Filmed in Shropshire

Monday 10th December 2007, 9:00AM GMT

The BBC’s 2004 remake of Carrie’s War (picture courtesy of the BBC)

This is an image from the BBC’s 2004 remake of Carrie’s War, based on the novel by Nina Bawden, about two London children who are evacuated to Wales during WWII. The original version, however, which was released in January 1974, was filmed along parts of the Severn Valley Railway between Bridgnorth and Kidderminster.


13 Comments

  1. Will Wycherley said:

    now living in Canada, I had to enter a recent competition on the national Entertainment TV show which was asking a question about the movie(atonement) and offering an all expenses trip to Shropshire.. there were plenty of links to the county. I had then to show my wife Stokesay castle as well on the web too. will hopefully be winning my way back home in the new year !!!

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  2. Alison Bukhari said:

    Don’t forget the 1950 film version of local writer Mary Webb’s Gone to Earth …. and John Cleese’s hilarious Clockwise, both filmed in and around Much Wenlock.

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  3. Roadrunner said:

    I remember very clearly “Take Me Home” being filmed, much of it was done in Sandbrook , Ketley and I seem to recall my [ now deceased ] mother`s bugalow appearing several times.

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  4. David Jones said:

    Does show how beautiful some parts of Shropshire are. Shame about the blot on the landscape Telford has become.

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  5. ludlow rocks said:

    i remember the ‘time team’ dig at bridgnorth castle practically the whole town came to watch it, and i even think i recognise the woods in ’straightheads’ how bizarre!

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  6. Harold St. John Peasbody said:

    Roadrunner refers to “Take Me Home”: I am still having intensive counselling sessions in order to overcome the night terrors I have about Keith Barron appearing at my window.

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  7. Mike Owen said:

    Has anyone noticed the comments on all of these films are the same??

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  8. ludlow rocks said:

    erm, no mike – think that’s just you.

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  9. Barrie said:

    An episode of Dalzial and Pascoe was filmed in North Shropshire, near Shotton Hall. I watched the filming from my house over the fields.
    I now live in Canada so it nice to see some parts of home on the TV

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  10. Jennie Repath said:

    Another one to add Mary Webb Precious Bane at Pitchford Hall when the Colthursts’ were in residence. I am thinking there was a exciting thriller murder mystery perhaps one of your readers might remember what it was called based in the late thirties.

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  11. Jennie Repath said:

    Church Stretton based in the thirties a murder mystery film please can anyone remember. Also The Diceman came to Church Stretton to film their trip and take in All the Strettons.

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  12. Jill Marshall said:

    Circa 1939 ish, fishermen were filmed at Stokesay Bridge.
    Jill ne Roberts.

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  13. robert clive said:

    Wasn`t “blot on the landscape” filmed somewhere in Shropshire ?

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