One foggy, damp, cold November (early) morning, six members of Ffox’s Company, they being- Ant, Nicky, Dave, Mike, Sharon and Paul, found their way across The Cotswolds into Oxfordshire to the filming location of Rousham House which lies just west of Bicester. The house built in 1635 and surrounded by unique early landscape gardens, was the perfect backdrop for the C17th ECW skirmish as a starting point to the episode’s plot. Enter the requested services of about 150 Sealed Knot members.

If no one has done any filming before, don’t let the slick finished product seen on TV, fool you into thinking everything flows smoothly! Oh no. There’s only a certain amount of times that the filming crew shout “let’s do that one again” or “cut!”, until you start to lose enthusiasm and patience for your two seconds of on screen fame, and the stars have done their bit and gone after an hour!

Thankfully, a fantastic free of charge catering service was there to warm us up with tea, coffee and meals to boost our energy levels for the days filming.

We had arrived on site before daylight had broken the murky day, and finished filming in the dying gloom of the afternoon. I guess the exciting bit for SK members was when we had a skirmish probably more for ourselves than the film crew. Ah well, it’s all in a day’s work for us thespian’s.

See if you can spot us when you happen to catch the start of the Lewis episode that has a load of Knotter’s running around, and the ever haunting line”one of that lot, shot one of that lot…”

Ant was musketeer, Nicky was drummer, Dave and Mike were pikemen, Sharon was ‘civilian’ walking with a child behind talking police detectives, and Paul was ensign and pike.

Item compiled by Captain Paul Stanley
Ffox’s Company Commanding Officer

(photos courtesy of Rusty Aldwinckle)