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The building which was the veterinary surgery of Alf Wight and Brian and Donald Sinclair, 23 Kirkgate, Thirsk. It is now The World of James Herriot museum. (2009 photo) In 1939, Sinclair bought a veterinary practice at 23 Kirkgate, Thirsk, Yorkshire. In July 1940, Sinclair began war service in the Royal Air Force, and hired Alf Wight to run the ...
James Alfred Wight OBE FRCVS (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author.. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to England to become a veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire, where he practised for almost 50 years.
Wallace Brian Vaughan Sinclair MRCVS (27 September 1915 – 13 December 1988) was a British veterinary surgeon who worked for a time with his elder brother Donald, and Donald's business partner, Alf Wight. Wight wrote a series of semi-autobiographical novels under the pen name James Herriot, with Sinclair and Donald appearing in fictional form ...
All Creatures Great and Small (1972) (incorporating If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet) ISBN 0-330-25049-3; All Things Bright and Beautiful (1974) (incorporating Let Sleeping Vets Lie and Vet in Harness) ISBN 0-330-25580-0; All Things Wise and Wonderful (1977) (incorporating Vets Might Fly and Vet in a Spin) ISBN 0-7181-1685-2
The Skeldale House veterinary surgery of central characters Siegfried Farnon and James Herriot is on Trengate. [3] Although the vets are based here, they travel all over the Dales. Darrowby Church (represented in the BBC series by St Mary and St John's Church, Hardraw [4] [5]) is a few hundred feet from the surgery, beyond the small market cross.
Alf Wight (Herriott) wished the film could have been shot in the Yorkshire Dales rather than North Yorkshire but was delighted by the film and the cast. However Donald Sinclair, the model for Siegfried, was upset at his portral and threatened to sue. [8] Wight avoid this by reportedly paying Sinclair a percentage of money from the books. [9]
The team had access to the Herriot archive and the archives of the Glasgow Veterinary College, including the diaries and case notes he kept during his student years. It was produced with the cooperation of Wight's family; they met de Caestecker, who found them "very helpful", and he had dinner with Wight's son Jim. [2]
We all know his son is/was a vet (is he still alive?) but were any of the grandkids involved in the practice? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.190.3.115 06:02, 21 June 2011 (UTC) Jim Wight, the son, wrote a biography of the father and was a consultant for TV series, Young James Herriot. Merits an article himself, surely?