Loving Memory

Date: 1971
Director: Tony Scott
Production Company: Scott Free Enterprises, British Film Institute (BFI), Memorial Enterprises

Stars: Rosamund Greenwood, Roy Evans, David Pugh
Location(s): Yorkshire

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After accidentally knocking down and killing a cyclist, an elderly brother and sister take his body home with them.

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Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson

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Placing the eggs that he's been given in his bag, Herbert Speke (David Pugh) pushes his bike from the gate after saying goodbye to Mrs. Swales.

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The Young Man rides away from the farmhouse.

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Birds sing and cattle low as Herbert approaches a road junction. Eller Bridge at Chop Gate in the North Riding of Yorkshire found by Steve Randall.

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Herbert appears over the brow of a hill.

The bike is allowed to freewheel down towards the coast. Saltburn Bank in Saltburn by the Sea, Yorkshire with the Pier in the background.

Taken from opposite the old Halfpenny Bridge Toll Keeper's cottage by Neil Webster.

A car drives through the coastal town. Looking towards Marine Parade in Saltburn by the Sea.

Admitting that this is not the correct angle, Neil Webster thinks this scene may have been shot from Hunt Cliff using a zoom lens.

Gulls cry as the shot pans with the Austin 10. Facing the Alexandra Hotel on Marine Parade.

Neil Webster replicates much he same view.

A corner is taken. Saltburn Road in Saltburn by the Sea with the Pier entrance building in the right background.

On the same section of road, Neil Webster was glad to see vehicles driving on the left now!

The car passes beneath a high bridge as Herbert cycles above. Valley Bridge crossing Skelton Beck at Saltburn by the Sea. Built in 1869, the toll bridge was demolished by explosives in December 1974.

The Halfpenny Bridge-less valley captured by Neil Webster who adds that a "ha'penny" was the toll for pedestrians.

After the Austin collides with Herbert, knocking him from his bike and killing him, a Motorcyclist approaches the scene of the accident. Saltburn Road with the bridge over Skelton Beck to the centre. Severe storms in the early 1970s left the seaward end of the Pier in a dangerous state with the pier-head being lost in October 1974.

Neil Webster found the now truncated pier.

Before the Motorcyclist reaches them, Ambrose (Roy Evans) and his Sister (Rosamund Greenwood) pick up Mr. Speke's body, placing him in their car. Saltburn Bank, Saltburn by the Sea.

No accident for Neil Webster when he visited.

The Motorcyclist rides past the pair and, apart from broken eggs on the road, notices little to concern him. Saltburn Bank in Saltburn by the Sea, Yorkshire.

Neil Webster explains that a pumping station and car park now occupy the land at the foot of Saltburn Bank.

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Having taken Herbert's corpse home with them, Ambrose returns to the mine where he works while his Sister sits with the body in their attic.

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Ambrose pushes a wagon back towards the mineshaft.

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As a Wickham Rail Trolley comes into view, the elderly Woman washes Herbert's face as she talks to him. Looking down on Kidstye Farm, next to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway to the north of Levisham in Yorkshire with Newtondale signal box to the right of centre.

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In the garden of the remote house, Ambrose builds a box out of wood from an old railway carriage. The grounds of Kidstye Farm in Newton Dale.

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Gathering explosives, Ambrose wheels a barrow around the workings. # Some day when I'm awfully low, When the world is cold, I will feel a glow, just thinking of you, And the way you look tonight.

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Placing Herbert's body in the makeshift coffin, Ambrose wheels it into the woods behind the house. Kidstye Farm seen from the hill below Huggitt's Scar and Talbot Wood in Newton Dale. Yorkshire.