Yorkshire Post reporter Liana Jacob visits Thirsk's top tourist attraction World of James Herriot.
Marketing director of the museum, John Gallery, shares his thoughts on the series and how it has impacted the business.
The museum has a room dedicated to the Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small starring Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West and Rachel Shenton. Liana took a look inside.
Marketing director of the museum, John Gallery, shares his thoughts on the series and how it has impacted the business.
The museum has a room dedicated to the Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small starring Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West and Rachel Shenton. Liana took a look inside.
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00:00 Hello, I'm John Gallery, Marketing Director at the World of James Herriot and Chairman
00:05 of Herriot Country Tourism Group. We're here at the World of James Herriot at the statue
00:11 of Alf White, who became James Herriot the most famous vet in the world. He's a phenomenon
00:18 really. We're celebrating 25 years of the opening of the World of James Herriot this
00:23 year and we've been delighted with the way that the number of visitors has grown over
00:29 the last 12 years that we've been running it as a private sector business in tourism
00:35 in Thirsk. The town has benefited from James Herriot's stories of his life as a vet for
00:41 a lot longer than 25 years and it's a phenomenon that we're really enjoying a resurgence of
00:48 since the development of the Yorkshire vet on Channel 5 and now All Creatures Great and
00:54 Small being remade from its original series which was on the BBC in the 1990s. So the
01:01 World of James Herriot is doing a really good job of explaining the original story and the
01:06 original artefacts and photographs and memoirs and so on about James Herriot and his family
01:11 and his life and all of those characters that he brought to life in his books which still
01:17 people enjoy so much today and we're delighted that the growth of the visitor numbers is
01:22 going upwards and people love it. We love it. We wish he was still here but you know
01:30 it's one of those things. We've enjoyed success and we see that continuing for the future
01:37 and hopefully more people will come.
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