@@ART_MONKEY thieves are the answer to the latter. Blame those who take my photos and post them elsewhere claiming to have found the locations themselves.
A crack in the road still there 50 years later!! Must be listed by now!! Fascinating video. Have watched these films over and over and to see present day locations was brilliant. Such a lot of work gone into the assembling of images. Thank you!!
Back then there was far less traffic on the road. Not every household had a car whereas today nearly all households have a car and a growing amount are two car families.
@@jackkruese4258when I was 10 in 1980 , playing in the street there was only about 3 cars parked...... the good old days 😢 and that was in Kentish town, central London..
Cheap and nasty British entertainment. I used to love On the Buses on TV. The films were bloody dreadful. Made on the cheap and shot just around the locality of the studio's, no doubt to keep costs down . Awful. Great to see the then and now footage , fascinating...
Thanks for this tour of the filming locations. I have been an On the Buses fan for many years and still to this day watch the series and movies. How life was much simpler then when you compare it to today.
I can remember as a kid watching on the buses with my grandparents, great memories my grandad would laugh like mad and my Gran used to think they were vulgar, still makes me chuckle today
Thank you very much, it's very nostalgic looking at the before and after pictures. I tend to live in the past and must say I'm saddened to see such changes in some of the pictures. Keep up the good work as it's really important to remember history.
Doris Hare was a lovely lady in real life , she use to come into the pub ,I use to work in and was such a graceful lady ,not anything like the mum on screen .
This is brilliant. Thanks for making this. I'm kind of speechless. We see these places on British films like on the buses and never think you're ever going to know where they were filmed. It wasn't something that was ever revealed. But to see every location you see on the start sequence of on the buses and see it now is brilliant. I see you have a couple others just popped up of the other on the buses films, so I will enjoy looking at them too.
Brilliant video mate. Ive driven all those roads many times, I never knew they filmed On The Buses there. Really interesting to know, and to see now and then is really cool. Great work.
An excellent video, giving a great insight into the actual locations. Loved On The Buses at the time, and still do. Thanks for all your research. Definitely subbed.
You'll see the same streets in lots of 1960's and 70's movies as there were three studios in Borehamwood at the time and it was convenient to shoot outdoor scenes locally. The "Confessions" series of movies with Robin Askwith for example. Reg Varney lived around fifteen miles away in Enfield at the time this movie was made, which was an easy trip to the studios. We used to take that hump backed bridge in Wash Lane at speed in our cars to see how far we could jump. The last I knew the road was still there but closed off at one end because of the Ringway3/M25/A1M construction projects. That was along time ago though so it may have changed.
Indeed yours is a common observation made by ex-busmen during that era. It helped considering Bob Grant briefly worked as a busman in the 1950s as a driver for Southdown Buses. Also he snd Reg mixed with bus crews in the canteen at Wood Green to pick up little hints/tips of the life and banter of actual busmen incorporating that into their roles.
Check it out. In the early 1970s Hammer made a number of hit sitcoms into spin-off films and On the Buses was their biggest earner at the box office taking more than their horror films.
The horror films rarely made a profit for Hammer, even Dracula struggled to recoup its £70,000 budget. Hammer's comedy films were what kept the studio solvent, yet most of these are now forgotten... Don't Panic Chaps! (1959) and A Weekend with Lulu (1961) are just two of their earlier comedies.
Another great video thanks very much for doing that...always a pleasure to see how things have changed in over 50 years. I remember my grandad getting me started on these when I was a kid.... Happy days!...
One of the silent Actors later episode appeared as a silent Actor Prisoner Of War in Colditz. The grey haired Man about 48. Yes boring but I thought it was worth a mention.
All the houses now private, council back then. Thing is we remember the housing estates looking as they did in this film. Surprising how much they changed, going private people spent a lot improving, starting withe double glazing. Social record as important as any historical document.
I lived in South Mimms at the time of filming many of the scenes around the area running to the loo etc 😆. My Grandfather worked at the garage . Thanks for the memory 👍
Remember the concrete lamp posts. Many had steel rebar inside rusted and the heads fell off. All replaced with steel. And many roads concrete later covered in tarmac.
On the buses was my favourite sitcom... These filming location vidios are fantastic... Really enjoyabe... The research and time that has gone into making these videos is truly amazing!! ..... Thanks Chris your a star... Gold, silver & bronze medals for you mate 🥉🥈🥈🥉🥈🥉🎥🎥🎥
Incredible to see so many of the locations virtually unchanged. When I look back at my own youth (late 60s 70s) almost EVERY building that I had reason to go in has disappeared....2 of 3 schools, swimming baths, college, cadets, half the pubs and nearly all the nightclubs have gone, half the playing fields are now housing estates and the derelict railway sidings that we all played in now also a housing estate. Its almost as if the "cosmic joker" is following after me and removing all trace of my youth. Still great work here OTBD, love seeing then and now stuff. Keep it up.
Glad you are enjoying the content. Many On the Buses filming locations, especially from the TV series, have changed a good deal. The films locations are a little lessed changed.
Mutiny On The Buses 1972 Radio Control. SB17 The Gas Works. There was a Bus Depot called BTS end of Station Road. they did the 292 358/7 also the mini buses. I was a bus at around 1988/9. Also live in Rossington.
It is freaky how our material world can remain largely unchanged, but people come and go in the blink of an eye. How Reg Varney has been gone so long, his grave looks as old or older than the scenery he once drove through. If that makes any sense ? Boggles the mind.
Wow! What a great feeling and pleasure it must be if you are a fan of 'On The Buses' to own and live at the legendary turn around Betty property. Great video sir, massively enjoyed it.
The TV series was owned by LWT who had no part in the films which were made by Hammer. The films had to be stand alone creating a new bus company with different livery to rule out any copyright infringement with LWT. That also explains different storylune too as the films were NOT a direct continuation of the TV series.
The most significant change from 1971 to today (posting in Jan 2023) is the amount of cars on the road. I also think the South of England was far less populated than today.
