I've recently imbibed in The Bill (the early years) on UK Play, Reminds me of old nostalgic/ sentimental London of our yoofs and seems a world away from life today.
Some very bad things of course but at the same time it seemed a far simpler time and very comforting and relatable. Anyone else watching it?
Of course same is applied for Fools n horses and Minder.
Reg Hollis was a wrong un wasn't he? Roy Galloway= good bloke, heart in the right place Ted Roach =LEGEND.
Also, remembering back to watching The Bill and Juliet Bravo back in my 1980s Orpington upbringing I really thought that glue sniffing was going to be much more of a problematic lifestyle issue than it turned out to eventually be.
Lost my virginity to a girl who was obsessed with Reg Hollis.
What that tells you, I have no idea.
Did she call you Reg?
Was going to put in the post that, no, she didn't!
She used to call him 'my Reggie' and had posters of him.
Tend to look past these quirks when you're a teenager and they are fit, don't you?
"When you're a teenager", who am I kidding? Still wouldn't put me off now.
I had to take a prop to the studio once. It was down in Morden. I almost walked in whilst they were shooting. Interesting chat with the team that have to get the props. He said it’s surprisingly how helpful people are to lend out to film studios. Never watched the program.
I would say it’s closer to South Wimbledon than Morden but probably not much in it. I think you can still see the frontage that was the outside of Sun Hill police station and attached to it is what used to look like an Ambulance bay.
I had to take a prop to the studio once. It was down in Morden. I almost walked in whilst they were shooting. Interesting chat with the team that have to get the props. He said it’s surprisingly how helpful people are to lend out to film studios. Never watched the program.
I would say it’s closer to South Wimbledon than Morden but probably not much in it. I think you can still see the frontage that was the outside of Sun Hill police station and attached to it is what used to look like an Ambulance bay.
Yep, closer to South Wimbledon tube, jubilee business park I think it’s called, it’s presently (or it was 18-months ago) an Asian TV production company or something, used to walk past it for lunch. Interesting building as was clearly constructed to look bigger than it was...
I had to take a prop to the studio once. It was down in Morden. I almost walked in whilst they were shooting. Interesting chat with the team that have to get the props. He said it’s surprisingly how helpful people are to lend out to film studios. Never watched the program.
I would say it’s closer to South Wimbledon than Morden but probably not much in it. I think you can still see the frontage that was the outside of Sun Hill police station and attached to it is what used to look like an Ambulance bay.
Yep, closer to South Wimbledon tube, jubilee business park I think it’s called, it’s presently (or it was 18-months ago) an Asian TV production company or something, used to walk past it for lunch. Interesting building as was clearly constructed to look bigger than it was...
It was taken over by an Iranian tv network, Marjan, which by all accounts is the most watched Persian language network
when my parents divorced in 1979, we had a social worker assigned to me & my brothers, it was Trudy Goodwin’s mother (WPC June Ackland)
And the guy who played the Sergeant (with the big nose: his name escapes me) once came into the liberal club before a game against arsenal and signed a beer mat
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Ii always thought they were Hollis and Ackland.
She used to call him 'my Reggie' and had posters of him.
Tend to look past these quirks when you're a teenager and they are fit, don't you?
"When you're a teenager", who am I kidding? Still wouldn't put me off now.
The Jim Carver on the sauce episodes were quality. The yoot on the Jasmin Allen were running riot.
Correct, Nelson Mandela House is next door to Ashton Gate..
Nelson Mandela House under renovation
I was well pissed off when they binned it.
I never understood why.
Sorry going back to The Bill now.
And the guy who played the Sergeant (with the big nose: his name escapes me) once came into the liberal club before a game against arsenal and signed a beer mat
And DC Jo Masters had a rack on her.
any other estates in The London Borough of Canley covered by Sun Hill ?
Phil Hunter and Micky Webb were particular favourites of mine but Danny Glaze gets a special mention because of the voluminous ‘fro he sported.