Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 According to wiki, the closing scene is one of the London locations http://en.wikipedia....lming_locations Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Can't remember the exact part of the film - I haven't seen it for a long time, but I seem to remember them going up and down some grassy hills that certainly looked like Bramcote from when I used to play there as a kid. I must see the film again ! I don't think the last scene was in Notts. The general consensus seems to be that it was in Wembley. This site has some great info about the film: http://www.ciaranbrown.com/snasmlocations.html As always, any definitive info would be welcome. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 So you need to work out which part of Bramcote this is; and can you then also account for the landscape in the distance (hills to the right) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 No, like I said Cliff. I don't think this part was Bramcote. It's most likely Wembley like you said. I wish I could remember the exact scene ! I'm working purely from memory here, but I seem to remember them being chased - or they are trying to avoid being seen. There's a bit in the book about them getting off the bus at Wollaton and walking up Bramcote Lane and Arthur says something about picking blackberry's here when he was a kid. I'd love to get to the bottom of this. It's really frustrating when something sticks in your mind but you can't place it exactly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 There are no houses in Bramcote (Hills) with the roof type in the image. Much of Bramcote Hills is 1950's onwards, the houses look a little older Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 I think we've concluded that the last shot was Wembley. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Here's the bit in the book I was talking about: Chapter 9 Saying good-bye to Brenda did not give Arthur much pleasure. After a subdued bus-ride to Wollaton village they walked down Bramcote Lane arm-in-arm. Wheatfields, some already close-cropped, ran before a range of low scrub-patched hills. Odours of wheat chaff in the air caused Arthur to reminisce: "I used to come up here blackberryin', when I was a young ‘un." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Looks like Wollaton vale estate.....so the bottom of bramcote hills before bramcote lane shops and estate were built... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Interesting discussion re Bramcote Lane and the surrounds. We lived in Mapledene Crescent, Wollaton for a couple of years after leaving ROT in 62. What I can tell you is that the land on the south east side of Bramcote Lane from Woodbank Drive south was all wasteland with low scrub covered hills. I know this well as we acquired an old motorbike and used to ride it around the wasteland and up and down the hills (more like high mounds). Used to hide the motorbike when we were not using it but sadly, it expired half way up a hll one day and never moved again. This area was just being levelled and developed for housing when we left Wollaton. I cannot remember any wheatfields around the area. Whilst Wollaton Vale on Google shows it extending all the way to Coventry Lane, back in the early 60s, this was not the case. Wollaton Vale commenced at Derby Road and extended to just west of Arleston Drive where it came to a dead end. The old Wollaton Vale is shown on Google and ran up to Fernwood Crescent. Bus services used to drive into Arleston Drive and then reverse back into the dead end of Wollaton Vale and park at the bus stop there. Housing was non-existent west along the southern edge of Wollaton Vale after the petrol station next to the Hemlockstone Pub and there was no housing at all west of Humberstone Road which, incidentally, did not extend past Templeoak Drive in those days. At the top end of the old Wollaton Vale and Fernwood Crescent, there were open fields that were accessed over an old canal (Nottingham Canal??), the same canal that ran across the top end of Moor Lane. This area at the top of the hill afforded a view across some of Wollaton. The canal seems to have now disappeared and looking at Google, most of the open fields as well. How do I remember this?? My father built the petrol station next to Hemlockstone on the misinformation that Wollaton Vale was going to be extended within 2 years and ultimately be a feeder road to the M1 (Ha!). Me and the local lads used the wasteland south east of Bramcote Lane for many devious activities and yes, there were blackberry bushes! Find it highly unlikely that this land was ever used for cropping. Walked girls (one at a time!) up to the top of the old Wollaton Vale many a time on a balmy, summer evening and walked along the canal embankment. Very private and very quiet but never misbehaved. Anyone with access to old maps should be able to see the Wollaton area of the early 60s and I would like a posting of an old map if there is one with sufficient details. Checked out on PTP and found a very interesting picture of Bramcote Lane and Wroxhan Drive intersection back in 1953 and it was dirt tracks and no houses - really made one feel old! Whilst in PTP, found a picture of the Poughs, Wollaton in 1968. Could not say where it was and I do not recognise it but the houses are similar to those in the earlier post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 House rooflines are from a different angle but same style with single chimney in centre. Taken from a hill. But where are The Ploughs???? