Moon Over the Alley, The

Bert Gusset (John Gay) leaves the house that stands next to the titular alley. It was the bollards just out of shot in this capture but revealed in the next, that captured the location for Dave W, 6a Putney Embankment SW15 on its corner with Spring Passage alleyway. (RL)

The owner of the boarding house, on the film's Candover Street W11, makes his way to work. The three bollards where Spring Passage ascends from Putney Embankment towards Lower Richmond Road. In modern times the family is now extended to four with the addition of a junior member Dave finds. (RL)

A little later, Jack MacMahon (Sean Caffrey) leaves the lodging house. The two previous captures leads Dave W to say that Jack is looking towards 5 Putney Embankment and Glendarvon Street. Trees growing beside the river are seen reflected in the window. (RL)

The barman glances along the alley as he heads off to work at his second job. Spring Passage alleyway. The tallest roofline belongs to 'The Half Moon' public house at 93 Lower Richmond Road. Identified by Dave W. (RL)

Jack enters Joe Tudge's shop to buy cigarettes.

A homesick Indian Gentleman (Jaron Yalton) comes along looking for lodgings. The front door of 5 Putney Embankment is just visible Dave points out. (RL)

The Gentleman asks Bertha Gusset (Erna May) if she has any vacancies, she does not. Needless to say we can only repeat Capture 1 here. 6a Putney Embankment SW15 on its corner with Spring Passage alleyway identified by Dave W. (RL)

That evening, two vagrant buskers, Sybil (Doris Fishwick) and Akki (Peter Farrell), make their way to the alley to sleep. The pair are walking into Dunworth Mews off Portobello Road, London W11 with The Castle public house standing in the background.

A pair of vans being unloaded to spoil the view.

A Policeman (Richard Eden) approaches as a Hippie (Miguel Sergides) sings and plays guitar with his spliff smoking friends. Dunworth Mews W11 can also be seen in 'Mantrap'.

Dunworth Mews now.

Back up is called by the Officer and a police car screeches into view. Looking out of Dunworth Mews onto Portobello Road. The continuity of the scene over the previous captures and this one suggests that the alley runs north from Dunworth Mews, it doesn't.

Same buildings, different businesses.

As the Hippies are arrested, a group of youths hang around in the street.

Talbot Road in London W11.

Ronnie Gusset (Patrick Murray) and Nellie Tudge (Lesley Roach) head for the cinema. The corner of Talbot Road and Portobello Road, London W11. (RL)

The same corner, redeveloped. (RL)

The Electric Cinema on Portobello Road, London W11. Various lengths of Portobello Road make an appearance in a number of productions including ‘Notting Hill’, ‘Pressure’, ‘The Wind of Change’, ‘Seven Green Bottles’, ‘Breaking Glass’, ‘West 11’, ‘The Mine and the Minotaur’, ‘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’.

Parked vehicles made a better shot impossible.

A film within a film, the young couple watch 'It Happened Here' at the cinema. This is the village of Eashing south of Guildford in Surrey which can also be seen in 'It Happened Here'.

Nick Gilbey provided this shot.

Sybil and Akki walk past The Castle pub on Portobello Road whilst young Katy (Debbie Evans) plays ball as she waits for her Mother, who's inside.

Too early for opening time!

In the early hours of the following morning, Jack leaves the pub after a night of heavy drinking. Portobello Road in W11. The railway bridge in the distance carries the Hammersmith & City Line between Westbourne Park and Ladbroke Grove.

A busier view today.

The empty street begins to come alive. Looking northwards on Portobello Road just south of the junction with Westbourne Park Road.

The empty street came alive too soon for a better shot.

Jack staggers into the the alley as he makes his way home. The junction of Portobello Road and Dunworth Mews, London SW11.

The same corner now.

Sybil and Akki are awoken in their cardboard boxes by Jack as he nears home. Dave W says that the newer brickwork seen in the foreground of Spring Passage belongs to the London Rowing Club at 7 Putney Embankment. (RL)

As the morning draws on, the market is set up in Portobello Road. The start of a tilt and pan showing the rooftops of W11.

This replaces my April '23 shot which was over-enthusiastically zoomed; and this shows a rebuild of no 139 Portobello Road on the right side. SJ

Traders await their customers. Portobello Road with the Earl of Lonsdale public house, previously Henekeys Bar, in the left distance.

Portobello Road now, from ground level.

Shops open up for business on Portobello Road.

Slightly off angle with awnings in the way to capture the capitals of the pilasters of 153 Portobello Road, currently Orientalia. SJ

Washington (Danny Ray) asks Sybil and Akki for directions to the house where Jim lives, another lodger of the Gusset's.

In the left of the image is The Castle public house.

Bertha Gusset buys eggs from a Stallholder (Gilbert Sling).

The same spot now with The Electric Cinema in the background.

A group of Musicians play outside The Colville public house. The corner of Portobello Road and Talbot Road. Also seen in 'Amelia and the Angel', the pub became The Ground Floor Bar before its current incarnation as The Ginstitute.

Seems a bit drastic!

Washington walks with Jim (Leroy Hyde) through the market. The junction of Portobello Road, Talbot Road and Blenheim Crescent in W11.

Another phase of this building's life. (RL)

Jim and Washington look at the shops as they move through the crowds with their wives and Jim's young daughter.

Stalls are perused. Portobello Road with the Hammersmith & City Line bridge in the right distance.

Facing south on Portobello Road at the junction with Acklam Road with the Westway passing overhead. Neil Rigby points out that the junction also appears in 'Slayground'. (RL)

A group of protestors enter the market. David Neicho identifies this location as Upper Tachbrook Street in SW1 looking towards Vauxhall Bridge Road. The houses and shops on the left still remain.

Absolutely right. This now does little justice as I need to be higher. The gap in the row is Longmoore Street, SW1. SJ

A Demonstrator (Annabella Leslie) is taken into custody and loaded into a police van. Tachbrook Street facing the junction with Warwick Way and Upper Tachbrook Street identified by David Neicho.

Further down the road. The Queen's Arms on the corner which spent some time in the 80s and 90s as a Slug and Lettuce then sensibly reverted to its original name. SJ

Shoppers leave the market and the traders pack up their stalls. Trellick Tower stands over Golborne Road in W10.

Trellick Tower still shrouded in fog.

That evening, Mr. Deray (Basil Clarke), the oldest lodger in the Gusset's home, makes his way past the group of Hippies.

The same part of Portobello Road now.

Ronnie and Nellie walk home together before turning into the alley where they are attacked by the group of youths. Portobello Road, London W11.

A few changes but the same location.

After an argument in his room, Jack wanders around Soho looking for June, his girlfriend. 23 Meard Street in London W1. Other views of the street can be seen in 'King of the Underworld', 'Saturday Night Out', 'Man at the Carlton Tower', 'Carousella', 'Two Left Feet', 'Danger by My Side', 'All You Need Is Cash', 'The Six Men', 'The Teckman Mystery' and 'Don't Open till Christmas'.

Not very Macabre now. (PW)

Jack arrives at a club where June is working as a stripper. Ron Glenister says "much . . . fell into his lap on this one", we will overlook the lap dancing Ron and accept your identification of the side entrance to 'The Gargoyle' club on Meard Street, the main entrance was at 69 Dean Street, London W1. (RL)

No gargoyles . . . and no door either! (PW)

Demolition begins after the Gussets and their lodgers are evicted. Unidentified location.

Through fencing is glimpsed a vision of the community's future. Anjano Ginho places this as the South Kilburn Estate, then under construction.

Anjano Ginho came up with convincing support courtesy of http://wikimapia.org. (RL)