It may be 15 years since the last episode was broadcast but Grange Hill remains one of the most popular children’s TV drama series ever made.
Portraying life in a fictional drama school in the fictitious North London borough of Northam, the programme started in 1978 and ran for 31 series until it was cancelled in 2008 after the BBC decided it had run its course.
The programme started life at Television Centre and on location at various schools in North London, but in 1985 production moved to a studio complex the BBC had purchased the previous year in Elstree.
- A street corner scene still recognisable today
- Brilliant pictures of foam party fun at Watford nightclub
Real schools continued to be used for filming and in May 1994 cameras and cast descended on Bushey Hall School to shoot some scenes.
A Watford Observer photographer was at the school, now the Grange Academy, to capture the preparations as the equipment and cast were readied and some of the filming.
Take a look back through these pictures from our archive and see if there are any characters you recognise?
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