alastairq
Western Thunderer
School dinners?
Just for a laugh
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Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
Note the boom mic over the coffin bearers. I can’t recall the comedy show it comes from, sadly.
daifly
Western Thunderer
A quick bit of research reveals:
”In early 2010, Big Talk Productions was filming a scene for the show Rev. outside a church on Shoreditch High Street in London which involved a hearse being towed away during a funeral. As the actors began their faux funeral procession, a group of onlookers gathered to take videos and photographs of what they believed to be a truly grim situation.”
Dave
”In early 2010, Big Talk Productions was filming a scene for the show Rev. outside a church on Shoreditch High Street in London which involved a hearse being towed away during a funeral. As the actors began their faux funeral procession, a group of onlookers gathered to take videos and photographs of what they believed to be a truly grim situation.”
Dave
Ressaldar
Western Thunderer
not even any blue lights!
timbowales
Western Thunderer
Perhaps he's only a probationer?
So, that's where it came from. Thank you.
A Blunkett Bobby?
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Yes, 'Interplods' we called 'em and Triumph Trophy's or Saints as they got named.
I do recall once many moons ago a hole bunch of us on a uk tour in the '70's coming up Porlock Hill and pulling up to a poor Copper with a Saint on the side of the road, big pool of oil and a rod hanging out the bottom of the crankcase, what made me smile more than anything was his big grin, unshaven chin and no front teeth don't see coppers like that anymore
. We were all on British twins and I think he appreciated the offer of help, we weren't always foes 
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Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Traffic Warden ?
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Just out of interest, 'The Clerk's House' is a historic Shoreditch building......
en.wikipedia.org
The Clerk's House - Wikipedia
alastairq
Western Thunderer
Back when I worked ''on the buses,'' one of our 'Nashnul Express' drivers was driving a service into London, when he got diverted, for some reason.
Being quite 'lost', he blundered into what turned out to be a 'film set', without realising, stopped, and asked a 'copper' for directions.
Which the 'copper' duly gave to him!
Then he realised, the 'copper' was one of the actors [or an extra?], at the same time spotting cameras and crews, everybody standing stock still staring at him!
When he finally arrived at Victoria, news of the 'event' had already beaten him to it....
I know from past experience, news of an 'event' always got there faster than one's bus...
As with, the time in the 70's when I arrived [on foot] at the depot to collect the very last available spare bus, for duplicate services , probably to Scarborough. There It was, on its' ownsome, in an empty depot, all the fitters gathered around the doorway having a smoke, etc....What I failed to remember was, the bus was stood right over the one & only pit that was located half way down the depot, at the side. [The others were at the rear]...
[No elfinsafety stripes etc in those days]...
I jumped into the decker [a Daimler Fleetline, as I recall]....started it up, piled on full lock to do a huey inside the empty depot [being a clever sod]...and promptly dropped the rear wheels down the hole!
The group of fitters all saw what was about to unfold, but were frozen in amazement.
I arrived down at the bus station, sans spare bus, having jumped a service on the road outside the depot. News of the event not only, understandably, beat me to the bus station, but, having pinched another bus to do the run [we used to get very full buses in those days].....the 'news' also greeted me on my arrival at Scarborough bus station [Valley Bridge, as was].
I was 'cheered on arrival, and the wee-wee was taken for quite some time afterwards, at various locations around Yorkshire.
Being quite 'lost', he blundered into what turned out to be a 'film set', without realising, stopped, and asked a 'copper' for directions.
Which the 'copper' duly gave to him!
Then he realised, the 'copper' was one of the actors [or an extra?], at the same time spotting cameras and crews, everybody standing stock still staring at him!
When he finally arrived at Victoria, news of the 'event' had already beaten him to it....
I know from past experience, news of an 'event' always got there faster than one's bus...
As with, the time in the 70's when I arrived [on foot] at the depot to collect the very last available spare bus, for duplicate services , probably to Scarborough. There It was, on its' ownsome, in an empty depot, all the fitters gathered around the doorway having a smoke, etc....What I failed to remember was, the bus was stood right over the one & only pit that was located half way down the depot, at the side. [The others were at the rear]...
[No elfinsafety stripes etc in those days]...
I jumped into the decker [a Daimler Fleetline, as I recall]....started it up, piled on full lock to do a huey inside the empty depot [being a clever sod]...and promptly dropped the rear wheels down the hole!
The group of fitters all saw what was about to unfold, but were frozen in amazement.
I arrived down at the bus station, sans spare bus, having jumped a service on the road outside the depot. News of the event not only, understandably, beat me to the bus station, but, having pinched another bus to do the run [we used to get very full buses in those days].....the 'news' also greeted me on my arrival at Scarborough bus station [Valley Bridge, as was].
I was 'cheered on arrival, and the wee-wee was taken for quite some time afterwards, at various locations around Yorkshire.