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there's been a few other films made up at Rivi. mostly at night, in the car park at the bottom of the ICR. you can't see the actor's faces though. well, not the blokes anyway.
Home fires is filmed just down the road...
Loads of stuff round here but my local is the pub in Withnail and I.
Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, Hampstead Garden Suburb . Grandparents house is on the left. We got paid 100 quid to move our car round the corner!
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'Traffic crossing Leeds bridge' by Louis Le Prince was filmed not far from me, what do I win?
Where I grew up other than the odd epsidoe of Scottish dramas like Taggert, the biggest thing filmed in the village was The Big Man starring Billy Connolly, Liam Neeson & Joanna Whalley.
Currently live in Coventry so recently we had films Spooks: The greater good & Nativity, In the past The Italian Job was filmed in the sewers & The TV series Angels (if anyone can remember that) was filmed at the old Hospital.
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Hawley woods has been in the 007 film, Die another day as the Korean Border
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Flickr screwing up my links. Think because I updated the photos after posting. Ah well.
Anyway, also of interest round my way...
Guildford Cathedral... The Omen.
Also Pyrford Court I discovered recently was used in The Omen
http://www.independent.ie/business/the-omen-for-private-equity-baron-grayken-31030425.html
Keeping with the spy theme it was also used for Johhny English Reborn, as the location in the snow (lots of artificial snow)
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They should have left the snow there, because the next film used artificial snow as well, New Avengers
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The Flying Ox - MemberWhen Prince Humperdink is chasing Westley in The Princess Bride, they pass through Carl Wark, which is just up the road from where I grew up.
They shot the next scene in Cave Dale too:
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Also at Carl Wark was Some of the Tom Hardy Wuthering Heights.
Glasgow, so Taggart of course
Second only to Michael Caine in number of attempted impressions...
Near my village - Willow, tomb raider 2 and C'mon midfiled
Near work in llanberis - Carry on up the Khyber and Clash of the titans and probably a few others.
I live around the corner from 'The Tattoo Fixers'. Oh the glamour! 😉
Live next to Long Cross Studios in Surrey. They woke me up the other night with whatever is being filmed there at present.
I live in London. Does that count?
Battersea Park is the stand in for pretty much any scene set in a London Park - it's out of the centre and has enough parking for the crew. Not as busy/full of tourists as the central London parks either.
Go to work past Batmans pad - or Wollaton Hall as the locals call it....
i live a few hundred yards from crystal palace park so a bit of the italian job and a fair bit of Hunt (that james hunt film) was shot there. probably a few other things too.
i work a fair bit in an old prison in central london, there’re cells under the carpark that are used for a lot of filming. Robert downey Jr and Guy Richie were there a while back.
while we are namedropping 8) i was B-camera on a short film at the weekend with Alan Ford as the main talent. Bricktop from Snatch. he’s a right geezer.
Holdenby House just up the road from me was used in the film Biggles.
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I grew up in Oxford. Every week we recognised somewhere on Morse.
Withnail and I was filmed near me.
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St Mary's church, Prestwich - the scene of many dramas, shambolic weddings, etc in Coronation St. Also the original meeting point of the MNPR.
Seeing that photo brought back memories of my childhood from the late 70s, my mum's mum lived in Tulle Court, a stones throw from that church and The Clough where her dog (Binky) went for walks. Made me look up the area on Google maps and see Tulle Court has been demolished in recent years and the car parking got turned into a timber yard, so strange seeing it so different after ~30 years! 😯
There's a house in Shirley (Southampton) that has a plaque by the front door stating it was filmed during "Fathers of Girls" (starring Ray Winstone). 😆
I live in Cardiff...everywhere you go there's a film crew doing Sherlock or Casualty or something. I've been held up on my commute on the Taff Trail over the last few years by 3 Casualty stunts being filmed and a Torchwood Landrover Disco parked on it.
And don't get me started on Pobl y Cwm
Riding in the woods above Castell Coch a few years back a bloody big knight in full armour on horseback popped out of the tress onto the trail front of us - They were filming Merlin and he was giving his horses legs a stretch.
Bah humbug
Letter to Brechnev,birkenhead,
Captain America,Stanley dock,
Liverbirds, liverpool,
Bread, Liverpool,
Harry potter, pierhead liverpool, and mersey tunnels
numerous itv crime dramas,
and many more
Withnail and I was filmed near me
You have property in Regent's Park, Chelsea, Westbourne grove, Cumbria and Hertfordshire? 😯
You have property in Regent's Park, Chelsea, Westbourne grove, Cumbria and Hertfordshire?
