In Search of Buggleskelly (Part 1). The location for the Will Hay film - Oh Mr Porter!
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2021
- Inspired by one of my favorite Will Hay films - Oh Mr Porter! I visit the location where the 1937 film was shot - Cliddesden on the former Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway in Hampshire. I discover the site of the old station, an abandoned 19th Century nonconformist chapel and a plan for a massive housing development plan that would obliterate what is left of the line and it's beautiful surroundings.
Great quality and nostalgia, first saw Oh Mr Porter when I was ill and not going to school in 1977, I have watched it ever since especially winter nights with a whiskey in front of a fire, wish I could go back in time. I wonder what Will and the gang would think of your film? Great work.
One of the best British comedy films of all time your wasting your time classic thanks
"Oh Mr. Porter" and "The Ghost Train." Two movies I could more or less watch over & over, at any time.
This was great fun to see.
FWIW, I don't usually like videos with added music, but I took yours (the score) to be custom-composed for this video, and its weaving of the OMP theme, with a touch of Bach, and nod to English "rural" composers' styles worked really excellently. I also enjoyed the organ music at the outset. Bravo!
Glad to have discovered your channel. And I must watch "O.M.P." again soon after this! ---Mike
Thanks Mike, the use of music in video's does seem to be a moot point for a lot of people, but I couldn't resist writing my own for this video, and you're correct in spotting the Bach influence: I used the accompaniment figure of the slow movement of the Italian Concerto, combined with the OMP theme . Sacrilege!
@@melchestermodelrailway Lovely music. It's the complete opposite of most YT creators: they think "potted" music will improve their videos: NEVER DOES. But a composer's input is totally different.
Great stuff guys only just watched this,I'm a massive will hay fan..I remember watching this film as a small child loved it..save buggleskelly for sure.were loo sing too many places of natural beauty.
Enjoyed this love the film thanks for doing the programs shame about that lovely Country Side 😢 giving way to housing.
Great video. I visited the station in around 2000. The concrete posts then at the rear of the platform were mostly visible with a tree lined edge. Definitely more station looking than when this was filmed.
oh what a lovely sleepy place eh! mmmmmmm
So sad those beautiful fields will soon be gone. I just wonder how many locals actually know about the film, and the location in their backyard.?. Your noel train set-up looks wonderful. Love the liver,y. As a huge Will Hay and chums fan. This is gold dust to me.. Thank you for documenting the area before it's gone forever. Fascinating. Subbed. Take care Lads. Defiantly not wasting your time.
Thanks for subscribing Moog, and I'm glad you enjoyed the vid. It's certainly a nice location, I must try to find out if the development has progressed. I did speak to some locals off camera, and they knew about the film location, but the they were very against the proposed housing development.
Most do, to be honest, I live nearby and a friend of mine owns one of those railway cottages, The Wrecker was also made on this line
@@DropdudeJohn Yes, I have a friend who lives adjacent to one of the stations. Everybody there knows about it.
Nice one
Thank you so much for making this video and indeed part 2.
I hadn't seen 'Oh Mr Porter' for many years and found it on UA-cam the other night and watched it with my wife. We really enjoyed it and it was the first time my wife had seen it.
Your video was recommended to us by UA-cam and you have made a lovely job of putting it together. We thought it very sad that the Chapel had fallen into disrepair but that was nothing compared to our horror at that wonderful countryside being turned over to housing. So very very sad. I see that 12 month later all is approved.... it really is a disgrace. 😢😢😢
Thank you once again though for making your film.
Thanks for your kind comment, I'm glad you enjoyed watching it and the Oh Mr Porter film again. When I first came across the old Chapel, it was not clear exactly for what use the building had been intended, but only when I researched afterwards, did I discover it had been a small non conformist Chapel, discovering some photo's from its time in use was a real stroke of luck.
Greetings from Texas and thank you for making such an interesting documentary! If you look on Google Maps and find the location of the former Cliddesden Station, by clicking on the "see more dates" option, there is imagery from October 2009, which clearly shows the tree line and where the platform used to be. (You will also see that the "Station Manor" entrance is undeveloped, compared to present day).
