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The Scala Underground film map,
station to station
Film Underground Station Year
28 Days Later Bank 2002
30 is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia Barking 1968
80 Million Women Want-? Woodford 1913
A Clockwork Orange Fulham Broadway 1971
A Hard Day's Night Goodge Street 1964
A Kind of English Bethnal Green 1986
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin Wood Green 1971
A Matter of Life and Death Ruislip Gardens 1946
A Place to Go Old Street 1963
Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Stanmore 1971
Absolute Beginners White City 1986
Afraid of the Dark West Brompton 1991
Alfie Bayswater 1966
Alien North Acton 1979
All Neat in Black Stockings East Putney 1968
An American Werewolf in London Tottenham Court Road 1981
And Now for Something Completely Different Totteridge & Whetstone 1971
Animal Farm Highbury & Islington 1954
Another Year Wanstead 2010
Arsenal Stadium Mystery, The Arsenal 1939
Attack the Block Brixton 2011
Babymother Harlesden 1998
Bargee, The Moor Park 1964
Bed-Sitting Room, The Leyton 1969
Bedazzled Gunnersbury 1967
Belle Rickmansworth 2013
Berberian Sound Studio Bromley-by-Bow 2012
Beware of Mr. Baker Neasden 2012
Black Narcissus South Ruislip 1947
Blacksmith Scene Kenton 1893
Blowup North Greenwich 1966
Blue Lamp, The Royal Oak 1950
Bob Marley and the Wailers: Live! At the Rainbow Finsbury Park 1977
Boy Friend, The Preston Road 1971
Brazil Holland Park 1985
Breakfast on Pluto Leicester Square 2005
Breaking Glass Barkingside 1980
Breaking of Bumbo, The St. James's Park 1970
Bride of Frankenstein Dagenham Heathway 1931
Bright Young Things Broadgate (closed) 2003
Bronco Bullfrog Stratford 1969
Bunny Lake Is Missing Maida Vale 1965
Carry On Screaming! Hillingdon 1966
1
Film Underground Station Year
Carry On Spying Ruislip Manor 1964
Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn, The East Acton 1956
Cathy Come Home Camden Town 1966
Champagne Charlie Elephant & Castle 1944
Children of Men Tooting Broadway 2006
Charlie Is My Darling Heathrow Airport Terminals 1, 2 & 3 1949
Circus of Horrors Amersham 1960
Closely Watched Trains Roding Valley 1966
Company of Wolves, The Clapham Common 1984
Cool it Carol! Green Park 1970
Crash Aldgate East 1996
Crawling Eye, The Hounslow East 1956
Crimson Permanent Assurance, The Aldgate 1983
Curse of the Crimson Altar Harrow & Wealdstone 1968
Dad's Army Chalfont & Latimer 1971
Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. Parsons Green 1966
Dance Hall Turnham Green 1950
Dance With a Stranger Farringdon 1985
Darling Stamford Brook 1965
Dateline Diamonds Gants Hill 1966
Day of the Triffids, The Marylebone 1962
Death Line Euston Square 1972
Death May Be Your Santa Claus Clapham South 1969
Deep End Leytonstone 1970
Devil Rides Out, The Uxbridge 1968
Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done Northwood Hills 1975
Dirty Dozen, The Hendon Central 1967
Dirty Pretty Things South Kenton 2002
Dougal and the Blue Cat West Hampstead 1970
Dr Strangelove West Finchley 1964
Dr. Phibes Rises Again Edgware 1972
Dracula A.D. 1972 Queensway 1972
Eastern Promises Park Royal 2007
Eat the Rich Croxley 1987
Elephant Boy South Harrow 1937
Elephant Man, The Liverpool Street 1980
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Canons Park 2004
Excalibur Temple 1981
Face Burnt Oak 1997
Fahrenheit 451 Wimbledon 1966
Fight Club Golders Green 1999
Filth and the Fury, The West Kensington 2000
Final Programme, The Latimer Road 1973
Flame in the Streets Kentish Town 1961
Four Lions West Harrow 2010
From Beyond the Grave Highgate 1974
2
Film Underground Station Year
From Russia With Love Ruislip 1963
Full Metal Jacket Walthamstow Central 1987
Funeral in Berlin West Ruislip 1966
Gangway Eastcote 1937
Georgy Girl Belsize Park 1966
Girl Hunters, The Kingsbury 1962
Girl on a Motorcycle, The Finchley Road 1968
Goldfinger Heathrow Terminal 4 1964
Gosford Park Hounslow West 2001
Great Expectations Chancery Lane 1946
Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, The Balham 1980
Grindhouse Dagenham East 2007
Gumshoe Holborn 1971
Hackers Kew Gardens 1995
Hangover Square Earl's Court 1945
Hardware Chalk Farm 1990
Hellraiser Dollis Hill 1987
Help! Bond Street 1965
Herostratus St. Paul's 1967
Hidden City Warren Street 1987
High Fidelity Seven Sisters 2000
Hippie Hippie Shake Queen's Park 2010
Horror Hospital Morden 1973
How to Undress in Public Without Undue
Embarrassment Sudbury Town 1965
Hue and Cry South Ealing 1947
I Am a Cat Clapham North 1975
I'm Alright Jack Northfields 1959
Ill Manors Upton Park 2012
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The London Bridge 2009
Imitation Game, The Strand (closed) 2014
Immigrant, The Kennington 1917
Infidel, The Brent Cross 2010
Interview With the Vampire East Finchley 1994
Ipcress File, The High Street Kensington 1965
It Happened Here Regent's Park 1964
It's Trad Dad Hatton Cross 1962
Italian Job, The Moorgate 1969
Joanna Knightsbridge 1968
Jubilee Canada Water 1978
Killing of Sister George, The Shepherd's Bush 1964
Kind Hearts and Coronets West Acton 1969
King Kong Kings Cross, Scala (closed) 1933
Knack ...and How to Get It, The Goldhawk Road 1965
Krull Grange Hill 1983
L- Shaped Room, The Warwick Avenue 1962
3
Film Underground Station Year
Lady Killers, The King's Cross St. Pancras 1955
Lambert And Stamp Acton Town 2014
Last of England, The West Ham 1987
Lavender Hill Mob, The Ealing Common 1951
Lawrence of Arabia Colindale 1962
League of Gentlemen, The Cannon Street 1960
Leather Boys, The Stonebridge Park 1964
Legend of Hell House, The Buckhurst Hill 1973
Leon the Pig Farmer Swiss Cottage 1992
Les Vampires Lambeth North 1915
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Hyde Park Corner 1943
Lion Has Wings, The Hornchurch 1939
Lion's Mouth, The Sudbury Hill 2000
Live It Up! Upminster 1963
Live It Up! Upminster Bridge 2010
Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, The Westminster 1927
London Can Take It! Monument 1940
London: The Modern Babylon Tottenham Hale 2012
Lonely Water Boston Manor 1973
Long Good Friday, The Canary Wharf 1979
Look Back In Anger Holloway Road 1958
Lord of the Rings, The Elm Park 1978
Love Test, The Wembley Park 1935
Made in Dagenham Plaistow 2010
Magic Christian, The Southwark 1969
Man in the White Suit, The Ealing Broadway 1951
Man Who Fell To Earth, The Stockwell 1976
Man Who Knew Infinity, The North Harrow 2016
Man Who Knew Too Much, The Stepney Green 1934
Masque of the Red Death, The High Barnet 1964
Medusa Touch, The Snaresbrook 1978
Metroland Chorleywood 1973
Missionary, The Redbridge 1982
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Loughton 1975
Moon Over the Alley, The Notting Hill Gate 1975
Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment Archway 1966
Murder By Decree Hainault 1979
