Category:Modern

From Dittopedia

Between 1911 and 1980, the village was home to the AC Cars factory, which was latterly located in the High Street. The site is today occupied by an office complex called Ferry Works, incorporating an architectural practice. Celestion loudspeakers was also located for some years in Thames Ditton, producing the famous Ditton range of loudspeakers. ^[1]

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on Television

The Monty Python sketch, Blackmail, featured a scene set in Thames Ditton, although it was actually filmed in a west London residential road. (Surrey place-names feature in many of the early Python sketches, perhaps because of the county's association with judges and merchant bankers.) ^[1]

"As you know, the rules are very simple. We have taken a film which contains compromising scenes and unpleasant details which could wreck a man's career. But the victim may phone me at any moment, and stop the film. But remember the money increases as the film goes on, so ... the longer you leave it, the more you have to pay! Tonight, Stop the Film visits the little Thames-side village of Thames Ditton."

Thames Ditton is also mentioned briefly in the safari park scene of episode two of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, series one. ^[1]
The BBC series Little Britain featured sketches shot in and around Thames Ditton's Dittons Library. A fictitious postbox can be seen outside the library in one shot. ^[1]

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