Holmesian Locations...
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charleygirlFor those who may be interested, I've just been looking through some of my old holiday photos, and came across pics of some of the locations used in the Granada series. These are places I've been to because visiting stately homes is one of my hobbies, rather than any geeky desire to track down the sites! :)
The Diogenes Club, Shoscome Old Place, the Louvre (interior) and various others, AKA Tatton Park in Cheshire:
I believe Tatton was used more than any other location, as I keep spotting it all over the place in the series. I find it highly amusing that in The Final Problem Holmes is standing right next to a bust of British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in the main hall when he is actually meant to be in Paris. :)
Hurlestone Manor, really Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, where the ceilings are so low that JB apparently had to be constantly reminded to duck under the doorframes:
Holdernesse Hall, and also the Earl of Dovercourt's home in The Master Blackmailer, AKA Chatsworth, seat of the Duke of Devonshire (but actually located in Derbyshire):
The Priory School, more usually known as Haddon Hall, and which lies just a few miles from Chatsworth, pretty much 'across the valley' as Doctor Huxtable says:
ETA:
This is the largest of three caverns in the Derbyshire village of Castleton. Though its name is the Peak Cavern, it is known locally as the Devil's Arse, and was used as the 'great limestone cavern where the stolen cattle were penned' in the finale of The Priory School. This part of it is called Lumbago Walk, for obvious reasons!
The Diogenes Club, Shoscome Old Place, the Louvre (interior) and various others, AKA Tatton Park in Cheshire:
I believe Tatton was used more than any other location, as I keep spotting it all over the place in the series. I find it highly amusing that in The Final Problem Holmes is standing right next to a bust of British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in the main hall when he is actually meant to be in Paris. :)
Hurlestone Manor, really Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, where the ceilings are so low that JB apparently had to be constantly reminded to duck under the doorframes:
Holdernesse Hall, and also the Earl of Dovercourt's home in The Master Blackmailer, AKA Chatsworth, seat of the Duke of Devonshire (but actually located in Derbyshire):
The Priory School, more usually known as Haddon Hall, and which lies just a few miles from Chatsworth, pretty much 'across the valley' as Doctor Huxtable says:
ETA:
This is the largest of three caverns in the Derbyshire village of Castleton. Though its name is the Peak Cavern, it is known locally as the Devil's Arse, and was used as the 'great limestone cavern where the stolen cattle were penned' in the finale of The Priory School. This part of it is called Lumbago Walk, for obvious reasons!
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Date: 2009-02-10 06:04 pm (UTC)one up for granada methinks!
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Date: 2009-02-10 06:38 pm (UTC)(i need a Tom Baker voice for this)
Date: 2009-02-10 08:49 pm (UTC)AHH. Wookey hole. Isn't that where dear Sarah Jane broke her leg?
(I forgot Wookey to tell true - great caves. Chistlehearst Caves are burned onto my retina because there used to be a tour; very, very cheap, with a mad Catweazle guide chap who pronounced Mutants Mu-tAnts, and scared my toddler of a brother to death - and there was a funny cardboard cut out of the Tardis that fel over when the spotlight came on! :)))) Did you ever go?? )
Re: (i need a Tom Baker voice for this)
Date: 2009-02-11 06:04 am (UTC)I'm being reminded on that cave tour guide Mark Gatiss used to do on The League of Gentlemen, who told visitors really boring facts about Who whether they wanted to know or not. :)
Re: (i need a Tom Baker voice for this)
Date: 2009-02-12 12:27 am (UTC)Re: (i need a Tom Baker voice for this)
Date: 2009-02-13 04:58 pm (UTC)praise from the icon meister herself!:)
Date: 2009-02-13 09:27 pm (UTC)