James Herriot - Museum Visit - Creator of All Creatures Great and Small
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- James Herriot is the world's favourite Vet. Alf Wight created James Herriot and the All Creatures Great and Small series of books whilst working in the Thirsk Practice. This is now James Herriot World, a museum and unique insight into Alf Wight's life and how he created James Herriot.
We visit what he created as Skeldale House, see where he lived and worked and find out how he used his personal experiences to write the wonderful novels loved by so many.
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Hotel in Askrigg Skeldale House www.maison-parfaite.com/
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00:00 Introduction
00:34 Thirsk North Yorkshire
01:00 Alf Wight Early Years
02:00 World of James Herriot
02:26 House and Vet Surgery Tour
09:06 Writing James Herriot
10:28 Garden and Memorial
11:39 Using his personal experiences
12:14 TV Studio Sets
13:37 Education Area
14:03 2020 All Creatures Great and Small
14:42 Askrigg Original Locations
18:26 Next Time
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My GF was raised at St Mary's (her grandfather was Vicar) and Alf was her vet from the early 70's until he died. She says he was a MUCH better horse vet that he claimed in his books, and was as sweet and kind as his stories make him sound, and Siegfried was exactly as he was described.
How amazing to have that link with Alf! Thank you for sharing.
lovely story
And what was Siegfried's real name? Did he have a brother too?
@@Maid-en-HeadSiegfried was Donald Sinclair, and his brother Tristan was named Brian. Herriot was obviously a fan of Wagner.
James Herriot was such a good writer. His books are modern classics .
America here, thank you for sharing! All Creatures Great and Small is such a wonderful series.
Glad you enjoyed it!
We didn't have television in the 70's & I read all the Herriot books many times. Those books helped to shape my character and millions of others. I will never forget the story of two daughters: an elegant & wealthy young woman who sneered at her dowdy old father, and a farm girl who rode her bicycle 4 miles to get her dad a bottle of beer for a surprise, as a treat with his dinner. So beautifully told it made me cry.
I was so angry when I read that the UK taxed him at the rate of 98%. Pure ROBBERY. He didn't get to enjoy all that he earned, but I'm grateful to him for the life lessons.
Was that to pay for their socialist medical system? I don't doubt the USA will have that problem with our increased refugees, "free" education for "certain" students, and reparations owed to so many. Our disabled get far less help.
Well, taxation is coerced theft. People are not even consulted about the different taxes, tax rates, and increases. It is all arbitrary, even the fines. The government just dictates what we should pay them, grrrr.
I like the way you don't insert your faces into almost every frame like some RUclipsrs do. The scenery speaks for itself. Thanks.
We prefer you to see the scenery, but see us just enough to know who we are. That was one of the things we said when we started youtube. We would rather do voiceovers than speak as we go along. So You see more rather than looking around us to see what is happening.
Thank you for this wonderful tribute to a gifted vet and writer.
Thank you for such a fascinating tour! I was 14 in the '70s when our vet recommended "All Creatures..." to my father. He would read aloud to us after supper as we continued to sit around the table, and he gave paperback copies to several people for Christmas that year! Needless to say, he bought hardbacks of all remaining titles the moment they were published. I'm now in my sixties, and of all the books I've read and reread in my life, James Herriot's are still among the very best! 😺💕🐾
From the time i read all of James Herriot's Books and after watching the BBC series i longed to visit the Yorkshire Dales. Thank you MS for giving us a glimpse of this beautiful countryside.❤️❤️❤️
Our pleasure!
Wow! My favourite writer!
Run to watch!
I have many favorite authors. Many of them British. This wonderful man stands out above them all. The joy, humor and love his words brought to life on those pages and the admiration and good will he inspires in me is beyond comparison.
I am so excited to watch this! My children love his picture books and my oldest has read some of his longer books. I didn't even know there was a museum!
Thank you for these videos. I get to feel like I'm traveling the world with my children!
Yes it is a wonderful museum, i hope people go and visit more. Just a wonderful memory of Alf and his books.
I hope you can manage to track down a children’s copy of *The Christmas Kitten* it was my middle daughter’s favourite book when she was 6 or 7. She’s in her 30’s now and we are going to the Caribbean next year.
I love his books, but loved reading the Christmas Kitten with Amy in the 1990’s
Wonderful video! I read the books & watched the TV series and thoroughly enjoyed seeing where the he lived & worked.
