“This looks all right though, its got a… sort of, better air an’it?
Need electricians do they?”
Barry Taylor, Series 1, Episode 1, ‘If I Were a Carpenter’
The
BECO
Building
Site
Virtual
Tour
was
produced
for
and
premièred
at
the
30
th
Anniversary
Auf
Wiedersehen,
Pet
‘Brickie’s
Builders
Banquette’
at
NewcastleGateshead
Hilton
Hotel
back
in
September
2013
where
cast,
crew,
writers,
directors
and
diehard
fans
united
to
celebrate
the
award
winning
show.
This
45-minute
animation
takes
you
on
a
unique
never-before-seen
virtual
tour
through
televisions
most
famous
construction
site
used
as
the
backdrop
to
Series 1, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
TAKE A UNIQUE JOURNEY THROUGH THE BECO BUILDING SITE
FILM SET AND FOLLOW THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR MAGNIFICENT 7
Take
the
journey
by
flying
over
an
empty
2-acre
back
lot
at
Elstree
Studios
in
Hertfordshire,
UK.
Gain
an
appreciation
of
its
relationship
with
Elstree
Studios
to
the
east
along
with
typical
English
residential
properties
to
the
north,
south
and
west.
Swoop
into
the
backlot
and
watch
from
above
as
it
transforms
into
a
temporary
construction
site
complete
with
set
buildings,
trailers,
timber
huts
and
fully
functional
crane
all
constructed
to
mimic
a
similar
real-life
building
site
in Hamburg, Germany, also used for a handful of scenes.
Our
three-dimensional
virtual
tour
interweaves
many
Series
1
scenes
filmed
at
Elstree
Studios
backlot
with
real-time
animation
to
offer
you
a
truly
unique
insight
into
how
the
film
set
would
have
looked
during
filming
1982.
Discover
how
Directors
and
film
crew
exploited
every
inch
of
the
site
and
how
they
convinced our minds we were many miles from British soil.
Follow
the
very
footsteps
of
Dennis,
Oz,
Neville,
Wayne,
Bomber,
Barry
and
Moxey.
Climb
ladders,
cross
scaffolding,
visit
the
Admin
Hut,
Turks
Hut,
Amenities
Hut
and
experience
entering
home
of
the
Magnificent
7,
Hut
B
as
it
would
have
looked
prior
to
its
demise
in
the
13
th
final
fatal
episode;
When
the
Boat Goes Out.
But
before
you
grab
a
Becks,
sit
back,
relax
and
enter
the
BECO
Building
Site
film
set,
you
should
be
warned….
you
may
never
view
the
series
in
quite
the
same way again…
BECO BUILDING SITE VIRTUAL TOUR