Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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From post #13...
"a tiny wood in Islington"
Well it essentially a copse and robbers show.
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Here are a few more pictures (other pictures post 16) from the programme..including the interior you mentioned earlier Tom. Thats the top shot, the second one down is from the seafront at St Margarets near those famous white houses as inhabited by the likes of Ian Fleming etc. Look how they doctored the harbour in the third shot down..warships aplenty there.
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I think, Paul, that the top-shot is in the Theatre bar, early on. I thought it was good of the sailors, pleasure & RN, to be so accommodating too.
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I had to smile about the reference to Hellfire Corner!
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I think the interior shot is the bar of the Duke of Yorks Theatre London
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Hope to catch up with it in the next day or two, I love Poirot
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It looked as though the outside of the Photographers premises was shot in the 'Pantiles' in Royal Tunbridge Wells' or Hampstead, I enjoyed the programme
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For those who cannot wait until the repeat of the programme, or simply want more...
http://player.stv.tv/programmes/agatha-christie-poirot/2011-12-26-2100/Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Just watched it and really enjoyed it. I recognised parts of Islington. Barry W-S I wondered if the shops were the ones in Burton Street Bloomsbury which are often used for period features? I worked across the road from there at one time and would often see trailers and the ol' canteen truck pulling up around the back and the roads being closed off to traffic.
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They have dropped an extraordinary clanger in their selection of warships supposedly illustrating pre war Dover. The one on the Admiralty Pier, over the top of the naval officer's uniform hat, is a brand new Japanese light aircraft carrier. For all their vaunted attention to period authenticity, this is akin to having a line of pre war British motorcars punctuated by a gleaming Toyota Land Cruiser!
The Japanese actually refer to the two ships completed so far as helictopter carrying destroyers. They are about the size of our Invincible class light aircraft carriers which were known as through deck cruisers for years to confuse our dozy MP's. The Japs are building two more much larger ones as shown below, also called destroyers. Theoretically, their constitution forbids them from building aircraft carriers after their shenanigans in WW2.
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Good bit of research there Ed. Now that you point that out, the ship at the harbour entrance does look exceedingly modern...the Toyota Land Cruiser of the open seas! The used to have a heck of a budget in Poirot in the past, but maybe the cutbacks as rumoured will affect quality. In former times say Poirot and Capt Hastings would be driving by a London park..and right across the background you would see people in period dress, nannies wheeling period prams etc etc. all hugely expensive to do but fab at the time. Maybe times are changing..maybe the series is making less money as it has been around for a long time.
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I'm sure you know your stuff Ed. They could have gone here for their ideas...
http://www.world-war.co.uk/index.php3
Or they could have re-coloured some battleship silhouettes?
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As I pointed out a while ago, the 1930's Poirot, when going by train, always seems to travel in a late 50's BR Mk 1 carriage!
Sherlock Holmes by contrast (the definitive ITV series, not this BBC rubbish) uses contemporary trains.
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It's funny to see all the modern English Heritage signs
Plus looking at the superimposed ships, they have no idea of scale as the people are MASSIVE on the breakwater, nearly 1/2 as tall as the lighthouse !!!!!
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