Eastern Promises

Ekrem (Josef Altin) runs along Broadway Market, Hackney London to Azim's Barbers. As of 2021 the shop location is still a real hairstylists (albeit with a different name) and can be found at 54 Broadway Market, Hackney, London E8 4QJ.

Fourteen years on and Tris finds that Broadway Market is now very fashionable

Anna (Naomi Watts) rides across Southwark Bridge on Southwark Bridge Road, London EC4V 3PT.

Now reduced to two lanes. Fortunately not too much traffic of any kind so I ventured into the middle. SJ

She turns on to St John Street, Barbican, London EC1M 4DL and parks up.

Paul Lincoln found that the left had side has been developed and a tree has been planted, otherwise, much the same. (RL)

Nikolai (Vigo Mortenssen) drives away along St John Street, Barbican, London EC1M 4DL towards Clerkenwell Road.

Paul captures the same location in much quieter times. (RL)

Nikolai speaks to Anna about her bike. They are on St John Street, Barbican, London EC1M 4DL.

Some re-arrangement of bicycle parking it would seem in thos shot from Paul. (RL)

Nikolai and Kirill (Vincent Cassel) drive along Watergate Street, Deptford, London SE8 3JF.

John Harwood goes back to his roots and revisits SE8. (SJ)

At the top of Watergate Street, they dump the body.

John H. continues his odyssey. (SJ)

Anna (Naomi Watts) rides along Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3PJ. The turning onto Rivington Street is on the right.

The lights are green for me. Looking north towards Old Street and the (former) London Apprentice, 333 Old Street which provided interiors for "The Crying Game" and also seen in "High Heels and Low Lifes". SJ

Nikolai drives Anna home to 48A Monnow Road, Bermondsey, London SE1 5RQ

This replaces John's of-angle shot from Jul '23. SJ

Police find the body washed up on the sandbank just next to the Thames Barrier on the Greenwich Peninsula, London SE7. These are one of the largest moveable flood barriers in the world. The barrier also makes an appearance in 'Alien Autopsy'.

Viewed from the Thames Path at high tide. Even if it had been low tide, all the possible ways to get down on to the sandbank seemed inaccessible. (SD)

A building housing sex trafficked workers is located on 74 Christchurch Avenue, London NW6 7PE.

Site visitor Richard Bennett provided this update location shot and noted the expensive looking extension on the right side.

Nikolai gets the diary from Anna, but she confronts him outside the Wimpy bar at 251a Southwark Park Road, Bermondsey, London SE16 3TS. The Blue Anchor public house stands next door and the Wimpy also appears in 'Nil by Mouth'.

Now. SJ

Nikolai gives Naomi Watts the family address outside the hospital where she works. Site visitor Steve Randall made a great discovery by spotting that this location is in fact the Jenner Building of the Whittington Hospital and it still exists. It is at 1A Gordon Close, London N19. The bright red fire escape is visible from Google Earth.

Paul Lincoln captured this shot, as he was passing, of the scene now amongst yet more development work. (RL)

The football supporters leave the Stamford Bridge soccer stadium (large background building) and spill out onto Fulham Road SW6 1HS.

Taken from Britannia Road but without the elevation. SJ

This shot is just around the corner from the previous location, still on Fulham Road, but in real life the fans are now walking towards the stadium. The large building on the right is the Sir Oswald Stoll Mansions SW6 1DT.

Looking towards Fulham Broadway tube station. SJ

The football fans are then shown coming out of Kempsford Gardens, across Old Brompton Road and then into Brompton Cemetery, London SW10 9UG.

Less crowded today. SJ

Ekrem (Josef Altin) is enjoying annoying the opposition supporters as he walks through Brompton Cemetery. Chelsea Football club stadium is in the background. In reality he's actually heading back towards the entrance that he was just seen coming through in the previous shot. Brompton Cemetery is part of the "Magnificent Seven", an informal term applied to seven large private cemeteries in London. Other films shot here include 'Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation', 'Under Suspicion', 'Melody', 'Goldeneye', 'Afraid of the Dark' and 'Johnny English'.

Nothing like a good tramp through brambles on a hot day. This may benefit from a winter shot but the grave markers on the left match as does Chelsea stadium. SJ

Anna's Uncle Stepan (Jerzy Skolimowski) is walking along Surrey Row and into Pakeman House, London SE1 0BH.

Looking east. SJ

Nikolai meets Azim (Mina E. Mina) at the Ironmonger Row Baths, 1 Norman Street, London EC1V 3AA. This is the entrance on Ironmonger Row.

Paul really didn't expect any changes to a Grade ll listed building. (RL)

Front shot of the 'Trafalgar Hospital'. This was the old Middlesex Hospital off Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T 3PW. It was a teaching hospital that closed in 2005 and was demolished in 2008, not long after 'Eastern Promises' used it for filming. The new development of Fitzroy Place now stands on the site.

Fitzroy Place as seen from the corner of Berners Street. Also seen in Vengeance Is Mine. SJ

Kirill takes the 'package' from the car parked on Borthwick Street in Greenwich and heads down the familiar Watergate Street, London SE8 3JF.