#arkwright

[polarity-disturbed]

Do you guys mind if I talk about a different British show for a second? Cool, thanks.

The reboot of Open All Hours—Still Open All Hours—is, in my opinion, one of the best examples of how to do a revival right. It’s not just a nostalgia cash grab or a hollow imitation. It manages to be its own thing while still looking, sounding, and feeling like the original, which is honestly such a rare feat.

The original Open All Hours (1976 - 1985) and followed Arkwright, a miserly, penny-pinching shopkeeper who ran a small corner shop with his timid, long-suffering nephew, Granville. Arkwright was eccentric and tight-fisted—always scheming new ways to offload dusty old stock at inflated prices. Granville, meanwhile, was stuck in a life he hadn’t chosen, running errands and manning the till, all while quietly dreaming of something more. But those dreams were never realized, because Arkwright kept him firmly tied to the shop—whether out of care, control, or both.

Fast forward to the reboot, Still Open All Hours (2014 - 2019), the story picks up after Arkwright’s death. Granville now runs the shop, stepping into the role of shopkeeper himself. And while the shelves and routine feel familiar, the dynamic has shifted. Granville has clearly inherited some of Arkwright’s habits—most notably his tendency to scheme and come up with elaborate pitches to sell off unwanted or outdated products. It’s a clear through line to his upbringing, a way the past echoes into the present.

But the real heart of the reboot lies in its generational shift. Granville now has an assistant of his own: his son, Leroy, who was left on his doorstep by his mother. Like Granville once did, Leroy helps out in the shop—but the way he’s being raised is markedly different from how Arkwright raised Granville.

Granville can still be a bit manipulative at times and occasionally overprotective. He certainly tries to rope Leroy into his quirky sales schemes. But unlike Arkwright, he gives his son freedom. Leroy is allowed to go out, meet people, date, and build a life outside the confines of the shop. Granville may grumble or tease him about it, but he doesn’t stand in his way.

That’s what makes Still Open All Hours more than just a continuation of the original. It’s about subtle generational change. Granville may still live in the same world, with the same shelves and scales and schemes—but he makes different choices. He gives his son space to be his own person. And in doing so, he breaks the cycle, just a little.

Still Open All Hours doesn’t just revive a series—it reflects on it. It’s a love letter to the past, but one that gently asks: how do we move forward from it? The answer, it turns out, is with a bit more patience, a bit more kindness, and a son who’s allowed to leave the shop once in a while.

[britishsquidward]

Open All Hours, but Mr Krabs and Squidward (+FANART) (Please looks all the way through, bc the last pic took a while to do lol)

Okay, so I doubt anyone's really seen Open All Hours, but I've been rewatching it, and it's literally them

Like Arkwright (Mr Krabs) is always getting Granville (Squidward) to do a bunch of work for him and stuff and he gets all the benefits

Based on Season 2 Episode 5, Arkwright's Mobile Store (this one's really good lol)

Mrs Puff as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, because that's who Arkwright likes

I redrew the store :))

[vaultsixtynine]

the prime cantor has a vague, extremely lofty and esoteric goal that she's been pursuing for centuries, and it's the basis of like. pretty much Every Thing in the carillon and every decision the pc has made in her rulership of it. nobody really knows this, because she plays pretty much everything close to the chest, but besides [redacted, ancient event], she's had two major breakthroughs within the timeline that roz and co. live in, and they center around people that the prime cantor uses and discards when they can no longer be made to obey properly or she's tired of them.

anaïs (roz's mom) - veritable genius, highly conceptual researcher, high and abstract mathematics, heavy theory and calculation. useful to the prime cantor for gathering information, finding fundamental patterns, and building a strong understanding of basics that had been eluding her after centuries of stagnation. was ?killed? either accidentally or on purpose, and her death (and the circumstances/variables/effects thereof) was a keystone moment of understanding for the pc that had not had any equal for centuries. pc realizes a new direction she needs to take her country in, and starts pouring resources into r&d and general technology advancement to replace the dying magic systems (a consequence of choices and systems she made a long time ago, and on the whole intentional) - anaïs had been mistrustful of the pc and her intentions for her research for years, and much moreso after having roz; roz has a deeply veiled breadcrumb trail that she will one day follow to better understand her mother and the circumstances of her death, as well as her work, the potential consequences of it, and the responsibilities she's passing on to roz. anaïs was terrified of being unexpectedly taken away from her daughter by the prime cantor, and thus made concerted efforts to protect and hide information for roz, just in case. some of this has been destroyed by time or by roz's abusive grandmother, but anaïs was incredibly canny and a lot of her legacy still remains for her daughter to uncover.

