Video is interesting looks like the front door and porch are totally as they were when they filmed that same dark wood but then the dramatic change is what was the living room where countless coffee mornings were held and where Howard plotted his escapes is now the kitchen , really strange . The garden and rear of the property look totally different . The bedroom on the first floor where Howard was incarcerated I assume is the living room so he'd have no chance of escaping through the window as he has tried many times. Assume the five bar gate at the end leads through to the B & B that was posted in another thread . The White Horse would be nice walk down to for a pint and a bite to eat but stagger back up the hill on Scholes Road at closing time wouldn't be great.
The set designers exercised a great deal of artistic license in creating stage sets of interiors for the exteriors of the buildings that were used on location.
The actual interiors of this cottage and the one next door that was Clegg's are still recognizable as weavers' cottages. The family and lodgers would have lived on the ground floor, cooked on a range fitted into the fireplace, washed up in a stone sink using water hauled in from a communal pump, used a communal earth closet where one of the parking areas is now located, and slept on pallets on the floor. The first and second floors would have been filled with looms worked by everyone in the household who had long-enough arms and legs, along with sufficiently developed eye-hand coordination.
These were spaces meant for a life spent working, eating and sleeping, with none of the bourgeois frills that most of us perceive as necessities.
