Has anyone else been to the James Herriott/Alf Wight house in Thirsk?
It's a great day out. Highly recommended!
They've done an excellent job keeping the large house of Alf Wight intact and as a museum. It's a big house.
But the piece de resistance is in the outbuildings behind and to the side of the house. There is a large barn like structure that shows a film. There is also a collection about Wight's life that is moving.
But a fun bit is another large area of the outbuilding where they salvaged the set from the TV show. And have set it up. The phone is there and you can picke it up with the number still on it "Darrowby XXX" (Gosh I can't remember the number). But it is the original phone from the set.
There is a tv camera mounted so as you move around the set you can watch yourself in a screen while you are on the set. The stairs are there. The chairs.
It's so very fun. And the museum with Wight's life as a vet is very well done.
It's just in a regular house on a side street in Thirsk, very unassuming but once inside there are alot of things to see sbout his life and how life was in the house, especially the period kitchen that takes up half the house! You can really get a sense of a working house of the period.