Just a nice period picture

[Costafortune]

Both ships were crap though and were scrapped around 1980 before they broke in half. They were cheaply built and not really fit for purpose.

[Peter Laidler]

Oh, don't pop my bubble Costa........ I just admire the sheer size of 'em!

[Costafortune]

So big to be almost scary - even in a photo.

[surfblue63]

This shot gives a better representation of the size of the ESSO vessels




The street, named Leslie Street, was knocked down years ago. The site is now the Segedunum visitor centre, were the Segedunum Roman Fort was located at the east end of Hadrians wall.


And here's a shot taken during filming of Get Carter with the Hibernian in the background. The shot was taken at the Wallsend Ferry terminal.

[WMU 211G]

Nice Get Carter shot Stu. Considering how bleak the film looks it was actually shot over July, August and September of 1970. Straight after doing his part in the film Ian Hendry went on to do a guest spot for 'The Persuaders' in which he briefly drove a black Mk2 Cooper with blacked out glass.

[surfblue63]

Nidge

There's loads of stills from Get Carter out there, I just searched Michael Caine Wallsend for the ferry jetty shot. If you swop Wallsend for Gateshead you will get shots from the car park



Sadly the car park was pulled done a few years ago




Stuart

[goff]

This shot gives a better representation of the size of the ESSO vessels




The street, named Leslie Street, was knocked down years ago. The site is now the Segedunum visitor centre, were the Segedunum Roman Fort was located at the east end of Hadrians wall.


And here's a shot taken during filming of Get Carter with the Hibernian in the background. The shot was taken at the Wallsend Ferry terminal.

I tell you what Surfblue63 you would overlay for the day shift with all that hammering , clanging ect , that's how it was .

[Costafortune]

Ian Hendry and Caine couldn't stand each other.

The blue Cortina HHK464H was owned by a guy called Jon Hill 20+ years ago and that pic was taken around 2001. It's not the same car used in the film.

[Exminiman]

What a brilliant photo, no getting away from work if you live there

Houses on LH side have Mono pitch roofs, wonder if they had windows over looking the dock ?

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[WMU 211G]

Nidge

There's loads of stills from Get Carter out there, I just searched Michael Caine Wallsend for the ferry jetty shot. If you swop Wallsend for Gateshead you will get shots from the car park



Sadly the car park was pulled done a few years ago




Stuart

I know Stu I've already got loads of them! There's a really good book about the making of Get Carter by Steve Chibnal, it includes all of the shooting dates and locations.....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313567196312 ... -EQAvD_BwE

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They used two different Mk2 Jags in this scene, one has wire wheels and the other has steelies with hub caps....!

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[Costafortune]

The first one with wires was scrapped, the second car lived a few years longer until a wall fell on it.
The G registration was fake btw - they were quite early 59-60 cars that were worth bugger all in 1970.

[WMU 211G]

The first one with wires was scrapped, the second car lived a few years longer until a wall fell on it.
The G registration was fake btw - they were quite early 59-60 cars that were worth bugger all in 1970.

''Cheap old Mk2 Jags used in film, schock horror''

In the scenes where Caine is 'driving' the Mk2 Cortina the film crew pushed him into the shot as he hadn't passed his driving test at the time!

The opening title sequence in the finished film is perfect, especially with Roy Budd's soundtrack but it was meant to be slightly different, some footage was shot of the train departing from Kings X but it was too slow so it was cut.

And for even more geekiness, the Deltic loco that passes Caine's train in the titles was 9010 'The King's Own Scottish Borderer'

[WMU 211G]

Nice 'Aqua' 1275GT in this 1976 photo taken at Camborne in Cornwall....

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(For complete and utter geek purposes the loco is either D1056 'Western Sultan' or D1071 'Western Renown' )

[Old English White]

That is a very patriotic scene isn't it. Not a foreign car anywhere to be seen is there? The company I worked for then wouldn't allow any of us to choose a foreign car for work purposes

[AndyPen]

Nice 'Aqua' 1275GT in this 1976 photo taken at Camborne in Cornwall....


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I was a student driving around that area at that time!!!

[Exminiman]

That is a very patriotic scene isn't it. Not a foreign car anywhere to be seen is there? The company I worked for then wouldn't allow any of us to choose a foreign car for work purposes

Were other countries the same, around that time ?

[mab01uk]

That is a very patriotic scene isn't it. Not a foreign car anywhere to be seen is there? The company I worked for then wouldn't allow any of us to choose a foreign car for work purposes

Were other countries the same, around that time ?

Whenever I have driven through France in recent years it looks to me like they still buy mostly French cars and I think their car industry was in a similar state to BL at one point?

[Exminiman]

Would any French folks concur with this ?

Speaking as some one who got married in a Traction Avant…..

[Costafortune]

France has mainly French cars and Dacias. Not much German or Jap stuff at all.

[AndyPen]

Just a nice period safety film for all you bikers - circa 1963-4 I suspect so nice minis in the background too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsG-2i1d8rc