LOCATIONS USED IN FILM
Just interested to find out if any of the locations used in the film still exist today? I did hear that most of the area where Harold has his boat has been totally redeveloped.
shareYes. It's the marina just to the East of Tower Bridge. They've done a fabulous job of it, too.
shareAny ideas if the pub is still standing today? And does it look anything like it did?
sharethe marina is St Katherine's Dock - very nice place to while away an afternoon. the Pub was a purpose built set - according to the doc on the DVD, they did such a good job, people kept knocking on the door trying to get a drink!
shareThere are still several East End pubs that look the part, I would suggest a walking tour of the area. A highlight would be "The Blue Last" in Hoxton or the "Blind Beggar" made famous by the Krays on Whitechapel Road, real living history and the perfect example of pubs like that in the film
shareThe Governor General on the Downham estate, in which Harold says to Billy " walk to the car, Billy, or I'll blow yer spine out" Is now a petrol station, has been for some years, was a bit of a mad house in it's time (It was also known as the Northover). The inside scenes were shot In the Black Horse in Catford. The pub is still there and is still a *beep*
shareThere are still several East End pubs that look the part, I would suggest a walking tour of the area. A highlight would be "The Blue Last" in Hoxton or the "Blind Beggar" made famous by the Krays on Whitechapel Road, real living history and the perfect example of pubs like that in the film
The Blind Beggar is on the Mile End Road. Just thought I'd mention it. share
The road blind beggar is on is classed as Whitechapel road if you turned left at the lights you would be on Cambridge heath road, Then as you go across the lights towards mile end then it becomes mile end road...
shareThe ‘Lion and Unicorn' (not a real pub as mentioned above) has long since been knocked down
See here for recent pics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/weycrest/
and here for details of most of the filming locations
http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/l/longgood.html
With regard to the Lion and unicorn pub blown up by an IRA bomb in the film.I was 11 years old when this film was made and watched as the film crew built the pub on derelict land on Wapping High Street.
The site where the pub was built had been a tenement block which was bombed during world war two and like many of the bomb sites in East London, had not been redeveloped and simply closed off with corrugated iron fencing.
My best friend and I watched the fence being torn down and the pub built and then watched from the graveyard as it was blown up.Afterwards, we helped the crew distribute the bins full of broken glass to spread across the road and make the devastation from the bomb look even more realistic.We also managed to run inside the wreckage of the pub and to this day i still have a piece of realistic looking foam brick from the scene.
Very cool