Thompson Home Movie: Grove Hotel, Ickenham and the Hillingdon Show
16mm film Colour Silent c1979 8:20
Summary: Amateur footage shot around the Grove Hotel , also in Rickmansworth and Ickenham, followed by beautiful colour scenes of the Hillingdon Show.
Title number: 20041
LSA ID: LSA/26485
Description: Shot in colour, early shots through the main gate of the Grove then a view of suburban streets, cars, front and back gardens with homeowners (man and woman) tending the back garden. Two women in summers dresses sitting in the back garden. Exterior view of front of house with friends arriving. Views of family and friends in back garden. View of car driving into car park. Sign advertising Hillingdon Show, 24/25 June. Watching horse jumping at the Hillingdon Show, Panning shot of show, giant bouncy castle. Woman looking at stalls and there is a vintage car show, steam tractors, views of fairground and children's rides, carousels, speedway bike races. A view of St Gile's Church, Ickenham exterior, the Ickenham village pump. Panning shot of large suburban brick house and shot of house across the pond by the pump. Gells Almshouses, Swakeleys Road, Ickenham. Shot of house and grounds in snow.
Credits: Dennis Thompson, Laurence (Filmmaker)
Further information: The Grove is a large hotel in Hertfordshire, England, with its own 300–acre (1.2 km²) private park next to the River Gade and the Grand Union Canal. It touches on its north-west corner the M25 motorway and remains a small part in Watford (St Luke).
Since 2006 it has hosted the WGC-American Express Championship, the G20 London summit and the 2013 Bilderberg Conference.
It was remodelled by various architects including Surveyor of the King's Works, Robert Taylor on the site of a medieval manor house as a home for the Earls of Clarendon, second creation, the Villiers family who downsized their estates to one they have long held at Swanmore, Hampshire following the 1914 increase of estate duty.
Keywords: St Giles' Church; Coach and Horses; Hillingdon Show
Locations: United Kingdom; England; Hertfordshire; Watford; Rickmansworth, Chandler's Cross, United Kingdom; England; London; Hillingdon; Uxbridge; Ickenham
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