During a visit to UK in December 1983, I learned that Alf Wight was still practising in Thirsk. I went up from York by train and had the long walk from the station. As this was before the museum was established, there was only the front of the house to see, and the surrounding streets. But I was very satisfied and thrilled to have seen where that marvellous series had its beginnings.
Thank you for your excellent production: it has been like an actual visit. Especially showing the studio sets.
What a delightful video! Thank you !
Well done! It brought James Harriot and Skeldale House back to life for me! I read all of James’ books, probably in the 1980’s. I remember laughing a lot. He had such a way with words in describing the local people and the way he reacted to them. They were people I would have liked to meet! Thank you very much for posting this video, well researched and well done!
My Daughter bought me the entire series of books of Jamed Herriot for christmas many years ago and they have been read more times i can remember.looking at the front door of Skelsdale house i can just imagine all the dogs jumping up to see who was there.as he said the smallest not being able to get a good view having to jump so high.it still makes me laugh now.and i realy do recomend the books.i loved going to the house when we visited Thirsk and the place itself is a lovley town.thank you for the memories.
What a lovely, kind face he had. A truly remarkable man.
*Very nicely assembled video!*
Thanks so much for this. Alf Wight, a.k.a. "James Herriot," _WAS_ quite the vet - _AND_ man!
Moje oblíbené knihy p. Herriota jsem četl, když jsem chodil na základní školu. Úžasné, vtipné a okouzlující knihy. Zdravím z České republiky.
Je skvělé, že jste četli některé knihy.
Thank you! Huge fan of the books and TV series and enjoyed this video very much. I’ve literally lost count of how many times I’ve read the books. You’ve done a wonderful job!
So glad you liked it.
Amazing life. We can feel his love for all animals and literature. Wonderful vídeo as usual. Cheers.
I have thoroughly enjoyed all of the videos in your Yorkshire series. They show all the beautiful villages that look as if they have stepped into the 21st Century from the past. Yet another great episode! Thank you Will and Simon. Sophie Wallace.
Glad you like them Sophie, so pleased.
Hello from Michigan USA, I loved this video of one of my favorite Author ❤ ♥ 💕. I still have all of my books, and have enjoyed the TV series.
Loved all his books. I saved my neighbors cow because of one of his books where he saved a prize sow with the new miracle drug penicillin, and it worked within a minute just like it did for him. A wonderful man and vet.
This walk about was very interesting to hear about the vet behind All Creatures Great and Small. The Skeldale house is lovely and the villages are bucolic. Thank you for sharing❤️👏👏👏
Thank you so much for showing this. I love the James Harriet books and it's nice to know that there is a museum in his name.
Glad you enjoyed it
I didn’t think you could top the Bronte sisters episode, but this is really excellent. Of course, I’m a huge fan of James Herriot. I have a picture of him on my desk. I own many of his books and the series DVDs. I worked in a bookstore after school in the early 80s, and we couldn’t keep his books in stock. They were so popular. And I live way across the ocean in Louisiana, in the States.
Thanks for taking us around guys! Grew up watching All Creatures Great And Small! Loved the books as well. Looking forward to the next one
Thanks for watching!
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this video. I've be a long time fan since the first airing of All Creatures back in 1970. I loved that series, read all the books, and really enjoy the reboot. Thanks for this tour.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks, as always. You are my eyes and ears. I look forward to next week. I remember going across the Yorkshire moors and suddenly seeing a piece of classical statuary and realizing what a weirdness Castle Howard must have been when it was built in the 18th century. From afar, it seems only a film set. In real life, it is a fantastical appearance of Rome in a farm setting.
Now I need to go back and read the books again. What a nice video, many thanks for all you do to bring s these fine shows. Greetings from Florida USA
When I was young in the late ‘80’s (September 1989) we travelled to the UK and went to Yorkshire to ‘do’ The Herriot Trail as it was called then. Everything from Thirsk, to following the roads up into the Dales to visiting the various filming spots of the wonderful series All Creatures Great and Small. The original veterinary house was already a museum and you could pop on a white coat and have your photo taken in the original surgery. Alf Wight was still attending surgery every Thursday at the new veterinary practice not that far away from the original. We were told he loved to meet visitors on that day, but sadly we were in Thirsk on Tuesday so didn’t meet him. Such a wonderful experience for a girl from Australia.
