 There is a scene on a bus where Bert is "receiving unwanted  attention" from a woman. Unable to take it any more he stands up and  shouts, "Are we at Ilkeston yet?" This is a reference to  Robert Lindsay (II) (qv)s home town in Derbyshire in the United  Kingdom. The role of Bert Rigby was written for him, and the  characters background mirrored his own. Originally he wanted a  portion of the movie to be filmed in Ilkeston, but the producers  thought Ilkeston no longer looked "industrial enough" to match the  characters background. So the bus scene is the only bit of Ilkeston  that made it to the final product.