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The below photos are still from the Ealing Comedy The Man in The White Suit released in 1951

Think the location has been identified as Ashfields Rd where the old Homebase was .. sure there was a thread on here about it awhile back

Can anyone confirm this or have family memories of the filming .. think a lot of the film including a lot of exterior shots were done in London ( Battersea etc) so doubt many actors came up ( tho that is Alec Guinness in the second still ) or the filming took that long !!

Here you go

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The Birnley mills

My mother never rated Alec Guinness as an actor.

Same year as The Lavender Hill Mob I believe.

Opens with a shot from the corner of Albion St and Every St. with hearse if memory serves me right.

Remember the houses on Ashfield road and up to the Barracks.very early sixties. F...ing grim up north it really was.

My mum was one of the little kids playing in the above picture. She also was filmed opening the door for Alex Guinness but it was cut out of the final film

Sackville wrote:My mum was one of the little kids playing in the above picture. She also was filmed opening the door for Alex Guinness but it was cut out of the final film

Were you told owt else about the filming etc .. I'm a bit of a "nerd "when it comes to film / tv locations , used to track down the minder locations when I was in London .. there's a site devoted to it .. but like reelstreets

Be fascinated if you know anything else re the film . I'm a big fan of old British films

Anyone else got any favourite old Brit movies ?

Sadly my mum has dementia now so finding out any more details will be difficult. She told me they was playing when a film crew asked them to keep on playing while they filmed them

Those were day days when everyone played in the streets

Thought this was a thread to the great Randall & Hopkirk.

this really surprised me, a mate once told me it was all filmed around Bolton, I had no proof otherwise although i mentioned Burnley.
coincidentally i drove around there yesterday, still looks the same in parts.

Caernarfon_Claret wrote:My mother never rated Alec Guinness as an actor.

Same year as The Lavender Hill Mob I believe.

Getting into the spirit of your reply, my mum didnt rate the chippy on Cog Lane but swore by the Harold Avenue one in the sixties.

Siddo wrote:Getting into the spirit of your reply, my mum didnt rate the chippy on Cog Lane but swore by the Harold Avenue one in the sixties.

Some mothers do have no taste.

Nice clean windows and donkey stoned step

There are a couple of good Facebook groups on old Burnley photos

Burnley now and then and Pendleside now and then

Here's a Burnley clip from the film.

The shot is taken at the intersection of Piccadilly Rd and Albion St. looking down Albion St towards Trafalgar St.

I was a newspaper boy and used to deliver papers around this area.

Happy Days!

That's the shot I was referring to - don't know why I thought it was hearse.