My Beautiful Launderette Vauxhall 1985
Never Let Go Kilburn Park 1960
Night and the City Ravenscourt Park 1950
Night of the Demon Watford 1957
Nightbirds Whitechapel 1970
Nineteen-Eighty Four Turnpike Lane 1984
No Surrender Perivale London 1985
O Lucky Man! Hammersmith (District and Piccadilly) 1973
Omen, The Northwick Park 1976
4
Film Underground Station Year
One Man Band, The Mornington Crescent 1968
One Wish Too Many East Ham 1956
Orlando Great Portland Street 1992
Paddington Paddington 2014
Passport To Pimlico Pimlico 1949
Peeping Tom Oxford Circus 1960
Performance Ladbroke Grove 1970
Pestonjee Rayners Lane 1987
Piccadilly Piccadilly Circus 1929
Pink Floyd - The Wall Wembley Central 1982
Playbirds, The Theydon Bois 1978
Pleasure Girls, The Victoria 1965
Poor Cow Southfields 1967
Prestige, The Harrow-on-the-Hill 2006
Prick Up Your Ears Angel 1987
Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Baker Street 1970
Provoked Osterley 2006
Purab Aur Paschim Euston 1970
Quadrophenia Shepherd's Bush Market 1979
Quatermass and the Pit Chiswick Park 1967
Quatermass Xperiment, The Canning Town 1955
Rainbow, The Chesham 1989
Rebel, The Colliers Wood 1961
Red Shoes, The Ickenham 1948
Reservoir Dogs Greenford 1992
Return To Waterloo Waterloo 1984
Richard III Mansion House 1995
Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, The Hammersmith (Circle and H&C) 1970
Rude Boy Mile End 1980
Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, The Hanger Lane 1969
Runaway Bus, The Heathrow Terminal 5 1954
Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, The Pinner 1978
Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Gloucester Road 1973
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Fairlop 1960
Savage Messiah Kensal Green 1972
Scandal Lancaster Gate 1989
Schindler's List Manor House 1993
Séance on a Wet Afternoon Wimbledon Park 1964
Servant, The South Kensington 1963
Seven Days To Noon Embankment 1950
Seventh Seal, The Cockfosters 1957
Shakespeare in Love Borough 1998
Shaun of the Dead Woodside Park 2004
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger Mill Hill East 1977
Singing Detective, The North Ealing 2003
Sir Henry Rawlinson at Rawlinson End Blackhorse Road 1980
5
Film Underground Station Year
Smallest Show on Earth, The Kilburn 1957
Son Of Dracula Alperton 1974
Son Of Rambow Epping 2007
Song Of Ceylon Debden 1934
Sorcerers, The Tufnell Park 1967
Southgate, Middlesex, England, in the Year 1950 Arnos Grove 1950
Sparrows Can't Sing Queensbury 1963
Stardust Northolt 1974
Stonebridge Park Stonebridge Park 1981
Stop the World – I Want to Get Off Newbury Park 1966
Suffragette Bow Road 2015
Sunday Bloody Sunday Hampstead - 1971
Tales of Hoffmann, The Covent Garden 1951
Tempest, The Blackfriars 1979
That Kind Of Girl Richmond 1963
That Man From Tehran Edgware Road 1968
That'll Be The Day Oakwood 1973
Theatre of Blood Putney Bridge 1973
There Will Be Blood Willesden Junction 2007
Thunderbird 6 Willesden Green 1968
Time Bandits Chigwell 1981
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Kensington Olympia 2011
To Sir With Love Becontree 1967
Too Many Crooks North Wembley 1959
Top Secret! South Wimbledon 1984
Topsy-Turvy Northwood 1999
Tower Block Upney 2012
Tower of London Tower Hill 1939
Trainspotting Barons Court 1996
Twinky Sloane Square 1969
Under Night Streets Finchley Central 1958
V For Vendetta Barbican 2008
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders Tooting Bec 1970
Velvet Goldmine Hounslow Central 1998
Victim Charing Cross 1961
War Game, The Caledonian Road 1965
We Are The Lambeth Boys Oval 1958
What Future for Haringey? Bounds Green 1974
Where Is Parsifal? Southgate 1983
Where's Jack? Marble Arch 1969
Withnail and I Westbourne Park 1987
Yellow Submarine St. John's Wood 1968
Young Soul Rebels Russell Square 1991
Zero Theorem, The South Woodford 2013
6
Underground Station Film Year
Acton Town Lambert And Stamp 2014
Aldgate Crimson Permanent Assurance, The 1983
Aldgate East Crash 1996
Alperton Son Of Dracula 1974
Amersham Circus of Horrors 1960
Angel Prick Up Your Ears 1987
Archway Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment 1966
Arnos Grove Southgate, Middlesex, England, in the Year 1950 1950
Arsenal Arsenal Stadium Mystery, The 1939
Baker Street Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The 1970
Balham Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, The 1980
Bank 28 Days Later 2002
Barbican V For Vendetta 2008
Barking 30 is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia 1968
Barkingside Breaking Glass 1980
Barons Court Trainspotting 1996
Bayswater Alfie 1966
Becontree To Sir With Love 1967
Belsize Park Georgy Girl 1966
Bermondsey Sid and Nancy 1986
Bethnal Green A Kind of English 1986
Blackfriars Tempest, The 1979
Blackhorse Road Sir Henry Rawlinson at Rawlinson End 1980
Bond Street Help! 1965
Borough Shakespeare in Love 1998
Boston Manor Lonely Water 1973
Bounds Green What Future for Haringey? 1974
Bow Road Suffragette 2015
Brent Cross Infidel, The 2010
Brixton Attack the Block 2011
Broadgate (closed) Bright Young Things 2003
Bromley-by-Bow Berberian Sound Studio 2012
Buckhurst Hill Legend of Hell House, The 1973
Burnt Oak Face 1997
Caledonian Road War Game, The 1965
Camden Town Cathy Come Home 1966
Canada Water Jubilee 1978
Canary Wharf Long Good Friday, The 1979
Canning Town Quatermass Xperiment, The 1955
Cannon Street League of Gentlemen, The 1960
Canons Park Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
Chalfont & Latimer Dad's Army 1971
Chalk Farm Hardware 1990
Chancery Lane Great Expectations 1946
7
Underground Station Film Year
Charing Cross Victim 1961
Chesham Rainbow, The 1989
Chigwell Time Bandits 1981
Chiswick Park Quatermass and the Pit 1967
Chorleywood Metroland 1973
Clapham Common Company of Wolves, The 1984
Clapham North I Am a Cat 1975
Clapham South Death May Be Your Santa Claus 1969
Cockfosters Seventh Seal, The 1957
Colindale Lawrence of Arabia 1962
Colliers Wood Rebel, The 1961
Covent Garden Tales of Hoffmann, The 1951
Croxley Eat the Rich 1987
Dagenham East Grindhouse 2007
Dagenham Heathway Bride of Frankenstein 1931
Debden Song Of Ceylon 1934
Dollis Hill Hellraiser 1987
Ealing Broadway Man in the White Suit, The 1951
Ealing Common Lavender Hill Mob, The 1951
Earl's Court Hangover Square 1945
East Acton Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn, The 1956
East Finchley Interview With the Vampire 1994
East Ham One Wish Too Many 1956
East Putney All Neat in Black Stockings 1968
Eastcote Gangway 1937
Edgware Dr. Phibes Rises Again 1972
Edgware Road That Man From Tehran 1968
Elephant & Castle Champagne Charlie 1944
Elm Park Lord of the Rings, The 1978
Embankment Seven Days To Noon 1950
Epping Son Of Rambow 2007
Euston Purab Aur Paschim 1970
Euston Square Death Line 1972
Fairlop Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960
