Twice Round the Daffodils

Date: 1962
Director: Gerald Thomas
Production Company: GWH

Stars: Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams
Location(s): Buckinghamshire

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Storyline:

Patients aspire to walk twice round the daffodils at the sanatorium where they recuperate from TB.

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Screen captures uploaded by Phil Wilkinson

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  • Capture 1
  • 06 May 2017

A train pulls into a small station. Seer Green & Jordans railway station near Seer Green in Buckinghamshire. An almost identical shot was used in 'The Man in the Road' and the station also features in 'Mad About Men', 'Echo of Barbara' and ‘The Belles of St. Trinian’s’.

Taken from the footbridge. PW

  • Capture 2
  • 06 May 2017

Ian Richards (Donald Sinden) is one of the first to alight at the remote station. Facing south-east on the northbound platform at Seer Green & Jordans station.

A similar view. PW

  • Capture 3
  • 06 May 2017

George Logg (Lance Percival) follows the RAF Officer from the platform. The down platform exit from Seer Green & Jordans station in Buckinghamshire.

The gateway leads to Beaconsfield Golf Club. PW

  • Capture 4
  • 12 Jul 2022

An angry John Rhodes (Donald Houston) joins Chris Walker (Andrew Ray) and the others in the back of a minibus. Through the open rear door stands the booking office of Seer Green & Jordans railway station.

Alterations have taken place since filming. PW

  • Capture 5
  • 06 May 2017

The men are driven to Lenton Sanatorium, a secluded retreat for the treatment of Tuberculosis. The approach road of Seer Green & Jordans station facing towards Farm Lane in Seer Green, Buckinghamshire.

More trees shade the roadway these days. PW

  • Capture 6
  • 16 Nov 2020

A Nurse comes out to meet the minibus as it arrives at the sanatorium. Heatherden Hall in Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. The location has been used in many productions including 'Nothing But The Night', 'Crackerjack', 'Young and Innocent', 'The Square Peg' and 'Carry On Nurse'.

Slightly off-angle from RJ

  • Capture 7
  • 'Now' required

John watches as a patient is accompanied by a nurse around an empty flower bed. The grounds of Heatherden Hall at Pinewood Studios.

  • Capture 8
  • 16 Nov 2020

Months pass and daffodils begin to flower in the spring. This aspect of Heatherden Hall was seen in 'When Eight Bells Toll', 'Go for a Take', 'Innocent Bystanders', 'The Amazing Mr. Blunden', 'The Million Pound Note', 'From Russia with Love' and 'The Early Bird'.

Possibly some daffodils behind RJ

  • Capture 9
  • 16 Nov 2020

Nurse Catty (Juliet Mills) helps Bob White (Ronald Lewis) towards the bed of daffodils. More of the rear of Heatherden Hall at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath.

On the south side. RJ

  • Capture 10
  • 16 Nov 2020

Released at last from the long treatment, Henry Halfpenny (Kenneth Williams) says farewell to Nurses Catty and Dorothy (Amanda Reiss) and his fellow patients. Heatherden Hall at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.

Slightly skew-whiff. RJ