candleford where the very real death of her brother is recorded on the wall of he dead of World War One. The journey took me in a car 25 minutes but on a horse and Cart it would have taken most of the day.

I didn't think it was that far?

Cottisford, where Flora went to school is nearly 4 miles from Juniper Hill and Fringford (Candleford) is another two or three miles further on.

Far enough to walk to and from school each day, of course, but she moved into the Post Office at Fringford when she started working there.

The book was recently mentioned on The Archers

Lovely rendition of the book. While we are on calming stories with no murder - I turn to Dectectorists for a shot of calm and country.

The books were her memories of her very real life. I used to live not that many miles form her very real home and visited it a few times. You quickly realise that it was written around the scale o a young child's mind. The actual plac e is not that big and everything that is in the book can be found. I drove from Larkrise which isn't its real mane to Candleford where the very real death of her brother is recorded on the wall of he dead of World War One. The journey took me in a car 25 minutes but on a horse and Cart it would have taken most of the day.