Though it might be fun to have a thread for chat about filming locations we’ve visited (basically because I’ve just visited Hound Tor - the location for The Sontaran Experiment).
Finding the specific rocks was pretty tricky but I reckon my eldest and I managed to find two definite locations (which are the photos they are in) - the stone Styre tortures the Galsec prisoners on and the rocky outcrop where the Sontaran ship is positioned. We looked and looked for one of the ‘passages’ characters walk up and down but couldn’t locate it.
I’ve been to London, but that was 11 years ago, and I can’t remember if I visited any filming locations (this was before I was a fan, so I wouldn’t have been aware at the time).
They’ve yet to come to Finland to do some filming, but I’ll happily be a local guide once they do. They missed a beat with Last Christmas by not filming the episode at Korvatunturi, where the REAL Santa lives and operates (as we all know), so I’ll give them a second chance in the future!
Perhaps once they decide to do the Moomin Invasion story…
Well, some things in “We Didn’t Start the Fire” are already in Doctor Who, such as Richard Nixon, JFK, “Rock Around the Clock”, the Beatles, and even Elvis Presley is mentioned.
I’ve been to various places in London without considering the Who connections, although I did double-take the first time I walked the steps of St. Paul!
I also stayed in Cardiff for a couple of weeks, and visited the Bay and Millennium Centre. I know they joke on Who about Cardiff being rubbish but I adored my time in the city! A really friendly place.
My friend, who’s a huge Sherlock fan, told me about that. It may well have been there but we didn’t go till quite late in the afternoon so they may have gone home.
These pictures make me feel so nostalgic. I spent so much time there as a child. Visited more recently, which was lovely, but Hound Tor (and the Dartmoor surrounds) will ever be inextricably bound to my childhood. Got snowed in not far from Hound Tor (Blackslade Manor, near Widdecombe on the Moor) - would have been around 1979. The snow was deeper than I was tall!
Not my pictures, but these are the best I can find. It’s holiday accomodation now but, back in the day, my father’s step mother (wonderful eccentric woman) and her family lived in the cottage to the left of the property and we would stay there regularly. The Tor in the photo is not Hound Tor, but Tunhill Rocks, literally just out the back of Blackslade. It’s not far from Hound Tor itself and I lost count of the number of times I played “The Sontaran Experiment” up there!
Whilst on locations, just around the corner from me (well, a 20 minute drive) is Lord Leycester Hospital (yes, that’s the correct spelling), where key scenes were filmed for “The Shakespeare Code”.
Living in Bath, I’m close to both Cardiff and Bristol. I’ve visited both cities a number of times (I worked in Bristol for a number of years) so I have visited a few Doctor Who locations without having to really put much effort in. Just walking through the centre of either city takes you to one or two locations, such as some of the streets used in The Giggle or where the Autons attacked in Rose.And, of course I’ve been to Cardiff Bay and seen Ianto’s shrine.
I’m also reasonably close to Aldbourne (aka: Devils End) but that’s slightly tricker journey for someone who doesn’t drive so I’ve yet to visit there.
I’m actually a little disappointed that Doctor Who has yet to film in Bath, especially considering Rogue was supposed to be set there. So many other TV shows and films have filmed here. Surely it’s about time Who did too?
A friend of mine was in Cardiff for a while and when I visited her we went to numerous locations and it was amazing. I don’t remember where any of them were because it’s been a while, but we saw:
Cardiff Bay with Ianto’s shrine of course,
Saw most of the statues from Blink
The apartment block where Rose lived
the duck pond from Eleven’s first episode (which is actually a parking lot and the pond was fake)
the tunnel the bus appeared from in the special Planet of the Dead
the house Rory and Amy lived after the Doctor dropped them off
A few Sevillian ‘Two Doctors’ locations from several years ago. I was on a tour from the Spanish resort where I was on holiday, and we were given 90 minutes to go off on our own. Within half-an-hour, I’d got round all the locations and taken photos, leaving me with plenty of time for a cold soft drink at La Hosteria Del Laurel.
