The Beiderbecke Affair - Filming Locations

Filming Locations

• Jill's House - Abbeydale Oval, Kirkstall, Leeds
• Trevor's House - 67 Clarendon Road, Woodhouse, Leeds
• San Quentin High - Foxwood School, Seacroft, Leeds and Abbey Grange School, Leeds
• The Alderman What's-His-Name Memorial Playing Fields - Butcher Hill Playing Fields, Abbey Grange, Leeds
• The Multi-storey Block of Flats - Clayton Grange Flats, Moor Grange, Leeds
• The Multi-storey Car Park - Woodhouse Lane Multi-storey Car Park, Leeds city centre
• The location of exterior that Trevor drives round while Jill sees Mr Pitt at the Planning Department is Wakefield Town Hall but Mr Pitt's office is on Cookridge Street and is actually above where Revolution bar now is and the view from his window looks up Rossington Street (the old City of Leeds School is on the right, and the Merrion Centre can be seen at the top of the street).

The actual Leeds City Council planning offices are just over the road in The Leonardo Building which wasn't there at the time of filming back in 1984.

• The Town Hall/Jill's meeting room and venue for the counting of the votes - Yeadon Town Hall, High Street, Yeadon
• The Hills - Armscliff Crag, North Rigton
• The Level Crossing - Forest Lane Level Crossing, Starbeck, Harrogate
• Grassed residential road near level crossing - Fairways Drive, Starbeck, Harrogate
• The Parish Church of St Mathews (exterior) - St Mark's Church, Woodhouse, Leeds
• The Parish Church of St Mathews (interior) - St Peter's Church, Stanley, Wakefield
• The Police Station - Weetwood Police Station, Weetwood, Leeds.
• The steep hill that cub scout walks up followed by Trevor is Carr Lane, Rawdon, LS19
• The Parish church/cub scouts meeting hall is actually St. Peters Church, Rawdon on Town Street/Layton Road, Rawdon, LS19
• The houses used as the setting for where Jill lived, which were new at the time of filming, were replaced with older terrace houses in Chapel Allerton for the setting in subsequent series.
• The house that Jill and Trevor look for that they find is a demolished street is an area off Hartley Crescent/Glossop View, Woodhouse Moor, Leeds. This area is now a grassed space with some trees and benches at the top end.
• The corner of Grange Avenue, on the way from Big Al's allotment, is the corner of Grange Avenue and Windmill Lane, Guiseley.