Farringdon Dance With a Stranger 1985
Finchley Central Under Night Streets 1958
Finchley Road Girl on a Motorcycle, The 1968
Finsbury Park Bob Marley and the Wailers: Live! At the Rainbow 1977
Fulham Broadway A Clockwork Orange 1977
Gants Hill Dateline Diamonds 1966
Gloucester Road Satanic Rites of Dracula, The 1973
Golders Green Fight Club 1999
Goldhawk Road Knack ...and How to Get It, The 1965
Goodge Street A Hard Day's Night 1964
Grange Hill Krull 1983
8
Underground Station Film Year
Great Portland Street Orlando 1992
Greenford Reservoir Dogs 1992
Gunnersbury Bedazzled 1967
Hainault Murder By Decree 1979
Hammersmith (Circle and H&C) Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, The 1970
Hammersmith (District &
Piccadilly) O Lucky Man! 1973
Hampstead - Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971
Hanger Lane Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, The 1969
Harlesden Babymother 1998
Harrow & Wealdstone Curse of the Crimson Altar 1968
Harrow-on-the-Hill Prestige, The 2006
Hatton Cross It's Trad Dad 1962
Heathrow Airport Terminals 1, 2 &
3 Charlie is My Darling 1949
Heathrow Terminal 4 Goldfinger 1964
Heathrow Terminal 5 Runaway Bus, The 1954
Hendon Central Dirty Dozen, The 1967
High Barnet Masque of the Red Death, The 1964
High Street Kensington Ipcress File, The 1965
Highbury & Islington Animal Farm 1954
Highgate From Beyond the Grave 1974
Hillingdon Carry On Screaming! 1966
Holborn Gumshoe 1971
Holland Park Brazil 1985
Holloway Road Look Back In Anger 1958
Hornchurch Lion Has Wings, The 1939
Hounslow Central Velvet Goldmine 1998
Hounslow East Crawling Eye, The 1956
Hounslow West Gosford Park 2001
Hyde Park Corner Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The 1943
Ickenham Red Shoes, The 1948
Kennington Immigrant, The 1917
Kensal Green Savage Messiah 1972
Kensington Olympia Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
Kentish Town Flame in the Streets 1961
Kenton Blacksmith Scene 1893
Kew Gardens Hackers 1995
Kilburn Smallest Show on Earth, The 1957
Kilburn Park Never Let Go 1960
King's Cross St. Pancras Lady Killers, The 1955
Kings Cross, Scala (closed) King Kong 1933
Kingsbury Girl Hunters, The 1962
Knightsbridge Joanna 1968
Ladbroke Grove Performance 1970
Lambeth North Les Vampires 1915
Lancaster Gate Scandal 1989
9Underground Station Film Year
Latimer Road Final Programme, The 1973
Leicester Square Breakfast on Pluto 2005
Leyton Bed-Sitting Room, The 1969
Leytonstone Deep End 1970
Liverpool Street Elephant Man, The 1980
London Bridge Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The 2009
Loughton Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975
Maida Vale Bunny Lake Is Missing 1965
Manor House Schindler's List 1993
Mansion House Richard III 1995
Marble Arch Where's Jack? 1969
Marylebone Day of the Triffids, The 1962
Mile End Rude Boy 1980
Mill Hill East Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger 1977
Monument London Can Take It! 1940
Moor Park Bargee, The 1964
Moorgate Italian Job, The 1969
Morden Horror Hospital 1973
Mornington Crescent One Man Band, The 1968
Neasden Beware of Mr. Baker 2012
Newbury Park Stop the World – I Want to Get Off 1966
North Acton Alien 1979
North Ealing Singing Detective, The 2003
North Greenwich Blowup 1966
North Harrow Man Who Knew Infinity, The 2016
North Wembley Too Many Crooks 1959
Northfields I'm Alright Jack 1959
Northolt Stardust 1974
Northwick Park Omen, The 1976
Northwood Topsy-Turvy 1999
Northwood Hills Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done 1975
Notting Hill Gate Moon Over the Alley, The 1975
Oakwood That'll Be The Day 1973
Old Street A Place to Go 1963
Osterley Provoked 2006
Oval We Are The Lambeth Boys 1958
Oxford Circus Peeping Tom 1960
Paddington Paddington 2014
Park Royal Eastern Promises 2007
Parsons Green Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 1966
Perivale London No Surrender 1985
Piccadilly Circus Piccadilly 1929
Pimlico Passport To Pimlico 1949
Pinner Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, The 1978
Plaistow Made in Dagenham 2010
Preston Road Boy Friend, The 1971
10Underground Station Film Year
Putney Bridge Theatre of Blood 1973
Queen's Park Hippie Hippie Shake 2010
Queensbury Sparrows Can't Sing 1963
Queensway Dracula A.D. 1972 1972
Ravenscourt Park Night and the City 1950
Rayners Lane Pestonjee 1987
Redbridge Missionary, The 1982
Regent's Park It Happened Here 1964
Richmond That Kind Of Girl 1963
Rickmansworth Belle 2013
Roding Valley Closely Watched Trains 1966
Royal Oak Blue Lamp, The 1950
Ruislip From Russia With Love 1963
Ruislip Gardens A Matter of Life and Death 1946
Ruislip Manor Carry On Spying 1964
Russell Square Young Soul Rebels 1991
Seven Sisters High Fidelity 2000
Shepherd's Bush Killing of Sister George, The 1964
Shepherd's Bush Market Quadrophenia 1979
Sloane Square Twinky 1969
Snaresbrook Medusa Touch, The 1978
South Ealing Hue and Cry 1947
South Harrow Elephant Boy 1937
South Kensington Servant, The 1963
South Kenton Dirty Pretty Things 2002
South Ruislip Black Narcissus 1947
South Wimbledon Top Secret! 1984
South Woodford Zero Theorem, The 2013
Southfields Poor Cow 1967
Southgate Where Is Parsifal? 1983
Southwark Magic Christian, The 1969
St. James's Park Breaking of Bumbo, The 1970
St. John's Wood Yellow Submarine 1968
St. Paul's Herostratus 1967
Stamford Brook Darling 1965
Stanmore Abominable Dr. Phibes, The 1971
Stepney Green Man Who Knew Too Much, The 1934
Stockwell Man Who Fell To Earth, The 1976
Stonebridge Park Leather Boys, The 1964
Strand (closed) Imitation Game, The 2014
Stratford Bronco Bullfrog 1969
Sudbury Hill Lion's Mouth, The 2000
Sudbury Town How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment 1965
Swiss Cottage Leon the Pig Farmer 1992
Temple Excalibur 1981
Theydon Bois Playbirds, The 1978
11Underground Station Film Year
Tooting Bec Valerie and Her Week of Wonders 1970
Tooting Broadway Children of Men 2006
Tottenham Court Road An American Werewolf in London 1981
Tottenham Hale London: The Modern Babylon 2012
Totteridge & Whetstone And Now for Something Completely Different 1971
Tower Hill Tower of London 1939
Tufnell Park Sorcerers, The 1967
Turnham Green Dance Hall 1950
Turnpike Lane Nineteen-Eighty Four 1984
Upminster Live It Up! 1963
Upminster Bridge Live It Up! 2010
Upney Tower Block 2012
Upton Park Ill Manors 2012
Uxbridge Devil Rides Out, The 1968
Vauxhall My Beautiful Launderette 1985
Victoria Pleasure Girls, The 1965
Walthamstow Central Full Metal Jacket 1987
Wanstead Another Year 2010
Warren Street Hidden City 1987
Warwick Avenue L- Shaped Room, The 1962
Waterloo Return To Waterloo 1984
Watford Night of the Demon 1957
Wembley Central Pink Floyd - The Wall 1982
Wembley Park Love Test, The 1935
West Acton Kind Hearts and Coronets 1969
West Brompton Afraid of the Dark 1991
West Finchley Dr Strangelove 1964
