Grange Hill Location Tour 

Roland Browning is the same age as me (both of us born in 1970) and so started senior school in 1981!

Awesome 👍👍

Zelda Fitzgerald, I agree with you and I feel the same, but times change and by 1984 our generation was getting too old for Grange Hill . I stopped watching it around 1985.

i stopped after the Justine Dean era

Last episode of 1989 is generally considered the end of the classic era.

When donkeys and the like started getting involved, you knew it had jumped the shark.

The Tucker and Zammo eras are brilliant.. I still enjoyed the Gonch and Ziggy days but that was the end for me

John Pearson: I've watched this 3 times in as many months now, it looked really good, I only just managed to clock some of the older students. I was between 5 & 9 yrs old first time round with the 81/85 seasons, my actual era would've been the "Justine & Tegs to the Arnie & Mr Robson era's. I'm up to season 26 now over the space of a year, have been really enjoying them. The Roland/Erkan/Zammo/Jackie era was quality, I remember being about 7 and fancying all these older girls haha. I got goose-bumps looking at some of the coridoors, all those filming memories, it was a better era back then, weather, tv programs, people etc. If they do another one would love to find out when and have a chat with the old cast. Mrs McCluskey hasn't changed at all!!!!....

I was thinking the same

@mistofoles: I think he meant Terry Sue Patt "Metaphorically" walked through "Grange Hills" gates....Although..in the christmas episode of 81..Benny Green/Tucker etc did walk through these particular gates and passed the baton onto Zammo & Rolands era....

Erkan is being somewhat lose with the facts here.

You are correct, I thought that.

Grange Hill was indeed first filmed in Kingsbury High School. As a fan of Grange Hill at the time it made it easier to find my way around the school when I started there. We never had a Tuck shop like Grange Hill though. We had Kitkat machines instead which were removed by the time I left. A few kids tried to climb the Tower like Tucker did but still got into trouble eventhough they didn't start a fire.

To be fair we were in the last term of junior school in February 1978 when GH was first broadcast. I always wondered why the bbc didn’t start every new GH seris off September?.

Mr H's Hot Pot agree seemed very rushed and I don’t think he’s very good at it. Needed a proper guide. I wouldn’t have paid for this and I love Grange Hill.

He was probably a bit nervous doing it, hence the numerous iconic saying, plus benny came through the gates of another school, most of classroom scenes where studio filmed too.

Lisa York aka Julie Merchant was in this briefly. Looked like she was rushing for the toilet.

This site was used for the first couple of episodes of series 8, then it moved to the bbc offices In Elstree Hertfordshire

Yeah she seems bloody annoying

I'm the 'old lady'. I'm an avid fan of GH and saw the filming of GH in Greyhound Road Fulham in summer 1983🙂.

Neil Rennie yes Rene Zagger

Correct, just the odd shots of pupils entering/exiting the school. It was all edited together afterwards to make it look continuous.

The outside shots in the first 2 series were in the Kingsbury High playing fields. The assembley halls and the Tower scene where Tucker waved from the Tower was the actual Tower on the school in Princess Ave. Kingsbury High was split between Princess Ave and Bacon Lane. 1st, 2nd and 3rd years Bacon Lane. 4th years and above in Princess Ave. The lettering of the classes were similar as well. A,B, G, R.

She does look a lot like her

You can tell it's her (Simone), even from the video thumbnail! Clearly a test of some sort...

£50

Michael Sheard. Yes, he worked with him. Roland was a keen linguist. He eloped to France with Fabienne.

I just stubbled across the clip again and thought " If only gripper came out", then I scrolled to the comments and saw I thought that 8 months ago. ha ha

That's right ,she still looks amazing ,think she shops at lakeside near me ,always hope to see her there and say hi lol