On TV and radio, which 'couple' were the inhabitants of the village of 'Stackton Tressell'?
"double entendres. The ladies shared a house (The Old Manse or Utopia Ltd) in the fictional village of Stackton Tressel in Suffolk, where they employed the services of an eccentric housekeeper, Maud, played in the radio series by English character actress Daphne Heard. Hinge and Bracket spent two years in the 1970s performing in London pubs and clubs. This included the Royal Vauxhall Taverna (a popular gay venue), and the Kensington restaurant AD8, owned by Desmond Morgan and April Ashley. Hinge and Bracket appeared in 1974 at the Edinburgh Festival. They toured for several years before appearing on the BBC"
"owned independently by the Lewis family. The pub section of the hotel was the original farm house built on the property. The name, if not the location, of Acton Trussell was borrowed by Staffordshire-born entertainer Patrick Fyffe (aka Dame Hilda Bracket) in creating the fictional village Stackton Tressel, home of eccentric spinster musicians Hinge and Bracket. In May 1985 the semi hexagonal wing of a Roman villa was discovered in the Churchyard. The wing of a Roman villa was discovered in 1985 outside the east boundary of the churchyard, excavations have been ongoing since then, carried out by Penk Valley"
"was said to be in Suffolk though location filming for the TV Series of ""Dear Ladies"" took place in the Cheshire towns and villages of Knutsford, Great Budworth and Nantwich. In some episodes of ""Dear Ladies"" Stackton Tressel appears to be larger than a village with a town council, department store (Ahlers) and several other shops. The name of Stackton Tressel is based upon the village of Acton Trussell in Staffordshire, birthplace of Patrick Fyffe. Stackton Tressel Stackton Tressel is a fictional, archetypical English village. Originally featuring in the 1974 Edinburgh Festival and then on the London stage, the exploits"
"ITV network. The show revolved around two young couples, the Hatfields and the McCoys. Paul Hatfield (played by Strauli) and his wife Marsha (played by Franklyn), married for three years, and up to then living with Paul's mother (played in the first two series by King and then by Sanderson in the third), finally find their ideal home. However, they are unable to meet the mortgage repayments, so they invite Murray McCoy (played by Capron) and his girlfriend Diana (played by Forbes), who are also in the same situation, to join them and move in with them, contributing to the"
"couple, Harry Davis (John Raby, Robert Haag) and Joan Field Davis (Noel Mills, Mary Jane Higby), as they confronted endless problems in the small town of Stanwood. Carrington created numerous conflicts by contrasting Harry's impoverished background with Joan's high society family. Others in the cast included Michael Fitzmaurice, Marion Barney, Ellen Fenwick and Staats Cotsworth. Announcers included Frank Gallop, Bill Mazer and George Ansbro. Music was by organist Rosa Rio and others. There was a long-running Australian version broadcast on the Major Broadcasting Network. Prior to World War II, transcription discs of many U.S. programs were imported into Australia, but"
"Dan Tetsell Dan Tetsell (born 2 July 1974) is a British actor, comedian and writer for radio, television and stage. He has worked on a number of projects, including ""The Museum of Everything"", ""That Was Then, This Is Now"", ""Newsjack"" and ""Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections"". He is married to actor and comedian Margaret Cabourn-Smith. At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he performed a one-man comedy show entitled ""Sins of the Grandfathers"", focusing on his grandfather's Nazi past. Notable TV roles include Brian in the BBC Two situation comedy ""Lab Rats"" and the voice of the cat Marion in the"
"Brimstone and Treacle Brimstone and Treacle is a 1976 BBC television play by Dennis Potter. Originally intended for broadcast as an episode of the ""Play for Today"" series, it remained untransmitted until 1987. The play, featuring Denholm Elliott, was made into a film version (released in 1982) co-starring Sting. The play features a middle-aged middle-class couple living in a north London suburb whose life has been catastrophically affected by a hit-and-run accident which has left their beautiful undergraduate daughter totally dependent upon them, but their lives are dramatically changed by the arrival of a mysterious young stranger. For two years,"
"from his popular Radio BBC Radio 1 broadcasts for John Peel which was released as ""Sir Henry at Rawlinson End"" in 1978. He subsequently also wrote the script for the film adaptation of the same name, later produced for Tony Stratton-Smith's Charisma Records company in 1980. Following Sir Henry, Stanshall wrote the songs for his third album ""Teddy Boys Don't Knit"" (1981) (which included three songs about his family) and contributed a lyric to Steve Winwood's ""Arc of a Diver."" He and Longfellow married in 1980 and together they wrote some of the songs they later used for ""Stinkfoot, a"
