Is the school still there?

"The credits in the film are a bit misleading as the staff and pupils used as extras came from the Archbishop Temple School."

Not quite true. The pupils were from Temples, who were paid £1 a day. None of the staff appeared in the film. The only staff connections were Linda Carr (Head of Drama) whose boyfriend was one of the production staff, hence the connection into the school. Also Head of History, Peter Pryce who was a sort of official chaperone.

"It is now my understanding that all the school interiors and exteriors were actually filmed at Colet Court (153 Hammersmith Road).

This is correct."

"There was still an attached playground/field at the time (it is now a small park). The sports day may have been at Colet Court but I'm sure I saw a reference to it being filmed in Archbishops Park, next door to the school which used to use it for games in real life. I believe that sequence was shot in one day, so I doubt they would have used two locations. "


There were two "fields used". The one at the front of the archway, was actually across the road from Colet Court School. It had been part of a churchyard. The field used for the sports day was at the back of Colet Court School.

"They also took some publicity photos of the cast and pupils at this site to add to the confusion! Thats not to say, they did not film something here though? Anyone out there that was in it remember? "

I was not aware of this.

Archbishop Temples School was orginally going to be used as the location and filming should have taken place over thre Easter holidays. The film production company were unable to agree to the 10 day window which the School Governors wanted, hence the reason why another location was found.

The scenes with the extras were filmed over the East holidays and 4 weekends.

The house at the begining where Mark Lester lived was in Parsons Green near Fulham, while Melody lived in Clayton buildings, in Kennington Road. Lambeth, fairly near Archbishop Temples School. Clayton Buildings were demolished in the late 1970s.

The day out to the seaside was Margate. Dreamland as it was then became Bembom Brothers, and then owned by a Mr Jimmy Godden who sold it in 2004 to a property developer. The rollercoaster is still there,and is the oldest wooden roller coaster in the world.