He bought them all by mistake
The Wicker Man (the original one) was filmed in & around the areas where I grew up
Aye, me too.
Current location has a lot of stuff being filmed near by. Most obvious recently was this gem:
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It definitely isn't in Asia.
He bought them all by mistake
They are probably not his but his rich uncles..
Haven't read all of it so sorry if this is buried in there.
Loughborough's Great Central Railway station is in Cemetery Junction (very good film with naughty joke about Noddy 😳
Lots at cardington, apparently 'Those magnificent men in their flying machines' had bits filmed nearby too.
Worlds end was filmed in letchworth too
My house is on this at 1:54, does that count 😀
Harry Potter, deathly hallows 1, Harry, Hermione and Ron were sitting under the soon to be demolished cooling towers of the former High Marnham power station, North Nottinghamshire, for the briefest of moments you could see the supporting struts. I watched them being blown up (the towers, not Daniel and chums)
Lyme Park is a mile or so down the road from me - famously used as the location for Mr Darcy to emerge from the lake in Pride & Prejudice (1995).
Was also used in a Red Dwarf episode.
Not quite as classy as some, but the roundabout at the start of this is about 100m away from my house
They were filming 'DCI Banks' in Adel woods (Leeds) the other week while my buddy and I were out on a night ride and then a few days later they shut the 'Black Bull' pub in Horsforth down for filming there.
The original 'Emerdale Farm' is about 2 miles from me.
A friends house was used as inspector Frosts house in 'A touch of Frost'.
Downton Abbey is just over the way.
As is....
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I grew up in Holmfirth, home of Last of the Summer Wine and over the hill from Royston Vasey.
I was about to post something about every paid-up northerner will be in here in a minute getting wistful about holmfirth
I live in the middle of Holmfirth, apparently our current house was in a feature length episode from the 1980s or something like that. Sid's Cafe and Nora Batty's house are just round the corner, etc, etc. You used to bump into them filming it all over the place when I was a kid. The place still has a fair bit of LotSW stuff, it's quite a slick coffin-dodger money-extraction machine. Nice otherwise though.
We moved here from Marsden, a couple of valleys over, and they film loads of stuff over there for some reason. We had our street closed for that Michael Palin thing last year, they redecorated the village charity shop for some Sigourney Weaver movie, and the place is full of film trucks for something else at the moment. Also I used to have the KoM up the track where they built the Local Shop from League of Gentlemen, no really, honest.
Peter Jackson shot alot of King Kong here and bits of loads of LOTR but my local trails go through where they built the model of Dale in The Hobbit.
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Helms Deep is just down the road to:
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Gandalf is at our airport to:
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[b]A monster calls[/b] is being released later this year.
A most excellent book BTW, even more so given the events surrounding its conception.
As for local filmage:
Various Bond movies - Epsom and Cranleigh
Four Weddings and a Funeral - Betchworth Church
American Werewolf in London - Effingham pub (was The Slaughtered Lamb)
Bridget Jones - Shere
Clash of the Titans 2 - Redlands
Diana - Fetcham
Oh.. Anyone seen that film with Johnny Depp as John Dillinger? Apparently they hunted all over America for a town centre with suitable period shop frontage and ended up in the next town over from where my wife grew up and where her family all live. My sister in law's friend worked in a cafe that features heavily, and had its windows replaced with smashable movie glass so stuntmen could be thrown through them.
Absolutely loads all around where I live, Corsham, Lacock, Castle Combe, Biddestone, Bath and various other locations for the likes of Dr. Doolittle (the first one, a friend of mine was an extra), Poirot, Warhorse, Stardust, Wolfman, The Suspicions Of Mr Whitcher, Harry Potter, Robin Hood, (the TV series with the Clannad theme), Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Moll Flanders, Wolf Hall, Dr Thorne, Poldark, Far From The Madding Crowd (Julie Christie/Alan Bates), The Other Boleyn Girl, Cranfield...
Oh, and a Japanese animé, Kiniro Mosaic, had pretty much the whole first episode based entirely on a friend of mine's hotel/restaurant, exterior and interior, and her 1954 Morris Minor as well. She's getting an awful lot of Japanese otaku booking stays there, as it's pretty much unique in that a setting shown in an animé is a place that can not only be visited, but you can sleep in the bedroom of one of the principal characters and eat in the dining room.
http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=2085
TSC video from them there Malvern Hills ...
