Actually I thought it was Warmington on Sea – from Dad’s Army. Kinda makes sense – well it does to me.
7 January 2023
Lord leominster
It makes sense because it is the fictional town Walmington-on-Sea of Dad’s Army fame. The Novelty Rock Emporium is located on the Coast Road.
7 January 2023
Lord leominster
Walmington-on-Sea is situated on the south coast of England in Sussex. Thetford in Norfolk stood in as Walmington for many of the location scenes of the Dad’s Army TV series. Thetford boasts a Dad’s Army walking tour of the town taking in well known locations and includes a visit to an (approximately) three quarters size statue of Captain Mainwaring who is sat in a bench. For the 2016 Dad’s Army film Bridlington in Yorkshire became Walmington.
8 January 2023
EXXO
Dad’s Army resources on the net seem pretty equivocal about the fictional location, but a map shown in one episode does clearly put it in the exact location of Bexhill-on-Sea, with rival platoon “Eastgate” being Eastbourne, and that surely overrides everything else such as Bexhill not having a pier, Walmington sounding like Wilmington, the church being named after ones in Dorset, etc – it’s a fictional location so they made fictional stuff up based on stuff they knew. But it’s set where Bexhill is.
9 January 2023
EXXO
My younger brother, who out-pedants any of us by a country mile (with his koi carp at the end of it), points out that the only “town” that “Mr. Brown” could effectively commute to from Bexhill on the 8.21 would be Eastbourne. I pointed out that the theme song is about the Home Guard in general, not particularly the Walmington platoon.
9 January 2023
Pirx The Purist
Bexhill-on-Sea is the setting for much of the first part of Spike Milligan’s war memoirs, because the Royal Artillery had a camp there.
9 January 2023
dr desperate
I always assumed that the “Town” into which Mr Brown commuted was London, which would rule out a home anywhere further south than Epsom, assuming a 9-to-5 job (even bearing in mind that most of the Southern line was electrified by 1936).
9 January 2023
paul f
@Exxo, my in-laws live in Wilmington (Devon rather than Dorset, although not far from the border). Confusingly the next village along the A35 is Kilmington.
10 January 2023
mister tubbs
For the last 40 years or so, I’d always heard it as Mr. Brown going to town on the A21, or maybe driving to work was banned during the war?
11 January 2023
professor Abelazar Woozle
Private car ownership was uncommon back in the 1940s, the only people you’d generally see driving to work would be doctors and vets who would need to get out and about to see their patients. The vast majority of commuters would be on the bus or the train, hence Mr. Brown on the 8.21, not the A21.
Kemtrail brian
Actually I thought it was Warmington on Sea – from Dad’s Army. Kinda makes sense – well it does to me.
7 January 2023
Lord leominster
It makes sense because it is the fictional town Walmington-on-Sea of Dad’s Army fame. The Novelty Rock Emporium is located on the Coast Road.
7 January 2023
Lord leominster
Walmington-on-Sea is situated on the south coast of England in Sussex. Thetford in Norfolk stood in as Walmington for many of the location scenes of the Dad’s Army TV series. Thetford boasts a Dad’s Army walking tour of the town taking in well known locations and includes a visit to an (approximately) three quarters size statue of Captain Mainwaring who is sat in a bench. For the 2016 Dad’s Army film Bridlington in Yorkshire became Walmington.
8 January 2023
EXXO
Dad’s Army resources on the net seem pretty equivocal about the fictional location, but a map shown in one episode does clearly put it in the exact location of Bexhill-on-Sea, with rival platoon “Eastgate” being Eastbourne, and that surely overrides everything else such as Bexhill not having a pier, Walmington sounding like Wilmington, the church being named after ones in Dorset, etc – it’s a fictional location so they made fictional stuff up based on stuff they knew. But it’s set where Bexhill is.
9 January 2023
EXXO
My younger brother, who out-pedants any of us by a country mile (with his koi carp at the end of it), points out that the only “town” that “Mr. Brown” could effectively commute to from Bexhill on the 8.21 would be Eastbourne. I pointed out that the theme song is about the Home Guard in general, not particularly the Walmington platoon.
9 January 2023
Pirx The Purist
Bexhill-on-Sea is the setting for much of the first part of Spike Milligan’s war memoirs, because the Royal Artillery had a camp there.
9 January 2023
dr desperate
I always assumed that the “Town” into which Mr Brown commuted was London, which would rule out a home anywhere further south than Epsom, assuming a 9-to-5 job (even bearing in mind that most of the Southern line was electrified by 1936).
9 January 2023
paul f
@Exxo, my in-laws live in Wilmington (Devon rather than Dorset, although not far from the border). Confusingly the next village along the A35 is Kilmington.
10 January 2023
mister tubbs
For the last 40 years or so, I’d always heard it as Mr. Brown going to town on the A21, or maybe driving to work was banned during the war?
11 January 2023
professor Abelazar Woozle
Private car ownership was uncommon back in the 1940s, the only people you’d generally see driving to work would be doctors and vets who would need to get out and about to see their patients. The vast majority of commuters would be on the bus or the train, hence Mr. Brown on the 8.21, not the A21.
11 January 2023