Carry on Constable

[didi-5]

Many thanks to Alan F, once again, excellent work.

Sidney: My query to the Whippit Inn people was if this is 'St Mary's, Ealing' what's the street address? As I said they didn't reply and as we now know they had found the correct location, St Mary's, Hanwell, but misidentified it.

Christopher

As Hanwell is part of the London Borough of Ealing surely they were correct in their identification? St Mary's is strictly speaking part South Ealing, part Hanwell ...

[MartinU]

It's not location-based I'm afraid, but may I just come in here to say that Constable contains one of my favourite lines in a Carry On?
As Sid James briefs the constables before their beat, he pauses at one:
"You'd better call in at Mrs Bottomley at Number 24" he says, "She's complaining of suspicious activities at the rear of her premises."
No reaction shots or smirks or anything - it's just thrown away, as if it's not a double entendre at all. Makes me chuckle every time i see it.

Even better is a "Mrs Slocombe moment" later in the film when the cat owner says to PC Gorse: "I know you'll think I'm an awfully silly girl but I've lost my pussy". That's the one that makes me chuckle.

[Rowdon]

Even better is a "Mrs Slocombe moment" later in the film when the cat owner says to PC Gorse: "I know you'll think I'm an awfully silly girl but I've lost my pussy". That's the one that makes me chuckle.

And Hawtrey's "You merry quipper, you!" ... Carry On Constable's got a chuckle-filled script, balanced with knockabout slapstick for the younger viewers. One of the best, surely.

[carryonconfidential]

A complete location guide to Carry On Constable, with QR links for each location, is available as part of the preview chapter for my upcoming book, Carry On Confidential. You can download the chapter here: Carry On Line - Home of the Carry Ons since 1994

A group of us trod the streets of Ealing a couple of weeks ago in search of these locations. It's remarkable how many survive to this day. If anyone's planning a similar trip, I can heartily recommend the Rose & Crown pub (where the wage snatch van was left abandoned) as a wonderful place to start the tour. Just don't do what we did and end up spending most of the day in there!

[MartinU]

That is a superb book, judging by the entry for Carry on Constable. May I submit the locations to IMDB - the few that aren't already there?

One little suggestion: maybe in future reprintings you could include the links to the locations in text form as well as QR icons, for those of us who don't have the technology to decode QR icons.

[carryonconfidential]

Thanks Martin. Believe it or not, I thought of that, too. If you go to Google Maps and type in the postcode it'll take you to the spot mentioned. That's quicker than typing out the individual URLs.

I'd rather not have the book's content posted elsewhere yet, but I realise I can't exactly stop people doing so. There are similarly detailed locations for every film in the series - every exterior (ie. non-Pinewood) location is pinpointed, even the church which Kenneth Williams impales his nadgers on in Carry On Emmannuelle (and you wouldn't believe the lengths I had to go to in order to find that one!)