Back In Time For The Corner Shop (BBC)

[Maria Magenta]

Anyone watching this? It's the usual structure, a family travels through time, on this occasion running a corner shop in Sheffield.

I don't think we really had a corner shop, though perhaps I just can't remember.

 

[Astoness]

is this a new series

lyn

 

[pjmburns]

Yes Lyn. Episode 2 aired this week but is repeated on Sunday BBC 2 at 4.50pm for 1hr. Enjoyed 1st episode set during early 1900s - covered WW1 and up to about 1920.

 

[rosie]

It's very interesting, my great grandparents had a little shop in Grove Lane Smethwick, the family lived above. My mother helped make the ice-cream in the same way they did on the show but people brought a bowl for it.
rosie.

 

[Maria Magenta]

It must have taken for ever to make ice cream! I didn't realise (though probably should have) that there was training available in the 1920s for people running shops.

 

[Astoness]

just watched it on catch and found it very good....cant wait for the next episode thanks for the heads up

lyn

 

[Lady Penelope]

I found the first episode really useful as we have been looking at a 'corner shop' in Boldmere which opened in the late 1800's so the date coincided. The Boldmere shop is now a pub and we have been trying to find out when it was licenced. The TV shop keeper had applied for a beer licence and served this in his grocer's shop so this may have happened in Boldmere. I'll have to watch the next episode on i-player as I missed it.

 

[pjmburns]

Pen, it is repeated on Sunday. See post #3

 

[Lady Penelope]

Thanks Janice, I'll tune in on Sunday - I missed your post #3.