The producers of the 2000 film
Billy Elliot filmed one of the scenes in the changing rooms of Langley Park school. This was just one of many occasions where the village has been used as a location for film and television productions. These include
Days of Hope (1974),
The Stars Look Down (1975), ''A Captain's Tale
(1982) and Ripping Yarns'' (1977). The BBC television comedy
The Fast Show also used the village as a location, with Railway Street being frequently employed as a set to film scenes of "Unlucky Alf". Railway Street's main attraction for film and TV companies is that it has remained essentially unchanged from the time of its construction in the late 19th century (although most – if not all – residents no longer have to leave their house and cross the street to the outside toilets that remain as a reminder of a bygone age). Such lavatories are described in detail in
The Bootlace Boys, a novel by Eric Collinson that is set in Langley Park at the turn of the century, describing Langley Park villagers both at home and on the Western Front during the First World War. ==People==