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By Mike Martin - 05/02/2009 00:18:31
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So there I am watching the excellent new serial chiller "Whitechapel", it's all about a copy-cat Jack the Ripper active in 2008 exactly 110 years after the original Ripper murders. Anyway the Det.Insp. is introduced in the toilet of their club with the Commander who has put him into this murder investigation squad. Well I'm looking at the urinals and thinking they look familiar then the wash basins so i say to my GF they look like the lavs at Great queen Street. Yesterday I bump into John Hamill who knows all about this kind of stuff and ask him if any of "Whitechapel" was filmed at Grand Lodge. He says no I don't think so. Today he phoned me and said yes you are a bit of a Masonic anorak aren't you. I say why and he says you recognised the toilets here from a couple of seconds of film on the telly, they did shoot scenes here. I'm crushed.
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By Iain - 05/02/2009 10:29:21
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haha, Well spotted, My wife allways says I dont know the names of areas but can tell you every bar, But toilets well thats a whole new ball game :laugh:
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By Alan Campbell - 05/02/2009 21:11:43
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How much time have you actually spent in those toilets mike?:w00t:
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By Terry - 05/02/2009 21:52:38
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Mike, I can remember( most times) the pubs ive been too, but toilets, not a fetish im into;)
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By Cora B - 05/02/2009 22:16:02
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Wow Mike, do you bring a little notebook with you to note the serial numbers of each toilet you er, visit ..?:P
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By Mike Martin - 05/02/2009 23:13:32
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In my defence the toilets at Grand Lodge are pretty distinctive
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By Roy V - 06/02/2009 11:24:54
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Hear, hear! Not forgetting the cigarette rests on the copper pipework which were used when hands were busy elsewhere. Very distinctive!
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By Cora B - 06/02/2009 12:45:28
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Mike Martin (05/02/2009)
In my defence the toilets at Grand Lodge are pretty distinctiveIf they're all similar to the ones near the Library, yep.:)
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By Terry - 07/02/2009 07:37:15
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Mike, perhaps a book on the different toilets you have come across in your travels:w00t::P
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By Mike Martin - 10/02/2009 23:10:03
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Well things hotted up in the second episode! The Masonic "conspiracy" arrived with a tremendous crash heralded by one of the team of Detectives. However, this was an unusual appearance to say the least! It lasted all of 5 minutes as a "Ripperologist" arrived and pronounced the whole idea to be "complete boolocks" very much as real ones do.
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By Sparker - 14/02/2009 11:42:45
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Well now, thanks for making me look slightly less sad than you! I too am watching Whitechapel, but I'm sure that I recognise the stairwells of GQS when the D.I is coming and going inside the Police H.Q. It's a well known fact that stairwell expertise ranks just above train spotting but welllll below toilet knowledge when it comes to ranks of sadness!;) Tony.
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By Roy V - 14/02/2009 15:39:04
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I reckon you're right, Tony, but of course if I have to go higher than the first floor (by the posh staircase) then I use the lift (lazy git!) But if you come down to the Big Smoke, you would do well to know where to find a good toilet!
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By mindmagic - 15/02/2009 10:43:34
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I thought the dining room in episode 2 looked familiar too.
Barry
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By Tom Cherup - 15/02/2009 15:52:28
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Michigan is becoming the new Hollywood because of the states tax kick backs to the Film Industry, also because of it towns a shoreline can be made to look like most anywhere in the world without building a back lot. I've been reading two pages of posts and trying to understand what's the reasoning to go out on location to do a shoot at a "Men's Restroom" What's so special with this room?
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By Vintagemalt - 15/02/2009 16:04:55
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Tom Cherup (15/02/2009)
I've been reading two pages of posts and trying to understand what's the reasoning to go out on location to do a shoot at a "Men's Restroom" What's so special with this room? I would tell you, but its a secret and I was taught to be cautious especially when discussing mens rooms in public.... lol
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By Roy V - 16/02/2009 00:33:29
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I have a theory, Tom. Perhaps the script said "Scene One: Joe and his boss go to visit John," and the director being American ..... :D
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By Sparker - 21/02/2009 07:17:24
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Tom, In the film and telly business, very often, all the different scenes are filmed out of sequence. It makes financial sense to do this expecially when it comes to setting up the scenes, lugging round all the equipment etc. They probably did all the "Police HQ" scenes (the stairwell scenes, lavatory scenes, entry to and exit from the HQ etc.) in one block of shooting at GQS and travelled to other locations for other interior and exterior shots. Fraternally, Tony.
