Climb Up the Wall

In the studio, Jack Jackson tells the audience that the show will present musical artists from the past, the present and the future . . . who can ever forget Glen Mason, seen here speaking with Libby Morris in front of the Albert Memorial. Kensington Gardens SW7.

The north-east side. SJ

Glen tells Libby that he arrived in London with his showbiz football team. Brighton railway station on Queens Road in Brighton, Sussex.

Finlays the tobacconist was situated between platforms 6 and 7. Now long gone and replaced by modern electronic ticket barriers. (SD)

The Showbiz XI run onto the pitch for a Sunday game of soccer.

Mike Preston begins to sing 'Try Again', a song written by Glen Mason and released in 1961. A tilt shot starts at the top of the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens.

The cross appears to have rotated. SJ

# Try again, though the one you love does not love you. Sigh again, oh her love is so untrue. The camera finds the base of the Albert Memorial.

Looking west from the east side. SJ

# You fell in love again but they say that love is blind. You could not know, my friend, that the love that you would find was the wrong kind. In front of the Albert Memorial in Kensington SW7.

Now looking north-west. SJ

# So cry again, you will find that time will ease the pain. Then one day, you will find a love that's real. Alongside the Italian Garden in Kensington Gardens.

Some re-arrangement here. SJ

# And you will ask yourself why you were crying, but until that happy day, go on and cry then fly again . . . The Italian Gardens at the northern end of the Long Water between Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park in W2. The location can also be found in 'Follow Me', 'The Astonished Heart', 'Touch and Go', 'Joanna' and 'Two Gentlemen Sharing'.

A nice quiet moment looking south over Long Water. SJ

As the song's instrumental interlude continues, views of the Christmas lights in London are shown. Regent Street W1 with Maddox Street to the right.

Christmas lights appear as nets these days. (PW)

Regent Street with Great Marlborough Street to the left.

Chandeliers or Angels, you decide. (PW)

Looking into the eyes of a Young Lady, Mike Preston picks up his song # So cry again, you will find that time will ease the pain. Then one day, you will find a love that's real . . . Regent Street with Conduit Street in the background.

Taken from the same doorway. (PW)

Mike's refrain continues. Facing south on Regent Street W1, from the junction with Conduit Street.

Looking south from a similar position 63 years later. (PW)

The song ends with Mike and the Girl standing together in Trafalgar Square WC2.

Approaching dusk. SJ

To show his son Malcolm a "real" personality, a switch is flicked and the Coliseum appears on his computer screen. The neon sign reads Coliseum so this must be St, Martin's Lane in WC2.

A clearer view. (PW)

The camera pans right to find Antonio's name in lights. The Coliseum theatre on St. Martin's Lane.

The same frontage. (PW)

Malcolm and Jack Jackson leave the house to go into town and get "with it" at the hot spots. This appears to be the back garden of Woodland Hose at 11 Melbury Road W14.

The pair climb into a Bentley S2 Continental. Facing northward along Ilchester Place in W14 towards the gates of Holland Park.

Not at all far from Winner's house. SJ

Emerging from the opposite door in tuxedos, Malcolm and Jack are getting nowhere a discovering that the car is out of petrol. As identified on IMDb, this is Ilchester Place in Kensington, other parts of which appear in 'The Crowded Day', 'Naked', 'The Big Sleep', 'Albert Carter Q.O.S.O.' and 'The Door in the Wall'.

The garage on the left looks rebuilt but it's in the same place. SJ

After checking the map and watching a few more acts, the two arrive at a restaurant where they intend to eat and skip paying the bill like the "cool cats" they are. Dave W has found the actual location as 'Society Restaurant and Bar', 40 Jermyn Street, London SW1, now the home of "Tramp". (RL)

During a gap in the rain, Neil Kenny took this view but, alas, the newer door prevented him from checking whether the damask wallpaper inside had survived the decades.