On 26th May 1998, I was at the Black Country Museum in Dudley, Nr. Birmingham, to be in an episode of " Inspector Morse ". The episode was entitled " The Wench is Dead " and I was playing the role of a bargee.
The story was that Morse is taken seriously ill at a museum reception and is hospitalised.
Whilst there he takes an interest in a 140 year old case known as the Oxford Canal Murders.
The case involved the murder and rape of a young woman traveling by canal boat from Coventry to London.
The case resulted in two men being hanged and Morse believes there was a miscarriage of justice.
With Lewis away on an Inspector's course, Supt. Strange, who has counselled Morse to take an early retirement, assigns fast-track university graduate PC Adrian Kershaw to do some legwork for him.
Morse determines that a fraud took place and that the victim may have been someone else altogether.
The scene that I was involved with was a flash-back to 1858 when the crime was commited and was filmed on the canal section that runs through the Black Country Museum.
This was to be my second visit to that location for filming purposes, my first had been in 1987 for " Sophia and Constance " and my third was as recent as November 2013 for " WPC 56 ".
