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roundway hill is just up the road where part of 1984 was filmed (with john hurt).


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 11:32 am
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I used to go dancing at Verbeer Manor where Roger Cook made his 'ecstasy kills' programme..

Does that count?


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 11:39 am
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Downham, near Clitheroe, all owned by Lord Clitheroe and not a single telegraph pole, TV aerial, painted line or cable.

"Most recently the 1950s production ‘Born and Bred’ was filmed in Downham [2001-3]. At an earlier date a shot from ‘Wuthering Heights’ was taken on church brow and other films have been made here. One of the most famous films was the 1961 ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ starring Hayley Mills and Alan Bates, shot largely at Worsaw End Farm."

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Posted : 28/04/2016 11:47 am
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Robin Hood Prince of Thieves - round the corner from school
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Alwick Castle Hogwarts, Elizabeth (the one with Cantona) and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1915807/?ref_=ttloc_loc_tt
The Spaceman And King Arthur also round there

Now round this way is
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The Hunter in Tasmania


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 11:48 am
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For Bristol/Casualty, you may as well add Only Fools and Horses to the list. And that learning to drive car programme, with Maureen.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 11:49 am
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Yunki, that's a blast from the past, I too used to "dance" at Verbeer Manor. Good days


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 11:53 am
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Do want the list in Alphabetical of Chronological order?


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 11:55 am
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They were going to film Brideshead revisited at my old house* but ended up doing it elsewhere..my mum would've been an extra.

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*not my house but lived a few 100m's away and used the gardens as my playground as a kid as my mum was nurse to Lord Beauchamp in the 70's.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 11:58 am
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Kylie (with that Robbie bloke) - Kids.

The swimming pool at the end is my gym.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 11:58 am
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period dramas. lots of period dramas.

oh and a few seconds of a bond was done at my old workplace

ooh and a few seconds of the sherlock xmas special (the period bit)


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 11:59 am
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Do want the list in Alphabetical of Chronological order?

Keep up Drac, what else you got 😉


 
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Posted : 28/04/2016 12:06 pm
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Oh yeah, I now live in Cardiff, so lots of Dr Who ofc.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:06 pm
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Couple of scenes from Restless Natives were filmed up the Bathgate Alps.
More recently Outlander and just now Trainspotting 2 is being filmed 5 minutes from my house at the old Motorola factory just off Junction 3A of the M8.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:14 pm
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Surrey so tonnes of stuff about and neighbouring counties. Borne Woods has loads of stuff. Was there a month or so back and Warner Bro were up there.

Swinley was used for Harry Potter

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Various nearby bits also for potter, including the original location of his house was nearby to Swinley. Bits filmed around Virginia Water.

Been a few things around Surrey Hills over the years, especially over in Redlands. A bit over at Jellys Hollow last year.

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Shere village has been used for a number of things. Recently, Professor Branestawm (Harry Hill drama thing on telly).

Dunsfold (Top Gear track) has been used for a fair bit, for the track and/or the 747. Bond films and the like.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:17 pm
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Currently in Cardiff so you can put Dr Who, Torchwood, Casualty, etc on my list. Usually see something going on at least once a week.

Where I grew up (Brecon Beacons) we were surrounded by dramatic landscapes and old buildings so it was unusual for something to not be filmed most weeks! My local pub was (and still is ) regularly used for big starts and the crew to stay in. You could tell when a big Hollywood star was in as there'd be a group of the local school girls camped opposite 😆
Don't spend as much time there as I used to so not up to date on what's going on currently but the last bit of filming I saw was a few years ago. Sat in an old friend's parents house we knew someone was filming on the Glanusk Estate. Sat having a brew and cake we heard this diesel earthmover going up the road but that's nothing new as it's a farming area. Next thing we know there's no more sound followed by a load of swearing and giggling. We go outside to have a nose to see Hammond and Clarkson on those off-road mobility scooters they built trying to get Hammond's half-track going again 😀 We left them to it as the crew filming them waved us to stay out of shot, guessing it had been a hard day filming judging by the final episode!


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:18 pm
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I (along with a few others on here I reckon) work in Canary Wharf which is just down the road from Beckton Gasworks which is of course where they filmed....
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...the second half of Full Metal Jacket when it was converted into a look-alike of Hue City


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:20 pm
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Oh, yes forgot - had a project at Dunsfold for a short while. We were in the hanger next to Top Gear.
Did a lap of the track too - in my 1998 megane. No-one was impressed... 🙂


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:22 pm
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Lots, not being very too from Pinewood and the London film and TV sudios, but now mainly Midsomer Murders are shot (!) around here, in fact they (Bentley Productions) are shooting at the moment, I saw a location arrow on the way to work the other day.
Forgot that the National Film & TV School are just down the road from my secondary school, it was a studion before that.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:23 pm
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The TV masterpiece Peak Practice was filmed in my home village (Crich in Derbyshire), and they used my grandads house from time to time.

