FAME; CROWCOMBE HEATHFIELD AS A LOCATION
Crowcombe Heathfield has been used as a film location several times in its preserved days, and even before.
Even before the days of preservation, some scenes for the Beatles film "A Hard Days Night" were filmed on site with the Fab Four in attendence, (4th. March 1964). We have been fortunate enough to obtain some stills of this, thanks to Tim King.
Photographer unknown.
Copyright Miramax Pictures
Photographer unknown.
One of the best known children's TV series from the 70's, the "Flockton Flyer", had many shots taken at the station. Later, opening shots of the TV film of C. S. Lewis's "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" were also filmed with the children leaving the station having arrived by train.More recently, a lot of shots of "The Land Girls" were filmed at the station showing trains arriving and departing, (albeit, often 'wrong road'!); one departure from the down platform shows one of the Railway's volunteer guards giving a very vigorous 'green-flag-wave' which he has never lived down! The sequence with the motor bike and sidecar ride was filmed in the lane alongside the station which required much filling in of potholes before it could be taken with the camera!
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Copyright Greenpoint Films