stiffcollar - pc's despised secretary/bodyguard/bitch boy. he had no value to her and everything he did for her while in her service was basically pointless, because she ends up ritualistically sacrificing him to try to capture the same effects from when roz's mom died (?) - but it doesn't work, stiffcollar becomes... what he is now, and the cantor is tilted because she doesn't understand why he couldn't be useful for ONCE in his entire life. he is her tool in her system and she made him - hundreds of years ago, she made a society that would produce thousands of him, all useless and stupid and devoted to her - and it's unconscionable and deeply offensive to her that in half a millenia he's the first tool that she couldn't just dispose of after using (it's so unsettling to think of all the things - people - that may have slipped through the cracks in her flawless, ordered system -) - but even though he didn't die and even though she banished him from being anywhere near her because of that outrage that disguises a sliver of fear, him Not dying has given her new variables, new insight, and allowed her to start a whole new slew of living being rights violations in the three years since his un-death.

arkwright: latest 'recruit' (she didn't have a say in the matter), and in many ways intended to be a replacement for anaïs. aw is an engineer and an inventor whose main focus is flight, but her improvements to an archaic, thought-impossible design called a 'null engine' caught the prime cantor's eye. basically kidnapped and taken to serve as an advisor (???) / pet inventor for the pc, arkwright has begun to sense that this isn't just about an engine or a fat government commission and has started to be immensely careful and stall for time. she starts the narrative in this precarious position, making up materials requests (some genuine!) that take her to remote chords and get her out of the cantor's direct line of sight while she tries to get to the heart of something so much more massive and decayed than she was ever prepared for. she is Not as theoretical and calculation-exclusive as anaïs, and instead wants experiments, prototypes, and physical results, which is both good and bad. she's also less attuned to healthy magic (anaïs was much more closely aligned with non-carillon mathemagics after she had roz, bc reasons) and much More attuned to whatever it is that the prime cantor is affiliated with, due to her fucked up heart situation. again, both good and bad. probably mostly bad for her, in the long run.

[mrseek]

The gang's all here (mostly)

Anyways here r Carnacki's friends who he infodumps to every story. All together the colourschemes make a rainbow bc im gay

[eopederson]

Old Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1969.

"The Slater Mill is a historic textile mill complex on the banks of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, modeled after cotton spinning mills first established in England. It is the first water-powered cotton spinning mill in North America to utilize the Arkwright system of cotton spinning as developed by Richard Arkwright.” Wikipedia.

[time-capsule-scratch-builder]

In light of making the Travel book shop from the film 'Notting Hill', I've just uploaded a build video sharing the bit by bit construction process I went through to make Arkwright's famous corner shop in 1/48 scale... check it out if it's something that interests you, have a subscribe for more in the future. I've got plenty of good makes coming up! #openallhours #stillopenallhours #artcommunity #fromscratch #arkwright #Granville #cornershop #ronniebarker #sirdavidjason #british #lighting #dslrphotography #retroart #backscene #youtube #miniature #painting #creativeart #ukartist #handmade #miniatures #newvideoalert #scalemodel #scratchbuilder #art #boxdiorama #dioramas #selftaughtartist #artistoninstagram #artmaker https://www.instagram.com/p/Byn9GBRnyWV/?igshid=14crk5phedmhk

[otomechuchu]

SWD - Lost Alice - Theophilus Arkwright next

Allen was released today, Jan 10 2019, in Lost Alice, and it seems that they have already decided on who’s next. Theophilus Arkwright will be next

[gamingtheboards]

It's fascinating. I recently watched the masterpiece of horror and absurdity called The Death of Stalin by Armand Iannucci. It's a movie of ridiculous depth and sentiment with equal parts horror and absurdity. It's a pitch-perfect satire that speaks in ridiculous tones but remains brilliantly deep throughout.

When you sit down to begin Arkwright, you're facing the ridiculous notion of what could be a 5 hour+ playthrough of a difficult economic simulation that is so much more than a simulation and that, remarkably, is every bit as absurd and fun and deep as Death of Stalin - based on what you're actually doing and what you're playing as and the actions you take - which, like the movie, can talk to today's world just as clearly as it speaks about the time of the world it's describing. And despite the depth and complexity of the attention it demands, I could spend 20 hours more watching and laughing and gasping at Death of Stalin...and I could do the same thing with Arkwright. Sure, it's absurd to spend so much time at something. Sure, it's ridiculous to laugh so hard at such horror - or, in the game, such dry cube pushing and number crunching - but it's just so damn satisfying when you realize you thought you were doing so well just to be slapped in the face to realize the other player who looked like they were doing nothing at all suddenly looks like they're going to win. Sure, every single thing even in the corners has something to see or do or marvel at or think about - and I mean think about deeply - you never want it to end, you want to just keep watching, keep playing, keep finding each small and large wondrous thing that grabs your attention, in the movie or the game. I experienced the masterpiece Death of Stalin and realized again how comedy can not only excel at escapism but can also shine a light on all it means to be human that elevates it to high art. I experienced the masterpiece Arkwright and was further convinced that no matter how you feel about what it means for a game to be a game, they can still reach for something quite a bit more than an 'escape'. Arkwright is a wonder of the form. You might hate/love it, you might hate it, hell, you might even just love it, but you can't deny how good it does what it's doing. With this and Gentes, Mr. Risthaus has taken his place behind Vital Lacerda as my second favorite designer.