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A blast from the past - university academic looks back at ITV soap Weavers Green

A university academic has spent hours looking through episodes of an old ITV soap, made right here in the East.

Weavers Green was filmed in Norwich and Heydon by Anglia Television in the 1960s.

Weavers Green was a British television soap opera, made in 1966 for ITV by Anglia Television

It launched the careers of soap stars like Wendy Richards and was the fore-runner to Emmerdale Farm.

The soap opera was filmed in Heydon near Aylsham
Weavers Green was seen as the TV version of The Archers
The soap was based in a small Norfolk village and broadcast around the country twice a week