West Ham Last of England, The 1987
West Hampstead Dougal and the Blue Cat 1970
West Harrow Four Lions 2010
West Kensington Filth and the Fury, The 2000
West Ruislip Funeral in Berlin 1966
Westbourne Park Withnail and I 1987
Westminster Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, The 1927
White City Absolute Beginners 1986
Whitechapel Nightbirds 1970
Willesden Green Thunderbird 6 1968
Willesden Junction There Will Be Blood 2007
Wimbledon Fahrenheit 451 1966
Wimbledon Park Séance on a Wet Afternoon 1964
Wood Green A Lizard in a Woman's Skin 1971
Woodford 80 Million Women Want-? 1913
Woodside Park Shaun of the Dead 2004
12Year Film Underground Station
1893 Blacksmith Scene Kenton
1913 80 Million Women Want-? Woodford
1915 Les Vampires Lambeth North
1917 Immigrant, The Kennington
1927 Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, The Westminster
1929 Piccadilly Piccadilly Circus
1931 Bride of Frankenstein Dagenham Heathway
1933 King Kong Kings Cross, Scala (closed)
1934 Man Who Knew Too Much, The Stepney Green
1934 Song Of Ceylon Debden
1935 Love Test, The Wembley Park
1937 Elephant Boy South Harrow
1937 Gangway Eastcote
1939 Arsenal Stadium Mystery, The Arsenal
1939 Lion Has Wings, The Hornchurch
1939 Tower of London Tower Hill
1940 London Can Take It! Monument
1943 Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Hyde Park Corner
1944 Champagne Charlie Elephant & Castle
1945 Hangover Square Earl's Court
1946 A Matter of Life and Death Ruislip Gardens
1946 Great Expectations Chancery Lane
1947 Black Narcissus South Ruislip
1947 Hue and Cry South Ealing
1948 Red Shoes, The Ickenham
1949 Passport To Pimlico Pimlico
1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets West Acton
1950 Blue Lamp, The Royal Oak
1950 Dance Hall Turnham Green
1950 Night and the City Ravenscourt Park
1950 Seven Days To Noon Embankment
1950 Southgate, Middlesex, England, in the Year 1950 Arnos Grove
1951 Lavender Hill Mob, The Ealing Common
1951 Man in the White Suit, The Ealing Broadway
1951 Tales of Hoffmann, The Covent Garden
1954 Animal Farm Highbury & Islington
1954 Runaway Bus, The Heathrow Terminal 5
1955 Lady Killers, The King's Cross St. Pancras
1955 Quatermass Xperiment, The Canning Town
1956 Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn, The East Acton
1956 Crawling Eye, The Hounslow East
1956 One Wish Too Many East Ham
1957 Night of the Demon Watford
1957 Seventh Seal, The Cockfosters
1957 Smallest Show on Earth, The Kilburn
13Year Film Underground Station
1958 Look Back In Anger Holloway Road
1958 Under Night Streets Finchley Central
1958 We Are The Lambeth Boys Oval
1959 I'm Alright Jack Northfields
1959 Too Many Crooks North Wembley
1960 Circus of Horrors Amersham
1960 League of Gentlemen, The Cannon Street
1960 Never Let Go Kilburn Park
1960 Peeping Tom Oxford Circus
1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Fairlop
1961 Flame in the Streets Kentish Town
1961 Rebel, The Colliers Wood
1961 Victim Charing Cross
1962 Day of the Triffids, The Marylebone
1962 Girl Hunters, The Kingsbury
1962 It's Trad Dad Hatton Cross
1962 L- Shaped Room, The Warwick Avenue
1962 Lawrence of Arabia Colindale
1963 A Place to Go Old Street
1963 From Russia With Love Ruislip
1963 Live It Up! Upminster
1963 Servant, The South Kensington
1963 Sparrows Can't Sing Queensbury
1963 That Kind Of Girl Richmond
1964 A Hard Day's Night Goodge Street
1964 Bargee, The Moor Park
1964 Carry On Spying Ruislip Manor
1964 Dr Strangelove West Finchley
1964 Goldfinger Heathrow Terminal 4
1964 It Happened Here Regent's Park
1964 Killing of Sister George, The Shepherd's Bush
1964 Leather Boys, The Stonebridge Park
1964 Masque of the Red Death, The High Barnet
1964 Séance on a Wet Afternoon Wimbledon Park
1965 Bunny Lake Is Missing Maida Vale
1965 Darling Stamford Brook
1965 Help! Bond Street
1965 How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment Sudbury Town
1965 Ipcress File, The High Street Kensington
1965 Knack ...and How to Get It, The Goldhawk Road
1965 Pleasure Girls, The Victoria
1965 War Game, The Caledonian Road
1966 Alfie Bayswater
1965 Charlie Is My Darling Heathrow Airport Terminals 1, 2 & 3
1966 Blowup North Greenwich
1966 Carry On Screaming! Hillingdon
14Year Film Underground Station
1966 Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. Parsons Green
1966 Closely Watched Trains Roding Valley
1966 Dateline Diamonds Gants Hill
1966 Fahrenheit 451 Wimbledon
1966 Funeral in Berlin West Ruislip
1966 Georgy Girl Belsize Park
1966 Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment Archway
1966 Stop the World – I Want to Get Off Newbury Park
1967 Bedazzled Gunnersbury
1967 Dirty Dozen, The Hendon Central
1967 Herostratus St. Paul's
1967 Poor Cow Southfields
1967 Quatermass and the Pit Chiswick Park
1967 Sorcerers, The Tufnell Park
1967 To Sir With Love Becontree
1968 30 is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia Barking
1968 All Neat in Black Stockings East Putney
1968 Curse of the Crimson Altar Harrow & Wealdstone
1968 Devil Rides Out, The Uxbridge
1968 Girl on a Motorcycle, The Finchley Road
1968 Joanna Knightsbridge
1968 One Man Band, The Mornington Crescent
1968 That Man From Tehran Edgware Road
1968 Thunderbird 6 Willesden Green
1968 Yellow Submarine St. John's Wood
1969 Bed-Sitting Room, The Leyton
1969 Bronco Bullfrog Stratford
1969 Death May Be Your Santa Claus Clapham South
1969 Italian Job, The Moorgate
1969 Magic Christian, The Southwark
1969 Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, The Hanger Lane
1969 Where's Jack? Marble Arch
1969 Twinky Sloane Square
1970 Breaking of Bumbo, The St. James's Park
1970 Cool it Carol! Green Park
1970 Deep End Leytonstone
1970 Dougal and the Blue Cat West Hampstead
1970 Nightbirds Whitechapel
1970 Performance Ladbroke Grove
1970 Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Baker Street
1970 Purab Aur Paschim Euston
1970 Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, The Hammersmith (Circle and H&C)
1971 A Clockwork Orange Fulham Broadway
1970 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders Tooting Bec
1971 A Lizard in a Woman's Skin Wood Green
1971 Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Stanmore
15Year Film Underground Station
1971 And Now for Something Completely Different Totteridge & Whetstone
1971 Boy Friend, The Preston Road
1971 Dad's Army Chalfont & Latimer
1971 Gumshoe Holborn
1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday Hampstead
1972 Death Line Euston Square
1972 Dr. Phibes Rises Again Edgware
1972 Dracula A.D. 1972 Queensway
1972 Savage Messiah Kensal Green
1973 Final Programme, The Latimer Road
1973 Horror Hospital Morden
1973 Legend of Hell House, The Buckhurst Hill
1973 Lonely Water Boston Manor
1973 Metroland Chorleywood
1973 O Lucky Man! Hammersmith (District and Piccadilly)
