Spotted some of the locations used for this -
Thurlby Croft http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=51.5913&lon=-0.2221&scale=10000&icon=x
Street scene http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=51.6225&lon=-0.2952&scale=10000&icon=x
Nice to see the relitivly empty London steets ! One of my favourite films.
any idea about the location for the tennis club?
sharetennis club is in the edgwarebury hotel which is in elstree and is exactly the same today.
i am trying to find the location of the winsome welshman.
in the film a bus goes past i have downloaded a 1958 bus route (sad?)
and will try to locate it this way unless anyone can save me the trouble.
have found palfrey 's flat and thats the same.
no you are not sad at all. I have been scouring old maps and aerial photos trying to identify locations for "Long arm of the Law" that are identified when viewing still frames and working out level crossings next to gas holders and hump bridges....not too many occurances in West london. i pinned it down to Uxbridge. Not checked in reality yet...perhaps I'm not that sad!!
shareI love this film and have often wondered where it was set, so many thanks. I always assumed it was somewhere fairly near Shepperton.
Anyone have any idea where the street is in that other Sim classic, 'The Green Man?
Green man is a difficult one. The pub interior looks like a set, with the red herring of Brighton themed decor...the exterior is at night and hardly seen. Windy Nook could be any 30's upmarket suburb.... not seen any reference to it elsewhere.
sharethe railway station in school for scoundrels is Hertford East if thats any use to anyone!
shareThe car sales room,where Ian Carmichael buys the old banger is Pinner rd,Harrow
shareTHE OLD BANGER !!!! thats a swiftmobile doncha know !!!
well after many years of searching today i finally walked into the winsome welshman's showroom
(as reported now a hyundia showroom) the girl on the desk was a little suprised that i only wanted to look at the walls, it's unchanged since filming on the inside the out side now has a raised step .
was great to finally pinpoint this location so thanks to jay arthur.
checked out the street scene location but thats now a new estate
palfrey's flat in hendon is still the same
peace at last
right now the wrong arm of the law !!!!!!!!!
Actually the Hyundai garage has recently closed. I actually once bought a car from a dealer just further down the road - he has just recently retired. At one point on the journey to the tennis club, T.T an Carmichael drive past Henley's corner on the North Circular Road - the old Henley's garage is just in shot on the left hand side. Henley's also closed down many years ago.
I went to school just down the Road from Thurlby Croft, one of my classmates lived in flat below Carmichel's one in the film.
Please could someone pinpoint this garage - Pinner Road Harrow is quite long :)
shareActually, at the time the film was made, the tennis courts/club was in the Edgwarebury Country Club. I knew it well because I played tennis there quite often in the late 1950s and very early 60s. I believe the Club was used in other films as well. There have been some changes since then, as I found when I visited the place almost 40 years later! As I recall, the croquet lawns no longer exist - there are new houses/buildings on that side.
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Hey i think the bus goes down Lambath Palace road, look into it and let me know what you think?
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I was watching the film and when we see Palfrey's flat, Thurlby Croft, I thought...I KNOW that building...so looked it up on the magic interweb and found out it was where I used to do my paper round in the early eighties! I grew up just down the road. I think Mr Carmichael lived in the Hendon/Edgware area, as my mother recalled teaching his children at a school in Mill Hill.
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What a great thread!
Then & now shots of locations, in this and other films here: http://www.reelstreets.com/
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