Carry on Constable

[hankoler]

can anyone tell me where the film carry on constable was filmed.

[smudge]

The predominant locations for CONSTABLE were in Ealing, West London.



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[hankoler]

thanks for the info.

[room 237]

If you want any of the Carry On Locations used for filming go to www.carlcorway.cc | My Beautiful Ealing look in the links menu to your left on the main screen and there you will find everything you would like to know concerning this or any Carry On film location used.

I know Smudge has already answered but thought you might want another view?

Best Wishes

[filmyfan]

Down my Road to be more precise !



The Police station is in fact now/was Hanwell Library...and they wander up my road a fair bit.



Also scenes in West Ealing at the Train Station (with The Drayton pub in the background), The Royal Mail sorting Office-just down the road and also at some toilets on the Uxbridge Road a few minutes away.



Hope this helps !

[hankoler]

thanks filmyfan, because i always thought it was filmed around Battersey.

[lordtednfs]

As FILMYFAN said it was shot in Hanwell at the surrounding areas, the police station was in Cherrington Road Hanwell, the Old Hanwell Library. The scene where they enter the store dressed in drag was shot on the Uxbridge Road, West Ealing, the store being Rowses and was pulled down in the late 70's to make way for more shops. Last time I was there there was a Pizza Hut on the corner. But it's great to look back and see the old place as it was when I had hair.

[locket]

Down my Road to be more precise !

The Police station is in fact now/was Hanwell Library...and they wander up my road a fair bit.

Also scenes in West Ealing at the Train Station (with The Drayton pub in the background), The Royal Mail sorting Office-just down the road and also at some toilets on the Uxbridge Road a few minutes away.


Hope this helps !

The public toilets were opposite South Ealing station, South Ealing road. They were demolished about 5 years ago, but the park is still.

[Modular]

The public toilets were opposite South Ealing station, South Ealing road. They were demolished about 5 years ago, but the park is still.

No. As far as I know, filmyfan is correct with the location of the public toilets (being in the park on the Uxbridge Road).



In fact, they were still there last time I went by.

[Mr. Sloane]

No. As far as I know, filmyfan is correct with the location of the public toilets (being in the park on the Uxbridge Road).



In fact, they were still there last time I went by.

Alas, they've been replaced with a modern computerized bog. At the risk of repeating a previous post, see here: Carry On Constable Location Guide

[Automotivehistorian]

shows a location I remember well! My great-aunts, Mum's father's sisters, lived in the last house in Alacross Road, on the bend, opposite the Coningsby Off-licence, and Mum was born in the next-door house, 1 Coningsby Road. Mum said that her family knew Chalres Hautrey's mother, as presumably they lived in South Ealing? There would have been three great-aunts living there at the time of filming, in a house that gas lamps still, with damp caused by the underground stream running through the back of the house. It is of course now very bijou! We lived in Feltham at the time but used to visit, changing at Brentford by the Gas Works (see HELL DRIVERS) and catching the 65 bus to South Ealing station.



I don't remember a Bedford CA van though!

[Modular]

Alas, they've been replaced with a modern computerized bog.

Shame!



Mind you, it's been a while since I walked past the park on the Uxbridge Road.

[Christopher Matheson]

Carry on Constable is full of Ealing locations and I think these grabs may also show Ealing or somewhere close by. The For Sale sign on the house reads 'Arnold Burns' whose office was at 5 Boston Road W7.



This church seems to be visible from near where the policemen are standing in the first grab.



Any guesses?

Thanks.

[Christopher Matheson]

On the Carry On film site, Whippit Inn, they identify this first photo, with a now shot, as being St Mary's, Ealing.


The only St Mary's I can find is on St Mary's Road, just south of Ranelagh Road. Is there another St Mary's for the church in the film has this spire which is not part of the church near Ranelagh Road.


By the way I contacted the Whippit Inn site some weeks ago but received no reply.

Thanks.

[Rowdon]

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.

[Alan F]

On the Carry On film site, Whippit Inn, they identify this first photo, with a now shot, as being St Mary's, Ealing.

The only St Mary's I can find is on St Mary's Road, just south of Ranelagh Road. Is there another St Mary's for the church in the film has this spire which is not part of the church near Ranelagh Road.

The caption is wrong. Both the church and spire are St Mary's, Church Road, Hanwell

[Alan F]

Carry on Constable is full of Ealing locations and I think these grabs may also show Ealing or somewhere close by. The For Sale sign on the house reads 'Arnold Burns' whose office was at 5 Boston Road W7.

The corner of York Avenue and Clairville Gardens, Hanwell.

This church seems to be visible from near where the policemen are standing in the first grab.

The "church" is actually St Anne's school in Springfield Road.

[sidney bliss]

On the Carry On film site, Whippit Inn, they identify this first photo, with a now shot, as being St Mary's, Ealing.


The only St Mary's I can find is on St Mary's Road, just south of Ranelagh Road. Is there another St Mary's for the church in the film has this spire which is not part of the church near Ranelagh Road.



By the way I contacted the Whippit Inn site some weeks ago but received no reply.

Thanks.

and what was your query? Strange as usually find the guys there most helpful

[Christopher Matheson]

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

[MartinU]

The caption is wrong. Both the church and spire are St Mary's, Church Road, Hanwell

I've contacted Whippit Inn to let them know of the error. Let's hope they correct it.