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Main entrance arch
| | [041]: Going back towards the building in order to go back
inside now, this is another shot of the main entrance arch and Helen's usual
parking area. In S3 Ep10 [01:13] we see a similar view to this photo, and in
S2 Ep9 [27:11] a view which, like this photo, includes part of the tower of
the structure that links the front range with the "hospital wing" building
behind it. Another view is of this section of the façade at night in S3 Ep8
[07:27]. This particular section of the façade features on more than one
occasion in Bad Girls in sequences where the camera pans up the wall
of the building past the windows on the top floor, and over the roof to
reveal the entrance courtyard and G-Wing behind the façade. It is in the
offices of these top floor windows that we see Fenner at the end of the
first series, after Helen has come out of the prison following the Soot
Burning Debacle and got into her car, giving us a night-time perspective of
the pan up over the building. |
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| | [042]: You'll probably recognise this rather intriguing
little window as it is right next to where Helen parks her car, and we often
get a glimpse of it in passing. In S3 Ep10 [00:55] we see the newly acting
Number One striding past it, having just parked her car slightly further
afield in Stubberfield's old parking spot. In S3 Ep12 [44:09] however we see
Helen's car parked next to it again back in her usual spot—perhaps she
didn't like the extra walk, or she'd realised being Governing Governor
wasn't all it was cracked up to be! In S3 Ep3 [00:32] we see it flanked by
Karen's car on one side and Helen's on the other. As to why this window is
shaped like it is and why it was bricked in—well that's a bit of a mystery
I'm afraid. I thought it looked somewhat church-like and wondered if it
could have been the chapel, but the chapel appears to have been housed in
part of the building on the other side of the entrance archway. But who
knows, maybe at some stage in the prison's long and varied history it may
have been a chapel window. It does seems odd that there is no other window
anywhere in the complex that looks anything like it, as if the room that it
was a window to had some sort of specialised function. |
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| | [043]: The entrance archway from the outside looking through
into the entrance courtyard. The gate-lodge doorways are bricked up and
there is a bank automatic teller machine in the space where one of them used
to be. (Now that would have been an eminently sensible thing to have in a
prison!) In S3 Ep9 [21:23] we see the entrance with the wooden door closed,
but in S2 Ep3 [00:17] the door is open to allow the Royal Mail van to
deliver Nikki's George Eliot postcard from Helen. In S1 Ep8 [00:15] we see
Helen negotiating the small doorway in the main door while juggling with her
coffee-cup. Her juggling act continues as she is signed in by the officer
in the first of the gate-lodge doorways at [00:26], before she heads off to
lose her battle with the coffee cup in the entrance courtyard, after she
spies Nikki watching her from her G3 cell window. |
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Main entrance gate-lodge
| | [044]: In S3 Ep8 [45:45] we see Fenner heading through the
small doorway into the prison and inside the entrance archway: the bank ATM
in the centre of this photo is where we see him encounter Stubberfield, who
is on his way out at [45:54], having just been fired. In S1 Ep10 [46:17]
Helen looks into the doorway where the ATM is now, on her way out after that
unfortunate incident with the burning suit. |
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| | [045]: This is all that remains of the other doorway to the
gate-lodge, where among other things we see Helen collect Thomas from in S3
Ep6 [32:04], and where Nikki as "Nurse Ford" gets signed out by Ken on the
night of her escape in S2 Ep13 [24:16]. |
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| | [046]: Heading back through the entrance archway on our way
to Coffee-Spill Courtyard. We see the courtyard through the gate in S2 Ep12
[26:55] and at night in S3 Ep3 [45:06], and from a slightly different angle,
to include the structure seen here on the left in S3 Ep16 [09:10], when
Helen leaves the prison for the last time. Strangely, we see a similar view
but from the white archway in S3 Ep7 [38:43]. |
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Entrance courtyard end of G-wing |
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| [047]: Coming out of the entrance gate and
looking across to the end of G-wing and where Nikki's window would have
been—the view Helen would have had as she came in and looked up at it. It is
from one of these upper windows then, that Nikki would have gazed out upon
the object of her affection, as Helen proceeded to spill her coffee. It was
also from one of these windows that Zan watched Dom arrive and gave him a
little wave as he entered the courtyard in S2 Ep9 [12:27]. We get an aerial
view of the top two floors of this section of the building in S3 Ep12
[14:13] and a more conventional view in S1 Ep6 [09:13]. This end of G-wing
is of course at the opposite end of the block from the long arched window
end that abuts the Debtors' Tower/D-wing building and is divided from that
by the central link section, which extends back from the front range until
it joins up with the wing block. In S1 Ep8 [46.09] there is a nighttime
panning sequence that begins with a shot from the same angle as in our next
photo, Item [048], and ends with an angle very similar to that of the final
screencap for this photo. |
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