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Interesting discussion re Bramcote Lane and the surrounds. Anyone with access to old maps should be able to see the Wollaton area of the early 60s and I would like a posting of an old map if there is one with sufficient details. The Old Maps site have changed their format a bit, so the quality here isn't brilliant. This is the Wollaton Vale area in the early 60s, and you can see how the road stops at the canal Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 I am convinced the final scenes are shot at the bottom of bramcote hills...... There was a board in the distance advertising the builder who was developing the land....I think it said SISSONS...... They did develop in the area....maybe i am wrong but the debate goes on ........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 I am convinced the final scenes are shot at the bottom of bramcote hills...... There was a board in the distance advertising the builder who was developing the land....I think it said SISSONS...... HG.... check this link to Wikipedia which I mentioned before http://en.wikipedia....lming_locations According to that it was Simms Sons & Cooke which would look quite a bit like Sissons They are a Nottingham company and they did the work, but they did it in London Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Thanks for that Clif ton but it still looks very plausible !!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 WP not the most reliable source of information? Why would they go all the way to London taking a Nottingham builder to mock up a building site? There was much development in Nottingham at that time to use as sets? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 I agree with you Mick.....having lived on bramcote hills after the development and the filming, it is still understood to be the final scene and like you say. It makes sense... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 I agree that Wiki is not guaranteed to be perfect by any means...... But look at the second-to-last paragraph of this from the Nottingham Evening News, back at the time it happened..... http://www.lentontim..._1960_03_30.htm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 956 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 There is to be an exhibition of never before exhibited 'stills' from Sat Night and Sunday Morning soon. It will be at the Djanogly Art Centre. I have the dates at home so I'll post full details later. It is on for quite a few weeks later in the year so no panick yet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 You are right Clif ton but that doesn't look like the wembley area at all, more like bramcote hills !!!!!! LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 I must try and get a copy of the DVD to try and trace this scene I have in my memory. I can picture Arthur and Brenda on these grassy slopes that are so reminiscent of what we used to call 'the Hill'. The final scene in the film is Arthur and Doreen looking out over a housing estate. Picturethepast reckon Bramcote was in the film - but that's by no means definitive: http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM012154&pos=6&action=zoom&id=63597 http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM012153&pos=7&action=zoom&id=63596 http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM012152&pos=8&action=zoom&id=63595 http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM012110&pos=10&action=zoom&id=63553 Interesting debate. That site Ciaran Brown did of the locations is especially good: http://www.ciaranbrown.com/snasmlocations.html 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 You are right Clif ton but that doesn't look like the wembley area at all, more like bramcote hills !!!!!! LOL Trouble is, I don't really know what Bramcote Hills looks like! It's not an area I've been around much. Seen one Hill, seen 'em all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Well.....strangely enough I was able to identify the PTP pictures immediately when I saw them. Dunno if that's just familiarity or if it's the specific nature of the place - the sandstone cliffs, uneven rolling hills, scrub etc. When I went back to look at the place a couple of years ago I was struck at how overgrown it was, which made me think that someone must have been cutting back stuff when we lived there. (I remember a few fires too which obviously would have helped). The Willoughby family have opened up some of their land on the side that overlooked Wollaton and backed onto Lowes nursery. So there's more of it to walk around now. We used to meet around 'the log' which was a felled tree which been there for years and years. Nice place to live. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Looked more like Stapleford Hill rather than Bramcote Hills....( tis just across the road )....but thats where the rocky outcrops show up, also has the Hemlock Stone at the front of it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 OMG I remember the log !!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 We called it a spaceship Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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