Pirates (the sequel)

I'm only posting these up from sheer bloody mindedness.  I'm walking through a tourist spot in Greenwich and security people tell me to stop taking photos.  And whenever that happens I have no choice but to take more photos and post them up somewhere.

So, here's the barricade they've put up overnight.

Here's the cavalry - a lovely horse anyway....

 Here's some Hacktors...

And here's the mildly-interesting photo they didn't want me to take.  As this photo was not authorised - sight apparently has been privatised - logically this must be a pirated image. 

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It's sometimes simply more fun to be in Deptford, a short walk and a world away

It would be interesting to compare their relative budgets.

Act like a Greenwich pirate day

I was asked a couple of days ago whether I knew what the animal stables were doing in the Royal Naval College.  No idea but I wandered over there this afternoon to have a look.  There's an enormous amount of activity going on over there.  There are around 60 horses being stabled in there at the moment.  Walking further on, I came across some rather impressive props - this clearly was no low budget production.  For example, that wall in the photo below wasn't there last time I visited. 

Neither was this wall...

Nor this one...

And the bunting didn't ring any bells either.





The security man I spoke to didn't want to say what film they were filming.  ''Not allowed to say.''  ''Well, Blackbeard Productions is a bit of a giveaway, isn't it?''  I replied.

It turns out that tomorrow (Mon 27 September) there will be around 600 extras and 60 horses with carriages milling around the place.  And just 8 days after Talk Like a Pirate Day, there will also be a lot of people celebrating Act Like a Pirate Day.  And it looks like you might be in for an unpleasant ride if you fail to get into the spirit of the occasion.

 EDIT: Deptford Dame has just pointed out that the Greenwich Phantom has done a couple of posts about this.  There's background and photos of the set construction at earlier stages here and here