TV locations

I was watching Foyles War lasyt night (deal with it) and was delighted to see that the Nuremburg Trials were taking place in Manchester Town Hall and that the Secret Intelligence Service archive is in John Rylands Library. I spotted this before my wife… and she works there.

Film locations. enjoyed spotting local areas round Bury in the Northern Soul film recently.

I dragged the mrs to the fire house used in Ghostbusters one day when in NYC.

Also once drove to Crickadarn in Wales and back from Bristol while i was working there one night just to see the exterior of the Slaughtered Lamb from American Werewolf. was disappointing.

I was watching the first series of Broadchurch last night (being bang up to date on televisual trends) and was delighted to spot that a lot of it is filmed in Clevedon near Brizzle, not Doorrrseeett where it’s actually set.

I think the town itself (Broadchruch) is Dawlish, But I’m not sure.

And if you come to Cheltenham, I can show you the house that was used for the exterior shots (and car moving hilarity) in Butterflies. I know. Butterflies.

Broadchurch https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.82001339,d.ZWU&biw=1355&bih=299&dpr=1&q=west+bay&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ei=V6iqVNS1Bs7qOLTlgKAC&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&output=classic&dg=brw

Ah, so that is in Dooorseeet then. Lovely

Quite a bit of BBC stuff filmed around here in Newport, DR Who, Touchwood, Sherlock and Casualty spring to mind.

There was a programme called Murphy’s law a few years ago with James Nesbit as an undercover cop. One series was supposed to be in Leicester. Not a single frame of it was filmed in Leicester. It didn’t even look remotely like Leicester. There was the occasional wide shot of the bus station or somewhere like that which was blatantly stock footage from a news reel or some such.
There was an episode of dalziel and pascoe that was filmed in a small village outside Wolverhampton where my exs family lived which was supposed to be on the North Yorkshire moors.
I do get mildly irritated by films/tv programmes which claim to be somewhere they’re blatantly not. Or the characters are travelling somewhere and the footage shows them travelling in the wrong direction.
Finally I wish production companies would stop using the milbrook proving ground in Bedfordshire and expecting me to believe they’re in a far off location. Bond rolls his Aston Martin in casino royale on the same crest in the road that you used to see tiff needel getting a BMW Z3 airborne over on the opening credits to top gear back in the day.

Can we do films? Cave of Caerbannog aka Tomnadash Mines, Loch Tay

Doune Castle, AKA ‘The Frenchy place’

I rode through the set of Foyle’s War some years ago when they were filming the first series. It was actually the village of Wonersh, near Guildford. No idea where it was pertaining to be.

I liked the idea that they’d actually been filming, and some chap on a road bike rode through the middle of their scene. I’m reasonably confident this didn’t happen though.

in one of the “on the buses” films you can see them driving past our old house in Birmingham, I can’t for the life of me remember which film it was though.

A lot of the BBC’s Our Zoo was filmed not far from me in Great Budworth, although the setting they used for the Mottershead’s house is nothing like the actual setting for it which is actually on the road into our village, not like a back street in Bolton at all.

‘spose that makes a better story on TV though.

At least Great Budworth is in the same county as Chester Zoo.

Doune Castle, AKA ‘The Frenchy place’

..and Winterfell

Alnwick Castle is quite a popular one too, used for The Blackadder and Harry Potter for starters.

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Quite a bit of BBC stuff filmed around here in Newport, DR Who, Touchwood, Sherlock and Casualty spring to mind.

Same in Cardiff, regularly see them in the early hours filming moody stuff. They closed off the city centre for a Casualty scene at 5pm round Wood St and the bus station to film a guy jumping off the roof of the courts a while back, that got people really annoyed!!

Weirdest was back when I worked in Monmouth and I came into work one morning to find the whole of Agincourt Square was covered in snow and had a Tardis in the middle of it, felt somehow odd when it was June and 20 degrees!! Although I did get to have a good chat with Billy Piper for a while 😀

Always wanted to go to crickadarn

I’m from here-

There’s a big castle down the street from me was used for some film or other about a boy who does magic or something.

The video for Division Bell was filmed in Ely.

Milky – they used a mate’s house in Cathays Cardiff for a scene in the Christopher Eccleston series, his restraining order on Ms Piper meant he had to go out for the day.. 😀

The court scenes in a few episodes of Broadchurch (I don’t watch it so don’t know which ones) were shot in the foyer of Exeter Uni.

