Portmeirion at a more innocent time. What a place it must have been for the children of the Williams-Ellis family. The yacht on the left edge of the photograph is Clough Williams-Ellis' Amis Reunis.
The Campanilie, or Bell Tower. It was from this that a crewman of the searchlight fell during the fight scene in Checkmate. After the man has fallen there follows a splash of water, yet there is no water of any kind anywhere near the Bell Tower! But I suppose the majority of television viewers who watched the Prisoner for the first time, would not know that, unless they themselves had been to Portmeirion.
The Ship Shop, and the bay window at which No.6 and No.14, the chess champion, pause and talk during the episode of Checkmate.
This is the Camera Obscura at Portmeirion, of course it features in the background of the Prisoner, not actually close-up, but in the background. But prior to the Prisoner Portmeirion featured in several episodes of Danger Man, and the Camera Obscura was used as a look-out tower in the episode The Journey Ends Half Way, an episode which is set in China.
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