...perhaps an inspiration to all of our local MTBers?
Aberdeen so Dunnotar Castle in Stonehaven - some Shakespeare thing with Kenneth Brannagh, a microsoft screen saver and some itv idents.
We've had Sense and Sensibility, Emilia Fox’s Rebecca, and Ioan Gruffydd’s Hornblower. It is also still attracting attention of makers of the Rosamunde Pilcher films, and the comic strip “the Hunt for Tony Blair”. There is a load of location vehicles in and out at the weekend recently, but not sure what's being done. - No one famous spotted:-/
The new series of Agatha Raisin starts on Sky 1 on June 7, here's Ashley Jensen as Agatha sitting outside the village pub, the White Horse, which also happens to be my regular drinking spot, although normally without some random bod dressed as a Green Man...
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I used to live around the corner from the house that Adam and Rachel (Cold Feet) lived in as a couple, I think they also used the local pub. This was also a stones throw away from a series in the 90s centering around the gay community with that fella from Neighbours.
We have lots of things filmed around here - This is England 86 probably the most widely recognised...the place has a distinctive look to put it nicely
The Seven Sisters and Birling Gap, usually crawling with Chinese as apparently some hugely successful film in China was filmed here. Also life and loves of a she devil featured Birling Gap lighthouse before it was moved.
Steven Spielberg filmed on Dartmoor at Ditsworthy Warren House near Dartmoor for 'Warhorse'
Tim Burton was on Bodmin moor last year filming.
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Nene Valley Railway and Burghley House.
Not just filmed in, but set in:
[b]Harry[/b] is a television drama series that was made by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC One between 1993 and 1995. The programme concerned a journalist called Harry Salter (played by Michael Elphick) who ran a news agency in the English town of Darlington in England.
And some of the bits of The Fast Show, where Paul Whitehouse shouts "brilliant!"
Used to work near Leadenhall Market in London which has been used in many films including as Diagon Alley in Harry Potter, also the scene in Bridget Jones in the snow was filmed just off Cornhill and the Corn Exchange.
Many films made around Surrey Hills, The Holiday (Diaz seen around Guildford quite a bit), Bridget Jones 2 wedding in Shere etc.
Cathedral in Guildford used in The Omen is probabky the best claim
Friend lives on The Thames and saw the James Bond scenes from the last film being shot one evening.
Oh no Frankenstein you are obviously near Peterborough! No decent mountain biking for miles
Why do you think I bought a CX for CX riding in Nene Park or Rutland Water.
Far too fat to be a roadie 🙁 yet perfect for road rides.
Well the Antiques Roadshow will be at the Showground in Sept...
I live at the top of Scapegoat Hill. Where the Heart is was filmed a few hundred yards away, the Local Shop For Local People is within a mile or two, Summer Wine country is the next valley or so over, Happy Valley was more or less next door. I overlook a house which is regularly used as a location shot, and Jericho viaduct was built in a quarry where I walk the dog every day.( The one which the Colne Valley MTB challenge goes through) Worst of all my lad and I had spent many a happy hour digging a series of steps and drop offs in there, and the ****s built the viaduct right on top of them.
Was kept from riding round Castell Coch on Wednesday as Casualty was filming there, gits 😡
Used to live near Ashridge (Harry Potter, Star wars etc. - wandered into the set of Robin Hood while it was being filmed) and work in Slough (near Pinewood and Burnham Beeches). Ashridge sits above Aldbury - location for several films and TV, including Bridget Jones.
Actually had a car crash outside Stoke Poges church, where Roger Moore is paying his respects at the start of For Your Eyes Only, which backs onto Stoke Poges gold course (Goldfinger, Goldeneye, Layercake etc.)
Grew up in Essex where Lovejoy was filmed - one of pub interiors was a schoolfriend's Dad's pub, although when filmed leaving Lovejoy walked out onto a street several miles away.
Slightly OT, but an ex was an art director on Dr. Who and Holby City too. My name appeared as both a patient in HC and on a flyer for a club night in the Kylie Dr. Who.
Isle of Skye for me , probably to many to list but ,Pronetheus ,B.F.G ,Macbeth ,Highlander ,Flash gordon ,Stardust to name but a few. Macbeth crowd really lucked out cause the weather was proper stinking even for Skye standards.
