In the Woodland Lounge (small room, if that still exists) there used to be a photo of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders standing on the pitch at AP, from when they were filming for a new series. I never found out what series that was.
Today my wife told me that her bank has upgraded her account. One of the new benefits is…VIP access to Bicester Village.
B S Johnson, also the pseudonym for ex Prime Minster, Bull Shitter Johnson. Looking forward to his extracts in the Covid enquiry. Ambushed by a cake could be a best seller.
Ooh, that’s exciting. Will have to investigate.
Of course! One for the 1887.
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Anyone remember being asked to chant something. For a tv show at half time. I want to say it was Spend it like Beckham, though may be very wrong.
Now you’ve made me feel very old, as I once visited that night club - think they were just calling it The Grange by then.
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My mother lived in Loudwater and Woburn Green in her youth and was very proud of the scenes from Blithe Spirit (1945 film) which featured the little bridge on Windsor Hill just outside Woburn Green.
By coincidence, Black Mirror is also the primary inspiration for the town centre.
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Reassuring to see that the Gasroom has hit the beach before the season has officially finished.*
Warms the soul
*And no I’m obviously NOT suggesting there is any similarity to our football team
Yes, it was on Grange Drive in Wooburn, my grandparents lived in the house opposite until 1974 when they moved to Guernsey.
They used to regularly have drunken revellers on the front lawn and once had a very drunk gentleman drive his car across the lawn and in to the porch.
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Yes. I remember that and think it was the Jennifer Saunders evening - it was a programme of hers. As I recall, literally nobody played ball with the request. A proud moment, I feel.
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A young Jennifer Connelly warms up for a spot of baby sitting with David Bowie in Labyrinth, reciting spells in a grey and rainy West Wycombe park, before running home and instantly arriving in a well-heeled US suburb.
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Yes, the excitable announcer shouting “after three, spend it like Beckham! One, two three!”
Terrace, en masse; “f@#* off!”
A proud day to be a Wanderer indeed.
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Not strictly a film/tv show based in Wycombe, but I went to a Wycombe based school…
The film “Breaking the Code” starring Derek Jacobi for some reason picked our school to go and be extras at one of those public schools, possibly Harrow or somewhere like that.
We spent TWO whole days listening to the same scene being recited by Mr Jacobi repeatedly.
So much so I can still hear him saying “Singing songs, humming tunes” now, 30 odd years later.
Long story short - they cut us from the film.
2 whole days of filming at a critical stage pre exams - not in the film. Brilliant.
Burn.
Ha! I also spent my whole education in Wycombe. During the buildup to USA ‘94, some of us year 9’s were picked to do a ‘promo’ video at Bisham Abbey alongside some other schools.
We went out on the minibus with our PE teacher and head of year and were given boots, and football strips and we asked to play some five a side and generally do some skills etc to be filmed.
There was a promise by the production team that we could keep the kit. Day ended, production team said they needed to do some more filming and would invite us back and said we could take the kit home after that filming session.
They never returned! 
I saw her body moving and it drove me crazy. There you are @Malone . I went on a Shakira crash course.