![]() ![]() In later episodes the director employs some deft camera manoeuvres to avoid ever showing the opposite side of the street.įor example, in A Pocketful of Rye, as Miss Marple leaves her house and walks towards the shop, she seems to step over something. I would guess that was built in the 1980s when they were still making the series and probably to the dismay of the BBC which needed an English village of the late 1940s. Also at one point there’s a brief glimpse of a grassed area opposite Miss Marple’s house, which now is occupied by a more modern building. However, looking at the first story in the series - The Body In the Library (1984) - I see the bread sign isn’t there. In that story, the shopkeeper tells Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) about the murder of Rex Fortescue and later is seen delivering a newspaper which has further details about the case. Was the building next to Miss Marple’s house a shop at the time of filming or ever a shop? Perhaps it was all a bit of clever set-dressing by the BBC? Today it’s a house, but retains the old bread sign on the wall which can be seen in A Pocketful of Rye which was screened in 1985. The house used as a location in the 1980s BBC series is on Five Bells Lane in Nether Wallop, Hampshire. Miss Marple lives in the fictional village of St. Street View sightseeing: Miss Marple’s House (BBC 1980s series) Thursday 4 November 2010 ![]()
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