That thing with James Nesbitt in as a neurosurgeon was actually filmed in the LGI, though in Brotherton wing rather than Jubilee wing, which is where the neurosurgeons actually live.

There was a bit in Spooks that purported to be in Upton (Wirral). It wasn’t, and not only that, was nothing like Upton.

Certain scenes from Clockwork Orange were filmed at Brunel University…

A bloke I was at junior school with had his house used as a set for a british 70’s cop series – The Professionals, I think. They completely skinned the interior with removable panels to ‘redecorate’ it and there was a small brook that ran through the grass behind the garden fence.
There was a scene with a chase through the house that ended up with them smashing through the fence and ending up in the brook. My mates’ dad was a carpenter & so took the fence panel down and made a weak one that they could break through.
The house is on Brook Avenue in Wembley and you can see the brook on Google maps…

Loads in and around Bristol, what with Holby (before it moved) and Peckham both being there. And Vyvian decapitating himself on the way to/from Portishead.

The “Young Ones” house is about 50 yards from mine, we watched some of it being filmed when I first moved into this house. Various locations are on the Gloucester Rd in Bristol, and some scenes in Arnos Vale cemetery.

I’m told that our (now dead) cat is visible in one shot, but I’ve never spotted it.

Outlander was also filmed at Doune Castle.

We were out on a night ride when we stumbled across them filming a scene in the woods at Stirling Uni. They had enormous lighting rigs that lit up the hillside for miles around.

And not forgetting the episode of Balamory – The Slide Show – featuring a cycle race in Spain that was actually filmed on the road up to Touch reservoir, Stirling.

The Dugald Stewart Building at Edinburgh Uni has been a hospital in a few things like Jackson Brody.

I went to uni here, which is St Andrews.

There’s some big house over the hill from here.

Back in the 90s there was a BBC series called “Harry” starring Michael Elphick as a journalist, which was filmed and set in Darlington. It was fun watching and seeing all the impossible shots, like the two people having a conversation who were actually a mile apart or he car driving the wrong way down a one way street at a time it was closed to traffic, going over speed bumps that don’t exist.

I went to uni here, which is St Andrews.

Which pub did you drink in, then?

(The Central, since you ask)

Any one care to remember Peak Practice ? Yup that’s the one with Kevin Whatsit and Amanda Doodahh in.. well filmed on the farm at the top of the road out of Matlock heading towards Carsington Water, the one on the left near the woods that cover the valley.

Lovely place. We were asked once to be a “crowd”.

They used my halls for a scene in Casualty, a construction worker fell and swung through a window, when aired it was actually an office block inside, quite amusing!

fun watching and seeing all the impossible shots

not sure what’s worse or more fun…
watching teleportation around towns (Grange Hill has some impressive jumps between Hammersmith and completely the other side of London)
or actual known locations not being used for something but they find another substitute elsewhere.

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Milky – they used a mate’s house in Cathays Cardiff for a scene in the Christopher Eccleston series, his restraining order on Ms Piper meant he had to go out for the day..

Used to live in Cathays, I thought that was an urban legend!! 😯

Nowhere near Eastbourne.

Munrobiker, I used to live on the street that it was set 🙂 next door to cleggy’s house.

Recently, Harrogate was made to look like a Swiss alpine village for a Hollywood film. Not entirely sure what was wrong with the actual Alps, mind…

My dad’s workshop’s been used as a set in Johnathan Creek and they film loads of stuff in Ashridge as it’s a large wooded area conveniently close to London.

At the end of this summer they were shooting Doctor Who, the next Planet of The Apes film and a Shakespeare adaptation at three different locations around the place over the same week. Barely a week goes by without various cryptic ‘Unit’ signposts going up.

not sure what’s worse or more fun…
watching teleportation around towns (Grange Hill has some impressive jumps between Hammersmith and completely the other side of London)
or actual known locations not being used for something but they find another substitute elsewhere.

I give you Superman IV

I’ve lost count of the number of Ridley Scott and other films that are all filmed in the same patch of woods in Surrey.

Not entirely sure what was wrong with the actual Alps, mind…

The beer’s a bit rubbish.

“If” was filmed at my alma mater.

This bit when he shoots the headmaster was filmed on the roof of the Math’s block. Happy days.