1973 Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Gloucester Road
1973 That'll Be The Day Oakwood
1973 Theatre of Blood Putney Bridge
1974 From Beyond the Grave Highgate
1974 Son Of Dracula Alperton
1974 Stardust Northolt
1974 What Future for Haringey? Bounds Green
1975 Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done Northwood Hills
1975 I Am a Cat Clapham North
1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail Loughton
1975 Moon Over the Alley, The Notting Hill Gate
1976 Man Who Fell To Earth, The Stockwell
1976 Omen, The Northwick Park
1977 Bob Marley and the Wailers: Live! At the Rainbow Finsbury Park
1977 Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger Mill Hill East
1978 Jubilee Canada Water
1978 Lord of the Rings, The Elm Park
1978 Medusa Touch, The Snaresbrook
1978 Playbirds, The Theydon Bois
1978 Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, The Pinner
1979 Alien North Acton
1979 Long Good Friday, The Canary Wharf
1979 Murder By Decree Hainault
1979 Quadrophenia Shepherd's Bush Market
1979 Tempest, The Blackfriars
1980 Breaking Glass Barkingside
1980 Elephant Man, The Liverpool Street
1980 Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, The Balham
1980 Rude Boy Mile End
1980 Sir Henry Rawlinson at Rawlinson End Blackhorse Road
16Year Film Underground Station
1981 An American Werewolf in London Tottenham Court Road
1981 Excalibur Temple
1981 Stonebridge Park Stonebridge Park
1981 Time Bandits Chigwell
1982 Missionary, The Redbridge
1982 Pink Floyd - The Wall Wembley Central
1983 Crimson Permanent Assurance, The Aldgate
1983 Krull Grange Hill
1983 Where Is Parsifal? Southgate
1984 Company of Wolves, The Clapham Common
1984 Nineteen-Eighty Four Turnpike Lane
1984 Return To Waterloo Waterloo
1984 Top Secret! South Wimbledon
1985 Brazil Holland Park
1985 Dance With a Stranger Farringdon
1985 My Beautiful Launderette Vauxhall
1985 No Surrender Perivale London
1986 A Kind of English Bethnal Green
1986 Absolute Beginners White City
1986 Sid and Nancy Bermondsey
1987 Eat the Rich Croxley
1987 Full Metal Jacket Walthamstow Central
1987 Hellraiser Dollis Hill
1987 Hidden City Warren Street
1987 Last of England, The West Ham
1987 Pestonjee Rayners Lane
1987 Prick Up Your Ears Angel
1987 Withnail and I Westbourne Park
1989 Rainbow, The Chesham
1989 Scandal Lancaster Gate
1990 Hardware Chalk Farm
1991 Afraid of the Dark West Brompton
1991 Young Soul Rebels Russell Square
1992 Leon the Pig Farmer Swiss Cottage
1992 Orlando Great Portland Street
1992 Reservoir Dogs Greenford
1993 Schindler's List Manor House
1994 Interview With the Vampire East Finchley
1995 Hackers Kew Gardens
1995 Richard III Mansion House
1996 Crash Aldgate East
1996 Trainspotting Barons Court
1997 Face Burnt Oak
1998 Babymother Harlesden
1998 Shakespeare in Love Borough
1998 Velvet Goldmine Hounslow Central
17Year Film Underground Station
1999 Fight Club Golders Green
1999 Topsy-Turvy Northwood
2000 Filth and the Fury, The West Kensington
2000 High Fidelity Seven Sisters
2000 Lion's Mouth, The Sudbury Hill
2001 Gosford Park Hounslow West
2002 28 Days Later Bank
2002 Dirty Pretty Things South Kenton
2003 Bright Young Things Broadgate (closed)
2003 Singing Detective, The North Ealing
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Canons Park
2004 Shaun of the Dead Woodside Park
2005 Breakfast on Pluto Leicester Square
2006 Children of Men Tooting Broadway
2006 Prestige, The Harrow-on-the-Hill
2006 Provoked Osterley
2007 Eastern Promises Park Royal
2007 Grindhouse Dagenham East
2007 Son Of Rambow Epping
2007 There Will Be Blood Willesden Junction
2008 V For Vendetta Barbican
2009 Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The London Bridge
2010 Another Year Wanstead
2010 Four Lions West Harrow
2010 Hippie Hippie Shake Queen's Park
2010 Infidel, The Brent Cross
2010 Live It Up! Upminster Bridge
2010 Made in Dagenham Plaistow
2011 Attack the Block Brixton
2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Kensington Olympia
2012 Berberian Sound Studio Bromley-by-Bow
2012 Beware of Mr. Baker Neasden
2012 Ill Manors Upton Park
2012 London: The Modern Babylon Tottenham Hale
2012 Tower Block Upney
2013 Belle Rickmansworth
2013 Zero Theorem, The South Woodford
2014 Imitation Game, The Strand (closed)
2014 Lambert And Stamp Acton Town
2014 Paddington Paddington
2015 Suffragette Bow Road
2016 Man Who Knew Infinity, The North Harrow
18Acton Town - Lambert & Stamp (2014)
James D Cooper’s documentary tells the story of the collaboration between Alpha
Mod and brother of Terence, Chris Stamp, and Kit Lambert, son of composer
Constance and Assistant Director of ‘From Russia With Love’ (on the Scala map
at Ruislip) and ‘The L-Shaped Room’ (at Warwick Avenue), which is where he
met fellow AD Chris Stamp.
The two men planned to start their own film empire in the spirit of the French
New Wave, to which end they began to make a documentary about up and
coming rock act, The Who. They never made the film but ended up managing the
band. All of The Who (apart from Keith Moon) went to Acton County Grammar
School (which is now Acton High School).
Aldgate - The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
The Terry Gilliam directed ‘B’ picture about insurance underwriters who decide
to become pirates, which invades the main feature ‘Monty Python’s Meaning of
Life’. Aldgate is the centre of London’s insurance industry.
Aldgate East - Crash (1996)
David Cronenberg directed film based on J G Ballard's 1973 novel of the same
name about people who take sexual pleasure from car crashes. J G Ballard wrote
of ‘This is Tomorrow’ - the groundbreaking 1956 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition
by the Independent Group of artists featuring Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard
Hamilton - as “among the most radical statements of the human imagination ever
made”. Architecture critic Reyner Banham said in a 1992 documentary about the
exhibition: “This is modern art to entertain people, modern art as a game people
will want to play […] journalists were most taken by the fact that the show was
opened by Robby the Robot, star of the sci-fi movie Forbidden Planet and easier
to book than Marilyn Monroe.”
Iain Sinclair said that Ballard never really visited the East End: he drove through
it to go to the Millennium Dome once, but went straight back to Shepperton.
Alperton - Son of Dracula (1974)
Bizarre rock’n’roll musical with Ringo Starr as Merlin, Harry Nilsson as Dracula’s
son and Dennis Price as Dr Van Helsing. Other perennial Seventies luminaries
making brief appearances include Peter Frampton, Shakira Baksh (Mrs Michael
Caine), Jenny Runacre and Keith Moon, who grew up in Alperton. Moon was in
other films with Ringo Starr, Frank Zappa’s ‘200 Motels’ (1971) and the 1978
Mae West comeback flick ‘Sextette’.
