Posted by Owen Roberts on January 26, 2014 at 12:15:53 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Re: Innocence/nostalgia on film posted by Peter Ceresole on January 26, 2014 at 01:24:10:
Ah Clapham Common!
Home to many prefabs (concrete bungalows to replace bombed housing) as well as the underground shelters.
The main interest of these vintage children’s films is the background against which they were shot.
Even the "Boy who turned yellow" shows the late lamented 1938 tube stock. The station is not Chalk Farm (the tiling is wrong) but the again defunct Aldwych branch platform at Holborn Station.
Good memories of playing in bomb sites – one was always searching for metal or even bone fragments as well as the many games of “Hide and Seek” or “Cowboys and Indians”. Riding on the tube all day for 3 old pence.
Perhaps as this was a world away from S&A is a reason why the locations of the latter were so attractive.