Building houses on that land would be tragic ,I hope it doesnt happen
Let's all hope together then it will go away
I've subscribed your channel as love history and old railway history lines
Hi Chris - What a lovely video, very nostalgic. The chapel especially and what a find to have an old photo of what it used to look like.
Reminds me of Bedham Old Church off Wakestone Lane east of Petworth. Just the walls remaining now and likewise one old photo of her in better days.
I totally agree, what a shame to build there, but there is a need for housing and it has to go somewhere. Estates like that are going up everywhere as I can testify in the area I live in.
I am quite sure there are better locations, but dont ask me where.
I have walked a good 90% of the line from Midhurst to Petworth, likewise from Midhurst right down to Chichester, but that was all prior to 2007. All the tunnels were accessible then and a lot is very overgrown and passing through private gardens, namely at Cocking.
I love looking into our past like you, again makes me very nostalgic for the past.
Regards Chris
Thanks for watching Chris, the lines around Midhurst look like lovely walks and worth visiting, so I must put them on my 'to do' list! It's only when visiting these places that you can come across some unexpected treasures, like the chapel I found, although at first the building was so unprepossessing, I thought it must be railway related, not a chapel! Yes I agree the housing is required, in Hampshire though encroachment into green-belt areas has been an issue for a long time. If it wasn't for the Will Hay film, I probably wouldn't have come across the Basingstoke and Alton line, but must admit I find its history very interesting, especially as it was the first line built under the Light Railway Act, which resulted in some quite challenging gradients and curves though.
Great video Oh Mr Porter is my favorite film and a Lovely walk pity it will be gone soon.
It's one of my favorite films too. The location still remains a lovely site, but for how much longer I wonder.
A toss up between Oh Mr Porter and Titfield Thunderbolt.🤔
Ask a policeman gotta be in the mix
An absolutely beautiful masterpiece. Love the version on Mr Porter, and other music. Fascinating journey. Thank you. Well done.
Thanks Moog, the music was my own arrangement of some of the music from the film. I wrote a "Oh Mr Porter Suite " just for this video. It's for flute, Oboe, harp and cello.
The idea of such a monstrous development in such a precious piece of countryside and history is totally abhorent. In 'normal' times, such a development would never be approved, but we are in the grip of a cabal of bankers and globalists who wish to destroy our culture, our relgions, our history and way of life. I hope you folow my train of thought!
Indeed, monstrous is the right word, not only to describe this development, and many like it, but also the cabal of interconnected organisations and institutions who unleash policies dreamt up in secret, the results of which are sold to the public as "the new normal".
I know that the Buggleskelly platform still exists as I visited the site many years ago before landscaping took place. Just by the crossing the lower part of the end ramp was peeping out from the earth that covered it and I took a photo which I`m afraid I no longer have. You could also see down the trackbed from the road but this is all filled in now.
facinating video loved the film
I enjoyed this video I love history as near me still got a old train station platform here in stoke on trent milton station and Endon station I've loved railway since age 7 and I've got this movie but for some reason I typed this station in amd came across your video shame they building a housing place and that remains of that windmil tower amazing going have to watch your other videos have you done a video of connemara too I will subscribe to your video I have done a little video of my old railway too great video guys daz uk 🇬🇧
I heard that the train platform still exists, but is on private land
Yes, that's right. It's on the land of the house where I peeked through the gate to view the brick base of the windpump.
I visited the site in the early 1980s. At that time the vegetation growth was much less and the station area had not been incorporated into the garden. The 'wasting your time' fence was clearly visible, still with its strands of steel wire. The platform tops still protruded from the earth and it was quite obvious to anyone it used to be a railway station. I'm glad I took that opportunity when I did as the area is completely inaccessible now. It is also scary to think that the time between then and now is over 40 years, not that much less than the time between my visit and the making of the film!
Great video thank you. Did you see the lovely Buggleskelly bench at Cliddesden village hall? Worth a visit. 👍🏻
Thanks James, unfortunately I didn't get to see the bench, but will take a look next time i visit.
"you're wasting your time" lol
ok i'll buy it oh for lol eh! mmmmmm