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[Andy C]

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I think the working day for city types and senior civil servants commonly started at about 10am.

[Andy C]

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There's the Hilaire Belloc verse, which might exaggerate somewhat:

...There fell upon him such a fate
As makes me shudder to relate.
Just in its fifth and final year,
His University Career
Was blasted by the new and dread
Necessity of earning bread.
He was compelled to join a firm
Of Brokers — in the summer term!

And even now, at twenty-five,
He has to
WORK
to
keep alive !

Yes! All day long from 10 till 4!
For half the year or even more;

With but an hour or two to spend
At luncheon with a city friend.

[Jimski]

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Oxfordshire - Robinson in Ruins

[Kevin S]

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I'd always pictured the 8:21 as a bus. However W-on-S does have a station and it features particularly in the episode "The Royal Train".

[Kevin S]

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They used the North Norfolk railway, incidentally, which still runs steam engines.

[Nocturnal Submission]

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M_L_M wrote:

i thought the church in the omen was the one by putney bridge that you go past on the way to craven cottage

Ah no, it was Guildford Cathedral.

Definitely was Guildford, I was a student at Surrey (on the hilside of the cathederal). Coming back to my room slightly the worse for wear through the graveyard at night was not the most pleasant experience

Bit of cross-communication going on I think. Guildford Cathedral did feature but so did the church (All Saints, Fulham) which Rick referred to. Think lightening conductors and an ex-Dr Who.

Here it is on a less-threatening day:

[Guy Profumo]

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Bah!

I was going to mention the Surrey/Middlesex connection with "The Omen".

(Wasn't the American Ambassador's residence positioned in Surrey for the purposes of this film?)

[Guy Profumo]

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jwdd27 wrote: I propose to disqualify Get Carter from the Northumbria/Tyne and Wear etc slot.

In the original book, the action takes place in a thinly-disguised Scunthorpe (the author Ted Lewis grew up in nearby Barton, and later returned there to drink himself to death).

So it's either Billy Elliot or Goal! to represent the north east.

Lincolnshire, if not the Dambusters (again disqualified as Ladybower is outside the county), should be represented by an uplifting RAF film of the type shown on C4 on a tuesday afternoon, with one or all of John Mills, David Niven or James Mason.

Just as you should be disqualified for confusing Ladybower with Derwent!

[Nocturnal Submission]

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Bah!

I was going to mention the Surrey/Middlesex connection with "The Omen".

(Wasn't the American Ambassador's residence positioned in Surrey for the purposes of this film?)

Possibly, though the US ambassador to the Court of St. James actually lives in this pokey little pad in Regents park:

[Guy Profumo]

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I did know that, btw.

[Nocturnal Submission]

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We'll make a Londoner of you yet, Guy.

[Mumpo]

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Trumpton - Trumptonshire

[treibeis]

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Trumpton - Trumptonshire

I'm not a petty grudge-bearer, not at all. However, I remember you pulling me up years ago for mentioning Bagpuss on a thread about films. I think you wrote, 'Yeah, right. "Bagpus: The Movie"' or something equally sarcastic.

Yeah, right: "Trumpton: The Movie"

[Mumpo]

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Oh, I love a bit of petty grudgery. Good work.

[VTTBoscombe]

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Fairly obviously; but pretty much every Thomas Hardy adaptation, - Dorset.