I did manage to travel beyond the Mersey region this year to bag a few television locations, but I really didn’t need to leave my home town really – film crews descended on St Helens with surprising frequency in 2021. Three new shows used places familiar to me, some barely a 10 minute walk form … Continue reading On my doorstep – St Helens
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The path from the tiny village of Worth Matravers to Winspit Quarry was slightly more overgrown and slippery with mud than I remembered, but then it shouldn’t be too easy to reach an alien planet… I wrote about my first visit to Skaro, the birthplace of Doctor Who’s greatest foes the Daleks, back in 2018 … Continue reading Return to Winspit Quarry
Flashback Friday! I recently discovered all my travel souvenirs from my 6 months travelling through West Coast USA, New Zealand and Australia back in 2007. In amongst the postcards, flyers and CDs of my pictures was my journal. I kept a sort of diary of some of the places and experiences I had, mainly film … Continue reading Close encounters of the Hobbit kind
Finally able to start to work through my geek film location bucket list. Two go on holiday in Sandford and Skaro...
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