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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Who is still watching this excellent series?

For those who are and taking in the wonderful portrayal of policing in Victorian England during the 1880s, how many are wondering if only the police could work like that now with a no-nonsense approach before the days of PACE?

Cannot wait for tonight's episode, and wonder what uninhibited story line will befall us before the night is out?   

Well worth watching. However, I thought that the Austin Cambridge in the background was a bit of a continuity blooper.

Really!   Never noticed!

Just kidding, Lizzie. It was actually a Vauxhall Ventora.....

Thank goodness Opti!    I was just about to write to the BBC

Pretty sure  I  once saw a Morris Marina in Heartbeat though....

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Who is still watching this excellent series?

For those who are and taking in the wonderful portrayal of policing in Victorian England during the 1880s, how many are wondering if only the police could work like that now with a no-nonsense approach before the days of PACE?

Cannot wait for tonight's episode, and wonder what uninhibited story line will befall us before the night is out?   

Well worth watching. However, I thought that the Austin Cambridge in the background was a bit of a continuity blooper.

Really!   Never noticed!

Just kidding, Lizzie. It was actually a Vauxhall Ventora.....

Thank goodness Opti!    I was just about to write to the BBC

Pretty sure  I  once saw a Morris Marina in Heartbeat though....

What!

Any car but a Morris Marina!!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Who is still watching this excellent series?

For those who are and taking in the wonderful portrayal of policing in Victorian England during the 1880s, how many are wondering if only the police could work like that now with a no-nonsense approach before the days of PACE?

Cannot wait for tonight's episode, and wonder what uninhibited story line will befall us before the night is out?   

Well worth watching. However, I thought that the Austin Cambridge in the background was a bit of a continuity blooper.

Really!   Never noticed!

Just kidding, Lizzie. It was actually a Vauxhall Ventora.....

Thank goodness Opti!    I was just about to write to the BBC

Pretty sure  I  once saw a Morris Marina in Heartbeat though....

What!

Any car but a Morris Marina!!

Rumour has it that the Marina handled like a dog on polished lino.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Who is still watching this excellent series?

For those who are and taking in the wonderful portrayal of policing in Victorian England during the 1880s, how many are wondering if only the police could work like that now with a no-nonsense approach before the days of PACE?

Cannot wait for tonight's episode, and wonder what uninhibited story line will befall us before the night is out?   

Well worth watching. However, I thought that the Austin Cambridge in the background was a bit of a continuity blooper.

Really!   Never noticed!

Just kidding, Lizzie. It was actually a Vauxhall Ventora.....

Thank goodness Opti!    I was just about to write to the BBC

Pretty sure  I  once saw a Morris Marina in Heartbeat though....

What!

Any car but a Morris Marina!!

Rumour has it that the Marina handled like a dog on polished lino.

The square steering wheel didn't help, oh and the high set rear leaf springs that made the rear end 'float'!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Who is still watching this excellent series?

For those who are and taking in the wonderful portrayal of policing in Victorian England during the 1880s, how many are wondering if only the police could work like that now with a no-nonsense approach before the days of PACE?

Cannot wait for tonight's episode, and wonder what uninhibited story line will befall us before the night is out?   

Well worth watching. However, I thought that the Austin Cambridge in the background was a bit of a continuity blooper.

Really!   Never noticed!

Just kidding, Lizzie. It was actually a Vauxhall Ventora.....

Thank goodness Opti!    I was just about to write to the BBC

Pretty sure  I  once saw a Morris Marina in Heartbeat though....

What!

Any car but a Morris Marina!!

Rumour has it that the Marina handled like a dog on polished lino.

The square steering wheel didn't help, oh and the high set rear leaf springs that made the rear end 'float'!

I believe that you refer to the Austin All-aggro, Ms Zoom.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Who is still watching this excellent series?

For those who are and taking in the wonderful portrayal of policing in Victorian England during the 1880s, how many are wondering if only the police could work like that now with a no-nonsense approach before the days of PACE?

Cannot wait for tonight's episode, and wonder what uninhibited story line will befall us before the night is out?   