Amersham - Circus of Horrors (1960)
Plastic surgeon Anton Diffring uses a circus as a front for bizarre medical
experiments. A kind of follow-up to Anglo-Amalgamated's equally sadistic
‘Peeping Tom’ (at Oxford Circus on the Scala map). Scenes were filmed under the
arches of Amersham’s 18th Century market hall.
19Angel - Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Written by Joe Orton, who with his lover Kenneth Halliwell was sentenced to six
months in prison for stealing and defacing Islington Public Library books. The
books are now part of the official local history collection.
Archway - Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
Leon Clore’s comedy based on David Mercer’s BBC television play about a
gorilla-obsessed failed artist, raised by communists in East London, trying to win
back his posh ex wife (Vanessa Redgrave). In one scene, David Warner and Irene
Handl have a heart to heart by Marx’s grave in nearby Highgate Cemetery.
Arnos Grove - Southgate, Middlesex, England, in the Year 1950 (1950)
At 11 mins 50 seconds into this half-hour colour film, local historian and
narrator John Ginn, editor of the Palmers Green and Southgate Gazette,
comments - almost apologetically - “this is Arnos Grove Tube station in Bowes
Road”. The film lurches from images of the Piccadilly railway viaduct, watch and
clock maker’s almshouses, to Charles Holden’s 1932 architectural marvel, which
is “perhaps the design that represents the best of his work on the London
Underground network” according to the Modernist Britain website.
The views of boating ponds, of leafy avenues and Tudor manor houses of
Middlesex are like jump-cuts: from a Middle Age of rose gardens and baronial
Estates, to the Art Deco high modernity of industrial design for the common man
and woman. This was the era of Harry Beck’s tube map, Edward Johnston iconic
‘roundel’ bullseye for the Underground, and of Bolton-born Holden’s bold
architecture for London’s Tube: East Finchley, South Wimbledon, Sudbury Town,
Southgate and Arnos Grove stations. The latter was inspired by a trip with Frank
Pick to see Gunnar Asplund’s Stockholm Public Library.
20(Frank Pick, general manager of the Underground Electric Railways Company of
London, also commissioned Holden to design the UERL HQ, completed in 1929 at
55 Broadway overlooking St. James’s Park).
Arnos Grove is in various Agatha Christie adaptations for television but is in
relatively few films. While the Art Deco features of the London Underground are
celebrated as design classics now, they were regarded as experiments at the time
that they were commissioned. In the years immediately following World War
Two they seemed at odds with the modest suburban conservatism of the ‘New
Elizabethans’ Since its inception, London’s film industry has existed in this gap
between an imagined, folkloric city and its industrial reality: a day dream of the
city as a Merry England, a ‘Metroland’ rural idyll of interconnected villages; and
the grubby falsework necessary for mass production and exhibition of moving
images. The market gardens and relative seclusion of the countryside provided
the materials - chiefly glass and sunlight - for early film production. When
cinema was dependent on analogue infrastructure - electrical lighting, sound
stages, labs - the city’s Victorian and Edwardian transport and warehousing
capacity made the transition from an Empire of trade to the Hammersmith
Empire a nearly seamless one.
Yet, in a mainly digital age, England’s seeming inability to build cheap, pleasant,
affordable housing - of the kind envisaged in Germany by the Bauhaus designers
- stifles its ‘creative industries’, as the philosopher Adorno thought of them. This
is because only a elite of graduates - increasingly self-selecting - can afford to
have proximity to the exclusive memberships clubs and bars where films as
deals, as business plans, are created. Pretty to look at but as exclusive and
parochial as a rose garden in Barnet.
21Arsenal - The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
When Arsenal take on touring amateur side Trojans at their Highbury stadium,
the Trojan’s new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade (Leslie Banks) of
Scotland Yard investigates the murder. A charming blend of murder mystery and
light comedy, director Thorold Dickinson pre-empted many techniques of social
realism used not long after by film-makers like Humphrey Jennings (‘Fires Were
Started’, ‘Listen to Britain’). Arsenal players and staff appear as themselves
but only manager George Allison gets a speaking part.
Baker Street - The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Billy Wilder’s film addresses the question of whether the residents of 221B were
lovers. He decides - on balance, and like most writers since Conan Doyle who
have explored the homoerotic subtext of the Great Detective’s exploits - that they
were both straight (but would it matter if they were bi?) Somerset House on the
Strand doubles for the Diogenes Club. Many critics consider this the best of the
Holmes films not based directly on Doyle’s writing. This is in a competitive field
which includes ‘Without a Clue’, ‘The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter
Brother’, ‘The Seven-Per-Cent Solution’ and Guy Ritchie’s two films.
Balham - The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle (1980)
While they were running ‘Sex’ at 430 Kings Road - where they recruited the Sex
Pistols - Malcolm McClaren and Vivienne Westwood lived in a council flat in
Balham. The other film about Balham is a fake travelogue directed by Mickey
Dolenz and starring Robbie Coltrane, based on a Peter Sellers radio comedy
sketch from the Fifties: ‘Balham, Gateway to the South’.
22Bank - 28 Days Later (2002)
Waking up from a coma in a deserted London can be confusing. Jim (Cillian
Murphy), the hero of Danny Boyle’s lairy-Southerners-infected-by-killer-virus-
go-apeshit hit, wanders from Horseguards Parade up the Mall. Then for no
apparent reason he takes a 4 mile, hour and a half detour to the Bank of
England, then walks back to Centre Point.
The film’s opening illustrates how, through mass communications media
including cinema, a city like London has become a set of atomised, dislocated
‘postcard’ images of power relating to the individual, rather than embodying a
coherent storyline about all of the city’s population. In 2003, Bank tube station
was the site for ‘Exercise Osiris’, “the most realistic live disaster exercise of its
kind” preparing the emergency services for mass decontamination in the event
of a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attack.
To complete the Deleuzianal spectacle, in the opening of the 2002 film Jim
discovers (useless) money floating around in Whitehall. Five years later, the
Bank of England had to print real money as part of Quantitative Easing after
transnational banks crashed the world economy with a rage virus of their own.
After the Boris Johnson failed in late 2019 to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic
on the advice of the follow-up to ‘Osiris’, Exercise Cygnus, because of a mono-
focus on No Deal Brexit contingency planning, Chancellor Rishni Sunak had to
print tens of billions more to keep the country from flatlining in a post-
coronavirus depression.
Barbican - V For Vendetta (2008)
V (Hugo Weaving) scares off men menacing Evey (Natalie Portman) as she walks
along Cloth Fair, the remaining street of medieval London where the
Bartholomew Fair was held to celebrate the holy day of St Bartholomew,
beginning on 11th June 1135. (Anglicans moved it to 24th August).
Until it was banned in 1855, the Fair - which started off as a cattle and cloth
market - was associated with puppets, freaks, wild animals and masking.
Smithfield Market is still around the corner, the remaining link to its past as a
centre of the dairy and meat industry (though the buildings in the vicinity are all
being turned into cafes and gastropubs).
It’s also round the corner from Little Britain, EC1, where East End postcodes
start.
On 23rd August 1305, the Scots rebel leader William Wallace was dragged naked
through the streets of London from the Tower of London to Smithfield at the
heels of a horse. There, he was then hung, drawn and quartered.
Ben Jonson’s play ‘Bartholomew Fayre’ was first performed by Lady Elizabeth’s
Men at the Hope Theatre, Bankside, London, on 31st October 1614. This period -
now known as Halloween - marking the waning of the Sun has been associated
with mischief-making since the Roman festival of Saturnalia. It continued until
the 17th Century as the Lord of Misrule festivity.
