Steve Crook

Specically, the old Beckton gasworks.
The barracks where they did their training was at Bassingbourn Barracks, Cambs

All done here mainly because Kubrick lived in the UK and didn't like travelling.

Steve

faceoff

It wasn't always like described - a muggers paradise that is. I was watching the film being shot as a schoolboy at Charlton's Maryon Park (there was a Lombard Wall section for the schools younger boys). The strange game of tennis and then I never knew why Hemmings was dancing up the stairs (what he found there has entered film lore) They (the film designers) turned a corner shop into that junk shop where Hemmings purchased a ship's propellor and turned it back again. Happy days. I didn't see the film for many years afterwards - too young for all that sex I suppose.

Mediatheque

The following films featuring East London will be available to view free of charge in the new BFI Mediatheque, opening March 2007.

Petticoat Lane (1903)
East is East (1916)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Hoxton... July 3rd, Britannia Theatre (1920)
Piccadilly (1929)
Colour on the Thames (1935)
Fires Were Started (1943)
Pool of London (1950)
Bow Bells (1955)
Together (1956)
The Vanishing Street (1962)
Sparrows Can't Sing (1962)
The Long Good Friday (1981)

Further information available shortly at BFI | Home

Jack Gurney

Nobody mentioned Barney Platts Mills' Mod classic BRONCO BULLFROG yet? Filmed in Stratford and Stepney (and Essex) with genuine Cockney kids for actors. Probably the most East End film I can think of.

Ironically, most Jack The Ripper movies set in the East End were filmed, like most British horror, scifi and exploitation...in Middlesex and Hertfordshire!! Near to all the studios, you see (Pinewood, Shepperton, Ealing, Tiwckenham, Teddington, Elstree, Walton On Thames. Cor, what an era. Pity it's not like that now.....

Mediatheque

Actually, forgot to mention that BRONCO BULLFROG will also be available in the Mediatheque... And anyone looking for Jack the Ripper will be alarmed - or at least intrigued - to see his appearance in PRIMITIVE LONDON and Screaming Lord Sutch's disarming performance in the non-chart-topping song, JACK THE RIPPER.

Jack Gurney

PRIMITIVE LONDON is great- one of my all time favourites, particularly the scenes involving the young Barry Cryer. Like WEST END JUNGLE and THE LONDON NOBODY KNOWS, it really captures the essence of an era which will sadly probably never be repeated. Sadly I missed the screening Stanley Long showed at the NFT recently, as I was in a rather crap relationship at the time!! Which means I'll probably now never get to meet Jack Cardiff, but there you go.

I suppose the modern equivalent to such a film would be those documentaries that Suggs does for television- quite a worthy attempt, if you ask me. As the great RB and RC once sang, "somebody 'as to do it.."

Screaming Lord Sutch, on the other hand, is a legend that deserves a full thread on any Brit-centric site, let alone a mention in this one. A true character, an innovator, probably the originator of all 'shock rock' or 'rock theatre' as we know it (where would films like SLADE IN FLAME, HORROR HOSPITAL, BLACK CARRION and even STILL CRAZY have been without his influence?), a caring politician (and there ain't many of those around, I can tell you), the man who gave everyone from Chas Hodges to Jimmy Page their first break in rock'n'roll, and an iconic frontman. And of course, like most of the great musical iconoclasts this country produced- Viv Stanshall, Ian Dury, Bob Calvert, Alex Harvey, Syd Barrett, Kevin Coyne, Nikki Sudden and Billy Mackenzie to name just a few- he's no longer with us.

Pete Doherty? Johnny Borrell? Rock stars? Fuck off.

harryfielder

We shot some of John Wayne's ''Brannigan'' around Tower bridge..

Aitch,

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Steve Crook

The fight in the pub was filmed in The Lamb Tavern in Leadenhall market - just next to the Stock Exchange.

Steve

harryfielder

Thanks Steve... I only worked a couple of days on it...(but I did meet ''The Duke'')

Aitch,

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Hackett

I was working on the new ward and treatment blocks of St. Thomas Hospital which as it overlooks Parliment and the Old Scotland Yard was used as Richard Attenborough's office. And when "BRANNIGAN" moved out they moved in "JUGGERNAUT" and it became Ian Holm's office.

noglea

The forthcoming sequel to '28 Days Later' entiled '28 Weeks Later' was filmed in East London. The reason I know this is that I took part in something recently called the 28 hour film challenge which was named in conjection with the film. We were given a line of dialogue - 'Welcome to London', a prop - a pair of binoculars and a location. We had 28 hours over the weekend to plan, film and edit the finished piece. We met at a hall on the isle of dogs on a Friday morning to be given a speech by none other than Andrew MacDonald. I manage to resist the urge to embarass myself by telling him what a huge fan of his grandfather I am.

The six films are available to watch on line. The one I co-directed was called 'Eye Spy'. Alas we didn not win but it was great fun taking part.

You can see the films for free by clicking on the link below. They are all quite short.

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Redstar

We shot some of John Wayne's ''Brannigan'' around Tower bridge..

If I remember there was somethihg of a continuity problem with this film, one minute they are driving around Battersea then next going over Tower bridge!
Mind you they did the same with an episode of the Bill the other week one second going over Tower bridge the next in the gardens by the Temple.

Steve Crook

In The Bill, they regularly go from "Sun Hill Police Station" in Merton, SW London, turn a couple of corners and they're in the East End. I could do with a few trips across London like that sometimes

Steve

Klark Crass

If you're around East London's Silvertown area on a Sunday there's usually a squadd of police cars blocking the back roads - The Bill location filming.

Off the top of my head, the Long Good Friday was filmed in East London - in West India Dock and Canary Wharf in London's Docklands. Harold Shand's boat was moored there when the Mafia bod stayed. That was adjacent to what is now the Museum In Docklands. This area has changed considerably since 1979/80, what with One Canada Square etc., and the area is called West India Quay. But the waterways are still the same.

Also in the area was the 1984 TV series Prospects, starring the late Gary Olsen and Brian Bovill. Filming also took place extensively around the Isle of Dogs around Manchester Road and Westferry Road, Mudchute and Millwall Dock, the area known as Cubitt Town. One or two scenes wereshot in Bow as well; Roman Road market and Wellington Way. Chrisp St market also features, which is on East India Dock Road. I think I've located all locations in Prospects.

Yes - it's lock your car doors area..! But both the Long Good Friday and Prospects form priceless documents of a pre-regenerated London Docks.

What fcuker said that?

Mattzki

hi, new to this board, but thought it's worth adding that the church where Harold's mum's car gets blown up - St Anne's, Limehouse - is still standing, and a beautiful example of that particular architect's work.