"Trusham Trusham is a small village in the Teign Valley, between Newton Abbot and Exeter, in Devon, England. The name originates from the Celtic ""Trisma"", meaning ""brushwood"" or ""fallen leaves"". Its pub, the Cridford Inn was opened in 1985 by converting part of the old farm house and a joining barn. The church of St Michael, is an ancient building of stone in the early English and Perpendicular styles with traces of Norman work. Trusham was the ancestral home of the Causley family, whose descendants include the poet Charles Causley and the folk singer Jim Causley. The now disused and"
"Donockley, the album included tracks such as ""Bridge Over Troubled Water"", ""Jamie Raeburn"" and ""The Trees They Do Grow High"". A tribute album to her friend Gerry Rafferty – ""To Each And Everyone – The Songs of Gerry Rafferty"" – was released in September 2013 and her most recent album, 'Winter', a collection of seasonal favourites, was released in time for Christmas 2014. Dickson is married to Oliver Cookson who works as an Assistant Director in television for the BBC, and has three sons. She and her family live in Edinburgh. She was awarded an OBE in the Queen's New"
"Celia Imrie, Lesley Sharp, Nicholas Le Prevost, Jodie Whittaker, Tom Hiddleston, Michelle Dockery, Matthew McNulty and Rory Kinnear joining the cast. The program aired on 10 & 17 January 2010 on PBS in the United States. The new stories, which were written by Heidi Thomas and directed by Simon Curtis, took place in August 1844; a year after the wedding of Sophy Hutton and Dr Harrison. Filming of the railway sequences took place at the Foxfield Railway in Staffordshire. Cranford (TV series) Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas"
"was both a critical and commercial failure, which, coupled with Marian Jordan's death shortly thereafter, brought the series to an end. The stars of the program were real-life husband and wife team James ""Jim"" Jordan (16 November 1896 – 1 April 1988) and Marian Driscoll Jordan (15 April 1898 – 7 April 1961), who were natives of Peoria, Illinois. Jordan was the seventh of eight children born to James Edward Jordan and Mary (née Tighe) Jordan, while Driscoll was the twelfth out of thirteen children born to Daniel P. and Anna (née Carroll) Driscoll. The son of a farmer, Jim"
"Speedway also took place from 1947-1950 and greyhound racing ceased in the early sixties after the site became housing in the area immediately above Bourne Brook (Dama Road today). Drayton Manor Drayton Manor, one of Britain's lost houses, was a British stately home at Drayton Bassett, in the District of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. The manor of Drayton was owned from the time of the Norman conquest by the Bassett family until in the 13th century. The male line failed and Margaret Bassett heiress to the estate married Edmund Lord Stafford. The estate remained in the ownership of the Earl of"
"the Northern Territory. It may have been a marriage of convenience as Charlotte needed a father for her children; William needed a mother for his two young children, Elsie Bridget (Tooli) and Harold Paul (Sikki). Their dead mother had been an Arunta woman known as Annie. The family worked on the mail contract for deliveries between the railhead, Oodnadatta and the Telegraph Station and post office at Alice Springs. Old Crown Point was the halfway stopover point. Using camels, the trip would take three weeks each way. They also ran a general store at Old Crown Point supplying the surrounding"
"of that marriage, he wed Irene (Pip) Ansell but the marriage barely lasted six months. While working in summer season in 1950, at the Winter Gardens in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, he met Iris Margaret Tully who was also in the show. At the end of the season, they returned to London and set up home together in Iris's flat in Shaftesbury Avenue. Iris changed her name to Emery by deed poll until 1955, a year after she had given birth to his second son, Nicholas William. She and Emery married in 1955. The marriage was a rocky"
"The Stretford Wives The Stretford Wives is a British drama film made by the BBC. It was first broadcast on BBC One in August 2002. It was written by ""Shameless"" writer Danny Brocklehurst and directed by Peter Webber The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson – who live in Stretford, Greater Manchester, England. It won critical acclaim from ""The Times"" and ""The Independent"", although reviews in some local papers were not so favourable. The programme was watched by 5.7 million viewers. It has not been released on DVD."
"The Stretford Wives The Stretford Wives is a British drama film made by the BBC. It was first broadcast on BBC One in August 2002. It was written by ""Shameless"" writer Danny Brocklehurst and directed by Peter Webber The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson – who live in Stretford, Greater Manchester, England. It won critical acclaim from ""The Times"" and ""The Independent"", although reviews in some local papers were not so favourable. The programme was watched by 5.7 million viewers. It has not been released on DVD."
