THIS week marks 25 years since a town in Cumbria was transformed by television producers into a Victorian fishing village for the filming of a classic Charles Dickens tale.
Locals in the town of Alston are looking back in fondness as they remember the time they saw their hometown turned into a new era for ITV's drama series Oliver Twist.
The 1999 mini-series was partly filmed in Cumbria and featured Julie Walters, Andy Serkis and Michael Kitchen. Robert Lindsay played Fagan.
Together with famous faces, locals were turned into extras.
One resident, Georgina Coleman, who was aged seven at the time of filming, said: "I don't remember a lot, but I do recall that they had snow/rain machines.
"They also decorated the buildings.
"Most of the adults in the town, including some of my family, were extras, and they brought us out of school to watch some of the filming. I'm not sure if it was just my year or if the other years got to go.
"My parents owned a BnB at the top of the town and my nana and her husband owned Blueberries Tea Rooms at the time of filming.
"The shop was open the whole time; we just had to keep the doors closed if it was in the shot.
"When I saw it on my TV a few years ago, it was bizarre as it was meant to be a fishing village/town by the sea, but some of it was filmed in Alston
"You couldn't get further inland!"
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