Well worth watching. However, I thought that the Austin Cambridge in the background was a bit of a continuity blooper.

Really!   Never noticed!

Just kidding, Lizzie. It was actually a Vauxhall Ventora.....

Thank goodness Opti!    I was just about to write to the BBC

Pretty sure  I  once saw a Morris Marina in Heartbeat though....

What!

Any car but a Morris Marina!!

Rumour has it that the Marina handled like a dog on polished lino.

The square steering wheel didn't help, oh and the high set rear leaf springs that made the rear end 'float'!

I believe that you refer to the Austin All-aggro, Ms Zoom.

Of course Opti!   The mind obviously wandered!

The Allegro was certainly awful, just like the Marina; the bad days of the British motor industry, although the Fords then were great for the time!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Who is still watching this excellent series?

For those who are and taking in the wonderful portrayal of policing in Victorian England during the 1880s, how many are wondering if only the police could work like that now with a no-nonsense approach before the days of PACE?

Cannot wait for tonight's episode, and wonder what uninhibited story line will befall us before the night is out?   

Well worth watching. However, I thought that the Austin Cambridge in the background was a bit of a continuity blooper.

Really!   Never noticed!

Just kidding, Lizzie. It was actually a Vauxhall Ventora.....

Thank goodness Opti!    I was just about to write to the BBC

Pretty sure  I  once saw a Morris Marina in Heartbeat though....

What!

Any car but a Morris Marina!!

Rumour has it that the Marina handled like a dog on polished lino.

The square steering wheel didn't help, oh and the high set rear leaf springs that made the rear end 'float'!

I believe that you refer to the Austin All-aggro, Ms Zoom.

Of course Opti!   The mind obviously wandered!

The Allegro was certainly awful, just like the Marina; the bad days of the British motor industry, although the Fords then were great for the time!

Very true, Lizzie. British Leyland produced and sold some real old tat back in the seventies.................except for the Triumph TR6 which I still lust after to this very day.

[PhilRich]

My first Allegro wasn't a bad motor, although I just couldn't live with the Quartic steering wheel and changed it! It had no leaks (unusual for the Marque I know )  I also had a Vanden Plas 1800 version some years later with real Connolly Leather seats & real wood dash! Went like sh*t off a stick but rusted away before my eyes

[STMO123]

I owned an austin princess. I have never quite recovered.

[Rods2]

Victorian England was also a time of great opportunity when people made and lost fortunes.

My great great great Granddad from a working class family made a fortune with a new technology at the time, indoor plumbing and flushing toilets in Sheffield. He had a nice big house and spent much of his money opening a pleasure gardens, in Sheffield, but that failed due him never being able to get an alcohol licence. My nan used to have some of the cups and crockery from a tea shop. When this failed he went downhill and by all accounts drunk himself to death!

I saw an article on this in the 1970's in a Sheffield newspaper my nan had been sent a copy of by her sister, who lived in Sheffield. One day when I get time I will have to look into my ancestry further. I know a distant cousin of my dad has done a family tree.

[Sir Tigger KC]

The square steering wheel didn't help, oh and the high set rear leaf springs that made the rear end 'float'!

Just what every highly charged 19 year old lad needed!!!    I feel for today's Yoof... Can you imagine getting it on in the back of a Saxo?? 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Victorian England was also a time of great opportunity when people made and lost fortunes.

My great great great Granddad from a working class family made a fortune with a new technology at the time, indoor plumbing and flushing toilets in Sheffield. He had a nice big house and spent much of his money opening a pleasure gardens, in Sheffield, but that failed due him never being able to get an alcohol licence. My nan used to have some of the cups and crockery from a tea shop. When this failed he went downhill and by all accounts drunk himself to death!

I saw an article on this in the 1970's in a Sheffield newspaper my nan had been sent a copy of by her sister, who lived in Sheffield. One day when I get time I will have to look into my ancestry further. I know a distant cousin of my dad has done a family tree.

Indeed they did

The Victorians took risks and made Britain Great .