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    B.B.C. tv Sunday evenings. MIDWIFE. Opening scenes of a street with houses either side, and at the bottom of the street a passenger liner. Is that ship Shaw Savilles
    Dominion Monarch? I was on her for one trip and it looks very much like her to me. Finally, could anyone hazard a guess as to the location of that clip. I joined her in
    Victoria Dock, but I dont remember houses in such close proximity .
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    Dominion Monarch at KING GEORGE V ,photo of Saville Road Siilvertown
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    Very many thanks for that Rob
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    On last weeks screening of "Call the Midwife" a voice over announced that it was 1964 and we had just seen the Dominion Monarch berthed in KGV. This is a bit of a anomaly as the DM arrived in Japan November 1962 for scrapping. Why cant these programme makers do some research before they start filming.
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    Nicely spotted, John--10 out of 9 for that!!
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    In one episode they had served up the meal for the nuns and the Midwives and it had broccoli on the plate when it came to the editing suite somebody realised that in 1960s England broccoli didn't actually exist not even as calibrate, rather than reshoot the whole lot again one of the video editors washed out the colour of the broccoli and when the final edit was done it appear that they had white cauliflower I didn't know they would technically that good and I don't suppose that there any others were that good at spotting the difference between cauliflower and bleached broccoli
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    Always remember watching a spaghetti western at sea, Swapped movies with another Harrison Boat the voices where about 2 minutes behind looking back they where bloody awful movies, Someone shouted play that back play that back I don't believe that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he was right a bloody big 707 Qantas flying across the screen, Happy days lads Terry.
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    John I think you are missing the point, that is just a scene that introduces every episode..There have been 8 Series
    including the present one, first one was 2012 altogether 69 episodes including the one's in 2019.

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    I believe that most of the outdoor scenery takes place in Chatham Historic Dockyard and they have an actual call the midwife trial in the dockyard itself
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    You do realize that if they got it all right we would have nothing to complain about.


    Interesting about the Broccoli as I thought it was always there.

    Trying to recall if we had it on UCL, most likely be frozen if we did.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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