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"I used to live with my sister on a canal boat and we were moored where they used to film that dire Ch5 soap. I can't remember what it was called though.."
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There's an old stately home near me (Cobham Hall) and that has been used in quite a few period pieces, the most well-known probably being the adaptation of Bleak House the BBC did a few years back, which starred Gillian (X-Files) Anderson.
So I understand, the most frequently used (for different productions) film and TV location in the country is the Maritime Hospital in Greenwich. You see that pop up in all sorts of period dramas, including the recent Les Miserables. It has an intact Georgian street which is on private land so it's like it's locked in a time warp - hence it's appeal to film directors. |
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"The Good Life was filmed in Northwood not Surbiton. Nearer to the BBC at White City.
Dave"
And the 'hotel' in Fawlty Towers was nowhere near Torquay. It was a golf club somewhere near Weybridge, Surrey if memory serves.... ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Emergency Bikers had parts of it filmed in Birmingham especially around the city centre. Probably the closest to Wolverhampton any TV programme will get filmed apart from maybe Crimewatch lol!  |
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"Loved the young ones. The (very few) street scenes were Bristol? For no apparant reason i assumed it was North London.
Dave"
The house they lived in was in Redland bristol  Also Nelson Mandela house in Only fools is in Lawrence Weston in Bristol  |
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By *win Peaks OP Couple
over a year ago
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"The Good Life was filmed in Northwood not Surbiton. Nearer to the BBC at White City.
Dave
And the 'hotel' in Fawlty Towers was nowhere near Torquay. It was a golf club somewhere near Weybridge, Surrey if memory serves.... ?"
The "hotel" was somewhere in Berkshire. Burnt down in the 70's or 80's.
Keeping up appearances was filmed in Coventry.
Steptoe and Son was filmed only about a quarter of a mile from the bbc at White City. All gone now under the westway.
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"I used to live with my sister on a canal boat and we were moored where they used to film that dire Ch5 soap. I can't remember what it was called though..
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That's it..Thanks Cute xx |
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"The "hotel" was somewhere in Berkshire. Burnt down in the 70's or 80's.
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Yep, just checked it. Wooburn Grange Country Club, in Berkshire. Eight houses now stand on the site apparently. |
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Far from the madding crowd, was filmed in Devizes !
A few odd scenes filmed around the area,
Still crazy filmed around Avebury and in the red lion pub .
A few episodes of time team done round here too, Avebury, Stonehenge , woodhenge , Kennet long barrow,
Not much happens around here !
Bad boys army was filmed just over the hill from me, my mate worked on the camp they used for filming. Said it was all bollocks ! Proper set up ! There were caterers in and everything, fully stocked bar that kept running out , all edited to look serious but it was a big jolly ! Laughed my ass off at one episode where the narator said that the lads had just returned after a gruelling 5 hour slog across the Salisbury plain, yeah, right into the local pub ! About two miles from camp, they staggered back to camp and had to re shoot the scenes the next day after they had sobered up !! |
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"The Teletubbies is filmed in Teletubbie land… 
would love to go there.. and also visit the in the night garden set"
Yeah .... but you gotta watch out for them giant Rabbits....they are seriously huge !!!,,,  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Teletubbies is filmed in Teletubbie land…
would love to go there.. and also visit the in the night garden set
Yeah .... but you gotta watch out for them giant Rabbits....they are seriously huge !!!,,, "
Get a few dinners outa on of the buggers!!
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Teletubbies is filmed in Teletubbie land…
would love to go there.. and also visit the in the night garden set
Yeah .... but you gotta watch out for them giant Rabbits....they are seriously huge !!!,,,
Get a few dinners outa on of the buggers!!
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Hard to catch though!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"miss marple came to chilham up the road and so did the top gear e type jag special "
Didn't they used to use Wye for Miss Marple too? The BBC version in the 80's, that is.. |
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"The Teletubbies is filmed in Teletubbie land…
would love to go there.. and also visit the in the night garden set
Yeah .... but you gotta watch out for them giant Rabbits....they are seriously huge !!!,,,
Get a few dinners outa on of the buggers!!
Hard to catch though!! "
Nah. 12 bore should do the trick
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There is a lot filmed near to where I live,pie in the sky was in hemel, some of the robin hood film was filmed in ivinghoe. Years ago I lived in a block of flats in London called Trellick Towers that was used a lot, ie, Tuckers Luck, some of steptoe and sun, profesinels, the sweeny |
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By (user no longer on site)
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A lot of the original Get Carter was filmed beside us - Gateshead, North Blyth, Lynemouth.
