Young Ones, The

The story opens on a Friday afternoon at the top of a high rise block under construction in London. In the distance, the Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament can be made out beyond Regent Street W1 curving up the centre of the frame while Conduit Street crosses the bottom left.

Accompanied by the sound of Builders at work, the shot pans left bringing more of the early 60s skyline into view. The view from what was to open in the Autumn of 1963 as the London College of Fashion on John Prince's Street W1.

Bells begin to chime five o'clock before a klaxon sounds. The Senate House stands on Malet Street WC1 in the right distance.

The pan ends as the camera finds Chris (Teddy Green) who starts to sing about that evening's dance at Simpkin's Youth Club.

Workers stop what they are doing and make their way from the top of the incomplete offices. The London College of Fashion under construction by by Taylor Woodrow Ltd.

The finished building 64 years on. PW

Chris heads down the high-rise building. To the bottom right stand properties at the corner of Regent Street and Little Portland Street.

Scaffolding is negotiated. The trees of Hanover Square colour the bottom left of the frame.

Inside a stairwell, Chris continues his descent . . .

. . . to appear near ground level. The Holles Street side of the London College of Fashion site.

Chris joins the queue to collect his wages. The red brick building in the background still stands at the corner of Oxford Street and Harewood Place W1.

Taken from ground level. PW

Reaching the street at Elstree Studios, Chris jumps onto his motorbike and rides away. The set also appears in 'Go to Blazes' as well at 'Peewee’s Pianola' an episode of 'The Magnificent Six and ½'.

That evening, Jimmy (Melvyn Hayes) arrives at Simpkin's Youth Club for the dance. The club is part of the set built on the backlot at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood.

Dressed in his suit and bowler hat, Nicholas Black (Cliff Richard) follows a line of similarly attired Men. Facing north-eastward on Marylebone Road NW1 with Marylebone Town Hall to the right.

A line of bins adorn the edge of Marylebone Road. SJ

Nicky removes his hat as he crosses the road towards the office where Hamilton Black runs his property development business. Facing Castrol House at 200 Marylebone Road.

Panning left. SJ

The camera tilts up the building where, inside, Nicky begins to thwart his Father's plans to demolish the youth club. Completed in 1960, Castrol House was renamed Marathon House in the 1980s.

Followed by the tilt. SJ

After making excuses to avoid a meeting with his Father with a delegation from the club, Nicky takes his girlfriend Toni out following a set back. Ruislip Lido at Ruislip, Middlesex.

Antony Blair provides this comparison looking across the reservoir to the since rebuilt main buildings.

Disclosing that he's Hamilton Black's son, Nicky sings 'The Young Ones' to Toni (Carole Gray). Ruislip Lido, various parts of of which appear in 'Confessions From a Holiday Camp' and 'Sky Bike'.

Facing south-west from outside the main buildings captured by Antony Blair who adds "This is the best shot I could get as there is no longer any access to the water's edge."

Nicky continues his song as the pair walk around an almost tropical Middlesex. Ruislip Lido was developed from a reservoir feeding the Grand Union Canal and was opened to the public in 1936.

Antony Blair took this shot looking from the beach with the main buildings in the distance.

When the members decide to put on a show to raise the money needed to buy the lease to their club, the derelict Countess Theatre is secured as a venue. The Finsbury Park Empire on Rock Street between the junctions with St. Thomas's Road and Prah Road in Finsbury Park N4.

The theatre was demolished in 1965. PW

As the Teenagers interrupt television programmes by transmitting details about the show from their pirate radio equipment, the Police are directed to the BBC as the source. BBC Television Centre on Wood Lane W12 which opened in June 1960.

A more decorative frontage nowadays. SJ

When Hamilton Black scuppers plans for the show, Chris gathers a gang of Teddy Boys to kidnap the ruthless property developer. The Barnet By-Pass Road at Borehamwood in Hertfordshire with the bridge carrying Rowley Lane in the right distance.

Denis Hoare acknowledges that he should have been further off to the right, but was mentally distracted by pondering on the bridge and distance perspective between the human eye and lenses. (RL)

Driven by his Chauffeur, Hamilton's Rolls Royce approaches. Barnett By-Pass Road, Borehamwood with properties on Wansford Park to the left.

Many more trees now, and following on from his previous capture this time Denis stood at the entry to the lay-by and refrained from zooming to make the bridge look more like that in the film. Thanks Denis, your deliberations clearly paid dividends. (RL)

Mr. Dench (Harold Scott) is waiting for Hamilton Black (Robert Morley) when he arrives at the theatre after being set free with help from his son Nicky. St. Thomas's Road alongside the Finsbury Park Empire.

The street as it appears now. PW

Nicky enters the theatre to perform as Hamilton brushes aside his Solicitor before joining his son and the other youth club members on stage. Outside the Finsbury Park Empire on St. Thomas's Road in N4, which also appears in 'Top of the Bill' made 10 years later showing the theatre's replacement.

Behind the fence stands Vaudeville Court. PW