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Topic ID 3807
19/09/2008 by Capitalist piglet
Hertford as a Film base
I'm not sure if this has been posted before in a different thread (too damn lazy to find out to be honest) but following on from Steve's post about Balls Park; how often has Hertford been used in film?
I know Morse (the Brewery & Old Barge) & several Lovejoy’s were filmed here, I suspect there were others particularly in view of the town's proximity to the various British Film studious in the 30s through to the 70s
As an aside I heard that Gryff Rees Jones has been filming along the Lea. Having been in the balmy north-west-( well St Helens) I haven’t seen Publandlord at the Barge to check this one out but I will corner him tomorrow..
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Reply ID 55277
19/09/2008 by Leo Densian
In the original 'School for Scoundrels' the railway station where Ian Carmichael gets off on his way to Potter's College is Hertford East - I think its supposed to be Yeovil in the movie if I remember right.
Reply ID 55279
19/09/2008 by Capitalist piglet
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Originally posted by Leo Densian
In the original 'School for Scoundrels' the railway station where Ian Carmichael gets off on his way to Potter's College is Hertford East - I think its supposed to be Yeovil in the movie if I remember right.
Didn't realise that.Coming from a town that has less than a cordial relationship with said Somerset enclave I may never use East again....
I refer you to
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kd3Q6WqA3iM
Anyway back to Hertford as a film base.......
Reply ID 55280
20/09/2008 by JohnSmith
Eastenders has had a couple of court scenes filmed in Hertford.
The second series of Catweazle was filmed around Bayford and Brickendon. Some scenes were also filmed at the Great Molewood tunnel just north of Hertford North station.
Reply ID 55281
20/09/2008 by ~Sarah~
The Thin Blue Line used the outside of the old Police Station in Castle Street.
Reply ID 55282
20/09/2008 by Leo Densian
Don't forget the 'art' film made at SA Lingerie [:D]
Reply ID 55283
20/09/2008 by Paul
quote:
Didn't realise that.Coming from a town that has less than a cordial relationship with said Somerset enclave I may never use East again....
I refer you to http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kd3Q6WqA3iM
Anyway back to Hertford as a film base.......
"Show Of Hands" (shown at that address on youtube) are playing at St Albans Arena this autumn.
P
Reply ID 55284
20/09/2008 by Deveraux
quote:
Originally posted by Leo Densian
Don't forget the 'art' film made at SA Lingerie [:D]
LOL!!![:D]
Reply ID 55285
20/09/2008 by Deveraux
Foyle's War - exterior shot's of the old McMullens Brewery?
Reply ID 55287
20/09/2008 by Capitalist piglet
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Originally posted by Paul
quote:
Didn't realise that.Coming from a town that has less than a cordial relationship with said Somerset enclave I may never use East again....
I refer you to http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kd3Q6WqA3iM
Anyway back to Hertford as a film base.......
"Show Of Hands" (shown at that address on youtube) are playing at St Albans Arena this autumn.
P
Indeed Paul . And it would be quite wrong to use a Hertford based Community Website to advertise the best (IMHO) folk-rock group in the country based in Topsham, Devon. Or the fact that their Spires & Beams Tour will be hitting Cambridge in November. (the 45th anniversary Hitchin Folk club event has been sold out for months)
So I won't. And go back to… filming in the Hertford area.
What I am really interested in is 40s - 70s stuff (like School for Scoundrels that Leo mentiioned). Weren’t some of the Hammer Horrors filmed around here?
Reply ID 55289
21/09/2008 by Marilyn
I believe EastEnders and Holby City have used County Hall to film wedding scenes
Reply ID 55290
21/09/2008 by shunt
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Originally posted by Marilyn
I believe EastEnders and Holby City have used County Hall to film wedding scenes
There you go piglet, horrors have been filmed here.[:D]
Reply ID 55293
21/09/2008 by Marilyn
Foyle's War also filed in Little Berkhamstead does that count...........
Reply ID 55294
21/09/2008 by Kitty Kat
Cat Weasel was filmed round Hertford in the 70's - that was fairly horrible but not Horror [:D]
Reply ID 55295
21/09/2008 by Capitalist piglet
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Originally posted by shunt
quote:
Originally posted by Marilyn
I believe EastEnders and Holby City have used County Hall to film wedding scenes
There you go piglet, horrors have been filmed here.[:D]
[:D][:D][:D]
Reply ID 55296
21/09/2008 by shunt
quote:
Originally posted by Kitty Kat
Cat Weasel was filmed round Hertford in the 70's - that was fairly horrible but not Horror [:D]
Ah now Catweasle was a cult. (I may have miss-spelled that).
Reply ID 55297
21/09/2008 by Harry Palmer
Foyle's War used Balls Park as did Bleak House
Reply ID 55299
21/09/2008 by Leo Densian
'Our Miss Fred' (1972) at Panshanger airfield. They don't make 'em like that anymore - thank Christ.
As well as the Barge, they also used Macs brewery for a Morse episode plus Heathmount school at Woodhall Park.
'Band of Brothers' and 'From Hell' at Goldings
A pub in Hare Street was also used in the movie version of the Hitchikers Guide.
Reply ID 55311
22/09/2008 by Arty
Wild Child last year at Balls Park with extras from Simmon Balle School, released a few weeks ago.
Reply ID 55324
22/09/2008 by Richie
The number painted on a car parking space at the front of newlands gardens was used for the numberjacks number 3 to land on!!
......sorry[:I]
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