STATELY SETS

Badminton House in Gloucestershire (above) and a former bottling factory in Bristol may be poles apart, but they were both crucial locations for The Pursuit Of Love. Badminton provided the cinema room and one of the dining rooms at the grand house of the Radletts’ neighbour Lord Merlin, as well as Uncle Matthew’s study and Fanny’s bedroom at Alconleigh. The production team used other stately homes too, but for scenes that couldn’t be recreated in these grand piles the Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol were used. Parts of Paris were also recreated here, including the Gare du Nord railway station. ‘We combined the factory with some clever CGI to create the Gare du Nord,’ says executive producer Frith Tiplady. ‘The team got very inventive very quickly.’