OT - Film/TV Locations

I saw an episode of 'Homes Under The Hammer' a few weeks ago that had a place in Northolt on it.
Funny it looked quite a nice place to live...other than the ****hole it really has become.

 

Quadrophenia film locations

http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/q/quadrophenia.html

The Who’s album is used as a framework for teen angst and a recreation of the early Sixties weekend battles between supersharp Mods and leatherclad Rockers.

The Who hailed originally from Shepherd’s Bush in west London, and this is where most of the London scenes are set. Fiercely Mod Jimmy (Phil Daniels) rides his scooter along Goldhawk Road to meet Steph (Leslie Ash) at Ashken’s supermarket, which once stood between Bamborough Gardens and Woodger Road.

On the other side of the road, another Quadrophenia location, though, is still thriving. Forget fish and chips, the real old London tradition, now hard to find, is pie and mash – beef pie, mashed potato and parsley liquor. If you’re brave, and you can find them, you could try eels, too.

The pie and mash shop where Jimmy and greaser pal Kevin (Ray Winstone) eat after meeting up in the bath-house is Cooke’s, 48 Goldhawk Road, alongside the entrance to Shepherd’s Bush Market. There’s been a pie and mash establishment here since 1891, and it’s been Cooke’s since 1934. Now – unbelievably – there are plans to redevelop the block. Visit Cooke’s website and help save this classic institution now.

This narrow, bustling alley of Shepherd’s Bush Market, running alongside the railway between Goldhawk Road Station and Shepherd’s Bush Station, is the benighted passage along which Kevin is chased from Goldhawk Road tube station and beaten up by Mods.

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Quadrophenia location: the pie’n’mash shop: Cooke’s, 48 Goldhawk Road, London W12

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Quadrophenia location: Chasing the Greaser: Shepherds Bush Market, Goldhawk Road, London W12

 

A place in the country had the house next door on it,,,,The owners didn't like it because it was overlooked....yes that was me ooogling out of my window....watching what they were doing next door

 

Out rd was also on Escape to the country although they were wanting to leave here!!
Was also on June Browns Who Do You Think You Are, she lives round the corner.

 

A lot of the brilliant "Game of Thrones" is currently filmed here in Belfast, at the Titanic Quarter and in surrounding Countryside.
My mates kid was recently given a part(he was one of the two Lannister twins taken hostage and subsequently murdered by the Karstarks). interesting story about Jamie Lannister, played by Nikolaj Coster- Waldau.

He and some of the cast were at a restaurant in Belfast. The waiter came over to take the order and recognised him and some of the others. The other cast members were welcomed enthusiastically. "You're Jaime Lannister, aren't you?" said the waiter.
"Yes, I am"

Waiter, under his breath, "You're a right c--t".

"Pardon me?"

"I can recommend the Halibut.....C--t".

"Its better than a bowl of brown"(reference to peasant fare described in the series).Laughter around the table.

The waiter then took the rest of the orders "can I get you anything else? No? Ok then, smiled at nikolaj and mouthed C--nt again.

The actor told this story in a interview about how fanatical, fans can be......except in Belfast!

 

The Blue Lamp filming locations

http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/b/Blue-Lamp.html

"The climactic car chase, around the streets of Notting Hill and North Kensington, climaxes as Riley is cornered at another lost landmark, the White City dog stadium on White City Road, off Wood Lane, Shepherds Bush, W12. The stadium, originally built for the 1908 Olympic Games and the Anglo-French Exhibition, stood north of the old BBC Television Centre, and was replaced by new offices for the broadcasting corporation in the 1980s."

 

John Cleese's Ministry of Silly Walks was filmed coming out of the newspaper shop on the corner of Thorpbank Road in Shepherds Bush. Used to go there on a saturday evening to get the classified results papers, Evening News & Evening Standard......owner was an R's fan....

 

Another old favourite.....some of the original Minder series was filmed around the Bush, Brooke Green area......Daves' pub was just off the Holland Road, Arthur's car lot was off Brooke Green

 

Boys From The Bush


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Familiar pub in the first clip Bushy, the only surprise for me is that Finglas isn't in there.....

Very familiar stadium in the second.

 

'Let sleeping dogs lie', an episode of Only Fools and Horses was filmed on Horsenden Hill. From memory you can just catch a glimpse of my erstwhile favourite watering hole, the Ballot Box.

 

There was that scene in Porridge where some loot was supposedly burried right in the middle of HQ although i think they tried topass it off as Elleand Road it was most definately HQ....

 

Why did they have Tim Healy, a good actor but a professional Geordie, playing a West Londoner? Bob Hoskins too grand for it by then I suppose.......

They filmed external scenes for the new version of Upstairs Downstairs in a regency square round the corner from me. Di Matteo used to live there, until last summer (now he has a London property to sell...) my son used to get his mates to go and stand outside his house and shout. But its 100 miles from Shepherd's Bush........

 

Are you telling me Healy WASN'T a West Londoner sb ??
With that accent i thought i'd been fooled for years and he had been mimmicking (rather well) a fellow from the North East

 

I was there when they recorded that part of the film. It was done at half time and the announcer asked us all to cheer when she scored (a penalty I think). The film was crap BTW.

 

This should be familiar to many on here...

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