marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I used to work for PCHA, a Housing Association in that area , they had an office on Harrow Road, right be the canal, that office used to be a cinema, and it was the cinema where they killed the copper
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I used to work for PCHA, a Housing Association in that area , they had an office on Harrow Road, right be the canal, that office used to be a cinema, and it was the cinema where they killed the copper
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a few locations / things that may not have been obvious what was going on
0:22 ish - Fords works, Dagenham
1:40 ish - New Cross and Deptford. Looks like this was filmed round 'last tram week' in July 1952
2:25 - Woolwich. Trams changed between overhead wire and underground 'conduit' for power supply there and various other places.
followed by Woolwich Ferry
3:15 - North Woolwich and bridges over entrance to King George V / Royal Albert Dock. Route 101 was the most frequent bus route in London at that time, with buses up to every minute to handle the peak hours. The inspector is giving the bus crew 'a turn' - as in telling them to turn short of where the bus was scheduled to go to, so it can get back on time after the delay. Inspectors had to sign the bus log card when they did that.
5:38 - Cannon Street Station, there wasn't much glass left in the roof after the war, and it was later demolished and started again rather than repaired.
various - bus route 136 was at that time a fiction, used only for filming purposes.
11:00 - there were time clocks at some points / bus terminus points, and the conductor had to clock the bus in or out
13:30 - Stockwell bus garage, then fairly new
Puddy_Tat
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the 'scenes of london' film is a collection of bits not used for other british transport films, so could be scenes that were shot for, but not used, in the other film.
not sure if the woman conductor on the '136' would have been a real LT conductor or possibly an actor for a film like that. the driver may well have been slightly more senior, maybe a driving instructor. (a London Transport driving instructor doubled for cliff richard in some scenes in 'summer holiday' that involved actually driving the bus)
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