Last chance to see Lacock filming (From Wiltshire Times)

Last chance to see Lacock filming

2:58pm Thursday 3rd May 2007 in News By Benjamin Parkes

TOMORROW'S your last chance to see the stars out in Lacock as filming for the BBC drama The Cranford Chronicles comes to an end.

Film crews will be in the picturesque village until 9pm.

Dame Judi Dench was whisked into action again this week when she was filmed in Church Street.

The Oscar-winning actress arrived at the last possible moment before her cue, in a silver Mercedes with blacked out windows.

After turning in another consummate performance as Miss Matty Jenkyns, a spirited and rebellious woman who is forced to give up the man she loves, the 72-year-old got back in the car and left the set.

As the filming has progressed, more of the all-star cast has appeared on set dressed in period attire.

Absolutely Fabulous actress Julia Sawalha is shown in tartan dress and bonnet, playing Jessie Brown, while television and film actor Jim Carter, who plays Captain Brown, was also on set.

Greg Wise, the husband of actress Emma Thompson who starred in a 2003 production of Hornblower, appeared in top hat and waistcoat as Lord Charles Maulver.

Married father-of-two Anthony Edwards, 56, a retired tanner who lives in High Street, picked up a speaking part after landing a role as an extra.

He said: "I was playing a street dweller for most of the week but then they asked me to be a police henchman in charge of the lockup.

"I had to challenge a young lad who had come to speak to his father before he was shipped to Australia.

"The microphone was set up inside but there's a chance my voice will be picked up. I'm not sure about my Wiltshire accent though as it's supposed to be set in Cheshire."