Wright said the repairs meant the 91-year-old van could now attend summer events, including the Old Buckenham Air Show and, for the first time, the Royal Norfolk Show.<\/p>\n
Speaking to BBC Radio Norfolk, he described the events as “some fantastic opportunities for those who have donated to come and see us and say hello”.<\/p>\n
At the Royal Norfolk Show later this month, the van will be accompanied by museum volunteer and author Chris Garrod, who has published a new book called Jones’s Van: The Journey, to help raise museum funds.<\/p>\n
It has charted the history of the vehicle – previously used as a baker’s van and a confectioner’s van – from when it was built in Dagenham, then part of Essex, in 1935.<\/p>\n
It spent much of its working life in central London during World War Two before being found abandoned on a street in the 1960s.<\/p>\n
BBC designer Paul Joel discovered it in a garage and adapted it for the sitcom.<\/p>\n
It made its debut as the van of L\/Cpl Jack Jones, played by Clive Dunn, who was a butcher when he wasn’t on duty with the Home Guard unit, in the third series in September 1969 – and made a further 18 appearances over the next 11 years.<\/p>\n
The show, which at the height of its popularity was watched by more than 18 million viewers, was mostly filmed in Norfolk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wright said the repairs meant the 91-year-old van could now attend summer events, including the Old Buckenham Air…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-617030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}