Now developed as (inevitably) 'luxury apartments', the famous docks are also seen in Captain America: The First Avenger.Īnd New York? Studio sets were built in the US, at the Marcy Avenue Armory, 355 Marcy Avenue, Williamsburg in Brooklyn (which has housed productions including Martin Scorsese’s The Departed and Will Smith thriller I Am Legend). The ‘London warehouses’ on the Thames alongside a partially-built Tower Bridge are Stanley Dock in Liverpool. The Town Hall is used the same way in both Louis Malle’s 1993 melodrama Damage and in Phyllida Lloyd’s film about Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady. Sherlock Holmes film location: the ‘Houses of Parliament’: Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square, Manchester | Photograph: iStockphoto / Andrew Medinaīack up north, the elaborate Gothic Revival interior of Manchester Town Hall, on Albert Square, stood in for London’s 'Houses of Parliament’, where Blackwood reveals his sinister plan. The docks were more recently seen as ‘Montreuil-sur-Mer’ in Les Misérables and as the Egyptian port of ‘Giza’ in The Mummy. The docks’ gates also became the entrance to ‘Pentonville Prison’, where Holmes and Watson are subsequently incarcerated. The ‘London’ docks, where a ship is being built – and gets prematurely launched– was filmed at Chatham Historic Dockyard in Kent. The crowded working-class streets of the capital were filmed in central Manchester, on Little Lever Street, Bunsen Street, Mangle Street and Back Piccadilly. Another screen favourite, look out for its gloriously decayed Victorian extravagance in GoldenEye, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises, Stormbreaker and now Guy Ritchie's own The Gentlemen. Lord Blackwood appears to have risen from the Blackwood family vault in Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road, Earl’s Court. ![]() The adaptable complex has also been seen in Tom Hooper’s hugely successful film of Les Misérables, The Madness Of King George, Four Weddings And A Funeral, Thor: The Dark World, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Mummy Returns The Duchess, Young Victoria, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Music Lovers and many other productions. ![]() Sherlock Holmes film location: the streets of Central London: Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10Īnother location from The Bounty supplied the elegant streets of central London, the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London SE10.
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