Upstairs and Downstairs

[DB7]

Both approaches to Michael Craig's house. But where?

[MB]

I don't know - but I love that car!

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This is the junction of Clarence Crescent and Alma Road in Windsor. The building which Sid James is walking past is still there and is a tyre service centre. It was originally a 1930s Co-Operative shop.



The house used is the first one in Clarence Crescent, No 11, which is also where Kenny Williams picks up the chimp in C ON REGARDLESS and where Terry Scott's tree house is in the front garden at the end of C ON UP THE JUNGLE.



The house where the scandalised old ladies live is further down the crescent and was that of the author, Margaret Oliphant. In the film it is across the road from Michael Craig's house, but in reality there are no houses on the opposite side of the crescent, only a park.



As far as I can see, interiors of both actual houses were used for filming.



I have some pix on the home computer, so will try to post later...



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The Alma/Clarence Junction in Jan 2005







The 'Bank' - same time







By 2005 the house is obscured by copper beech hedging







The House in May 2003 - it has since been refurbed but the tile path remains







Looking down the crescent - again May 2003





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[DB7]

Nice one Al, it's hardly changed.

[Dame Starry]

Yes, yes yes - but, more importantly, does anybody know where the Messerschmitt is now?



DS x.

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name='Dame Starry']Yes, yes yes - but, more importantly, does anybody know where the Messerschmitt is now?



DS x.

MIA somewhere over the English Channel....



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[Mark O]

Great pics, then and now, though I'm intrigued by the Red London Transport Bus in a London Country area which had green liveried buses, I know some Red bus routes spill over into the Home Counties such as the 81 Hounslow to Slough, but I'm unaware of a red bus route that once stretched to Windsor, though of course it could be a red on loan to Windsor LCBS Garage, unless anyone knows different?

[Dandelion]

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I suspect the bus was a bit of dressing, as the house was supposed to be in a posh central London area (Kensington?). You'll notice we also have an out of place LT bus stop.



Always loved U&D simply because of a youthful crush on the stunning Mylene Demongeot from which I have (happily) never recovered...





More local location info...



In the Sid and the bus pic, just behind Sid is the corner he'd revisit in C ON CABBY, where he's waiting at the traffic lights alongside the Roller. Behind the bus, turn left at the next junction and you'd be near the football match spot from Norman Wisdom's ON THE BEAT.



The white edifice rising from behind the 'Bank' on my pic 2 is Ward Royal, whose creation in the 1960s saw off a lot of the old streets as seen in the ON THE BEAT foot chase sequences. Behind Ward Royal itself are the terraced houses where the ON THE BEAT garden chase sequence was shot...



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