I'm just watching the first episode on ITV player and Susan says her husband works for the Department for Transport. Wrong! It was the Ministry of Transport back then, it didn't become the DFT until the 1970s. The MOT test was introduced in 1960 so if it had been the DFT in 1952 we'd be taking our cars in for their annual DFT.
*sigh* I'm turning into a very sad, grumpy old woman, lol.
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Ep 2 (set in 1952) featured a Routemaster bus (from 1959) sporting a solid London Transport logo from the 1980's, use in a library of a 1980's microfiche reader, and to cap it all, a train journey from St Pancras to Barking direct (impossible) which was on a Southern Railway train (incorporated into British Railways on January 1st 1948, and NEVER operated north of the Thames) which took place in leafy countryside full of green fields.
The girls also referred to catching a 'Midland Mainline' (1996) train.
"Everybody in the WORLD, is bent"share
This thread of posts is one of the reasons I love these boards. The inconsistencies pointed out here are not important to me in terms of the story but are utterly fascinating and I am so glad when someone points them out. All part of my continuing education. thanks to all.
shareThis kind of thing seems quite common in cheapo TV dramas. I think the worst one I saw was in a BB4 play about Mountbatten, which showed him being driven across India in 1947 in a Hindustan Ambassador - a car which didn't come into production until 1958!
It puzzles me why there are all these people working in telly who can't seem to pick up on this kind of thing.
*sigh* I'm turning into a very sad, grumpy old woman, lol.