With the possibility of a famous actors and film crews coming to Puckering, the Gazette asked local residents whether they thought a television mini-series would be a good thing for the villages.

We caught Chester Vyse, local historic structures inspector, heading out to the Caribbean to see ‘a friend.’ He was concerned about the impact of the film crew on Stoney Grove itself. "It can be terribly disruptive having a camera crew at an historic house. Trucks plowing up the gardens, people spray painting the grass green and planting plastic tulips, that sort of thing goes on all the time. These people usually think authentic means filling the place with suits of armour. Personally, I think the idea's a disaster, but that's what happens when these great houses end up in private hands."

Arthur 'Red' Covers sees merit in the production. Though he views cinema as the opium of the masses, he confesses to a soft spot regarding "Taxi to Kensington." Of course the proceeds of the filming should be shared with the village," he adds, "since it's the villagers who will have to bear the brunt of the lorries moving through and spoiling our workers' idyll".

Wendy Smith worries about the environmental impact on the estate. "Everyone talks about the house, but Stoney Grove is a little nature preserve too," says Smith. "We have to protect the animals that live there."

Nigel Morcombe's concerns centre on the influence that the actors and actresses will have on the village youth. "They're just not good influences for today's young people," he believes. "The actors in my day and age kept their peccadilloes to themselves. They didn't splash their lives across the newspapers like they do today. Not that I read that sort of paper of course."