Director: Herbert Wilcox
Release Date: September 1951
The Daily Herald, 11 June 1951, reported that ‘Police held back two crowds in Downing Street yesterday. One crowd booed and shouted. The other watched and grinned. At the windows of No. 10 there were faces. Peeping at the scene through the fine net curtains were members of Mr. Attlee’s staff. A slightly knock-kneed white horse with a bored expression clip-clopped up the street, pulling a dusty cab. Out stepped a man in a frockcoat, natty pale blue waistcoat, drainpipe trousers and a top hat. He went smartly into No. 10. In a matter of seconds he came out and did the whole thing over again. He was Michael Wilding, making a scene for a film. Herbert Wilcox, bustling around the cameras, was directing part of his new production The Lady with the Lamp.[sic] And Anna Neagle, who plays Florence Nightingale, was there to watch – in a 1951 outfit.’
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Within St. James's Palace entering the Ambassadors' Court. In the distance is Stable Yard and Lancaster House.
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Crossing the Ambassadors' Court and passing York House.
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More of the Ambassador's Court and the gateway leading to Cleveland Row.
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Downing Street as Michael Wilding's coach arrives.
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Wilding pauses on the steps of 10 Downing Street.
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Anna Neagle's coach in Chesham Place approaching Belgrave Square.
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Chesham Place and the rear, and side, of 24 Belgrave Square.
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Neagle arriving at 24 Belgrave Square.
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After numerous studio bound shots of debates in the Commons the filmmakers finally showed the Houses of Parliament.
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Wilding approaching on the north side of Church Row, Hampstead.
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Before entering Wilding pauses outside 8 Church Row.
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In a second scene in Hampstead the coach appears to be passing Nos. 12 or 11 on the north side of Church Row.