23Barking - 30 is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1968)
Star Dudley Moore grew up in Dagenham.
Barkingside - Breaking Glass (1980)
Actor Ken Campbell, the most influential figure in London’s alternative theatre
over three decades, was from Redbridge. As well as Campbell’s brief turn as a
publican, the ‘Breaking Glass’ cast includes Hazel O’Connor, Jonathan Pryce, Gary
Tibbs from Adam and the Ants, Phil Daniels and Mark (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
Wing-Davey.
Barons Court - Trainspotting (1996)
78A Talgarth Road, West London, between Baron’s Court and West Kensington
tube stations, stands in for the Edinburgh flat Renton (Ewan McGregor) shares
with his junkie friends.
Bayswater - Alfie (1966)
The West London flat of Alfie (Michael Caine) is 29 St Stephen’s Gardens, off
Chepstow Road W2.
Becontree - To Sir With Love (1967)
Mostly set in East London and around Commercial Road, at one point the
teacher-who-changes-lives Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) gets on a 23 bus to
travel to a funeral. The 23 route ran from Becontree to Marylebone via
Barkingside. Best remembered for its torch song theme sung by Scots soul
chanteuse Lulu, ‘To Sir With Love’ was about a capital city of a former Empire, a
place that was bigger than Zones 1 - 6.
Belsize Park - Georgy Girl (1966)
A contrast to ‘The Knack’, Georgina Parkin (Lynn Redgrave) is doing it her way in
swinging, mid-Sixties West London. This time round, Charlotte Rampling isn’t
only a dolly bird but she’s a vain floozy to boot: she leaves Georgy by herself with
her baby.
James Mason is sidelined, playing a lecherous, elderly businessmen (making this
a contrasting companion piece to Kubrick's 1962 ‘Lolita’). In the end, Georgy
24marries him, at Hampstead Town Hall, Haverstock Hill NW3 on the corner of
Belsize Park, which doubles for the registry office. In the closing moments, as
they drive away, Georgy pays no attention to her new husband. She focuses all
her loving on her newly adopted baby daughter.
An early - appropriately grim - feminist take on the kitchen sink drama that
typified the British New Wave. Best known for its theme music sung by the New
Seekers, like most themes to Swinging London films of this period (‘Alfie’, ‘To Sir
With Love’) its upbeat, optimistic mood is oddly dissonant when contrasted with
the grotty disaffection and selfish agendas of almost all of the protagonists.
Prescient of the Seventies.
Bermondsey - Sid and Nancy (1986)
In the film, Sid and Nancy live in an apartment block at 35 West Lane,
Bermondsey SE16, which used to be the Two Brewers pub. Their real flat was in
Pindock Mews, Maidas Vale W9.
Blackfriars - The Tempest (1979)
Derek Jarman’s 1979 film and ‘Forbidden Planet’ are among screen adaptations
of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’. One of the earliest performances of the play by
Shakespeare’s company The King’s Men was at London’s first covered
professional theatre at Playhouse Yard, Blackfriars. Shakespeare lived a few
yards away over the East Gatehouse of the disused Domincan (black friar’s)
monastery.
Blackhorse Road - Sir Henry Rawlinson at Rawlinson End (1980)
Vivian Stanshall grew up in Walthamstow, and attended Walthamstow Art
College. Other former students include Ian Dury and Peter Greenaway.
25Bond Street - Help! (1965)
Ringo attempts, unsuccessfully, to have a sacrificial ring removed at jewellers
Asprey’s, at 165 New Bond Street W1.
Borough - Shakespeare in Love (1998)
A small part of the foundations of Shakespeare’s Globe was discovered in 1989
beneath the car park at the rear of Anchor Terrace on Park Street. The only
remaining structure from the Elizabethan Golden Age of theatre is the facade of
the George Inn on Borough High Street. The George is the sole surviving galleried
London coaching inn, of the kind that predated purpose-built theatres in England
as performance spaces. The George’s neighbour on Borough High Street, the
Tabard, is the starting point for Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’:
‘Bifel that in that season on a day,
In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay
Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
To Caunterbury with ful devout corage,
At nyght was come into that hostelrye.’
Boston Manor - Lonely Water (1973)
Made near Heathrow. In 1973, Donald Pleasance - the narrator of this chilling
public information film on children’s safety near bodies of water - lived at
Strand-on-the-Green.
Bounds Green - What Future for Haringey? (1974)
Made as part of the Haringey Borough Plan of 1974, this short film shot on 16mm
is a postcard from an era of Mott the Hoople, brass bands, Jackie comic and
jumpers for goal posts. Not a gentler age, necessarily: today, the exuberant
displays of unplanned community spirit seem like the glimmerings of a working
class revolution.
26Bow Road - Suffragette (2015)
Helena Bonham plays activist Edith New and Meryl Streep plays Emmaline
Pankhurst in the 2015 film about the struggle for women’s right to vote, Her
daughter, Sylvia Pankhurst, became active in socialist self-help movement in the
East End, particularly in Bow. Sylvia helped to set up a free milk service for
mothers and kids, and a cut-price café from the disused Gunmakers’ Arms pub in
1915.
Brent Cross - The Infidel (2010)
Comedy in which a London Muslim man discovers he’s adopted and that his
biological parents were Jewish. Writer David Baddiel went to primary school in
Brent. Ten years after it was made, ‘The Infidel’ now seems like the Coca-Cola Hill
Top advert in the giddy optimism of its radical message of tolerance, mutual
understanding between Londoners, and good natured fun at the expense of New
Romanticism.
Brixton - Attack the Block (2011)
Joe Cornish’s inner city vs. aliens epic is set in Brixton. ‘The Adam and Joe Show’,
Cornish’s first TV series made with Adam Buxton, was mostly filmed in rooms
over the Body Shop on Brixton High Street.
Bromley-by-Bow - Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Production of Peter Strickland’s Giallo-influenced psychological horror starring
Toby Jones was situated at 3 Mills Studios, Three Mill Lane, Bromley-by-Bow.
Buckhurst Hill - The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Roddy McDowall waits to be collected by Peter Bowles at Roydon railway
station, 14 miles from Buckhurst Hill Tube station. One of several films based on
the novel ‘Hell House’ by Richard Matheson, ‘Legend of Hell House’ is notable for
its striking experimental electronic soundtrack by Delia Derbyshire and Brian
Hodgson - famed composers of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – which was
recorded at Hodgson’s Electrophon studios in Convent Garden.
27Caledonian Road - The War Game (1965)
Made two decades before ‘Threads’ and Raymond Briggs’s ‘Where the Wind
Blows’, Peter Watkins’s 1965 documentary-style depiction of Britain under
nuclear attack was withdrawn before transmission by the BBC under
government pressure, but went on to win an Oscar for Best Documentary.
Like Watkins’s film for the BBC, ‘Culloden’, made the previous year, ‘The War
Game’ was cast with non-professional actors, in the tradition of Humphrey
Jenning’s films like ‘The Silent Village’ and Kevin Brownlow’s and Andrew
Mollo’s 1964 feature ‘It Happened Here’.
Watkins was so angered by the way the BBC treated him that he left the UK, and
has continued to make documentaries - mostly in Scandanavia - in a similar style,
including his 2000 film ‘La Commune’ about the 1871 Paris Commune. His 1967
feature film ‘Privilege’ - made on location in Birmingham - starring Paul Jones as
a rock idol manipulated by a totalitarian government, has been restored by BFI
and released as part of its ‘Flipside’ series.
