Notting Hill

Date: 1999
Director: Roger Michell
Production Company: Polygram

Stars: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Rhys Ifans, Gina McKee, Tim McInnerny, Richard McCabe, Emma Chambers, Hugh Bonneville, Alec Baldwin
Location(s): London

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Storyline:

London bookseller falls in love with a glamorous Hollywood film star but the course does not run smooth. SJ

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Top of Bevington Road at Golborne Road, London W10: also seen in 'Just Like a Woman', 'London Kills Me' ‘Slade in Flame’ and ‘The Squeeze’.

The long standing Portfolio. SJ

Reverse pov with McCabe

The loos are being revamped in the foreground or perhaps better still even being reopened. SJ

Grant at the corner of Portobello Road and Westbourne Park Road, London W11. The pub was also seen in 'I Hired A Contract Killer'.

Now called Castle. SJ

The blue door at 280 Westbourne Park Road

No longer blue but remembered in the name of a shop in Portobello Road. SJ

The bookshop at 142 Portobello Road

Taken from the shop door. SJ

Westbourne Park Road, just before Grant spills orange juice on Roberts

Now. SJ

Grant and Roberts cross Portobello Road. Other sections of Portobello Road make an appearance in a number of films including ‘Otley’, ‘The Mine and the Minotaur’, ‘Pressure’, ‘The Wind of Change’, ‘Breaking Glass’, 'Seven Green Bottles', ‘West 11’, ‘The Moon Over the Alley’, 'Bullet to Beijing', ‘Tonite Let's All Make Love in London’, ‘Mantrap’, ‘The File of the Golden Goose’, ‘The Italian Job’, ‘Villain’, ‘Who Done It?’, ‘The Gentle Trap’ and ‘The Traitors’.

Just panning right. SJ

Grant and Roberts at 91 Lansdowne Road

Now. SJ

Rosmead Road

The tree confirms it, and the chap on the phone's leaning the same way. SJ

The Ritz, Piccadilly

Now. SJ

Piccadilly, more of an establishment shot, but Roberts’ face is on the back of the bus

Slightly out of focus: traffic making me nervous. SJ

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An interior shot of the Coronet, Notting Hill Gate, for cinema devotees

Lansdowne Road again

Looking northeast from noth008. SJ

Pounding the streets of Notting Hill. Steve Randall found a stock image showing more the frame showing that the launderette was the Frigidaire Self Service Laundry, which was at 17 Kensington Park Road, London. So Hugh is walking westwards down Elgin Crescent. A 12-year-old mystery solved. (SJ)

The launderette now an estate agents named Domus Nova in Tris's comparison.

Looking from 280 to Westbourne Park Road

From the ex-blue door. SJ

“Winter” in Portobello Road

At the intersection of Elgin Crescent. SJ

Turning into “spring” outside Saints Tattoo seen also in Dirty Weekend (93)

Think this is right: there's Saint's Tattoo, but was this scene a set? SJ

And summer

But this looks correct, though the white van's a pity. SJ

Kenwood House, the front, London NW3

By front we mean the north side. SJ

And the more familiar rear, seen in 'Clegg', 'Hampstead', 'West 11' and 'The Upside of Anger'.

The sunnier south side. SJ

Roberts in front of Kenwood

Now, see the dipping curve in the fence. SJ

142 Portobello Road, W11

Bit of set dressing here in front of Colville Primary School but this was the bookshop, at the time Nicholls Antique Arcade, then it became Gong and now it's called Notting Hill. SJ

McKee and McCabe at the junction of Bevington Road and Golborne Road, W10

Now. SJ

St Peter’s Church, Kensington Park Road taken from Stanley Gardens, W11, seen in 'The Mother', 'Madame Sousatka' and 'Spice World' among others.

Now. SJ

Back at the Ritz, W1

Arlington Street looking across Piccadilly to Dover Street. SJ

I’m as lost as the car in the geographically dodgy pursuit of Roberts’ press conference. But Peter found the place, it's Suffolk Place, looking east towards Suffolk Street from Haymarket in SW1.

And Peter took this picture as proof.

Ifans at Admiralty Arch

Now, with central gates closed. SJ

Grant at the Savoy, Savoy Court, London WC2, also seen in 'Bullet to Beijing', Entrapment', 'The Long Good Friday' et al.

Now. SJ

Grant and Roberts at the Odeon Leicester Square, WC2

The nice lady allowed me to nip to catch the open door. SJ

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Inside (possibly) Rosmead Gardens, strictly private