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Posted by damsonjamqueen (U2828847) on Monday, 4th August 2008
in TA? Or when did they first speak? I have been listening to TA and can remember Grace shuffling off this mortal coil, but can't remember when the Grundy's first appeared.
I do remember that a "Mr Horrobin" used to give Shula a lift to school - he must of been the same family as Susan, surely? I remember Phil telling Shula to hurry up and not keep Mr Horrobin waiting. When did they get the reputation of being laybouts and villainous?
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Think the Grundys were a mid 1970s innovation. Joe came first - Susan already dead. The Chronology first mentions him in 1972. I have archive tapes where he's around, wheeling and dealing in dead rabbits with Sid. His boys (silent) were said to be like gorrillas
Alf and Eddie didn't speak until about 1977 (Alf danced with Shula - Joe thought she's make a lovely daughterin law!)
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Clarrie was similarly a silent until the late seventies, paralleling the status of the two Grundy boys, though her family had been heard on TA since around 1957 when they arrived from Dorset. Strange no-one seems to remember Clarrie's Dorset origins - she was there until she was about 5 after all....??
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Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:47 GMT, in reply to Afan Argoll in message 3
I have no recollection of Clarrie's mother, but her father Jethro was quite vociferous until Dayveed killed him with a chainsaw.
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Posted by damsonjamqueen (U2828847) on Saturday, 16th August 2008
Mining the depths of my very ancient memory - but wasn't Clarrie the Brookfiled "help". I seem to remember Jill talking about Clarrie cleaning there.
Damson
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She was a kind of "Mother's help" but couldn't cook - Caro taught her.
from "Forever Ambridge," Norman Painting writes in the 1977 section:
"The first memo I wrote as 'Bruno Milna' stated that the programme at the time was missing 'Ben White,' the village baker, who had been an essential ingredient - the irritant that had been amusing. Up to a point, Aunt Laura had served this purpose, but she was only marginally 'agricultural.' In the beginning, Walter Gabriel had been our comic 'bad farmer.' In creating Joe Grundy, I hoped to produce a variation on a similar theme."
He wrote as Bruno Milna for TA first in in 1966, and Mr. Painting is writing of the death of the first actor, Reg Johnstone.
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Presumably in a Dorset rather than a Borsetshire accent?
What really did for him was starting to call Phil "Boss" instead of "Master Phil" - no sooner had he finally made the change (after Dan's death) than he was done for.....
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When Jethro was killed off, they needed another token yokel at Brookfield, so the awful Bert was hired as a Mummerset replacement.
I think they only allowed Clarrie to speak so they could pair her off with Eddie.
Alma.
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I have a vague memory of the Grundy's being talked of with disdain for allowing some sort of motor-biking activities on their land - scrambling or grass track racing, I think, and charging spectators entry fees (one of their many attemps at money for nothing) and generally shattering the peace and quiet of Ambridge, and, of course, lowering the tone!
Late fifties / early sixties?
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