Groupie Girl

Teenage Girls hang around as they wait for a Rock Band to appear. Facing 60 to 76 Lauderdale Mansions on Lauderdale Road in W9 identified by @VerlagMeyer.

This is 60-76 Lauderdale Mansions. However the tree, though the same shape, looks in the wrong place. I would submit it should be the entrance to nos. 42-58 and so this may require a revisit. SJ

Following the Band when they emerge from the building, the Girls cling on to their heroes arms as they walk. Lauderdale Road in Maida Vale.

Looking east along Lauderdale Road. SJ

The Band make their way to where their van is parked. @VerlagMeyer followed the action to the corner of Lauderdale Road and Biddulph Road.

The corner with a thicker tree trunk. SJ

At a corner the Band climb into their Ford Transit on which the names of the cast and crew are painted. Looking into Biddulph Road from the junction with Lauderdale Road.

Looking north-west up Biddulph Road. SJ

The Groupies push the van to get it started. Facing the corner of Lauderdale Road and Biddulph Road located by @VerlagMeyer

No van today. SJ

As the van pulls away, the camera pans, leaving the Groupies behind. Biddulph Road in Maida Vale W9.

The brickwork on the left belongs to 118-138 Lauderdale Road. SJ

The Band's van heads along Elgin Avenue, past the junction with Randolph Avenue. recognised by @VerlagMeyer

Looking east to the corner with Randolph Avenue with the red awning fitting nicely but that's a puzzling block, a matte I assume, to the far east. SJ

Elgin Avenue with Ashworth Mansions to the left, from where the spire of St. Marks church is visible in the right of centre distance.

I'm not sure even a winter shot would capture a spire. SJ

Sutherland Avenue in Maida Vale identified by @VerlagMeyer.

Looking south-west down Sutherland Avenue. SJ

A Groupie kneels on the roadway as the Transit passes. At the roundabout where Sutherland Avenue meets Lauderdale Road and Warrington Crescent.

Panning right. The roundabout is no longer plain grass but thickly cultivated and so restricts the angles. SJ

@VerlagMeyer advises that the van is passing the turn for Lauderdale Road.

This approach to Lauderdale Road is now one way. SJ

The roundabout at the junction of Sutherland Avenue, Lauderdale Road and Warrington Crescent.

No. 1 Lauderdale Road. SJ

"Groupie Girl, It Doesn’t Matter What You Do" sung by Virgin Stigma continues as does the journey . . . and the titles.

Traffic was too busy for a shot in the middle of the road. SJ

Sutherland Avenue W9, facing the corner of Lanark Road.

Looking south-west. SJ

The Blue Star garage at the corner of Sutherland Avenue and Lanark Road identified by @VerlagMeyer.

That may just be the same tree on the left. SJ

Facing the Blue Star garage on Sutherland Avenue, since rebuilt and currently an Esso petrol station.

Panning right a little from the previous shot. SJ

The junction of Sutherland Avenue and Maida Vale with Athol House in the background located by @VerlagMeyer.

I expect the postbox is behind the van in the original. SJ

After a pause at a red traffic light, the van turns onto the main road. Ray Glenister finds us in Elgin Avenue W9, with Morshead Road on the right, virtually out of shot. The red call box stands outside the Girls School. (RL)

Finding the K2 telephone kiosk still in place, Richard Bennett explains that the angle differs slightly to avoid identifying features being hidden behind a tree.

Pulling the focus, the camera follows the van as it approaches. Following on from the previous capture and just a short way away, Ray places this as at Elgin Mansions on Elgin Avenue W9 (RL)

Richard Bennett visited Elgin Mansions.

The title sequence ends as the Transit climbs the ramp of the Marylebone Flyover in NW1 and onto the Westway. The location was found by @VerlagMeyer and in the background from left to right stand Griffith House, the roof of Edgware Road Metropolitan, District and Circle Lines station and buildings on Chapel Street.

As the Band Members load their van after a gig, Sally hides in the back when they return to the venue to collect more equipment.

Becoming lost as they drive through the night, the Band pull into a lay-by before discovering Sally.

Stopping at a transport café, Sally is left alone in the Transit with Rob.

Scenes of the Band and Sally larking about in the street are shown as the accompanying soundtrack plays "Yesterday's Hero" by English Rose. Facing north-eastward on Chandos Place WC2 towards Maiden Lane, beyond the junction of Bedford Street, with Tower House on Southampton Street in the distance.

Without the depth of focus. PW

The five run along a damp Chandos Place, recognised by @VerlagMeyer as looking towards the corner of Bedfordbury with offices on William IV Street in the left distance.

Delivery time, the street hosting a procession of vans. PW

Moving towards the river, the action continues on Hungerford Bridge, located by @VerlagMeyer.

I had to make a return trip here to include the tower of the National Liberal Club at 1 Whitehall Place in the background. SJ

The camera follows the Band across Hungerford Bridge running alongside the railway into Charing Cross station . . .

New bridge, new stairs. SJ

. . . down the since replaced steps is the riverside entrance to Charing Cross underground station on Victoria Embankment SW1. Identified by @VerlagMeyer, the station was renamed Charing Cross Embankment in 1974 and Embankment in 1976.

A different generation of clutter. SJ

The steps below Cleopatra's Needle on Victoria Embankment with the Adelphi in the background.

No background visible in summer. SJ

The song comes to an end as the five pose sitting on the northernmost Sphinx beneath Cleopatra's Needle opposite Victoria Embankment Gardens. @VerlagMeyer recognised spot along with the Savoy Hotel in the background.

This is the eastern sphinx which guards Cleopatra's Needle. A replacement as the trees in my August shot completely obscured the background as well as being compromised by a high tide. SJ

On the road again, the Band head to the next venue where Sally confronts a Blonde Girl who enters the dressing room.

Discarded by Rob in favour of the younger Blonde, Sally joins the Girlfriends and Groupies who follow another Band. London Road at the Crooked Billet Roundabout in Staines, Surrey

Crooked Billet Roundabout in Staines with properties on London Road to the right.

The van turns onto the A30 Staines By-Pass. In the left background can be seen the outlet valve tower of the King George VI Reservoir.

Nick Boorman discovered that the roundabout has been reconfigured and trees now obscure the tower on the reservoir in the distance.

"Gigging Song" by Opal Butterfly continues to play as the van indicates left for the Band to take a break. @VerlagMeyer identifies Crystal Palace Parade in SE19.

A different season. SJ

The Crystal Palace Service Station is open A 2 T on Crystal Palace Parade.

It has been rebuilt with double pumps and moving the office to the north end. SJ

Walking from the toilet, Steve Martin (Donald Sumpter) and other members of the Band return to their Transit. Crystal Palace Service Station in Crystal Palace with Princess Court on College Road to the left.

Pirncesss Court is lurking there behind the growth. SJ

Half undressed, Ray (Bobby Parr) runs after the van after a prank is pulled on him by the Girls. Crystal Palace Service Station on Crystal Palace Parade SE19 identified by @VerlagMeyer

The view towards the north on a pleasant autumnal day. SJ

Steve holds Sally as the journey continues. Looking north-west along the A308 Staines By-Pass in Staines with houses on Shortwood Common London Road to the right.

When Sally is "handed over" to Sweaty Betty, Wesley (Billy Boyle) takes care of her. Harefield Grove, Rickmansworth Road in Harefield, Hillingdon, Uxbridge UB9, which can also be seen in 'Symptoms', 'Bread', 'Philomena' and 1974's 'Dracula'.

After being propositioned by Sweaty Betty's sleazy manager Morrie, Sally decides that it's time to move on. Harefield House in Harefield.