Come Back Peter
Date: 1952
Director: Charles Saunders
Production Company: Charles Reynolds Productions
Stars: Patrick Holt, Peter Hammond, Humphrey Lestocq
Location(s): Middlesex, Surrey
Region(s): South East A-D
Storyline:
Pandemonium is created in a couple’s new home when their four offspring turn up looking for accommodation complete with spouses, children, friends and one large dog.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
- 19 Dec 2023
The film opens with a view of the sign outside Cubitt & West estate agents. Behind the sign on London Road in Dorking, Surrey stand Fernlea and Sunnyside with York Cottage to the right.
Mark Alford took an unobstructed shot of the background properties.
- Capture 2
- 19 Dec 2023
The camera pans right along the street. Ashcombe on London Road.
A closer view from Mark Alford.
- Capture 3
- 19 Dec 2023
This is the junction of London Road, Station Approach, Lincoln Road and Croft Avenue in Dorking with Dorking North station in the left distance and the Star and Garter Hotel to the right.
The hotel building survives in Mark Alford's comparison.
- Capture 4
- 19 Dec 2023
Intending to move into a smaller property, Mr. and Mrs. Hapgood arrive outside the estate agents. The corner of Croft Avenue and London Road with Dorking North Goods Yard to the top.
The junction now by Mark Alford.
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William (Charles Lamb) and Mary Hapgood (Kathleen Boutall) return to their rented home on Mapleton Avenue after viewing Mrs. Varley's house.
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As they reach the gate, Mary sees their daughter in law approaching.
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Dandy (Doris Groves) arrives with the news that she and her husband Ted have to leave their flat.
- Capture 8
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The retired couple move into their Dorking home . . . along with their son Ted and his wife Dandy . . . and the baby . . . and their huge dog.
- Capture 9
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As Billy and Mary leave the house to set off for the airport to meet their daughter Myra, their son Arthur (Humphrey Lestocq) and his new acquaintance Charlie Bates (Tony Doonan) arrive to stay . . . and Billy has to pay the Cabbie.
- Capture 10
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At the airport, Billy and Mary spot Myra and their son in law George when they leaves the passenger exit. This is North Way at London Airport.
- Capture 11
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George (Peter Hammond) and Myra Harris (Pamela Bygrave) clutch each other after they see her parents. The Passenger Exit at London Airport on North Way off Bath Road, Sipson Green in Middlesex. The building can also be seen in 'The Limping Man' as well as 'Home to Danger'.
- Capture 12
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The four walk back to the car. Facing west on North Way at London Airport. The area is now occupied by a grassed are to the north of the Customs House on Nettleton Road.
- Capture 13
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North Way at London Airport. The airport was renamed to Heathrow in 1966.
- Capture 14
- 28 Feb 2025
George tells his mother and father in law that he's given up his job in South Africa. North Way at London Airport with the garage at the corner of Sipson Road and Bath Road in the left of centre distance and beyond Northern Perimeter Road.
This is the best shot Mark Alford could take get as this in now a very busy main road with nowhere to stop!
- Capture 15
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After getting into the car, Myra explains to Billy and Mary that they will need to stay at their house for a while. North Way at London Airport with the long demolished Red House to the top left next to other properties on Bath Road.
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Ted Hapgood (John Singer) kisses Myra before it's revealed that their sister Phyllis has turned up after leaving her husband John.
- Capture 17
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Charlie and George struggle with the garden hose after a fire breaks out in the kitchen of the overcrowded house.
- Capture 18
- 19 Dec 2023
Billy Hapgood returns to the estate agents. The building stands at the corner of London Road and Croft Avenue in Dorking, Surrey but no longer exists due to road widening.
Mark Alford captures the scene now . . . which shows quite a disgraceful change.
- Capture 19
- 19 Dec 2023
Inside the office, Billy speaks with the Salesman about a flat for Ted and Dandy. Looking south along London Road in Dorking with the distant railway bridge carrying the line between Dorking Deepdene and Dorking West.
Mark Alford takes the best angle.
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Billy bumps into Mary outside Mrs. Harris's house.
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Mary urges Billy to take her home.
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Myra and Phyllis Hapgood (Dorothy Primrose) arrive after John Neilson punches Charlie.
- Capture 23
- 19 Dec 2023
Discovering that her father is visiting his Bank Manager to sacrifice part of his pension, Myra races after him. High Street, Dorking with the White Horse Hotel to the top left.
Mark Alford's comparison shows that pavement levels have changed.
- Capture 24
- 19 Dec 2023
Myra enters the bank to stop her father. The bank stands, and still does, at the corner of High Street and Lyons Court in Dorking, Surrey.
The building appears neglected in Mark Alford's shot.
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As Phyllis chases after he husband John, George waves Arthur off when he leaves by cab.
- Capture 26
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Billy and Mary Hapgood wave as the last of their children drive away.