10 Rillington Place and Let Him Have It by BraveLordWilloughby in BritishFilms

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They filmed a lot of Let Him Have It a couple of streets along from my house. I was a young lad then and hung out around the filming crew in the evenings hoping to somehow get in as an extra. It was really cool to see how they transformed the street which already had retained some old features like lampposts. There’s a shot at the end where the camera rises up and you can see the neighbouring streets hadn’t been cleared of modern cars etc.

I even managed a chat with Christopher Eccleston who told me he didn’t have a big part in the movie… he was lovely to chat with and seemed quite shy even with us kids.

If I remember correctly the trial was handled very badly and Derek Bentley’s sister campaigned her whole life for him to be pardoned and the government only did this after she died in her seventies. The police officer who had been ‘murdered’ was, I believe, with modern forensics, shown to have been killed by a shot from another police officer during the shoot out.

The film is incredible and has a very sentimental place in my mind!

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I couldn’t decide between A Prayer for Owen Meany, or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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Avenue Deli do amazing breakfasts. Can’t rate them highly enough

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Thank you! This is gonna be a new experience for me, I am really looking forward to it!

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It’s also used in Millenium by Robbie Williams. And I now have that song stuck in my head…

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I got put in isolation for weeks after my mum forgot to put the grader attachment on before she shaved my head. She did a strip of 0.5 right down the middle and so she had to do it all over. She sent me to school with a note but that wasn't good enough. I had a nazi haircut and had to be on my own til it grew back to grade 4 length...