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#388260 14th Feb 2010 6:55am
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Hi - THe Magnet film again - can anyone help with the locations for these three shots from the film?

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Wallasey area? My great uncle would know he played the tear away kid who used the magnet on the pinball machine near the beginning of the film, not seen him in years though. Good luck with finding the locations, I'm sure someone here will know. I'm sure I heard it may have been somewhere in wallasey. smile
Has the IMDB any info?

http://www.reelstreets.com/public/p_film_page.php?film=magnet

Hope this may help a little. smile

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My dad watched the filming of the final scenes where the boy falls in the water.They threw a dummy off Rock Ferry Pier/jetty so they could have used the houses around Rock Park?
I love the film,so i`ve used it in 2 videos "My Boyish Days" by Care featuring Ian Broudie (pre Lightning Seeds)and a version of Ferry cross the Mersey by Pat Metheny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ytLyL4SRFA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2EHG_DyZZ8

p.s. does the embed code work on wiki as the preview just showed the code as opposed to other site previews?

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Useless Information No.427/B. I don't recall either Wallasey or Birkenhead having that type of gas lamp column (See 2nd pic). The ones in Rock Park (originals, not the recent REVO's) were the bog standard plain, slim, fluted type with an increase in diameter for about 10" from ground level. Have a 35mm slide of them somewhere.

Can't make out the street name in 3rd pic. Can anyone else ? That would help.

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Thanks for your replies - I've checked out Rock Park - but unfortunately not the right location - very interesting to see that area though.
Hope someone else can help?

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I did a piece about the film on my site

http://www....co.uk/wallasey/the_magnet/index.html

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Oxton....Elm Road area ?

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Think outside the box ?
It is on the Wirral ?

Look at the far distance..they look like houses/cottages that are just on the edge of some Park boundaries ?
On Birkenhead Park exits, as it now ? I don't think so.

But with a bit of editing...they are on the Wirral at that time (and not a lot of money to spend then? )..it serpently.......ain't in West Kirby,in case you ask !

Errrm...can I suggest,as VERY NEW Newbie to this site....(HISS,BOOO ? )that all the trickies,trackies,wheelies,hot rods,bicycle boys,& ALL of us,as ordinary motorists.......keep an eye out for OLD sandstone entrances on the Wirral?

I bet, £10...it is somewhere in OXTON ?

Bigger problem........I am fascinated by this film,that I have never seen.
Can I filtch,approciate,cadge,or even BUY a copy from anyone ?

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Hi lynneb - you can watch the film at this link(not great quality)

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay...jW-AaJ0PHVBw&q=the+magnet&hl=en#

Or you can buy it from amazon for about £5.00

I will check out the Elm Road area - do you meanthe Elm Road by St Catherine's hospital ?

thanks


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I got my copy from amazon or play, it was under a fiver anyway.

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I ordered a copy of amazon the other day

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I thought it was mainly filmed in New Brighton?

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It was plus a few other local locations. Some in Liverpool as well.

Longworths bike shop in Rowson street was where the cellar with the iron lung in it was. The kid ran down the entry at the side and reappeared coming out of the entry next to the Ferry hotel (Chelsea to the young ones). An impossibility but that's artistic licence for you.

Other scenes were shot in the baths, Sea Road, Manor road, Kirkway amongst others. Have to admit that those photo's at the top have me stumped and I have seen them before and tried like hell to locate them. I am not convinced they are Wirral?

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Hi Helles and everyone.I have recently found out that the road and houses in the photos were used in another film as well.This was 'The Long Memory' 1952 starring John Mills.This film was shot in Gravesend and London - so I think it is safe to say that these shots from 'The Magnet' were not in the Wirral - but probably London.

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does look like earlston road, junction with seaview road, liscard and surrounding area.

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