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Posted : 28/04/2016 12:23 pm
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Just round the corner from where I was brought up but before I was born.

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Posted : 28/04/2016 12:25 pm
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^Bo selecta?


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:27 pm
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Glasgow, so Taggart of course 😉

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Posted : 28/04/2016 12:27 pm
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When I lived in Wimbledon, The Bill was often filmed in the nearby streets.

Leadenhall Market is round the corner from my office - scene of Harry Potter and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus + others.

Often see film crews parked up in Old Deer Park in Richmond, but I've never worked out what it's for.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:29 pm
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The Wicker Man (the original one) was filmed in & around the areas where I grew up although I now live down south (Derbyshire).


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:30 pm
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We had that Eddie Izzard in our office entrance in Velvet Goldmine
Keira Knightley in Never Let Me Go just up the road, and in Bend it Like Beckham
New Tricks in the local pub quite regularly
Foyle's War all the time just up the road
The Madness of King George a bit further away
Misfits - under the M4 flyover
Power Rangers!
Hell Drivers (before they knocked all the buildings down)


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:30 pm
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Quite a lot will be filmed next door to me over the next few years.

Screen Yorkshire have just opened the Yorkshire Studio on my doorstep.

Historically, probably A Touch of Frost will have filmed somewhere close. You can usually watch it and spot lots of locations within 30 miles of Leeds 🙂


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 12:47 pm
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Looking out the office window in Haworth I can see steam trains most days.The Worth Valley Railway has been in loads of films and TV stuff. Right now there is a massive fake Haworth Parsonage being built on the moor top for an upcoming Bronte TV series.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 1:00 pm
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....Beckton Gasworks which is of course where they filmed...the second half of Full Metal Jacket when it was converted into a look-alike of Hue City

That's one of our sites, they don't mention Full Metal Jacket in any of the history blurb 🙂 🙄


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 1:03 pm
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I watched Star Wars from the (probably) the same row of my local cinema as Sir Ian McKellen sat in the film 'Mr Holmes'.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 1:07 pm
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I run along the set of the 1991 Robin Hood film a few times a week. The one without Kevin Costner that nobody's seen.

Sycamore Gap is just up the road from here. I too run past it sometimes.

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My son sails at Derwent Reservoir where Beowulf was filmed last year. The water level was particularly low all summer while they were filming and I started a rumour that this was because the production company had done a deal with the water company to lower the reservoir. In January, when it had filled up a bit (!), I tweeted a picture of it full and said "Conclusive proof the water was lowered for last year's filming of Beowulf". The tweet was quoted by the actor who played Beowulf who said it was true! Not sure if he was joking or not now.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 1:23 pm
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Keep up Drac, what else you got

You went for the easy options.

King Arthur and The Spaceman
Downtown Abbey
Vera
Alien 3
Elizabeth
MacBeth
Beowulf TV series
The Hobbit - for film posters

There's more.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 1:33 pm
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King Arthur 😉


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 1:36 pm
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A monster calls is being released later this year.

Rivi.

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Posted : 28/04/2016 1:37 pm
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Practically every forest/castle/old bridge round here is a set for Game of Thrones. Plenty of other TV dramas and a few films too.

Pain in the arse personally as HBO blocked the building of a world cycling centre that was due to open in 2012 as they wanted the quarry for GOT. My very local quarry was invaded and turned into a snowy wasteland too. I had a few run ins with the security as they tried to stop me from finishing the trail i was building at the time. They found if difficult to believe that the spade and wheelbarrow i had with me were not concealing hidden cameras. Game of Dicks!


 
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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.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 1:51 pm
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Home fires is filmed just down the road...


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 2:03 pm
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Loads of stuff round here but my local is the pub in Withnail and I.


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 2:04 pm
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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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Posted : 28/04/2016 2:30 pm
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'Traffic crossing Leeds bridge' by Louis Le Prince was filmed not far from me, what do I win?


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 2:32 pm
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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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Posted : 28/04/2016 2:39 pm
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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


 
Posted : 28/04/2016 2:42 pm
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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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Posted : 28/04/2016 2:45 pm
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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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