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Entrance courtyard looking towards its western boundary |
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[048]: A broad view of the entrance (Coffee-spill) courtyard looking back
towards the white archway that we originally came through from Nikki's garden—we
see a similar view of the courtyard in S3 Ep12 [19:26] and S2 Ep9 [12:26]. The
main exit/entrance gate that we have just entered is on the right. The cattle
truck is often featured arriving through the entrance and turning towards where
we are now standing, as we see in S3 Ep7 [09:23]. The wall to the left of the
entrance archway is painted all the way up; in Bad Girls only the lower
half is painted.
To the left of the photograph is part of the other half of G-Wing. The building
directly opposite is the so-called 'hospital-wing' building, the roof of which
Zandra climbed up onto—and is the section that links what is now the hotel
entrance to the G-wing block. We are standing approximately where the women at
the back were standing looking up at Zan on the roof in S2 Ep1 [42:25]. The
white archway that we and they walked through to reach the courtyard is the
little archway which is slightly obscured to the right of the dark umbrella and
the downpipe. |
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| [049]: Zandra's jumping roof. Helen must have come out from
where the satellite dishes are now, behind the tower on the right, and
Zandra was directly above this drainpipe when she attempted to launch
herself in S2 Ep1 [43:38]. You can again see the mid-air gate that used to
lead out onto the steel stairway. Just visible at the lower right of the
photo is the top of the white archway that the women walked through into the
entrance courtyard to discover Zandra on the 'hospital wing' roof. According
to the ground plans which we see in the S3 Extras in The Security
Room—G1—OBS Office—The Art Department [00:13-00:21], in Oxford prison
this linking section of the building appears to have housed the visiting
area on the ground floor, which probably would have been accessed through
the doorways on the inside of the white archway, and the Education Centre on
the floor above. In an episode-opening panning sequence of the courtyard we
see a similar view of the upper half of this building in S2 Ep10 [00:30]. |
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| [050]: The gateway with no stairs. You can see the steel
stairway that led from this gate in S3 Ep11 [08:42]. They also feature when
Tessa comes out of this gate in S2 Ep5 [41:30] and takes Karen down the
stairway to the courtyard, on her way to the entrance gate. We get a clear
view of them in S1 Ep8 [28:30] as Monica and Helen go to get into the car on
their way to Spencer's funeral. |
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G-wing and 'hospital-wing' link
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| [051]: This is the entrance courtyard corner where the
linking 'hospital wing' structure joins onto G-Wing. The glass entranceway
at the juncture of the G-wing building on the left and the 'hospital wing'
building on the right, is the entrance to the Malmaison restaurant. The
entrance that was originally there would have led into the middle of G1, and
there is quite a bit of coming and going from there in Bad Girls.
Among others in S2 Ep12 [10:17] Fenner comes out of this entrance into the
entrance courtyard and meets Dominic coming out of the white archway. From
the top of the roof in S2 Ep1 [38:56] we can see where the two structures
join—the other half of G-Wing extending to the right of the shot behind
Zandra and the roof of the 'hospital wing'. At the extreme lower left of the
shot you can just make out the top of the arch that is this corner entrance
to the G-Wing. |
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Courtyard entrance to G-wing
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| [052]: The glassed entrance to the hotel restaurant. This
photo is taken standing where the steel stairway would have been, and you
can see the gate that would have led out onto it in the top right-hand
corner of the photograph. In a shot taken through the railings of the steel
stairway, we see Zandra coming out of this entrance in S2 Ep1 [04:08] on her
way to hospital to have her baby. If you look closely, you can see a
door/gateway slightly below the centre of the photo—this would have been the
entrance to G1. In S2 Ep1 [38:58] you can make out the dark entranceway to
the wing to the right of Zandra extending from roof level—directly below and
in front of her, you can make out the landing of the steel stairway. |
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| [053]: There is one major difference between this entrance
to the restaurant as it is now, and the entrance to G-Wing in Bad Girls.
