willan

Does Anybody Know The Locations Of The Pubs In Saturday And Sunday Morning. In It Albert Finney Passes One Called "the British Flag" Does It Still Exist?

Jim

Probably not; it would be classed as too racist!!! :mad:

Good morning boys.

DAVID RAYNER

It was filmed in Nottingham, but I would be surprised if the pub still exists, as a lot of development has gone on there since 1960.

dylan

The pub where Arthur fell down the stairs was the White Horse on Ilkeston Road - its still there.

All the location shots were in Nottingham except the Goose Fair which was shot at Merton in London.

This site might help:

http://www.radfordgallery.fsnet.co.uk/

Steve Crook

The IMDb reports that one pub exterior at night (possibly when Arthur gets beaten up) was shot in Sheepcote Lane, Battersea.

Steve

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Steve Crook

You're believing what you read in the tabloids :)

Electronic Yellow Pages reports that there are 3 pubs in the UK called "The British Flag". One in Harwich, one in Bridgwater and one in Battersea.

Steve

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willan

Thanks for all your replies, as a new member i will have a lot of questions to ask as i have been a British film fan for years and have some 550 films in my ever expanding collection and have just gone from video to dvd. Watch this space!

Paul E

A good Saturday Nigh Sunday Morning location is Nottingham Castle - if you go through the (v. nice) caff you're where the ramparts scene was shot.

JohnMartin

I lived in London until 1975 when I moved to Nottingham, and as one of those things you just have to do, I extensively researched the locations for this film.

Most of the location filming was done in Nottingham, and I just about identified all of the places.

But I ascertained that some of the filming was done in London.

The British Flag scene and the following scene where a train crosses a viaduct in the background under a strange bridge was in Battersea, London.
The road name on the pub side is Sheepcote Lane, but that part of road changed its name after the film and is now Rowditch Lane. The following scene looks along Culvert Road, and you can see a signal box on a gantry up on the viaduct. I believe the British Flag is still there. The scene where Albert Finney rounds a corner and is attacked was outside the British Flag pub.

There is also a daytime scene in a housing estate/park with trains shunting up on an embankment. I could never locate that in Nottingham.

The cinema that AF and Norman Rossington come out of just before the pub scene was the ABC in Nottingham City Centre - and that area has been re-developed in the past few years. The other cinema he leaves with, I believe, Doreen (Shirley Anne Field) was the Savoy, Lenton, Nottingham which is still there.

The scene near the start of the film where he runs for a bus is down Derby Road between Canning Circus and the city centre.

Aenima

Where is the final scene of the film shot, where he's in the field with Doreen looking over the housing estate where they plan to live.
Cheers,
A

I'll 'av 'arf

dylan

The ABC gone ? That's where I originally saw Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Arthur catching the bus raised a laugh in the cinema - he left his house in Radford for a night on the town in Nottingham but runs for the bus as it nears the city centre.

JohnMartin

As regards the ABC cinema, the whole block (bounded by Chapel Bar, Mount Street, Maid Marion Way and Upper Parliament Street) was completely demolished and redeveloped over the past few years.

A few locations lack enough information to be able to identify them.

The closing scenes location shows a hoarding for the builders W J Simms Sons & Cooke, who in those days did build some estates in Nottingham. The only place I could find where there would have been grassed slopes overlooking sprawling housing estates sloping away like that, and where that company did build around that time, is along the corridor now followed by the western orbital road (Bilborough Rd/Woodhouse Way) and overlooking the Broxtowe and Bilborough Estates, and that is the best guess to date.

Steve Crook

Looking for locations in other films has shown me that you can't always rely on grassy knolls, they can get built on as well.

Is there anything further away (big buildings on the horizon) that might give a clue.

Steve

JohnMartin

What could be the River Trent can be seen in the background. I asked someone today who has lived in Nottingham all their life and they have narrowed it down to where a bit of comparison of old streetmaps with the film might well give the answer.

At the ext reme south of the "corridor" that I surmised above, there is an area called Bramcote Hills, and he reckons it was filmed there - and that is from recognising it when he saw the film in those days.

I'll report back if I get any further.

circle kay

As A Nottingham Ex pat (away for 23 years now) I have always believed that the end scene was from Bramcote Hills looking towards Stapleford. The ABC is not the only area to be redeveloped. The Raleigh bike factory has all made way for student accommodation. Whilst I'm on the subject of Silitoe in film has any one seen the film version of 'Ragman’s Daughter' in the last 10 years or so?