Tony Pendrey

I just watched the film "Last Orders" which was given away as a freebie with the Sunday Telegraph a few weeks back. I really enjoyed it, and it was nice to see some locations that I am familiar with. Now the anorak bit. Does anyone know which pier they used as Margate pier for the flashback shots ? It looked familiar to me. I would hazard a guess at Sandowm, IOW just from the brief shot of the coast on the background. Yes folks, I am that bored !

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

DB7

I thought it was Margate Pier they used, is it no longer standing?

Tony Pendrey

No - Long gone :-) It is mentioned in the film. Washed away some time in the 70's. If you look on a modern map they mark the harbour arm as "pier" which is a bit confusing.

Loads of our great piers have gone.

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

DB7

Twas Eastbourne.

Tony Pendrey

Oh - Thanks for that ! I can take off my anorak and go to bed.

(I suffer badly from Anoraksia Nervosa)

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

Nobby Lard

Hi
Anyone know where the pub in Last orders "the coach & horses" is? apologies if this has been asked before

kevinfl

Interior or exterior as they used two pubs ( look closely at the windows ).
Interior = The Larkhill Tavern, Larkhill Lane, Wandsworth. This closed in 1999 and may now be flats. ( that what the pub was supposed to be converted to anyway ).
Exterior = The Wishing Well,79 Choumert Road, Peckham. If you're interested in visiting here you can see more of the film's locations. Just round the corner from the pub is Bellenden Road. Number 192 is the butcher's while opposite at number157 is the undertakers.

harryfielder

''Interior = The Larkhill Tavern, Larkhill Lane, Wandsworth''

That pub (we used to call it The Tap House) took me back nearly 50 years to when I used to play there with my band in the late 50s early 60s.

Happy young days....

Aitch,

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David Brent

I read recently that Peckham has become a bad crime area with "gangsta" gangs using shooters against each other.
Maybe its been overblown by the press but the area seems to have changed since Del Boy and family lived there.

Dave.

Steve Crook

There might have been 2 or 3 shootings in the last year. So of course the press go overboard on it. A good, simple rule to work by, ignore everything you read in the press. Or just don't read it. 99.999% of it is made up anyway and the remainder probably doesn't affect you or anyone you know so there's no sense in worrying about it

Steve

Klark Crass

85.7% of statistics are unreliable...

What fcuker said that?

Steve Crook

68.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot - including this one

Steve

Nobby Lard

Thanks for your help guys

Moor Larkin

I worked in Peckham when Del Boy was being broadcast and could never see the connection then....... Lot's of West Indians in those days but I don't recall many being Del's mates...... I do recall being trapped in between a line of policemen and a rioting mob one night in Queens road, by the old Gaumont, with buildings beginning to burn at the end nearest Peckham Rye. I was mighty relieved when the line of riot coppers moved forward, past where I was standing in a doorway.... and towards the rioters.

The day after, when I could see the smoking ruins of two or three shops, I realised that one of them was a printing shop we had been using a lot and how sad it was that such a thriving business had been burned out, especially being that it was run and owned by a West Indian guy. I wondered why the 'poor black' rioters had burned him out rather than march on the 'rich white' folks a couple of miles away in Dulwich............

That was when I began to realise politics had nothing much to do with it.......