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Bulls Bridge on the Grand Union canal at Southall, Middlesex. The area has been redeveloped.

This comparison is taken from Antony Blair's boat and shows the view looking east approaching Bulls Bridge. The quayside is now given over to residential properties and the only only original building still in use is the boat wet dock which is the low building with skylights.

Bulls Bridge, Southall, since 1965 part of Greater London. The area also appears in 'Painted Boats', 'The Criminal' and 'The Grand Junction Case'.

Antony Blair took this off angle but the white double deck boat is in the same position as Hemel's boat as he turns right towards Brentford.

Hemel Pike (Harry H. Corbett) at Brentford Dock,, Middlesex.

The location now captured by Antony Blair.

Hanwell Locks on the Grand Union Canal near Southall, Middlesex.

Antony Blair provides this comparison.

Hemel and Ronnie (Ronnie Barker) at Three Bridges near Southall. The name arises due to the road bridge visible in the centre background passing over the canal which in turn passes over a railway line. Known as Windmill Lane Bridge to rail staff, the location still carries all three modes of transport.

Taken from the safety of the tow path by Antony Blair.

Hanwell Lock just west of Three Bridges on the Grand Union Canal.

Antony Blair provides this image taken without the aid of a crane.

Ronnie operates the lock at Hanwell.

The same lock, captured by Antony Blair.

The boats approach Cowley Peachey Junction having just passed under the now disappeared railway bridge that carried the line between West Drayton and Uxbridge.

Antony moved along the canal to grab this comparison.

Cowley Peachey Junction. The route heading to top left is for Slough with the Main Line running to the right.

Taken from the safety of the towpath by Antony Blair.

Cassiobury Park Bottom Lock west of Watford in Hertfordshire.

Antony Blair replaces Clive's Google view showing that almost no change has occured.

The Boat Horse at Black Jack's Lock along Jacks Lane near Harefield.

The same location now. The building is in use as a guest house called Black Jack's Mill. (PW)

Hemel about to enter The Boat Horse pub at Black Jack's Lock

No canal side customers or parasols here now. (PW)

Hemel and Ronnie run from Nellie Marsh near Black Jack's Lock. The distant bridge over the canal also features in 'Anoop and the Elephant'.

The same location on a rainy day in March, with a very muddy towpath to negotiate. (PW)

At the suggestion of Antony Blair, this is an additional capture of the scene where, after unloading, Hemel receives his receipt from Mr Parkes (Eric Barker), the Foreman of a yard in Hemel Hempstead. This is the Grand Union Canal with the A414 Two Waters Way carried across the water by the bridge in the right background. Richard Milsted advises that the barges are moored alongside what is now a B&Q store car park but before the 1970s the site was a "Roses Lime" factory.

Antony provides this shot of the road bridge from where the yard and quay once lay.

Ronnie nears Winkwell Swing Bridge. The location is Bourne End, Hertfordshire, and the public house in the right background is The Three Horseshoes which also features in 'Wings of Mystery'.

The Three Horseshoes and Winkwell swing bridge. The screen shot was taken at a point now occupied by fenced in private moorings and Lionel Seer's (LS) picture was taken from across the canal.

Cynthia (Jo Rowbottom) waves at Hemel near Winkwell Swing Bridge, Bourne End

Looking west towards the swing bridge which is across the canal in this picture. The original still was taken from a point at a level with the upstairs window. (LS)

Cynthia runs along Pouchen End Lane towards Winkwell Swing Bridge. The public house on the extreme left is The Three Horseshoes.

Looking east from outside the Three Horseshoes towards Pouchen End, the mark where the blacksmith's forge once joined on to the cottages can be clearly seen. (LS)

Ronnie steers the boats through Apsley. Richard Milsted explains that building to the left is the rear of "DRG Stationary" and he remembers fishing along this section of the canal in the late 70s and early 80s when you could still just making out the green and black camouflage paint on the building that had been there since World War II.

The same location. Note the building behind the bridge in both images. (PW)

Approaching The Three Locks public house below Leighton Road at Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire. Hissing Sid confirms that the pub is still known as The Three Locks.

Lionel Sear took this now shot from the road bridge looking down onto the lock flight. The Three Locks at Soulbury.

Ronnie outside The Three Locks pub.

Looking across the top gates of the second lock down. The same location now by Lionel Sear.

Leg O'Mutton Lock with Joe Turnbull (Hugh Griffith) crossing to the lock keepers cottage. In reality the location is Marsworth Top Lock at Bulborne Junction on the Grand Union Canal near Tring in Hertfordshire.

The Toll House immediately to the east of Marsworth Top Lock. (LS)

Joe, Hemel and Ronnie at Leg O'Mutton Lock.

Marsworth Top Lock. The building is a dry dock. (LS)

Joe leaves a canalside pub after a long session. An elusive found by Lionel who writes "After walking the canal at some logical points and plenty of internet work, I have made comparisons with a 1900 photo and discovered the 'White Lion' at Startops End, by the bottom of the Marsworth flight"

Lionel provides this picture of the pub which is currently closed and up for sale. The door with the glass panes of many colours is now gone. Replacement for previous Google image.

The doctor drives away from Leg O'Mutton Lock. The bridge carries the road over the Wendover arm of the Grand Union Canal.

The entrance to the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal immediately south of Marsworth Top Lock. A restoration project, the arm is navigable for some one and a half miles. (LS)

The Grand Union canal is emptied. Marsworth Top Lock.

The lock pound below Marsworth Top Lock. (LS)

The end titles appear over a view of Wolverton Aqueduct, just north of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. Location identified by Mike Askin who points us to his site at http://www.mykaskin.eclipse.co.uk/film_locations/index.html

Nicholas Freemantle appears in his comparison shot of the aqueduct.