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The village

I believe the programme is based on and filmed in the Derbyshire peak district...
 
Hi mike, watched the village, worth watching. It was set around the first world war. It had one of the very first midland red single decker motorised buses with a canvas roof. Very stylish back then. It was strange seeing the children using chalk boards for their lessons. Shocked. To see a boy being punished for being left handed as I am left handed myself. Glad I didn't have him for a teacher. Regards nijinski
 
I've got it recorded and look forward to watching it. When I started school at Burbury Street we used chalk boards and it was normal to be prevented from using your left hand for writing. I was right handed but got clouted round the head for making blots when we started using pens. I continued to make blots an so was given the ultimate punishment - I was made to sit next to a girl!
 
If you like historical dramas michael, you'll like this. I wish I got punished by being put next to a girl as long as she was pretty of coarse. Regards nijinski
 
Carolina
i may be wrong, but understood that there were only 6 episodes in this series , with more to come in later series if popular
I can remember writing on boards in infant school, but seem to remember they were slate pencils, though may be mistaken
 
Yes Mike I recall using thin slate 'pencils' to write with on small slate boards when in Infants. To think we were using [slate] Tablets back in those far off days.
 
Mike perhaps I should have worded it better. According to Daily Mail today.

Moffat's ambitious series is conceived as a 42 part epic, with its opening six episodes scheduled over the coming weeks, and the rest yet to be announced.

Carol
 
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