For The Love Of Ada

[Dr Phibes]

Hi,



I've been searching for ages to find the location of the Church / Churchyard that featured in the FILM (not TV episode) For The Love Of Ada.



There is also a panning aerial scene at the start of the film.



Anyone any ideas ?



I have contacted the BFI but no joy....





Cheers

[Dr Phibes]

Just refreshing this topic....

Anyone any ideas on this one ?

Will try abd get some screen grabs ASAP and post.





Thanks !

[jch]

Still wish I could find a copy of the tv series.

[Dr Phibes]

Right, I've finally got around to getting some screen grabs, so here goes.

If anyone can help......



Here are some views from the opening scenes

Though I expect the old houses have gone, Someone might recognise this :-









Here we can see a train line cutting right though the center of the picture





Here is the quite unusual entrance to the church. Someone will surely know this !





And the church again....





Here is a scene showing a bus with a number 1 on it (I think). A clue ?





Finally, maybe someone can identify this area....



Thanks guys

[Alan F]

The cemetery and chapel appears to be Teddington Cemetery – Shacklegate Lane – Teddington.



http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/362787

[Dr Phibes]

Cheers Alan - Fantastic !

[Klark Crass]

name='Dr Phibes']Right, I've finally got around to getting some screen grabs, so here goes.

If anyone can help......



Here are some views from the opening scenes

Though I expect the old houses have gone, Someone might recognise this :-

That tower block is familiar - is it Kent House aka the London Studios?

In which case, this is southside, Southwark/Waterloo.

[marty]

Klark Crass is spot on.



Here's a aerial shot of the buildings in the first shot as they are now..surprisingly the houses are still there:









Here's a shot of the overall area...you can see The London Studios in the top left hand corner and the houses in the bottom right:

[Dr Phibes]

Klark Crass - Thanks a million !

I've looked for yonks for this location. BRILLIANT !



Thanks for the superb aerial shots too Marty



Any ideas on the other locations ?



Thanks again !

[Alan F]

I think the picture with the shop and the bus might be Cornwall Road SE1. The black shape and the column above the bridge could be parts of the walkway leading to Waterloo East station. If I’m right with the location and the direction, then the shop is still there.

[tavistock]

I agree with Alan, looks like the shop now called Konditor & Cook (fantastic cakes!) and at the end of the street is a bus garage, opposite the Old Vic. I wondered whether the second shot was on Stanford St, near Coin St.

[Alan F]

name='Dr Phibes']



Here we can see a train line cutting right though the center of the picture

This is Battersea, with Eland Road on the right. At the start of this shot the camera pans up across Town Hall Road where the later scene with the coach was filmed and the party scenes were across the road in Battersea Town Hall. If you look closely when Leslie and Ruth are talking in the entrance hall, you can read Battersea Town Hall on the boxing poster behind them.

[Dr Phibes]

Alan F



I had faith in you all along



Brilliant mate - Thanks

[Dr Phibes]

Hi Alan,



Last time I spoke to you, you mentioned you might have a lead on another location from FTLO Ada. Any further with that ?

I shall be down there in a few weeks to get a few smudges.



Cheers

[Dr Phibes]

OK, here are a few more...



First is this establishment, Masion Edith. :-







Also, a scene in a pub called "The Mitre"







Now, just around the corner from the location identified by Alan F as Cornwall Rd, there is a Mitre Road, but I can't find reference to a Mitre pub in the vacinity. Probably gone by now ?



Cheers

[DB7]

Pix edited Dr Phibes. Btw, for linking it's better to name a directory For_the_Love_of_Ada rather than using the space bar.

[Dr Phibes]

Ta DB7

[Alan F]

name='Dr Phibes']Hi Alan,



Last time I spoke to you, you mentioned you might have a lead on another location from FTLO Ada. Any further with that ?

I shall be down there in a few weeks to get a few smudges.



Cheers

Apologies for making you wait for an answer Dr P, but I’ve been away from the computer for a few weeks.

Assuming that the jewellers shop was in SE1 then I’m pretty sure it was in London Road. The road as seen through the shop door is a one-way street and is a Green Line coach route and, at the time the film was made, London road was both of these.

Presumably the name etched into the glass of the shop door is genuine – B Rose, Jeweller, Established 1887, perhaps someone could look it up.

Two of the buildings in the background loosely match up to the building on the corner of Thomas Doyle Street and the office block in Library Street.







Re. The mitre pub. This is from a site reviewing a pub in the SE1 area.



“A bugger trying to get past the tables and herberts standing stock still in the front of the bar. Beer not bad, nothing to right home about. Just makes me pine for The Mitre that used to be around the corner in Hatfields, before the railway bridge. Knocked down like all the best places.”



Which led to a search of Mitre and Hatfields and this from a site devoted to historical pub research.



Mitre 51 Hatfields SE1

[Dr Phibes]

Hi Alan,



No worries



I did do a search for B Rose but found nothing. I'll have a look at the old business directories as soon as...



I'll try and match the jewellers to London Rd when I'm down there in a couple of weeks. Thanks for that !



Excellent research on The Mitre too. Alan, you're a gent !

[tavistock]

I don't think many buildings survive south of Thomas Doyle St, on one side is the South Bank University (or whatever its been rebranded as) and on the other a pretty ugly housing development.