Chance of a Lifetime
Date: 1950
Director: Bernard Miles
Production Company: Pilgrim Pictures
Stars: Bernard Miles, Basil Radford, Kenneth More, Geoffrey Keen, Hattie Jacques
Location(s): Gloucestershire, London
Region(s): London C-D, South West
Storyline:
Run down engineering works with labour disputes, all come together with the invention of a new plough and also a management shake-up. JT
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The works...the old Marling and Evans factory in Kings Stanley just outside of Stroud, Gloucestershire, remembered by Tracy Brown's father. (SJ)
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"The man on the bike is my grandfather, Henry James Pellatt: there's also a scene he rides in on a motorbike." Tracy Brown (SJ)
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- 18 Feb 2019
A street. And after ten years, solved ...
... by Gail Campbell, who reminisces, "A Victorian row of cottages (1889) on Cotswold Way, Ryeford, close to Stroud in Gloucestershire. They are next to the canal (Stroudwater, btw Thames & Severn and Gloucester Ship canal - currently being restored). There was a mill there as the River Frome runs right by the canal. The terraced cottages were for the workers. The reason I recognised the location are because we nearly bought the end cottage (no.2), the nearest." Gail hopes to replace her Google shot soon. (SJ)
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Easily identifiable market town, if you know where it is! Imdb says Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
Silver Street, Tetbury. Pics by by that dogged "gumshoe", Russell Groves, thanks Russell.
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- 09 Mar 2011
The building to the left of the road used to be a small hotel called The Talbot. It was converted to flats sometime during the early 1980s. Maurice Ricketts.
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- 16 Jun 2009
In and around Long Street, Tetbury. All proved by Russell Groves. Well done Russell, Thank you.
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- 28 Feb 2019
A London station, which just might give a clue as to where our hero has come from. Imdb says Waterloo, which doesn't serve Tetbury.
Dave W provides this confirmatory shot that it is Waterloo Station with the plane of the V struts and the angles of the roof window frames. (RL)
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- 23 Jul 2013
London, the Mansion House on the left, Poultry on the right and Queen Victoria street on the left.
Mappen & Webb having been replaced by the Palumbo Building, which is home to a Wetherspoons Pub. Image by Peter.
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- 14 Feb 2014
City of London.
No 71 Lombard Street, now a restaurant and Oyster Bar. (RL)
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The works, again.
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Someone else's works.
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- 16 Jun 2009
The market town again, hopefully Tetbury.
In and around Long Street, Tetbury. All proved by Russell Groves. Well done Russell, Thank you.
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