I recently found some old photographs that I took of parts of the Wisteria Lodge episode of the TV series The Return of Sherlock Holmes being filmed in Grappenhall Village in Warrington where I lived at the time. Starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Watson it featured the cobbled streets of Grappenhall village as well as “The Large Room” made up as a Police station and the Rams Head Inn as The Bull Hotel. The episode aired in April 1988 and as far as I can ascertain the filming was in 1987, at the time a few of us skived off school for the day to watch and take pictures, purely for educational reasons of course!
You can view the rest of the pictures on Flickr here and the full Wisteria Lodge episode can be watched on YouTube in 6 parts starting here or you can jump straight to the parts filmed in Grappenhall here and here.
Thanks for the post.. I can’t wait for the Sherlock Holmes movie..*2 more days!*..I’m going to watch Sherlock Holmes online as soon as I can…mind if I share this post on digg?
hi, i moved to grappenhall in 1992 and i remember them filming sherlock holmes in 1993 because my daughter went to st wilfrids and they has put false snow down on the ground for a short time while filming.regards denise.