"books as tall, pale-complexioned, with twinkling blue eyes and white hair - not a fat galumph of a creature at all. I base my performance on that. Also on the fact that she has tremendous alertness and curiosity allied to a great appetite for murder."" Lansbury signed a three picture deal, meaning the intention was to make two more Marples. St Clere Estate, in Heaverham, part of the Sevenoaks District of Kent, was used as the grand home of Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) and her husband Jason (Rock Hudson). Ye Olde George Inn and a Bridge on Church Street in"
"in the ITV1 programme ""Essex Wives"", a documentary series about the lives of some of the nouveau riche who have resided in the Essex satellite towns of London since the 1980s. The series propelled Jodie Marsh, one of its featured characters to fame. Journalists' use of the term ""golden triangle"" to describe the towns of Loughton, Buckhurst Hill and Chigwell for their propensity to attract wealthy footballers, soap-opera actors and TV celebrities as residents derives from this. The town has been used as a backdrop in other television series, notably ""The Only Way is Essex"", and two shops in the"
"work in TV, appearing as a regular on ""The Holiday Show"" and ""Countryfile"" amongst others. The Stephenson family were inspired to try home education for their children. An official hardcover book about the project, written by author Mark McCrum, was published in November 2000 by Ebury Publishing and in updated paperback version in April 2001. Since the show's ending, Taransay has been opened up to tourists. Castaway Tanya Cheadle married Paul Overton, an assistant producer on the series, on the island in 2004. The wedding was attended by ten other castaways including Fogle. In 2008, BBC Two broadcast a new"
"Television shows ""MasterChef"" and on ""Have I Got News for You"", as well as in a number of TV advertisements. He also participated in the first series of Celebrity Fit Club in 2002. In 2006, he co-wrote the book ""Frozen in Time"", about Britain's worst ever winters, with Paul Hudson. McCaskill lived near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. He had two daughters with his first wife Lesley Charlesworth, to whom he was married from 1959 until her death from breast cancer in 1992. In 1998, he married Pat Cromack, becoming stepfather to her two sons. McCaskill was a fellow of the Royal"
"eponymous Father Ted Crilly, alongside fellow priests Father Dougal McGuire (Ardal O'Hanlon) and Father Jack Hackett (Frank Kelly). Exiled on the island for various past incidents, the priests live together in the parochial house with their housekeeper Mrs Doyle (Pauline McLynn). The show was critically acclaimed, receiving several BAFTA awards, and remains a popular sitcom in Britain and Ireland. In 2004, it was ranked Number 11 in a poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. The show follows the misadventures of three Irish Roman Catholic priests who live in a parish on the fictional Craggy Island, located off the west coast"
"Birkhall in Deeside where Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh were honeymooning. Though expecting to be turned away, Baird was surprised to be invited inside and was therefore able to give her readers an exclusive glimpse inside their honeymoon suite during a period of high interest in the newlyweds. It was also while working at the ""Scottish Daily Express"" that she met her future husband, the writer and presenter Magnus Magnusson. The couple married in 1954 and enjoyed the joke that he had only married her to get her job since he had been four years her junior at"
"Acton Trussell Acton Trussell is a village in the English county of Staffordshire. It is known as Actone in the Domesday Book. Located around 4 miles southeast of Stafford, it is an affluent village, with many large homes but few local amenities (except for a Post Office which opens Tuesdays and Thursdays). Residents in this village have excellent views of Staffordshire farmland and Stafford Castle in the distance. Its close proximity to the M6 motorway (Junction 13) makes it a very convenient location for commuters. The majority of commuting from the village takes place to the areas of southern Staffordshire,"
"BBC Four TV series ""Detectorists"", an episode of ""Kavanagh QC,"" and the films ""Iris"" and ""Drowning by Numbers"". The Rendlesham Forest Incident is one of the most famous UFO events in England and is sometimes referred to as ""Britain's Roswell"". The song ""Castle on the Hill"" by singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was referred to by him as ""a love letter to Suffolk"", with lyrical reference to his hometown of Framlingham and Framlingham Castle. Suffolk Suffolk () is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to"