Thank you so much for sharing your memories of the area. Lovely to read. Sounds like a wonderful trip you had.
@@MemorySeekers it was wonderful and the connection continued after as my vet who I started to take my pets to later had actually spent time working with Alf Wight at his practice not long after he graduated from Sydney University. My wonderful vet is now retired by his practice is run by wonderful vets and his son Chris Brown is very famous here in Australia having his own TV show Bondi Vet.
Vielen lieben Dank🙏was habt ihr mir für eine große Freude mit diesem Video ( natürlich auch mit allen anderen ) aber besonders mit diesem Video gemacht, Hier in Deutschland habe ich alle Folgen „ der Doktor und das liebe Vieh“ nach den Erinnerungen von James Herriot mehrmals gesehen.Robert Hardy und auch alle anderen Schauspieler waren so überzeugend es war einfach toll.Dank eures Videos konnte ich alles nochmals nachverfolgen, einmal,hinter die Kulissen schauen und durch die Räume gehen. Es war sehr sehr interessant.Vielen vielen Dank🙏und Greetings from Germany.😻🇩🇪
Es ist so schön, Ihren Kommentar zu lesen und wie viel Ihnen das Programm bedeutet. Ich bin so froh, dass Sie unsere Tour und die Geschichte genossen haben.
Amazing place to visit, and living, why not?
I love watching the old farm houses like this one from the late 1920s 30s +40s.i love the original things shown in the house .
Another absolutely wonderful virtual tour of the town of Thirsk and Asgreed(?). Complete with classic English weather! I thoroughly enjoyed this video, it brought back many memories of my reading nearly all of James Herriot books. I remember being very surprised when I discovered that his real name was Alf Wight. I still have the three most popular books inherited from my maternal grandmother. I also saw the 1970's series of All Creatures Great and Small, well most of it. Thank you again for your wonderful work.
A dear friend of mine took me there when I visited England in 2007. James Herriot's son was
in the gift shop standing next to me, signing books by his father and about him. I had no clue but my friend did and was nudging me in the ribs with her elbow, saying "Thatshissonthatshisson!" I can heartily recommend this museum - it was a wonderful experience. Very grateful that my friend took the time to take me there.
That is so neat!
It is so good to see where Alf lived and also the museum and lifestyle of this renowned vet. Another great video. Love it.. I have his books, dvds of the tv series with Christopher Timothy & Co. Many thanks for today’s video.
Lovely memories the original All Creatures love Mrs Pumphrey with Trikki Woo gr8 stuff
It is great memories. 😊
I love these books so much. I always revisit them.
Alf Wight was our vet when we lived at Sessay near Thirsk
Rosemary Page, his daughter was our GP
Lovely people
Alf worked part time and was a calm, modest man with a great passion for animals
As he once said, 'If a farner rings about a sick animal, he doesnt care if Im George Bernard Shaw'!
Thirsk is a beautiful village and stepping stone into Yorkshire Dales or the Pennines
I miss Yorkshire, at 75 yrs, Ive lived in several beautiful Scottish places, The Borders, The Shetland Islands, Inverness and now 16 miles from Stirling
All beautiful.
Thank you for sharing this experience lovely read. 😊
Another exceptional video! I love James Herriot. I have 1 of his books "James Herriot's Yorkshire". Thank you for another adventure 🙂
I love all of your episodes. Your narration is perfect from your voice to your information, VERY WELL FILMED! Thank you!
Thank you for your kind words.
I actually went to Thirsk many years ago specifically because I knew it was where the James Herriot stories were based.
Nice to hear you have been. Did you get to the museum?
@@MemorySeekers I don’t remember it if I did. I know I went looking for Skeldale House. Thirsk as I recall is a tiny market town and very lovely. It was in the 80s. Thanks for the great walk down memory lane. I love the Herriot books!
I remember the British program "All creatures great and small" when it was showed on the PBS station here in the USA. The late, great Robert Hardy was in this series. 🙏💕🐈🇬🇧
This is wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing this with us all and especially those of us who aren't able to travel and see it in person.
Our pleasure!
Thank you for such informative narration. You brought your film to life!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Loved the books, first series and the new creatures great and small
Great video and commentary! I was fortunate to visit the house in May 2022, and it was a wonderful experience. I also bought a copy of Jim Wight's biography of his father from the gift shop, and highly recommend it.
That is awesome!
