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 "Until 1840, this building was the site of Newton Haven's first post office." It wasn't but that's what Simon Pegg says about it in the film The World's End. It's a film about five men coming to terms with middle age while on a pub crawl which happens to coincide with an alien invasion. One of the things that I like about it is how true the geography of the fictional pub crawl is to real life. The big discrepancy is that the Southern half of the fictional town centre is this town, Welwyn Garden City, whereas the Northern half and the UK's first roundabout, on the Southern edge, are the similar-looking Letchworth Garden City, which in reality is about 20 km from here. The first four pubs of the crawl are here in Welwyn and the other eight are in Letchworth. The first one and the last one are in reality a little further out from the centres of their respective towns than the film makes out, but in the right directions. Some interior shots and fight scenes were filmed in studios or on locations elsewhere but the journeys between them appear like they are in real life. In the film, this is the first pub, the First Post. The interior shots of the first pub were filmed inside this building. So were the interior scenes of the second pub, including the scene in the toilets, in order to make a joke about a lot of pubs looking the same these days. UTC Time: 10:13, Wednesday 16 September 2015 Local Time: 11:13, Wednesday 16 September 2015 Estimate of longitude: 0° 11' 50.89" W = -0.197470° Estimate of latitude: 51° 47' 25.76" N = 51.790490° Possible error on position estimate: 50 metres | |