As I predicted in the excitement of the moment, Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson never mentioned me when he won several awards at the recent BAFTA ceremony, so that is another Christmas card saved!

Seriously, it was good to see his hard work on that project rewarded.

However, Elstree Studios did get a mention from Warren Beatty when he was recalling happy times working in England after being given a special award.

I recall meeting Warren briefly on the set of Reds at Elstree over 20 years ago. Again I must have been an inspiration to him as he went on to win the Oscar for best director for that film.

Over 40 years ago, Warren was making his second only film at the studio, starring opposite Vivien Leigh in The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone. With the exception of Bonnie And Clyde, he subsequently became more famous for his off-screen love life than most of his movies.

Not long after Warren completed filming on Mrs Stone, the late Dirk Bogarde came to town to film Password Is Courage at MGM. In March 1962, the film company took over Radlett railway station and transformed it with fake signs into Lamsdorf for this World War Two story.

The station was decked out and some 20 extras were positioned around, including some in German uniforms. The cameras rolled but just as Bogarde was being led out by two Berman soldiers, an old lady wandered into shot went up to the ticket office and exclaimed: "One to St Albans please"!

The Director was not very happy and the scene had to be reshot.

In September 1962, actor Trevor Howard, then resident in Arkley, was banned for eight years and fined £81 for a drink driving offence in June. By a strange twist of fate the presiding magistrate was Ewan Montagu QC. He had some years earlier written a successful book about a real-life wartime incident called The Man Who Never Was and which was subsequently made into a film. Trevor had declined to star in the movie version and the role was played by Clifton Webb. What a small world.

I hear that Grange Hill is planning to move from BBC Elstree Centre after many years of production there. Apparently, the new series will be filmed in Liverpool as part of a revamp for the highly successful television series. So we will no longer see the school children being filmed around Borehamwood and another chapter closes.

I have received another three invitations by organisations to give talks on the history of film production in Borehamwood. I am afraid that I now decline such kind invitations.

After three decades I am just fed up with my own voice! However, I hope to carry on with this rambling column and I was glad to hear from the Talking Newspaper that it gives it's members pleasure.

Do you realise dear reader that this column has now been going for 25 years? Some of my most ardent readers were not even born back then. I wonder if I will get a long service bonus!

It was excellent to visit our new cinema in Borehamwood on the day it opened to see Oceans 11. I hope people will support it as our town needs such leisure amenities. The film starred Brad Pitt, with whom I once had a discussion about the mutually-shared problem of being a babe-magnet.

Brad says he sees himself in the mirror first thing in the mornings which keeps his feet on the ground. Sadly, I can't use that technique since my reflection does not show up in a mirror!

The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund has told me that I should keep November free, as the Royal Film Performance this year will be attended by Her Majesty The Queen in her Golden Jubilee year and no doubt it will be something special.

I suppose that will mean getting my half-price Foster Brothers closing-down-sale dress suit cleaned again. I hope they manage to get a good film, although it is unlikely to be Borehamwood-made as happened on some past occasions during the Royal Film Performances that date back to the late 1940s.

Until next week, as Roy Rogers used to say: 'Happy trails to you'.