Grange Hill Locations - Then And Now
Series Nine revised 17 April 2005, London Trip
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The Fire |
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Oh no, the upper school is on fire... |
On the face of it... this looks quite similar doesn't it? The tree's a bit bigger, but there's railings... and opposite house.... Unfortunately though, the tree is the sole survivor.. As the pictures below show, a new housing estate has been plonked down where the Seven Sisters school once stood. When I was here the first time, a talkative resident told me she remembered it being pulled down - she recalled the bell tower being destroyed. |
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Grange Hill's burning, Grange Hill's burning, Fetch the Engines, Fetch the Engines, Fire Fire!... etc. etc. |
Nice match up of that distant white house. School was on that block ahead on the right. |
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The fire engine turns into the road outside Grange Hill... |
Braemar Road on the right, on the corner of the new housing estate that replaced the school. |
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Mr McKenzie herds the kids away from the fire engines, which are driving through the gates.... |
Just to confuse me, the furthest house has had its pointy roof changed to a normal one. The original shot cannot be matched because the houses are in the way now. Large flats loom in the background (present in the Grange Hill shots). A school wall covered the lower half of the rightmost house. |
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(left) This was Seven Sisters school in South Tottenham, listed as a council school in 1978... It must have been absolutely enormous, as the replacement estate occupies a huge block. Just look how many stories there are in the original building. |
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On the right: another school nearby. When you look at a modern map, this is the school that shows up near Roslyn Road (It's a road or two away) Who would like to be in a school like this? It's more like a prison with dense wire fencing all around, topped with barbed wire, and there seems to be a fence inside the fence. |
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Ziggy & Robbie's London Trip |
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Ziggy Greaves & Robbie Wright sneak out of the tube station while Boadicea is looking the other way... |
Westminster tube station with throngs of tourists admiring Big Ben. |
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A blurry view of County Hall as the camera spins round... |
The London Eye(sore), new since Ziggy's visit. |
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"Can we go on one of those boats?" |
Comparative view of the River Thames looking downstream. |
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Z & R go hunting for a crypt, but Zig is having troubles with his feet. |
Hurst Avenue, Crouch End, probably the scene on the left from a slightly different position. About 15 minutes walk from the next location (a bus is recommended) |
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"There it is...." |
Highgate Hill where it meets Hornsey Lane. Zebra has been replaced with safer Pelican Crossing. |
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Ziggy and Robbie race across the road to take a look at the "church". |
Cloisters Court in Cromwell Avenue, off Highgate Hill. After this the pair must have headed for Archway tube station. |
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Robbie searches around for some hidden stairs to lead to the crypt of his childhood memory... |
Close up view, with new window. |
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"Is that the vicar?" "You got a load of bodies buried underneath you!" |
Highgate Presbyterian Church, built in 1887 was converted to flats, some time between 1976 and 1987. |
Postscript: It's quite nostalgic seeing Z&R's tickets being torn in half - that's how ticketing used to work on the London Underground. A return ticket used to be manually handed in. These days Z&R would be issued with a one-day travelcard, and then there would be no worries about extra journeys (which would have ruined the ending of course!) |
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