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FILM LOCATIONS
Simon James’s contribution to Reel Streets of previously unpublished material. Simon is the author of the recently published and highly acclaimed book
'LONDON FILM LOCATION GUIDE'
....favourably reviewed in the press and on the radio and obviously obtainable at all good bookstores as well as
www.amazon.co.uk
©Simon James 2007
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The Twickenham and Croydon postcode areas are beyond the scope of Simon R.H. James' London Film Locations Guide so to fill in gaps here is a taster of London films mentioned in the book but which shot certain scenes just outside the London postcode zone. There was a great deal of cinematic activity especially near the river Thames which cuts Richmond and Twickenham, with the studios of St. Margaret's handy nearby.
TW1 St. Margaret's, Strawberry Hill
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Ranelagh Drive & Richmond Lock
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Ranelagh Drive from Twickenham Bridge |
In The Wild Geese (1978) Stewart Granger arranges for the contract out on Roger Moore to be lifted on Ranelagh Drive by Richmond Lock.
In Hysteria (1965) Robert Webber spots schemer Leila Goldoni parked on Ranelagh Drive as he walks across Twickenham Bridge.
In All the Little Animals (1998) Christian Bale crosses the bridge and is picked up by travellers soon after.
In Dead Fish (2004) Jimi Mistry hitches a ride for Amsterdam on the bridge.
In Baby Love (1968) Linda Hayden is trouble by visions of her dead mother Diana Dors |

Ranelagh Drive from Twickenham Bridge |

Twickenham Railway Bridge from north |
Donald Sutherland looks for clues under Twickenham railway bridge on the Richmond side in Murder By Decree (1979).
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Twickenham Railway Bridge from south
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Richmond Bridge |
Roger Moore drives off Richmond Bridge at the end of The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970).
Adrain Pasdar crosses the bridge to rent a room at Julie Walters' house in Just Like A Woman (1992). |

Ailsa Avenue 5, 7, 9, 11 Ailsa Avenue |

5, 7, 9, 11 Ailsa Avenue |
Help! (1965) opens with The Beatles entering 5, 7, 9 and 11 Ailsa Avenue. Paul McCartney meets Leo McKern and Eleanor Bron outside.
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St. Margaret's Grove |

St. Margaret's Grove & Winchester Road |
Ringo Starr mucks up all the bar games in The Turk's Head, Winchester Road, and, when leaving by the St. Margaret's Grove exit, is noticed by a policeman in A Hard Day's Night (1964). |

Winchester Road
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Winchester Road |
| Just beyond the pub and Winchester Hall is St. Stephen's C.E. Junior School where Anthony Hopkins sets up his base in Juggernaut (1974). |

St.Margaret's Station |

St.Margaret's Road |
At St. Margaret's Station Millicent Martin meets her husband after an evening with Alfie (1966).
Tom Baker arrives back from the tropics at the station and crosses St. Margaret's Road by the pedestrian crossing, still there, in Vault Of Horror (1973). |

Riverside
Lambert Wilson and Anna Galienna live at Ferryside, Riverside in The Leading Man (1995).
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TW2 Whitton |

67 Strathearn Avenue |

58 Strathearn Avenue |
Pauline Collins as Shirley Valentine (1989) lives at 67 Strathearn Avenue while neighbour Julia McKenzie lives opposite at 58 Strathearn Avenue, both houses at the corner of Ryecroft Avenue. This is supposedly a Liverpudlian suburb.
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TW3 Hounslow
Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra go to Hounslow tube for their West End shopping trip in Bend It Like Beckham (2002). |
TW5 Heston

Sutton Square |
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Parminder Nagra lives with her family at 33 Sutton Square. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Anupam Kher enjoy a game of cricket on the green outside in Bend It Like Beckham (2002). |
TW7 Osterley, Isleworth, Woodlands, Spring Grove |

Osterley House
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Church Street |
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Off Jersey Road, Osterley Park's neo-classical mansion is Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr's stately pile in The Grass Is Greener (1960). It is Barry Jones' in A Study In Terror (1965) where John Neville and Donald Houston as Holmes and Watson investigate the Jack The Ripper murders.
Dirk Bogarde visits Susannah York at Butterfield House, 63 Church Street, next to the church close to Isleworth Ait at the end of Sebastian (1968). The residence has moved upmarket with a more ornate roof and is no longer split into two.
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TW8 Brentford End
Just west of Strand-in-the-Green over Kew Bridge on Kew Bridge Road is Kew Bridge Steam Museum seen in The Wisdom Of Crocodiles (1998) when Jude Law meets Elina Löwenstein.
Nick Nolte and Jeremy Northam visit the museum in The Golden Bowl (2000). |

Brook Road South
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Braemar Road |
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Charlie Hunnam takes Elijah Wood to his local, The Griffin, 57 Brook Road South, on the corner of Braemar Road, renamed "The Brigid Abbey" in Green Street (2005).
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Catherine Wheel Road
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Rupert Graves runs out of The Brewery Tap on Catherine Wheel Road chased by villains into a nearby boatyard in An Innocent Sleep (1995). |

