St Marks Place
St Marks Place, Pitkin's home
played by Norman Wisdom
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St Marks Place looking east
towards The Trooper Public House.
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Pitkin meets a pretty American tourist
and offers to find a taxi for her.
Some of the houses in St Marks Place were demolished in the 1960s
and modern homes built, set back a little further from the road
to provide parking.
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St Marks Place looking west
where later in the film the policemen raced around the corner.
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Here they come!
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St Leonards Road
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St Leonards Road at the junction with Trinity
Place
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St Leonards Road appears briefly early
on in the film where Pitkin quietens a newspaper seller who is
shouting too loudly! The Barclays Bank in the background became
an Indian Restaurant some years later. NB, the picture of St
Leonards Road was used as a backdrop to this scene which was
shot in the studio.
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Peascod Street
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The junction of Peascod Street
and William Street in 2004
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Peascod Street and William Street in 1962.
Surplices, on the corner
was an electrical shop. Their loudspeaker van was often seen
at
fetes and other local events.
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Most of the shops in Peascod Street at
this point have now been demolished and redeveloped.
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Pitkin strides out past The Duke of Cambridge,
Peascod Street to hail a cab for the American tourist.
The passageway led to Edward Square. AT (a
former resident of Edward Square) writes: 'This we always new
as The Cut and it had a small group of shops on one side and
an open area on the other which held a large static water tank
during the war years.'
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Peascod Street from the junction with William
Street, looking towards the castle.
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Peascod Street was two-way in those days.
The Thames Valley red double decker bus, on route 51A, used to
run up and down Peascod Street.
Pitkin hails a taxi, seemingly from higher
up Peascod Street...
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Lower Peascod Street in 2004.
Very few of the original shops now remain.
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...but it arrives from lower Peascod Street.
The junction with Oxford Road, now Oxford
Road East, is in the distance, on the bend.
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Arthur Road
The area off Arthur Road, where
the children are playing football and ...
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...a youngster nearly gets run over in
front of Pitkin's eyes.
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To the left Darvilles, famous
for its tea blended for Windsor water!. In the 'On The Beat',
their earlier building is now demolished to make way for the
current office block. Darvilles Website
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Here Pitkin takes charge of the football
game because he has the whistle!
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AA Clark Car Body Repair shop,
formerly Shrimpton's, with the railway
arches just visible beyond.
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The land beyond was vacant when the film
was made and prior to that it had been allotments. The railway
arches are clearly visible beyond.
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Towards Arthur Road, where
the children play football and later... |
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...the police race past as Pitkin hides
behind the fence in the foreground.
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Houses in Arthur Road, the distinctive
roofed doorways feature in the film...
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...but you have to keep an eye open as
they are visible for only a few frames.
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Arthur Road Roundabout
The infamous roundabout now much changed
by Windsor Dials, built on the site of the gas works, which features
in the film.
Arthur Road comes in from the left, with
Ward Royal to the left also.
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The Gas Works beside the arches leading
to Windsor Central Station with a small horde of policeman chasing
by.
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Arthur Road, right, and Ward Royal to the
left.
Windsor Dials is to the right, almost out of shot.
From King Edward Car Park
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Arthur Road, right, and Goswell Road, left.
The Gas Works are to the right,
out of shot. I believe that one of the pair of shops in the centre
of this picture was owned by the Vettise family, famous for their
Italian ice-cream.
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A view looking further to the south west
from King Edward Car Park
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The roundabout looking south west towards
Goswell Road.
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The view south towards Trinity Church and
Charles Street
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The roundabout looking south towards Denmark
St.
Holy Trinity Church is visible in the distance.
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Goswell Hill
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Goswell
Hill still exists in 2004 with the entrance to Windsor Central
Station (aka Windsor Royal Station) top left. The wall to the
right has since been removed to permit car parking at the back
of the shops and a rather nasty scar has been left across the
road where a contractor has installed mains services and neglected
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Pitkin is pursued from the top of Goswell
Hill. Not as easy as it looks! The hill is known as Break Neck
Alley because of the raised cobbles in the centre of the roadway
to assist horses as they pulled their carts up to Peascod Street.
AT (a former resident of the area) writes: 'We always knew this
hill as The Donkey Track and were told as children that the well-off
used to have donkey carts which would carry their luggage up
to the station at the top of the hill. As kids we often rode
soapbox carts down here. We knew no fear!!'
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Goswell Road,
now lost beneath Ward Royal
Goswell Road looking south west
with Oxford Road in the distance. This is the part of the road
that the police, right, are running towards. The little shop
on the corner used to sell batteries and charge accumulators
and repair bicycles. There are some colour views of Oxford Road
as it was HERE in the
article about Ward Royal.
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A view looking back from the other end
of Goswell Road to the north east towards the roundabout. Note
the elevated footpath to the right.
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A view from Grosvenor Place towards Goswell
Road.
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Goswell Road is to the left with the elevated
footpath and Grosvenor Place to the right. A view at the start
of the chase as two police converge, having heard Pitkin's whistle.
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Ward Royal in 2003
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The area once occupied by Grosvenor Place.
In this view we are looking to the north, towards Arthur Road.
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The area once occupied by Goswell Road.
In this view we are looking to the north east, towards the roundabout
in Arthur Road.
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