{"id":199822,"date":"1996-02-06T20:30:00","date_gmt":"1996-02-06T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/?p=199822"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:57:07","slug":"garage-grijsen-television-set-tijd-van-leven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/garage-grijsen-television-set-tijd-van-leven\/","title":{"rendered":"When Garage Grijsen became a television set"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anyone watching KRO television on the evening of Tuesday 6 February 1996 could suddenly recognise a piece of Bredevoort. Garage Grijsen on Winterswijksestraat had been used as a location in <em>Tijd van Leven<\/em>, a ten-part drama series about forty years of change in the Dutch countryside.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The fictional village of Oud-Greffel<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tijd van Leven<\/em> followed two families in and around the fictional village of Oud-Greffel. The story began shortly after liberation in 1945 and continued until 1985, using their lives to show changes in farming, prosperity, technology, transport and everyday life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The series was directed by Andr\u00e9 van Duren and written by Albert ter Heerdt. The cast included Anneke Blok, Victor L\u00f6w, Dani\u00ebl Boissevain and Ernst Dani\u00ebl Smid.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A real garage in an invented village<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garage Grijsen at Winterswijksestraat 69 in Bredevoort was used for one scene. A recognisable Achterhoek location therefore became part of the fictional world of Oud-Greffel. For local viewers, the setting was rather less fictional than it was for the rest of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The garage appears in episode 6, <em>Sweet Sixteen<\/em>, first broadcast on Nederland 1 on 6 February 1996. The relevant scene begins at about 7 minutes 38 seconds in the recording below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tijd van Leven deel 6\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TS8qP7kGzdE?start=458&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The place remained, the set disappeared<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garage Grijsen itself has since become part of history. Auto Tiggeloven now occupies the same location. The television footage therefore adds another layer to the history of the site: it shows not only what the garage looked like, but also how an ordinary business in Bredevoort briefly became part of a national television series.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Old Aalten, Garage Grijsen profile<\/li><li>Netherlands Institute for Sound &amp; Vision, <em>Tijd van Leven<\/em><\/li><li>TV en Radio DataBase, <em>Tijd van Leven<\/em> episode listings<\/li><li>Video <em>Tijd van Leven<\/em>, episode 6<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1996, Garage Grijsen in Bredevoort appeared in the KRO television drama Tijd van Leven. The real garage became part of the fictional village of Oud-Greffel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-199822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199829,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199822\/revisions\/199829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}