Dame Judi starts filming
10:31am Tuesday 24th April 2007 in
FILMING for the BBC's production of the Cranford Chronicles, starring Judi Dench, got underway yesterday.
Set construction teams have turned The Red Lion pub in High Street into Johnson's Stores, where Dame Judi's character Miss Matty Jenkyns, pictured, goes shopping for gifts for her family.
The exterior of the pub is almost unrecognisable, with its handsome new ground floor fascia painted dark grey.
High Street and Church Street is closed from Monday to Friday to allow filming to take place, with anyone breaching the closure rule risking a fine of £1,000.
The BBC film weaves together three different Elizabeth Gaskell novels to create a comic drama about the course of ordinary lives in a small town in Cheshire during 1842.
Each household in Lacock has received £100 for the inconvenience of having a major filming project take place on their doorstep.
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Dame Judi in costume in Lacock
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