Heard a funny story bout the lead actress falling in a bog & having a wee breakdown, don't worry dear we've all been there 😆
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Most recently Outlander, also been featured in The Young James Herriot, Vincent Van Gogh - Painted with words, The 39 Steps, Rebus, Sherlock Holmes, Child of Air and The Glencoe Massacre.
Missus went to school where they filmed Gregory's Girl and Gregory's 2 Girls (she nearly appeared in the latter apparantly)
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Oops, sorry, just out of shot...
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And tidied up for the cameras
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Robin Hood and Gladiator where filmed in the woods outside Farnham, I've a picture somewhere of a replica siege weapon - not your typical site on a Sunday stroll
squirrelking you beat me to it,
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Cardington Hangars have been mentioned a couple of times on here. They've been used for lots of films. As has the Shuttleworth collection for vintage flying scenes.
Millbrook Proving ground was used for the flippy over Aston Martin scene in Casino Royale. They've filmed lots of car programmes there too. One of my mates is in the Army and flies helicopters. They did an exercise at Millbrook the same time as a Top Gear night scene was being filmed. he took Clarkson up for a ride and sent him away staggering about to be sick.
Some Mothers Do Ave Em was filmed in Bedford
The scene where Faisal blows himself and a sheep up in Four Lions was shot just down the road from me in Sheffield. I was cycling home from work the day they filmed it, and was stopped by the police for safety reasons til they'd done the explosion.
Unbelievably parts of superman 4 were filmed at my school (new build campus back In the 80,s) in Milton Keynes. The great man himself mr reeve was suspended from a bloody huge crane on our sports field for about 3 days. You couldn't get near him for all the mums camped round it.
Me and some others were filmed playing American footy (cut from final film). They also shot scenes at MK train station too.
Truly awful firm though.
Better than that though my old local was used in with nail and I ( the crown in stony Stratford) as was the local chemist with was a tea shop then.
Everywhere there is a discreet "Loc" or "Unit" sign tied to a lampost.
A serial killer in 'Cracker' lived next door when I was a student in Liverpool. 😛
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'Wayne Manor' (Wollaton Hall), just down the road from us in Nottingham.
Oddly Gotham is just outside Nottingham too.
They're filming now up on Winterfold for something.
Did some filming up there last year as well, I think for Beauty and the Beast. Lots of lighting rigs in the woods near Northern Monkey, along with a few carriages.
Clash Of The Titans 2 was partly filmed up on Redlands near Coldharbour, a scene involving a cyclops? Haven't actually watched it, but chatted to the guards about it.
Another Cardiffian here, they were filming Casualty last weds eve at my local riding place, they've also films lots of Merlin and some Doc who up there.
Wesley Snipes filmed some God Awful straight to DVD action thing here once, back in his "do anything for a paycheck before the IRS throw me in prison" phase.
Sean Bean and Bob Hoskins made another crappy bargain basement film here too, I haven't seen it, but I suspect Bean dies early on.
But best of all, Samantha Janus and Neil Morreay made a film called 'Up n' Under' here when I was in school, it's set "oop north" but filmed in Cardiff - it's terrible, save for the bit when Sam gets her boobs out - a part of it was filmed in my Mate's house.
As others have said, there's always something being filmed around here.
Shoestring was filmed in our village. God,i feel old now 🙁
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010) hidden under the Second Severn Crossing, evading Voldemort's Death Eaters and safeguarding the horcrux.
The seem to be filming something about morrissey a couple of roads away.
A few sets in Windsor Great Park and of course living close to Pinewood means the odd castle appears in Black Park Country Park.
Opening scenes from American Warewolf in London... "Don't stray from the path".
Filmed on the pass at the top of my valley. The same stretch of road features in the opening credits of the Antiques Roadshow with the clock in the back of the old convertible 🙂
Used to work in Farringdon; 100m away Smithfield Market has hosted several films, including Hugh Grant driving an Audi TT in About a Boy and Daniel Craig going to MI6's new HQ after the Vauxhall building is bombed in Skyfall.
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Small firm I worked for (sadly before I joined) where disturbed by a kerfuffel one day outside so looked out of the window to see John Cleese in his pants hanging upside down out of the window - filming for a fish called Wanda !
Nearby streets where I grew up used for numerous adverts, the most recent being the big lorry with a portacabin kitchen on the back for Burger King.
My work building was in Skyfall, it's in London not Shanghai