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Old 17-03-2009, 11:04 PM
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A location down on the south coast that caught my attention.
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DB7 how do you know its on the south coast ? Not nitpicking, just interested.
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DB7 how do you know its on the south coast ? Not nitpicking, just interested.
It doesn't look the type of foliage you'd get in more northern areas.
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Near the top left of the last 2 photos-on the hill-is that a pillbox I see? Some type of building built. If it's the UK I suspect it's probably Devon, Dorset area-somehow I don't think it's Blackpool! Wherever it is-it looks a great getaway retreat.

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It doesn't look the type of foliage you'd get in more northern areas.
Those spiky looking plants on the right in that first image



They look a bit tropical which could put it in Cornwall or the Scilly Isles

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Assuming those spikey looking plants have not been planted there by the props dept for filming of course! They look real enough though and the topography looks like Devon/Cornwall.
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Cabbage Trees!

Also the design of stone wall looks fairly distinctive.
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Also the design of stone wall looks fairly distinctive.
A lot like 'traditional Cornish soil and stone construction' so I'm informed by the All Knowing Interweb.
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I thought this might be a possible, but I don't think it is:
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Other than the dockwall the house and plants look a bit phoney. I would expect a wall as long as the one behind Ms Palmer in her photo. When the tide comes in it seems a bit of a dodgy place to build a house erosion wise. Could it be a cosy seaside cottage courtesy of the art dept.
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What's the distance between the sea and the cottage ?
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Other than the dockwall the house and plants look a bit phoney. I would expect a wall as long as the one behind Ms Palmer in her photo. When the tide comes in it seems a bit of a dodgy place to build a house erosion wise. Could it be a cosy seaside cottage courtesy of the art dept.
I don't think the cottge can possibly be facing the open sea, but may be located in a cove or estuary. There is a cottage in Portmeiron even closer to the sea than this, but it gets stripped and closed up during the winter.
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Are their any Rex Harrison bio's that mention the filming of this ?
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Assuming those spikey looking plants have not been planted there by the props dept for filming of course! They look real enough though and the topography looks like Devon/Cornwall.
Aye, I recall when Matthew Sweet was on Burgh Island the plantlife was similar.

There does seem to be an installation on the coastline over Lilli Palmers shoulder.
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