Cathy Come Home

Disillusioned with small town life, Cathy hitches a lift to London.

The lorry passes through the outskirts of the capital. Bill Rice identifies this as Brent Cross Flyover on the A41 in NW11 as it crosses the North Circular Road with the railway bridge carrying the Northern Line to the top.

Cathy arrives in London where she meets Reg, a cheery, optimistic fellow with a decent job. Camden High Street NW1.

70/81 Camden High Street, pity about all the signs now. (RL)

A disused theatre is passed. The Bedford Theatre on Camden High Street, London NW1. Also seen in 'A Little of What You Fancy', a tour of the inside of the Theatre prior to demolition features in 'The London Nobody Knows' presented by James Mason.

Denis Hoare took this shot of the re-built site to replace the Google Earth View that has outstood since 2014. (RL)

Cathy (Carol White) and Reg Ward (Ray Brooks) talk about films as the two get to know each other.

Reg takes Cathy to work with him and leads the way up stairs on a construction site. Dave W finds that Reg is looking across the construction site to the terrace of houses in Royal College Street, London NW1 circa either side of No 101. (RL)

The couple take in the scenery. The scenery Dave says, takes in, in the background the church tower which is missing any meaningful spire, of St Luke's, Caversham Rd NW1. In the foreground the former Constitution public house on St Pancras Way NW1. (RL)

The camera pans across the cityscape. Here Dave points out is the shallow pitched apex roof at 8 Stratford Villas, London NW1 (RL)

A high rise block comes into view. The 'high rise block' Dave names as 'Lulworth Tower' of the Agar Grove Estate dominating the image behind the North London Line as it was called in "them days". 'Back in the the day', is the new way of saying it Dave. (RL)

After getting married Cathy and Reg set up home. A gas holder dominates the horizon through the window of their new flat. The gas holder was the vital clue for Dave W, looking across Fulham Road to the former Rising Sun public house on the corner of Holmead Road. (RL)

Cathy and Reg talk in their double glazed, centrally heated home. So now says Dave, "The view across Fulham Road to 7 Moore Park Road." (RL)

Through the branches, the sun is reflected on the exterior of the block. As Dave remarks, "A modern-day craning of the neck to the top floor of 402 Fulham Road would still afford a view obscured by those trees." (RL)

When Cathy falls pregnant, the couple look in the older part of town for a cheaper place to live.

As tensions rise inside after the pair move in, children play in the courtyard outside Reg's parent's tenement flat.

Cathy walks through the streets after the growing family relocate to a run down part of town. The story moves to Birmingham and this is Prescott Street in Hockley as identified by Nick Phillips. The line of Prescott Street is now followed by Knightstone Avenue and Capstone Avenue.

The same location found and captured with assistance from Nick. (PW)

The couple fall into rent arrears after Reg loses his job. Nick Phillips advises that this is looking towards the Crumlin Works on Prescott Street in Birmingham, Warwickshire with Rosalie Street to the left.

As can be seen, the area has been redeveloped. With thanks to Nick. (PW)

The family make their way across wasteland after being served with an eviction order.

Publicity Still - the tower in the left background is of Camden Street School and this appears to be Coralie Street looking towards New Spring Street in Birmingham.

The street in the background is Prescott Street, Birmingham B18, as identified by a road sign seen in an earlier frame, and Nick Phillips confirms that this is Coralie Street, with his father's car just visible on the right.

The site of Coralie Street now. Location found by Nick Phillips. (PW)

Cathy and the children are given temporary accommodation in an institution. Angela Macleod played Cathy's baby and advises that this is Newington Institution on Westmoreland Road SE17.

Reg leaves after saying goodbye to his family. Angela Macleod confirms that this is this Newington Institution on Westmoreland Road. The building was demolished in 1969 and the road was redeveloped as Beaconsfield Road.

After three months, Cathy and the children have to leave the institution. This is the Davenant Foundation building on Whitechapel Road E1 identified by Nicholas Bennett who adds "At the time of filming this was part of the ILEA East London College where I was a student".

Homeless again, Cathy walks the streets looking for a room.

Cathy comforts her children at Liverpool Street station before they are taken from her by social services. The location is currently unconfirmed.