If you’re already missing Nurse Trixie Franklin, Sister Julienne and Dr Turner following the series finale of Call the Midwife last Sunday (March 3), then you may be interested to learn you can now follow in their footsteps on a tour of the set.
Virgin Experience Days are offering a ticket for two people to visit the set of the long-running BBC show for £80.
Call the Midwife Tour at The Historic Dockyard Chatham for Two
Where is Call the Midwife filmed?
Although the period drama is set in the East End of London in the 1950s and 1960s, it is actually filmed at The Historic Dockyard of Chatham in Kent. The Call the Midwife Official Location Tour, in partnership with Neal Street Productions – the creators of the popular television show, runs from March to October when the actors take a break from filming. During the tour, visitors will be guided by a costumed midwife along the cobbled streets of ‘Poplar’ and will be able to explore the sets, costumes and props.
How to buy Call the Midwife set tour tickets
Call the Midwife Location Tour in Chatham from £40
Individual tickets can also be purchased for £40 an adult and £27 a child, directly from The Historic Dockyard Chatham. There you will find an option to add a cream tea to your booking for £6.95 per person or a cream tea with Prosecco for £13.50 per person.
Call the Midwife Official Tour with cream tea
Call the Midwife Official Tour with cream tea
Call the Midwife location tour and London break
If you are further afield, National Holidays offer a two-day holiday, which includes return coach travel, admission to the Call the Midwife Official Tour, an overnight stay at the Sheraton Hotel with breakfast and a goody bag to take home.
You'll also have some free time to do some sightseeing in London during your trip. Holiday-makers can be picked up from a number of destinations across the country from Barnsley to Blackpool, Halifax to Hartlepool. Numerous departure dates are available to be booked with prices starting from £159.
Call the Midwife Location Tour coach holiday
Is Call the Midwife based on real life?
The series, which first aired on the BBC in 2012, was originally based on Jennifer Worth’s number-one bestseller Call the Midwife: A True Story of The East End In The 1950s. The memoir recounted stories of life as a newly-qualified midwife working with a group of nuns in Poplar. In the first series, Jessica Raine played Jenny Lee, a character based on the writer herself. The award-winning series now follows a new group of midwives and nuns in the 1960s.
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s
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She started out as an intern at ELLE magazine and has worked on the picture desk of numerous national magazines such as Red, Reveal, Now, Woman and Women's Weekly before making the switch to digital and then joining Digital Spy. Andrea's role recently expanded to cover Hearst UK's entertainment portfolio, which includes DS and its fellow entertainment titles Best and Inside Soap.
Andrea loves a good period drama – hello Bridgerton, Call the Midwife, The Crown, Stranger Things and Outlander!
