This gives us a throbbing pain directly above our left eye
Filming has begun on Lost in Austen in a North Yorkshire village with the charming name of Nun Monkton. We can’t stop it, so we are trying to be philosophical, at least until we learn something really snark-worthy about it.
Charles Ashby, a parish councillor at Nun Monkton, said he was delighted the programme-makers had picked the village.
He said: “We are very pleased indeed that they have chosen our village. It will be a brief inconvenience for the day but we’ve had no complaints.”
James Mackman, clerk to the parish council said: “The locations manager from the programme came down to the village green and discussed his plans with myself and Coun Ashby. He was very obliging to our concerns to protect the green.”
“The alterations and disguises they are adding to the green are really quite clever and I’m sure on the day there will be crowds of people watching the filming.”
Incidentally, there is a very good (technical) reason why we don’t yet have an official blog category for this film or Austen Handheld. You will learn why in a few weeks, we hope.
November 10th, 2007 at 11:23 am
I’ve been to Nun Monkton and spent a lovely Christmas pub hopping through Bishop Monkton. The latter is the village where the Austen family sent young George to live when he was discovered to be “not quite right.”