Only Fools And Horses fans may have to reach into their pockets if they want to keep quoting one of its most iconic scenes.
Everyone remembers the classic 1982 episode A Touch of Glass, which sees Del Boy (Sir David Jason), Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) and Grandad (Lennard Pearce) hired to clean lavish chandeliers in a fancy mansion.
Del Boy and Rodney are ready to catch one, only for Grandad to accidentally release the wrong piece, sending it plummeting to the ground.
Fans can’t help but quote the scene when they visit Bath Assembly Rooms and see the National Trust property’s chandeliers.
Now, the site is urging anyone who references the sitcom – including lines like ‘one more turn Del’ or ‘brace yourself Rodney, brace yourself’ – to make a voluntary donation to look after the fixtures.
As quoted by The Guardian, Alana Wright, experience and visitor manager for the assembly rooms, said: ‘We hear it all the time so we’ve set up a tap-to-donate point where they can make a payment towards our work.
‘We have suggested that if they are even thinking about the comedy scene, they should donate something to help look after the chandeliers.’
It costs £4,000 every year for the upkeep of the 10 chandeliers at the 18th century building, which is Grade I listed, and there will soon be a pricy full conservation, including rewiring.
The chandeliers dated back 250 years, and while they are now electric, they were initially candles before moving to gas in the Victorian era.
Bath Assembly Rooms’ so-called ‘tax’ on Only Fools And Horses fans will be used to help other country homes, with more than 600 chandeliers across the National Trust.
Thankfully for conservators having to carry out the work, there is a winch system to lower the chandeliers slowly and safely to the ground to clean them.
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So, they can avoid any Trotter-esque mishaps caused by trying to catch one in a sheet and looking like a right plonker.
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