Auster in Foyles War

Thanks Pimpernel. It was the Kilkerran in the address that put me off as that sounded Irish. Must do better!

Did anybody see Foyles War yesterday evening (Sunday)? Auster J/1N G-AJAJ arrived to take the “bad guy” away. It seems to be registered in Ireland but does anybody know where the sequence was filmed?

Ozplane, just for the record, Maybole is in Ayeshire, Scotland, not Ireland. Sorry but my Postie background showing through.

Thanks chaps. I thought I recognised the Customs House but I couldn’t for the life of me remember where it was. Too much “Liffey Water” last time I saw it I suspect!

I also thought the location might be Weston, near Dublin, though I don’t recall any reports of G-AJAJ being sighted there.

Dublin’s Custom House appeared in several scenes of that episode, though with use of CGI or some other device to replace the modern buildings beyond it with a backdrop more in keeping with 1940s London:

Custom House, Dublin by Irish251, on Flickr

The aircraft appeared to be at Weston just west of Dublin and the series filmed in and around Dublin.
Regards
Tony K

G-AJAJ is getting to be an old hand at this TV lark. In May 2003 it made a brief appearance in a Channel 4 programme titled “Secret History: Hitler of the Andes”. The suggestion being made was that Hitler escaped from Berlin at the end of the war in a light aeroplane (not an Auster!). At the time of this programme the J.1N was held at Eggesford.

JAJ (never a military aeroplane) appeared in the same make-up then as it did in the Foyle’s War episode “Sunflower” – camouflage, RAF roundels and large white civil registration letters.

IIRC there was an interview with Honeysuckle Weeks in the Saturday supplement of the DM a couple of weeks ago and she said that it was filmed in the Dublin area as the city still resembles London of the late 1940s and thus avoiding modern landmarks such as the ‘gerkin’

Martin