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By Sparker - 21/02/2009 07:26:10
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'Ey up Roy!, Welllllllllllllll its only right a man of your advancing years should use modern new fangled things like lifts to take the strain mate!;) However....if its posh toilets ya want..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/panoramas/philharmonic_pub_toilets_360.shtml Also magnificent entrance arch too!:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philharmonic_Dining_Rooms Maybe if you ventured north of the watford Gap you'd discover such beauties arent restricted to "The Smoke" hehehe. Hope all's well with you mate. Tony.
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By Roy V - 21/02/2009 10:43:00
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Oh, pulease, Tony! "Ancient no doubt it is, having been subsidised from time immemorial" like the rest of the BBC, but is that the actual colour? A sort of sickly orange? Nah, I prefer the true-blue bogs of GQS. And as for venturing beyond "Watford Gap" - I always thought that Watford itself was the limit of civilisation. :D It's good to see you on here again, Tony - you've got true grit - and salt, and I bet you've been using a lot of both lately. Is it right you're still charging both ways to use the new M6? Even the Welsh only charge one way - Wayne? Is it a charge to leave Wales? ;)
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By Sparker - 21/02/2009 12:00:57
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Nooooooooooooooo its not that colour really..... may seem that way after a few hours of neck oiling.... but that's just a flaw in the cameras methinks. And salt and grit....well we tried using 6mm grit because the surface area of the particles was conducive to the properties of the individual snowflakes which zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.................:hehe: Anyway.... we don't grit the roads.. it's subbied out to a company called A1 plus... *sloping shoulders time here...". M6 works now include signage improvements. We're now gonna see the likes of "Liverpool M62 (W) J10" rather than " thys wayye for to venture fforth yon Pool of yon Lyvver whence yer cross the concreet slab oop north...avoide ye yon Mersey Ryvver....for there be SCOUSERS" Ahhhh modern technology..ya can't beat it. Tony.
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By Tom Cherup - 21/02/2009 17:06:22
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Sparker (21/02/2009)
Tom, In the film and telly business, very often, all the different scenes are filmed out of sequence. It makes financial sense to do this expecially when it comes to setting up the scenes, lugging round all the equipment etc. They probably did all the "Police HQ" scenes (the stairwell scenes, lavatory scenes, entry to and exit from the HQ etc.) in one block of shooting at GQS and travelled to other locations for other interior and exterior shots. Fraternally, Tony. Yes Tony I know How the film and TV productions work having been a AV Tech and photographer working with performers in Detroit, LA, and Los Vegas. In truth the show becomes a show form the cutting room and those the don't make it (some of the best shots) end up on the floor.
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By lauderdale - 21/02/2009 18:30:16
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Generally on this type of topic, Reading is often used to stand in for London and other areas, the reason for this being that it is close to London but not as busy. The old Shire Hall in the Forbury, which is now a hotel, has often been a High Court in various Police dramas , the classical frontage of the Royal Berkshire Hospital has featured as many things and some of the schools and pubs in the Reading area have appeared in Inspector Morse, although they have been stated to be in or around Oxford for the purpose of the drama.
I have seen parts of Freemasons Hall in Gt Queen Street feature in many films and even TV adverts and of course the group Westlife filmed the video of their cover version of Mandy there. It is available as download from the Internet if anyone wishes to see it. The statue of my least favourite Grand Master, the Duke of Sussex, can be seen in the corridor in that video.
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By Sparker - 22/02/2009 12:25:01
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Oops....sorry Tom.... now then... here's some eggs..like me to teach you how to suck 'em?:D Tony
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By Roy V - 22/02/2009 22:25:11
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Many of the GI Brides imagined that all Americans lived in Hollywood, Sparker. No truth in it, of course, but you picked the next best thing! (But Tom still doesn't understand our obsession with the GQS toilets!)
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By Tom Cherup - 22/02/2009 23:00:41
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Roy V (22/02/2009)
Many of the GI Brides imagined that all Americans lived in Hollywood, Sparker. No truth in it, of course, but you picked the next best thing! (But Tom still doesn't understand our obsession with the GQS toilets!) Roy, you got that right. :)
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By Sparker - 01/03/2009 10:11:53
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Sorry mate... you lost me....:hehe:
Tony.
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By Mike Martin - 12/03/2009 22:56:24
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Do you know, I wish i'd never mentioned the toilets now;)
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By Roy V - 14/03/2009 14:55:15
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I used them last night, and realised that while the porcelain round the washbasins is light blue, the surround of the urinals is dark blue. Does that mean that I'm only qualified to wash my hands?
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By lauderdale - 15/03/2009 10:24:20
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I hope it does not mean that whilst Grand and Provincial Officers have the benefit of the Urinals, Light Blue Masons are expected to use the handbasins to "Drop a tear of sympathy" so to speak? :w00t:
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By Roy V - 15/03/2009 19:16:55
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And he says he "doesn't do humour"!
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By Terry - 15/03/2009 22:24:00
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My point too, Roy Terry
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