More recently there were some very famous people (I'm not much into films so I cannot remember who they were) making part of a movie on Holy Island which is just up the road from us
An Episode of Spender was filmed on Ashington Main Street - the episode where a car ramraided a shop |
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Stella is filmed around llanbradach near Caerphilly for the funeral parlour, shop used to sell fires and plaster coving hence the ornate plasterwork everywhere and Bryn Meadows golf club in Pontllanfraith, oh and the chandelier scene in only fools and horses where they dropped one was in claysmore school in Dorset, apparently I'm told they actually dropped the real old expensive one, headmaster there also was the owner of the original dulux dog |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Teletubbies is filmed in Teletubbie land…
would love to go there.. and also visit the in the night garden set
Yeah .... but you gotta watch out for them giant Rabbits....they are seriously huge !!!,,,
Get a few dinners outa on of the buggers!!
Hard to catch though!!
Nah. 12 bore should do the trick
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You can't do that,,,,,theres children watching... sheeeeeeeeshhhh |
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By *ub bbwWoman
over a year ago
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"lots of scenes in hustle were filmed in and around birmingham including hotel scenes where they scammed clients were filmed in mal maison in the mail box. "
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They tried to claim it was london in the show but it was cheaper to film in brum the best scene was a shot of the floozie and one of the cast stayed in the rotunda |
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"The Teletubbies is filmed in Teletubbie land…
would love to go there.. and also visit the in the night garden set
Yeah .... but you gotta watch out for them giant Rabbits....they are seriously huge !!!,,,
Get a few dinners outa on of the buggers!!
Hard to catch though!!
Nah. 12 bore should do the trick
You can't do that,,,,,theres children watching... sheeeeeeeeshhhh "
You could use a snare wire |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Teletubbies is filmed in Teletubbie land…
would love to go there.. and also visit the in the night garden set
Yeah .... but you gotta watch out for them giant Rabbits....they are seriously huge !!!,,,
Get a few dinners outa on of the buggers!!
Hard to catch though!!
Nah. 12 bore should do the trick
You can't do that,,,,,theres children watching... sheeeeeeeeshhhh
You could use a snare wire "
Far to risky…!
One of the Teletubbies my get trapped by mistake,,  |
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"The Teletubbies is filmed in Teletubbie land…
would love to go there.. and also visit the in the night garden set
Yeah .... but you gotta watch out for them giant Rabbits....they are seriously huge !!!,,,
Get a few dinners outa on of the buggers!!
Hard to catch though!!
Nah. 12 bore should do the trick
You can't do that,,,,,theres children watching... sheeeeeeeeshhhh
You could use a snare wire
Far to risky…!
One of the Teletubbies my get trapped by mistake,, "
A win, win situation |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Teletubbies is filmed in Teletubbie land…
would love to go there.. and also visit the in the night garden set
Yeah .... but you gotta watch out for them giant Rabbits....they are seriously huge !!!,,,
Get a few dinners outa on of the buggers!!
Hard to catch though!!
Nah. 12 bore should do the trick
You can't do that,,,,,theres children watching... sheeeeeeeeshhhh
You could use a snare wire
Far to risky…!
One of the Teletubbies my get trapped by mistake,,
A win, win situation "
haha |
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By (user no longer on site)
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we have lots of areas around us that have been used like hambledon village which has been used for inspector morse and lots of films and booker which was used in the film those magnificent men in there flying machine and chitty bang bang |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
carrbrook stalybridge |
"Last of the Summer wine was filmed in Holmfirth.
Heartbeat was filmed in Goathland complete with own steam railway."
last of the summer wine was also filmed in Marsden and Slaithwiate due to the high numbers of tourists in "summer wine country" making filming difficult . slaithwaite and Marsden were also used for where the heart is |
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By *win Peaks OP Couple
over a year ago
Northamptonshire |
"Carry on up the kyber snowdon "
The majority of carry on films were made st Pinewood Studios. That's why you can recognize the same buildings slightly changed in diffrrent films.
In carry on abroad when they are boarding the coach, that was filmed on Slough High St , although it is unrecognizable today. |
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"some game of thrones is in perthshire, scotland"
A lot is filmed near Belfast too - the cast stay at the Europa hotel.
Brideshead revisited (the original tv version) used castle Howard in north Yorkshire for Brideshead.
Alnwick castle stands in for bits of hogwarts.
And both the full monty and the history boys were filmed in sheffield. |
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"Emergency Bikers had parts of it filmed in Birmingham especially around the city centre. Probably the closest to Wolverhampton any TV programme will get filmed apart from maybe Crimewatch lol! "
Nope. BBC2 series SeeHear for the deaf used to be based in The Lighthouse for quite a few years |
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"There is a lot filmed near to where I live,pie in the sky was in hemel, some of the robin hood film was filmed in ivinghoe. Years ago I lived in a block of flats in London called Trellick Towers that was used a lot, ie, Tuckers Luck, some of steptoe and sun, profesinels, the sweeny"
Trellick towers is still there. It's a listed building so can't be bulldozed. It's an ugly looking thing though. |
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"The Teletubbies is filmed in Teletubbie land…
would love to go there.. and also visit the in the night garden set"
It's just outside Redditch, not far from Worcester |
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"Albert Square is based on a real square in Hackney called Fassetts Square. It's very similar.
