![]() Scott did his very best to put Anthony at ease in the make-up van, but it did not go so well when they got on set, as Anthony recalls: “The director said ‘ action’ and George came over yelling, ‘Stop begging on that corner boy!’ “Some people actually think I am called Tim!” he said. “The town must have been completely deserted on the day of filming,” said Anthony Walters, now 39, who played Tiny Tim.Īnthony was plucked from Prestfelde School aged just five-years-old and propelled to stardom – and no-one in Shrewsbury has ever let him forget it. We caught up with some of stars – including our very own ‘Tiny Tim’. More than 450 people from our town were used as extras. They loved being there.”ĮVERYONE in Shrewsbury was in A Christmas Carol in 1984. It was a love affair between the film company and the people of Shrewsbury. “I don’t deny that I seize every opportunity to talk about it. They said ‘Is that Mr Jameson?’ when can you start? I still refer to it as my first, last and possibly greatest film. As I was walking up the stairs, the phone was ringing. I popped a photograph of myself in one of the milk bottles outside the film crew’s temporary offices and carried on to work. I had a job, running my own company, with offices in the High Street. ![]() They advertised locally for extras – people with interesting faces. He loved going to the Gala Premiere at the old Empire Cinema (now Pizza Express), with my mum Jutta.”īob said: “I did three days as an extra at £20 a day and food. Every time we watch it, we have to freeze it on his one and a half seconds of fame. “My dad Bob (now 86 and still working as a town guide) was so pleased when they picked him. One minute it was beautifully sunny and the next, they covered it in misty fog to turn it into Dickensian London – it stank! I was fascinated by how they transformed The Parade. I’m sure I wouldn’t have been allowed to do that today, with social media. It was a beautiful day and they were pumping out artificial snow. ![]() “I hung out of windows and took some atmospheric shots,” Sue remembers. Sue Jameson was a 19-year-old student with a keen interest in photography back in 1984 – she took her camera along to the set of A Christmas Carol, following her dad Bob around for the filming. ![]()
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