Featured Image: Four candles

This image was taken in homage to a classic ‘Two Ronnies’ sketch on their TV show in the 1970’s. The show, by Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, was a series of comedy sketches during a time before satellite and cable television, and the ‘Four Candles’ sketch was first aired in 1976, when there were just three television channels to choose from; BBC1, BBC 2 and ITV.

Such was the popularity of the show (and the absence of much competition) that the whole family would sit around the television to watch and laugh together. This particular sketch was all the funnier to our family because my parents had a shop, and so did my uncle; which happened to be an ironmongers. I won’t detail the sketch’s premise, but if you haven’t seen it, you can find it on YouTube here.

It obviously created a lasting memory because, some 30+ years later, as I was visiting the Black Country Living Museum, I came across this collection of garden fork handles in a corner and just had to capture them on camera. The bonus was that they were quite photogenic, with their polished handles shining in the golden light from the morning sun.