Wearing vintage on the BBC!

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sarah-jane

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My other job is running a tourist attraction, which was featured on BBC1 today. You can see it, and me blathering on, here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vy518/Country_Tracks_Series_2_Kent/

After a bit of preamble the Grotto piece starts at 54.00. I am wearing a 50s day dress with crinoline...if only I looked half as good as the young girl in the black and white archive clip!

The Grotto's website usually gets around 3000 hits a day. When we've had national TV in the past that's shot up to more than 25,000 - I can't wait until tomorrow to check!! Apparently this shows gets 1.2million viewers...they're all welcome at my door.

Sarah
 
Wow! Wow and double wow! How completely fascinating. So beautiful and such a mystery. I'd never heard of your Grotto. You come across so well in this clip, intelligent and funny. If I'm ever in the area (and I'm only up the road in London!) I'd love to visit.

And although that archive clip is divine, you look great too, nice frock!

Ruth
 
just watched it, very interesting...and l know the area very well coming from Herne Bay..


Great to see Dreamland!! Used to go every summer, loved the dodge'ums...memory lane...

no sign of the Bali hi then!!LOL

l have known of the Grotto and went once as a small kid, as l have vague memories of it...
hope yo revisit with Mum when l visit her in the Bay in early December if you are open....

you sounded very confident.....andyour frock did look lovely too


Sara
 
We can't see this in the US - we get a "Not available in your area" - so- if any of you have a way to do a screen grab and can post Sarah's photo in her vintage with her grotto - I know we'd all like to see it!

Thanks,

Linn
 
The quality isn't the best, but it'll at least give you an idea. And if you google The Grotto Margate you can find out all about it.

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and the archive shot:
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Wow, thank you for taking the trouble Ruth. I am clueless on this stuff, wouldn't have the faintest idea how to get it on You Tube.

I just checked the web site log oojamaflip and we had 53,353 hits yesterday. :clapping:

Next up is Great British Railway Journeys, I think BBC1 or BBC2 in the New Year. Michael Portillo (an ex-politician) interviewed me. Charming man.

I must admit that I don't much like being interviewed and I HATE seeing myself in photos, let alone on BBC1. But we can't afford an ad in the local paper so the chance of such good publicity requires me to put my reticence to one side, get on with it and sell sell sell.

Sarah
 
Oh and Ruth and Sara - you're both very welcome to visit of course. I'd avoid December though as we have Santa down there and get completely overrun. It's been in a couple of the national newspapers that we're *the* place to see the great man, so bedlam is the order of the day.

Sigh. Reminds me that I need to go and dust off my Mrs Claus outfit...the things we do to make a crust...

Sarah
 
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