Keeping Up Appearances appliances

[lordkenmore]

As for me, I rent, and so I end up using what is available. To date, that's meant a standard freezer-on-top refrigerator. I used anything but, in fact, since we left my childhood home (which had a freezer on bottom refrigerator).

But if I were buying for myself, I'd probably buy small. Even a dorm size would probably be big enough for my day to day needs.

 

[fan-of-fans]

The Aromaster and fridge.

 

[fan-of-fans]

A later episode with cooker and kettle shown.

 

[fan-of-fans]

Earlier episode with another kettle and a percolator?

 

[vacerator]

Louis, Delaney,

Louis, was there a Rover 2000? their car is identical to a US spec Civic 4 door from the late 80's, and early 90's.
Delaney, yes, her telephone looks exactly like a Western Electric slimline.
I think the UK did have a similar phone, and there were other look alike clones as well. I have a Conair phone, and the only visible difference other than the lighter weight, is the reversible button hook to use it as a wall mounted phone.

 

[warmsecondrinse]

One Foot in the Grave: Definitely one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. Over time I eventually began to feel sorry for Victor because he usually suffered consequences far, far out of proportion to the size of his mistake. When his wife left the freezer door ajar YET AGAIN, was he actually supposed to think, "oh, I'd better check the freezer for any errant cat that might've decided to take a nap in there", before he closed the door properly???

 

Vicar of Dibley: Am I the only one to think Owen Newitt was strangely hot?

 

Forgive me, but I may have missed as many as a quarter of the episodes... (ducks and runs). But I do have a burning question: Did either Sheriden or Tarquin ever make an appearance?

 

[delaneymeegan]

LOL

 

 

"Did either Sheriden or Tarquin ever make an appearance?"

 

<strong>NO.</strong>

 

<strong><strong>But we know many people, UNDER DURESS,  got to view numerous photo albums worth of Sheriden over the years.  lol    </strong></strong>

 

[foraloysius]

Rover 2000

Rover P6 - Wikipedia

nl.wikipedia.org

 

[hoovermatic]

Sheridan

He appeared once and only once - well to be precise, all you saw was the back of his head as he disappeared down the road in a taxi, leaving poor Hyacinth bereft on the driveway, seeing her beloved son being driven off in to the sunset - back to university, stopping en route at the local John Lewis to pick up some curtain material or a roll of bias binding for the sewing box. Tarquin was never seen.

As for One Foot in the Grave - it is up there with the best sit coms every made in my opinion. The episode 'Hearts of Darkness' was a triumph of story writing, DARK humour, belly aching laughs (Trivial Pursuit scene - how many noses has Conway Twitty got) - I still cry laughing when I think of that line!!!

 

[vacerator]

Louis,

the Rover P6 succeeded the P4 3 litre, and preceded the 3500 fastback/liftback.
Both were well before the Honda investment into Rover.

 

[foraloysius]

Now now now Mike, you asked if there was a Rover 2000 and I gave you the link.

 

[alexialex94]

The Telephone

"looks suspiciously like a U.S. Western Electric Slim-line. (Where is Alex from the Vacuum Forum?)"

Hyacinth's Pear white telephone was a British Telecom (BT) Minstrel phone, the first phone to have last number redial I believe.

Here is a little info on it for all interested.

http://www.britishtelephones.com/t5011.htm

 

[gusherb]

The shell is a very close copy to the Western Electric Trimline phone.

 

[alexialex94]

Indeed so, the BT Minstrel was not out until the early 90s and is far more advanced than a WE trimline.

 

[fan-of-fans]

Ah, so that would explain why she always made it a point that she was calling on a "white slimline pushbutton telephone with automatic redial".

Of course there was one episode where she had that flip phone. "I'm calling you on my mobile phone with caller and one touch facility". "I did tell you I'm now on a mobile phone, Elizabeth?"

"Make sure it's fully charged Richard."

And, one of the microwaves:

 

[alexialex94]

We had a compact phone in the 60s (same time the WE trimline was out...60s) it was called the GPO (Now BT) trimphone.

Looked like this (pic bellow)...It had a buzzer for the ringer which made the infamour cricket sound to the ring, as apose to the regular 700 series GPO telephones woth the double gong bells, which just made the traditional "ring ring, ring ring" the trimphone came in rotary dial or later, push button.

There was also a GPO rotary compact phone, which had a ringer separate to the phone it's self, which was fitted away frtom the phone...Much like the WE Princess phone.

Here is the trimphone on the first pic. The regular traditional 700 series telephone (706 left and later 746 right) second pic. The compact phone with bells seperate to the phone, third pic.

Both the Trimphone and 746 telephones were available in push button varients later on in the 70s, although, they were not touch tone.
The trimphone was only sold up until 1980 I believe, 80s version of the 746 that were push button were touch tone I believe...I could be wrong though.

 

[alexialex94]

There you go, some more info on the Minstrel...

http://www.phone-pages.org.uk/minstrel.htm