I must start this week on a sad note, reflecting on the loss of the lovely actress Deborah Kerr, who graced our cinema screens for more than 40 years, and in the process gained several Oscar nominations.

I met Deborah many years ago and she recalled: "Borehamwood has many fond memories for me.

"I got my first important film role in Love On The Dole, which we shot at the old National Studios now BBC Elstree and filmed several times at the MGM and Elstree studios.

"I also remember taking a role in The Naked Edge at Elstree - just for the chance to work with Gary Cooper.

"We did not realise it was to be his last movie, although he was obviously unwell at the time, but Gary was the epitome of a movie star.

"He understood that less is more when it came to screen acting and the camera loved him."

Deborah was spotted by MGM in the 1940s, and was whisked off to Hollywood where she had many successes including The King And I in 1956, which co-starredYul Brynner.

Most famously, in 1953, she did what was then a sexy beach scene with Burt Lancaster in From Here To Eternity.

Deborah recalled: "Shooting that scene was anything but sexy.

"We had to lay around wet trying to time it so the waves broke over us at the right moment.

"Needless to say the sand got everywhere and I mean everywhere."

Deborah's career slowed down in the 1970s due to a lack of good roles, as she preferred not to go into horror films like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

Sadly, chronic ill health dogged her last 20 years, but she has left us with some excellent screen memories.

Have you ever been fascinated by standing at a location where a famous television series or movie was shot?

The growth of what is now called movie tourism' is on the increase and can be quite a source of revenue for a building or an area.

In that regard, we are probably missing out in Elstree, Borehamwood and the surrounding villages, in cashing in on this interest.

A new book has come out called The Avengers On Location by Chris Bentley, which is stuffed full of then-and-now photos of locations used in that famous television series of the 1960s.

The series was filmed at Elstree Studios, which itself features in more than 30 episodes pretending to be a hospital, airport, warehouses and much more.

The old standing street set on the backlot, constructed originally for The Young Ones, starring Cliff Richard, also doubled for various foreign locations.

However, just as fascinating as you flip through the pages, is to see how the production made use of local streets and views.

Did you know a manhole cover, which is still there in Grosvenor Road, features in one storyline?

Do you live in numbers 70 to 74 Hartforde Road, in Borehamwood, and would like to see your house in 1968?

Well, in an episode entitled False Witness, the star, Patrick Macnee pulls up in a Rolls Royce, puts up his own bus stop and is then met by his boss on a bus.

If you look at a 1967 episode called Epic you will see various shots of the studio and also our heroes driving along Shenley Road and into Theobald Street, which should bring back memories for us old time' residents.

Other episodes feature buildings in Shenley and even the Three Horseshoes pub in Letchmore Heath turns up, albeit with a fictional name.

Television and film buffs like Chris Bentley have become detectives over the years, trying to match up shots in The Avengers and other television series made here with the real life locations.

Sadly, many of the original studio records have been destroyed which would have more easily identified places.

I remember the production manager throwing out filing cabinets full of The Avengers production files in 1990 just before that part of Elstree Studios was demolished.

If you want to join in the fun of spotting filming locations, then you can get a copy of the book, which costs £15.99 RRP, from any bookshop.

Even better, you can buy a copy from Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum, in Drayton Road, and support its efforts to preserve our town's heritage.