I'll be there when I go to the UK hopefully next year, it will be a dream come true, read the books as a youth in the 80s
How lovely, very exciting. Hope you have a wonderful trip.
I have and treasure all four books by Alf Wight as "James Herriot". It's cool that the four titles are based on the children's hymn, "all things bright and beautiful". I was a fan of the 1970's series that was shown on a local PBS station in the New York area. Thanks for showing us Alf Wight's world!
There's actually over 12, not counting English versions like If Only They Could Talk (All Creatures Great and Small, #1) and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (All Creatures Great and Small, #2).
Thanks for adding actual captions for the Deaf
Thanks again, this was a great visit through "Herriot" life. I loved the first edition of the TV programme, haven't seen the newer version but how they lived in the times is really interesting. Medically wise we have come so far from some of their ways. I'm loving this whole series of Yorkshire and have watched a couple of the videos more than once. You have a talent at putting these videos together. =-) Take care =-)
Thank you as always for your kind words. So pleased this series has been so enjoyable for you.
I absolutely love James Herriot books and the original show! I wonder where he came up with the name 'Siegfried'? I named my baby Yorkie Siegfried after the show! Luv Robert Hardy! 🎄
In one of Wight’s books he says that Siegfried and Tristan’s mother was a fan of the German composer Richard Wagner, who created several operas featuring German mythology. Together they comprise his “Ring of the Niebelungen.”
Robert Hardy was a wonderful actor.
Thank you so much for this lovely tour. We are waiting for the next season on PBS in Va. which be in January of “All Creatures Great and Small”. It a wonderful story and to see the real life places and the real Veterinarian was a real treat. Thanks you again. Ann from Va.
Not much longer to wait! Hope you enjoy it.
This was wonderful. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was the best television program on a Saturday or Sunday night
Thank you for showing all of the lovely details from this excellent museum. I'm amazed at the sheer number of items from the period. The setting really maintains the feel of the time and place. They even have the cars! I watched the original series when it was re-broadcast in the U.S. in the 1990s, but enough time has passed that I was able to enjoy the current series with fresh eyes; the new season will be available here in January. Oh my! Castle Howard! Fantastic! See you next week! :)
It is quite a wonderful museum, I hope more people visit.
Eine tolle Serie
I grew up with the series as a child in the 1970s. Now in my 50s, I enjoy reading James Herriot's books.
Thankyou & kind regards from Adelaide, South Australia 🇦🇺
Thank you for watching.
I loved this video! I'm a huge James Harriot fan and you did a beautiful job of giving us an educational tour . Thank you so much!
This was a wonderful presentation. Thank you so much!! From an Anglophile from Scarborough, Maine USA
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Love the James Herriot books. I have read them many times over the years.
Thank you for the tour and story of one of my favorite authors. Book sales are hidden treasures' location and I have found rare gems in James Herriot's works in there. 🇵🇭
I visited Askrigg in the late 90's. There were no tourists there. Just me and my indulgent parents who took me to see the village where ACGS was filmed. Pleased to see it still is the same. We didn't make it to Thirsk.
Lovely little village, I think it can get busy now but as its a bit out of the way not as much as some other places like Grassington from the new series.
Thank you!!! Memory Seekers great Video ❤️
Our pleasure!
Stayed in Thirsk on my visit to the UK in 2014. What a beautiful place!! Went through the museum at Skeldale house. Loved all his books, I've read & re-read them over the years
I really want to visit the Herriot Museum - it looks fascinating. Hopefully I will get to Yorkshire later this year, have been to the county many times over the years but don't think I've ever been to Thirsk.
Hope you do manage to make the trip, the museum are well worth a visit as is just being in the county, as you know.
Thank you for a Childhood Memory and the good Lessons we learned !
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks so much loved the books and the series. This was awesome
Glad you enjoyed it!
I loved each one of Herriots books. I laughed out loud, giggled an even snorted so many times as I read those lovely,me arm books. How I wish life was as simple now as it was then.
Dear simon &will ,we love the tv series ,both old , and we've just startet watching the new version , so it was so great watching your video , as always so beautiful done.thank you for showing us around , can't wait for the next video.grettings from hamburg ,erika &hubby
Your videos are "par excellance," simply the best! Everything is perfection; the careful and thorough camerawork, the scripting and phrasing, the narration and your pleasant voice, the lovely music and tone, all combine to produce a top notch, visually pleasing, interesting, captivating, delightful, professional production. You are extremely talented and gifted. Thank you so much for creating and sharing these journey jewels with us!
