photos by Chris Glover, no reproduction without permission
These photos are from the Norfolk locations for the 1987 serial of Vanity Fair. This village was used for the battle scenes.
In the first photo the battle extras and riggers are in the foreground. The guy in light clothing on the extreme left by the blue van is the armourer.
Thanks to Chris Glover for sharing the photos.
Photo by Chris Glover, no reproduction without permission
Night shoot for the 1987 serial Vanity Fair, Vauxhall Gardens scenes.
Thanks to Chris Glover for sharing the photo.
The following comment was left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Diane Lester: “We filmed the Vauxhall garden scenes over a few night shots at Bickling Hall, Norfolk. The cameraman in the picture is Paul, (sorry, can’t remember his surname). Dave Bushell is also in shot, well his back is.”
Photos by Chris Glover, no reproduction without permission. These photos are from the 1987 drama serial, Vanity Fair. They were taken in Sidmouth, which was standing in for Brighton. In the second photo is ‘Amelia’ (Rebecca Saire) (L) talking to ‘Dobbin’ (Simon Dormandy). Chris’s wife Wendy Bradfield made this and other costumes for Rebecca.
The following comment was left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Dave Bushell: ‘On the recce the director and EM (John Abbott) had identified a stretch of concrete hard standing where the beach met the promenade on which to lay a camera track. When we arrived the day before the shoot it had disappeared under heavy shingle. John then organised a caterpillar tracked bulldozer to travel overnight along the road from Exeter. The noise as it came along the prom in the early hours of the morning woke the whole seafront.’
Paul Woolston and VPR20 videotape machine mounted on carriage
Low loader
Paul Woolston on 2CV camera car + director Mike Morris
Cherry picker. For lighting purposes I think, rather than a camera platform
Photos by Chris Glover from the 1987 drama series, Vanity Fair.
The following comments were posted on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Malcolm Hickman: ‘Paul Woolston was a real gentleman. A sad loss..’
Jane Green: ‘Yes – lovely to see Paul Woolston in this pic. I was a runner on this. Up at 3am to bus in about a hundred extras to get into costume and make up – period dress – so took hours and hours, to shoot a ball scene at the Rothschilds’ fabulous Waddesdon Manor in Bucks. Seriously hard work! Lots of tired, hot, fed up actors to placate.’
Gavin Davies on Dead Head. Photo by Willoughby Gullachsen, no reproduction without permission
Here is production designer, Gavin Davies’s CV, and impressive credits list. I think the CV dates from the mid 1990s when the services of crafts people were hired to Independent companies, following John Birt’s re-organisation of the BBC.
Thanks to Ann Chancellor-Davies for sharing Gavin’s CV. Gavin sadly died some years ago.