There are few people who have their bedroom redecorated for just one day.

However, Ann Biddiscombe, 65, was happy to oblige a Yorkshire Television crew who turned her house upside-down for a scene in a new drama series.

But only once they promised to return it afterwards to how it was previously!

A gaggle of residents in Victoria Street, Calverley, excitedly watched the drama unfold next to Victoria Park yesterday.

They were shooting The Royal, a spin-off of the popular Yorkshire-based ITV series Heartbeat which stars Wendy Craig, Ian Carmichael and Michael Starke.

It is set in a cottage hospital in Scarborough in the late 1960s and its stories and characters will be interwoven with the new series of Heartbeat.

Mrs Biddiscombe, who was watching the filming with her daughters Sarah Bowe, 35, and Catherine Biddiscombe, 33, said: "Somebody called at the door two weeks ago from Yorkshire Television and told me they had been looking at my house.

"They said 'Was I interested in it being used in a television series?' I was unsure but my daughter put my dinner plate down and said 'Yes, she will'."

The location scout was looking for a house with sash windows and no road markings outside. The aspect of the house and the park opposite made it ideal.

During the shoot, vintage cars - including a blue 1964 Triumph Herald and a beautiful 1964 Bedford cream ambulance - lined the road.

In the story, a little girl falls ill and is rushed to the hospital.

The crew filmed dashing young doctor David Cheriton (played by Julian Ovenden, star of the latest Diet Coke television advert), following the girl out of the house on a stretcher with her parents.

The family get into the ambulance and drive off, followed by Dr Cheriton in a black Ford Popular from the mid-1950s. He had trouble with the gears of the car and kept stalling it, much to the amusement of onlookers and neighbours.

Filming also took place in one of Mrs Biddiscombe's bedrooms, which was converted to a child's 1960s bedroom, complete with an array of authentic toys.

"The bedroom is like a museum," said Mrs Biddiscombe. "I was a bit apprehensive at first but they will put it all back. I have even picked out my new wallpaper.

"They have taken down all the doors and put in 60s-style ones and removed the burglar alarm for filming."

A room at St Luke's Hospital in Bradford has been converted into a 1960s cottage hospital set for the series, which Mrs Biddiscombe hopes to see.

The programme, which explores relationships during a background of reformation in the NHS, has particular interest for the retired nurse, who began work in Bradford Royal Infirmary in 1955.

"It takes me back," she said. "There is such a great advancement of technology now from what there was - and a lot more management."

Victoria Street was closed to through traffic for the day, though the crew stood by to let the buses through.

Associate producer David Nightingale was thrilled with the interest and kindness of the people of Calverley.

"Everybody has been very helpful and friendly. It has been a bit of excitement for them, I think. We have not yet got a transmission time for the series but hope it will be on the screens early next year," he said.

One of the TV crew is pictured.