No it isn’t us, just some random pic which I found on the internet. Yes Greengrass was a terror, a very naughty man. But he always amused me when he tried, mostly unsuccesfuly to wriggle out of his latest escapade, then he would get all hot under the collar. The coppers in the police station, take Ventris eg, he was always sitting around smoking fags and doing the minimum possible. When I worked in offices in London, back in the day. Everyone was puffing away, ashtrays everywhere, it seems unbelievable now. How things have changed.
Oh yes and I also had a blue Ford Anglia which were used in the series. I now remember, that one of our headlights was damaged and I got pulled up by the police. I had my poor old Nan in the front and my baby and two year old in the back. They gave me a severe serve, I was so embarrassed.
But things were so different then in the early 70’s. We were skint and bought a bright yellow Austin A40 for 40 quid. It had those funny little triangle windows in the front and after we had bought it, we found that when they were opened, they fell out lol. Once we were pulled over in Regent St in the centre of London, because we had two stretchy elastic things holding down the bonnet and if they were removed, the bonnet would fly open and you couldn’t see where you were going, oh my God. They let us off with a warning, this was before we had any kids. Goodness me, all the old bangers which we bought. I had a beige Ford Cortina which probably cost about 100 quid, I was pregnant shortly after. It was a pretty good old car, except that when (my rather ample) younger sister sat in the rear seat and I had to brake hard, she shot forward and her arse fell into the void, oh what fun we had.
But getting back to heartbeat, it was a brilliant series
