Filming Locations and Dates

[Cynthia]

14 and 15 February 2008 (today and tomorrow) at harbour in Scarborough.

[Samantha]

Oh wow, how did you find that out Cynthia? Is anybody going to be there? Too bad I like seven hours away or I would go. I loved it that one time I got to watch some filming. It was so interesting. I didn't really talk to anybody but just watching it was amazing :D

[Ms.Mz]

I could have gone today as well! Oh well. Thanks for the info, Cynthia. How did you find out?

I'm going to Goathland next Friday, so hopefully I'll get lucky then.

[Cynthia]

It was in the Scarborough newspaper

[hazza]

I could have gone too!!! :(
Weirdly I might be there next week too, fingers crossed?
:)

[Cynthia]

There wasn't much lead time anyway - it was in the paper just Wednesday, 13 February. And I posted it first to the "Visit Goathland' forum because they've been struggling. The admin there has finally managed to get rid of the pervert spammers, but they didn't yet have any active threads.

If I find any more, I will post them in this thread.

[hazza]

Thanks Cynthia!!

[Cynthia]

Here's a very interesting article from the Yorkshire Post - 22 February, 2008.

I've bolded the pertinent Heartbeat reference, so just skim down the page if you don't want to read it all.

The home now standing on platform one

Mike Silkstone reports
on how to improve your station in life in Glaisdale.

Wash days were awful,' our new neighbour spoke with authority, having lived at the Station House for many years. "Oh, steam trains were mucky – and the sidings? Well, when sheep sales were being held…"

Her rheumy eyes seemed to again view the scene she was describing, then she asked, "And what are you going to do exactly? I hear you're opening a tearoom."

We nodded.

"Of course, I never get out, so…" but this Miss Marple missed nothing.

We had sold our Endeavour Restaurant in nearby Staithes in favour of a railway station on the Esk Valley Line, exchanging the roar of the sea to that of diesel, the hard work of the last five years seeming as nothing to what lay ahead – but this was 1989, I could move mountains, then.

We began to tame our wilderness. I did lots of dry-stone walling, built three ponds burying buffers, and I think, half an engine. We acquired a goat, cats, a pet toad and hens and geese, company for our pekinese, standard poodle and parrots, as Roger, a Glaisdale local and the best builder in North Yorkshire began alterations to the property (while having to comply with stringent National Park regulations.)

Built in 1867, ours appeared similar to other village stations of the Whitby-Middlesbrough line, and only months after our arrival, the train service (the first one before six in the morning) was suddenly halved, the signal box becoming un-manned.

We had a winter of owls screeching their territory and our opening day came nearer. Because Wainwright's Coast-to-Coast walk passed our window we
were also doing B&B. It was suddenly full steam ahead.

Our tearoom menu was very basic, for we had a simple yard-stick. If we didn't make it, we didn't sell it. Having begun our working lives in bakeries, teacakes, scones, cakes and the like presented no problem. We used leaf tea, made soup from our garden produce. The only things not "home-made" were ice-cream and canned drinks. Days, interminably long, stretched into weeks. Ours was a busy summer, but not particularly profitable. Our tearoom years, however, had high spots and a splattering of celebrities. Steven Mellor from EastEnders (and later The Bill,) Victoria Wood, who was making a television programme about a train journey from Scotland and the accommodation she encountered en-route. Then there were Royalty. In 1997, Prince Charles visited Glaisdale, the Royal Train stopping outside our window. A top-ranking police officer was staying with us, the security seemingly relaxed till he informed us that for several weeks prior to the visit, armed officers had daily patrolled the nearby woods and our house had also been under surveillance.

The now redundant signal box was given a new lease of life, un-boarded and re-painted, while the Railway Station proper (our house) like some old
floozy anxious to do business, was done up in her glad-rags and festooned with patriotic bunting and Prince of Wales feathers.

The foot and mouth outbreak several years ago sounded the death-knell of many small rural businesses. But by then we had retired. We'd see salmon in the Esk, and watch the herons and occasional deer, enjoy walks through nearby Arncliffe Woods where we found Chanterelles and other edible fungi. There were also the naughty bright red ones (best avoided.) We could devote more time to the garden (which we were constantly changing) and re-kindle our love for books. We have an extensive "Yorkshire" collection, and we also joined art classes. I bought a new piano, a cello (which I shall learn to play, one day) and a powerful telescope for bringing the Milky Way closer. Every inch of the house is now ours, and it's wonderful!

Since our arrival in Glaisdale nearly 20 years ago, there have been several changes. There's one village pub, instead of the original three, the church has no vicar, and one of the chapels is to be sold. There's still the post-office-cum-shop, a local butcher, undertaker, auctioneer, and farms now selling organic produce – and lots of B&B. The Station House across the track has recently changed hands and does it all-year-round. The Robinson Institute, where everything in Glaisdale "happens" has been renovated. Last month it was the venue for the local Beggars' Bridge Players yearly pantomime and, for three weeks in summer, it becomes the Esk Valley Summer Theatre, a project run by actor Mark Stratton and his wife, choreographer Sheila Carter, who live in the village.

Glaisdale is also the home of bespoke cabinet maker Chris Hunter who was manager of Viscount Linley's furniture factory before starting his own business.

Glaisdale has now been discovered by the makers of Heartbeat and filming often takes place near the famous Beggars' Bridge. Peter Walker, alias Nicholas Rhea who wrote the Constable books on which Heartbeat is based, was born in Glaisdale, not far from where we live.

The River Esk, besides being known for salmon fishing has suddenly come into prominence as the discovered "home" for the almost extinct freshwater pearl mussel. But to get back to the railway. The train runs Whitby-Middlesbrough four times daily, except Sundays. There's also a "skeleton" bus service to Whitby, daytime only and the passengers who take it feel as if they are going via Inverness. In fact since we have become a nation of one or two cars per household, living in Glaisdale without one would be very difficult. During the summer months there's a "music train" that runs late Friday evenings in addition to the normal service, complete with bar and band.

Steam trains have also returned, hooting and hissing, taking one back to the pre-Beeching era. Summer excursions from Whitby, pure nostalgia.

Sometimes, looking from our window on the concrete platforms and the Waiting Room that's always in need of a coat of paint, or the garden that owns us…our thoughts turn to moving. We regularly look at properties for sale.

But if we do move… will the grass be greener?

Last Updated: 22 February 2008 7:11 PM


And then:
See update of that filming in Scarborough harbour at:
http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/Scenes-filmed-for-new-series.3807203.jp

[Cynthia]

I can't take credit for this one. Check out the "Visit Goathland" forum at
http://www.goathland.info/forum/viewforum.php?f=2
to find it.

[Ms.Mz]

Oh no! That's two days after I go back down south for the Easter holidays! If I was still in Leeds I could have gone.

Thanks for the link, Cynthia. I hope someone is able to go and report back.

[hazza]

Its the day BEFORE i break up!
:(

[Stormee]

I know what lady means about the train , apparently the coal dust from the steam would hang in the air and many a day the washing would have to be taken in again and redone, Darnell had somewhat the same problem with the smoke stacks. Aren`t you glad that you live in the day of envirionmentalists?

[Cynthia]

No dates this time, but here is another location to watch for filming.


New British Eventing course at 'Heartbeat' location
Equestrian News | 26 June, 2008

ONE of the key locations for popular TV series, 'Heartbeat', is also set to become a new venue for British Eventing.

The new course, created by BE accredited coach, Moray Nicholson BHSI, runs across the private parkland of Thornton Watlass Hall, near Bedale in North Yorkshire.

The hall is a regular shoot location for the Heartbeat cast