"knowledge of primary production. But she accepted the contract from the ABC's Rural Department and spent some weeks on a sheep station in Gunnedah to gather background. The show went to air on 21 February 1944 and slowly achieved a loyal country audience. The story revolved around the farmer John Lawson (Vivian Edwards), his wife Ellen (Ailsa Grahame), and their nineteen-year-old daughter Sue, played by Jane Holland. The original remit was extended to enable modern farming methods and seasonal information to be passed on to farmers, as well as the usual fare of soap operas. As the war ended, Grahame"
"have been together ever since, living in a cottage near Saxmundham in Suffolk. The house was left to Hambling by Lady Gwatkin ( Isolen Mary June Wilson), widow of Norman Gwatkin. For the last year of the life of Henrietta Moraes, she and Hambling were in a relationship. The artists' model, Soho muse, and memoirist died in 1999 and Hambling produced a posthumous volume of charcoal portraits of her. She has an eclectic personality shown when she once showed up to another television show filming in dinner jackets, bow ties and a false moustache. Hambling does not care for her"
"the ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"". It is currently home to actor Geoffrey Palmer, and his wife Sally. Model turned cookery show presenter Sophie Dahl (granddaughter of Roald Dahl) and her husband jazz musician Jamie Cullum also own a property in the village. The village is home to the private Gateway School, Great Missenden Combined School and The Misbourne secondary school. Many children attend the local grammar schools in nearby Amersham, Chesham and High Wycombe, as well as leading local preparatory schools such as Chesham Prep. The village has been used extensively as a filming location for"
"The O'Neills The O'Neills is a radio serial drama which aired on Mutual, CBS and NBC from 1934 to 1943. Created by actress-writer Jane West, the series was sponsored at various times by Gold Dust, Ivory Snow and Standard Brands. In the midwestern town of Royalton, widow Mother O'Neill (Kate McComb) raised her children, Danny (Jimmy Tansey) and Peggy (Joan Banks, Betty Caine, Violet Dunn, Claire Niesen, Betty Winkler). Living upstairs in the O'Neill's two-family house was Mother O'Neill's friend, the meddling Trudy Bailey (Jane West). After their father's death, teenager Janice Collins (Janice Gilbert) and her brother Eddie Collins"
"and ""St Trinian's"" and portrays the Thirteenth Doctor in the television series ""Doctor Who"". The lead singer of the heavy-metal band Saxon, Biff Byford, was raised in Skelmanthorpe and attended Skelmanthorpe Primary School. Towns and cities: Barnsley, Huddersfield, Wakefield Villages: Denby Dale, Clayton West, Emley, Lower Cumberworth, Scissett, Shelley, Shepley Friends of Skelmanthorpe Textile Heritage Centre Skelmanthorpe Skelmanthorpe is a village in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England with a population of 4,549 according to the 2011 census. It is part of the parish of Denby Dale in the Kirklees borough. Skelmanthorpe was a site in the Survey of English Dialects. The"
"Longfellow's childhood. On September 9, 1981 they married in the register office at Sunbury-on-Thames. Longfellow and Stanshall wrote radio plays and songs together. In 1980, she edited Stanshall's only book, ""Sir Henry at Rawlinson End & Other Spots"", published by Pete Townshend, of Eel Pie Publishing. She also helped Stanshall with the script for the film version of ""Sir Henry at Rawlinson End"", which starred Trevor Howard. In late 1982, Longfellow discovered ""The Thekla"", a ship she rescued and renovated with government funding. She moored it in the port of Bristol, where she adapted it as a theater and restaurant."
"primary filming venue for the 1980s BBC TV soap opera ""Howards' Way"". The village was known as ""Brixendona"" or Brixenden in the 12th century, Burstlesden in the 14th century, and ""Bristelden"" in the 16th century. The name probably means ""Hill associated with a man called Beorhtsige"", from Old English personal name meaning 'bright victory' and ""dun"" meaning ""hill, modern down"". It is unlikely the Beohrtsige is the same individual who gave his name to Brixton in South London. The original bridge carrying what is now the A27 road across the River Hamble was made of wood in 1783, and was"
"married ballerina Marguerite Porter, by whom he has a third son, Keaton, a musician and illustrator. Adam Henson, a farmer and regular presenter on BBC TV's ""Countryfile"", is a nephew. Henson was diagnosed with cancer in 2003. Surgeons removed tumours from around his spleen, but a routine check-up in 2006 showed that other tumours had grown and it would be dangerous to remove them. Henson was put on a regimen of chemotherapy, and now works regularly to raise funds for cancer charities, especially Marie Curie Cancer Care. Nicky Henson Nicholas Victor Leslie Henson (born 12 May 1945) is an English"