Syon House
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Syon Conservatory |
Peter Cook arrives at Syon Conservatory to be readmitted to Heaven in Bedazzled (1967). The conservatory is also seen in King Ralph (1991) when Peter O'Toole teaches deportment to John Goodman who ends up tripping into the fountain. The Great Hall of Syon House hosts the reception for the king of Zambezi.
The hall also features near the start of The Wings Of The Dove (1997) where at a party Alex Jennings chats up Helena Bonham Carter. Both the Great Hall and interior of the conservatory appear in The Avengers (1998)
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Syon House |
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Again the hall is seen in Richard III (1995) as prime minister Jim Carter's residence as well as the rough'n'tumble game in Accident (1967). Nigel Hawthorne meets Julian Wadham in The Long Gallery in The Madness Of King George (1994).
Syon house also features in Gosford Park (2001). |
TW9 Kew, North Sheen
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Kew Bridge
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Kew Gardens Palm House |
Ringo Starr wanders by the river on Kreisel Walk during A Hard Day's Night (1964). The east end of Brentford Ait and Kew Bridge can be glimpsed in the background.
Nightwatchman Ian Wilson enters one of the side entrances of Kew Gardens Palm House at the beginning of The Day Of The Triffids (1962) and watches the meteor show before a Triffid attacks him. |

61 Kew Green |

St. Anne's, Kew Green
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51 Royal Avenue |
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61 Kew Green houses Ralph Fiennes’ flat in The End Of The Affair (1999). Julianne Moore leaves here dazed after the bombing of next door. There are good shots of the Green with corrugated iron hiding the supposedly bombed site when a V1 rocket explodes behind St. Anne’s church and when Fiennes rushes after Moore’s taxi as it leaves 51 Royal Avenue where she lives with Stephen Rea. |

Besant Drive
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Hugh Grant buys a toddler's car seat at Mothercare down Besant Drive off Mortlake Road in About A Boy (2002). |

Little Green
Disguised slightly by a fake cover over the steps, Richmond Theatre on Little Green is the "Palace Theatre" where Dennis Price confronts Peter Sellers in The Naked Truth (1957).
It is the exterior of the nightclub of The Krays (1990).
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On a date with Cherie Lunghi, Richard E. Grant bumps into parents Judi Dench and Graham Swift in Jack & Sarah (1995).
In Crimetime (1996) Stephen Baldwin and Sadie Frost leave the theatre which is showing Macbeth.
Dustin Hoffman greets patrons on the first night of Johnny Depp's plays in Finding Neverland (2004). |

The Green
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Old Palace Place |
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Norman Eshley nearly runs over Susan Penhaligon at the southwest corner of Richmond Green simply called The Green between the two pubs The Cricketers and The Prince's Head in House Of Mortal Sin (1976).
Kate Winslet as Iris (2001) brings Hugh Bonneville to lunch with Sam West at Oak House, 2 Old Palace Place, right next to King Street. Here Twickenham is standing in for Oxford.
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Lower Richmond Road |
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Hugh Grant's local Sainsbury's, supposedly within walking distance of EC1, is on Lower Richmond Road near Manor Circus roundabout in About A Boy (2002) |
TW10 Ham, Petersham, Richmond Hill |

King's Road
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Ormond Road |
Colin Firth lives at 9 King's Road in Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason (2004). Jacinda Barrett kisses Renee Zellweger at the top of the steps.
In Poor Cow (1965) Carol White has tea with a friend at a café, now a Nando's, on a terrace above Ormond Road, clearly signed in the film.
Gary Lewis takes Jamie Bell for an audition before Patrick Malahide and Barbara Leigh-Hunt to White Lodge, home of the Royal Ballet School, in the middle of Richmond Park, in Billy Elliot (2000).
At the end of Performance (1968) the Rolls ferrying James Fox crosses Richmond Park.
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TW11 Teddington |

School House Lane & Wick Road
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Watch carefully as Chris Rea leaves his psychiatrist in Parting Shots(1998). He drives past The Lion on the corner of School House Lane and Wick Road so the house must be nearby but remains a tantalising mystery at date.
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CRO Croydon
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Wellesley Road
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Chepstow Rise |
From the underpass opposite Lansdowne Road on Wellesley Road one can look north to admire an establishing shot of "New York, 1984" in Velvet Goldmine (1998). Christian Bale runs along the driveway up to the Whitgift Centre in a later scene; both scenes have, rather inevitably, cars driving on the wrong side of the road.
To the east is, or was, Our Mother's House (1967) in Chepstow Rise. Watch for the very blurred sign when one of the girls receives a motorbike ride from a passer-by. All the Victorian houses in the area have been cleared, in an all too customary act of cultural vandalism, for 1970s housing and all that is left is the post box, street light and plane tree on Chichester Road, seen as the motorcyclist rows off. Dirk Bogarde's house stood close to the southeast corner of Chepstow Rise. |
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