A small Western Cape town has been taken back to the late 1950s.Pristine Cape Dutch buildings were artificially dilapidated, green lawns covered with autumn leaves and tar roads are now dusty streets. Mamre, north of Cape Town, will for the next two weeks be the setting for the popular British dramaCall the Midwife.The Christmas episode will take the story to the Eastern Cape in 1962 where the midwives from London's East End, around whom the story is based, "receive an SOS from a tiny mission hospital", according to the series' Facebook page.Although the filming will bring much-needed revenue to the town, many residents have no idea their town will soon be on the BBC."I don't know if everyone is aware of the shoot. Our kids went for [job] applications there but no one came back to them," said resident Alouise Bowers.People were very excited, she said. At first people thought that all the commotion meant new jobs in the town, which has an unemployment rate of 60%. However, few had been given employment opportunities.A post on the official Call the Midwife Facebook page read: "We're THRILLED to officially announce to you all that filming for our next Christmas Special and series 6 has already begun - and our Christmas episode is to be set on location in South Africa!!""Understaffed, underfunded, and with a poor water supply, struggling Hope Clinic is faced with closure. Can our much-loved medics and midwives make a difference to the people whose lives depend upon its work?"The UK's Daily Mail Online reported that two weeks ago Helen George, former Coronation Street actress, posted a picture of a wine glass on social media and wrote: "Celebrating the start of an African adventure . Off to look for lions and tigers and bears. (obviously not bears)."..