Welcome back everyone and it is good to see we were all able to cling onto the wreckage for another week. Rather than walk down Memory Lane I have hired a charabanc for all of us to go on a pub crawl around Elstree and Borehamwood. I suspect the word charabanc will determine that you are all of the proper age.

Let us start in Elstree village, which was a historic watering hole since Roman times for travellers between London and St Albans and once boasted several pubs. Perhaps the best known was The Plough, which still stands but is now more of a restaurant. In the 1930s, whilst filming at Elstree studios, Alfred Hitchcock used to enjoy a pint there and my old barber recalled cutting the famous director's hair whilst he imbibed.

In the 1950s Hollywood star Brian Donlevy would enjoy a liquid lunch whilst shooting a Quatermass film at the nearby Danziger Studios. The director Val Guest told me: "Brian also used to like to bring a flask of so-called coffee to the set and I doubt he was ever actually sober. However, once the camera rolled he knew his lines and hit his marks and that was good enough."

Other visitors to the pub included Bette Davis, who made two Hammer films at Elstree Studios and stayed in Barnet Lane.

Years later, a young man also lived nearby and told me he would take his girlfriends there for a drink long before he became famous. His name is Simon Cowell.

In Borehamwood high street two old pubs still stand, although they are now used for other purposes. The Crown is now a convenience store but appears in a pre-war Will Hay film and once had a surprise guest at its piano in the 1940s. The music hall entertainer Arthur Lucan became a household name dressing up as his screen character Old Mother Riley in a series of popular movies. Some were shot at what is now the BBC Elstree Centre and Arthur liked his drink. One day they were about to start shooting after lunch and he was nowhere to be found until they located him entertaining the locals at The Crown, drunk but happy.

At the other end of Shenley Road stands The Red Lion, built in the early 1930s and serving as the local for Elstree Studios opposite. In the 1950s regulars could find themselves drinking with Trevor Howard, Errol Flynn, Bob Mitchum and Tony Hancock, but today you would need to order a hamburger as it was converted into McDonald's years ago. I still remember interviewing actors there including Bernard Lee, who you will remember from a score of 1950s films as M in the early Bond movies.

At the end of Borehamwood lie two pubs now replaced by modern buildings, but which had great history. The Thatched Barn, visible from the A1, was built in the early 1930s as a bar and hotel and even had an outdoor pool. During the war it was used for training and equipping spies to be dropped into occupied Europe and the manufacture of various devices such as exploding coal lumps and rats. By the 1950s and 1960s it was a natural bar for stars working next door at MGM including Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. Sadly it was demolished many years ago and a Holiday Inn now stands on the site.

Finally we stop at The King's Arms at Stirling Corner, which was another long established local but today has been rebuilt and is now a popular Harvester restaurant. Back in the war the famous but tragic Welsh poet Dylan Thomas stayed there whilst writing scripts for the Ministry of Information and in the late 1950s it features prominently in a Dickie Attenborough movie called The Scamp.

Well, I think we have consumed enough for this week. Everyone on the charabanc for a singalong. What about Show Me The Way To Go Home?