edcayton Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Does anyone know where this was filmed please? TiA Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted March 3, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2015 Here you go. http://www.creativeengland.co.uk/story/where-was-the-casual-vacancy-filmed- Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 Many thanks Russ, much appreciated. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 At the end of the final episode a number of aerial shots were strung together largely of the areas where filming took place but Tintern Abbey in the Wye Valley also featured. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthesnail96 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Quite a lot of it (the posh bits) was Painswick and Minchinhampton as suggested in that link. However I'm reliably informed that there were several clips filmed in Stonehouse, including the social club (situated just up from the level crossing on the Midland line through the town) that I walk past on my way to work, and one of the chip shops & corner shop down the road also featured. I started watching the first episode but decided it wasn't worth sitting through it just to see some places that I see every day... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted March 5, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 5, 2015 Can't believe that the book would ever have got published without it being by a known, successful author. I had hoped that it might make better TV...but it didn't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Total rubbish - I lasted about 20 minutes of episode 1. What a waste of my licence fee. Mind you I am not a fan of Harry Potter either! Paddy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Did they forget the last episode? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Radford Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 I have never seen so many stereotypes in one programme - but where was the "weirdo" with the "train set"? Amazingly it got good reviews from all the journos who know about this sort of stuff, including a couple that said the TV adaption was better than the book!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Colin Posted March 9, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2015 I have never seen so many stereotypes in one programme - but where was the "weirdo" with the "train set"? Amazingly it got good reviews from all the journos who know about this sort of stuff, including a couple that said the TV adaption was better than the book!!! I'll definitely give the book a miss then. I suppose the podgy solicitor might have made a suitably stereotypical "train set weirdo" given his lack of interest in his missus! The only sympathetic character for me was little Robbie - with a family like that and his sister gone down the river as it were, poor kid didn't stand a chance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
avonside1563 Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 I struggled my way through the first episode and then was so inspired by it I just plain forgot to watch the rest... either that or I remembered I had a life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Colin Posted March 9, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2015 Got to admit that despite considering myself as being in possession of a life I forced myself to sit through the whole thing. (Dog already walked, layout room too cold, just finished good book etc so nothing better to do) I really should have known better after the first episode but I stuck it out, hoping for the improvement which never came. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyboy Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 I have both read the book and watched the recent TV series and thought both was good. Not a fan of Harry Potter and thought that this was a lot more better for me personally as it was a story of real people and real lives. Plus it was one of my inspirations to go on and try to write my own novel, but on a different subject. Sam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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