Filming of ‘A Christmas Carol’

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A snowball fight scene at the beginning of the film, outside the old Royal Infirmary. The iconic building is now St Mary’s Shopping Parade.

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This article was posted on December 20, 2007 at 8:00 am.
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10 Comments

  1. Harold St. John Peasbody said: Dec 20th, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Christmas brings hope
    Christmas brings joy
    But Christmas is about
    Our baby boy.

    For he is our Saviour
    In uncertain times
    The son of God
    Born in a manger.

    HSJP 2007

  2. Matt said: Dec 20th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

    This film is a good version of The Christmas Carol story.

    There are several different versions, but I still rate the 1951 version as the best, even though it does make several changes to the story.

  3. KP said: Dec 20th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    How lovely to see someone acknowledging the true meaning of Christmas and how strange it should be you given that many of your comments on this website have been less than Godly throughout the year.

  4. David Jones said: Dec 20th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    A few wrong location descriptions there - number 5 is Fish Street (the church seen is St Julian’s and not Old St Chad’s), number 6 shows what was the Old Plough on The Square (the Ask restaurant is to the right of the photographer, on the other side of High Street) and number 7 is The Crescent on Town Walls. I’m not even sure if number 4 does show the Music Hall car park!

    Oh well!!

  5. Chris P Bacon said: Dec 21st, 2007 at 12:24 am

    Christmas, or “Winterval” to give it its new PC-friendly title, is nothing more than a cynical attempt to get more money out of your pocket and into the bank accounts of the already rich.
    Don’t fall for it!

  6. neil aus said: Dec 21st, 2007 at 11:25 am

    THANK YOU shropshire star. ex shrewsbury man here, now living in Australia, pictures of town in winter a seen looks wonderfull . Now i have a christmas feeling. you don’t have same feeling in 34 deg heat thanks again.AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL………

  7. tristram ffertyl said: Dec 21st, 2007 at 12:27 pm

    Thankyou Mr. Peesbody for your lovely poem. I have put it on all my christmas cards and my daughter has painted it in red on our garage door.

  8. Jennie Repath said: Dec 22nd, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    I remember being an extra in Christmas Carol what great fun it was dressing up in a loveley blue costume dress and appearing in Attingham Park with a little boy being pulled around on a sledge by a pony and a carriage with loveley double grey horses courtesy of Katie Smallman from Brandon near Coventry such a small world because my first pony I saved up for came from her stables when I was aged 11 years,small world is it not,and what a great day with artifical snow and magic was in the air I still have the photos here.

  9. pauline salveson said: Dec 23rd, 2007 at 4:33 am

    so lovely to see pic of shrewsbury, i remember when they filmed , i live in montana now USA, read shropshire star on line, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL

  10. Berto said: Dec 24th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

    I have fond recollections of the film being shot around town. A good friend was a set designer on this; and so managed to get into a few interesting places behind the scenes. If memory serves, the production team left the gravestone of Ebenezer Scrooge behind in old St. Chads cemetery. Have taken many visitors there pointing out Scrooge was a real person (kind of). Thank you St Chads for being imaginative.