Alan Cecil's railway fury

[williwycombe]

@peterparrotface

Yeah fair enough.

[wwfcblue]

@williwycombe

I saw that Leicester’s way-above-League-One training centre includes a 9-hole golf course. Now Farnham makes sense!

Don’t believe what you read, they demolished 80% of the golf course to make way for the training ground.

I think four or five playable holes remain as a wind down for staff.

[our_frank]

Great thread, this.

[DevC]

I have sat through interminable hours of Beyond Paradise just to get the thrill of a glimpse of a local curry house in the backdrop. It’s not even the one I use. I sometimes wonder where I went so wrong with my life.

[Ohandybaird]

@OxfordBlue

The chair museum gets a mention in Gavin and Stacy.

Dave Coaches: But the thing is, I got a long drive tomorrow. I got a school party going the Chair Museum in High Wycombe.

My journey was just from Manor Farm

[petef1]

@ArnosGrove

…I can remember these three. I’m sure there are more:In an episode of Yes Minister, Sir Humphrey mentions balancing the budget by selling an office block in High Wycombe.A hypnotised Alan Partridge takes Ursula Andress to the Moathouse in High Wycombe because of its 24 hour carvery.Minder legend Arthur Daley reminds Dave in the Winchester that he once met Matt Munro in High Wycombe bus station cafe.

Geeze. I forgot all about the bus station cafe. Remember going in there as a little kid with my Mum whilst waiting for the bus back to Loudwater.

A pigeon shat on my head in that bus station as well which led me to being very late for college one day.

[petef1]

Frontage of RGS has been used LOADS for all sorts of TV shows and dramas.

Wycombe town centre is also the primary filming location for one of the episodes of Black Mirror.

[kim_il_swan]

About time I made another West Wycombe - To The Devil a Daughter reference

[Ozzie_the_Relaxed]

This has turned into the thread on the old gasroom, something along the lines of Wycombe on TV and Films.
How about the train station in The Worlds End for starters.

[Ozzie_the_Relaxed]

Or Ross Kemp filming in Downley during covid….

[TwinBrother]

Two 1970’s Doctor Who adventures were partially filmed in Marlow and Booker.

[ArnosGrove]

@petef1

Frontage of RGS has been used LOADS for all sorts of TV shows and dramas.

Wycombe town centre is also the primary filming location for one of the episodes of Black Mirror.

The Waldo Moment. Featuring ‘Cohen’s nemesis’, otherwise known as the concrete balls.

[petef1]

@ArnosGrove

The Waldo Moment. Featuring ‘Cohen’s nemesis’, otherwise known as the concrete balls.

That’s the one!

[Ozzie_the_Relaxed]

The Worlds End (not a great advert for our glorious town that statement )

[kim_il_swan]

Cult novelist B S Johnson was evacuated to Wycombe in WWII and wrote about it at length in his novel Trawl.

[Ozzie_the_Relaxed]

@kim_il_swan

Cult novelist B S Johnson was evacuated to Wycombe in WWII and wrote about it at length in his novel Trawl.

Which ironically is now what some folks do down on Desborough Road after dark….

[ned_ludd]

Part of a sketch from an episode of mid-60s radio comedy Around The Horne…

Hugh Paddick: “What did you do in the war, Ken?”

Kenneth Williams: “I was a bus driver in High Wycombe. ‘The Ladies From Hell’ they called us.”

Hugh Paddick: “The ladies from hell?!?!”

Kenneth Williams: “You don’t know what they’re like in High Wycombe!”

[Readingmarginalista]

@Floyd

In the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock Holmes he’s offered ‘nights of passion in High Wycombe,’ as an alternative to detective work.

Parts of an episode of the same series are also filmed in Wycombe.

Tim from the Office had the immortal line in that of “High Wycombe is better than you are currently equipped to understand”, which should be milked for what it’s worth by the local tourism board.

[Otter87]

Wasn’t the outside of the building used for Fawlty Towers based in Bourne End?

[Ozzie_the_Relaxed]

@Otter87

Wasn’t the outside of the building used for Fawlty Towers based in Bourne End?

Yes between BE and Wooburn Green, used to be a nightclub a thousand years ago.