Dave"
The name Walford is taken from WALthamstow and chingFORD. |
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By *win Peaks OP Couple
over a year ago
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"There is a lot filmed near to where I live,pie in the sky was in hemel, some of the robin hood film was filmed in ivinghoe. Years ago I lived in a block of flats in London called Trellick Towers that was used a lot, ie, Tuckers Luck, some of steptoe and sun, profesinels, the sweeny
Trellick towers is still there. It's a listed building so can't be bulldozed. It's an ugly looking thing though. "
It has a sister block in Poplar i think it's called Balfron Tower. Pig ugly buildings.
Pluckley in Kent has two claims to fame. Firstly, it's where "The darling buds of may" was filmed and also lays claim to be the most haunted place in England. |
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Film wise, a lot of the recent Captain America was filmed around Dale St in Manchester city centre, Manchester town hall doubled as parliament in The Iron Lady.
The chippy /street scenes in East is East were filmed in Openshaw, Manchester and have all since been levelled. The cinema in Bradford in the film is in Ashton Under Lyne and is now an amusement arcade.
The film Yanks was filmed in the Saddleworth villages + mossley + stalybridge on the outskirts of Manchester.
They now have an annual Yanks weekend which is well a trip for anyone interested in the music, style or fashions of that era or simply like militaria and a good old fashioned party / knees up |
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"The Teletubbies is filmed in Teletubbie land…
would love to go there.. and also visit the in the night garden set
Yeah .... but you gotta watch out for them giant Rabbits....they are seriously huge !!!,,,
Get a few dinners outa on of the buggers!!
Hard to catch though!!
Nah. 12 bore should do the trick
You can't do that,,,,,theres children watching... sheeeeeeeeshhhh
You could use a snare wire
Far to risky…!
One of the Teletubbies my get trapped by mistake,,
A win, win situation "
Oi, you leave us Teletubbies out of it! We're an endangered species you know....!  |
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"There is a lot filmed near to where I live,pie in the sky was in hemel, some of the robin hood film was filmed in ivinghoe. Years ago I lived in a block of flats in London called Trellick Towers that was used a lot, ie, Tuckers Luck, some of steptoe and sun, profesinels, the sweeny
Trellick towers is still there. It's a listed building so can't be bulldozed. It's an ugly looking thing though.
It has a sister block in Poplar i think it's called Balfron Tower. Pig ugly buildings.
Pluckley in Kent has two claims to fame. Firstly, it's where "The darling buds of may" was filmed and also lays claim to be the most haunted place in England."
Trellick is ugly but had great fun there as kids lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Vera" was part filmed at a place not far from us called Eshott. Mrs Red knows the woman who owns the house which the film company 'borrowed' to do the shoot. The woman actually lived there, it was her home and she reckons that after the shoots were complete, the film company were a pack of bastards ....... Just goes to show  |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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Now filmed around the Cardiff area as the new studios are on Roath Dock. A very good friend of mine does the studio lighting and has told me of a few funnies that have happened. |
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By *adkatWoman
over a year ago
Alfreton |
Wollaton hall was Gotham manor in dark knight
Hudson hall for pride and whatsit, the other volume girl and princess Bride,
Women in love - Matlock and bakewell
Peak practice- Crich and Matlock
Some of starlings in Matlock bath |
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By *adkatWoman
over a year ago
Alfreton |
"Wollaton hall was Gotham manor in dark knight
Haddon hall for pride and whatsit, the other volume girl and princess Bride,
Women in love - Matlock and bakewell
Peak practice- Crich and Matlock
Some of starlings in Matlock bath"
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By (user no longer on site)
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Do you have any inside info where programmes were made?
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Yep.
Google port logan in scotland.
My parents own the house right next door to the pub that 2000 acres of skye was filmed in.
Their house is immediately litetally right next door to the pub.
They rent it out. I want to live there myself one day..I love it!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Good Life was filmed in Northwood not Surbiton. Nearer to the BBC at White City.
Dave
And the 'hotel' in Fawlty Towers was nowhere near Torquay. It was a golf club somewhere near Weybridge, Surrey if memory serves.... ?
Bourne End in Buckinghamshire, the building was fairly close to Enid Blytons house
The "hotel" was somewhere in Berkshire. Burnt down in the 70's or 80's.
Keeping up appearances was filmed in Coventry.
Steptoe and Son was filmed only about a quarter of a mile from the bbc at White City. All gone now under the westway.
Dave"
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the film The Holiday with Jude Law and Cameron Diaz was filmed around Shere and Godalming, near Guildford.
Parts of The Omen were also at Guildford Cathedral and Brookwood cemetery
and there used to be a tv advert that Fry and Lawrie did for the Alliance & Leicester that was filmed in Guildford High Street |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Quite a few films in Brighton like Brighton Rock, Carry on Girls, Mona Lisa, Quadrophenia etc to name a few obvious ones...
Oh What a Lovely War...."
Genevieve. |
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