When Potts drives Truly and the kids down to the beach from Cadmore End, they end up by the sea at Cape Taillat, near Saint-Tropez in the South of France. It seems the car has pretty miraculous powers already. Being so convenient, the mansion is a familiar screen presence in Pinewood based films – which include James Bond and Carry On. The house of Truly Scrumptious ( Sally Anne Howes) is Heatherden Hall, at the heart of the Pinewood Studios lot at Iver Heath, also in Buckinghamshire. They no longer live there, but it’s still a private home. It was restored cosmetically for the film, and a few years later restored completely (even getting a swimming pool) as a home for actress Hayley Mills and husband, director Roy Boulting.
Until 1873 it remained a working mill but, after being damaged by fire, it lay derelict. The windmill home of Caractacus Potts ( Dick Van Dyke) is Cobstone Windmill, at Cadmore End on the B482 about four miles west of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.Ĭobstone Mill was built around 1816, overlooking the village of Turville (it’s often called Turville Windmill). In-joke spotters will have twigged that George Coggins, the original owner of of the dilapidated racer, is James Bond’s Q, the late Desmond Llewellyn. When Ian Fleming wasn’t dreaming up missions for 007, he kicked back and relaxed with this children’s story about the eccentric inventor who transforms a clapped-out racing car into a magical toy.
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