'Quatermass 2' location question

[Stephen Pickard]

Can somebody please identify the road and grass bank, situated on a steep hill, where Bryan Forbes is bitten by one of the aliens. I am assuming it might be located somewhere near the Hemel Hempstead housing estate where much of the film was shot.
I went with some friends to the Shell Haven Oil Refinery in Essex a couple of years ago, which was used for the factory scenes, and told that we couldn't enter and that the site was due to be demolished!

[dylan]

It may have been on the South Downs outside Brighton.

http://www.hammerfilms.com/vaults/science_...atermassII.html

This is where Donlevy's wig was blown away during filming and the crew had great fun watching him chasing it along the downs.

[Bobj]

I've always wondered about that, being a resident of Hemel myself. There is one possible site near here but it doesn't look quite right. I think its more likely to be Dylan's suggestion of the South Downs. Hope we can get a definate answer on this.

[tellingbone]

Much of the filming at Hemel Hempstead was done at what is now (or was) Buncefield Oil Depot.

[Stephen Pickard]

A friend of mine, quite by accident, has discovered where this scene was filmed. The area is called 'The Ridgeway' in Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire.

[Bobj]

Originally quoted by tellingbone

Much of the filming at Hemel Hempstead was done at what is now (or was) Buncefield Oil Depot

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As I resident of the area I had not heard this. Most of the building site scenes and that at the community centre were filmed in the Gadebridge area of Hemel Hempstead in the post war new town development.

Orginally quoted by Stephen Pickard

A friend of mine, quite by accident, has discovered where this scene was filmed. The area is called 'The Ridgeway' in Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire

This location would fit the bill but we know that some scenes were definately filmed on the South Downs. So if this particular scene wasn't shot there which ones were?

[Stephen Pickard]

Originally Posted by Bobj Originally quoted by tellingbone . As I resident of the area I had not heard this. Most of the building site scenes and that at the community centre were filmed in the Gadebridge area of Hemel Hempstead in the post war new town development. Orginally quoted by Stephen Pickard This location would fit the bill but we know that some scenes were definately filmed on the South Downs. So if this particular scene wasn't shot there which ones were?

As far as I know the 'South Downs' information is incorrect and the information I provided was clarified by a very reliable source.

[Vincent Broadhead]

Originally Posted by Stephen Pickard As far as I know the 'South Downs' information is incorrect and the information I provided was clarified by a very reliable source.

Thank goodness for that, I spent 2 days once trawling the south downs to find the location sites for 'Quatermass 2'. Now I can go and take a look myself. I have however visited the Shell Refinery at Stanford-le-hope where the plant scenes were done (Same as the serial), although it has been demolished in recent years.

[Stephen Pickard]

Originally Posted by Vincent Broadhead Thank goodness for that, I spent 2 days once trawling the south downs to find the location sites for 'Quatermass 2'. Now I can go and take a look myself. I have however visited the Shell Refinery at Stanford-le-hope where the plant scenes were done (Same as the serial), although it has been demolished in recent years.

I visited the site last week and can confirm that this is the location. I don't have exact directions but it is not far from Tring and Hemel Hempstead. It is actually situated on the road to Ivinghoe Beacon.

[Stephen Pickard]

Originally Posted by Stephen Pickard I visited the site last week and can confirm that this is the location. I don't have exact directions but it is not far from Tring and Hemel Hempstead. It is actually situated on the road to Ivinghoe Beacon.

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The image is of the steep bank where Donlevy and Forbes find the overshoots. The soldiers in jeeps arrive on the road below.

[philip hindley]

Hello I am new to this forum so here goes, I am always interested in the exact locations used in the film or TV version, so if anyone can help me with this I would be most grateful. thanks PHIL.

[mariocki]

Try the IMDB:

Quatermass 2 (1957) - Filming locations

[Anthony McKay]

B1 on the Avengerland site is one.

Ivinghoe!

[alan french]

Hi.
Yes, Hemel Hempstead was used for some of the location work. At the time two new housing estates were being built. Warners End and Gadebridge. Certainly the rioting workers were walking in a road called Galley Hill. Warners End is the estate on the horizon. The camera is in Gadebridge. Quite a lot was shot in Warners End. The shot you refer may be there. But remember there are matt processes in films that make locations different.

I am not sure where the original television version was shot other than an oil refinery in Essex. Possibly the same as the film version.

Alan French.

[Anthony McKay]

Okay - to make this quite clear

There is a road that goed down hill round Ivinghoe Beacon - used in The Avnegers, The Baron etc. - Quatermass parks his car at the top of the road Bryan Forbes walks down this steep bank and gets bitten (I think you can seen the cement works in the valley below). This is 100% certain - to ifs buts or maybes!