Just about everything was correct for the time. The Wagon was a Dunton copy but correctly not flashed up. That only really came in in the late 1960's when Gaskin and Berry {painters} had made their mark on the travelling world. The trailer was of it's time although a bit small. Lovely to see Thomas McCarthy and Maria Doyle { The Commitments and Black Velvet Band}The Wagon burning broke our hearts, too many memories.
Just one tiny carp, the young girls hair would never have been allowed to hang down in plaits, and would have been pinned up. Travelling women {in those days} only let their hair loose before giving birth. It was believed it gave more power to the body. The old Rani in the wagon could have been Mally's grandmother. No wonder she was a scholar and became a midwife.
Well done BBC AT LAST!!