Caledonian Road is notable for two things: its longstanding Irish community and
Housmans Bookshop, opened in 1959 and named after Laurence Houseman the
gay, pacifist playwright who suggested that the Peace Pledge Union establish a
permanent base in 1948. As well as publishing Peace News, it became a focus of
the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament .
The two worlds converged in 1974 when an IRA bomb blew up the pillar box
outside the shop. The explosion incinerated all the copies of Campaign Against
Arms Trade’s first newsletter.
Camden Town - Cathy Come Home (1966)
Ken Loach shot this around Camden on 16mm for the BBC’s ‘Wednesday Play’
from Jeremy Sandford’s script. Cathy (Carol White) and Reg (Ray Brooks) are
young parents. After Reg is injured at work, they lose their home and everything
falls apart. Cathy ends up homeless and social services take her kids away.
It’s been called “an ice-pick in the brain of all who saw it”. The impact of ‘Cathy
Come Home’ on audiences was immense. The play was discussed in Parliament.
Loach points out that in fact very little changed as a result of its broadcast: rules
were altered so that men were allowed to stay in hostels with their wives and
children. Almost half a century later, a Cambridge University study in 2015
estimated that 83 000 young people are homeless in the UK, three times the
official government figure.
Camden pubs, theatres and cinemas appear frequently in cinema of the Sixties
and Seventies as symbols of urban decay, and of faded Victorian and Edwardian
splendour. The disused Bedford Theatre seen in ‘Cathy Come Home’ also appears
in the James Mason documentary ‘The London Nobody Knows’ (1969). In ‘Radio
On’ (1979) Robert (David Beames) lives over the Plaza Cinema that was at 211
Camden High Street.
28One of eight deep tube shelters is in Camden. Made to house 8000 people in
WWII, the shelters were never used. They now house government archives. The
Camden shelter has been a location in Doctor Who (‘The Sun Makers’ 1977).
Canada Water - Jubilee (1978)
Derek Jarman’s punk state of the nation film, coinciding with Queen Elizabeth II’s
Silver Jubilee. Sphinx (Karl Johnson, who you last saw in Edgar Wright’s ‘Hot
Fuzz’ among other roles) and his mates nick a VW Beetle and drive it to the
council house of an associate, Max. In a grotto full of plastic flowers they find
Elizabeth I, who has time travelled to her successor’s era. The house with the
plastic flowers in the garden was at 364 Rotherhithe Street, London SE16.
Featuring a royal court of punk luminaries - Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox,
Jordan, Jayne County, Richard O’Brien, Adam Ant, Lindsay Kemp, Steven Severin,
Ari Up and Siouxsie Sioux - not everyone liked it. Vivienne Westwood printed an
“open letter” to Jarman on a t-shirt, denouncing the film as a misrepresentation
of punk.
At the end of ‘Jubilee’, Elizabeth I takes part in revenge attacks on two cops after
they kill Sphinx (Karl Jordan) at a disco held in St Paul’s crypt. Then Liz I
disappears with Dr Jonn Dee (O’Brien) and Ariel to a Seventeenth Century idyll.
In 2012, Westwood addressed the campers occupying St Paul’s Churchyard. A
few months later she praised Elizabeth II as “above politics” while attending
a gala at the Royal Academy.
29Canary Wharf - The Long Good Friday (1979)
Made in the same year Margaret Thatcher came to power, old fashioned East End
gangster Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) tries to borrow money from a delegation
from the American mafia (led by Eddie Constanine, Lemmy Caution in Goddard’s
‘Alphaville’) to develop an Olympics site in the ruins of London’s docklands.
Meanwhile, his criminal empire across London is under attack from the IRA. The
supporting cast includes Helen Mirren, Derek (Charlie from ‘Casualty’)
Thompson, and the first appearance on film of a youthful Pierce Brosnan.
Widely read as a parable about Thatcherism and the “aspirational” culture that
followed her premiership, ‘The Long Good Friday’ was made long before the first
structure in the Canary Wharf development was up, One Canada Square built in
1991. Locations in the film include nearby Burrell’s Wharf, St John’s Wharf and St
Katherine’s Dock. ‘The Governor General’ pub was really The Watermans Arms
on the corner of Glenaffric Avenue and Saunders Ness (now The Great Eastern).
‘The Lion & Unicorn’ pub which meets a terrible fate at the hands of the IRA was
a set built on Wapping High Street, at the end of Scandrett Street.
London and the mainland were still being rocked by the Troubles once Thatcher
left office and Hoskins went to Hollywood to star opposite Roger Rabbit. The IRA
declared a ceasefire in 1994, but a breakaway group bombed Docklands in 1996
nonetheless.
The IRA may be stood down now, but the London of ‘The Long Good Friday’ is a
warning from history – of the City and East London run by dodgy money, bent
coppers and organised crime – which is now the reality. In 2015, Brexit Year -1,
author and organised crime analyst Roberto Saviano said the City is the money-
laundering centre of the world’s drug trade: “The British treat it as not their
problem because there aren’t corpses on the street.” In 2020, he told la
Repubblica newspaper: “The pandemic is the ideal place for mafias, and the
reason is simple — if you are hungry, you are looking for bread; it does not
matter which oven it is baked from and who it is distributing it.”
According to the National Crime Agency (NCA) threat assessment: “Hundreds of
billions of US dollars of criminal money almost certainly continue to be
laundered through UK banks, including their subsidiaries, each year.” There’s a
lot of dignity in that, isn’t there?
30Canning Town - The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Built on reclaimed marshland following the ban on the slave trade, in the late
19th Century “Draughtboard Alley” - Crown Street, off Victoria Dock Road - in
Canning Town in the Royal Docks grew as home to a large population of West
African and Caribbean mariners. African Canning Town almost disappeared
overnight on 19th January 1917 when 50 tons of TNT exploded at the nearby
Brunner Mond & Co ammunition works in Silvertown. The largest explosion in
London’s history, it killed 73 people and destroyed 70 000 buildings.
In July of 1917, hysteria in newspapers about the “black peril” led to racist
attacks on African sailors in their lodging houses. The Daily Express firmly
blamed interracial relationships. (“In consequence of the infatuation of white
girls for the Black men in the district some of the inhabitants are greatly
incensed against Blacks.”)
Later, the Blitz took out more of docklands. Since the WWII there have been
numerous redevelopments in which Crown Street, the adjacent multi-ethnic
streets were progressively demolished so that this part of black London has
disappeared slowly from memory. Yet despite redevelopment and Canning
Town’s proximity to now-opulent parts of London’s former docklands, transport
closer to the docks than Canning Town station was poor for many decades until
the additional Royal Victoria DLR station was built in 1994. Canning Town is still
among the 5 percent most-deprived parts of the UK.
Prone to frequent fires and demolition, an earlier attempt to drag this part of
docklands up by its bootstraps was the Essoldo, or New Imperial Cinema. The
theatre building was built on the corner of Barking Road and Victoria Dock Road.
It occupied the same footprint as Relf’s Music Hall built in 1876 which became
the Royal Albert Music Hall. Rebuilt again in 1909 as the Imperial Palace of
Varieties, the building had been transferred brick by brick from the demolished
Royal Aquarium Theatre (later Imperial Theatre), Westminster. Screening films
from 1912, the Canning Town incarnation was renamed the Imperial Cinema. It
burnt down on 16th March 1931. Rebuilt a third time in 1934 as an Art Deco
picture palace, it was taken over by the Essoldo Cinemas chain from Newcastle in
January 1955, and was re-named.
The façade of the Royal Aquarium moved to a Canning Town street corner in 1909.
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