In Bad Girls there is a short flight of steps from the courtyard up
to the doorway to the G1 level of the wing; we see it clearly in the S1
Extras: Bad Girls in Oxford [13:25]. There are no longer stairs going
up to the doorway: instead you enter the building at ground level, and go
down some stairs to the restaurant which is in what would have been a
semi-basement below G1 (which in Oxford prison housed the Reception area—see
the ground-plan screenshot in [49] above). This gives rise to a rather
curious feature above the stairway going down to the restaurant—the original
entrance gate to G1 above your head apparently opening out into thin air! |
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Eastern boundary to courtyard where Pam was examined |
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[054]: Looking from Zandra's roof side of the
courtyard towards the building on the opposite side. This building is to the
left of the entrance archway as you walk into the prison, and it was this
building that could be seen through the entrance archway in photo [46]
above. From where we are standing now with our backs to the 'hospital-wing',
the main entrance archway is to the left of this photo.
It is to this
building that Helen leads Thomas from the entrance gate for his meeting with
Pam Jolly. The white doorway where the man is standing in this photo is the
door that Helen takes Thomas through. Helen goes back in through the door in
S3 Ep6 [36:11] after Pam comes out. We see this building in S1 Ep9 [22:59]
when Nikki attempts to tell Helen the 'good news' about Monica's appeal as
Helen crosses the courtyard, clearly heading for this door. Nikki's
Helen-watching G-Wing building is to the right of this photo next to the
umbrellas. To the left of the 'Pam Exam' building we can see the roadway
where Shell's red escape van was parked in S3 Ep7. In S3 Ep14 [31:24] in a
view from the white archway, we see Mark crossing a wet courtyard with this
building behind him. We see the top floor of this building in an aerial shot
from the roof of the entrance archway in S3 Ep4 [00:27]. |
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Entrance archway and Reception offices
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[055]: This structure is to the right of the entrance
courtyard archway when viewed from G-Wing, and is where the Reception office
was in Bad Girls. It now houses a pizza restaurant, so the entrance
has been altered from the doorways we'd recognise. The first door on the
left is now a long window, and the door to the right has been widened, and
the aperture opened up to the full height of the building to create a large
window on the top floor. The ramp up to the doorway has also been removed.
In Bad Girls we constantly see prisoners arriving and departing from
this Reception building. Helen leaves with Monica from the Reception doorway
in S1 Ep8 [28:22] and we see them making their way through the interior of
the office, probably having accessed it through the gate which we saw in the
gatelodge interior in photo [34]. That gate is at the extreme left-hand edge
of this photo, inside the arch. In S2 Ep2 we see Nikki coming from the ramp
when she is shipped out, and then arriving back and having to be processed
through Reception again [43:26]. In S2 Ep10 [18:23] Renee Williams arrives
at night and enters Reception. |
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| [056]: Scanning right from the entrance arch, the building
extends up along the little roadway that we saw to the left of the 'Pam
exam' building in photo [054] above. (You can see a tiny bit of the top
left-hand corner of that building at the right of this photo [56].) In
Oxford Prison the top floor would have housed the chapel (see the
ground-plan screenshot in [49] above), and possibly was intended to do so in
Bad Girls too, because it is from the next doorway to the right past
what is now the restaurant doorway that we see Shell, Denny and Shaz make
their escape in S3 Ep7, having come down the stairs from the chapel. We get
a brief glimpse of the view looking in the same direction as this photo, in
S2 Ep2 [30:45] when Nikki is shipped out. |
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Rear of Pam exam building, 'hospital-wing', exit arch and reception
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| [057]: Here we see the same area of the building from the
opposite end, looking back to where we were standing for the previous photo.
In S3 Ep7 [35:40], Fenner comes from the brown doorway and the ramp on the
right to put the money for Shell's escape in the wheel-arch of the van. In
that shot the escape door is the green one to Fenner's right, and the two
Reception doors are to his left, with the two windows that can be seen in
this photo, behind him to his immediate left. We see Shell, Denny and Shaz
make their escape from the same doorway at [41:46]. In that shot the
entrance arch is in the background, with the little white archway through to
the garden to its left, and the 'Pam exam' building to the left of that. In
this photograph, you can see the rear of the 'Pam exam' building to the
left—it has undergone substantial changes in that area since Bad Girls,
and the separate low square building is no longer there. Directly ahead in
the centre of the photo is the main entrance archway which Shell would have
driven out of in the red van, and to the left of it you can just make out a
sliver of light which is the white archway through to the garden side. |
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