another TLS 'then/now' comparison

Covent Garden, in 1970 as depicted in The Long Sleep, and as it
was about one year ago. In 1970 it was London's fruit and
vegetable market, now it's full of trendy shops, cafes,
restaurants and mostly talentless street performers.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jgibbon/images/covthennow.jpg

I actually had these flashback scenes from TLS in mind when I
took the photos - so I'm delighted to have the DVD so I can
compare them properly. Looks like I got the perspective and
position about right in this one.

James

James Gibbon <[hidden email]> wrote:

Covent Garden, in 1970 as depicted in The Long Sleep, and as it
was about one year ago. In 1970 it was London's fruit and
vegetable market, now it's full of trendy shops, cafes,
restaurants and mostly talentless street performers.

James,

Those comparison pictures were great! I had exactly the same idea and wrote a post about that (then my first post to this group) a few weeks ago. I am specially curious to see how the Harlington-Straker building looks these days. It would be great to have in the future a small electronic photo album of these comparisons. I did a similar thing years ago with Abbey Road, and it was a lot of fun to get the picture (I had to dodge several cars, and at the end I couldn't get the same angle because the shot was taken several feet above ground level).



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David Levine wrote:

> Those comparison pictures were great! I had exactly the same idea
> and wrote a post about that (then my first post to this group) a
> few weeks ago. I am specially curious to see how the
> Harlington-Straker building looks these days. It would be great
> to have in the future a small electronic photo album of these
> comparisons. I did a similar thing years ago with Abbey Road, and
> it was a lot of fun to get the picture (I had to dodge several
> cars, and at the end I couldn't get the same angle because the
> shot was taken several feet above ground level).

David,

Thanks very much! It's funny that you mention Abbey Road
though, because I'm a big Beatles fan (of course, Paul plays Get
Back at the party in Ordeal, so we're bang on-topic here) - and I
did exactly the same thing myself about a year ago. Do you
reckon the album cover shot was taken at ground level? That
hadn't occurred to me.

It's a fun place to see. The local motorists must get grossly
irritated by the 24 hr supply of American and Japanese tourists
endlessly photographing each other on the zebra crossing though :)

I've never seen the Harlington-Straker building, but it would be
interesting to see some present-day photos.

Anyway, I'm planning to put together some now/then comparisons from
the TLS shots taken at the end of Long Acre, at Covent Garden tube
station quite soon. I will have to go and take new photos
though, I don't have any shots from quite the right perspective.

Cheers
James

--- James Gibbon wrote:
>
> Anyway, I'm planning to put together some now/then comparisons from
> the TLS shots taken at the end of Long Acre, at Covent Garden tube
> station quite soon. I will have to go and take new photos
> though, I don't have any shots from quite the right perspective.

James, I find this a very good idea to compare the old locations in
UFO with the new looking ones, especially the HS-Studios! I would do
it for myself but I live a little bit abroad (in Austria to be more
precieseley :-)

Christian

James Gibbon <[hidden email]> wrote:
Anyway, I'm planning to put together some now/then comparisons from
the TLS shots taken at the end of Long Acre, at Covent Garden tube
station quite soon. I will have to go and take new photos
though, I don't have any shots from quite the right perspective.

Cheers
James

So I take it you leave in/near London?

Except for the eight UFO episodes available on video, I haven't seen the other episodes in more than 25 years. Thus I couldn't put together right now a list of all the comparison pictures I think it would be most cool to see (hopefully this will change soon when I get my DVDs). Anyhow, if it was up to me, my wish list for now would be:

1. The Harlington-Straker building

2. The Harlington-Straker building! (and sign, in the unlikely case there is still one, I'm sure with other stuff)

3. Henderson's building (where the IAC was).

4. Paul Foster's appartment building



Cheers,



David Levine





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David Levine wrote:

> So I take it you leave in/near London?
>

Hi David,

Sadly I have relocated from London now and am in Derby, 120 or so
miles away. But, I still visit often and nose around the West
End every couple of weeks or so. Hoping to move back there
later this year.

The Harlington-Straker building is a fair way out of London I'm
afraid. Don't know where Paul's apartment building is, or the
IAC ..

Cheers
James

Speaking of the locations of buildings from the series got me thinking isn't
there a photographic database of photos of England taken from the air. I was
seen a nice photo of Gabrielle's Abbey home taken from this I think(don't
asks where or I'll have to kill you if I tell you, then kill myself for
having told you. SHADO takes security so serious<g>)
Anyway if you could find this maybe you could search out locations and
building from the series on this database.

James K.


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[hidden email] wrote:

> Speaking of the locations of buildings from the series got me
> thinking isn't there a photographic database of photos of England
> taken from the air. I was seen a nice photo of Gabrielle's Abbey
> home taken from this I think (don't asks where or I'll have to
> kill you if I tell you, then kill myself for having told you.

Too late .. it was shown on a documentary about her brother a
year or two ago. They interviewed her parents who mentioned how
they get the odd curious UFO fan passing through ..

Oh, that must be the BBC one I've heard about. Actually it more than
just a few fans of her late brother who turned up. But at least the were
always mostly nice and polite.

James K.

P.S.: Love the photos of Straker with the weapons from Timelash and the nice
head and shoulders close up of Anouska Hempel now Lady Weinberg.


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