THE AVENGERS: Epic (a Borehamwood road trip)

[Anthony McKay]

THE AVENGERS: Epic (James Hill: February 1967)
Mrs. Peel is tricked into using a taxi driven by a disguised Stewart Kirby's. Mrs Peel soon realises that they are going the wrong way, but when she protests she is rendered unconscious by gas fed into her sealed compartment.

This first shot looks like the swamp on London Road near the entrance to High Cannons. The taxi is seen on Shenley Road and heading up Theobald Street, so obvious options are going to be within the area defined by Theobald Street, Radlett Lane, Silver Hill, London Road, Rowley Lane and Shenley Road.

Unknown 1:


Unknown 2:


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Unknown 6:

[mariocki]

Unknown 4 reminds me of Cowley Hill/Gateshead Road. No bus stop there though, assuming it isn't a prop.

[Mark O]

Unknown 4 reminds me of Cowley Hill/Gateshead Road. No bus stop there though, assuming it isn't a prop.

Agreed, though the bus stop was real at the time, London Transport and London Country bus services intermingled in Borehamwood, that bus stop would have served the London Country route that went from St. Alban's to Borehamwood via Shenley, I'm unaware if there is still a bus service on Cowley Hill today though.

[Anthony McKay]

Unknown 2:

Route for this sequence is: Shenley Road, near to the ABC Studios entrance (starting where council offices now stand) then along Shenley Road to Cowley Hill (past the Hertswood School seen in this shot).

So Unknown 3 must be the crossing for the school on Cowley Hill.

[mariocki]

That reminds me, I got a picture of Gateshead Road a couple of weeks back so I'll send it across later. Still convinced it's Unknown 4 although the bus stop has now been moved south of the junction.

[Anthony McKay]

Okay - Unknown 4 IS Cowley Hill/Gateshead Road. Thanks Geoff.

Unknown 1 must be the London Road/Silver Hill swamp despite there being no sign of the distictive white iron fences.

That leaves:

Unknown 5:



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