RANDALL AND HOPKIRK in Glasgow?

[Anthony McKay]

Two locations from the RANDALL AND HOPKIRK episode A Sentimental Journey, both supposedly in Glasgow.



I don't expect these buildings exist any more but is "Welch's Store" enough of a clue?











This train is "the London Express" from Glasgow Central Station. I don't think it is.

[harryfielder]

I don't think so....



It was hard enough to get a second unit crew using doubles to film in London, never mind Glasgow...

That Station looks like Elstree and Borhamwood in the late 60s



Aitch,

[narabdela]

Definately not Glasgow Central, but the tenements look authentic enough.

[Mr Cosmo]

The tenements look authentically Glaswegian and could have been in the Bridgeton / Shawfield area, most of which is long gone. The store name doesn't help as there were so many individual little shops in those areas and we can't see enough to even see what business it transacted. (if it had been a record store I would have known it - believe me.) I imagine this was stock footage possibly from one of the local magazine shows like 'Reporting Scotland' or 'Here And Now'.

The train is definitely not Glasgow Central as it has thirteen platforms which channel across a wide bridge, and there is no overhang from any other bridge, and the buildings to the left are the wrong character for Glasgow. Aitch sounds like he knows the score with his response.

[Alan F]

name='Anthony McKay']Two locations from the RANDALL AND HOPKIRK episode A Sentimental Journey, both supposedly in Glasgow.



This train is "the London Express" from Glasgow Central Station. I don't think it is.

Right line, wrong end, it’s Euston. You wouldn’t be able to get a through electric train from Glasgow to London until 1974.

[Anthony McKay]

More footage now available to help identify where the tenements were:

[Anthony McKay]

Please ignore the tower at the start of this clip - that is in Halifax.

[wadey]

Wainhouse Tower

Wainhouse Tower:: OS grid SE0724 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square!

[tavistock]

Best clue is the bus that appears at 29 seconds, not many bus companies had a band below the lower window line, Huddersfield?

[Blackhall Rocks....]

The half-cab bus looks like Western SMT, who ran into Glasgow. The other bus behind (lighter coloured) looks like a Leyland Atlantean of Glasgow Corporation.

[Anthony McKay]

Please ignore the tower at the start of this clip - that is in Halifax.

That was a bit like saying 'don't think of an elephant' - I'm sure this is Glasgow. There was a brief shot of one of the tunnel rotundas and a dock crane which I've deleted as this may not have been part of the same shoot (then again it might have been).

[cabman]

You could have walked through many district's of Glasgow,in the 1960's and found derelict buildings like the ones shown in the clip,As Glasgow City Council had a massive regeneration programme at the time.
A lot of the old tenement's were demolished to make way for the M8 motorway,But after looking at the clip over and over,The only clue I have is the old halfcab blue bus (Midland Bluebird)That ran from the old Dundas St bus station to the North East of the City,and went along the busy,but now long gone Parliamentary Rd,in the Townhead district of Glasgow.
However,this is only a suggestion on My part,But it may well be the area I have said.