General Chat

Off to bed now, thanks for the chat girls..... :0)

.....ooops sorry Captain Pugwash, I presume you are a bloke.....:0/

Hello Maggie......I always thought they were filmed around Midsomer, which is somewhere on the way to the West Country I think.......and was surprised when they did a documentary on the series and they filmed a lot around Beds, Bucks, Herts.......which have a lot of pretty villages......we have one not far from us called Aldbury, complete with duckpond, tudor style houses and stocks.....yes, real ones.........

A series was filmed in Aldbury, can't remember its name but Diane Keen was in the cast, and it showed all the quaint old cottages......would love to live there but it is far too expensive.....

Just googled, it was Shillingbury Tales with Robin Nedwell

Thanks Moonchld - I always wonder where these programmes are filmed!
About 20 years ago, 3 children from the school I worked in were in a 'Miss Marples' - they were playing in a ford.

I didn't know he was a teacher Von.......I am glad he went into acting......always liked him in Bergerac and went to have a look at his classic car when we went to Jersey last year.......I think he has a holiday home over there.......anyway I know he visits there and sponsors many activities in Jersey......

Just googled to find the church and it was filmed in the church in Little Missenden.........I know they go to all different locations......mind you when they filmed Pie in the Sky from the High Street, there were a lot of local places in that......

Thanks Captain, I googled him and saw he had been in quite a few good dramas......it was good that they ran him alongside John Nettles.......at least we know the Midsomer murders will carry on.......just thinking up new plots will be fairly difficult......

No Von, that is where I got married......St. Mary's built 1145 I think......it was a shame they did not show it........no room inside for that Guillaume stone coffin though.......

The other one I thought of was on the way to Watford, after going through Kings Langley.......on the right hand side and set back from the road......

Just to settle things, the guy who played Barnaby's cousin was the driver for the Mrs Bradley Mystery's

I don't think it was Apsley. What's the one in the Old Town?
Sad isn't it I lived in Apsley for nearly 20 yrs and I don't think I went inside any of the churches.
Except the Methodist one when it became Appsley Community Association.
Von
BTW John Nettles taught some of my family before he made it onto TV

No, that has gone really modern, had a big facelift.......my Son and DiL got married there nearly 4 years ago, and my Sis and BiL......

It looked to me like the church at Apsley......opposite where the big Sainsburys is.....

Was the church St.Johns on Boxmoor?
Von

He has gone a bit puce in the face once or twice over time, and he was only talking........I shall miss him in Midsomer, same as the character Bergerac will always be his........ I hope they keep his sidekick Jones in the part, just for a bit of continuity......

I can't remember what he was in but I think he has been in quite a few things, he is a good actor, I think he will be good in the aprt. Yes John Nettles did seem a bit breathless, but I have thought that before. He is 66 so I suppose it is time he stopped running around.

Yes, it was right gory Ann.......I never guessed who did the head chopping, wouldn't have thought she was strong enough to wield that sword....

I had heard that John Nettles was leaving, and I was trying to remember what the actor who played his cousin was in....... I wondered if John Nettles was OK, because he seems to get out of breath just talking.....

No Von, I didn't recognise it either, I thought at first it was the Marchmont Armsin Piccotts End which was once the big manor house for the area.......but no.......didn't recognise the church either.....

.....maybe one or two sheep.....lol....

Bit gory tonight wasn't it?
Did you know that when John Nettles retires at the ends of this series the actor playing his cousin is going to take over.

Moonchild
Where was the big house? I didn't recognise it.
Thank you for putting up the thread as I wasn't watching til I read your message.
Von

I often heard the name Nether Wallop Polly, but just thought it was a comical name........but its obviously famous if all those celebs visited it.......I thought it was the site of a WWII airfield in a story I read......

I will have to google it now...... :0))

Oh, that's the upmarket bit Lynda....... you can add another nought to house prices there........lol

No,it's real...We had a Wallop Festival one year and lots of famous people came.Michael Horden,Jenny Agutter,Mel Smith,Peter Cook,Wayne Sleep...it was a big thing..The children were in a reenactment of the history of Wallop,alongside the real actors...Still have the photos...

Soooooo, nerry a peep of the ash blonde barnet then Polly.......and I always thought that Nether Wallop was a made up name, like in Dads Army.....

I had friends who were on Morse.......they live in Oxford and were walking along......Mum Dad, one daughter and twin daughters.......and they asked them to walk along the pavement, then cross the road.......why, I don't know, but you got a quick glimpse of them......