Thank you so much for the lovely comment. That did make us smile! 😊
I never saw the original series but the latest is the best television I’ve seen in years.
Thank you for a pleasant video
A wonderful series of books and the tv series was delightful. Good for all ages.
The new series is outstanding.... They bring not only characters to life but a place in time.
This video made my day. Thank you. :o)
I'm so glad!
Memory Seekers never fail to produce fantastic videos.
Your videos are wonderful. Those beautiful towns full of history are delightful. Best regards from Guadalajara, México. I enjoyed the TV series All Creatures Great and Small produced in the 70's.
This must be an old video. I was in Thirsk 7 years ago and my wife and I were the 250,000 visitor to the new modern museum. They gifted us with copies of his book and we got to meet his son. A great experience for a couple of Texans far from home
I can assure you we visited just in September this year during our Yorkshire holiday.
Visited the surgery and museum on a few occasions thanks originally to my father. Being a Yorkshire man and an avid follower of the amazing series I was captivated.
Highly recommended as a visit to Thirsk and obviously the museum 👍
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Oh I LOOOVED James Herriot!!!!! What a lovely home. I grew up on these books and it was my dream when I myself rode ranch calls with a large animal vet (equines) and subsequently became a nurse. Dr. Herriot was a huge inspiration to many children.
I stand in respect of Alf Wright and all others be either Vet's, human Doctors or Pharmacists who displayed astonishing knowledge they demonstrated in treating both human and animals.
I'm still a huge fan of the 1970s - 1980s serious which l have just purchased and watching now 🙂🙂
I love the tin of ‘CHILLY POWDER’ on the kitchen shelf!
I have always loved James Herriott's books. ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL and that beautiful children's book OSCAR THE LITTLE BLACK CAT..CAT AROUND TOWN.
Loved the original version of the ITV series All CREATURES Great and Small. with Robert Hardy, Peter Davidson Christopher Fry(Siegfried, Tristan, and James, Helen)
Such a marvelous video. Thanks for posting. When I was a young girl in PA many of us read James Herriott's books. Yes us Yanks loved James Herriott and still do.
Maybe Oscar was Moses.
From an American fan.
if there is such a phrase - he was and is my most favorite vet-!
god how i would have loved living in thirsk during alf's life
❤❤❤ another great video. You do such a wonderful job. Love 💕 the Jams Harriet books and tv shows. I haven’t seen the new version yet. Looking forward to next week to see you out do yourselves. I do so look forward to your videos. Hugs and blessings.
I visited the museum a good few years ago, and found it really interesting. Just wish we could have met Alf and his colleagues, they sounded such lovely people.
I have traveled to some beautiful places on my computer enjoyed my walk. !!!!
I loved his books!
Now living in new zealand, I did enjoy my trip to thirst. Loved the sweet shops, also the local golf club. Great weather was a bonus
I loved the books and the first series of All Creatures Great and Small. Some years ago I found that I descend from Robert FitzRandolph who build Middleham Castle which I believe is shown in the background for some of the episodes. Through the marriage of his son to Mary Bigod, I descend from her father Roger Bigod and even son Hugh Bigod. As such, I was at Runnymede for the 800th Anniversary of the Sealing of Magna Carta. One of my DAR Patriots is Robert FitzRandolph. My great-great grandmother, Sarah FitzRandolph, married John Stewart and thus the FitzRandolph name "left" the family, but we had a very long run with it.
Thank you. I live in America and will never get there. All creatures in great and small were my favorite show. I had the books and all the videos.
So pleased we could share with you.
In 2007 my wife and I visited Thirsk and toured the Herriot Museum. The famous red door to Herriot's office was the subject of a highly popular print sold at the museum. Returning home, we gave two to our vets as a thank you for taking excellent care of our pets over the years. The reality TV show American Restoration featured Linda's office, when the staff took their sick cat to her. You can imagine our delight when we saw the print behind her as she examined the cats. A little bit of Yorkshire in the Las Vegas desert.
11.16 Farriers are not labourers but skilled craftsmen. Qualifications are required.
Thank you so much for letting us look around your beautiful country England, would love to visit one day but until then, your videos are just perfect, thank you …
My pleasure 😊
My mother visited here Thirsk before she died in '99. I wish I could have gone too.
Love his Books ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️